Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 127, 8 April 1921 — Page 1

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A II A. VOL. XLVL, No. 127 Palladium, EaL 1831. Consolidated, with Sun-Talerrajn. HOT. RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL S," 1921. SINGLE COPY: 3 CENTS

SENATE TAKES

INITIATIVE FOR PEACEJREATY Mark Sullivan Summarizes Developments S e n a t o r s Go Farther Than Administration on Foreign Policies. FRENCH LEARN STAND BY MARK StXLIVA WASHINGTON, D. C, April 8. The public must be under much conjVsion. as to just what has happened in Washington this week in the field of our foreign relations. So far as publicly recorded incidents are concerned, the following was the order of events. Exactly a -week ago today, M. Vivian i went to see President Harding. That conference was brief and more or less purely formal. Prom it, the general impression is, nothing developed. On the same day M. Vivlani had his meeting .with Secretary Hughes. This meeting was longer. Whether it was wore or less conclusive than the talk with President Harding no one knows. On Friday M. Viviani met Senator ' Ijodge, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, and now one of the two or three chiefs of the irreconciliables. On Saturday Senator Knox came from his home in Pennsylvania to have a three hour conference with Provident Harding. Cables Paris. On Monday Washington became aware that M. Lausanne, who is a member of the Viviani mission and has participated in his conferences, had cabled his people in Paris that t!ie League of Nations and the treaty of Versailles have been totally scrapped by America and that the Knox resolution for a separate peace with Germajiy would shortly be passed. On Tuesday most of the newspapers of the country printed dispatches to which high importance was naturally ascribed, to the effect that the administration's foreign policies had been determined and that those policies included the complete barring of the league and the treaty and a sepa rate peace with Germany through the Knox resolution. On that day the news reached what may be called its highest peak in the direction of forecasting the more or less immediate passage of the Knox resolution. The bulk of this news "me directly or indirectly from irrecbnciliable leaders in the senate. Immediately after .the publication of this news we all became aware that it went rather farther than an accurate statement of the administration's attitude about its foreign program. We learned that the administration, as distinct lrom the irreconciliable lead- , ers in the senate, has by no means formulated its foreign program as a whole; that for the present it has no policy more formal or definite than merely to handle each matter as it comes up with prudence and caution; that the administration is paying primary attention to domestic affairs, and that the coming message to congress will deal more with domestic than with foreign affairs. The explanation of all this seems to be that the irreconcilable leaders in the senate are more eager and have gone further than the administration has. The truth is that just beneath the surface of events there is unde niably a certain amount of strain on the part of the senate leaders to achieve a larger part in the initiation of the foreign policies and to have a larger dominance in the management of them than has heretofore been the case. Advice Is Role The traditional and constitutional role of the senate in our foreign affairs i3 to provide advice and consent to matters in which the executive has the exclusive power of initiative. The senate cannot make a treaty, nor begin negotiations for a treaty nor have any opportunity to act upon or express itself about a treaty until after the executive has completed the negotiations of the treaty and formally turns it over to the senate for advice and consent But in the long fight which the senate has just had with the executive department under Wilson the senate has acquired, through its victory, a degree of self confidence and probably also a degree of public support which canse it today to take an attitude toward foreign affairs stronger than the senate has ever before taken In its history. In the present situation the senate has one of the very few opportunities that ever came to it to take the initiative in a matter within the field of foreign affairs. Wars are ordinarily ended by treaties - negotiated by the executive. That is the way the present war was ended. But the senate having refused to ratify the treaty ending the present war, is now in a position to substitute for this treaty a different kind of ending of the war. Proposes Initiative The senate proposes to end the war by a joint resolution of congress, which does not need to come to them from the executive, which they can initiate themselves, and have initiated for themselves and which they can pass themselves by an ordinary majority vote, without the two-thirds majority necessary in a treaty. . Without any doubt, if Mr. Wilson were president now, and if M. Viviani as spokesman of France bad held the kind of negotiations he has now held with the senate leaders, Mr. Wilson would have made the biggest kind or a row. Last summer when Mr. Harding, who was then a member of the foreign relations committee of the senate as well as a candidate for president, said he had been "approached by a spokesman of France" Mr. Wilson promptly wrote him a letter to the effect that If this were true "grave consequences" would follow. Legally Mr. Wilson was so much in the technical right that Mr. Harding felt forced to explain.

Educator Retires

41I AM Dr. M. Carey Thomas Dr. M. Carey Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr college, one of the leading girls' institutions in the country, will retire as head of the school in June, according to reports. She will have reached then the age limit of 65, which automatically dictates retirement. She has been president since 1893 and has made many improvements in the college and has been a leader in educational fields. ACTIVITY IN POLITICS OF BOSSES, MACHINES DISCUSSED BY WOMEN (By Associated Press) CLEVELAND, O., April 8. Activity in American politics by political bosses and political machines will come up for action before the second annual convention of the national league of women voters, which opens here Monday. This became apparent when the executive board which is rounding out the final details of the convention schedule announced the program for the study of election methods. The board had before it today a re port on policy submitted recently by Miss Katherine Ludington of Hartford. Conn. In this, report the national league is offered a choice between two policies. Qne is to develop . a well Informed woman electorate in America, to reach fill women, teach them how to vote and whom to vote for. Hasten Legislation. The other is to put through as rapidly as possible a program of legislation considered beneficial to the women of the nation at large. If amendments to the National League by-laws prepared by the board yesterday are aUpted by the convention, national officers will be elected by the delegates instead of being the choices of elected regional directors. State women's voters league chairmen began arriving today for a conference Sunday between the National Board and the state chairmen meetings of the regional directors and chairmen of standing committees also were held today. CINCY MAIL BANDITS FACE POLICE DRAGNET (Bv Associated Press) CINCINNATI, O., April 8. Postoffice inspectors and police early today had failed to find any trace of three bandits who last night held up a unneu oiaiea wan l. u. .. robbed it of three pouches of register- j ed mail. Boarding the truck, as It was leaving the Baltimore and Ohio railroad station at Baymiller street, the holdup men forced Joseph Arbino, the driver and Walter D. Hubler. rail-, a.aV man .lerir tn rfrivp to a secluded alley, where the two were hanacunea to the steering wheel of their machine. Going to the rear of the truck, the bandits, using a duplicate key, unlocked the truck cage door and carefully picked over sixty sacks of mail to select those containing registered matter. Securing these the thieves leaped from the truck with a warning to the handcuffed men not to make an outcry under penalty of being shot, and jumping into a waiting automobile escaped. The bandits were, described as being between 20 and 30 years old. W. F. Diskin, postoffice inspector In charge, said the work was not that of amateurs, but evidently that of men who knew their business well. An estimate of the amount of loot was unobtainable because of the fact it was incoming matter from Detroit and other points, and the facts will not be disclosed until a further investigation is made. The robbery was the first of Its kind in Cincinnati. ROYAL PALM WRECK INJURES LOCAL MAN W. R. Young, who is listed among the injured in the wreck of the Royal Palm Limited near New River, Tenn.. Thursday, is a Richmond man, having lived at 18 North Sixth street. Neighbors received a card from him Monday. He has been away since last November. The train was bound from Jacksonville, Fla., for Chicago, and was on a curve when spreading rails or buckling track derailed three coaches and three Puiiman cars.

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TRIPLE STRIKE IS DECLARED IN ENGLAND Sympathetic Walkout of Railma m m

way Men and 1 ransport Workers Scheduled for Tuesday. LLOYD GEORGE FAILS (By Associated Press LONDON, April 8. The railway men and transport workers this evening decided to strike in sympathy with the miners Tuesday morning, failing the re-opening of negotiations for the coal strike. Last night's decision by the prime minister at the suggestion of the more moderate interests to invite the miners and owners to a conference this morning at which the first subject for discussion would be the resumption of pumpin? to clear the mines of water led the general public to believe a settlement was in sight, an.l that the impending strike, which promised to be the greatest in the history of the country would be averted. Miner Adamant. The miners, however, were adamant in their stand, insisting there should be no restriction regarding the questions to be discussed by the conferees and an exchange of letters between them and Mr. Lloyd George failed to change their minds. The intention of the British government to issue an appeal for volunteers for the transport and other essential services in view of the prospective triple alliance strike was announced in the house of commons late today by ! Premier Lloyd George. A royal pro clamation would call upon the army and navy reserves he said. Representatives of striking British miners this afternoon refused to accept Prime Minister Lloyd George's invitation to meet the owners of the mines on the conditions proposed, which were that the return of pump men and engineers to the pits would be the first matter settled at the conference. Hopes Blasted Hope that the miners and the owners of coal pits might meet the government officials to discuss means of settling the strike were apparently blasted shortly after noon, when it was announced the miners had refused to meet their employers. They based their - refusal upon the ft "t that the mine owners had accepted the government's proposal of a conference on condition that the striking pump men and engineers would return to work at once, pending negotiation of the difficulties which caused the strike. The mine owners stipulated that the matter of the pump men returning to work must be the first question settled at the proposed conference. Owners Leave The owners, who had waited upwards of an hour for the appearance of the striking coal diggers, left the board of trade at 1:00 o'clock this afternoon. The miners declared they wished to meet without being hampered by any restrictions on the subject of their, discussions. They said tney wisneaj the meeting to be entirely free from limitations, especially regarding the question involving the return of the pump men to work. The miners reassembled at 2:30 o'clock to consider the government's reply . to their refusal to confer. It was understood that in his reply the premier asked the miners to meet the owners at 3 p. m. Margaret Marshall Dies; Funeral Services Sunday Tnr-arpf Marshall. 79 vears qM widow of the late Alonzo Mar shall, died Thursday night at her home, 70 South Sixteenth street, after a brief illness. Mrs. Marshall followed her husband in death by only a very short time, Mr. Marshall having died Dec. 26, 1920 Mrs. Marshall is survived by one daughter, Miss Elsie Marshall; two sons, Alden Marshall, of this city, and Dr. Mark Marshall, of Ann Arbor, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall were married Jan. 11, 1866. Mrs. Marshall was a member of the South Eighth Street Friends church. She resided in Richmond 26 years. Funeral services will be held from the home at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon. The Rev. Andrew F. Mitch ell, pastor of the South Eighth Street Friends church, will officiate. Burial i will be in the Earlham cemetery, f Friends may call Saturday afternoon i and evening. Weather Forecast MOORE'S LOCAL FORECAST Partly Cloudy and Colder Unsettled weather will continue tonight with partly cloudy on Saturday. It will be colder but there are no indications of any severe weather at present. For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Cloudy and cooler tonight probably rain in extreme north portion; Saturday partly cloudy and cooler. . Temperatures for Yesterday Maximum 74 Minimum 48 Today Noon 61 Weather Conditions The Rocky Mountain storm which has caused rains over Indiana and the adjacent states is being followed by considerably cooler weather. The coldest section in the past 26 hours was in Wyoming where it waa. eight degrees above zero. Killing frosts yesterday in Kansas and Oklahoma.

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Photos show French troops passing in review before Marshal Lyautey in his Guetat receiving the complimentary kisses from General Maistre after Meluis standing on the Pont Alexandre, Paris.

These photos are the most interesting ones among those received recently from the French capital. Marshal Lyautey, new marshal of France, is being honored everywhere he goes. The photo shows his native city paying j

Opposition to Sales Tax May Develop in Republican Ranks

PAI.LADll'M SEWS lU ItKAl)' WASHINGTON, April 8. That the effort to include a general sales tax as one of the principal features of the revenue reform act which is to be passed by the new congress, which assembles in special session next Monday, is to meet with vigorous opposition within tne" ranks of the Republican party is indicated in a circular letter which Representative James A. Frear has addressed to his Republican colleagues. Rep. Frear, who is a member of the most important committee of the house, that of ways and means, labels the proposed sales tax as "obnoxious." He warns his Republican associates that if such a tax is included in the new revenue act it will "become a leading issue in the coming session and during the next campaign." "A sales tax on everything we eat. drink and wear reaching 51,250,000,000 annually will be pressed in congress at this session," Rep. Frear's letter reads. "It abandons the time honored tax principle that every tax should be paid according to ability to pay, and WINCHESTER JURY FINDS KELLY GUILTY WINCHESTER, Ind., April 8. Found guilty of robbing the Ridgeville bank Dec. 3, 1920. Eddie Kelley is being held here pending the outcome of a motion for a new trial, filed imme diately after the verdict was returned late Thursday evening. The jury found Kelley guilty after hearing testimony of both sides of the case that lasted several days. WitnesFes from Chicago attempted to prove an alibi, but the cae of the defense was badTy shaken when three witnesses -on that side departed overnight following their admission that they had testified falsely. In view of his previous record, which, it is ea!d, involves several convictions and sentences served in Ohio, it is likely that Kelley will be adjudged an habitual criminal, and In this case the sentence imposed will be life imprisonment. The prisoner will not be sentenced until arguments on the motion for a new trial have been heard, according to a statement by the court Friday. Why Richmond is the Best Place in Which to Live Earh day Palladium reporter nlll latrrrlrw peruana at random la Had oat wkr ther like to lira here. "Because the town makes a good impression on the newcomer and a town that does that has to live up to its reputation," was the way in which a newcomer summarized the advantage of this city as a place of residence. "I remember when I came into this town, I motored in from the west," he continued. "As I turned my car into Main street early in the evening, I saw the row of lights extending across the new bridge and on up into the business section, and I made up my mind right then that I was coming into some town. I have had no reason to change my opinion since."

U. S. Singer Are Honored

tribute to him. Mile. Guetat, a young military nurse, is the youngest recipient of the. military order of the legion of horor. P"he is now only eighteen years old. She was awarded the honor for her conspicuous bravery during the it is proposed to shift this burden now paid by excess profits and high income over onto every man, woman and child in the country, who will then pay the same rate on what they consume as Morgan and Rockerfeller. Propagandists Active , "For .maoy weeks high priced writers have been deluging congress with pamphlets and press articles regarding this sales tax plan. Interests seeking to avoid the excess profits tax are demanding a sales tax and (Continued on Page Two) RAIL EQUIPMENT IN MEXICO INADEQUATE; CONGESTION RESULTS (By Associated Press) MEXICO CITY. April 8. Congestion of Mexican railroads has reached a critical stage, and commercial and industrial interests of the country "Ve pe-ieu w iue guryumtui lu the situation. At Vera Cruz, Tampico, Puerto, Mexico and in cities along the United States frontier thousands of tons of merchandise have been lying for months, the railroad3 being unable to move these goods to their destinations. In addition to the economic phase presented by the railroad congestion, traveling in Mexico is at present tedious, passenger trains running from one to two days late. The lack of en-

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present available being in continuous operation. Imports Show Increase President Obregon declared yesterday that imports to Mexico bad increased 200 per cent in the past three months and that additional railroad rolling stock had not been acquired to a proportionate degree. He asserted every effort was being made to purchase or rent rolling stock and engines and that "probably within a week an approximation of normal schedule will be attained." Adolfe De La Huerta, secretary of the treasury, told newspaper men yesterday that the government did not propose to spend the 16,000,000 pesos now in the national treasury for rolling stock, inasmuch as "'oilier means to solve our difficulties will be I found." The secretary denied reports that certain irregularities in-the customs system, which had recently been discovered, had caused the congestion at ports of entryPOLICEMAN KILLED IN STREET BATTLE Hy Associated Press CHICAGO, April 8 Policemen John i Tiacey and Robert Nikisch are dying. ! Matthew Lalich died early today, and i two others are suffering from wounds ; received in a street fight in the South ! Chicago steel mill district late last night. As Tracey and Policeman John M. White, who was wounded in the hand, met a party of three steel workers, a i quarrel began, it was said, when the j policemen in plain clothes were crowded off the sidewalk. The steel work!ers opened fire and by the time both I'sides had emptied their guns, all had ibeen wounded. Captain Joseph Smith of the South. Chicago police - station, said the three steel workers not familiarwith the English language may have thought the two policemen in plain clothes were robbers.

by French Nation

native city of Nancy; Mile. Carmen the presentation, and Mile. Luella war. Gen-raJ Maistre presented her with the order. Mile. Luella Meluis, American coloratura soprano, has been scoring tremendous successes in Paris and Mont-; Carlo. Jean de Reszke calls her a second Patti. RICHMOND FIRE LOSS IS TWO CENTS LOWER PER CAPITA IN 1920 Richmond's fire loss during 1920 dropped two cents on the per capita loss for 1919, according to the report of H. H. Friedley, state fire marshal, made public Thursday evening. During 1919 the per capita loss was 51 cents and in 1920 it was 52 cents, according to the report. The report for the last two years are incorporated in one volume giving comparative figure. The loss in Richmond is the lowest of any city in the state for its class. Fire Chief Miller had computed the per capita loss at 47 cents, but based on the last census the amount was raised. In 1919 Richmond was bested by Anderson, but several fire3 there put them ahead in 1920. In 1920, 211 alarms were turned in. Losses were estimated at $12,791. In 1919, 236 alarms were sounded, with a property loss of $16,170 These figures speak highly for the efficiency of the local fire departmentLosses of Other Towns Kendallville, a city of slightly more than 4,000 population, had a per capita loss of seven cents in 1919 Last year Sullivan had the lowest loss with 15 cents. No'Jesville had 22 cents, Newcastle 67 cents, Winchester 74 cents. Anderson 95 cents, and Muncie $5.30 per capita. The highest loss per capita wa3 at Rushville, with $31.60. Decatur followed closely with $31.08. Rushville's big loss was occasioned by the burning of a large elevator and flour mill. The total fire loss there was $155,630. The report shows that in 1920 there were less fires in the state, but the total loss ran higher. In 1919, the fires losses were $6,135.52'? and fS,228,S96, respectively. Other per capita losses in cities were a3 follows: Kokomo. $11.66; Lafayette. J9.32; Hammond, $1.88; Portland. $1.02: South Bend. $1092; Winchester, 74 cents; Greenfield, $7.83; and Greensburg, $1.85. CHICAGO BUILDING GRAFT PROBE STARTS (By Associated Press) CHICAGO. April 8. Victims of an alleged building graft ring in Chicago j

were summoned to appear as witness-1 city greeted Kiazim with wildest enes today at the resumption of the in-ithusiasm and flowers were strewn In vestigation of the building situation ; the streets ahead of his horse. He here by the Dailey joint legislative continued his way to the front, decommittee. Three instances in which claring there was no fear of a HoJlarge sums were paid to prevent stop-j theviki advance in nor-h-eastem Asia page of construction work on large minor. buildings have been discovered by the Isnsk, a town 32 miles southwest of investigators it was said., and details Imid and near the pea of Marmora of the demands for alleged strike in-j has been captured by Turkisn Nationsurance were to be presented to the alists, fays an official Mtement issaed committee. Numerous subpoenas ! here. The Greeks defending the plac were served at the behest of the!fl-d. abandoning important supplies committee on leading businesses and j and losing thousand of prisoners. The professional men of Chicago several ' ancient name of Isnik was Nicea. ' The days ago. first general ecclesiastical council met Among the specific cases in which j at Nicea in S25 A. D.. on which occait is said large sums of money werejsion the Nicene creed was framed. ,,

extorted from, owners and builders are those of three recently erected downtown buildings., including a hotel and a bank. For the hotel, $50.000 is said to have been demanded and - paid, and for the bank, $65,000. The three buildings, it said, cost about $15,000,000. Famous Circus Owner is Dead in Minnesota (By Associated Press) ROCHESTER, Minn.. April 8 Benjamin E. Wallace of Peru, Ind., - a banker and. circus owner, died here last night Mr. Wallace cam to Rochester six weeks ago to undergo an operation. Announcement of his death was made today.

GROWERS OF WHEAT STILL ; HOLDING OFF Unification of Producers Behind National Co-operative Grain Marketing Corporation Yet To Be Effected. PROPOSlDISTRICTING

(By Associated Pres?) -CHICAGO, April 8. Unification of wheat growers of the country behind the national co-eperative grain marketing corporation voted here yesterday remained today still to be accomplished. W. H. McGreevy, of Wichita. Kansas, secretary-treasurer of the national Wheat Growers' association, which has been assigning 100 per cent pooling contracts for this year's crop said his board of directors would have to pass on the plan adopted yesterday which calls for optional pooling. Mr. McGreevy said he favored maintenance of the organization he represented. The northwest group which was also defeated in its fight for compulsory pooling should come into the plan but on the basis of maintaining its own organization and continuing with its 100 per cent pooling contracts. According to the view of George C. Jewett, of Spokane. Wash.. Mr. Jewett is general manager of the Northwest WTieat Growers' association which is the selling agency for state associations in Washington. Idaho. Oregon and Montana. Propose Districting Division of the grain growing sections of the county into 21 district", grouped around grain market centers, each with a director as representative on the farmers' national co-operative marketing organization, was submitted today by the committee of seventeen to the farmers' delegates assembling to form the co-operative system. When the districting has been approved delegates from each section will caucus, it is said, and choose their directors, who will form the controlling body in the national company. Debate on the compulsory pooling feature of the co-operative marketing plan and other disputed points kept the delegates busy until late last night, all attempts to amend the optional pooling recommendation of the committee of seventeen being voted down. ATHENS IS SWAMPED BY GREEK SOLDIERS BACK FROM FRONT (By Associated Preaa) ATHENS. April 8. Wounded Greek soldiers are arriving in such numbers from the Smyrna and Brusa fronts that sanitary auhorities in this country are unable to care for them properly. Two thousand injured men arrived at Piraeus yesterday, and found inadequate hospital accommodations, the institutions being without beds and equipment, and having deficient per- ! sonnel. Queen Sophie has appealed to the American Red Cross in Paris for nurses and four classes of doctors have been called out by the government. The wounded men are being brought in tram cars from Piraeus to this city. Most of the wDunds from which they suqer were inflicted by rifle builets or bayonets. Many women of Athens are leaving to work in tbo base hospitals in Anatolia. Paris, April 8. Turkish Nationalsts have resumed their advance in the Brusa sector of Asia Minor, according to dispatches received at the French foreign office. Fears are entertained here for the safety of the entire Greek exreditionary force, the magnitude of the reverse suffered by the Greeks appears to be greater than first supposed, judging from the latest information. Six thousand wounded Greeks are said to be in in hospitals in Brusa. ANGORA, Asia Miner, April S. Kiazim Kara Bekir, commander of the Turkish Nationalists forces at. Erzerum. has arrived here at the head of a cavalry division after a remarkable march from Armenia. He was summoned to the western front by the Turkish Nationalist government after the Greeks launched their offensive east of Smyra. The people of till a

Foch Not Advised of Legion Invitation PARIS. April 8. Marshal Foch has, not as yet been advised of any lavi- - tation extended to him by the Ameri '. can legion to visit the United State during the coming summer.' ' He lad . intended, however," to visit America during the present month, bat his V plans were deranged by the necessity of conferring with the supreme allied council. It is most difficult for. the marshal, to .make plans In advaoee, During a holiday of a month ia; 192$ v he was recalled from Brittany to Pa . -is three times.. Marshal Foch btjpev however, to be able 'to find timte foH . : a visit to America in the near ,ftttiJl

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