Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 4, 5 January 1922 — Page 1

MOND PAD H VOL. XC1L, No. 4 Palladium, Est. 1831. Consolidated With Sun-Telegram. 1907. RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVENING, JAN. 5, 1922. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS

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Senate Seven in HouseSeniority Counts. RETURN LEGISLATORS P.ttLADIIM KWS BIIIGAV WASHINGTON. Jan. 5. Metropolitan newspapers of the east have dis covered that with the death of Sena tor Penrose of Pennsylvania, the chairmanship of another senate com mittee of major importance, the fi nance committee, will pass to the con trol of the western wing of the Repub lican party, and they are making much ado over it. The eastern press, hov:ever, finds comfort in the fact that the new overlord of tariff and taxation in the senate. Senator McCumber, of N. Dakota, who under the seniority rule, is to succeed Penrose in the chairmanship of the finance committee, has functioned for the greater part of two years under the guiding hand of a western senator, Watson, of Indiana, by reason of the fact Penrose during that time was unable to take an active part in the legislative work because of ill health. Watson was chosen to serve as acting chairman although he ranked eightn on the list of the Republican members of the committee. Practically all the hearings on the tax revision bill were conducted under the direction oT Senator Watson. If sectional leadership in congress is based on the control of the most im portant committees of the two hoftses then the west and central west prac tically dominate the present congress, West Is Gaining. With tlbe advent of McCumber to the chairmanship of the finance committee, which is the most powerful of all the committee's in the senate, corresponding to the appropriation committee of the house, western and central western Republican senators hold the chairmanship of six of the 10 major committees. These sena tors and the committees they preside over are: McCumber. finance; War ren, Wyoming, appropriations; Norris, Nebraska, agriculture; Jones, Washington, commerce; Cummins, Iowa, interstate commerce, and Nelson, Minnesota, Judiciary. The four important senate chairmanships held by eastern Republicans are Lodge. Massachusetts, foreign relations; McLean, Connecticut, banking and currency; Walsworth New York, military affairs, and Page, Vermont, naval affairs. In the house western and middle western ReDublicans hold the chairmenship3 of seven of the 10 major committees, including the all powerful appropriations committee, which passes upon all legislation authorizing appropriations. Madden of Illinois is chairman of the appropriation committee, and eight of the first 10 ranking Republican members of that corn(Continued on Page Three) PENROSE IS BURIED WHILE GUARDS KEEP ALL REPORTERS AWAY (By Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 5. The funeral of Senator Boise Penrose was held this morning. The same great secrecy that surrounded the making of arrangements for the funeral was maintained until the body of the political leader was lowered into the brick lined grave in South Laurel Hill cemetery. No information was forthcoming whether there were any religious services at the house of at the cemetery. Newspaper reporters were not admitted to the burial ground. The fact that the body of the senator would be hurried today became known late yesterday when the bureau of vital statistics issued a permit for interment for January 5 or thereafter The immediate family of Senator Penrose, who was a bachelor, consists of three brothers. No information was given out regarding the funeral beyond the brief obituary notice that the funeral would be "strictly private." Reporters who were on watch at the cemetery yesterday were not admitted today and the newspaper men who followed the funeral party through a steady rain to the last resting place of the dead senator were warned that if they entered the cemetery it would be at their own peril. Guard3 were stationed all around the place. The funeial party was in the cemetery about 15 minutes, and left before 9 a. m. No One Invited Thus was enacted the final scene in the career of a man who could have had one of the largest funerals in the t.icinrv nf th ritv. Political leaders U1DLVI J 11 ' ' " " V ' j Trom every county in the state camei to Philadelphia within the last few; days to do honor to the dead entertain, and not one was invited to the bachelor home of the senator where manv political conferences have been held! Later In the day Senator Penrose s Fecretary. L. C. Taylor, said there was some sort of service at the grave. He said he did not know who conducted it. Mr. Tavlor said Mr. Penrose had an aversion to funerals and attended; only three in 17 years, those ot two; inral nolitiral leaders and benator

( Knox. Interest was manifested among the late senator's friends as to the ' disposition of his estate. He was rewarded as nuite wealthy. It was said

the Penrose familv might not go through the formality of having the will probated.

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Princess Marie of Roumania. Princess Marie of Roumania. known as one or the most beautiful royal maidens in Europe, has bn chosen as one of the bridesmaids to attend Princess Mary of Great Britain when she becomes the wife of Lord Lascelles early this year. DROP 8 POLICEMEN, ADD 7 NEW MEN 'AT THREE HOUR SESSION Eight members of the police force were dropped and seven new members were added after a three hour session of the board of police commissioners behind closed doors Wednesday evening. The meeting started at 7:30 o'clock. The action resulted from the board's consideration of the resignations of the members of the force, which had been requested by Police Chief Eversman. The eight men to leave the service are William Yingling, Homer Ratlin. Omer Ross, Lista B. .Tuday, William Lammert, Alpheus Bennett, Roy C. Wright and Henry Reckers. They will be succeeded by William F. Lawler, Wallace Seymour, Elias Bryant, Joseph L. Baetz, Herman Cohorst, Robert C. Martin and Herbert C. Arnold, colored. Lawler, Seymour and Martin have had previous experi ence as city policemen. Cohorst and Arnold have served as military police, Eaetz was a member of the fire department, and Bryant was a deputy sheriff for eight years In a southern Indiana county. The force now consists of 11 Republicans and 11 Democrats, exclusive of Chief Eversman. Traffic Officers Traffic at eight and Main streets will be cared for by the officers of the four districts Which end ot this OOint. t said Chief Eversman. Wednesday eve ning. A man will be on duty theiej at all times, he. said thf nffirer from one district reiievins the officer from the adjoining district as the watch is j j, cnangea. John Hennigar, motorcycle officer,was reappointed. Only one other of fice remains to be filled on the force, the office of police matron. No appointment will be made in this office, Chief Eversman said, until the duties of the matron have been definitely outlined. As the police roster will stand in the future, Chief Eversman heads the list. Next comes William Longman and Herman Wierhake, first and second sergeants in charge of the desk for day and night duty. Other Assignments. Edward McNally and George Staubach are day and night headquarters men. Henry Vogelsong and Groveile Bundy will serve as plain clothes men. Clessie Kendall and Herbert Ray will act as day and night patrol drivers. Other officers reappointed were tho following patrolmen: Harry Graham, John Cully, Harry Fee, Will Ratliff, Charles Coussins and Charles Wiehmeyer. The order appointing the new men takes effect Jan. 16. The old force will be on duty until the night of Jan. 15. About three score of applications were considered by the board. HOLD INDIANA YOUTH WHO SHOT COMPANION (By Associated Press) j HYMERA. Ind., Jan. 5. Edward McKinney, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Boone McKinney, was fhot and instantly killed early Wednesday evening by James Mildred, a lad about the same age. Mildred was arrested and Is in jail while the authorities are continuing an investigation of the killing. Mildred claims the shooting was accidental and that the weapon vV discharged when he was drawing it from his pocket. It has been learned, according to reports, that the two boys had trouble a few weeks ago, and the parents of the dead youth are not inclined to accept the theory of! accidental shooting. . SPROUL TO APPOINT : SENATOR AT ONCE (By Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 5. Governor Sproul was expected today to name a successor to Senator Penrose within the next few days. He announced last nigm tnat ne wouia not resign to take the senatorship. The senator to be appointed will serve until the candidate chosen at the November election is ready to qualify. Political leaders generally were or the opinion mat uovemor Sproul would be candidate for the unI expired term oi oeuaior reurusB.

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tion to Need for Guiding Hand in Upper Branch of Legislative Body. EARLY ACTION URGED Tty MARK STJLI.IVAX WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 5. The j state of mind of Republican leaders In the senate can only be described as little less than excited. It is not that the death of Mr. Penrose as such has made any difference. Penrose during his sickness of more than a year has been a liability and an embarrassment to the Republican leaders, rather than the tower of strength he was in his prime. It was in fact, Penrose's yielding to the faTm bloc that gave the bloc its start. If Penrose at the beginning of this session had been his old self, he would have stood up publicly for the conviction he expressed privately that the farmers' emergency tariff was "pure bunk." Penrose Yields But Penrose, in his weakness and the fear for his own prerogative that accompanied his weakness, undertook' to save the appearance of power for uiuiftrii uy jjeiuiiiR na essence, n vsa his giving up to the western senators on the farmers' tariff that largely gave the farm bloc the momentum it now has. Penrose in his prime would have fought the farm bloc and castigated them with scorn and satire, and by ruthless enforcement of party discipline might readily have headed off this as he has headed off many another incipient rebellion. It is not Penrose's death as such that has started the Republican leaders to running around in circles. It is rather that Penrose's death has called conspicuous attention to the

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and belated action in the direction of seeing what they can do about it. Its Limitation As to the farm bloc, there isn't much they can do. The bloc has economic solidarity and the cheerfully self-imposed group discipline that I flows from unity of economic inter est. That is exactly what the older and more eastern Republicans have rot. As between the farmer bloc and the older Republican leaders, it is diffi-

cult, for the present, at least, to seejy, itg purpose as was the case with!the last desperate effort of a leader anv outcome excent. Drettv eeneral

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. . . 1. . i continued on rage Three) TAKE UP $33,417.41 COAL BILLS OF CITY AT SPECIAL MEETING Bill3 for coal, repairs and supplies used by the municipal light and power plant up to Dec. 31, and amounting to 133.417.41. were to be taken up for con sideration by the board of works at' a special meeting to be held in the office of the light plant at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Coal bills amounting to $22,212 are included in the bills. The remainder of the amount, $11,205, consists of repairs and materials bought by the plant. At the regular meeting of the board of works Thursday morning a conference was held between the members of the board. City Attorney Kelley, Mayor Handley, L. C. Weldon. superintendent of the light plant, and E. C. Price, of the Price coal company, which is now delivering coal to the city plant under a contract entered into last October. 12,000 Tons Delivered Slightly over 12,000 of the 25.000 tons contracted for by the city at that time have now been delivered, Mr. Price said. This includes a small amount of coal now In transit. Freight bills on 35 cars of coal de livered during the month of Novem ber were inspected by the board, after which Frank Bescher, of the light plant office, was ordered to check over the bills and present them for pay ment. The bills amounted to a total of $4,500 and covered freight which had been charged on coal delivered from mines not mentioned in the con - tract with the city. Because of this fact, these bills had not been paid by either the city or Mr. Price. Had it not been for the unusual rush of delivery called for by the city, Mr. Price said, the cars would have come from the regular sources and the bills would have been paid by him, Instead of through the city. Rail Strike Threatened. At the time the contract was made for coal a rail strike was threatening-. The ccontract was made by the board on the recommendation of Superintendent J. P. Dillon, who advised them that he had only $12,000 left to buy coal for the plant, and that any large purchase made would have to be set tied for after the first of the year. The plant uses from 85 to 100 tons daily, according to L. C. Weldon. Approximately four months supply of coal is now on hand, according to these figures, and the city will purchase coal for the next eight months at the rate of $1.80 per ton, plus a freight rate of $2.73, or $4.53 per ton. This sum, although above the present market quotations, may be below the "spot market" price later In the year, it as said.

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Miss F. Tennyson Jesse. British literary and theatrical circles were greatly surprised last week when it was announced that Miss F. Tennyson Jesse, a grand daughter of

the poet Alfred Tennyson, who is a ! "." "'""""n creaieu Dy me presenia- .....;.,.. .i i tion of Eamonn DeValera'a alternative

two years ago, H. M. Harwood. a pro-1 PPals. it was regarded by many duoer, playwright and business man. observers of the proceedings as a The couple are now enjoying a belated hopeul sn that some form of agreei Z xx-, ' I ment mirht be rearhpd

uuuejuiuuu in naiy. i PREPARE FOR OPENING OF ALLIED COUNCIL IN FRANCE FRIDAY (By Associated Press) CANNES,, France, Jan. 5. Preparations went forward today for the opening here tomorrow of the allied supreme council. A meeting was held today at which the Questions of reparations and the DroDOsed international economic, conHome, chancellor of the British ex chequer; Sir Laming-Worthginton-Evans, British secretary of state for war; Louis Loucheur, French minis-! v. T 1 Ann n A n . m Ji T r. Z tm I Jasper Theunya of Belgium. This was the first meeting of these four, and it was described as a preliminary conversation similar to that held yesterday by Premiers Lloyd George and Briand. It was explained tne Premiers' meeting, was to smooth out difficulties in advance of the suPreme Council meeung. Representatives from France, Great of putting the reparations and other problems into shape for consideration at the opening session of the allied supreme council tomorrow. With the arrival of Viscount Ishii, at the head of the Japanese delegation, and of Premier Jaspar Theunys, of Belgium, this forenoon, everything was ready for what is increasingly emphasized as the most momentous assembly of the past two years' struggle to set Europe to rights and to get Germany started on her reparations payments. COLD WAVE TONIGHT; TO BE 10 ABOVE ZERO (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 5. The coldest weather of the winter in the central portion of Indiana will be experienced tonight and possibly for two more days in the opinion of the local weatherman. It was predicted that by night the temperature will be around 10 degrees above zero. The cold wave starting from north west Canada is sweeping the entire country, it was said. At 7 o'clock this morning the temperature was 26 degrees above zero in Indianapolis, a drop of 28 degrees in 24 hours. Weather Forecast MOORE'S LOCAL FORECAST Generally fair and decidedly cold tonight and Friday; near zero by Friday nic.ht. Generally fair and abnormally cold weather in the next 24 hours will be iaue lo tne settling soumwara or tne Canadian cold wave. Temperatures j near zero but Probably .above are in 1 Prospect for this vicinity. For Indiana, by the L'nited States Weather Bureau: Fair tonight and Friday; colder tonight; cold wave. Temperatures For Yesterday Maximum 56 Minimum 41 Today Noon ..... 26 Weather conditions: The center of

Rocky Mountain storm which caused j from Russia that the" Soviet governgeneral rains Wednesday has passed ment is in no danger of disappearing.

to the eastern states and the Canadian cold wave covers all the Mississippi states and portions of the Ohio valley. Heavy snows and blizzards in parts of Iowa, Nebraska and the Dakota s.' Eight inches of snowfall in Sioux City, la. Temperatures range from zero to 26 below, from Nebraska northward. Another storm is now entering the United States on the North Pacific coast. Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 11, 60S

Dail Eireann Adjourns Until Friday Morning After Holding Brief Morning and

Afternoon Sessions. SEEK COMMON BASIS 'By Associated Press) DUBLIN, Jan. 5 The Dail Eireann after holding brief morning and afternoon sessions today without making further progress in consideration of the Anglo-Irish treaty adjourned late this afternoon until tomorrow morning when it will meet in private session to hear the report of the unofficial committee which is trying to find a basis upon which an agreement might be reached. The Dail met this morning and im-j mediately adjourned until 3 o'clock,1 this afternoon. The adjournment was to give the members an opportunity of discussing o i a qcck Avgrccmcnx. One member of the Dail said shortly after the adjournment that an effort would be made to reach an agreement on the plan proposed the other day by Michael Collins that the opponents of the treaty should abstain from voting and permit the treaty to pass. The astonishment produced in the Dail Eireann by Eamonn DeValeraV sudden production of his alternative proposals to the peace treaty, and hi3 announced determination to move them as an amendment to the treaty at todays session, have turned into anxiety over the probable effect of this move on the further proceedings in the Dail. Mr. De Valera's right to move his proposals as an amendment has been challenged and it is possible that a critical division today may occur on the motion to enable him to carry out this plan. His opponents declare hei ,uu" ;""v", ",b prupobai the treaty Deeply Chagrined Supporters of ratification expressing themselves as deeply chagrined at the turn affairs have taken, see in De Valera's action an attempt to ral ly the extreme republicans to his side. while others profess to regard it as who sees his power slipping from his grasp. From the confusion caused by his launching what the followers of Arthur Griffith seem agreed to call Document No. 3,' it is difficult to (Continued on Page Three) 9 nnn i nF mimk UJU LUUL IIUIllLO IN TIMBER YARD BLAZE IN ENGLAND fBy Associated Press) WEST HARTLEPOOL, Enzland. Jan. 5. Scores of houses had been laid waste today, 2.000 people rendered homeless and more than 1,000,000 pounds sterling damage done by a fire which broke out yesterday in the timber yari here. Fanned by a strong gale the fire spread throughout the night and by this afternoon had covered approximately SO acres. LOCOMOTIVE BUILDER SAYS POLES FIRST TO RECOVER FROM WAR (By Associated Press) NEW YORK Jan. 5. Poland will be one of the first countries of central Europe to recover from the effects of the war, Francois de St. Phalls, vicepresident of the Baldwin Locomotive works, and president of the Polish chamber of commerce in New York, said today on his return from investigating conditions abroad. "My confidence in Poland," he de clared, is based on the good balance and quality of its natural resources and the industry of its people. "Beginning with the year 1922, she will have surplus food, oil, coal, textiles, steel and timber available for export. "President Pilsudsky said to me tn Warsaw: 'We have had all the war we want. We want peace. We want to go to work and develop our country as it has now been given to us. This generation wants to work in peace with all the world.' Knows Russia "Poland was the best informed about Russia of all the countries I found. I gained the impression, from numerou-t ; conversations with Poles just returned and that the future of Russia will be in the evolution of present government to suit the dictates and aspirations of the masses. "Future trade with Russia will de pend on the existence of a government which can be depended upon to honor its contracts and concessions, as the only possible, basis for trado will be the development of her natural resources, as she now has nothing to exchange." He said that while people are dying in the famine stricken Volga district, there is surplus food in the Ukrain, but the Ukrainian peasants can not be induced by his government to part with it, and keeps it hidden, saying the Volga can give him nothing that he really wants in return. v.

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. Mme. Liesel Schmiedek. In a recent beauty contest in Belgrade, Mme. Liesel Schmiedek was awarded the prize as the most beautiful woman in Jugo Slovakia. GREEK TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER EXPLODES; RECOVER 50 BODIES (By Associated Press) ATHENS, Jan. 5. Fifty bodies have been recovered from the Greek topedo boat destroyer, Leon, anchored in the harbor of Piraeus, which was wrecked yesterday by an explosion of a torpedo. The explosion damaged nearby worships and caused houses to collapse, killing a number of the inhabitants. CORRESPONDENT OF LONDON NEWSAPER KIDNAPPED IN DUBLIN BULLETIN DUBLIN, Jan.- 5 Announcement that the release of A. B. Kay, correspondent of the London Times, kidnapped from .Dublin yesterday and taken to Cork, might be expected shortly was made in a message from Cork received by Desmond Fitzgerald, minister of propaganda, this afternoon. (By Associated Press)" DUBLIN, Jan. 5 A. B. Kay, correspondent for the London Times, was ikidnapped iast nisht by three armed men while with other newspapermen in a grocery shop. There has been no j word of mm since his disappearance, j and no explanation of his seizure. The correspondents attending this morning's session of the Dail Eireann ! demanded his immediat-3 release and the punishment of his kidnappers. Kay's friends pointed to an article he wrote recently from Cork, saying that some of the leading fighting men of that city favored ratification of the Irish treaty, as a possible reason for his abduction. They said he was warned at that time to leave Cork on the threat that he be put in a vault with corpses and a candle " They were of the opinion he had been taken to Cork and that he might be returned here today. Expect Return. It was declared later that the kidnaping occurred during the afternoon and that it had been expected Kay would be returned by night, but that the night and the greater part of this forenoon had gone by without his reappearance. Kay and five other English newspaj per men were in the grocery, his ccmj panions said," when three armed men e.ntfr?d' preient revolver,s and carrlpu ou- lnpy promisea is.ay s companions, the latter declared, "to bring him back unharmed in the evening, warning them to say nothing in the meanwhile." Before the dail met the correspondents here held a meeting and formulated a protest to the dail authorities against the kidnapping. The American and Irish correspondents joined the English newspaper men in signing the protest. -After adjournment of the dail had been moved Desmond Fitzgerald rose to read the press protest against the kidnapping, but was overruled by the speaker, who declared the adjournment motion had been carried. KILL BANK PRESIDENT, WOUND TWO OTHERS, IN SECURING $12,000 (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Jan. 5. John Saffles, president of the Maywood state bank, was shot and killed and Louis Swee ney." chief of police of the suburb, and Artnur Benson, a bank messenger, were wounded when five bandits rob bed them of a $12,000 pay roll for the Maywood plant of the American Can company. The bandits did not give the banker and his two guards a chance to hold up their hands. They ordered the payroll car to stop and as it came to a halt opened fire, killing Sofflu almost immediately. Chief Sweeney was shot under the right arm and Benson in the side. The latter's injuries are serious. The entire robbery occupied less than three minutes. The robbers drove away with the money towards Chicago.

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Jan. 5. The agreement for an increase of Chinese tariff rates to be an effective five percent was adopted today by the nine conference powers sitting at a committee on Far Eastern questions. All of the eight powers approved the program for increasing Chinese revenues and ttft Chinese delegation ac-

oepted the report submitted by Senator Underwood, chairman of the subcommittee. The Far Eastern committee also adopted resolutions providing for eventual withdrawal of foreign troops . from China. Upon the request of China the resolutions provide the ministers at Peking of the eight powers will meet a committee of three Chinese to discuss the troop withdrawal question. Italy has decided to accept the second Root resolution prohibiting a tax by submarines on merchant ships provided the French delegation does the same, it was said in authoritative Italian circles. This decision made it possible to hold a session of the full naval committee today. Naval Meeting Called A meeting of the committee was called for this afternoon. It was con- . sidered possible that both the submarine regulation proposals and the draft of the naval treaty would be presented for approval to this meeting. Approval by all the powers having membership in the committee of tho proposed rules regulating use of submarines was forecast prior to the meeting, following the announcement that the Italian delegation had decided today to give its approval. The question whether the limitations imposed by the five power naval treaty now in process of formulation by the naval experts of the arms con ference delegationghould be imposed on a signatory if that nation is attacked by a formidable non-signatory power, took a prominrnt place today in informal discussion of the treaty. Suggest New Clause Some plenipotentiaries are suggesting still informally the inclusion of a clause which would automatically release the signatory in such cases from the limitations of the treaty. Another important suggestion recognized today as in the embryonic stage was that in case of aggression by an outside power, the five signatories would come together to consider the best means of securing a settlement. Such a "consultation" provision would be similar to Article Two of the f - ' zi ably would lead to considerable deiour power racinc treaty, and any ably would lead to considerable debate. It was considered possible that the drafting committee would find it necessary to seek further directions from the full naval committee before writing into the treaty a section of this nature. Shantung Question With all other problems of the arms conference rapidly moving toward tha point of final settlement, the Shantung negotiations between the Japanese and Chinese delegations alone today presented a dubious aspect as to whether their resumption is to result in agreement or a final deadlock. While the far eastern committee of the whole met today to take action on the decision of its subcommittee on the Chinese tariff question, the two delegations faced another meeting la their effort to settle the controversy which has developed over the modo of payment for the Kisochow-Tsinanfu railroad in the former German lease hold against merchant vessels. Italy alone remains to accept the proposition and it was believed a discussion by the full naval committee might take place late today. Cling to Positions. In the first meeting yesterday since the "conversations" were adjourned because of the deadlock over this issue there were no outward indications that either side had abandoned its former position on it. The meeting was held late in the day after the Japanese delegates had informed Secretary Hughes and Arthur J. Balfour, who through their observers who had been (Continued on Page Ten) SET WADMAN HEARING FOR SATURDAY, JAN. 14 Arguments on a motion to correct the accusation filed against Sheriff Carl Wadman will be heard Saturday, Jan. 14. at 9 o'clock in the morning, Judge Raymond S. Springer, of Connersville, ruled Thursday afternoon. Attorneys for the defense filed a motion Thursday morning asking that the accusation against the sheriff be divided into two paragraphs. Paul Beckett, attorney for the Etate, requested that he be given more time in which to look up legal points concerned. The defense argued in their motion that the sheriff had been charged with conflicting offenses. Judge Springer, commenting on the case, said that it was an interesting one, inasmuch as , it had no legal precedent. , Willard Carr to Enter Jones Hardware Company Willard Carr has resigned his position with the International Harvester company at Chicago and is to enter the Jones Hardware company of this city, according to word received here. Mr. and Mrs. Carr are expected to return to Richmond about the last of this month. ., ,