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VOL. XLVI., No. 269 palladium. Est. 1S31. Consolidated with Sun-Telegram,-1907. RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVENING; SEPT. 22, 1921. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS

HOPE TO GUT LODGE'S LEAD IN HIS STATE

Contest Between Old Line Parties in Senator's Hor2 District Will Prove Interesting One. WOMAN WANTS IN RAGE BV MARK SIMIVAV 1 WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 22 Fully as Interesting as New Mexico's election of a senator on Tuesday of this week is one that Is going to occur in the sixth congressional district of Massachusetts next Tuesday. This coming Massachusetts election narrowly missed having dramatic qualities which would have focussed the attention of the country on it. The sixth Massachusetts district is the one in which Senator Henry Cabot Lodge has his home, and there is gossip in Washington to the effect that Senator Lodge's daughter, Mrs. Augustus Peabody Gardner, wanted to try for the Republican nomination but Was dissuaded by persons close to her. Nomination Was Certain If Mrs. Gardner had tried for the Republican nomination she would undoubtedly have got it. If she had got the nomination, she would with equal certainty have won the election. In that event she would have been the third woman to occupy a seat in congress, and her political and personal background being what it is, and her personality being as forceful as it is, her. presence in congress would have had greater significance than that of her two feminine predecessors in that body, one from Oklahoma and one from Montana. Mrs. Gardner is not only the daugh ter of the senator from Massachusetts but is also the widow of the man who represented this district in congress for 10 years. He was one of the most promising public men of his time, and his death which occurred in a southern army camp, where he had enlisted to go to: war as a private, lost to congress one ! of its most useful and intelligent members. After Representative Gardner died, his secretary, W. W. Lufkin. succeeded him and had the office through two elections until July of the present year, when he resigned to become collector of the port of Boston. District Strongly Republican Through all these years of the tenure of Gardner and Lufkin the sixth Massachusetts district has been strongly Republican. Gardner and Lufkin rarely failed to get twice as many votes as their Deinocra'ic. opponents, and on more than one occasion got three times as many. Under the circumstances it is not to be expected that the Democrats carry the coming special election, but they do hope to make gains suffi ciently impressive to be presented to the country as evidence of shifting of sentiment in the home district of the Republican leader of the senate. For their hopes the Democrats rely not only on changed business conditions since the election last year and on changed sentiment as to national issues, but also on local factional strife among the Republicans. Rake Up Old Quarrels The primary contest for the Repub lican nomination was marked by much ' bitterness, of a sort that usually leaves , among the defeated faction a residue of resentment, of which the Democrats, in this case, hope to be the beneficiaries. No doubt a considerable number of votes, in this election next Tuesday will be determined by national issues, but neither here nor anywhere else are the people as yet sufficiently excited about national issues to go to the polls in large numbers because of them alone. In the recent Republican primary contest in this district, for example the chief interest seemed to turn on rersonal episodes in the careers of the two candidates. As to one of the candidates the question was raised whether or not he was justified in staying home from the war by the fact that he had a wife and three children. He being 33 years old when the war began and having a rich father-in-law. Can't Judge by This. As to the other candidate much was made of the fact that in 1912, he had been dismissed from the office of the treasury because he had been absent without leave in order to attend the Republican national convention of that year. In a district where trivialities like this occupy the front of the stage it can hardly be said that the election next Tuesday will have much barometrical value as to change of sentiment on national issues. The man who won the Republican nomination. Col. A. Piatt Andrew, is an ant i Lodge man and his victory by a vote of two to one has been announced as an anti-Lodge anti-organization triumph of large proportions. The Democrats don't hope to win next Tuesday but they do hope to make an impression by reduction of the normal Republican majority. (Copyright 1921 by the New York Evening Post, inc.) GOTHAM TRANSIT GETS THIRD GRACE PERIOD (By Associated Press) NEW YORK. Sept. 22. Federal Judge Julius M. Mayer yesterday granted the Interborough Rapid Transit company a third postponement on his exparte order to show cause why a receiver should not be appointed. Counsel for the company declared there had been a general improvement in Its financial conditions. It was reported that all but $3,400,000 worth of the seven percent notes due Sept. 1, out of a total of $38,000,000 had been extended another year.

Buddhist Missionary

N Senkizen Arai, Lord Abbot of Buddhism Senkizen Aral, Lord Abbot of Buddhism, comes to the United States as a missionary. THREE NEW MEMBERS ADMITTED TO LEAGUE IN TODAY'S SESSION (By Associated Press) -GENEVA, Sept. 22. Three additional nations were admitted to the, League of Nations today. The trio comprised Esthonia Letvia and Lithunia. Membership in the league was voted them by the league assembly at the morning session. Esthonia was the first of the states admitted to membership. The vote in her favor was unanimous. The Jugo-Slavia, and Czecho-Slovakia were absent. Letvia also was elected unanimously. Ten states including Jugo-Slavia, did not vote. The election of Lithuania likewise was without opposition in the assembly. The Polish delegation, which in' committee had opposed Lithuania's admission, was not present when the vote was taken. The Czecho-Slovak ' delegates also abstaimed from voting. STRIKE ACCOUNTING, FACTIONAL STRIFE, DELAY MINE MEETING (Bv Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 22. -Division among delegates to the convention of the United Mine Workers as followers of President Farrington, of the Illinois miners, or of International President John L. Lewis, arose today whn the convention began consideration of Lewis's recommendation that it require an itemized accounting of $27,000 spent two years ago in an authorized strike in Illinois. A show-down between the two fao tions. however, was delayed by long debate and with the convention s - et - ting aside its rule so as to permit un limited discussion indications were that a final vote would not be reached until tomorrow. The fight opened today as soon as the committee on reports of international officers had proposed unanimous approval by the convention of Lewis's recommendation, the first of which related to the Illinois expenditure. Lewis had said that the Illinois officers bad refused to give the accounting asked by the international executive board. Farrington, discussing the expenditure, said the money had been honestly expended and accounted for to the satisfaction of the Illinois Miners' convention, and that the isue arising from Lev, s's recommendation was one of invasion of the rights of district autonomy. The convention's action in taking up the Illinois case served to delay indefinitely the wage discussion. Greeks Abandon Material In Flight From Turks (By Associated Press) ANGORA, Asia Minor, Sept. 22. A i Turkish official communication Issued I yesterday says that west ot the Sa- ! karia river pnrsuit of the Greeks con tinues. The Turkish advance is developing and the Greeks are abandoning numbers of cannon, machine guns and material. Weather Forecast MOORE'S LOCAL FORECAST. Fair tonight and Friday. Generally fair weather is expected to continue for another 24 hours and probably longer, due to the barometric pressure being above normal, South and West of the Great Lakes. For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Friday; cooler in North portion Friday. Temperature For Yesterday. Maximum 74 Minimum 56 Today Noon 77 Weather Conditions The weather is now fair over most of the United States. The rainstorm of Wednesday is now moving down the St. Lawrence valley. Tornadoes occured Wednesday in portions of its limit, Zanesville, Athens and Bellaire, Ohio, were the hardest hit.

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DOCTORS FOR CAR LINE SITE Twenty-five Physicians Agree Tuberculosis Hospital Necessary Four Oppose One Refuses Opinion. 17 ADVOCATE BEDS Wayne county physicians practically are unanimous in their opinion that a tuberculosis hospital should be built in this county. Thirty-one answers have been received by The Palladium in response to its questionnaire upon the need of such an institution, where it should I be located, and whether it would be j practicable to start the hospital with as few as 25 beds. , One physician has refused an opin ion upon all of the questions; 26 are in favor of a hospital, and four believe such a hospital is unnecessary. Letters of inquiry have been sent to all physi cians in Wayne county. it appears, from the answers returned, that the opinion of the majority favors the erection of the pro posed hospital upon a site accessible to a car line. Twenty-seven physi cians already have given their advice in this particular. The vote stand3 16 against the present location, south of the city, and 11 favorable to the present site. Claims Inaccessibility This question is the one attracting the most comment. . Forceful argu ments are being presented for and against. One of the county's most able physicians writes concerning this question: - I doubt the advisability of attempt ing to develop such a hospital on the site tendered and on which some improvements already - have been made. It is inaccessible to patients, relatives, officers and employes, and the cost of maintenance will prove unavoid ably excessive. A new and better site should be selected, and it is hoped that the generous donation can be turned and applied for the purpose." This same physician has the follow ing to offer regarding the practicability of starting a tuberculosis hospital with 25 beds: "It is not practicable to construct and operate any hospital with as few as 25 beds. It should have a capacity of 50 to 100 beds, even if adjacent counties must be called upon to supply the patients." Advises 40 Beds Much enlightenment is thrown upon the entire situation by another communication from a Richmond physician whose judgment is not to be denied: -"Wayne county needs a tuberculosis hospital or some adequate means of caring for both the curable and the incurable. The county does not need

a large hospital, but one sufficient tojeral Richmond, Ind.. automobile deal-

accommodate 40 patients, both men and women, as a maximum capacity without crowding. "The present hospital site is sufficient and the gift outweighs its disadvantages of location. Present plans are visionary and not justified by county needs, and should not be considered except on long time contract with the government sufficient to cover the expense of a heavy government retinue. "Keep the gift with its provisions of additional gifts as planned by the donors and others. Add to the present residence at the farm wjngs adequate to house 14 to 20 patients, each of men and women, with sun parlors, and a rear for the accommodation of kitchens and help. This will be all the help needed to the plant already built. Urges Cottage Additions. "I would build cottage additions for the men and women as demanded, these being built especially for con valescents and for these I would .provide an adequate original heating plant to heat these small apartment cottages." Those physicians who believe in the erection of a 25 bed hospital at the start, as a practical move, continue to outnumber those who doubt the wisdom of euch a course. Of the 21 answers received upon this question, 17 favor the 25 bed start. It is interesting to note the comment attending the answers of several physicians. "I do not thfnk the location selected good on account of the expense of getting there. Friends of patients will want to visit them often, and it is recessary they should, so the patients will be satisfied, which is to be desired in the treatment of the disease. Advises 25 Bed Start. "1 think 25 beds would be a good start as I look on such an institution as more of a place for the teaching of the tubercular patients how to iive, after they leave the institution." Another physician writes: "I think the number of beds to be provided would depend upon the location of the hospital. It probably could not be run on a basis of 23 beds if the southern site is selected, but if run at the infirmary where the administration costs would be taken care of any way, a 2o Ded building could be run very well. About 15 years ago I con - ducted an institution with fewer than 25 beds and made it pay Summed up, additional remarks by those answering demand that action be taken wiselyand at once. Two physicians have stated that had there been a hospital during the past year they could have placed patients in the institution. "Let us shut off hot air, wake up, and do something worth while," concludes the communication from one well known Richmond physician. WAR FINANCE CORPORATION SELLS TRUST CERTIFICATES (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept 22. Sale of railroad car trust certificates held by the government .amounting to $30,298,500, was announced today by the war financial corporation. - V

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Left to riant, above: John T. Connery,

Miss Elizabeth Christman and J. H. Defrees. Below: E. E. Clark, Mary Van Cleeck and James Couzens. Here are some of the more prominent persons named by President Harding to discuss the unemployment problem at a conference in Washington. The list includes three women: Elizabeth Christman, of Chicago, secretarytreasurer of the National Woman's Trade Union league; Mary Van Kleeck, of New York, director of the Women in Industry Service of the United States, and Ida M. Tarbell, of New York, writer. Other noted figures at the conference will be President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor; Secretary of Labor James J. Davis; President Joseph H. Defrees of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Julius H. Barnes, former president of the Ui S. Grain corporation; Mayor Couzens, of Detroit; E. E. Clark, formerly a member of the interstate commerce commission, and John T. Connery, president of the Miami Coal company of Chicago.

Richmond Automotive Dealers ' Endorse Proposed Sales Tax Measure Proposed by Utah Senator Would -Relieve "Automobile Industry of Tax Burden Bill Provides Manufacturer's Tax on All Commodities.

PAixvnirn news bihrau WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. Endorsement is given the revenue measure proposed by Senator Smoot, of UtaL, by the Wayne County (Ind.) Auto mobile Trade association, and by severs in telegrams which were received here this week. The Smoot plan, briefly stated, proposes the elimination of various war taxes and the levying of a manufacturers' tax on all comodities. No particular enthusiasm for the Smoot plan has been shown by the manufacturing interests of the country. Would Relieve Burden. It is realized, however, that if the new revenue bill was framed along the lines suggested by Senator Smoot, which it will not be, it would provide substantial relief for the automobile industry, which has been compelled to carry a particularly heavy tax burden. The senate finance committee, in charge of the revenue bill, gave the Smoot proposal consideration but the TRIBUNE ASKS DELAY INTRIAI FOR LISEL; CITY IS PLAINTIFF (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Sept. 22. The ten million dollar libel suit of the City of Chicago against the Chicago Tribune opened today with counsel for the newspaper asking the court to uphold a general demurrer based upon the constitutional right of the freedom of the press. If granted the demurrer would have the effect of dismissing the suit on the grounds of insufficient evidence. Weymouth Kirkland, counsel for the Tribune arguing before Judge Harry M. Fisher of the- circuit court of Cook county, contended that the suit marked an attempt by entrenched authority to protect itself from inquiry and criticism. Such a step, he asserted, was an attempt, to restrict the constitutional right of the press to freedom of expression. The suit involves the question or whether a newspaper may be sued for libel to the extent of its total vaiue and virtually be put out of business if the suit is won. The libel action grew out of statements made hv the Tribune in the ' last city election, criticising the present city administration for the manner in which municipal finances were handled. The city contends that the articles and editorial expressions on which the suit is based damaged the city's credit in disposing of municipal bonds. The last two days have been spent in taking depositions and most of today was expected to be taken up with arguments for the demurrer. GEN. MARCH REACHES ROME (By Associated Press) ROME, Sept. 22. Gen. Payton C. March, chief of staff of the United States army, has arrived in Rome. It is his intention to make a tour of the Italian battlefields and to meet old friends and comrades who served with him as military attaches during the Russo-Japanese war.

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James J. Davis, Samuel GomDers, Ida measure as it was prepared for submission to the senate, does not carry the Utah senator's suggestions. Whether Smoot will make an effort, when the tax measure is debated, to have the finance committee's bill rejected in favor of his own, has not been indicated, but this is regarded When two representatives of the United States department of agricul(Continued on Page Three) CHARGES N.Y. POLICE REFUSED PROTECTION IN PIER EMERGENCIES (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Sept. 22. Investigation of charges that members, of the police department withheld protection from the docks of steamship companies to further the interests of friends "on the inside," was begun yesterday by the Mayer legislative committee delving into Mayor Hylan's administration. Jules V. Behar, assistant general manager of an Italian trans-Atlantic line testified he had been informed in 1920, during an epidemic of thefis from the company's North river piers, that if he wanted assistance from the police department he should hire former Inspector Adam Cross. This he said, was done, increasing the cost ?o -P.n lfJe piers from ?U0 toi " V, K , A . head of the company's private police force, and formerly a lieutenant of citv Donee, testified he had been nu . city police, testified he had been out of favor with the police administration and was unable to get police help on the piers in case of emergency. - He said that his men were left by patrolmen of the vicinity, at the mercy of "gopher" gangs whose enmity they had incurred, and who lay in wait for them on their way home after work. HUNGARIAN-AUSTRIAN CRISIS APPROACHING (By Associated Press) BUDAPEST, Sept. 22. Baron Newton, of the British foreign office, who is negotiating informally with the Hungarian government for a compromise of the West Hungary situation, where the disturbances are approach ing anarchy, has been informed that the basis of the Hungarian proposition is to keep Odenburg and hand over to Austria the remainder of West Hungary. Baron Newton is going on a visit to the ."lost provinces" to study conditions there. Alarming news is in circulation to the effect that warlike preparations are being made by Jugo-Slavia ani Czecho-Slovakia, which are supposed to have decided secretly to make their long planned "corridor"' through west Hungary in case of armed intervention. - The national assembly has been convened for today.

Unemployment

Tarbell and Julius Barnes. Center DEATH TOLL GROWS AS EXPLOSION RUINS GIVE UP 850 BODIES (By Associated Press) ' MAYENCE, Sept. 22. While estimates of the number of dead from Wednesday's explosion, which destroyed the Badische company's great chemical plant at Oppau continued today at approximately 1.500, the total Of persons actually found to have been injured exceeds the first figures by a wide margin. Already 2,500 persons have received j 'treatment for hurts sustained through the effects of the explosions. Bodies of the dead to the number of 850 had been recovered this forenoon. The French and German authorities in the district were continuing the rescue work today in the closest collaboration. A German hosDital train has arrived at Frankfort and a French

train at Treves with injured from the ties interested in the proposed modiscene of the disaster. ' fixation of the big five packers' conShock Felt 50 Miles. Isect decree are to be given a hearing The scene of the explosion was!shortlv before the department of jusm6re than three miles from Mann-jtlce Attorney General Daugherty anheim, but everv window of that city I nounced today. was shatttred by the concussion. The Secretaries Hoover and Wallace, shock was felt in towns 50 miles away! Mr- Daugherty said, have been asked

There were hundreds of workmen at or near the ill-fated plant at 7:30 o'clock when the explosion occurred and there were wild rumors regard ing the loss of life yesterday and last i night. These could not be confirmed, but it appeared certain that the casual ty list would be appalling. Immediately after the blast every means of rescuing injured and bringing out the dead were utilized, but several minor explosions prevented workers from entering the grounds fori a lnnp time fireat rimida nt rhpmirai i fumes hung over the ghastly scene of ruin, and the first men to enter the place were compelled to wear gas masks. The fumes spread as far as Mannheim and Ludwigshafen, and " frightened people. An investigtiaon of the explosion has been ordered by the authorities. but those who have visited the ruins , deeiare there is little upon which a .J; - . j iiouing can De oasea. Buildings Disappear The buildings of the Badische company have disappeared and only a greaf. hole in the ground marks the site of the main structure. It is a theory of those familiar with the plant that at least two gasameters exploded and that nitrogen compounds stored in the buildings or in process of manufacture, were detonated. Nitrogen products are unstable as a rule and it is believed the first explosion, which was relatively light, set off great masses of chemicals. Another theory is that a nitrogen tank let go and that four others were set off by the concussion. Soldiers Keep Order Order is being maintained in the town of Oppau and vicinity by French soldiers, that district being within the French zone of occupation.- The base . r . , , . tv . . . of the French forces in that region is at Ludwigwhafen, on the west bank of the Rhine from which place the troops were rushed to the scene ot the disaster. This is the second time Oppau has, been destroyed. In 1853 a dam burst above the town and the place was swept by a wall of water. General Degoutte, ln command of French forces of occupation, cent from this city to Oppau and immediately sent for the sanitary staff of the army on the Rhine. He has organized kitchens to feed the families of victims of the disaster and the high commissioner has given 75,000 marks to the workers' syndicate to alleviate distress.

IRISH PARLEY OUTLOOK DARK AFTERJALKS Prospects Appear Less Hopeful Today After Lloyd George's Consultations with British Cabinet Ministers.-

ATTITUDE UNBENDING (By Associated Press) LONDON, Sept 22. Prospects of a conference between Sinn Fein repre sentatives and members of the British cabinet at an early date were de clared today to "be less hopeful as a result of yesterday's consultation between Prime Minister Lloyd George and several of his ministers at Gair--loch. Several of this morning's newspapers reflected this view, and reports from political correspondents at Gairloch generally agreed that the ministers showed a more rigid attitude toward southern Ireland. It is declared there is a tendency on the part of the cabinet m',,,',' who talked with the prime minister to insist that Eamon Le Vaiera. ioiu. ally withdraw his claim that Sinn Fein delegates would enter the conference as representatives of a sovereign state. Urge Withdrawal They are said to urge that such withdrawal be made before the government agrees to meet the Irish delegates, while some are declared to have urged that assurances be given by the Sinn Fein that if the conference meets the separation issue ehall not be raised. Prime Minister Lloyd George, according to the Daily Mail, is taking an unbending attitude in the face of the latest Irish communication and is supported by his colleagues. The London Times, however, remarks that yesterday's meeting scarcely represented all shades of opinion in the government, and expresses the opinion that, for this reason, Mr. Lloyd George desires to consult all the members of his cabinet before replying to Mr. De Valera. BELFAST, Sept. 22 Irish labor desires peace to follow the present negotiations because then it would have the field cleared for action, Cathal O'Shannon. a leading member of the Irish trades congress, declared at a labor demonstration in Clomsel, county Tipperary, yesterday. , He said, however, that if war resulted the workers would support the national cause, asserting that the remedy for the present industrial deadlock was a return to the conditions prevailing in the old Gaelic state when the people possessed the land. "We want not merely an Irish republic, but a workers' republic," declared O'Shannon. HEARING ON PACKER REGULATION WILL BE HELD SOON, DAUGHERTY WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. All Par l ueian ineir solicitors to sit wan the justice department at the hearing as the question at issue was one of policy as well as law, and both the department of commerce and the agriculture department were interested in the carrying out of the decree. Petition for modification of the decree, Mr. Daugherty explained, was filed by California Fruit Growers who desired that the packers be permitted to continue the transportation of fruits ln tne,r railroad cars. Under the consent decree, the rackers were I , j; a, i - ifiiuntu iu uivurer iflfmseives rroni thei non-allied activities. No decision will be reached by the justice department Mr. Daugherty said until the conclusion of the hearings which might occupy two or three weeks. REACH AGREEMENT ON OHIO PATRONAGE WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 What was described as a complete agreement to clear up the Republican patronage row in Ohio was reached today at an hour's conference between President Harding and Senator Willis, Republican, of that state. Under the agreement it is understood that Senator Willis will withdraw his opposition to the nomination of Charles H. Nauts. as collector of internal revenue for the Toledo district, and that a slate of other appointments acceptable to all groups of the party will be closed in the very near future. Nauts, whose confirmation has been held up for several weeks by. " '"1, have been seje ed V Pr?!(Jent I on recommendation of Walter Brown, chairman of the government re-organl-zation committee and an opponent of Mr. Willis for the senatorial nomination last year. , Texas Mayor's Warning Forbids Parade by Klan BARTLETT. Texas, Sept. 22 When notice that the Ku Klux Klan intended parading here tonight wa called to the attention of Mayor Staunton Allen he issued a proclamation saying that should masked marchers appear in the streets they would be arrested and dealt with according to the laws of the city and state.