Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 53, 13 January 1920 — Page 1

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tion in United States To Call Before It Leaders of Industry, Labor. HOLDS STAfSESSION

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 Daily sessions to be continued over a considerable length of time with a number of rab-committees . working in conjunction with the commission proper was the method of procedure under which president's Industrial relations commission was working today. The decision to hear personal statements from many of those who have offered suggestions for bringing ' about peace in the United States was made yesterday. ' Names of those w,ho would be heard had not been determined early today but it was said, the list would include a considerable number of industrial and labor leaders, students of economics and others. M ; The hearings will, as in the past, be (w in executive session. The sub-commit-' lees to be named will deal with particular sections of the tentative program adopted by the commission before its adjournment for the holidays and which would be reconsidered ( with a view of possible improvement In the light of comment and criticism from various sources since the program was made public. A full attendance of members was reported at the reopening of the commission's sessions.

Harlan and Jones to Appear Before Board County Road Loan Denver C. Harlan, county attorney, and W. O. Jones, county superintendpnt of highways .will appear before the state tax commission Friday morn-

in?fV ? mT 5 ,,aay morn:ithat a large shipment of ammunition ing in an attempt to get their approval. fnP thp carranza eovernment arrived of the S25 000 loan to be made tn f h I carranza government arnveu ui uie wj.wv joan to ue maae to tnen 9n79n iin MptIco. Dee. 24. last. !

county highway funds In order to keep Wayne county roads in their good shape. ' , The county commissioners last Saturday gave their sanction to a loan for this purpose,' but it will be necessary to get the state tax commissioners approval before . the money can "be . secured,:..-;-: ,' As a result ot the action of .the state ; leglsatlure In appropriating the auto license fees to the Btate highway fund, instead of reverting them back to the counties the county highway fund has been decreased approximately $20,000, and it will be necessary to have additional money if the roads are to be kept up the entire year. BUFORD HEADS FOR LIBAU, IS REPORT ' KIEL, Jan. 13. The ultimate destination of the American army transport Buford, which was compelled to loy up here for boiler repajrs, is believed to ie Libau, Letvia, on the - Baltic sejrp 143 miles southwest of Riga. fc The 240 aliens deported from the United States aboard the Buford were confined below deck, while the ship's boilers were undergoing repairs. Kven the liuford's crew were prohibited from contact with the involuntary passengers. German, newspaper men who attempted to board the Buford. were compelled to get permits from German naval authorita. They found the commander of the destroyer Bullard. which is accompanying the Buford, uncommunicative. The Buford's captain merely stated that his passengers had conducted themselves "passively" during the trip. QUAKE ZONE CUT OFF; DEATHS FEARED (By "Associated Press) MEXICO CITY, Monday, Jan. 12.. . 'Apprehension was caused here tonight by the failure of special press despatches to arrive from the earthquake zone in the state of Vera Cruz. Up until a late hour, nothing had been received .from the east. Except for details of relief measures, the only reports relative to the earthquake were those given out by the Interior department from official despeaches Irom former Governor Alfonzo Cabrera, of the state of Puebla. In transmitting advices from Chalchicomula, he said there were ti deaths at Lafragua, 900 at Chilcotla and 23 at Ouimixtlan. He said he had no knowledge of the number of casualties In other villages reported destroyed or damaged in that region. A supplementary despatch from Senor Cabrera stated cnucotia naa Deen covered to the depth of CO feet with rocks and debris from nearby hills; ' Relief parties have been unable to reach Chilclquila, Quimixtlan and Patlanalan because of ' great - chasms In the earth. Hauzcaleca is also reported to have been destroyed. RUSSIAN JEWS FLEE . . FROM -BOLSHEVIK ARMY (By Associated Press) PARIS. Jan. 13. Polish Russian Jews are fleeing at the approach of Bolshevik, bands between .Kiev and Wnloczrs according to reports from W At Zmrlnka there are some 15,foOO of these refugees who. are in a nitlable condition. The same state of affairs exists at Oskirow. where the inhabitants and officers of the Polish army are doing their best to care for

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L. A.-C. Martens, self styled "Russian soviet ambassador to the United States," and his secretary, Santeri Nuorteva, have been testifying before the

senate committee investigating Russian propaganda in the United States. Department of justice agents had been searching for Martens with warrants for his arrest when they located him at the home of a friend.

ARMS FOR MEXICAN GOVERNMENT GUARDED BY JAPS, REPORT (By Associated Press) SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Jan. 13. The senate sub-committee investigating the j Mexican situation today had a report . , T ' -r 1 simultaneously with the Japanese cruiser Yakuma. The report was known at army headquarters here and was forwarded to the war department at Washington. Yakuma apparently . was escorting the ship bearing arms and ammuni tion which had been -. purchased In Japan through; Colonel Emilio Circle of the Mexican army and Manuel Perez Romero, then Mexican minister at Tokio. - ; The Yakuma, the report adds, was met at Manzanillo by a committee rep resenting the Mexican department of war" and marine, and its commanding officer and subordinates were invited to visit Mexico City. Part of the per sonnel of the Yakuma, it is stated, consisted of students from the Japanese military academy. Recent reports from Mexico indi cate federal troops in the state of Chihuahua are better equipped than they have been for a long time. Considerable numbers of machine guns recently have been received, it is said. HOPES SMASHED FOR EARLY TREATY ACT (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 Possibility of final senate action on the peace treaty by Jan. 16, when the league of nations council will assemble in Pans, vanished today, according to Republi can and Democratic leaders. Not before next -week, spokesmen of both parties predicted, was any action probable. Democrats declared they would be satisfied if ratification were effected this month. While negotiations toward adjust ments of differences over reservations gained new empetus today, it was said some Democrats wede disposed to defer action until after the caucus Thursday when a minority leader will be elected. PLEDGES OF TWO SENATORS NEEDED (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 13: Two more nledees of members of the sen ate are all that are needed to make ud the two-thirds membership of botn houses of the Indiana legislature necessary for a special one day session for the ratification of the federal suffrage amendment. Hope was expressed by the officers of the Women's Franchise league of Indiana, that the needed pledges would be received today so the call for the session could be issued immediately by Governor Goodrich. Governor Goodrich is said to have the call for the session ready and as soon as the Franchise league obtains the pledges of the two needed senators, it would be issued. Spain Will Not Release Body of U. S: Soldier (By Associated Press) . MADRID, Sunday, Jan. 1 11. Sanitary authorities have definitely refused to grant permission for the exhumation of the remains of Corporal Thismorton, killed in 1917 when an American vessel was sunk by a German submarine. The law stipulates the remains must not be taken from the grave for five years. The destroyer Thornton which arrived at Corunna to take the rody back to the United States on Dec. 24; has proceeded to Lisbon and ill probably visit England before her rr-turn to America.

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Expect Grand Jury Report In Dr. Schott Case Today LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 13. Whether an indictment for murder will be returned against Dr. Christopher G. Schott in connection with the death of Miss Elizabeth Ford Griffith, was exnected in he determined tndav. The crrsnrl 1nrv wont intrt soKeirm strain anA it n Avnteii wnnrt would De made before adjournment. Aftc. ho w,. vosOTav y,ai ,tnrA .'V: Commonwealthrrwitnesses who r BPs j. ? r iT , ' testified in the main to having seen . Ur. llUdl UIS UIUUB uu 1U11SIm, eve .bGtweetl 1 and 3 o'clock during which time the coroner has held Miss Griffith was murdered, Lauren e Gardner, thirteen star witness for the defense, was called upon to testify. She reiterated that, she and Dr. Schott ,were delivering Christmas presents in another, jsection'pf the city uuriug ujb aiieruuuii. ... . ...... . SOCIALIST DEFENSE GROWS STRONGER (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan: 13. The protest against the action of the state assembly in suspending five Socialist members gathered force here today. The har . association of the city of New York will send a delegation of lawyers to Albany to attend the trial of the suspended men if a resolution to that effect circulated by a committee of the association is passed at the annual meeting of the organization tonight. Socialist leaders awaited the arrival here today ot Morris Hillquit, former Socialist candidate for Mayor of New York, before deciding the details of the legal fight. Samuel Seabury,' Democrat, former justice of the supreme court in this city, probably will be associated with Mr. Hillquit as counsel for the suspended assemblymen, prominent Socialists declared. The question " of Charles Evans Hughes participation in the proceedings was expected to be decided before nightfall. The defense, it Is said, will be entirely on constitutional grounds. Socialist leaders said they were not disposed to heed the proposals of some of theim members to make the hearing a defense of Socialism. CONFESSES TO MURDER TO SHIELD HER FATHER LOCKHAVEN, Pa., Jan. 13 Angela Decello, wanted on a charge of mur der at Kane, Pa,, was arrested here last night after a search of several months. Decello was charged with having shot a countryman at Kane but his daughter assumed the blame in order, she confessed later, to ai low her father time to escape. Decello. according to the police, has confessed that he did the shooting to protect his daughter. TWO FOUND KILLED IN ACTION WASHINGTON. Jan. 13. Research of the records of the war reveals the followine as killed in action: Anton io Marccarella, 2425 Arthur Ave., New York city and Chester F. Van Zanit, Rio Vista, Tex. Weather Forecast FoY'lndiana by the United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight except probably snow in extreme northeast portion. Colder Wednesday, iair. Today's Temperature Noon 30 Yesterday Maximum 35 Minimum 4 below For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair tonight and Wednesday. Colder tonight. . General Conditions The storm which threatened last night proved to be a dry storm, except over the lakes and is now passing eastward out of ranee. Generally fair weather con tinues over the weBt and is rapidly apnearing over the eastern states. Tem peratures are not cold in any portion of the United States but severe cold weather has developed over Alaska where it is 48 below zero in the Yukon valley where it has been aulta mUdd.

WESTERN STATES

URGED TO RATIFY SUFFRAGE HAYS (By Associated Press) SAN. FRANCISCO, Jan. 13. Means of organizing women voters and party finances were among topics before Will H. Hays, Republican national chairman, and leading Republicans of six western states for discussion at conferences today. Mr, Hays, who arrived here yester day with a group of prominent men and women party workers, also was scheduled to sneak at a dinner to which 2,000 tickets had been issued Special meetings of the national com mitteemen here to confer with Mr. Hays were to be held. The national chairman reiterated former statements that the "mission of the National committee was to elect not -select candidates, and pre dieted that the nominee of the 1920 convention would be elected.". He also assured a delegation of lead ing California suffrages that he was extending efforts to have Republican governors exert their influence to obtain ratification of the federal suffrage amendment in states which have not ratified it. Mr. Hays and his party will hold a state conference in Nevada this week, he announced prior to entering the first of today's scheduled meetings. DEMOCRATS MISUSED BANKS, HAYS CHARGES SAN FRANCISCO, . Jan. 13 In a statement in connection with the announcement in Washington of- telegraphic correspondence between Secretary of the Treasury Glass and Will H. Hays, chairman of the Republican national committee, Mr. Hays renewed his "suggestion that the secretary investigate the alleged action of the Democratic National committee in drawing drafts on bankers in whose banks government funds are deposited, and wiring such bankers that such drafts had already been drawn". The telegrams were exchanged after Mr. Hays Stated in a speech at Denver that the Democratic administration had sent out "thousands of tons of propaganda to liberty bond buyers, food card signers, war workers, etc". The statement regarding the drawing of drafts, made in a telegram, drew from Mr. Glass the reply that "it would not be astonishing to find that both of you repeatedly have done thiS". ' y Two Towns Affected by Mysterious Malady; 4 Dead, Hundred Are HI By'ssWiated Press)" KANSA8 CITY. Mo.. Jan. 13. Whether the mysterious intestinal malady which has affected several hundred persons in Kansas and Okla homa exists in other communities of the southwest today was a matter for speculation. Pending reports officials of the two states were trying to identi fy the disease and employ means for checking its spread. Topeka. Kansas and Muskogee, Ok lahoma, apparently were the worst sufferers. At Topeka 200 cases had been reported and unofficial estimates placed the number at 1,000. Many school children were among those ill. At Muskogee there were about 300 cases. No fatalities were reported at either place and the death list from the malady remained at four, all' at Skiatook, the little Oklahoma town where It first became prevalent. The. situation at Skiatook was believed to be under control, however. State health department inspectors sent to. Skiatook to Investigate were expected to furnish Information today that would assist the authorities in classifying the epidemic. Tests also were being made at the Oklahoma state emergency hospital, and it was believed definite Information would bo obtained. Conferences of physicians were held" last night at Topeka and Muskogee. Some of the doctors expressed the be lief that the malady was a form of dysentery, while others were of the opinion that it was a gastric form of influenza. $10 ,000 ,000 Holding Co. Formed in Connersville CONNERS VILLE, Ind.. Jan. 13. A $10,000,000 holding company, incorporated in Delawa e, has Just been organized to take over a great group cf local industries. F. B. Ansted, president of the Lex ington Motor company, is head of the new company. The Lexington company.tho Ansted Engineering com pany, the Connersvillo Foundry corporation and the Teetor-Hartley company, of Hagerstown, are under the new corporation. Officers of the United States Automotive corporation are Frank B. Ansted, president; George W. Ansted, Emery Huston, and Frederick I Barrows, vice presidents; James M. Heron, treasurer, and Lie Roy A. Hanson, secretary. All live in Connersville, where the main office of the United States Automotive corporation will be located. Mexican Slayers of " . American Are Arrested (By Associated Press) MEXICAN CITY, Monday, Jan. 12. Three persons alleged to be the as sassins of Earl Boles and F. J. Roney, American oil men killed near Port Lobos, early this month have been arrested, according to a report received here from Colonel Carlos S". Crezco, chief of operations in the Tamplca district. Colonel Crozco declares that others implicated in the tragedy have been located and will be apprehended shortly. ; The .report says the American consul at Tampico has expressed satisfaction at the i effects of the federal forces to nunish offenders there.

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Elsie LT When at thirteen. Elsie L. Green apolis business world, she had but one known to more big business men than A.t . . ,. . i recently Deen maae assistant general of commerce which, with more than civic-commercial organizations. RETURN OF BODIES OF U. S. SOLDIERS ASKED OF CONGRESS (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Jan. 13. The question, of bringing home the bodies of American soldiers buried in the battle lines of France, got into congress anew today, with a hearing of 200 parents asking for their return, before the house foreign affairs committee, and by introduction of a resolution; by 'Chairman Porter-to direct the president tqV have the bodies returned.'; - V - Stephen. E. Early,, former captain of infantry, and secretary of the American Field of Honor association, asked the committee to give a hearing to the association's representatives before final action. , The association does not oppose return of any soldier's body, if requested by next of kin, but proposed a permanent memorial cemetery in France for those who remained there, and recommends against a blanket return of the bodies. Charges of a propaganda conducted by undertakers for the return of the bodies form a part of the material assembled by the association for the committee. LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO MEET IN PARIS (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. In the first meeting of the council of the League of Nations will be held in Paris Friday . beginning at 10:30 o'clock in the morning. The call for the assembly which went out late yesterday was Issued in accordance with the terms of the Versailles treaty by President Wilson whom the treaty makers designated for that duty. It went to the ambassadors of the entente nations which have ratified the treaty and will not be made public until it has been received from by their governments. The call is said to have been brief. The most Important business to come before the initial meeting of the council will be that of setting up the various commissions upon which will devolve the task of carrying out cer tain provisions of the treaty. DESK OFFICERS GOT MEDALS , IS CHARGE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 Urging congressional investigation of the award of army decorations during the war. Representative Gallivan, Demo crat, Massachussetts, declared In the house today that more Distinguished Service Medals, In proportion were awarded to army officers who never got nearer the front than Washington, than to those who saw service overseas. ( ."It is common talk in the army." said Mr. Gallivan, "that our present chief of staff and one of his-assistants, a colonel, whose duty was to escort and dine foreign missions here in Washington, had no space left between their belts and their collars to display the medals that have been given them as a result of this service. - . SMYRNA INSEPARABLE FROM TURKEY, DECLARES SULTAN (By Associated Press) ' PARIS, Jan. 13. Smyrna was declared "inseparable from the Turkish empire" in the Sultan's " speech from the throne delivered at th opening ot the chamber of deputies on Monday, according to Constantinople dispatches. As the Sultan was unable to attend the meeting the speech was read by the minister of the interior. Smyrna is now in the Greek zone of occupation.

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r90v Tlentnrvnt FlertoA asked if the operators would not modJCTSey, uemoCTUl Eiectea Ify the language in th?ir acceptance

TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 13 Clarence ta. case, Kepubiican, as state senate president, succeeded William M. Run yon as acting governor of New Jersey at noon today pending the inaugural next Tuesday of Edward I. Edwards, Democrat, who was elected on a "wet' platform. Mr. Runyon, as senate president, succeeded Governor Walter E. Edge, when the latter was elected to the United States senate. In his farewell message to the new state legislature, which the Republicans ' control, Mr. Runyon urged its support of is Democratic successor, regardless- of party. unless through mischance . or- other wise he shall give his backing to any thing' that is unworthy." AUSTRALIAN GENERAL PRAISES U.S. SOLDIERS (By Associated Press) MELBOURNE. Jan. 13 Lieutenant General Sir John Monash, commander of an Australian army corps in the Perronne sector during the final days of the war, paid a high tribute to American soldiers brigaded with his men in a speech here today. Two American divisions fought with the Australians in this section of the bat tle front. ''.The Australians found the Ameri cans excellent comrades and good fighters," said the general. "Their common experiences in the field have established an undying blood relation-1 ship between Americans and Austral-! ians." Opera Charges SflOOk DoWn . I fit TL Oy Llaque, Iney C narge ry Associated Tress) CHICAGO, Jan. 13. Singers of the Chicago Grand Opera company have been paying for applause at the rate of from $50 a week to $20 a perform ance, according to statements of Charles Fontaine, French tenor, and Alesandro Dolci, Italian tenor, made public today. An assistant stage manager, the tenors said, was head of the claque, and obtained the money under promises of handclaps, cries of 'bravo,' 'encore,' 'bis'" or threats to "cut off their artistic heads." Herbert Johnson, comptroller of the company, said he had heard rumors that "somebody was shaking dSwn the artists and that a circular letter was sent to the singers last month advising them it was necessary to pay for applause. Fontaine said the claque leader told the aDDlauders whom he station ed about the theatre what singers to applaud, when to start rt a demonstration, and what arias to make the singers repeat, so that the artist's reception would appear "wildly en thusiastic. ASK BELGIAN MINERS TO WORK NINE HOURS A DAY ' (By Associated Press) PARIS, Jan. 13 As a result of conferences here with Louis Loucheir. minister of reconstruction, it is under

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production may be shipped to France. GEN. PERSHING IS GREETED. (By Associated Press) DENVER, Jan. 13. A solvo of seven teen guns fired by members of the marine corps of Denver, who saw serv ice overseas, was the greeting pre pared for General J. J. Pershing upon Ms arrival today at Denver, Denver's streets were decorated with flags and the afternoon was to be actually a holiday with state and city officials joining with former service men and the public generally in a welcome to1 the army's chief.

OPERATORS.

TO ACCEPT FINDINGS Coal Diggers Signify That I hey Will Take Commission's Rulings, With ReservationWon't Fix Prices. ASK AWARD CONTRACT (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Jan. 13. Mine operators in the central competitive field today told the commission named to settle the bituminous coal strike that they would accept with a single reservation any award which the commission might make. The operators said they would not be a party to the fixing of prices beyond the period of effectiveness of the Lever law, the war-time measure under which the government has controlled food and fuel prices. Ralph Crews, counsel for the central' operators, explained that without making this reservation the operators could not legally join any price fixing agreement. He also said the operators would not make their acceptance of the commission's award contingent upon the preparation of answers to a series of questions which the operators yesterday asked the commission. In accepting the commission's authorization, .the operators, : MrCrews said, understood that the cornmission's award should "of itself constltute a final contract between , tne miners and the operators for the pertjt K. tkM .AmMl..tAM H iu u wiumuaava. Can Only Be Basis. President Robinson reminded him that President Wilson's letter -creating the commission authorized it only to an award which might be used as a basis for a wage contract." He I accordinely. and Mr. Crews finally agreed that the commission should determlne that point. The miners agree that the award shall be a basis for a new wage agree-. ment and. not of itself an agreement," said John L. Lewis, acting president of the mine workers. "I trust the record is not being made here which can be used subsequently as a basis for a refusal by the operators to write into a wage agreement the commiasion's award? President Robinson's and Mr. Crews'. stipulations ' that the ' commission should' have "the power to determine what the procedure should be, have cleared up to this point. Miners representatives took before the commission, their full demands as originally made and refused by the operators before the calling of the coal .strike last November. Acting President Lewis recited de mands for an increase of 60 per cent in wages, the six hour work day and five day week, for the abolishing of double shifts and for the considera tion by districts of internal differences and defended each of them. "Conditions Always too Low." 'The living conditions and the so cial conditions of the miners, the en vironment in which he has been compelled to raise his family have ever been too low," he said. 'The efficiency and health of mine workers," he declared, "required shorter hours, and he added that the miners would endeavor to show the commission that the average bituminous coal mine did not work more than 30 hours a week in any case. These demands were not put up by us as a mere pretense on which to trade," be said. Requests Are Considered. questions concerning points on which i laey ueeireu uuuiuuii iignt gait these were before the commission to day, having been taken under adviso ment for a reply later. Mr. Brewster woald not say whether the attitude to te assumed by the operators would depend on the nature of this reply but later a sub-committee of operators was named to draft a statement for submission to the commission probably today. Information asked by the operators was whether the commission expected Its findings to be binding on both I parties, how its awards would be enforced, whether it considered it had power to adjust wages either upward or downward, whether it would de termine coal mining costs, whether coal prices fixed to snstain its awards would be made to expire simultaneously with the Lever act and whether it proposed to . provide for use of modern machinery to lower the cost I of digging coal. I 0non0 - . . Opposed by Swiss Press BERNE, Jan. 13. Discussion of the growing difficulties attending Switzerland's proposed adherance to the leccue of nations is occupying considerable space in the Swiss press. The prime difficulty pointed out is the opposition of the supreme council to granting Switzerland a special position with regard. to her neutrality. A second difficulty upon which stress Is Irslly projected. .Some of the news papers like Der Bund, of Berne, com pare the League of Nations without America, to a structure without: a foundation. - BIG STORM IN FRANCE PARIS, Jan. 13. Northern and-eastern France are being swept by a vlv lent storm, reports stating that three persons have been killed a.nd twelve injured. Heavy damage is reported from various cities, numerous buildings having been blown down. Telegraph and telephone communications have suffered considerably. -