Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 30, 16 December 1919 — Page 14
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?AGE FOURTEEN
THE XUCaniOMD PALLADIUM AND SUN-nSLEGBAXL TUESDAY, DEC 16, 1919.
ais'smiATion i - i K - . . -, I. . ... 'The' best'epsaon, for .the low supply Ma te tlukuBifaAaa.:Aci explained In
four wwds ffcny g." oordlxg to' Ntenpa'JOlrMDn, general
manager of the Richmond, light. Heat ft Power company, Tuesday! - .The gas pressure rises and tails with the temperature, said Johnson. When It Is cold weather the gas supSf Is lew, while in wanner weather e supply- Is higher.--' jzt :-. ;-".: The coal situation also controls the gas supply largely. -If the 'coal sltnatlon hid retaataedr normal, the. supply for domestic" consumption would have proven sufficient. ;.; 'V- ' "However,", he continued, ."there Is no reason why every family Jin town sheuldsAot he able to cook their meals. Every atkht we fill our large holder tor this purpose., and during .meal hours the supply. Is fed from this holder. In the morning from 5 ta 7 o'clock: from 1Q:SA to 12 noon, and from 4:30 to 6
VaCizzsx l Store Day
Saturday Is re ported by one
Richmond merchant to -have been the largest single day ever experienced in the history of his j place ot business. Other merchant v report Saturday to have been , on-a of their heat days.. ... "y .,. .,::;- i All. of which. goes fca show that the Richmond Chrlstmaa shoppers have heeded , the appeal of "Shop Early." and are rapidly exhaiaating the supply of Chrlstmaa goods., Monday was , also a good day . for . tmde, although few shopped early in tfve morning. . Several local Jewelry stores remeained open Monday evening but no great rush waa experienced. They will continue ,open until Christmas Eve, however. The larger f stores will remain open ..next Monday evening. . Soma may start Friday.- ,' - " : , It was expected that the early 'closing hours .of last , week would idipalr business but such waa not the i case.
More goods was sold last week; than
our bolder. -During these hours house- r timefor a7 namber of veexe keepers will And a sufficient amount I " "" or PamDer ot ye8
CLAMPS PUT DOWN
ON ROAD BUILDING
keepers win And
to ceek wlth."- v .-' n regard to (he statement that factories were using a great part of the supply, Johnson said: "All i factories r have been shut 1 off from our lines for several weeks. . The statements made that factories were consuming the greater portion of gas. are . a mistake. , There .have been no factories on our Una-this month. ; Mr. -; Johnson further - stated that throe-fourths of the supply of natural gas In West Virginia, the fields from which Richmond Is supUed. is gone. . while five-sixth of the whole supply of the country has boon used up. Government figures back Johnson up
in. these statements. ? - -
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which contracts ware let during lflt,
comprising a total mileage of appro?!
mately 1IS4 miles. All available
funds of the commission for 1120 will
be required for this work and maintenance, ' officials of the commission state..,'? .. ,. '
Tentative plans of the 'commission
called for the construction of approximately 400 miles of state highways
during 1920. Much of the prepara
tory work for the actual construction of these sections has been completed
by the ' engineering staff of the cam-
mission,' Including much field work by surveying parties this fall. It was expected, -according to announcement made by officials of the commission, to let the contracts for. this work Jan.
1 and March 1; 1820. ? The 1920 program of the commission
was . outlined before the funds of the
commission were curtailed by the state board of tax commissioners. It was expected that the 10-cent levy fixed by the Legislature would be continued and 'that from this source, together
Iwith Federal appropriations which
would, have been available
ilIARin6 FAILS TO .
KEEP APFOIIIOlTj ? LEGION AT MEET
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 16. With the exception of cat calls that greeted references to Victor Berger, ousted representative from Wisconsin,' and .the statement made by M. L. Clawson. attorney when he said he knew-a bank: ers son in Indianapolis who had enlisted In the navy to keep from getting shot, the Socialist meeting yesterday at Machinists' Hall," 39 Souh Delaware street, was devoid of excitement r Scott Nearing, former university professor and alleged v radical, tailed to put In an appearance. - The meeting, while called a Socialist meeting-, had an appearance of a
reunion of the soldiers ot the world war, members of the American Legion
beinar in treat malority. Following the
for the) meetlnar charges were made by man v
state, sufficient funds would be In the ! membera of the legion that the Indihands of. the commission to carry out anapolis Socialists advertised Nearing the r proposed : 1920 program- When as a sneaker for ourelv advertising
INDIANAPOLIS. Dec 16 Uo contracts tor the : Improvement t ot additional sections of the state highway system will be let by the Strte Highway Commission during 1J20 if the funds now In sight for the cq 'amission are all that are available for road work during the next year. ; : The only way in which additional funds can be secured will be by flnancl! relief by the. roposed special session of the erialature. These facts w are brought
DR. ROSS TO CAPITAL. ' " ' lout by inquiries at the sifTfice of the Dr. L. F. Ross went to Indianapolis I commission yesterday co.'o jcerning the Tuesday to make ' t ' report on child-1 construction program for ' hext year, welfare work before the conference of I ;, The efforts of the commission durChlld Welfare organisations of. the ling the next year will be .centered on
state. -; ' - rt - x-1 the completion ot the sections for
the tax commissioners fixed the 3-9-cent levy for highway work, it was found Impossible.- it is said, to continue plana tor the 1920 highway pro"graml ' ,'" . t ' Federal funds'" amounting to about
$5,000,000 would, be available for Indiana highway work during 1920. pro-
purposes and Socialists hinted at kid
napping by officials Interested In preventing the speech of Nearing. William H. Henry, state secretary of the Socialist party, said he could not account for Nearing's absence unless he had been kidnapped, a contin
gency, he said, ne nated to contem-
vided the same amount of state funds j plae. He said, however, that Nearing
were used in the work. ' While Indiana
may not lose the money ha a result of the postponement of the 1920 constructice program for at v least another . . , i. a -. ,
year, .- n is pounea wui oy persons in
was very sensitive and It might have been that when he learned of the pr-
ganized opposition to his appearance he had decided not to come.
Chief Jerry Kinney of the Indianap-
close touch with the situation that the : oils police department declared before
aeiay . in - taxing up tms jreaerai aia i the meeting that if Nearing did ap-
might eventually lead to part of it ; pear he would not be permitted to
being lost to the state.
MI83 CLARK' RETURNS. Miss S. Ethel Clark, secretary of the social service bureau, returned from Indianapolis Monday night, where she attended the annual con
vention of the Indiana Mental Hygiene
society.
talk. He said his was the only method
he. could see to prevent friction.
With the exception ot two minor incidents, the meetling resembled any political meeting. The speakers dw,elt on the virtues of their party and the good sought by the party tor he laboring man. "ClorJe Eskfcio" Not A Race, Says Explorer , . . - ; - - , " . (By Associated Press) ' SEATTLE, Wash, Dec. 16. Atavism explains the discovery of "Blonde Eskimos" in .Victoria Land In the Arctic reported by Viljhalmar Stefansson, In the opinion of James' R. Crawford, a member of the second Stefansson expedition, who has come out of the north tor the first time in 15 years. ' : The blonde natives r are "throwbacks" ot early white explorers, Crawford believes. He expressed surprise that the existence ot an entire tribe of blondes was generally believed.' He waa with Stefansson when the blondes were discovered. .)- "In Victoria Land," Crawford said, "there are probably three tribes or villages, comprising several hundred natives. In which these light Eskimos are. found. But there are fewer than a dozen of the blondes, so far as we were able to learn. In the entire land. They had grey eyes, light eyebrows, reddish brown hair, and their skins
are slightly lighter than that -of their brothers, although not noticeably so. "The natives msde It known that they had never seen white men before, and probably they had not." Crawford said. "But their ancestors did see white men, probably looking; for a new land, who never lived to get back to civilization. "There was one little girl who possessed the most pronounced markings of bl on den ess, the daughter of two dusky natives, whose hair was black and who had black beady eyes. The parents knew of no reason' for the
reddish hair and gray eyes of their oAprtngV , , ; .-.
Crawford who was married shortly
after he had returned 'to civilisation
on the steam whaler Herman, which
had picked him up on a floe near Vic
toria Land.- intends to take his bride north with him when the , ice breaks in the spring. -:. GIPP TO LEAD IRISH SOUTH BEND. Ind., Dec. 16. George Olpp, of Laurium. Mich., was elected captain of the Notre Dame football team. Olpp was chosen as an All-Western half back last season.
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