Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 278, 5 September 1919 — Page 16
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CONFERENCE ON
STEEL QUESTION BEFORE TUESDAY
Wilson Agrees to Gill Meeting in Effort to Avert Threatened Strike.
(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. President Wilson has agreed to undertake to bring about a conference between representatives of the steel workers and the United States Steel corporation in an effort to avert a threatened strike. The president was asked in a telegram sent him today by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and the committee of steel men to say whether a conference could be arranged before next Tuesday, when the presidents of the 24 International unions in the steel industry will meet here to take such action as they might deem necessary. The national committee for organis
ing steel workers continued Its con
ference today with prospects of an important announcement. The committee is endeavoring to decide a course of action for union
steel workers following the refusal of
the United States Steel corporation to hear their committee.
A vote recently taken by the 24 union organizations authorized their leaders to call a strike any time after
Aug. 30. WILL DECIDE TODAY ST. LOUIS. Sept. 5. President
Wilson probably will decide later today whether a conference can be arranged before next Tuesday, as requested by Samuel Gompers, according to an announcement at his hotel here this morning.
STEEL WORKERS COMMITTEE, THREATENING STRIKE, SEEKS PARLEY WITH EMPLOYERS? STRIKE VOTE SHOWS OVERWHELMING MAJORITY FAVORS WALKOUT IF NECESSARY
Committee on organization in the steel industry in seseion at Youngstown , O. Left to right, sitting:: Fd Crough, J. E. Cannon, F. J. Hardison, J. Manley, William Hanson. John Fitzpatrick (chairman), W. Z. Foster (secretary and treasurer), C N. Glover, T- C. Cajthen and D. J. Davis. Standing: F. P. Hanaway, David Hickey, C Claherty, R. J. Barr, H. F. Liley. R. L. Hall, K. T. McCoy, R. W. Beattie. J. W. Morton and P. A. Trant.
Efforts to obtain conferences between the American Federation of Labor and the U. S. Steel Corporation on the right of collective bargaining, eight hoar day and
other aims which are being sought for steel workers will be made within the next few days, according to ML Z. Foster, secretary of
Labor's committee on organization in the steel industry. This de- . cision followed a canvass of the
recent vote taken among the work-
the American Federation of ' ers, which it was announced was ornvjlated soon,
98 per cent in favor of a strike if necessary. Twelve basic demands will be made upon manufacturers
in addition to minor demands to b
News Dispatches From Surrounding Communities
News of City Lodges
To celebrate the consolidation of the three Knights of Pythian lodges In the city, now under the name -of Coeur de Lion, a celebration Jubilee will be held September 17, In the Odd Fellows' hall, where the lodge is holding its meetings until the new building is completed. A luncheon will be served and there will be several speakers among whom will be Henry U. Johnson. At the regular meeting of Coeur de Lion lodge Wednesday evening the rank of page will be conferred upon three candidates. Fifteen candidates will be initiated Into the Moose lodge Monday evening. Seat sale for the Moose Minstrel show to be given at the Murray theatre the nights of September 11 and 12, will be put on the first of next week. Regular rehearsals are being held and It is expected that the show will be one of the best given here. A petition has been sent to the grand lodge Knights of Pythian by the Coeur de Lion lodge of this city, asking that the name be changed to Richmond Lodge. No. 8, Knights of Pythias. Action will be taken on the petition in October. Several Knight Templars from this city are expected to attend the triennial conclave of Knight Templars, which will open in Philadelphia Monday continuing through the week. Among those who will attend are John L. Rupe and John H. Nicholson.
GREENSFORK School opened here Tuesday with the following corps of teachers: principal, O. E. Otlmore; latin and English, Mabel Alexander; seventh and eighth, Katherine Pusey; fifth and sixth, Isabelle Klenzle; third and fourth, Delia Fisher; primary, Ada Borton, music Halsey Harold. ' FOUNTAIN CITY Schools will open here Monday, September 8. The following instructors have been secured: Charles C. Mann, superintendent; Fred Mann, Miss Mabel Jones, high school teachers; Mabel Ball, domestic science; Will Wright, manual training; sixth, seventh and eighth grades, Will Wright and Estella Crew; fifth grade, Belle Humphreys; fourth grade Sada Horn; second and third grade, Edna Hill; first grade, Jennie Erkerle. Mrs. Horace Leonard of Muncie, and Francis Nichols of drawing. GREENVILLE Suit for alimony has been filed by Emma Smith against
Jacob Smith. She charges that her husband will not give her money for household expenses and that she is compelled to work to support herself and educate her four minor children. Suit to enjoin the county commissioners from constructing a 16-inch sewer across a "roadway in Yorke township has been brought by W. A. Roll. The will of D. E. Stewart, probated hero, privides that his estate Is to go to his widow, and on her death to the United Brethren church of Greenville. D. L. Gaskill of Greenville has been named director for Darke county of the National Security league. Several thousand persons attended the homecoming for returned service men held at Gettysburg. A musical program was given, and there were talks by A. B. Reck of Piqua, George W. Manix, O. P. Krickenberger and Marion Murphy.
MARGARET WILSON WEARS GOWN GIVEN BY FRENCH GIRLS
OPPOSITION TO NOSKE GROWING
(By Associated Press) BERLIN, Thursday, Sept. 4 The Social Democratic society of Breslau has adopted a resolution which has been introduced in the national assembly by Vice President Loebe demanding that all army officers immediately take the oath to the new republican constitution and urging that those who refuse be dismissed from the army. Another resolution introduced in the national assembly calls upon the government to get rid of Gustav Noske.
minister of defense, who it is said is evidently unable to stem the tide of military reaction." The appointment of a "comrade capable of ending the military counter-revolution" is demanded. There also is a protest before the national assembly against the retention of the law providing for arrests during a period of martial law. This is taken as another indication that Herr Noske's regime is unpopular with the government and the Socialists. t Among the scattering protests emanating from various Majority Socialist quarters in Berlin is one from the Federation of Labor denouncing the rigid enforcement of martial law because it prevents the distribution of pamphlets and circulars, which was tolerated under the old regime. The trade unionist commission urges that Herr Noske moderate the provisions under which martial law has been enforced. MINISTERS WILL RESUME MEETINGS NEXT WEEK
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Miss Margaret Wilson, w-stz'uxg gown made by her French friends. French girl friends of Miss Margaret Wilson, eldest daughter of President Wilson, designed, made and embroidered a gown for ner and presented it to her as a personal token of friendship.
Indiana News Brevities
The Richmond Ministerial Association will resume its monthly meetings Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock at the Y M. C. A. The meeting will be strictly business. New officers will be installed. The Rev J. S. Hill, of the Reid Memorial church, is the retiring president, and the Rev. R. L. Semans, of the First ; Methodist church, will assume the office. ENLISTMENTS OPEN FOR SIBERIA OR CAMP GRANT Efforts are being made by Recruiter Wright to enlist men for service in the infantry, medical corps, quartermaster, and signal corps in Siberia. The enlistment period is for three years, except in case of previous military experience, when it may be for lien' are also being recruited for : ci-rt division at Camp Grant, 111.
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LAPORTE Larson Danielson, local contractor, was awarded a contract, which w-ill amount to more than
$1,000,000 for the construction of the mother's house of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ, at Donaldson, Ind.
COLUMBUS An apple tree on the Jesse Moore farm near here is in full bloom.
INDIANAPOLIS Clarence Rogers, 16 years old, of Pendleton, won the boys' dairy Judge contest at the State
Fair. WINCHESTER The Rev. B. Fleming, pastor of the Nazarene church here, has been assigned to a Nazarene church in Bluffton. NEWCASTLE The tax rate for 1920 in Henry county has been fixed at 14 cents on the $100 for county purposes and 8 cents for the repair of the gravel roads. NEW ALBANY John W. Ewlng, local attorney, announced his intention of becoming a candidate for the Democratic nomination for representative in Congress for the Third Indiana District, Thursday. HUNTINGTON John Ware sharpened his axe and threatened to kill Mrs. Ware. He didn't kill her but she
was scared so bad that she filed suit
YORK The increasing proof helium gas Is opening a
new field for American activity, says Lieutenant M. F. Eddy, of the navy recruiting station, 34 East Twenty-
third street. That field Is found In the balloon service. In the development of dirigibles and nonrleld air
ships. Men who enlist in the navy
now will be virtual pioneers in learn
ing what promises to be one of the great Industries of the future, says the Evening Sun.
The discovery of Quantities of he
lium gas In Texas was one of the interesting secrets ot the war. If he Germans had had helium to Inflate
their Zeppelins for air raids, experts figure, the bravery of the allied aviators would have counted for little. The weakness of the ZeDnelins lav
in the inflammable nature of the gases they used and it was this factor which led to calling off their Zeppelin campaign. It Was this factor, too, which played havoc with observation balloons along the front. Helium is heavier than oxygen and lighter, than nitrogen. It was found to -the extent of 1 percent of certain natural gases In Texas. To produce it everything else has to be liquified, the helium alone remaining gaseous. It was first identified by Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer in 1868 during observation of an eclipse of the sun.
roressor Ramsey found it on the earth in clevite in 1895 and it occurs also in other minerals associated with argon and nitrogen. It is also found in the earth's atmosphere, in gases from certain mineral waters and in meteoric iron.
The discovery of the gas in Texas was kept secret until after the armistice, being shared by the American navy department with the British admiralty. The production was In the hands of Admiral Grlffen. School for Mechanics. In the balloon service today men In almost every trade will find opportunity to develop their talent, whether fabric workers, machinists, wireworkers, carpenters or metal workers. Training i3 not essential, for these trades, the navy maintaining a school for aviation mechanics at Great Lakes, 111., where young men with ambition and aptitude may receive instruction. Or they may decide to which air station they wish to be sent and there bo trained on active duty. From the Hampton roads air station Lieutenant John G. Paul has been sent for recruiting duty to 34 East Twentythird street, to talk with candidates
and explain to them what the service offers. Lieutenant Paul was detailed
by the navy department to furnish and maintain all balloons for the fleet during maneuvers last winter in Cuban waters. At that time had it not been for the teal and initiative of
many inexperienced men furnished from the ships, he would inevitably
have failed. But these raw men took
hold with such will that he was enabled to make his work successful. At Hampton Roads the navy has established its most important air station. Here the fleet assembles and carries out maneuvers on the waters of Chesapeake bay, making the Hampton Roads air station a base for aerial operations in conjunction with the battle fleet. The Hampton Roads station has likewise been chosen as the aviation experimental station. Here new types of plane are tried out, new devices tested; the men engaged on this work are on the Inside; the mysteries and secrets of their service to them are an open book. Here also is to be
WESLEYANS HOLD CELEBRATION FOR
COLORED YANKS
This may be a new style soon to be in vogue, and then aeain it may not. Each reader is entitled to fig-ure it cut for himself. The photopraph was taken recently durinpr an exciting moment of a tennis match at the Newport Casino. ,
Colored soldiers of the city were
given a rousing reception at the Wesleyan M. E. church, Thursday evening, at ' a homecoming celebration. Approximately 35 men who had served in the United States army during the war were guests. The program included a quartet, and addresses by Rev Cravens, of the Bethel A. M. E. church, Dr. W. G. Huffman, ranking colored soldier of the city, who served as a chaplin during the war, and F. T. Strayer, local attorney. The Rev. Cravens complimented the colored men on the great service they had rendered their country but at the same time admonished them against doing anything that would in any way stain the wonderful record they had made during the war. Dr. Huffman told of the good work done by the men. Strayer spoke very highly of the colored troops abroad, and the manner in which they con
ducted themselves as a part of the A. E. F., where their service was among the hardest of any in France. The Wesleyan church was decorated with a service flag containing 14 stars, representing those who were in serv ice.
PLATOON SYSTEM
INSTALLED HERE IN STARR SCHOOL
So successful has been the platoon
system many schools throughout the
country that Starr school. Fifteenth and North C, will experiment with the
system this year, it has been announced by Superintendent of Schools Bent-ley.
''Under this plan the pupil is getting
the ordinary work of his grade and ad
ditional subjects under special teach
ers." said Bentiey. "ine cnuaren are
divided into two groups. While the first is reciting in the grade rooms,
which take up half the space of the
building, the second group Is distribut
ed for special work in the music room.
gymnasium, drawing room, auditorium and shop. Two classes occupy the au
ditorium at once. Grade classes recite in one and one half hour periods.
Special classes have half-hour sessions.
Groups Are Changed. At the end ot one and one-halt
hours the two groups change about,
allowing the pupils who have had the grade recitations to take three halfhour periods of special work, and vice versa. In this way all space in the
building is in use at once, effecting a saving of 30 percent in space in a 35room building. "By use of the auditorium the pupils have the benefit ot features they could
not otherwise ootain. Moving pictures of educational value, stereortican
of novels or plays, debates, choral
lectures, patriotic work, dramatization
singing and Americanization work are some of the features.
tacn pupu has one nan an hour a
day in the gymnasium and playground, Gain In Training.
"Measurement tests given children
who have been working under the platoon system show that they have accomplished as high a grade of work
in the regular subjects as those work
ing under the other method.
"In addition they have received the
benefit of the extra training under
special teachers, concluded the su perintendent."
BLANKS FOR LEGION MEMBERSHIPS HERE Application blanks for the American Legion have been received by officers of Harry Ray post, and will be distributed among returned service men of the county this week. Every effort will be made to enlarge the membership ot the organization before the charter for Harry Ray post is received. The blanks will be placed in cigar stores, the Y. M. C. A., or may be obtained at the Palladium office, or from any of the officers of the local post.
MISS WILLIAMS, ART SUPERVISOR, ARRIVES
A new baby airplane of Swedish
make weighs only 700 pounds.
Miss Florence WilllamB. the new art
supervisor of the city schools, arrived
in Richmond Friday from ,the university of Chicago, where she has
been teaching.
TELEPHONE HEARING TO TO BE HELD SEPT.
12
A hearing to determine whether
telephone installation and moving
charges established during the period
of federal control should be abolished or continued, will be held September
12, in the public service commission chambers at Indianapolis, the commission announces.
TRAINS IN COLLISION.
DEMOCRATS TO MEET
POPE NAMES CHAMBERLAINS.
found the greatest activity on the coast in balloon works. Many Phases to Service. The C-3, sister ship of the ill-fated C-5, represents only one phase of the balloon service, that of the nonrigid airship. These are the small patrol ships used near important harbors for coastal work and submarine hunting, or for controlling the fire of the forts and batteries defending these ports. Then there are the giant rigid ships which the navy is to build similar to the famous R-34. Surely the thought of having a hand in starting so important a branch of aviation and advancing with it must appeal to all redblooded young men. Prospects for actual flying in these ships are bright, for a large crew must be carried, and even so small a ship, in comparison, as the C-3 used an enlisted man for helmsman.
State Fair Attendance
Slackens; Pep Continues rNDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 5 The state fair began to slacken up in attendance this morning. The exposition
itself, with its attractions and dis
plays, showed little loss of "pep," but there was a distinct decrease in the crowds that have marked other days
of the week. In most departments the
judges had completed their work, but in the Coliseum there were horse and
cattle shows to entertain the visitors. The fair has had its most profitable week. The attendance has not only been heavy, but will total with the best years if the number of paid admissions does not make a record. What the exposition will return la profits could not be measured by the officials today. Charles N. Lindley, president, said that the Income up to noon yesterday probahly placed the fair on an expense
paying basis. Charles Je . K.enneay, secretary, said that while money has been flowing In, the tide would turn today and the outflow of premiums, special attractions and countless other expenses, would begin.
Baltimore and Ohio Shopmen at Work CUMBERLAND, Md., Sept. 5 The 2,000 Baltimore and Ohio shopmen on strike since Tuesday, returned to work today agreeable to the vote taken yesterday after being informed by Director General Hines that they were discharged Saturday if they did not return to work.
Coasins Held in County Jail on Larceny Charge Howard Bennett and Benlck Bennett, both colored, were arrested early Friday morning by C. W. Smith, C. & O. railroad detective, and are now in the county Jail awaiting action of the grand jury on a charge of larceny. The men were arrested for the alleged stealing ot a travelling bag from a brakeman. According to Smith, the men boarded the train at Boston, after the brakeman had climbed on one of the cars, and then stole his travelling bag. The men claim they are cousins.
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SCHOOL BOARD INSPECTS
The school board, composed of Charles Jordan, Willard Carr and Lawrence Handley, made a tour of inspection of all the city schools Friday, to see that they were in proper condition for the coming semester.
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By Associated Press) PARIS, Sept. 5. Thirteen persons were killed and forty Injured in a collision between two trains near Toulouse this morning.
(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept 5 A meetins of the executive committee of the Democratic national committee will be held at Atlantic City Sept. 26 and 27. Chairman Cummings announced today.
(By Associated 'Dress7 ROME, Tuesday, Sept. 2. Pope Benedict has appointed as his private charffberlains, Monaignors John Rogers and Philip Bryan of San Francisco.
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