Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 262, 18 August 1919 — Page 14
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1919.
STAGE OF OPEN REVOLUTION IN IRELAND SEEN
British Naval Arsenal Besiged by Armed Rebels Situation Menacing. LONDON, Aug. 18. Ireland has reached the stage of open revolt. The government's naval arsenal on Rocky Island, In the harbor of Queenstown, has been besieged by armed Sinn Felners. British troops defending it have repelled the attackers by the withering fire of machine guns. The arsenal contains ammunition and supplies for naval purposes. "The situation in Ireland hourly becomes more menacing," says a Dublin dispatch to the Daily Express. "The first step in the government's policy to suppress the Sinn Fein in County Clare was the opening of the monthly market day (presumably Friday) at Ennis. Clare Is Armed Camp "Steel helmeted soldiers, armed with rifles, stationed across the principal roads leading to town, turned back a long stream of farmers bringing In stock and produce," the dispatch adds. "County Clare now is an armed camp: the hillsides are white with police huts and barracks occupied by soldiers all In battle order. "Visitors at the seaside resorts are leaving, panic-stricken. 'Londenberry, where troops with fixed bayonets charged Sinn Fein rioters causing many casualities Friday and yesterday, Is more quiet today.
Normal Service Resumed on Eastern Railroads
(By Associated Press) BOSTON, Aug. 18. With the return to work of shopmen who have been on strike the Boston & Maine railroad gave virtually normal passenger service today. On the New York, New Haven & Hartford trains to New York with the xxception of the Knlcker Express and the Merchants limited were resumed but complete pre-strike schedules were not promised before .Thursday, The Boston & Albany announced the return of parlor cars and -dining cars tomorrow.
BOYS TRIES TO DROWN G. & 0. PASSENGERS
Edwin Frazier, Economy youth, thought he had played a Joke on the C. and O., when he turned loose the spout of a big water tank a few days ago, while a passenger train was passing underneath. The ventilators were open, and he nearly drowned the passengers, the big tank pouring 10,000 gallons on the train. He said he did it as a joke, but the railroad company took it seriosly. Now Edwin's in the county jail, charged with attacking a public conveyance.
Machine Gunners Who Held Chateau Thierry Bridges Reach Home
(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Aug. 18. The 9th machine gun battalion, motorized, the first unit to reach the Marne in July. 1918. and which without artillery or infantry support, held the Chateau Thierry bridges for 24 hours until reinforcements arrived, was among troops which returned home today on the transport Agamemnon, bringing from Brest the first of the third division. This division of regulars, whose losses were of the heaviest, originally was commanded by Major General Joseph T. Dickman. In training at the time of the second battle of the Marne, it afterward participated in every major engagement of the American forces. Divisional units besides the 9th machine gunners returning today included part of the RSth infantry, "the Rock of the Marne," cited by both Frencli and American commanders, and part of the 18th field artillery.
Clover Seed Bringing $30 A Bushel; May Go Higher in Near Future Clover seed Is selling for $30 a bushel on the local market, a record high price. Practically no clover has
been raised in Wayne county the last year and local farmers will be hard hit by the shortage. Very little clover has ever been raised In Wayne county, except for local consumption, and, when the season was unusually good, put on the market, but this year seems to be one of the worst for clover harvests that the county has ever faced, said Harry Gilbert Monday. Unlike Wisconsin, Michigan and the northern part of Ohio, Indiana has never produced enough clover to successfully control a market, as the soil is not suited for that purpose. Farmers intending to buy red clover seed should take advantage of the prices now available, even though it is high as compared with a year or so ago, as it is openly predicted that the price on clover seed will soar far above the present market price, perhaps to $50 a bushel soon.
New York Police Ask Increase in Salary NEW YORK. Aug. 18. Through the Civil Service Forum, the Patrolmen's Benevolent association has sent a request to Commissioner Enright asking that he include in bis departmental budget provision for an increase in salary for all policemen, ranging from $150 to $250 a year. The policemen assert that it is next to impossible to live decently on their present salaries in these days of tbo high cost of living, and cite one instance of an expenditure of $300 they are compelled to make even before they officially are on the force.
MODERN LUGREZIA BORGIA SLEW MANY BEFORE DETECTION
(New York World.) Do women commit cold-blooded murder? That there have been thousands of women killers within a generation we know. But are their slayings not always either what the French call crimes passionels, or killings of revenge, or homicides founded on morbid sensuality, or occasions due to
pathological conditions insanity, neu
rosis, hysteria, or epilepsy? In a word, do women kill, as countless men in every age and clime have killed, for exclusively mercenary motives and with calm premeditation? These old, but ever fresh questions, are revived by the confession and life-long sentence of Mrs. Amy E. Archer Gilligan, in Connecticut. Recently this mature woman herself brought to an end a three years' fight against charges of the state which inferentially involved the deaths of perhaps forty human beings. , This woman was not emotionally or erotically concerned with any of her victims. At no point was any hatred or passion against any one shown. She tried to plead insanity, but repeated examining boards of physicians found her all too sane. She had simply murdered a number, and perhaps a very large number, of old men and women to profit a few hundred dollars extra on each trucidation. A complete and perfect Borgia, one with few parallels. Women May Kill. But if Lucrezia Borgia's record, true or fabulous, in no way compares to this story, there are other women along the backwaters of history, old and new, whose doings will add evidence to support the truth that woman may kill and does kill as calmly and consciously as man. The celebrated Marie d'Aubray, marquise de Brinvilliers, 1630-76. Is one of the best examples from older times. Having exhausted her husband's fortune and disposed of him, she poisoned her mother, father, and other relatives in startling succession, to possess herself of their money. She finally poisoned her lover by mistake, was caught and decapitated.
The only crime of her many In which
any emotional elements were at play
was her last, and it was more accident than crime. France has had a number of other examples. Marie Bompard. that abysmal child of crime, wil be example sufficient. In 1889, this young girl formed a plot with her lover, one Eyraud, to lure Gouffe, a rich notary, into an apartment and there strangle him. She went from Paris to London with Eyraud and there bought the paraphernalia of her crime a large trunk and a strong colored cord to match a dressing gown. With this equipment she and her lover returned and then she led the smiten Gouffe into her room and sat in his lap in a chair. She slipped the strong cord of her gown about his neck ahd remarked what a lovely necktie it would make. That was the signal. Eyraud, hiden behind a drapery, tugged at the cord. In a few minutes Gouffe was dead. His body was hidden in the trunk and she sat beside it all night. She and her paramour were caught after prolonged search. Indeed, she brazenly walked into the prefect's office and said' she had heard he was looking for her. hoping to shift the blame to Eyraud. Both finally were convicted. The girl had done her crime only to get money.
VENUS, NEAREST OF PLANETS, MAY HAVE
"HUMAN" CREATURES
(Philadelphia Ledger) It Is not easy to account for the fact that Mars should have gained so widespread a popular interest, while little attention Is bestowed upon the planet Venus. The latter is not only our nearest planetary neighbor, sometimes approaching within 25,000,000 miles of us a short distance where celestial spaces are concerned but Bhe Is really the earth's twin, her diameter being only 200 miles less than that of the terrestrial globe. Furthermore, whereas It seems most unlikely that here Is any animal or even plant life on Mars, owing to intense cold and extreme tenuity of atmosphere, it is altogether probable that both exist on Venus. Why not, indeed? The prime and essential requirement for the maintenance of life Is water, and with that Venus is plentifully supplied. In fact, she has so much of it that astronomers have never been able to see her face. Warmth is Needed. Another essential, of course, is warmth; but Venus, being only seventenths as far away from the sun as we
are, receives from that source twice as much heat as we get. Conditions on that orb must, therefore, be what we might term super-tropical. At the same time, it is to be considered that the thick veil of clouds must afford a measure of protection against the ardent solar rays. Manifestly Venus has an ample envelope of atmosphere, and the masses of clouds suspended in it unmistakably indicate great oceans. They also suggest plentiful rains, so that one naturally pictures the continents of that planet as diversified with numerous rivers and great lakes. We know that conditions very similar to these existed on the earth during the coal-forming epoch. There were then no mammals on our planet but plenty of strange and monstrous
reptiles, as well as fishes and other lower forms of life. It is at least possible that vegetable and animal life on Venus at the present time correspond more or less to this description. Mars is an aged and debile planet that has dried up and become a desert, apparently. Venus, on the other hand, is young, and may perhaps have reached a vigorous maturity when the last human being on the earth is long dead of thirst. Same Face to Sun. Venus appears to turn always the same face toward the sun. If this be true, it must be forever daytime in one hemisphere, while the other is shrouded in everlasting night, a frozen desert. On Venus there are no changing seasons. Her axis of rotation is perpendicular to the plane of her orbit, instead of being tipped over, like that of the earth. There has recently been some talk about communicating by wireless with distant stars. The nearest one is so far away that nine years would be required to get an answer back, if it were replied instanter. Where the planet Venus is concerned, the problem is very different. A radiogram travels 186,000 miles a second (Its velocity being the same as that of light), and to cover the distance of 25.000,000 miles would not take much over two minutes supposing, that is to say, that an impulse sufficiently powerful could be given. But, if there are any people on Venus, they may not have worked out the wireless invention yet. Quite possibly it is too early for them by a
tew millions of years.
Eschenfelder Gets One To Eight Years for Theft Herbert Eschenfelder was sentenced to from one to eight years In the Wayne circuit court Monday afternoon on a plea of guilty to petit larceny. Eschenfelder was charged with Etealing a quantity of grain and potatoes from a farm northwest of the city. Charles Lannlng was given a sentence of 60 days at the State Penal farm for falling to support his wife and children.
Wounded Czech Soldiers on Stranded Steamer
Admiration of America Expressed by Italians (By Associated Press) ROME, Thursday, Aug. 14 Com tuentlng upon the interview granted The Associated Press by Francesco Nitti, the Italian premier, in which he asked American aid in building up Italy, the Poppolo Romano today voiced the hope that the statement would be received "with sympathy by the noble and generous people of the United States." "Italy is the most democratic country in Europe," the newspaper adds, "and admires the United States which by its intervention in the war, hastened the victory. Italy trusts that the American nation will listen to this appeal to her sentiment of justice regarding to defiance of Italian nationality."
PROTEST EXPULSION
(By Associated Press! LONDON, Aug. 18. American and French consular representatives in Mexico City have protested against the expulsion by the Mexican government of William Cummings, in charge of the archives of the British legation there, it' is intimated in official circles.
SEATTLE. Wash., Aug. 18. With 1,100 wounded Czecho-Slovaks aboard, the United States shipping board steamer Heffron. is ashore off Rokuren, Korea Strait, cable advices received today by the Pacific steamship company from its agent at Kove said.
NO NEWS FROM AIRPLANE.
(By Associated Press) PARIS, August IS. Anxiety is felt here over the lack of news of the arrival of the giant airplane, Goliath at Dakar. The airplane was last reported Saturday morning at 3:30 o'clock passing above Portetinne 500 miles from Dakar. At that time the machine had accomplished the worst part of the journey from Magador to Dakar, having crossed the Sahara.
TREASURE SHIPS ARE SOUGHT OFF AFRICA
(By Associated Press) LONDON, Aug. 18 To recovermore than $3,000,00 in gold, part, of the fortune of the late Oom Paul Kruger, once president of the Transvaal, which is believed to be cemented in the hold of the bark Dorothea, sunk on Tenedos reef off the coast of Zulu-land,-is one of the projects which may be revived as a result of improvements in the science of salvaging sunken ships. The Dorothea is named among the list of wrecks of eight treasure ships located off the African coast which are regarded by one leading expert as most likely for salvage. It is believed that Kruger'a fortune still lies in the bottom of the Dorothea among the jagged rocks of Tenedos reef. Once he was credited with a fortune of $3,750,000. Some years ago a syndicate was organized to attempt its recovery, but a government steamer, the Alfred Noble, failed to salvage it. Captain A. P. Gardinier has located 38 hulls of sunken vessels off the coast of South Africa and believes that one quarter of them may be redeemed. Some of them more than 100 yards east of the ships selected as susceptible of salvage with their location and value of contents, are given as follows: The Grosvenor, on the Pendoland coast, $8,750,000; Ariston, Marcus Bay, $4,000,000; Birkenhead, Birkenhead reef, $3,900,000; Atls, east coast, $3,500,000; Dorothea, Tenedos reef, $3,250,000; Thunderbolt, Thunderbolt reef, $2,750,000; Abercombie Black Rock, $900,000; Marestein, Jutton island, $700,000.
FIRST BATH TUB IN WHITE HOUSE, 100 YEARS AGO
Just one hundred years ago President Monroe indulged in a little extravagance. He "blew himself" to a bathtub. It ccfet $20, and for -a long time there after was the only bathtub in the White House. The historic mansion has been pretty expensive from first to last. Up to date considerably more than 3 million dollars has been spent on it, including repairs and refurnishing. Its cornerstone was laid by George Washington, in a bare field October 1, 1792. Since then it has been twice rebuilt after the British burned it and again during the Roosevelt administration. It was commonly call
ed in early days the Great House, or
the President's Palace. Recently Mr. Tumulty again gave out the announcement that the White
House would be closed to visitors for some time to come, "because of neces
sary repairs." It seems forever to be needing repairs and refurnishing, and
for the latter purpose much more than 1 million dollars has been expended
since the beginning. Original Cost $333,207
The original cost of the building was $333,207. Its reconstruction afte
the British raid of 1814 involved an
expenditure of $246,490, the house
being gutted and its walls so far destroyed that the greater part of them had to be replaced above the first story with new brick and fresh cut
stone. Inevitable there will be a third rebuilding some day. Plans and a model of the White House as it ought to be with wings added, have already been made. The wings are embraced by exterior colonnades. In the east wing is to be a great reception room; in the west wing the state dining room. On the second floor of each wing are to be five bedrooms. Thus the President will have about twenty bedrooms at his disposal, and will be enabled to offer a much freer hospitality. Conservatories in the rear will complete
a magnificent quadrangle, and the whole effect will be veiy beautiful. The cost of rebuilding the White House in this style will be in the neighborhood of 2 million dollars.
NATIONAL GRANGE OUTLINES PROGRAM BEFORE CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. A pro
gram calling for the repeal of the war
time food control, abolition of the control of exports and the enactment of legislature to protect farmers, was announced today by the national grange, representing 700,000 fanners. The grange plan to be urged upon congress Is as follows: Ending of wheat price legislation and all price fixing on primary food. Removal of all restrictions placed on war productions by congress, including the food administration act. Clear definition of the constitutional power of congress to deal with hoarding conspiracies to enhance prices. Removal of all internal revenues on food products. Revision of the tariff schudule in an effort to protect the farmer. Recognition of organizations of
producing farmers in making up of.
the personnel of committees, boards
or commissions to direct the enforcement of the existing and proposed laws. This program was laid before the joint session of the senate and house agricultural committees by the national grange representatives. They stated they were supported in whole or In part by other farm organizations. "The effects of legislation, which may reduce prices the farmer will receive for his grain, live stock and dairy products, would be decreased production," Charles Lyman, secretary of the national board of farm organizations, said today. "The farmer will simply quit producing only enough to support himself. "We fell it our patriotic duty to fully advise as to the effect of such laws," Lyman announced.
U. 5. Trade Competition Feared in England LONDON, Aug. 18. Steadily Increasing production costs, due to increased labor and higher prices for raw materials.shave developed the fear In England that British export trade is to suffer a severe jolt, if not serious injury. Comparisons are constantly being made with foreign costs, but it is noted that most men fear American competition more than any other.
Sir Auckland Geddes, discussifcg in the House of Commons the effects of increased coal pries, compared British iron and steer prices with those prevailing in the United States. Steel rails in England, he said, cost $85 a ton, while in the United States they were $50, and steel plates for shipbuilding $87.50, and in the United States $70. Crown bars were $110 a ton as compared with the American price of $57.50. The spread in pigiron, he pointed out, was $10 a ton, the British cost being $40 to the American $30.
CHURCHES SUSPEND FOR CHAUTAUQUA; SERVICES THERE
WILL PAY MEX BANDITS RANSOM
MARFA, Tex., Aug. 17. Authorization for the payment of the $15,000 ransosa asked by Mexican bandits for the release of Lieut. Paul H. Davis and Lieut. Harold G. Peterson, was received here today and the money probably will be delivered late today to an agent of the bandits at or near Candelaria, Tex., it was announced. The American aviators are being held somewhere in Mexico south of Delaria.
Most of the churches of the city have suspended Sunday services for the rest of the month of August in order that the ministers might secure a short vacation and to accommodate the large number of their congregations who are camping at the Chautauqua. Services are held at the big tent on Sunday mornings.
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HUNGARIAN QUESTION UP.
(By Associated Press) PARIS, August 18 The Hungarian situation was to be discussed by the supreme council today. Frank L. Polk, head of the American delegation, who visited the battle fields of France over Saturday and Sunday, with A. J. Bolfour, the British foreign minister, and Signor Tittoni, the Italian foreign minister returned to Paris today.
ROBBED BY BANDITS
(By Associated Press) CLEVELAND, Aug. 18. Two automobile bandits held Miss Augusta K. Limack, bookkeeper for a fruit keeper here this afternoon and escaped with a $4,000 payroll she carried.
GROCER IS GHARGED WITH UNFAIR PRICE
Gath Freeman, prosecuting attorney, wil submit a formal statement to the federal district attorney at Indianapolis, charging E. R. Berheide, a local grover, with selling sugar at an unfair price, according to a statement made by Freeman Monday afternoon. Berheide recently sold a quantity of sugar for 13 cents a pound to Elsie Hoover, of this city. The receipted bill for the sugar will be turned over to the federal authorities by the prosecutor.
KIENZLE PROMOTED.
Charles Kienzle, formerly naval recruiting officer here, has been recently promoted from first class yeoman to chief yeoman. Kienzle is at present transportation yeoman at the main recruiting offices at Indianapolis.
A girl who was famous a few years ago is once more being admired by the American public. She is the "sweetheart of the corn," who has become almost a trademark for Kellogg's toasted corn flakes. The average person gives little thought to the origin of such illustrations. Not many people realize, for example, that the Kellogg "sweetheart" is a real picture of a real girl. In all the years that this picture has been used, the pose of the girl has seldom been changed from that which originally showed her like Ruth in the famous poem, standing "breast high amid the corn." With a sheaf of corn clasped in her arms, she smiles out at the reader. She is a real American girl, dressed in a simple gingham gown, with her sunbonnet swinging by
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