Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 179, 8 June 1921 — Page 1

RICHM PAX UM 'A VOL. XLVI., No. 179 Palladium. Bst. 1831. Consolidated . with Sun-Telegram, 1907. RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1921.

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SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS RANK FOLLY TO DISARM FIRST-WEEKS Declares Nation Must Be Prepared To Defend Rights Until All Nations Scrap War Machinery. POINTS PRUDENT PATH

BRITISH SHIP CRASHES INTO BIG ICEBERG Final Report that Freighter Seapool Smashed Sets at Rest Fears Passenger Liner Wrecked.

Pueblo is Digging Itself Out of Sea of Mud Bone Gets Place

FIVE HOOSIER TOWNS WANT NO MANAGER Muncie, Kokomo, Anderson,

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RUMORS ftYING THICK (By Associated Press) NEW YORK. June 8. Reports received here and at Halifax that the unnamed steamer which today crashed into an iceberg ff the Newfoundland

coast was the British freighter Sea-i pool set at rest fears entertained In shipping circles for the safety of several large passenger vessels near the ice field. When the first S. O. S. came out of mid-Atlantic, the Titanic disaster was recalled and first thoughts were of passenger craft. Rumors flew thick and fast concerning the French line steamer Rochambeau, based on a report received from her last night that she hod sighted ice off the north At-j lantic coast, and several erroneous reports were circulated that she had met with trouble. The Associated Press, which had these baseless reports, did not, how-j ever, circulate them. First reports of the accident received at the Boston I navy yard indicated that the distress call bad been 6ent by a ship equipped with a continuous wave transmitter. There were some doubts as to whether the Rochambeau was so equipped. Then a private advice received here named the Seapool and it was established that she carried a transmitter of this kind. Report Ice Fields. For several weeks steamers arriving here have reported vast ice fields off the Great Banks. The Saxonia which docked Saturdav. reDorted sight ing giant bergs which forced her toi rest motionless for more than two days In dense fog. HALIFAX. N. S.. June 8. The British freighter Seapool struck an iceberg off the Newfoundland coast to day and slowly is making for St.! Johns with her forefoot broken and her forepeak full of water. . Advices received by the Canadian naval staff here said that the steamer was not. in need of immediate' assistance. The message follows: "S. Seapool collided with iceberg 48.20 north, 48.60 west. Forefoot broken, taking water in forepeak. Proceeding slowly to St. Johns, N. F. Does not require immediate assistance." The Seapool, a vessel of some 4.500 tons, arrived at Montreal from Sydney, May 2. and sailed from Montreal, June 2, for Dublin. BOSTON, June 8. Announcement that a steamer had struck an iceberg in mid-Atlantic and was believed to be sinking was contained in a radio message received at the Navy Yard here today. The message did not name the seamer and gave the posi tion only as 48:30 degrees west longi-i tude. The message read: "Just struck iceberg. -Position 48:30 west longitude. Some one neat please answer. Believe we are sinking." The distress call was received on a continuous wave which requires a high power sending station. Because of this, radio operators ashore said they beljeved the vessel was a big one. Only the larger steamers and most of them passenger liners, were equipped, with continuous wave apparatus they said. PROPOSES BOND ISSUE BONUS FOR VETERANS (by Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 8. A bill proposing that the government issue to former service men five per cent tax exempt bonds in amounts of not more than J750 for service overseas and $600 for home service has been introduced by Representative Volk, Republican. New York. The bonds would expire in 10 years, would be negotiable and would be issued to war veterans at a rate of $1.75 and $1.25 a day for service overseas and in the United States respectively. The bill also would provide for paid up insurance. The face value of each policy would be the amount which adjusted service compensation plus 25 per cent would purchase "at single premium rates" at the nearest attained age July 1. 1922. The policies would carry cash and loan values after the first year. RELEASE 40 MEN ARRESTED IN RIOTING (Bv Associated Pross WILLIAMSON. W. Va.. June 8 Major Tom Davis, commanding Minro county, where martial law was declared to be in effect recently by Governor Morgan, following numerous disorders in the Williamson coal fields, permitted all except two of the 2 men arrested Sunday at the Lick creek tent colony near here to return to their homes late yesterday, after examination. Those held were Lee Hatfield and Bud Franris, both charged with violation of the martial law proclamation. The 42 men were arrested by ?Late troopers and deputy sheriffs after several motorists had been fired upon in the vicinity of the tent colony or idle miners, according to state police headquarters here.

Scott C. Bone. WASHINGTON, June 8 The appointment of Scott C. Bone as governor of Alaska came as a pleasing surprise to Indiana residents of the national capital. It is understood he was selected by President Harding as a compromise when opposing factions in Alaska were unable to agree upon a "native son" candidate for the Important post. Mrs. John F. Starr, of Richmond, Ind., is a daughter of Mr. Bone and he has been an occasional visitor in Richmond in recent years. He was born in Shelby county, Ind., and was engaged in newspaper work in Indianapolis and Anderson for several years. He has also been editor of newspapers in Washington, D. C, and in Seattle, Wash. While in Se

attle, he was chairman of the Alaska 1 bureau of the Chamber of Commerce of that city, and in that capacity he gained wide knowledge of affairs in the far northern territory. During the political campaign last year he was director of publicity of the Republican national committee. PUEBLO RECOVERING FROM FLOOD EFFECTS; RELIEF WORK RAPID (By Associated Press) PUEBLO, Colo.. June 8. Establish ment of a refuge, camp-today to.re-J ceive those made homeless by the flood is regarded as Pueblo's greatest step toward restoration of normal conditions.. Col. P. J. Hamrock announced that refugees from various public buildings would be removed to the tent city today. There are about 2,00A homeless in the city, he said, many of whom are Mexicans and virtually helpless. Relief work was rapidly being systematized. The lighting system was being steadily improved and with the expected installation today of a water purifier, the solution of another vexing problem bade fair to be solved. Col. Hamrock said he expected the camp would be needed for three or four weeks. "Refugees and relief workers using the streets constantly are interfering with the clean up and reconstruction work," he said. "The camp will do much to remove this obstacle to our work in getting things back to normal." Salvation Army Acts Twenty-five Salvation Army workers are here from Denver, Colorado Springs and Trinidad and the mess for the refugee camp has been turned over to them. DENVER. June 8. Ten thousand dollars worth of Pueblo goods and scores of bodies of Pueblo citizens lie strewn in the mire and quicksand of inundated farmland for 35 miles south on both sides of the raging Arkansas river below Pueblo, according to a despatch today to the Denver Times. The account was from a staff correspondent, the first newspaper man to penetrate into the district which received much of the debris from the flood waters of Pueblo. The correspondent, under date of last night, wrote that in the vicinity of Vineland, (Continued on Page Fourteen) POLISH STRONGHOLD OCCUPIED BY BRITISH; THINK FIGHT PROBABLE (By Associated Press) OPPELN, Juno 8. Rosenburg, a town about. 20 miles northeast of this city and located near the old Polish frontier, has been occupied by a bat talion of British troops. Rosenberg was taken by Polish insurgents during their first advance in upper Silesia, and there has been danger of serious fighting there between the Poles and Germans. Reports received here are silent as to whether fighting occurred when the British occupied this Polish stronghold, but in official circles it is believed it is quite probable that the British and Poles clashed. Three Frenchmen were wounded, two probably fatally, when Germans fired upon 14 French soldiers who emerged from a village on the road between Cross-Strehlitz and Ujest to the south. The French party, which included an officer, was captured and disarmed, but was later released and Its weapons were returned, the Germans explaining that they thought they were firing upon Poles. The incident occurred during the darkness yesterdav raornin.

Princeton and New Albany Reject Plan by Large Ma

jorities at Polls. MICHIGANCITY ADOPTS Five Indiana cities rejected the proposed city manager plan of government, and one adopted it, at special elections held Tuesday. In each instance where the plan wa rejected, the defeat was a crushing one. In the line city where it was adopted, the majority was only 230 votes. DEFEATED. Muncie 7,696 against; 3,728 for. Kokomo 4,383 against; 915 for. Anderson 4,541 against; 1,174 for. Princeton 1,199 against; 358 for. New Albany 3,664 against; 2,036 for. ADOPTED. Michigan City 2,472 for; 2,242 against. MUNCIE. Ind., June 8. By a vote of more than two to one, this city rejected the city manager form of government Tuesday. The vote stood 3,728 for, and 7.696 against. The twelfth precinct, a factory sec-j tion mostly occupied by workingmen, is considered fairly representative of the laboring element of the city's population. It went almost solidly against the plan. Only three precincts in the city were carried by proponents of the change, and they were won only by narrow majorities ranging from 50 to 75 votes.

The north precincts in which the the high water broke dams and resnormal sc hools are located went j ervoira in the district.

strongly against the plan. Proponents had counted on the vote of the women, t but this vote was very evenly divided between the two plan?. j The election in this city is consider-; ed a representative test, as one local j paper was for and one against the change. The business element, and j ministers gave the movement some J support. v - ..

- KOKOMO,- Ind,. June 8. Kokomo ' ; ?r rejected the city manager' plan of goveminent by a four to one vote in the IpcHnn hplri hpro Tnedav The rrinnt I

showed 4.S&3 against and 913 for the change. The petition requesting the change had 1.100 signatures. The Kokomo Tribune, which had favored the city manager plan, in its Tuesdays issue, said: "All over the! city the assumption seems to be that. the city manager plan is a 'dead duck' i and that the people may as well get ; ready for a primary to nominate j political tickets for city offices." j MICHIGAN CITY. Ind.. June S. By a narrow margin, 230 votes, Michigan City adopted the city manager plan of government in an election Tuesday. As a result, Michigan City is the first. Indiana city to adopt the new form of government, opponents of the plan : carried one ward. The final county stood 2,472 for and 2.242 against. ANDERSON. Ind., June S Rejection of the city manager plan of government, by a four to one vote featured the election held on that issue in this city Tuesday. Final returns showed 1,174 for and 4,541 against the change Factory worker precincts showed a heavy vote against the plan. Less than one-third of the city's vote was cast. PRINCETON. Ind., June S General lack of interest in the question, indicated by a 50 per cent vote featured the election on the city manager question here Tuesday, defeated 1,199 to 338. The plan was NEW ALBANY, Ind.. June S. Only ; one ward out of the seven in the cityj voted in favor of a change in the city i government in the election Tuesday TUe plan was defeated 3,664 to 2,036." GOSHEN, Ind., June 8. A petition ' requesting an election on the city j manager form of government was thrown out as having an insufficient ; number of signatures. The petition' was filed April 30. The city clerk certified to the council that the petition lacked 29 signatures. LOGANSPORT, Ind., June 8. In a session which lasted until midnight the common council of this city voted to call an election June 6, 1922, to decide on the city manager form of government. HILLS SHIP 50,000 ROSES TO CALIFORNIA Fifty thousand Richmond roses are on their way to a California nursery. The Joseph Hill made the shipment by refrigerated express Wednesday Included in the shipment are most; of the new varieties originated in thej Hill houses, including Premiers, Columbias and Madam Butterflies. The shipment establishes a precedent in Indiana. Hitherto California has been regarded as the garden spot of America, the home of roses and beautiful flowers. But Indiana was called upon to furnish 50.000 rose plants for Amling Brothers fot their green bouses at Santa Anna. The use of a refrigerated car for a rose shipment likewise establishes a precedent in the transportation of Indiana roses, for it is the first time that a car has been dispatched out of the state. .. - .

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View of Main street, Pueblo, and the When the recent flood swept over? the Colorado city of Pueblo it rose to a depth of eight feet in the business section, sweeping before it smaller wooden buildings and leaving the others coated with mud and slime to a depth of a foot or more. The streets were veiitable seas of mud. Property damage is Pueblo alone is estimated at $10,000,000. A third of the city was left homeless by the flood, which came when the Arkansas and Fountain rivers overflowed their banks and when ROOSEVELT VISITS HERE SHORT WHILE Theodore Roosevelt. "We have good politicians in New York, but I never will learn to under-! ; stand the Indiana brand," facetiously ; remarked Theodore Roosevelt, assist-! ant secretary of the navy, here ed-

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nesday. panies have been invitfd to attend. Mr. Roosevelt was on his way to! Tne Propoeal is to provide' a methAnderson where he speaks this at'tpr-1 m " - m, " "m' "m "

noon. Tonight he delivers trie principal address before a meeting arranged by the American Legion at Indianapolis. He had not heard of the sudden death of Alvin T. Hert, of Louisville Ky -f natj0nal committeeman from tbU state, in Washington Tuesday. Mr. Roosevelt expressed his appreciation of the character of Mr. Hert. - N What I Think of the City Manager System Cvcrj' tin? a reporter ask a person picked at ramloin. h! opinion on the proposed plan. "I am absolutely opposed to it," said " a professional man. "Why should a commission choose our officials? The commission would not only have the power to hire a city manager, but it could also fire h'm without consulting the voters or asking anyone for advice. Suppose we had a good city manager, and three of the five commissioners fchou!d make up their minds to oust him. no one could stop them from doing it. The citymanager himself could not appeal his case. He would have to take what the bosses handed him. "We really had a commission fdrm of government in this country during the war. Congress let the president run the country, just as a city manager would run Richmond. "Was it successful? Did the people of the United States like to be governed by a manager? The last presidential election tells the story. Americans want to elect their own officers to run the govI ernment and they don't want man agers and commissions. The city manager plan will be voted down two to one easily next Tuesday. One of our attorneys in a speech the other night said we virtually had the commission form of government now. He pointed to the county commissioners as an example. The commissioners of Marion county gave a fine example of that kind of government last Monday V.Vn they wiped out a whole township without asking the people that live there whether they wanted to be annexed to another township or not. If that's a sample of the commission form of . government, give me the federal system which we have now."

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Improvement in Grain Storage Subject of Farm Conference

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With Certificate that Will rass as Urder for Delivery of Grain. pai.i.adi I'M news ni PKAC od by which the farmer can be given WASHINGTON, June 8. The farm-j unlimited storage facilities for his

er is now insisting that he shall have! some voice in fixing the prices of the produce he raises, says Isaac Carter, a farmer and attorney of Shelbyville. Ind., who is now visiting in Washington. "Last year the farmer was getting about $2.00 a bushel for his corn, and he is now getting about 50 cents, but , when ; he. goes to a. store to buy such oommoditles -as . he needs . he finds that prices, generally speaking, are about the same as they were during the war, and that is the reason many farmers in the western end of the sixth district are not buying much at the present time," Mr. Carter said. He added that the average tanner is compelled, for financial reasons or for lack of storage facilities, to dispose of his produce almost as soon as it has been harvested. Before Conference. The question of devising some plan for improvement in warehousing grain will be considered at a conference of farm and grain handling groups which has been arranged by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Secretary of Commerce Hoover, to meet in Washington. June 13. Representatives of various farm organizations, elevators and grain dealers and Insurance comLINULtY IU ADVUuATE CITY MANAGER FORM Professor Harlow Lindley of Earlahm college will address the ParentTeachers' meeting of Finley school at 3:30 Thursday afternoon on the question of adopting a city manager form of government in Richmond. Rpv. A H Rar'ma snnk In the vnt. r of Fairvtow Pumriav nihr at thp

; Third M. E. church, advocating the fu8d to permit Clarence Green of ! adoption of the proposed plan of gov- j Dayton. Ohio, to make an argument lernniAnt. Rev. Backus asserted that Un favor of commission manager govi the coming election is the long sought ernment. is absolutely untrue, for nnnorlnnitv to establish enod rav- 'Mr- Green came to our meeting

ernment in Richmond. He uraed all 'voters to make It a duty to vote next Tuesday and place their stamp of ap - jPIThe speaker stated that the plan ascnriil man in iha ftffTfeK nf nriminiotrn. Tion woo were capauie ui uonuuciiug the affairs of the city in a satisfactory ! manner to all concerned. j FIPE DAMAGES FACTORY. I ANDERSON. Ind.. June 8 The Banner Rock wool plant at Alexandria ! was damaged by fire Tuepday tp the extent of Sfi.000. The roor of the kim room was destroyed. Weather Forecast MOORE'S LOCAL FORECAST. Unsettled, with rain. Unsettled weather is in prospect for the next 36 hours with general rains at intervals in the form of either showers or thunderstorms due to a Rocky mountain storm now moving eastward. For Indiana, by. the United States Weather Bureau Showers tonight and Thursday; somewhat warmer tonight in East portion. Temperatures for Yesterday. Maximum SJ Minimum J'J Today. Noon 67

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and unsettled weather has overspread the Ohio valley, states and rains are becoming more general as the Rock mountain Ktorm moves eastward across the central states. Hot wave in Montana-, where maxium temperatures ranged from 80. to 90 degrees on Tuesday. It was 106 at Phoenix. Arizona yesterday. ,

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Unlimited Warehouse Facilities rain anJ receive a warehouse certificafe in such form and under such conditions that it would pass as an order for delivery of the grain. It is contended that such a plan would greatly increase the farmer's borrowing power and would relieve him of the pressure of selling his grain except at his own option; that it (Continued on Page Nine) FREEMAN STATEMENT REPLIES TO CHARGE BROUGHT BY GREEN Clarence B. Green, director of the Bureau of Municipal Research, of Dayton, Ohio, who had delivered speeches in nearly all the Indiana cities where the city manager campaigns were waged, was in Richmond Tuesday

cremiis. ouu tuargeu iuai ut? as pre- j worth of the name," he said, "was vented from speaking at a public I largely due to our geographical isolameeting of the People's League in the tion and comparatively minor interest Colonial Annex by Gath Freeman. jn the affairs of the rest of the world, chairman of the anti city manager But whether we like it or not. this

iorces. Mr. Green was on bis way to Dayton after a speaking tour in a number of cities that voted on the city manager plan Tuesday. Green May Speak Here Tentative arrangements for a mass meeting to be held Monday night at which Mr. Green would deliver an address were said to be on foot Wednesday. Jesse Bailev. chairman nt the ! city manager organization, said he could not definitely announce the meeting but that he would like to hear Green if arrangements could be made. . Mr. Freeman issued the folowing statement: "The charge that the People's ! League, at its meeting last night, re ! for the purpose of demanding a re-. I (Continued on Page Fourteen) j RTATF RFPARTMFNT i1 nil I lllkll I WITHHOLDS TEXT OF 0BRE60N STATEMENT fT?v Associated Press

WASHINGTON. June S. The text!on,v add to th, requirements of na-

of President Obregon's communication relating to the proposed treaty between the United States and Mexico, which has been decided upon by the American government as a fundamental condition of recognition, was still being withheld at the state department today, although definite word of the course President Obregon will pursue is expected to follow an earlymeeting of the Mexican cabinet. The conditions decided upon by the United States for extending recognition were made public yesterday at the state department. These provide for an agreement by Mexico to safeguard the rights of property in that country, held by American citizens, which attached before the constitution of. 1917 was promulgated, and have been incorporated in a proposed j treaty of amity and commerce with Mexico. The signing of the treaty, it i was explained, would automatically j accomplish American recognition of It was made clear that the matter of personalities or of any particular administration was not involved, the United States merely holding that the Mexican government, to be recognized, must give assurances that it will fulfill its international obligations In the protection of persons and property xiahts validly acquired. . . ,. .

Bv .Associated Press) NEW YORK, June 8. Declaring that it would be the height of folly for the United States to disarm first. Secretary of War Weeks in an address today to the graduating class of New York . university, said he hoped to see this nation prepared to defend its rights, its sovereignty, and its citizens until the day comes when all nations by mutual consent dismantle their fortifications and scrap their navies. The university conferred upon Secretary Weeks the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. "I do not love war," the secretary declared. T abhor it. No rational being who has a clear realization of its meaning wants to have his country became engaged in war. but conditions may arise which make it. with all its horrors, the only alternative to a dishonorable peace. Then every patriotic citizen wants war." Sees Preparations. "I do not anticipate war." Mr. Weeks asserted, "but there are active and feverish military preparations among those with whom we might possibly come into contact. And I want to say here and now that I cannot give a moment's serious consideration to the possibility of war with Great Britain.'

Such a conflict, he declared, in his opinion, be the end of civilization I am well aware, the seer ecretary continued, "that a great many goot' people in this country, indeed in the world, believe that the time has come when the world should undertake a general disarmament. I am entirely in sympathy with every wise and sane endeavor to bring about the adoption of a world movement with that result in view. But we must remember thpt the passions of war and the disturbances to society, as well as to the individual, cannot be overcome or forgotten in a day. Only time, and ;i great deal of time, will bring peopl" and nations back to a normal condition. Points Prudent Move. "World-wide disarmament must come as the result of an international agreement, and must be don" simultaneously. Prudence would not permit our disarming while otherhold their weapons in their hands." Returning to the possibility of conflict with other countries. Mr. Weeks declared the time had come when thicountry must have a definite military policy. The national defense art. which became a law on June 4. 1920. is the policy which he thought should govern the army. "That the United States continued for so long without a military policy state of physical and political detachment from the rest of the world no longer exists." Needless Waste The fact that the United States plunged into wars in the past and ultimately emerged successfully should not be accepted as proof that the country's former military policy was sound, Mr. Weeks said. Victory came in spite of. rather than because of. that policy, he declared. He called particular attention to the fact that all of the Important wars this country has fought were followed by Investigations of the military system which revealed that there were excessive expenditures of public funds, needle. waste of human life, and unnecessary prolongation of the struggles. "If all men were honest." the secretary concluded, "there would be no necessity for maintaining a police force. If all nations were disinterested, did r.ot covet that which belonged to others and especially did not seek to promote their own selfish advantage at the expense of other nations, there would be little necessity for maintaining an army. But all men are not law abiding and all nations are not unselfish, and. therefore we need policemen and armies. Must Be Prepared. "In many cases, in some parts of the world there are developing large excesses of population requiring exnnn&inn rf trrltnrv Tho fntiivA .i tions for increased territory and there can be no assurance, notwithstanding our own disinterestedness and desire for peace that our wealth will not be craved by others less fortunate. "Time has not lessened the wisdom of Washington's advice, "in time of peace, prepare for war.' It is as essential in the preservation of the republic in 1921 as it was in 1780." ' FOUR BANDITS EMPTY POCKETS OF DANCERS fBv Associated Press) CHICAGO. June 8. Four bandits lined up dancers In an inn north of Evanston early today and escaped with jewelry and cash estimated aC nearly $20,000. The dancers first thought it was a joke when a young man with a cap pulled low over his eyes and a pistol in each hand stepped out on the dance floor and commanded them to line up. - But the guests quickly complied when three other robbers entered and fired several shots Into the ceiling. One woman saved diamonds valved at 215.000 bV drooninr them intn br

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