Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 245, 25 August 1921 — Page 1

MONB B AUL ADIUM VOL. XLVI., No. 245 palladium. Et. 1831. Consolidated with Sun-Teleg-rm. 187. RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1921. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS

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rnUiyM.AbUn Senate Fails to Act on AntiBee r Bill Agricultural Credits Measure Passed with Amendment. COMMITTEES AT WORK (Br Associated Pres WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. Senators and representatives generally left Washington today for a vacation as a result of congress declaring a 30 days' recess just before midnight last night. Some will remain, however, to continue committee work, particularly in the case of the senate finance committee which expects to continue study of the permanent tariff bill and to take up the tax revision measure. Both the senate aild house will reconvene Sept. 21, but the latter expects to take three day recesses until Oct. 3. Stay Till Late Hour. Although many had left a few days early, the senat was well filled until adjournment was taken and - in the house when the speaker's gavel fell at 11:56 p. m. there were more than 200 representatives on the floor. The closing scenes also were unusually quiet, although there had been heated controversies in conferences in the last hours. In the senate, Interest was centered In the anti-beer bill, which after a prolonged attack by Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri and Stanley, Democrat, Kentucky, was put aside. Even an effort to make it the un finished business when the senate reconvenes was blocked, so that pros pects of its passage within a few weeks appeared to some to be scant. Withhold Permits Decision to withhold Issuance of medical beer regulations pending congressional action on proposed antibeer legislation was reached today by Secretary Mellon in conference with Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair. Among the bills passed in the closing hour3 of the session were the agricultural credits measure, the shipping board deficiency bill of $48,000,000 with its amendment carrying $200,000 for expenses of the disarmament, conference and the measure extending the dye embargo until Jan. 1. President In Senate. Baactment of measures was completed by President Harding, who appeared at the capital late in the evening for the purpose of affixing his signature to bills. He was accompanied by Mrs. Harding, who occupied a seat in the senate gallery, and was an interested spectator of the beetle debate on the beer bill. The house for the most part marked time today as it had only to complete action on conference reports. Oppor tunity was taken ty Representative Mondell, the Republican leader. Just before adjournment was moved, to review the accomplishments of the session today. Praises Reeord. "No congress in American history," he said as made a better record of eontjni fis and conscientious consideration of the public business or of meritorious acomplishment in a wide field of legislation than the present congress." Commenting on specific legislation passed by the house the Republican leader declared that the Fordney tariff bill, "which will take from the statute books the make-shift Underwood tariff law that would have wrecked industry and the protective activities of the country but for the European war. will restore and reestablish in America to the benefit cf every section of our country, the equitable and beneficient principles of a Republican protective tariff." Reviews Tariff Bill. Referring to the tariff revision bill which was sent to the senate last Monday, Mr. Mondell asserted: "The country will welcome and appreciate and applaud a tax measure which immediately and for the present calendar year lifts $230,000,000 taxes from the shoulders of families of small income and from the traveling and consuming public; a measure which wiil eventually lift from the shoulders of our people of every class a sum iu excess Of $800,000,000." Sixty-five bills and resolutions Mr. Mondell said have become law since congress met on April It. Replying to Mr. Mondell, Represent ative Garrett. Tennessee, acting Democratic leader, declared that "with all due respect to the Republican majority this has been the worst session of congress in history." Failure, he continued, was due not to poor Republican leadership, but because the Republican party did not stand on any fundamental thing. The Republican majority he continued, was so divided that it was unable to get together without making compromises both as to principle and policy. Mr. Garrett said there was no reason to expect any improvement over the record made by the present tongress so far. During the sixtyeighth congress, however, he added, the people would have "some hope because a different party will be in power." IRISH SEND ANSWER TO CABINET COUNCIL By A8O0iated Press) LONDON, Aug. 23. The reply of the Irish Republic cabinet to Lloyd George's letter of Aug. 13, in which he denied Ireland's right to secession and declined to refer the question of the lelations between southern and northern Ireland to foreign arbitration was received at the premier's official residence at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The reply was placed before the cabinet council and with Lloyd Ceorge presiding, discussion of the document was in progress at tonight.

American Legionnaires Visit

Arrival of Legionnaires at Cherbourg and (below) Commander John G. Emery lowering the American flag in salute over the tomb of the "unknown soldier" beneath the Arch of Triumph, Paris. Headed by National Commander John G. Emery, a group of officials of the American Legion Is now in France for the purpose of visiting old battlefields and unveiling several monuments in memory of American boys who died on foreign soil. Everywhere the Americans Lave been received with enthusiasm. In Paris they visited the grave of the "unknown soldier," whose remains were last year .buried with much ceremony beneath the Arch of Triumph.

Hungry Hoosier Hunters Still Stand at Federal Pie Counter Many Picked Good Plums, But Others, Dejected and Sad, Return Home Reporter by Accident Lands Best Political Job in Washington.

PAM.ADIl'M NEWS BT RF.AU WASHINGTON. Aug. 25 The small army of Indiana men and women who came to Washington last spring in quest of their share of patronage as a result of the Republican victory has now dwindled until a mere handful remain to take their places daily before the political pie counter. Many of the job hunters received their awards and went on the'payroll rejoicing. There were others, quite a few, who grew tired of being put off, or who went broke, and returned to their homes not rejoicing. The handful who remain are first water optimists. They are confident that eventually they will secure government positions. But each week their clothing becomes a little more shabby. Each month they find it more convenient to move into cheaper boarding houses. Lands Soft Snap To those who have for many months vainly sought the shelter of Uncle Sam's payroll the luck of one Clifford W. Smith, a Washington newspaper reporter, who landed one of the most desirable Jobs in the federal service without asking for it, in a manner absolutely unique in the annals of Ameri can politics, is almost unbelievable. This is how Smith became secretary of the United States shipping board: As the board was about to go into session one day not long ago the telephone rang. Over the wire President Harding said ho was sending a young man named Frank McCue to SMALL WILL REQUEST RETURN TO OFFICE (By Associated Press) SPRINGFIELD, 111.. Aug. 25. Governor Small Till be a candidate for re-election in 1924, Senalor Richard Meents. one of the governor's closest political allies and his spokesman in the senate said today. "Len Small never quit under fire In his life," Senator Meents said. Governor Small is under indictment charging conspiracy and embezzlement while he was state treasurer. 'RED LETTER WEEK' FOR MARRED ONLY BY WASHINGTON. D. C. Aug. 25 Precident Harding has had a very good week. If he should take the recess of congress as a milestone, and reflect on the trend of events as they affect his official fortunes, he would undoubtedly feel that things have "broken" for him handsomely. Within a single week congress has put the finishing touches on a considerable program of Important legislation. Peace with Germany has been signed. Great Britain has sent her formal reply to the invitation for a disarmament conference and the shipping board has been given the appropriation which will make it possible to clean up the worst mess that the president has on his hands. A score oi less important steps have been takn towards that "return to normalcy ' to which President Harding dedicated himself during his campaign. The German treaty. In a multitude of ways, will make possible other steps towards normal peace time con

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v. the board and that he would appreciate it if the board would elect McCue as its secretary. Chairman Lasker said he would be glad to oblige, and please have McCue come right away. Soon McCue arrived and sent in his card to Lasker, who glanced at it and put it in a pocket. Then Lasker started toward the room where the board meeting wag to e fceld. In a hallway he met Clifford W. Smith, busy young I scribe seeking news for the press association he represented. Smith wantea to interview cnairman Lasker, and Lasker said he would see him later in the day. He asked for and received Smith's card, which also went into the chairman's pocket. Selects Wrong Man. During the board meeting the question of selecting a secretary came up. (Continued on Page Six LOGAN COUNTY ARMS TO REPEL INVADERS MARCHING TO MINGO (Bv Associated Press) LOGAN, W. Va., Aug. 25.About 600 Logan county citizens were under arms here at daybreak prepared to hurry to the Boone county border where, according . to advices received at the office of Sheriff Don Chafin a party of men marching from Marmet to Mingo county, as a protest against martial law there, were about to cross the boundary. There was no direct information as to the number of the "invaders" as they were called, but the sheriff and other county authorities said they would take no chances of letting the men through. Neither was it ' known just where the marchers were. They were said to be the more radical element of the men who for almost a week have been in camp at Marmet, near Charleston with the announced intention of moving on Mingo as soon as their plans were perfected. Alarming reports began to reach Logan soon after midnight. They were (Continued on Page Four) HARDING POLICIES RAILROAD BILL FAILURE ditions, including the greater facilitating of trade with Germany, and including also, it is generally presumed and hoped in Washington, the consideration of amnesty for prisoners under punishment for breach of wartime espionage acts, and the ending of other war time restrictions and harassments. In connection with the German treaty, not the least of Harding's satisfaction must be in the fact that he has succeeded in avoiding what he himself at one time feared might not be avoidable, namely, the submission of portions of the Versailles treaty to the senate, with all the blazing up of old senate rancors which that would have entailed. During the same week events are happening outside of the United States and beyond the control of President Harding, but vital in their effects on our return to normal peacetime conditions. Everybody believes that the admission of the American (Continued on Page Twelve)

LEAGH KILLS BROWN AS CULMINATION OF OLD GAMBLING FEUD

LeRoy A. Brown, owner of a cigar store and pool room at 404 North Eighth street, was shot and instantly killed by Lon Leach. Pennsylvania crossing watchman, at 5:20 Thursday morning at Twelfth street and the Pennsylvania railroad. The killing of Brown ended a feud which has existed between the two men for over a year. The ill feeling between the two men grew out of a quarrel over a poker game In a gambling room run by j Brown upstairs over his cigar store. Leach Under Arrest Leach was arrested immediately following the shooting and placed In the countv jail. He made a full statemerit of the circumstances to DeDutv Prosecutor J. B. Griffis early Thurs day morning and later told the same story to Coroner S. Edgar Bond. Brown was shot under the left eye. A 38 calibre revolver was used. The bullet went upward through the brain and was located near the back of the skull by Coroner Bond. Howard King. 218 North Seventh street, who was with Brown at the time of the shooting, could not be located Thursday. He is said to have been the only one to hear the words exchanged between the -' men. Threatens Leach According to the story told by Leach he was standing in the door of his flagman's shack at the Twelfth street crossing. He said he saw Brown and King approaching from the northwest across the tracks. ; "Brown came towards me swearing and cussin' and said 'I'll kill you," Leach stated. - . ... "He reached for my signal flag, which is a metal one, started towards me and struck at me. I dodged the blow and stepped back a little in the doorway and grabbed a gun which I keep in a cigar box hanging on the wall. Brown started towards me with his- fists doubled up. and I shot him," Leach stated. Leach Feared Brown Leach said he thought Brown was a bad man and knew that he .often carried a gun. He said he feared him. Witnesses told Coroner Bond that they saw Brown approach the flagman's shack and start in it. Brown died instantly. The polico and coroner arrived on the scene n few minutes after the shooting. The body of Brown was removed to the Doan undertaking establishment for preparations for burial. Demanded Money Back. The feud between the two men is said to have started a year aso last July. Leach and a man named Holiday were playing poker in the dive run by Brown, Ieach stated. During (Continued on Page Nine) Weather Forecast MOORE'S LOCAL FORECAST Partly cloudy, but mostly fair, ex. ceDtina for possible local thundershowers, continued warm. The weather will continue generally fair for the next 12 hours, but will be followed by unsettled conditions, due to a storm which is moving southeastward from British Columbia. For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight, Friday cloudy probably becoming unsettled by night; little change in temperatures. Temperatures For Yesterday. Maximum 77 Minimum 57 ' Today. Noon 80 Weather conditions The warm wave continues to spread eastward and the storm over the northwest has increased in size. Variable winds prevail over the central states, resulting in sultry weather. Temperatures ranee from 90 to 100 over the west 'with local rains.

DIVERS SEEK ZR-2 BODIES IN WRECKAGE Only Five of Crew Survive

Fifteen Americans and 26 ; British Airmen Believed to! be Dead. TUGS WATCH WRECK (By Associated Press) HULL, Eng., Aug. 25. Divers began at dawn today to explore the firetwisted wreck of the dirigible ZR-2 which last evening exploded above this city and fell into the Humber, carrying with her more than forty of her crew. Only one American, Norman O. Walker, a rigger, and four British, Flight Lieutenant A. H. Wann, Ernest Davies, airman, H. Bateman, scientific assistant, and Walter Potter, mechan ic, survived the disaster that in a twinkling changed the trial cruise of the airship into a ghastly tragedy. ' During the hours of darkness that followed the collapse and destruction of ZR-2, tugs stood by the wreckage and keen eyes scanned the water for any bodies that might have been dislodged by the tide that flowed over all that remained of what was yesterday Great Britain's mightiest dirigible, which officials expected to turn over to the United States Navy today. Look for Ciew It was believed that the ruins ot the aerial dreadnought held the bodies of fifteen American and 26 British officers and enlisted men who were engaged in the final test of the machine. All hope that there might be other survivors of the disaster was dissipated during the night. The wreckage fell only 200 yards from the shore and the six gondolas in which most of the airship's personnel was riding sank immediately to the bottom of the Humber. The men in the gondolas. It was believed, would have little chance to escape after the dirigible struck the water, as the weight of the engines and machinery quickly carried the ruined structure beneath the water. Experts here were at a loss to account for this greatest of peace-time air disasters Believe Girders Buckled j Residents of Hull who were watching the ZR-2 when her cruise came to Uj sudden and tragic end declared that it seemed when the craft attempted to make a sharp turn during a speed test, some of her girders buckled and broke, probably because of a strain too heavy for the structure to bear. Some members of the crew appear to have this same idea of the cause of the accident. Charles Harrison Brown, of the United States army flying force, was an eye witness of the disaster. "I noticed," he feaid today, "that the ZR-2 was moving in a peculiar manner, the nose of the dirigible showing an unusual tendency to drop down. I knew at once that something was wrong and watched the machine carefully. In less than two minutes the huge envelope broke in two and fell in flames. v Goes to Rescue "I ran to the riverside, where I secured a tug and went to the place where the wreck had fallen. I put out a small boat and went into the gun cockpit in the aft section of the air ship, and then swam along the keel. I secured the body of one man and i turned it over to the boatman, but could find nothing else." The body of Lieut. Charles G. Little of the American officers, was today (Continued on Page Nine) DISASTERS FOLLOW AIRSHIP NAVIGATION (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Aug. 25. Development of airship navigation has been attended by a series of disasters since Santos Dumont first piloted bis tiny dirigible around the Eiffel tour in Paris tint tha Hooth llct in tho 7R.7 disaster of vesterdav exceds that of all other least 15. similar accidents by at The greatest number heretofore killed in an airship accident was 28. This was the toll of lives lost when the German Zeppelin L-2 exploded over the Johannisthal aerodrome on October 17, 1913. Ten persons were killed at Chicago. July 21, 1919. when a dirigible explod(Continued on Page Nine)

WRECK OF ZR-2 FAILS TO DESTROY FAITH OF NAVAL OFFICERS IN RIGID AIRSHIP PLAN

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Aug.' 25 Despite the loss of the ZR,2 before actually becoming naval property, officers of the naval bureau of aeronautics confidently hope the navy will be permitted to continue its rigid airship program. They point out that America already has a gigantic hangar at Lakehurst, N. 'J., completed at a cost of $2,000,000 and capable of housing two ships of the size of the ZR 2 as well as other complete facilities. Although appropriations were stopped before the ZR 1 was completed most of the necessary structural material is already manufactured and awaiting assembly; much of the envelope has been fabricated and nearly all the material for her completion purchased at a cost of about a million dollars. For months the naval gas extracting plant at Fort Worth, Tex., has been storing helium ga3 and sufficient

CAUSE OF DISASTER

HOWDEN, Eng.. Aug. 25 The cause of the disaster to the ZR-2, according to the best information obtainable here, the base of the destroyed dirigible, was the breaking of a longitudinal girder amldship, made of an aluminum alloy cutting the airship in halves. An explosion of either hydrogen or petrol occurred immediately after the girder gave way and flames burst through the structure, but the explosion it is declared was not the cause of the breaking up of the airship. The break occurred in the part of the airship where a girder was strained when she was first brought to Howden. The girder had been reinforced, however, and the ship found to be perfectly airworthy, it was said. None of the authorities here would venture any opinion regarding the cause of the break. BLAST KILLED MOST MEMBERS OF ZR-2; SAYS CREW OFFICER HULL, Eng., Aug. 25. Most of thei British and American members of the crew of the ill-fated dirigible ZR-2 were killed by the explosion which followed the buckling and snapping of girders amidships, declared Flight Lieut. A. E. Wann, in command of the craft as navigating officer at the time of the disaster. In a statement to The Associated Press today. Lieut. Wann said the ship bad run beautifully at 60 knots an hour and that he had reduced the speed to 50 knots when there came a violent cracking sound. He thought several of the girders broke. The whole thing happened in five seconds. "There was no sign of any wrong when we passed over Hull," he added, "but everything happened afterward. I was in sole control at the time." Sails Perfectly "Before the moment of the accident," said Lieut. Wann, whose injuries are not serious, "the craft had been sailing perfectly. She had been passing through various difficult tests and the speed had been reduced when suddenly, while crossing the broad es tuary of the Humber, I heard the grinding and cracking of girders, and the airship pitched forward, nose down, from an even keel. "As soon as humanly possible. I emptied the water ballast to enable the craft to resume its normal posi tion, but at this instant a tremendous expusion occurred, xne great: snip seemea to nan ior a moment. Thrown Into Car "The concussion threw me down in the navigator's car, where I was pinned by the wreckage. The section of the craft in which I was riding remained above the water after the ship plunged into the Humber, and I was rescued after being imprisoned for 15 minutes. That is all I am able to say." Lieut. Wann denied local reports that he had heroically plunged the ZR-2 into the river rather than on the shore, which was crowded by tnousands of spectators. The disas ter occurred so quickly, he said, that any such action was impossible. HELIUM WOULD HAVE PREVENTED DISASTER TO GIANT DIRIGIBLE NEW YORK. Aug. 25. The ZR-2 disaster could have been avoided by the use of helium, a non-inflammable gas. declares Henry Woodhouse, presj laeni in me Aenu League oi America. iiie uiuieu Dines government, ne says has spent more than $20,000,000 in the production of helium. 'f course, helium gas is not absolutely essential to the success of dirigibles," Mr. Woodhouse stated yesterday. All that has been done with dirigibles has been done without helium. "But the fact remains that whatever the cause of the tragedy may be, it could not have happened if the dirigible had been inflated with helium. Even if the dirigible had buckled, as it is reported as having done, the airship could have landed without loss of life if the hydrogen had not ignited. "The apparent buckling in air could have been the result of the other louses nd could have followed the ignition oi gas u tne escaping gas had ! been ignited by the power plant or the radio apparatus. The photographs of the ZR-2 show the cars and power plants extremely close to the gas bag. "This was done to gain efficiency in construction by having the weights as close as possible to the frame of the dirigible, and to increase the mobility of personnel and thus facilitate operating the raft." gas of this type has been assuredTto fill the envelope of a ship as large as the lost ZR 2. Plans for the ZR 1 call for an air ship of slightly smaller size than the ZR 2 a length of 670 feet, diameter about 80 and gas capacity of about 2,200,000 eubic feet. Her total cost is estimated at $2,500,000. While designers of the ZR 2 departed somewhat from the structural lines of the Zeppelins, the naval designers laid their plans for a ship Incorporating the latest developments of the original rigid builders, the Germans, of whose plans more than 100 were filed here for reference. Doubt Explosion Still without details as to the cause of the ZR 2 disaster today naval aeronauts were loath to accept the hydrogen theory advanced in early dispatches from England. They were rather Inclined to believe that some (Continued on Page Thirteen)

ALL ENGLAND MOURNS LOSS OF BIBLE Great Public Funeral to be Arranged by Air Ministry King George Sends Regrets.

MAKE INVESTIGATION (By Associated Press) LONDON. Aug. 25. The American and British victims of the disaster to the ZR-2 at Hull last evening will be accorded a great public funeral, probably in London, it is considered certain. The air ministry today had the project under advisement and an announcement regarding it was expected at any time. ' The news today from Hull served in no wise to lighten the weight of the tragedy which caused a loss of 44 lives. Among the five survivors of the 49 men who embarked on the airship for the voyage which ended so disastrously is only one American, Norman O. Walker, of Commerce, Tex., whom the admiralty erroneously re ported last night had died arter being rescued. Walker had a marvelous escape without serious injury. There, is no trace of Air Commodore Maitland. Believe Girder Crumpled Flight Lieut Wann, one of the British survivors, and who emphasized the fact that he was in sole charge of the dirigible, confirms the general belief that some of the ship's girders crumpled while the craft was making a turn. It was learned today that the admiralty had not authorized the American airmen to accompany the ZR-2 on its fatal trip. Air Commodoro Maitland took the responsibility in his own hands. . Meanwhile all England, profoundlv stirred by the destruction of the giant dirigible the greatest of all air disastersis giving expression to its deep feeling of mourning for the victims and sympathy for those bereaved. In London the atmosphere today was somewhat akin to that which followed the receipt of news of a serious disaster during me war days. At the war ministery which was yesterday a beehive of activity with elaborate preparations for the trans-Atlantic flight, there was today a sensible depression on all sides. Grief in Home Towns. It was at Mowden, Hull. Leeds and neighboring towns, however, where lived the wives and relatives of many of the men whose lives were snuffed out by the disaster that the loss was most keenly felt. In these places too were the English brides of pine of the American enlisted men who came to England for the trans-ocean flight. These young women had been eagerly awaiting the time of the ZR-2's start for America and had expected soon to follow on board a government transport to their new homes. Members of Legion. The American dead included two members of the American- Legion, Lieut. Little and Lloyd E. Crowell, mechanic. Several of the British victims were members of the British Legion of former service men. Both these organizations will be represented at the funeral services. As the dirigible was still Britit-h property not having yet been turned over to the American authorities, all investigations of the calamity will be supervised by the British air ministry. King Expresses Grief. Foremost among the expressions of condolence was one from King George. His majesty telegraphing from Balmoral to Air Marshal Trencherd at the air ministry said: "I am shocked and grieved to hear of the terrible disaster which has befallen airship R-32 (the British number of the dirigible) resulting in the loss of many valuable lives of Americans and British with the relatives of whom I sym pathize. I shall anxiously await further information. (Signed), "George R. I. "Chief of Royal Air Forces." Newspaper Opinion The Impression made upon the public was reflected in newspapers this morning, all of them expressing profound sympathy for the relatives of the men who met death, regret over the loss of the majestic vessel, and thankfulness over the narrow escape of the town of Hull from a terrific calamity. Pending the inquiry, which it is assumed will be of a searching character, attempts to account for the tragedy are merely speculative, but it ia recalled that during a nine-hour trial trip on July 17 some of the girders in the middle of the ZR-2 showed weakness which necessitated reinforcement. This work wa3 done immediately at Howden and experts believed that the weakness in the structure of the airship had been remedied. It is now regarded significant, however, that observers below have declared that there was a buckling amidships which seemed to precede the explo(Continued on Page Thirteen.) BERLIN SIGNS PEACE TREATY WITH AMERICA Berlin, Aug. 25 The peace treaty bringing to an end the technical state of war between the United States and Germany was signed at 5 o'clock this evening, it was announced officially today.