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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. MONDAY, FEB. 23, 1920.

UNION COUNTY GETS 1

14 MEDALS IN CORN GROWING CONTEST With 14 corn growing medals, Union county led the state of Indiana daring 119 as a prize corn growing county. Union county won 14 medals in corn growing contests, two of vrhich were gold, five silver and seven bronze, according to announcement from Purdue. Additional prestige came to Indiana farms during the year as a result of the exceptional records made by Hoosier farmers in the five acre corn growing contest. The contest i3 the real farm classic of the state. And one of the most important events of its kind in the United States. Final tabulations made recently by the agricultural extension department of Purdue in conjunction with the Indiana Corn Growers' association, show that the average yield of the 451 farms entered in the contest was 76 bushels to the acre, and that the yield of the 241 farms whose owners won medals in the contest was S5 bushels to the acre. The3e figures are in marked contrast with the average yield for the entire state, which is only 37 bushels an acre. The men in the five-acre contest demonstrated that 100 bushels of corn to the acre can be grown in Indiana; 24 of them produced more than that amount. One hundred and two demonstrated that they could grow at least S5 bushels to the acre, and in some cases 99 Yt bushels; and 115 others showed that they could grow at least 75 bushels to tbe acre. Greene County Man Wins First W. H. Baker, of Lyons, Greene vounty, led the entire list of contestants this year, with a yield of 118.2 bushels to the acre, or a total of 591 bushels for his five-acre tract. Mr. Baker's daughter, Ethel May Baker, grew more than 136 bushels of corn on a eingle acre in the boys' and girls' club contest, but the phenomenal yield of a Steuben county youngster defeats her for state championship honors. Last year, the same girl grew 113 bushels to the acre, and Mr. Baker more than 99. Fred W. llarting, of Farmers' Re1reat, Dearborn county, was a close t econd to Mr. Baker, with a yield of 115 bushels to the acre. The highest yield in the 19 IS contest was that of Everett McClure, of Auroro, another Dearborn county man, who grew 1.08 bushels to the acre. Eleven hundred men were enrolled in the contest by June 15, the closing date for entries, but the drought In

feveral parts of the state during July j :md August, and the floods in the i

southern half of Indiana, especially during October aud November, ruined many of the five acre plots, in some ases carrying away all of the corn. Difficulties or various kinds cut the final enrollment to 451. Despite this fact, the 1919 contest was the best in i.i) e historyy of the contests, which extends over seven years. "Much credit is due the county leaders of the contest work for their efficient help in organizing and promoting the work in their respective counties," said the report of Professor G. 1. Christie, secretary of the corn growers. "The work last year was placed on a more demonstiational basis than in previous years, and results have been demonstrated from better fertilization, cultivation, corn breeding and kindred factors of corn improvement."

MEXICAN GOVERNORS PLAN COUNTRY'S FIRST REAL ELECTION

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Relief Campaign for

German Children to Be Carried on Here

Funds, with which to carry on. relief work among the starving women and children of Germany, will be raised here during the next two weeks according to an announcement made

Sunday in St. Paul's Lutheran church. Hollingsworth Wood, of New York city, arrived Monday to assist. Mr. Wood is a member of the American Relief Committee for German

children, which is beaded by Alfred

LABOR FLOUTED Oil R.RS BY SENATE3

WASHINGTON. Feb. 23 Presi dent Wilson's proposal for" settlement of the railroad wage controversy, and the compromise railroad bill, pending in the senate, were bitterly assailed in the conference here today of railroad union officials and grievance committeemen, who were called to Washington to discuss the settlement policy laid down by the president. With its supporters predicting a

E. Smith, governor of New York, and i speedy enactment, the compromise of the American Friends' Service I railroad bill as passed in the house

committee which has taken over the Saturday by a substantial majority,

German relief work organized by Herbert Hoover. He will leave for Chicago Monddy night. Miss Carolena M. Wood, his sister, is organizing co-operation in

Iowa, Missouri and Kansas. Miss

today was given the right of way in tbe senate. The peace treaty and all other measures were laid aside temporarily

and leaders planned to take it up immediately after the reading of Wash-

Wood did valuable investigative work i ington's farewell address

The governors photographed while in session at Mexico City.

Governors of the Mexican states recently gathered at Mexico City to make arrangements for the presidential election, to be held the first Sunday in July. This election will be the first real one ever ".elJ in the country. When Carranza was elected in 1917 the other candidates had withdrawn, believing that be, as head of the revolution

ists, was entitled to the first term. The law forbids a second consecutive term. The three candidates this year are Generals Alvaro Obrejton, Pablo Gonzales and Ygnacio Bon il las, and the inauguration will be on November 1. The i overnors at the convention comprise all who have been elected, those appointed by President Carranza not attending. Photo shows.

left to right, sitting: Angustin Millan, state of Mexico; Candido Aguilar, state of Vera Cruz: Carlos Castro Morales, state of Yucatan; Frederico Montes, state of Guanajuato; Gustavo Espinosa Mireles, state of Coahuila; Dr. Aifonzo Cabera, state of Puebla; Luis Castellanos Tapia, state of Jalisco. Standing : Maximo Rojas, state of

Tlaxcala; Severino Martinez, state of San Luis Potosi; Jose E. Santos, state of Nuevo Leon; Francis. ;o Figueroa, state of Guerrero; Salvador Argain. state of Querttaro; Francisco de Santiago, state of Navarit; Nicolas Flores, state of Hidalgo; Aurelio L. Ganzales. state of Aguascalientes. Some otl.er governors at the convention are not in this group.

BAD ROADS BREAK IN HOGS, CUT DOWN RECEIPTS AT GLEN

BOLSHEVIK SEIZE CITY OF MURMANSK

(By Associated Press) LONDON. Feb. 23 Bolshevik forces have seized Murmansk and shipping in the harbor there, following a revolution which broke out at that port Saturday afternoon, according to a Lloyd's dispatch from Vardo, Norway.

BY WILLIAM R. SANBORN There were two unfavorable conditions affecting the Glen Miller mar

ket last week. First and most important was the drop in the price of hogs, everywhere, necessitating a cut of from 75 cents to $1 per hundred locally, as Rome Shurley puts it. The second hindrance to trade was the condition of the roads, making hauling difficult over a lot of tributary country. The roads are badly "cut up", particularly the cross roads and no immediate improvement may be expected in this weather. The hogs received during the past week, 258 head, sold at from $13 to $14.50, depending on day of delivery.

and sows brought from $10 to $12 over thf. scales. The receipts of veal were fairly i liberal at 82 head, and mostly sold $1

:ower tnan previous ween, witn a top

British Leaders Oppose Turks Retaining Their Hold on Constantinople

LONDON, Feb. 23. Protests against

the Turks retaining their hold upon Constantinople were made in several churches here yesterday and the subject continues to be conspicuously featured in newspapers of London and

other English cities. A number of the most prominent people in the country, including the archbishops of Canterbury and York, other leading clergymen, university professors, literary and scientific men and politicians, have memorialized Premier Lloyd George, earnestly opposing a. policy which would leave Constantinople in Turkish hands.

A strong attack is made upon the i

government by the Times which alleges that the present reversal of policy which Lloyd George and his colleagues have adopted was not the mere result of French pressure, but was a British decision. "This entire change of front," the

Times says, "deeply affects the moral

"MAN OVERBOARD" ON SUBMARINE IN DOCK LANDS ACROBAT FASHION IN CIRCUS NET

with Jane Addams in Germany before

the relief work was begun. St. Paul's Lutheran church will

take chaise of the funds raised here .

during the coming two weeks, and t of a filibuster that might delay paswill turn them over to the Friends to i sage of the bill before March 1. the purchase food to be distributed in date the roads are to revert to private

Despite statements that union labor

forces would carry their fight into the senate regardless of their defeat in the house and tho bare possibility

Murmansk is situated on the Murman. or Kola peninsula, jutting easta ard from Finland, and north of the White sea. It is northwest of Arch.n?el and across the White sea from the district which was taken over by the Bolshevik! late last week. Last year Murmansk was the base of operations for allied forces fighting the I'.olsheviU! on the western shore of the White sea.

School Teachers of Nation Look to Big Meeting at Cleveland (By Associated Press) CLEVELAND. O.. Feb. 23-Eyes of i he nation's school teachers and the educational world were focused on t'leveland today when 8,000 delegates of ' the 50 school organizations af-iiliat-ed with the National Education association opened a five days' conMntion to deliberate on American school problem!'. While. the main sessions of the asociations convention that of the department, of superintendence -will not open until tomorrow morning, various other atiU'd departments and organizations Legan conferences this morning. Chief among there was the meeting f the association of college teachers f education at which Dr. George D. Strayer of Columbia University and Dean'. William P. Bun-la of Cincinnati. . poke oa the Smith-Towner lull, which proposes a rauonal secretary of education ?.nd : federal subsidy of one hundred rni!l:on- dollars for public Kchcols. : !:-. Strayer defended the bill ..nd Dean Burtis opposed it.

of $17 for choice. One car of calves sense of the nation as well as Us mawas shipped which cost the yards ! terial interests. The supreme allied $2,130. Lambs ruled steady and j council and the government, unless brought good prices. j we are mistaken, will have to reckon Car Lot Prices on Hogs i seriously with public opinion across A car of hogs weighing 17,975 I he Atlantic as well as at home. They pounds netted shippers $2,758; an-i cannot impose as readily as they other weighing IS, 620 cost $2,591 and j hoped this new decree upon democraca car weighing but 14,600 cost the j ies. We trust the peoples will vinards $2,028. Prices varied widely dicate their right to judge and decide during the week, from day to day. it for themselves." Patrons of the yards during the ! -

past week were: Lawrence Mitchell, Asa Stanley, Jehiel Bond, W. C. Petry. Henry Knoll, George Gault, James Royer, William Turner, George Ellish, Harry Henry, Orlo Stanley, C. W. Reid, William Culbertson, G. McLear, I

Charles Heck, Frank Hunt, Frank Brandley, John Brannon, Georga Rankin, Frank Barron, D. M. Gard, G. J. Fileenor, C. E. Berry, W. G. Roos, John Hawley, Ira Addleman, D. Conway, Frank White, William Llnter, C. Stigleman, Otto Cranor, Frank Underbill, O. Tsaechen, John Batchelor, L. Dletmeyer, George Rothermel, Floyd Brown, Fred Brown, Harry Hembaugh, W. LaFuse, Harry Shute and Charles Slaley.

CITY'S PART IN WILD GRIME TALE, TOLD BY BLODGETT

I Funeral Arrangements

V I Skillens Oscar Skillens died of leakage of the heart at his home, 433 South Sixth street late Sunday night. Funeral services will be held at home at 2:30 p. m, Wednesday. Burial at Earlham. White Thomas E. White, C9 years old. died at his home, 721 South Seventh street, early Sunday morning. He was born in Indiana and a resident of Richmond many years. He is survived bv one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth

Sharp, and two brothers. Funeral services will be held at the Bethel A. M. E. church at 2 p. m. Burial at Earlham. The Rev. J. L. Craven will officiate. Endsley Funeral services for JohnEndsley were held at the home at 1 p. m. Monday. Further services were held at the Baptist church at Elkhorn. Burial in Elkhorn cemetery. Harlan Funeral services for Josephine Harlan were held at the home at 2 p. m. Monday. Burial in Earlham-.

A story of criminals and crimes, in which some of the most prominent confidence people and counterfeiters of the country played leading parts, and in which one Richmond man took a part on the side of the law, is toll' by William Blodgett, in the Indianapolis News. The story deals with the activities of an old man, now broke and bent, who spent his early days as a counterfeiter, and of the many incidents of a one time famous band of criminals. Richmond has its place on the stage of this strange story, for one of the men In the band was arrested here after passing counterfeit money. Shofer Arrested McCartney Older residents of Richmond will remember when, during the early eighties. Lew Shofer, a member of the Richmond police force, became famous throughout the country for effecting the arrest of Pete McCartney, at that

i time one of the country's most des

perate criminals. According to persona who remember the affair, McCartney was' arrested at the corner of Ninth and Main, after a fight. He was placed in the county jail, where it is claimed, he offered Shofer $2,000 in gold, if the police officer would allow him to escape. This sensation was quickly followed by the attempted murder of Gertie

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the suffering districts of Germany. The local campaign will close March 7th. . I The Service Committee work must continue until July when the first crops since the war are expected." Woods declared. "Two million dollars a month will be spent until then, it is estimated. One million dollars worth,

of food will be shipped every

weeks during March, April and May." "Although food has been distributed from organized centers through German Relief organizations and un

der the direction of a Quaker work, the first cargo of foods directly from the United States left on the "Sark" last week, Mr. Wood said.

control, senate leaders expressed the

belief there would be little debate and a vote would come quickly.

TALK ON FATHER-SON Because of the stress of the Near East Relief Campaign and Stewardship Subscription appeal, only two pastors, the Rev. R. L. Semans and the Rev. E. Howard Brown, talked on Father and Son in their morning sermons Sunday.

BRITISH FLEET AT GOLDEN HORN, SCARE TO TURKS (By Associated Press) CONSTANTINOPLE, Saturday, Feb 21. The British battle squadron ol

two" five dreadnaughts and four destroy

ers, which arrived here today and anchored in the Bosphorus, near the parliament building is the most im posing naval force which ever entered that waterway. The coming of the squadron is variously commented upon here, some circles looking at the arrival as happening in the course ol an ordinary cruise, while others con--! nect it with the present critical posi " tion of Turkish affairs.

DAVIS BACK IN OFFICE Dell Davis, city engineer, who has been confined to his home for a month as a result of sickness, was back in hi3 office Monday.

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Submarine R-13 in drydock at Boston with life net spread underneath. The "Savannah" is in the background. When the U. S. submarine R-13 and the mother ship "Savannah" were placed in drydock at Boston recently the ships were ccvered with ice. To minimize the danger to the crew of the sub while at work on her a life net similar to that used in circuses, was stretched under the submersible. A slip on the tiny deck or sloping sides meant only a "high dive" into the net. A three-inch pun was mounted on the sub. The "Savannah" ia receiving a complete set of modern equipment.

Advance Recruiting Party Arrives; Plans Laid for Campaigns

$30,000 PLEDGED BY CHURCHES; RELIEF DRIVE GOING ON

Mrs. Rebecca Lamb Dies At Home in Whitewater

Mrs. Rebecca Lamb. 81 years old, ! died at her home in Webster at 8:30 a. m. Monday. She is survived by her husband, Allen Lamb. Funeral services will be held in the Friends j church at Webster at 10:30 a. m. Wedj nerday. Burial In Webster cemetery. I The Rev. Chamness will officiate.

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The advance party, comprised of three, men, for the army recruiting party who will come to Richmond.

Feb. 29, arrived here Monday. This Approximately $3,000.00 has been party is made up ot" men of the Fifth ' pledged by churches of Richmond for

Field Artillery, First division, all of the support of orphans in Armenia for j whom were overseas for more than t this year. Among the amounts re-j a year. I ported are the following: Grace M. E.. I First Sergeant E. W. Bacon is in j $180.00 (partial report); United! charge, while First Sergeant R. A. 'Brethren, $120.00; United Presbytcr-i Crookshank and Sergeant I. R. Fur-Man. 300; First Baptist, $192; East, j nish are the other members. Bacon J Main Street Friends. $244; South and Furnish both wear wound stripes, i Eighth Street. Friends $207; First! Richmond will be the headquarters : Christian, $1,500. j for the recruiting party, which will j The West Richmond Friends have be here some time. Wavne, Fay- taken the matter up, but final total'

ette and Union counties comprise the: has not been reported. A number of

i rlicjtrirl fpri will hr enlisteil for the i other churches are. in mnkn rpnm-t

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uiiggs naa Deen fetes parnter, andjtry Milton Does Big Bit.

jealousy was said to have caused the !

attack. Mu6h Money Passed. Although this was the only instance where this famous band Is known to have operated here, many experiences are recounted of counterfeit monev

being passed through Richmond and j

Wayne county, and it Is thought that the band operated here often. Now, after 40 years, this entire band, counterfeiters, swindlers, confidence men, and plain burglars, has all passed away, with the one exception, the old man who was brought from the west, to a little home near

Many Ministers Will Preside at Meeting

Report from Milton indicates that j the Doddridge Chapel M. E. church i has raised $240 that the Christian i Sunday school of Milton has raised! 3364, and that the Carey Club has j pledged $60. Cambridge City report shows three j

Ministers who will- preside at the TT I LI Anon 1i--ii--iki- Mrlno- li rt n r

ing two weeks have been announced i Jlf JUf 01L b' hree J?"?u.. a i tions the Masonic Lodge, the East-

lows: Monday, the Rev. II. S. James. ! f,SUr Lodge and tbe Heleu Hunt of United Brethren church Tuesday, j c . , , the Rev. Charles M. Woodman, of the L ""thl ,nn? Vif aii to,, tomnrii FHon- r.Wni, to care for the support of orphans and

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the Grace M. E. church; Thursday, the

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Spanish Novelist Gets Degree ; Others Honored (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Feb. 23. The honorary degree of doctor of letters was onTerred today upon Vicente Blasco Tbanez. the Spanish novelist by George Washington university at the Midwinter : convocation. Herbert- C. Hoover, former food administrator; Senator William M. Calder, of New York, and Franklin MacVeagh, former trcretary of the treasury, received Fimilar degrees. They were conferred y.WiUiam Miller Collier, president of the nrrivefsity, Mr.-Ibanez epecta to leave, for Mexico next month to study conditions with the idea of writing a novel dealing with life there. :

I Plans for the general organization ' of the finance campaign of the Fori ward Movement in the United States, and the selection of an assistant nat- ! ional finance director were to be conj sidered at a meeting Monday afteri noon at the Friends central offices, i of the sub-committee appointed to care

for financial affairs of the movement. Members of the committee include: Levi T. Pennington, general director of the Forward Movement; Herman O. Miles, financial director; W. C. Woodward, chairman of the For-

10ns in crime.

Politics Sizzle as Ohio G. 0. P. Gets Together (Tty Associated Fre!iO COLUMBUS, O., Feb, 23 Plans for the national and state campaigns were sizzling here today at one of the

most notable political meetings of re-! NATURAL GAS WASTE IS

Church: Sunday, Dr. Sommerville Light, district Methodist superintendent; Monday, Addison Parker, retired

pastor of First Baptist church; Tues

day, the Rev. A. F,

reports are expected this

week from many sources by Mrs. A. W. Roach, county head.

All Mail Matter May j Now Be Forwarded

An important ruling concerning the

Mitchell of the ' forwarding of mail has just been an-

South Eighth Street Friends' Church; ; nounced by the-post office department. Wednesday, Dr. John W. Hansell, of In the past the only mail that could Crown Fuel Co.; Thursday, the Rev. ! be forwarded was first-class. Under Raymond C. Isley, pastor of the Sec-1 the recent ruling all classes of mail

end English Lutheran Church; Friday, the Rev. L. E. Murray.

cent years the Washington's birth

day rally of Ohio Republicans. Of major importance among the

DEPLORED BY COMMITTEE (By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 Suggest-

ward Movement committee; L. Hoi-: of the Ohio Republican Editorial Assolingsworth Wood, representative of jciation, perfection of the State League the American Friends Service com- j of Republican Clubs and organization

day's events was to be reorganization) ions as o the best methods of prevent

can be forwarded provided receiver in

filing a forwarding order with the postoffice employes will sign an agreement to pay the extra postage. By the new arrangement a great

saving will be made for both the public and the officials. In many cases mail other than first-class would fail

j mittee, and David M. Edwards, chair

man of the educational department. If you haven't any money, you are to be pitied, but if you haven't any friends, condemned.

of the Republican women of the state.

Senator Warren G. Harding, candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, and Chairman Will H. Hays of the Republican national committee, were principal speakers.

ing the waste of natural gas were to, to reach the person to whom it was be considered today at a meeting of addressed for several days as tbe rethe natural gas conservation commit- suit of delay in notifying the person tee last month by secretary of the In- who in turn was required to send the erior Lane. The prodigal use of gas ( necessary postage. Probably by the has caused many persons to send tojtime the mail would reach the next the bureau of mines suggestions for place the party would have left and conservation, which will be studied by (the same step would have to be takthe committee. . ien again.

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