Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 259, 13 August 1919 — Page 1

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

VOT. YT TV NO 9iQ Palladium.Est. 18S1. Consolidated VVJLi. V i VJ. tvtth Bun-Telegram 10T. RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1919 SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS SENATE BODY SPEEDED UP IN REVIEW OF TREATY MERCHANT FLEET CONTROL OF STORAGE IS PROVIDED IN SENATE BILL New Hungarian Leaders Once U. S. Machinist American Flags, Carried by Sturdy Six-Foot American Soldiers, Head Great Victory Day Parade Witnessed by Millions in London HELD NECESSARY TO AID GERMANS Erzberger Says Bill for Pur

pose Will be Introduced Budget Near Completion. (By Associated Press)

Hitchcock Threatens to Force Earlv Vote on Senate if

Consideration is Not Hast ened. AMENDMENT THURSDAY (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. At a stormy session today, the senate for eign relations committee, agreed to expedite consideration of the peace treaty. Re-reading of the disputed sec tlons and the consideration of possible 'amendments will begin tomorrow. Senator Hitchcock, Nebraska, ranking Democrat of the committee, was understood to have told the committee that unless there was early comtmlttee action, an attempt might be made to force a vote on the treaty 'In the senate. Chairman Lodge and others were understood to have expressed assent ,to the proposal to hasten the committee's consideration, but Senator Fall, Republican, New Mexico, was said to &ave taken the position that any precipitate action would be impracticable. Interest In Program. There has been a revival of Interest 1n the proposal for a definite reservation program along the lines recently agreed on by seven Republican Senators. In informal discussions among senators, possible acceptance of the program by 8enator Lodge, the Republican leader was a oentral feature of interst. Leaders of the reservation group said they were very hopeful that Mr. Lodge would agree to their plan but the party leader himself had no announcement to make. Within a few days it is expected there will be a conference of the reservation advocates with Senator Lodge and other Republicans. Should a score or more come to an agreement on reservations it is believed negotiations will begin with Democratic leaders with a view to finding a middle ground on which the treaty can be ratified with reservations in the near future. So far, however, the administration forces have shown no sign of abandoning their fight for unreserved ratification. FORMER TURKISH MINISTER ESCAPES (By Associated Press) CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 13. Halll Pasha, former Minister of Marine and uncle of Enver Pasha, former Minister of War. has escaped to Asia Minor with Kritchelk Talaat, another leader of the committee of union and progress. It is believed he will join Mustapha Kiamil Pasha in Erzerum. Halll Pasha was made minister of the Turkish navy in 1913, and held office during most of the period of the great war. A Constantinople despatch announced on January 13, 1918 that he had died but this news was never confirmed. Mustapha Kiamil Pasha, former grand vizier, foreign minister and president of the council of state was in command of Turkish troops in the Iake Van Region in 1916, and was defeated by the Russians, retreating to Erzerum. He was later arrested, being charged with responsibility for massacres of Greeks in Asia Minor. Early this year his forces at Erzerum were reported to "be concentrating for an attack on the allies. A Paris despatch July 7 states that Mustapha Kiamil Pasha and Essad Pasha might attempt the formation of a separate Turkish government. On August 4, advices from Constantinople reported that the Turkish cabinet had ordered the arrest of Mustapha Kiamil Pasha and Reuf Bey. on the charge of convoking a separatist congress, and organizing armed bands in the Smyrna and Erzerum districts. Anthracite Shipments Show Increase in July fBy Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 13. Shipments of anthracite for July as reported to the Anthracite bureau of information aggregated 6.052.334 tons an increase over June of 432.743 tons. Compared with July 1916, the latest normal year In anthracite production the shipments last month showed an increase of 619.456 tons. The shipment for the first four months of the coal year, beginning April 1. amounted to 22,608,555 tons, as compared with 21.146.536 tons for the corresponding period in 1916, an increase of nearly one and a half million tons. REDS BEAT N. Y. BY SCORE OF 4 TO 3 NEW YORK. Aug. 13 Cincinnati defeated New York in the first game of the double header here today, 4 to ?. Art Nehf, former Boston star, started the game for New York, but was relived by Dubuc in the eighth inning. The score: R H E Cincinnati 003 010 0004 S 2 New York 020 000 0103 9 3 Reuther and Rariden; Nehf, Dubuc and Snyder.

i 1 rKn Stephen Friedrich. Stephen Friedrich has been appoint ed by Archduke Joseph as the new nremier of Hungary. Friedrich is well known in the United States, hav ing come over here with Karolyi when the latter visited this country in 1914. Friedrich lived here for eight years, working as a machinist AIR SUPREMACY TO DECIDE VICTOR IN NEXT WAR, BELIEF (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. Belief that the future war will open with great aerial activity and that victory will incline to that belligernt able first to achieve and maintain its supremacy in the air was expressed by the special American aviation mission which has just submitted its report recommending concentration of air activities in this country, civilion, naval and military, under the direction of a new department whose head would hold a place in the President's cabinet. The mission, headed by Assistant Secretary of War Crowell and composed of some of the nation's leading aircraft development experts, has been studying the subject in Europe in conjunction with experts of the principal powers there and Its . views were based on Information secured In months of study. Secretary Baker late yesterday made public the report and at the same time announced he had disapproved the recommendation for the creation of a department of aviation. He expressed the opinion the mission had "gone too far in suggesting a single centralized air service." The report was divided into three parts dealing respectively with general organization, commercial development and technical development. In recommending the centralized control the mission urged that the department of aviation be charged with full responsibility for placing and maintaining the nation in the front rank in the development and utilization of aircraft for the national security and in the advancement of civil aerial transportation and communication. U. S. STEAMER HITS MINE IN NORTH SEA (By Associated Press) DOVER, Aug. 13. The American steamer Englewood struck a mine in the North Sea off the Thames river at 7:30 o'clock this morning and sent out a wireless message for help. She however is in no immediate danger of sinking and tugs are standing by. The i Englewood is making for the Thames i under her own steam. If she takes on j more water she probably will be ! beached at Sheernes. New Zealanders Have Confidence in Japan (By Associated Press) HONOLULU. Aug. 13. Confidence in the good faith of Japan as regards her promises concerning the future of Shantung peninsula was expressed here by W. F. Massey, prime minister of New Zealand who visited Honolulu on his way home from the Paris peace conference. He was accompanied by Sir Joseph Ward, Minister of finance of Now Zealand. Premier Massey and Sir Joseph declared their belief that the league of nations will prove a success and realize the hopes and faith of these responsible for its formation. Speaking of the Shantung settlement Premier Massed said: "Personally I harbor no distrust of the aims and policies of the Japanese government. The whole matter is rather regrettable and it is particularly unfortunate that, the Chinese delegates to the peace conference saw J fit to refrain from placing their signa tures on the peace treaty. Frankly there is no little misunderstanding concerning the whole matter and time alone, in my opinion, will clarify a very difficult situation." CINCINNATI KILLS HIMSELF AND WIFE (By .ssoclated Press) CINCINNATI, O. Aug. 13 Charles Gruener 42 years old, gardener, shot and killed his wife. Flora, probably fatally wounded his stepson, Noble Thieman, 22. and then shot and killed himself at the home of his wife here today.

BERLIN, Aug. 13. "We must pro

ceed immediately to create a merchan tile fleet and help Germans abroad with state advances," said Mathias Erzberger, vice-premier and minister of finance of the German government, speaking before the National assembly at Weimar yesterday. He promised the asembly that a bill carrying out these projects would be presented in a few weeks. Herr Erzberger added that the loan situation must be given considera tion, declaring that the German nation must raise 25,000,000,000 marks yearly in taxes in order to regain a healthy condition. "The storm will come because it must come," he said. I am constantly at work on the regular budget which will be submitted on October 1. The liquidation of our war undertakings must be completed as soon as possible." Have Heavy Obligations "Under the peace treaty," he continued, "we have undertaken heavy obligations which we must observe with an honest will. A big property levy is the first step on the path of Imperial financial reform. This will afford a possibility of reducing the floating debt and abolishing the vicious paper regime." Herr Erzberger declared that foodstuffs cannot remain unburdened. Re ferring to the use of German labor in the reconstruction of northern France, he said that this was the only possible means of reparation. "The entire system of taxation to be completed during the course of the year will be an accomplishment which will be a blesing to the German peo ple and which will help to create a new strong Germany, built up on justice and democracy." Preble Farmers Ask "Square Deal"; Are To Hold Meetings "A square deal at every country town, and wholesale price on all you buy," Is the slogan of the farmers of Preble county, according to announcements made public Wednesday, call ing a series of metlngs to be held all over the county the week beginning August 25, at which action will be decided upon. The meetings will be held at Eldorado, In the high school building, Monday, Aug. 25, at the New Paris high school building, Tuesday, at the school buildings in Campbellstown Wednesday, in Lanier township Thursday, at the Dixon school Friday, and at the courthouse in Eaton, Saturday. The meetings will be at 2 o'clock except in Eaton, where it will be at 2 o'clock In the afternoon. An address by C, O. Drayton, an Illinois man, will be the feature of each meting. At the conference at Eaton Saturday night discussion over the difference between what the farmer is paid for his produce and what the consumer pays. VINNITZA GIVEN UP BY BOLSHEVIK (By Associated Press) LONDON, Aug. 13. The city of Vlnnltza, In the Ukraine, 125 miles southwest of Kiev, has been abandoned by the Bolshevlki, according ot a wireless message from Moscow. In Volhynia antl-Bolshevik forces have occupied the railway center of Lutsk, southeast of Kovel. The Bolshevik wireless message reads: "In the direction of Zhmerinka, we have abandoned Vinnitza. The enemy has occupied Lutsk." Withdrawal of the Bolshevik! from Vinnitza indicaets that the Rumanians and antl-Bolsheviki have forced the Bolsheviki to retire from the line of the river Dniester in northeastern Bessarabia. Grey to be Temporary Ambassador to America (By Associated Press) LONDON, Aug. 13. Viscount Grey, former secretary of state for foreign affairs, has agreed to represent the British government at Washington, pending the appointment of a permanent ambassador. Weather Forecast

For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau Showers and thunderstorms, cooler tonight. Thursday probably fair. Today's Temperature. Noon 56 Yesterday. Maximum 86 Minimum 56 For Wayne County, by W. E. Moore Unsettled with occasional rain, probably thundershowars this afternoon or tonight. Cooler tonight. Thursday partly cloudy. General Conditions The storm over the Mississippi valley has two centers, one over Illinois and Wisconsin, and the other over southern Canada. These storms are causing showers and thunderstorms as they move eastward and are being followed by cooler weather from the Rocky mountain states.

American The red, white and blue held the as General Pershing and the U. S. troops ers, all six-footers and all war veterans, twelve of the allies, participated. A enthusiastic reception. G. AND 0. STRIKE MAY END; VOTE IS TAO TODAY Men at Boston Follow Lead of Strikers in Other Cities Full Schedule Resumed. Workmen employed at the C. & O. railway shops in Boston, probably will return to work Thursdty morning, following.the lead of the other striking shopmen on the road .according to a statement made by one of the railway employes Wednesday. A meeting of the employes was held Wednesday afternoon, at which time the men were to vote on the question of returning to work. Fifty men are affected. Practically every other shop on he line has resumed work again, after a 6trike lasting more than a week, and it is expected that the men at Boston will follow suit and return to work Thursday morning. Traffic Is Resumed. Full passenger traffic on the C. & O. will be resumed Thursday morning. Trains No. 2 and 3, the first leaving here at 7:53 a. m. for Cincinnati, and the other leaving at 8:45 p. m. for Chicago, have been put back on the schedule, making the regular schedule of four trains a day. Freight traffic is still tied up, but it was stated Thursday that through freights as well as locals, would start running as soon as the shopmen returned to their work. H, C. L. PROBE IS PREDICTED HERE; NO LEADER NAMED No word has been received here, concerning the appointment of a successor to Harry N. Gilbert, as head of the Wayne county food organization to assist Attorney General Palmer in the fight against the high cost of living, as far as could be learned today. Gilbert has received no reply to his letter asking that he be relieved of his position as head of the organization in the county, and ha3 taken steps toward starting the machinery of the county organization in motion. That some action may be taken on the suggestion of State Attorney Gen eral Eli Stansbury. Wednesday, that prosecuting attorneys may conduct an investigation of food conditions without going to the expense of the county grand jury, is probable in Wayne county, according to county officials. Prosecuting Attorney Gath Freeman is out of the city today, and it is not known what action he will take, but other county officials will probably conduct an investigation in case the presecutor does not act. Balg arian Elections Are Set for Aug. 17. (By Associated Press! PARIS, Tuesday, Aug. 12. Parliamentary elections will be held in Bulgaria August 17. It appears probable that the Agrarian party, of which M. Stambuliwsky, a member of the Bulgarian peace delegation is the leader, will win a majority of seats. The Socialists, it is expected will elect several members but the Bulgarian delegation in Paris expresses the belief that it will not be displaced as a result of the elections.

colors leading Victory day parade In London.

position of honor in the giant Victory were asked to lead the parade. Thirty

lead the procession. Nineteen thousand soldiers, representing America and

record crowd turned out for the celebration. The Americans were given an

Hondaran Rebels Fled Too Fast for Pursuit (By Associated Press) SAN SALVADOR, Tuesday, Aug. 12. Honduran revolutionists, according to official reports received today from Tegueigalpa, capital of Honduras after being defeated by government forces under Colonel Sentos Fortin at Geascoran, were pursued and routed at Liount Larlnglera and later driven cut rof Guarfta. The revolutionists were Bald to have fled at the first shots so that it was difficult to capture any of them. The rebels were said to have looted the district through which they passed. ASQUITH LAUNCHED PEACE FEELER IN 1917, SAYS WOMAN (By Associated Press) BERLIN. Tuesday, Aug. 12 H. H. Asquith, then British premier, launched a "peace feeler" in August 1917, according to a letter written by Frau Frieda Perlen, president of the Stuttgart branch of the International Woman's league for peace and freedom, to the Freiheit. She quotes a letter she received that time from Jonkher, J. O. Jong Van Beek en Donk, secretary of the Dutch antimilitarist league in which he informed her than Mr. Asquith had asked him to put the direct question to the German chancellor, saying that a "good answer would be of tremendous importance." The letter to Frau Perlen said it was thought that Mr. Asquith was ready for an understanding if the reichstag should demonstrate it ruled the situation and really possessed the power in Germany. This point it was said would be carried if the majority of the reichstag should succeed in bringing about an unequivocal official statement regarding Belgium. The letter begged her to do her utmost to induce the reachstag to issue such a statement. Van Beek said that the declaration of Dr. Georg Michaelis, then German imperial chancellor, relative to a safe guarding of boundaries had, as he conceived it, created an unfavorable impression abroad and declared that he wanted to establish whether the reichstag would not make clear the German stand regarding Belgium. Frau Perlen states that she took the letter to members of the Reichstag who promised to present the matter before committees but she adds: The leading men of the reichstag parties were so weak against the government military dictatorship they were guilty of a collapse." Pumb Plan is Declared Neither Sane Nor Sound (By Associated Press) CHARLESTON, W. Va Aug. 13 Governor John J. Cornwall answered last night a communication from the Federation of railway employes of the Chesapeake and Ohio system, criticizing his opposition to the Plumb plan of government ownership of railroads. The governor characterized the plan as "neither sane nor fair." Governor Cornwall averred that should the public buy the railroads and give them to the railroadmen to manage, all other workers of public utilities would demand the same thing. Even the miners and farm laborers he said would demand similar management for the mines and farms. "Then, we have," he said, "not socialIsm, but chaos. They pre trying to run things that way in Russia and we all know the result."

day parade staged in London July 19,

- five hundred picked American fight RAIL SYSTEMS QUICKLY COMING BACK TO NORMAL Will be Operating as Usual in Week, is Belief Trains Restored. fBy Associated Press) CHICAGO, Aug. 13. Calling off of the Federated railway shopmen's strike In the Atlanta, Georgia, district caused railroad officials today to predict that the entire rail system of the country would be operating at normal within a week. Reports from various parts of the country today showed that striking shopmen were returning to work pending settlement of their wage demands. In the Chicago district, however, there was no break in the ranks of the strikers. Officers of the Chicago district council who called the strike against orders of the International officers, claimed today they had been successful in breaking up meetings held by international leaders who sought to induce the men to return to work pending a settlement of the dispute. A number of trains which were cancelled several days on account of the strike on railroads centering here were restored today. AWAIT BALLOT RESULTS BOSTON, Aug. 13. The sixth day of curtailed freight and passenger service caused by the strike last week of several thousand shopmen and mechanics in the employ of New England railroads round strikers and railroad managers marking time and awaiting the result of the vote on the question of a return to work pending settle ment of the wage dispute. The ballot lng will not be completed until tomor row night. Railroad officials announced that at tempts would be made to continue the present train service without further cancellations until Friday. Modification of the New York. New Haven and Hartford and the Boston and Maine embargoes made effective today removed the fears of many com munities concerning the delivery of ice, milk and foodstuffs. Many freight handlers on the New Haven road wero idle today and it was expected that a large number of Boston and Maine employes also will be laid off within a few days if the strike continued. Yanks Fight Fire That Threatens Coblenz Block (By Associated Press) COBLENZ, Aug. 13 Two hundred officers who recently graduated from the est Point military academy joined hands early Tuesday with hundreds of American doughboys and civ ilians in fighting a fire which threat ened to destroy the Moravian colony an ancient order of religious workers at the Neuwied headquarters of the first division. The West Pointers, who are on tour of the battlefields and the occud! ed arena, were attending a dance giv en in tneir nonor when the fire was discovered just after midnight. The flames got beyond the control of the German firemen and the West Point ers and doughboys were summoned by Col. Stephen C. Fuqua, chief of staff of the first division to aid in quench ing them. The Americans fought the fire until daylight, when It was brought under control. The blaze was confined to one block Several buildings devoted to the in dustries of the Moravians were de"4 stroyed.

M'Kellar Resubmits Measure Framed in 1913 Proposing

Federal Regulation of Cold Storage of Food. j PACKERS ARE ACCUSED (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. Appropriations aggregating nearly one million dollars with which to help carry out the president's suggestions for reducing the cost of living were asked of congress today by the commerce and labor departments. WASHINGTON. Aug. 13. Federal regulation of cold storage of food was urged in the senate today by Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, as a certain means of reducing the cost of living and as the only remedy for "the most outrageous piece of profiteering that can be imagined." Speaking in support of this bill, first introduced in 1913, and now as reintroduced before senate Interstate commerce sub-committee considering high cost of living recommendations of President Wilson, Senator McKellar said if the bill had been passed in 1913 he felt sure the present conditions as to excessive living cost would not exist. The meat packers were charged by the Tennessee senator with using cold storage facilities to fix food prices. "It is being used by the packers," he said, "for the purpose of controlling prices. As used by the packers it preserved In seasons of plenty and permits them to withhold such large quantities of foodstuffs from the market as to make a season of scarcity at any time they see fit and thus they increase the price to the consuming public." Opposed by Packers. Explaining his bill. Senator McKel lar said It would limit the time foodi could be held In cold storage and ha3 been vigorously opposed by the packers. 'Heretofore I have been unable tc get any action on this bill," said Mr. McKellar, "but I am constrained tc believe that under existing conditions we will get action at this time. My bill does not fetter cold storage In any way but it regulates it so that the people can get the very best benefits out of itCiting recent statistics of the Federad Trade commission of food held in cold storage Senator McKellar said they showed vast increases over the amounts stored last year. He compared retail prices secuied from the manager of the senate restaurant, showing large Increases in price, des pite the Increased supplies In storage. Some middleman, said Mr. Mc Kellar, "is making 66 2-3 per cent profit on eggs alone. The only possible way In which these prices can be manipulated is through the med ium of cold storage. Put a limit on the time in which these goods can be held and the packers will be compelled to sell." Monopoly on Eggs Eggs particularly, the Senator as serted, are monopolized. "They are in the hands of the most giant monopoly there is in the world," he said. "The price the packers pay and the price at which they are sold is out of all proportion and they never will come down until eggs are stamped and regulated." Present cold storage practices also are a menace to public health. Senator McKellar declared, asserting that meat and poultry often are held too long in storage. Chickens, he asserted, are killed and stored without re moval of their heads and entrails. which conduce to quick putrefaction after they are taken from storage. STORED EGGS SEIZED CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Aug. IS. Eighty-four thousand dozen eggs, stored with the Atlantic Ice and Coal corporation here for the account of Morris and Company, Chicago, were seized today by the United States district attorney. Seizure was made under libel proceedings in the federal court, which charged that the eggs were unlawfully stored for the purpose of unreasonably Increasing prices. HOLD-UP MAN TURNS PISTOL ON HIMSELF (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Aug. 13. A hold-up man, entering the banking room of Munsey Trust company in the heart of the downtown business section pointed two pistols at a teller, demanded $150 and then after firing one shot at a clerk, turned a pistol on himself. He shot himself in the jaw and was taken to a hospital. The man said his name was John E. Fetzer of Defiance, and that his uncle, Charles R. Fetzer, at the same address could tell "why he couldn't get ahead." The man is a mechanic, 34 years old. He came here today from New York. He told the police he picked out Washington because he understood there was plenty of money In the capitol and that a hold-up was easy. The hospital physicians said he probably would recover. He said he previously had been in a Detroit hospital suffering from an electric Ehock. RIGA IS RECAPTURED. COPENHAGEN, Aug. 13. According to a Russian newspaper published in Berlin, the Bolshevik have recaptured Riga. v