Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 26, 31 January 1922 — Page 1
E RICHMOND PAIXADITO VOL. XCII., No. 26 I'ailadlum. Kst. 131. Consolidated With Sun-Telegrram. 1907. RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING, JAN. 31, 1922. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS SETTLEMENT IS GRATIFYING TO PRESIDENT Harding Feels that Agreement on Shantung Controversy Important Accomplishment of Conference. Rescuers Digging Into Debris in the Interior of the Knickerbocker Theater After Catastrophe Showing Damage Wrought by Collapse EARTHQUAKE IS REPORTED; SHOCK SEVERE Instruments at Washington,, Chicago, Denver and San Francisco Record Intense Tremor Direction South,
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(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. Much gratification that the Shantung con troversy had been settled was express ed today at the White House where officials said President Harding felt that the agreement reached was one of the important accomplishments of ihe Washington negotiation. The White House comment was the first official expression confirming formally that the Japanese and Chinese had reached a complete accord, although it had been generally indicated that they were virtually in agreement. Settlement by the Japanese and Chinese of the long-debated Shantung question and final agreement on the text of the five-power naval limitation treaty, had brought the Washington conference very near to the conclusion of its labors today, with some of the delegates expecting to be on their homeward journeys possibly by the end of the week. Settle Details Prediction that the last details of the plan for restoring to China of Shantung province would be settled at today's meeting was made by Dr. Koo of the Chinese delegation following an agreement reached last night between the Japanese and Chinese covering all principles required as a basis for disposal of the Tsingtao-Tainanfu railroad question. The basis of settlement is understood to have been the compromise plan supported by President. Harding. Meantime the naval committee of the whole was meeting today to give final approval to the text of the naval treaty as completed yesterday by agreement in the naval committee of 15 on the Pacific fortifications article. The treaty tomorrow will be announced to the world at a plenary session of the conference. Clean Up Work. The Far Eastern committee at the same time had been called in session ... . . i.today to clean up the collateral issues i now remaining in that Held, wnicn. with Shantung out or the way, was expected to take but a few days. It was the expectation of conference officials tiit. another plenary session would be called tomorrow afternoon, following that for the naval announcement to permit formal ratification of the dozen or more resolutions relating to China which have now received committee approval only. The fortifications article, which has been holding up completion of the naval pact for several weeks, was setiled yesterday by an agreement under which the fortifications "status quo" in the Pacific is to include the American Aleutian islands a part of Alaska as well as the Bonin island group of Japan. NAOMI HARRISON JAY
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Word has been received here by IMwin Jay of the death of his mother, Mrs. Naomi Harrison Jay, widow of 'lie late Allen Jay. which occurred Tuesday mornins; at 5:30 o'clock in Whittier, Cal. The body will be brought, here for burial. Funeral artiingenients will be announced later. Mrs. Jay was a prominent person in 'In' city many years aso and is known u the older residents of Richmond.! She was a well known member of the i Friends affairs. She also attended' 1'arlham college when a young woman. Ilel'ore her marriage she was Naomi Morgan. Mrs. Jay had been residing in Whittier for the past in years, having been a re.-ident of this city, previous to goi ii tr there. She is survived by three 'laughters. Mrs. Anna H. Unman, of Whittier. Cal.. formerly Anna Han-j
hiii, ot this citv, who was at one time! riiviicsn superintendent or Reid Memorial hos-!vvhich is affecting injuriously the Pital: Mrs. Clifford Johnson, also of hole industrial fabric of the ration," Whittier, Cal.. and Mrs. Stephen Mv- Mr. Schwab said. "Fluctuations in rick, of Hollywood. Cal. Two sons! foreign exchange are playing havoc sunive her: Thomas and Timothv with wages, prices and orders. Be-
Ilarrison, both of Indianapolis, and one stepson, Edwin Jay, of this city. SIX MEN ARE KILLED IN MINE EXPLOSION V,y AssnHrttot Prosp) PI NEVILLE. Ky.. Jan. 31. The dath toll of the explosion last night in the Layman-Calloway company'-; mine at Layman, near hfre, today reached six when the bodies of the two entombed men. John Martin and his son, James, were found by rescuprs. Two others injured in the explosion are in a serious condition in a hospital here
Others dead are Ben Rapier. Rulm, Ky., Karl Hampton and A. (i. Bussell, Straight Creek, Ky. and Willie May, Fourmouth. Ky. George Hampton, father of Earl Hampton, and Joe Dell. Fourmouth. are injured. The names of the missing could not be obtained. Officials here of the company left early today for the scene of the accident. Pending investigation, thty would not express an opinion as to whether gas or powder caused the rc- ' 1 cident. fv- Insofar as has been determined, nly the night crew of eight to ten men was in the mine at the time of the explosion. Their duty was to clean ,up and get ready for the day's , ciieration3.
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YON, FARM CHOSEN FOR (Uy Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Jan. 31. Senator Kenyon. of Iowa, announced today he would accept the nomination as federal judge for the eighth district, tendered to him by President Harding and sent to the senate. The senate soon after receiving the nomination, confirmed it in open ex ecutive session, an honor rarely paid j to nominees. The Iowa senator, who is one of the leaders of the senate, and chairman of the agricultural bloc of that body, in a formal statement issued upon receipt of his nomination by the senate, expressed appreciation of the president's action, which he said would enable him to achieve his ambition to serve on the federal bench. Every Senator Stands The motion to confirm the Iowa senator was made by his colleague. Senator Cummins, and when Senator Curtis of Kansas, presiding at the time, called for a vote on advising firmation that he would be unable to leave Washington to take up his now U. S. VALUATION PLAN HOPE OF PROSPERITY, IS SCHWAB'S OPINION (Bv Associated Tress) WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. No tariff bill will build a foundation for pros- ' . 1 . -j. .-.......;.)..-. n alual1'-"1 " ,ri"rui '" our present taws wnicn tne uncus tions in foreign exchange have torn! in it," Charles M. Schwab of New Yorkl declared in a letter read today before I the tariff convention here of the National Associations of Manufacturers, by J. E. Edgerton, president of '.he association. "Today we are confronted with a cause our present tariff laws were framed at a time when foreign moneys were normal, they are today actually inoperative as far as protecting labor and industry or yielding revenue are concerned. To Aid People Congress is struggling to enact a tariff bill which will enable us as a people and a nation to work for ourselves, our country and the world, but no tarriff will build a foundation for prosperity, which does not remedy the hole in our present laws. which the fluctuations in exchange have lorn. "We have American standards in everything but our tariff. Today in my opinion the hour has come when we should put American standards in our taritt laws, ine simple ann eri fP, tive way of doing this is by substituting American standards of value for the present archaic standards of foreign values." Steals Dog, Feather Duster; Is Given Life Sentence (By Associated Press MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 31. Louis Hacker, who lives near Plainfield, was sentenced to the Indiana state prison for life yesterday, but Judge Bain suspended sentence. The man pleaded guilty to stealing a do-; and a feather duster from Chris Goo 1night, a farmer living north of Martinsville. It was brought out that Hacker is 48 years old and has served 1 22 years in prison.
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FEDERAL duties for a week or 10 days. He expected, he added, to examine senatorial precedent to determine whether after the confirmation he may yet vote. POLICE TO ENFORCE AUTOMOBILE LAWS; NEW MACES ARRIVE Tuesday, Jan. 31, is the last day of grace for motorists who have failed to comply with various laws relating to new license plates, dimmers and i certificates of title, and strict enforce ment of these laws will be the rule starting Wednesday, said Chief Eversman Tuesday. One city official, who was present in police headquarters at the time the chief of police was laying down the law, said: "By George! 1 haven't got my car fixed up yet." Police of this city will be amply equipped to. enforce the law from now on, judging from a shipment received in the station Tuesday morning. Shiny new badges for members of the force and the police commissioners at tracted some attention, but more interest centered in the two dozen new night sticks received at the same time. The sticks are made of second growth hickory, are attractively carved and present an excellent appearance. No new nisrht sticks have been ordered for four years, it was stated to day. The new clubs will be issued to the men as they are needed. DUPED MRS. BURKETT WITH T.R, SIGNATURE, PRISONER DECLARES (By Associated Press) NEWPORT, Ind., Jan. 31 A man signing his name as Guy Covel, has written Sheriff Lewis Sweet, of Vermilion county, that Mrs. Emma R. Burkett is not guilty of forging the late Theodore Roosevelt's name to a note for $69,900. According to the letter Covel impersonated Colonel Roosevelt, signed his name and got the money. Mrs. Burkett recently was convicted in New York city of forgery in connection with the case. Covel, who said he is now serving a term in a New York prison, declared he had been a rough rider and had worked for Mr. Burkett while living in Danville, 111. He said he greatly resembled Mr. Roosevelt and often had forged the former president's name to passes. He said Mrs. Burkett had no idea she was duped. 12 BUILDINGS BURN; DAMAGE IS $250,000 (By Associated Press) CLAYSVILLE, Pa., Jan. 31. Fire which started from an overheated stove in a store this morning spread so rapidly that within two hours a dozen- buildings had been destroyed, i ( l A all v 1111. 'v x v. " v ' . ' Help was brought from Washington, 10 miles away, to fight the fire. HAWAIIAN WOMAN ACCEPTS i POSITION OF HUSBAND, HONOLULU, Jan. 31 Princess Kalaniarsole has accepted the position on the Hawaiian rehabilitation com-. mission made vacant by the death of ( her husband, it was announced today. "
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GREENFIELD WOMAN HELD IN JAIL WHILE INVESTIGATION MADE (By Associated Pres) GREENFIELD, Ind., Jan. 31. While Mrs. Clara Gibson Carl is under arrest here on two indictments ciiarged with the murder of her second husband, Frank Carl, and her father-in-law, A. B. Carl, Hancock county nuthoritter are "iHYestigating the death of the woman's first husband, Robert M. Gibson.
Waldo Ging, prosecuting attorney, today announced Gibson's body has been ordered disinterred from its burial place in Springfield, Ohio, and sent to Indianapolis for examination. Mrs. Carl was arrested Saturday when the grand jury returned the first indictment charging her with the murder of her father-in-law. The second indictment charging her with the murder of her second husband was returned yesterday. The 'body of Carl and his son, were recently exhumed at Hiawatha, Kans., and returned to Indianapolis, where chemists examination is alleged to have shown a quantity of arsenic in both bodies. STRIKE OUT PART OF DEBT MEASURE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. A provision in the allied debt refunding bill' '- which would have given the proposed) debt commission authority to adjust and settle all claims the United States hereafter may have against any foreign government, was stricken out today by the senate. Weather Forecast MOORE'S LOCAL FORECAST Partly cloudy tonight; Wednesday rain or snow. The western storm which has been threatening this vicinity for the past 48 hours has lost energy, still conItinues to move slowly eastward now being trough shaped, and extending from Lake Superior southward to the Gulf. However under its influence, precipitation in the form of rain or snow or maybe both is indicated for Wednesday. For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Increasing cloudiness followed by rain in south and rain or snow in north portion late tonight and Wednesday; warmer in northeast tonight. Temperatures For Yesterday. Maximum 44 Minimum 21 Today. Noon 44 Weather conditions Generally fair weather persists from the eastern Great Lakes, southward to the Ohio valley. Unsettled weather continues over the states adjacent to the Mississippi river with rains in the sout't. A severe cold wave prevails over the northwest. Temperatures 26 below at Havre, Mont., 22 below at Medicine Hat and zero in western Nebraska. An intense storm is moving eastward from the Pacific coast, causing heavyrains over Califarnia, rains and snows i over the southern Rocky mountain mateau Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 11,617
INVESTIGATION IS PUSHED WHILE CAPITAL BURIES DEAD
(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. While the city began the burial of its dead t. day, District of Columbia authorities pushed their investigation of the Knickerbocker theatre disaster. Action on the resolution offered in the senate by Senator CappeTT of Kansas, providing for an investigation by that body, of the disaster, probably will be delayed a day or two. Resolution has been reported favorably by the senate audit and control committee, but may be referred to the District of Columbia committee, before it is called upon the floor. Members of the District of Columbia committee, it was stated, desire to make a survey of contemplated action by the district authorities, before supporting the Capper inquiry. The condition of Edward H. Shaughnessy, second assistant postmaster general, who with his wife and two daughters, were in the crash, was described as ereatly improved today. 97 Death Total Ninety-seven persons, according to a final and official list, issued today by the District of Columbia authorities, lost their lives in the collapse Saturday night under a burden of snow of the Knickerbocker theatre roof. Any additions to the death list would result from the fatal termination of injuries sustained by other victims. Of the total of 133 injured. 62 remained in hosnita!s todav. with a dozen reported in critical condition. E. H. Shaughnessy, second assistant postmaster general, although included among tnose, was saia to ue sun showing improvement today. In addition to an exhaustive investigation of the disaster being pressed by the District of Columbia commissioners, the federal grand jury, which visited the scene of the catastrophe yesterday as the first step in its investigation, was ready today to call the first witnesses in its effort to fix the blame. The coroner's jury, also investigatDECLARES HIGH RENT OUTSTANDING FACTOR IN COST OF LIVING CHICAGO, Jan. 31. The outstanding factor in the high cost of living is the continual rise without any reduction in rent, Magnus W. Alexander, managing director of the national industrial conference board of NewYork, told members of the Illinois manufacturers' association here today. "If the millions of workers and their families really want decent living quarters at a living price, they must insist thvt their co-workers in the building trade, coal mines and transportation activities, come down from their artificial war wages and improve their working efficiency as well as all other workers have to do," he said. "The workers of this country. by insisting on wage deflation in the l . , preferent al classes have it in the r power to reduce rent." Chamber of Commerce Directors Announced Chamber of Commerce members held election of the board of directors and the votes were tallied at a meeting in the chamber rooms Tuesday night. The following is the list of persons who were elected to membership on the board: A. G. Matthews, E. R. Churchell, J. L. Dolan, Robert Huen, William H. Romey, Lloyd E. Harter, Jesse Bailey, Forest Monger, J. H. Hill, Ethel Clark, Mrs. F. S. Bates and Sarah Hill.
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ing the cause of the deaths had requested the war department today to assign army engineers to make a study of the structure of the motion picture theatre which was wrecked Saturday night when its snow laden roof caved in on hundreds in the audience below. Preparations to raise the walls of the theatre were underway today, the search of the ruins for victims having been completed yesterday. Col. Charles Keller, engineer commissioner of the district held the opinion today, after a personal survey of the wreckage, that the collapse of the roof was caused by a defect in material and not by a fault of design. Building Commissioner Healy also believed that plans for the roof were practical and sound. He said it was of the truss type of construction and a standard design used to cover a large expanse of interior where it is desired to avoid the use of girders and columns as supports.. Practically all of the larger motion picture houses use the same design, he said. VOTE TO END STRIKE OF PACKING WORKERS OUT SINCE DEC. 5 (By Associated Press) OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 31 More than 1,000 striking members of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher worKmen of North America at a union mass meeting last night voted to call off the strike effective in local packing plants since Dec. 5. The resolution ending the walkout was passed almost unanimously according to local leaders. "Conditions in other packing centers as well as in Omaha are such that the continuation of the present strike would serve no good purpose but would on the other hand, work an injury and cause unnecessary suffering on the part of a great number of workers," declared Jacob H. Davis, president of District council number five of the union in reading the resolution concellin gthe walkout. Many of the strikers applied for work at the plants Monday morning, it was declared at the meeting. A recent referendum on calling off the strikers showed workers throughout the country overwhelmingly against such a step. THEATRE1 ROOFS HERE MEET REQUIREMENTS Theatre roofsi of this city were thoroughly inspected by competent author ities when the buildings were put up,! and fire exits-were elso- passed upon' at that time. said. J., Ed.Higgs, build-j ing inspector, Tuesday. He had beeni asked if theatres of this city would be ! . . .... - . . j "l . .-iC,.i.. i.uhis.uh. All necessary requirements of the state law had been met in the erection of local theatres according to him. and there is no provision for periodic inspection of roofs after the building has been put up Shortly after the Iroquois theatre disaster in Chicago all theatre buildings in Richmond were inspected with a view to preventing similar disasters here, it was said Tuesday. According to Ed. Higgs, city building inspector, Richmond roofs are constructed to stand 25 pounds pressure per square . foot. He said that two feet of snow under ordinary conditions means a weight of from six to seven pounds per square foot.
PROBABLY IN MEXICO
(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. An earthquake of great Intensity probably 2,500 to 2,600 miles south of Washington was registered today at the Georgetown seismographical observatory. The quake began about 8:25 a. in. and 10 minutes later had become so pronounced as to throw the registering needle off the scale. The quake also was registered on the seismograph of the weather bureau. Officials describing it as monstrous. Rev.; Francis Tondorf, director of the Georgetown seismographical observatory and one of the foremost earthquake authorities In the world said the earthquake was enormous. Dr. W. J. Humphreys, the weather bureau's earthquake specialist reported at 11 o'clock that it was continuing, but had greatly diminished in intens ity. Officials at the weather bureau later said the worst of the tremors ceased at 9:45 a. m. They made a rough estimate that southern Mexico was the center of the disturbance. CHICAGO, Jan. 31. An unusuallv severe earthquake was recorded on the seismograph at the University of Ch; cago this morning. The first wave was recorded at 7.23 a. m.. and it was followed by another at7:32 a. m. The distance was approximately 1,970 miles from Chicago. DENVER, Col., Jan. 31. The seismograph at Regis college here tod?y registered the most severe earthquake recorded in the last 15 years, according to Father Forestall. The disturbance was estimated by Father Foiestall to be approximately 1,500 miles south of Denver. The shock was even greater that that registered here at the time of the San Francisco earthquake. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31. Earthquake shocks w-ere felt early today along the Pacific coast from San Francisco to the Canadian line, according to reports heceived here. No damage was reported. LAST CHANCE TO SEE EXHIBIT WEDNESDAY The 25th annual exhibition of Indiana artists now hanging in the Public Art gallery will be on view for the last time Wednesday evening when the gallery is open from 7 until 9 o'clock. It will be taken down Thursday. The exhibit is said to be the best Indiana exhibit which has been held in the gallery during the 25 years they have been shown, and the work of several new painters, who have never been represented here be fore Is included in it. It is representative of the variety of Indiana art and represents the achievements of the best Hoosier artists. A number of the excellent pictures which comprise the exhibit are to remain here, having been purchased by local residents, and one by its merits received a place in the permanent gallery collection through winning the Mary T. R. Foulke purchase fund prize. Persons who have not seen the exhibition are urged to visit the gallery when it is open Wednesday from 8 until 5 and in the evening from 7 until 9 o'clock. SAYS SCHOOL HACK USED TO HAUL HQGS (Bv Associated Press -. INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 31. A hack used in Huntington county for school children also is used for hauling hogs to market, according to C. W. Fry. Huntington county health commissioner, who has asked Dr. J. N. Hurty "what measures should I take to prevent this hog hauling situation?" The hogs, according to Mr. Fry ara brought to market in the hack at 3 p. m. and within an hour the hack H used to take children to their homes. "I should like," said Dr. Hurty In announcing the situation "to organize missionary societies in Indiana to bring some Christianity, common sense and decency, into the counties of the state, where children are treated as brutally as they evidently are in this case." A formal answer to Mr. Fry's letter. Dr. Hurty said, would be made later. PROTESTS DECISION TO MEET BOLSHEVIK (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Jan. 31. The PriArnur government of Russia, in a noto sent today to Secretary Hughes by Foreign Minister Kolesnikoff, a member of the special delegation now in Washington, protested against the decision of European nations to meet with Russian Bolshevik envoys at Genoa, and asserted that Ihe Russian people will never recognize any agreements contracted with and by Eolshevics. "The principle of moral trusteeship set forth in the statement of your excellency also your declaration' of March 21. 1921.-