Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 175, 1 June 1920 — Page 1

t: RICHMOND F AIXABIUM to VOL. XLV., NO. 175 Palladium. Bat. 1831. Consolidated with Sun-Telegram 1907. RICHMOND IND., TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 1, 1920. SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS

REPUBLICANS ARE SETTLING DELEGATIONS Hearings Go On in Chicago Florida, District of Columbia, Georgia and Louisiana Contests Up. HOT FIGHf GEORGIA

(By Associated Press) CHICAGO, June 1. Hearings on the claims of contesting delegations to next week's convention continued today to ocupy the attention of the Republican national committee. A decision In the three-cornered fight in Florida was first on the program and next came the three-cornered contest from the District of Columbia.

A special sub-committee, composed i of committeemen Warren of Michigan. 1 imnifm lf niim HP ij?.?iHODVtH WARNED OF

amining the law and the facts in the Florida case, and prepared a report on the claims of the contestants and posibly a recommendation for a course of action by the committee. The Florida case, In which the committee was called upon to decide whether there was In legal effect, any Republican party in Florida, promised In a sense to show the first indications on the candidacies of Major-General Leonard Wood, Governor Frank O. Lowden and Senator Hiram Johnson. Not Formally Pledged, But None of the three contesting delegations is pledged but the various mem-1 bers say that the first, or regularly re-! ported delegation headed by National ' Committeman Bean of Tampa is, favorable to General Wood; that the second delegation headed by H. L. AnS:.rtr'nT2?i.0 Senator Johnson, and that the third, headed by A. L. Church, of Jacksonville Is favorable to the candidacy of Governor Lowden. When the evidence was all in last mgnt, many or tne committeemen confessed that all three delegations I "CI!0. &twbwMnCHrnbl SnJTttJ ILJ? li o loaoi .Hvi.n, t , te contests to point a way out of the

In the District of Columbia contests10 "ettle policy wlth Cuba for tn9 the issue as to candidacies is less j next year' clearly defined, although the Wood Would Take Congress Action, leaders are said to be listing the dele- "Any continuation of control will regatlon headed by Frank J. Hogan, as ' quire action by Congress," Mr. Hoover among those upon whom they would paid, "and it must embrace appropria-

depend in the convention. Georgia Fight ia Acrlmlnous. With the Florida contest out of the way the national committee faces the most acrlmlnous contest of the list. that from Georgia, where an official delegation headed by Henry Lincoln I TrtVl n atn Atlnnt. i n. la nMiT jw a tuumru l in the Lowden column and a contest ing delegation headed by Charles Adamson of Cedartown is counted in the Wood column. Both delegations had figured in the hearings of the senate sub-committee investigating campaign expenditures. The next contest on the calendar is from Louisiana where a regularly reported delegation headed by national committeemen Emil Kuntz is being opposed by a delegation headed by Victor Loisel of New Orleans. The contested delegation is listed among these favorable to the Wood candidacy and to Frank H. Hitchcock. The committee does not hope to get further than the Louisiana contest in its work today. While the national committee is grinding away at the contests, things are beginning to stir about the headquarters of the presidential candidates and their managers. Chicago hotels, already overcrowded with an abnormal business, are beginning to show the first symptoms of a campaign week of noise and confusion. Headquarters are blossoming out with banners and lithographs, but the campaign managers have not yet emerged from the state of confident predictions. Only two candidates Governor Lowden and Major General Wood are in the city, but Senator Harding and Senator Johnson will arrive later in the week. Estimates of the probable duration of the convention are as numerous as the candidates are various. Some confident ones have made railroad reservations to return home on Thurs

dav of convention week. The predic-c-naea today, tne wneat director ceastion that a presidential candidate ing to function under the limitation of

prObobly will be nominated on Friday night and a vice-presidential candidate on Saturday seems to be regarded by most of the politicians as probably being more accurate than any other, The generally accepted tentative program seems to be Tuesday for tem porary organization and keynote speeches; Wednesday for permanent organization and work of the resolutions committee framing the platform, leaving Thursday and Friday for balloting, if two days are needed. Permit Farmers to Combine (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 1. The house passed and sent to the senate the bill iermittlng farmers, planters, ranchmen, dairymen and fruit growers to combine for the collective marketing and sale of their own products, notwithstanding anti-trust laws. Personett Funeral To Be . Held at Germantown PERSHING. Ind.. June 1. The funeral of Joseph M. Personett, who died at the home of his son Roy, Monday morning, will be held Thursday afternoon at the Lutheran Church at Germantown. EDITORS HAVE VACATION. (By Associated Press) BOSTON, June 1. The National Editorial assocciation. in annual convention here, devoted today to pleasure trips. Business sessions will be resumed tomorrow.

All In Readiness for Gong

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Col. Edwin P. Thayer. PRESENT SITUATION IN SUGAR IN 1919 (By Associated Press) WASHINT.TflX. Jimp. 1. (Tony of a cablegram sent from Paris, July 23, 1919, by Herbert Hoover to Julius H. Barnes, president of the United States grain corporation, for transmittal to President Wilson, declared that "determination of the sugar policies re quires immediate consideration." was made public in the House today by Representative Tinkham. Republican, Massachusetts. The wa3 read by Mr. Tlnkhim ln the course of a speech in v. v. a , nc4Himir or the high price of sugar was "placed squarely on the shoulders of President Wilson." The Massachusetts representative declared that the President could relieve the situation even now by following Mr. Hoover's advice and nn m mers rationing non-essential Mr- Hoover sa,d ln hls message to r- Barnes, as read by Mr. Tinkham. ant decisions as to sugar control in lSS Si this country in order to anticipate the tions, the continuation of power and embargo, control of speculation, profiteering and distribution. "The only alternative course to any action of the above character is for the sugar equalization board to an n0Unce Its cessation of control at an .... . . 4. t a, early aaie prior to me marKeung season of domestic beet and cane sugars ?nd to dispose of the remaining stocks from the old crop purchased by them at the market prices from day to day until they are exhausted." Referring to his recommendation in 1918 for purchase of the Cuban crop Jointly with the allies, which was done, Mr. Hoover said, at the time hi3 cablegram was sent, the United States was the "only large nation possessing liberal supplies for the entire year and at a saving of four cents a pound under the world price. Up to Congress Now. "Decision must now be made," he added, "as to whether Congress should

be recommended to legislate authority jSS,iMtit for the continuation of these measures cIde Hth Jty over the year 1920 providing again for ! amendment and portJons of the enpurchase of the Cuban crop and the : torc v, T control of domestic production, stabil-j11 Monday, when the present term Ization of price and distribution. wm close-

The intrinsic situation is by no means clear as to the prospect of supplies and it is argued by many that there will be a continued shortage over he year 1920 with attendant speculation and profiteering unless action is taken." U. S. LOOSES CONTROL OVER WHEAT TODAY (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 1 Federal ontrol of wheat and wheat products the law creating hfs office, and the food administration ended by proclamation of President Wilson. This means the passing of the gorj eminent guarantee of $2.20 a bushel or wheat, established during tne war as a means of stimulating production. Sctte existing contracts remain to be carried out by the United States grain corporation, which has been the instrumentality of the government ln handling wheat. As soon as these contracts have een executed, the corporation will 'wind up its affairs and turn over Its finances to the treasury department. German-American Shot In Brawl at Beuthen (By Associated Pressl BERLIN, May 31. Investigation of the incidents resulting in the death of a 'German American named Arnold Heide at Reuthen, Sunday afternoon has been begun by the American mission here. Special despatches received here state that French soldiers were euard ing the Allied headquarters ln the hotel at Beuthen durine the dav and that some one on board a passenger electric street car shouted: "Down With France", the car was halted and Heide is said to have been seized by a French soldier and shot. He died two hours later In the hospital. Heide was born at Koenigshuetre, Silesia, and went to America sever - al years ago, becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States.

at Chicago Convention

CHICAGO, June 1. "Gentlemen, be seated! " This Is what Col. Edwin P. Thayer, Republican national sergeant-at-arms, and Greenfield man. will say, figuratively, to the 20.000 or 25,000 delegates and visitors to the Republican national convention in Chicago, June 8. He may add, "likewise ladies." In other words, everything Is In readiness for the big quadrennial Republican show, which this year promises to be "bigger and better than ever." The G. O. P. elephant is reported to be In the pink of condition. In the last two weeks, more people have been told to "see Ed Thayer" than they have to see any other man in the world. In short. Colonel Thayer has more 'details on his mind and hands than any other man in the United States at the present writing. One reason is because it is "old stuff' to Thayer, who has managed Republican conventions before. The big show always opens on time and every man entitled, finds his seat right where it ought to be. In other words. Colonel Thayer Is now ready to say, "Let's Go." Liquor Sold Over Bar in JV. Y., Charges Sen. Colder (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 1 Charges that liquor was being sold over the bar In New York at exorbitant prices and that federal prohibition agents apparently were connected in some way with violations, were made to the senate today by Senator Calder, .'Republican, New York. He said he had reason to believe much money was being made by the counterfeiting of certifications authorizing the withdrawal of liquor' from bond, and that some government officials were profiting personally by that practice. DIAZ READY TO YIELD HIS FORCES (By Associated Press) MEXICO CITY, June 1. General Felix Diaz, who has been carrying on a revolutionary movement in the state of Vera Cruz for some time, is willing to return to private life, now that the overthrow of the Carranza regime has been occomplished, according to Gen. Luis Medina Barron, who arrived here yesterday as envoy of General Diaz to confer with General Obregon and Adolf o de La Huerta, provisional president. General Diaz is not a rebel chieftain, and has not aspired to public office said General Barron, "but has limited himself to making war on the Carranza government." He added tht conferees' he wiil hold tothta will decide upon the disposition to be made of the Diaz forces, as well as determine the future of General Diaz himself. ...,. MEXICO CITY. June 1. Paul H. Fosler, American consul at Vera Cruz, has offered in the name of his government to bring sanitary supplies on a torpedo boat from New Orleans to assist in fighting the bubonic plague, according to a Vera Cruz dispatch to the Universal. His offer has not as yet been accepted. Only one new case was reported in Vera Cruz yesterday. NO DECISION GIVEN ON PROHIBITION ACT (By Associated Pruu) WASHINGTON, June 1 The suFrench, Turks, Have Treaty (By Associated Press) LONDON, June 1. Turkish nationalist forces and the superior command of French troops occupying Cilicla Asia Minor have concluded a 20-day armistice which at its expiration may be renewed, according to a Constantinople dispatch to the Exchange. Nursery Tag Day Saturday Day Nursery tag day will be observed Saturday, June 5, It wag announced by officers of the association j Tuesday. The tag day is an annual event ln which funds for the Day Nursery are solicited. BIG INCREASE IS GIVEN WORKERS IN TEXTILE SHOPS (By Associated Press) BOSTON, June 1. A general increase of wages affecting approximately 300,000 textile operatives, went into effect today in New England textile centers. Approximately $1,000,000 will be added to the weekly payroll of the mills granting the increase, and textile wages, already at the highest stage in history, will be brought to a point about 150 per cent higher than they were four years ago. DUMP 'EM INTO CHICAGO ' RIVER, BELIEVES HOFFMAN (By Associated Press) CHICAGO. June 1 Belief that the Chicago river, which runs through the heart of Chicago, lately has become a sinister element In crime, was expressed today by P. W. Hoffman, county coroner. He made a survey of recent deaths of unidentified persons and said he would consult with John J. Garrity, chief of police, to devise means for ending an epidemic of sui cide drownings or a departure in the method of disposal of murder victims : During the last few weeks an unusual '.number of bodies have been taken from the river, Mr. Hoffman said. GALVESTON FIRE LOSS PLACED AT $1,500,000 GALVESTON. Tex., June 1. Sizal valued at approximately $1,000,000 was destroyed when pier No. 41 of the Gal- : veston wharf company was burned, ' The ware house which was also de i ttroyed, was valued at $500,000.

S100.000WAS

COST TO EACH SIDEJN OHIO Columbus Publisher Testifies in Senate Committee Presidential Probe on Wood and Harding. $38,703 IN CHECKS (By Associated Press) "WASHINGTON, June 1. Senate Investigation of pre-convention campaign expenditures turned back today to contests in the individual states, witl Robert F. Wolfe, publisher of the Cohmbus, O.,- Dispatch, and the State Journal telling of the Wood-Harding fight in that state and other witnesses telliag of expenditures of Governor Lawden in Missouri. Mr. Wolfe estimated that each side in the Ohio contest "made a fight that cost about $100,000." Anhur Z. Davis, of HaTTisburg, I1L, presented to the committee nine checks which he said were sent by Governor Lowden's campaign manager to representatives of that campaign in Missouri. They total $38,703. A . score of other witnesses were here today to testify. Efforts were being made to expedite the hearing so that a temporary halt permit members of the committee and others concerned to go to Chicago for the Republican convention. The investigation will be continued after the Republican convention, and before the Democratic convention assembles on June 28 in San Francisco, under present plans of the committee. Those summoned to appear today, beside those who have testified, Included W. T. Neville, of the Plumb plan league, who will be asked whether that organization backed any candidate for the presidential nomination, and Fred A. Allen, named as chief financial backer of the Wood campaign in Michigan. AMERICAN HABITS ARE CREEPING INTO ENGLISH CUSTOMS By MARY HENKE LONDON, May 16 Along with the fJ10 IHh ICIT UUUU1S UttVQ UCCU A llUDb Ui theatrical performers, from famous managers and ingenue actresses to the familiar "variety" team return! t tko land of puolic houses and pugilistic aspirants, for the first time since the war. It Is Impossible to go to a London music hall now without encountering American ragtime and jazz, rendered by native performers. English artists have done their best with it, but the English temperament cannot keep up with ragtime, and an Englishman trying to sing in imitation of a southern negro is as bad as an English writer trying to put American slang into the mouth of his breezy western heroine. Missouri Waltz In Chelsea! Music hall audiences like ragtime. They applaud the hero's heartfelt desire to "go home to Wyoming" or somewhere else, although they may have only the vaguest idea of what Wyoming may be. American popular songs with all their inanity, seem to have a way of "catching on". You will hear "The Missouri Waltz" whistled in the depths of Epping Forest, and "Back Home in Tennessee" piped dolefully in the business center of London. The craze is giving most Britishers a perverted idea of geography, however, for they cherish the idea that the Swanee river is the largest in the United States and that the beach of Waikiki Is somewhere in the vicinity of Atlantic City. Prohibition, of course, Is sure to come into the act somewhere. The villain who has Just been jailed, shouts out in dying tones "Who put the poison in that glass of wine?" and the obvious answer from the sprightly comedian is "Pussyfoot". Prohibition Laugh Maker All the old prohibition jokes are revived by American performers and applauded by London audiences. The ones with a personal reference get a sympatnetic murmur as well as a laugh. Most Londoners are inclined to believe the Yankee is the victim of a deep-laid plot in the matter of prohibition, rather than a free agent in its enactment. In the more elegant theaters of the west end American actresses are tak ing up most of the spotlight. London audiences like Americans, as a rule, and treat their appearance kindly. Several American plays are holding the boards, too, among them "The Bird of Paradise", which, however. seems to have failed ln stirring up anything like the ukelele craze it did in the United States. Rumely Goes on Trial for Pro-German Conspiracy NEW YORK, June 1. Dr. Edward A. Rumely, at one time during the war owner of the New York Evening Mail, was placed on trial here today in fedoral court charged with conspiring to violate the trading with the enemy act. S. Walter Kausmann and Norvin Lindheim, attorneys are co-defendants. The trio are charged with "preventing the United States from seizing and assuming control of the stock of the S. S. McClure newspaper corporation." Dr. Rumely is head of the Advance Rumely plant of LaPorte, Ind., which some years ago acquired control over the Gaar-Scott company of Richmond. He has not lived in Indiana for several 7ears.

To Elope, Is Tradition

NEW YORK. June 1. When Edith Gould, 18-year-old daughter of George J. Gould, slipped quietly away to be married to the man of her choice, young Carroll L. Wainwright, she did no more than a long line of "marriage-for-love" Goulds had done before her. She had only to. remember the romance of her mother. When the son of Jay Gould then a leading financier of New York, married on September 14, 1885, Edith Kingdon, a young actress playing with Augustln Daly's company, even his closest friends were surprised. Russell Sage was one of the few who knew the secret. The wedding proved to be a most happy one. Marjorie Gwynne Gould, the eldest of four daughters, was the first to marry. She was just 20 when she became the wife of Anthony J. Drexel, Jr. of Philadelphia. Jay Gould, the second son, and Helen Vivian Gould, the second daughter, married the next year. He wedded Miss Annie Douglas Graham and his sister became the wife of Lord Decies. Kingdon Gould was the first of the children to follow the romantic example of his father. On June 30, 1917, he applied at the marriage license buleau with Miss Annunclata C. M. Luccl, an artist, for a license to wed. When his father was told of it ln Lakewood he said: "It's news to me. First I've heard of it-" A few days later, on July 7, the biggest surprise ln the marital adventures of the Gould children came in the e!opement of George J. Gould. Jr., youngest son of the millionaire banker, iis Dnae was Miss Laura M. Carter, of n2. the wo were married in Philadelphia. They gave

their ages as 21. The bride was a quickly broke down the barrier of cooldancing teacher. r.ess between his father and the Gould A year later a son, George J., 3d, family.

Sailors Riot Against Negroes at Chicago (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, June 1 Rioting between sailors and marines from the Great Lakes training station and negroes at Waukegan, a suburb, which for a time threatened to assume serious proportions, was brought under control early today after 200 additional provost guards were hurried to Waukegan in motor trucks. A number of shots were fired but it was not believed any one was hit. The trouble began, according to police reports, when negro boys had been stoning autos hit the windshield of a training station officer's motor car, showering his wife with glass. BOLSHEVIKI ADMIT FLIGHT FROM POLES - (By Associated Press) LONDON, June 1. Russian Bolshevik forces fighting against the Poles and Ukrainians in the Tarashtcha re"JZ " cial statement issued in Moscow yes terday and received here by wireless. Several villages ln the neighborhood of Molodechno, northwest of Minsk, which were abandoned by the soviet troops on Saturday, have been reoccupied after heavy fighting, the statement says. In this 'ctor the battle continues. In the ZhlotsinMosir district, in the center of the active front, fighting continues near the railroad running west from Retschlta and is favorable to the Bolshevik!, the statement declares. Employment of Children Under Age To Be Probed Steps are again to be taken to apprehend Richmond employers having children under 14 years old at work, said H. G. McComb, vocational director, Tuesday. McComb has Information, he said, that one factory and several stores and confectioneries are employing children of 14. McComb also had information, he says, that several Richmond factories are employing children under 16 without a special working permit. "The deficiency of Richmond employers was brought to the notice of state industrial officers recently," said McComb, "when one of these illegally employed children was injured while at work." The factory employing the boy will probably be prosecuted, McComb believes. The smaller employers are the chief offenders, says McComb. Government Appeals on Quaker Oats Co. Dismissed (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 1 Government appeals in the federal anti-trust suit against the Quaker Oats Co. were dismissed today 'by the supreme court on motion of the government. Dissolution of the company under the Sherman act was asked bv the ; government but the company won in the lower courts. New Dark Horse Is Boomed (By Associated Pressl ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 1. A move to make Brigadier General Wil liam Atterbury, a "dark horse candi date for the Republican presidential nomination at Chicago was started today by John M. Morin, of Pittsburgh, congressman from the 31 Penesyl vania district. BULGARS FIRE ON GREEK TRAIN NEAR DEMOTICA (By Associated Press) CONST ANINO PLE, June 1. Bulgarian bands fired upon the SalonikaConstantinople train Sunday near De motlca, in Bulgarian Thrace, about 40 miles south or Adrianople. The train was delayed for two hours while Greek troops drove off the bandits and cleared the trask of bombs, one of which exploded harmlessly.

in the Gould Family I!

Mrs. Edith Gould Wainwright, was born to the couple in Oil City, Pa., where George J. Jr., was working for the Signal Oil Refinery and living with hla lltUe family on his own earnings It waa whispered that the grandson MANDATE GOES TO VOTE; RESOLUTION TO. ADJOURN IS UP (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 1 The senate today will vote on the resolution declining to authorize a mandate over Armenia as requested by President Wilson. Under plans agreed to yesterday, the final vote was set for not later than four o'clock this afternoon. It was also agreed to limit discus sion by each senator to 45 minutes though it was Eaid few of them defied to speak. Most of the discus sion was expected to be on the amendment proposed by Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, ranking minority member of the foreign relations commit tee, providing for a Joint commission to work out an economic, rehabilitation program for Armenia. A close vote on this proposal was expected. Routine Speeded Up Routine business was speeded in both house and senate today in view the prospective adjournment next , oaturaay. The house today adopted a resoln tlon offered by Representative Mon dell, the Republican leader, for congress to adjourn sine die Saturday. Appropriation Bills Scheduled Disposition of the Armenian mandate resolution today and various con ference reports on appropriation bills ana otner general legislation are scheduled before congress quits. The senate, beginning today will j lengthen its sessions, meeting dally at 10 o ciock, two nours earlier than ordinarily. Red Cross Feeding in Germany Will Go On (By Associated Press) COBLENZ, June 1. Relief work in this city and vicinity, which has been carried on under direction of Pierrepont B. Noys, American representative on the Rhineland commission will be continued despite the fact that Mr. Noyes has resigned. He began a month ago to distribute food in the American occupation area, and at pres ent, 7,000 needy children are being fed daily. Mr. Noyes asserts this work will not be dropped, and it is probable a member of his staff who has handled it will remain at Coblcnz. Political Fights in Berlin (By Associated Press) LONDON, June 1. Riotous disor ders are taking in Germany as a re sult of the Dolitlcal campaign in that country, according to a Berlin dispatch to the Exchange telegraph company. A meeting of the Democratic party in Berlin Sunday ended in a serious fight, it is said, communistc attacking nationals with sticks, beer glasses and chairs, and storming the speakers' platform. Weather Forecast For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau Unsettled; probably thunderstorms tonight and Wednesday; cooler Wednesday. Temperatures Yesterday Maximum 81 Minimum 63 Today Noon 78 For Wayne County, by W. E. Moore Occasional showers and local thunderstorms this afternoon or tonight and probably Wednesday. General Conditions The center of storm continues its slow movement eastward and is causing occasional rain over the central states, the heaviest rainfall being over southern Indiana and Illinois up to last night Light showers throughout Indiana. The cool weather continues over the northwest, where temperatures range from 30 to 60. Yellowstone National Park reports a minimum of 30 and a maximum of 38. Cool weather probably will reach the lake region by tonight, but may press southward, al though It will lose energy as it Betties toward the Ohio valley.

POST IS ALLY

OF REDS SAYS GEN. PALMER Attorney General Claims In migration Official is Unconsciously Aiding Revolution by Easy Methods. DEFENDS RED ALIENS? (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 1. Charging that Louis F. Post, assistant secretary of labor, had a "preverted sympathy" for the criminal anarchist. Attorney General Palmer told a house commit tee today that in dealing with at tempts of the government to rid the country of dangerous aliens, Mr. Post had employed "a self-willed and autocratic substitution of his own mistaken personal viewpoint for the obligation of the public law. Mr. Palmer was testifying before the rules committee, which is investigating the official conduct of Mr. Post in deportation proceedings. "It has become perfectly apparent." the attorney general said, "that Mr. Post's course in all the deportation proceedings has been dictated by his own personal view that the deporta tlon law is wrong, rather than by any desire or intention to carry out the law as enacted by congress. By his 6elf-wille'd and autocratic substitution of his mistaken personal viewpoint for the obligation of public law; by his habitually tender solicitude for social revolutionists and perverted sympathy for the criminal anarchists of the country, he has consistently deprived the people of their day in court in the enforcement of a law of vital import ance to their peace and safety. By his wholesale jail deliveries and his release of even self-confessed anarchitsts of the worst type, he has utterly nullified the purposes of congress in passing the deportation statute and has set at large among the people the very public enemies whom it waa the desire and intention of the con gress to be rid of. Has Defied Evidence. "He has defied the rules of evidence as laid down by our most responsible courts, has cancelled hundreds of legal warrants issued by his department, entirely without Justification and in the face of the facts, has flouted the judgment of a committee of the senate which has investigated one of the cases for him, has shown constant favors to violators of the law . and their attorneys, refusing even common courtesy to the department of Justice, which is charged with the duty of jenforcing the laws and in order to distract public attention from his obvious failure to perform his own duty, has showered upon the department a mass of charges of misconduct in the hope that he could put this law enforcing department of the government on tha defensive ln the place of those criminal enemies of the government, from whose activities our department has sought to protect the government and the people." Doesn't Like Criticism Mr. Palmer said he hoped "it might never be necessary to indulge in any criticisms of another government official. The outrageous and unconscienable falsehoods" laid before the committee by Mr. Post required definite answers. "It is not surprising," he added, "that Mr. Post, when the opportunity has presented itself in an official way to render a service to those who advocate force and vio lence, should employ it to the limit. He has always been sympathetic with that sort of thing." In answering Mr. Post's statements that he had called deportation warrants "only where facts warrant" such action, Mr. Palmer cited numerous individual cases which he claims placed the assistant secretary ln a position of "passive tolerance and encouragement" of Bolshevik literature and propaganda. He also submitted records of the department showing the particular persons actively identified with the spread of the doctrine of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Mr. Post continued to cancel the warrants, Mr. Palmer said, "even after we had produced evidence showing the individual to have been a member of the communist party, which the secretary of labor had held to be unlawful." Mr. Palmer declared Mr. Post had "become a factor ln the revolution plan, but he credited the assistant secretary with having been lead into it unconsciously. He said, however. the attitude in which he pictured the labor department was on which ante dated Mr. Post's service ln the department. Tuesday Biggest Mail Day For Months; 300 Pounds Taken by Some Carriers Tuesday's delivery of mail from the Richmond postotice was the heaviest in several months, said Superintendent of Mails Foreman. This was caused, said Foreman, by a holiday following Sunday and because Tuesday is the first of the month. Richmond's heavy batch of magazines arrive mostly tho first week of the month. Monthly bills. Bent out by Richmond merchants, added to the pack. Mall carriers In the residential districts had the heaviest mail, said Foreman. Harry Young and Charles Stoddart, carriers on the west side, carried the heaviest loads of their careers Tuesday. Young had about 325 pounds of mail to deliver and Stoddart had about 300. There was not a carrier at the office that did not have more than 200 pounds on his first trip out. The men loaded their pouches to capacity, and the pos toff ice truck met the carriers at a designated place with the remainder.