Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 32, 7 February 1922 — Page 1

ABIUM LJl LI J VOL. XCII., No. 32 Pallaillum, Kst. 1831. Consolidated With Sun-Telegram. 1907. RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING, FEB. 7, 1922. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS

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ARMS TREATY IS DEATH OF SEA MASTERY England Yields Naval Dominance Never Before Relinquished by a Power Except Through Battle. HUGHES TOINTS WAY

By MARK SIM.1VAV WASHINGTON'. D. C, Fob. 7. Just as the conference on disarmament began -we gave General Foch 29 college degrees a baby wildcat, and an honorary membership in the New York Bicklayer's Union, and almost any day here In Washington you can see a score of generals going about the street bowed down under the weight of half a ton of metal more or less, in shape of crosses, crescents, stars, bars and other miscellaneous forms of what those among them who have a sense of humor occasionally call "decorative hardware." But in a day or so I suppose, we shall see Charles E. Hughes quietly taking a boat to Bermuda for a rest, dressed in a black sack suit, a good deal less ornamental than that of the assistant purser. As some one remarked at the session yesterday, "its all over, but the shouting, and I suppose there won't be any shouting." Glamor of Peace. This is not as it should be. I know a very wise person who has given much thought to war and its causes. He says we shall have to find some way either to take the glamor away from war or else to give glamor to the victories of peace. The persons and organizations, the churches and colleges, who three months ago were most usefully building up a favorable atmosphere for this conference through prayer and other forms of organized spiritual effort, ought now to put their minds on finding some way of making what has now been accomplished as striking, as glamorous If you please, and as long remembered, as, let us say, the armistice day ceremony of last November. Perhaps the formal sinking of the ships, ir they are to be literally sunk, may provide the opportunity. Time Will Tell How great a thing this conference is has so often been said that it is useless to say it again In mere generalities. For complete realization we shall probably have to wait for time and. perhaps, for generations of fulfillment. But it can be taken as a fact that there are in these treaties not merely one but several factors, each of whim standing alone, is a turning point in human history. One thing so far lost sight of that it is hardly even mentioned is the fact that through one of those treaMes Great Britain surrenders the undisputed mastery of the seas. It is true she is not stripped of it by force: but, voluntarily, in the interest of a new order in the world, admits an equal partner. That this happens through the processes of conference docs not deprive it of the fact that this conference thus becomes the equivalent of any of .he great decisive sea battles of "history. Dominance Divided Dominance on the sea is no longer, as it always has been in the past, the possession of a single power. It is now handed over to a mutual partnership of nations. The mastery of the sea which Eritian now, bo to speak, I urns over to trustees, has been within her sole possession for two hundred years. Before that Holland had it, and before that Spain and Portugal, and so on all the way back to Tyre. Always there was one power dominant on the sea, and never did it pass except through battle, until February 6. That Is one of the larger factors in the treaties. There are several more. It would be easy to feel irritated with Ihose who, either through ignorance of the past, or want of imagination about the future, fail to estimate this conference at Its true height. Simplicity Noticeable In the mere minutiae of the conference, in its mere mechanism, so to speak, there was one thing that was not less than an outstanding example of sheor genius. That was the selection of the formula for ending competition in naval armament. Tt was the simplicity and concreteness of this formula that produced the results. Balfour knows this, and has said so. That Hughes also thinks so can be taken for granted from several things he has said, although his personal relation to it may restrain him from saying so directly. When I his conference w as first proposed the naval experts of the various nations were set to work to make ( Continued on Page Nine)

LIVE STOCK RECEIVES BETTER CARE THAN CHILDREN, OPINES MRS, ELIZABETH STANLEY

lUITOX. Intl., Fell. 7 People are giving better medical attention to their live stock than to their children, . declared Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley in a characterization of "Modern Foolishness" at the first annual farmers' institute here Monday. Strange as it may seem, she asserted, city children are physically stronger and better fed than their brothers and sisters in the country. "You have veterinaries to look after your pigs, why not do as much for your children?" she asked. "We always keep our children warmly clothed," she said, "until they get old enough to think they don't tu-ed clothes any longer, and then ?i they go out with bart knees, bare arms and bare throats, to sell Red Cross stamps for consumption cures." As a result of one reform obtained by a city club, she cited the abolition of French heels "that made the girls walk like a chicken on a hot griddle."

Wants Diplomatic Post

.-.'vx :-.. ... . . Miss Lucille Atchison. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 7. "And why shouldn't a woman aspire to a diplomatic post? She is in every sense eligible. She is a citizen, a voter and experience has proved to the men what women themselves always knew, that, given an opportunity, they could adequately fill administrative and executive positions." It is this creed which is supporting Miss Lucille Atchison in her effort to be the first woman enrolled in the American diplomatic service. She i3 modest in her aspirations, as she Is seeking only the post of fourth secretary. Although only 26 she has gone through a long course of preparations, both In study and experience, and has i no fear of failing to qualify in the ex amination. To take part in such an examination she studied last summer in the Georgetown university. Sh n Simirh ('ill loco rr.-rwl 1 1 'i f - ....... . . v "i4 P1 f i tin uii r auu has done post-graduate work in the Lniversity of Ohio, and the University of Chicago. She was general secretary for the Society for Devastated France, serving four years abroad in this capacity, and she feels this has taught her a thousand ways in which a secretary in an American embassy can serve her fellow citizens, especially women. TWO BILLIONS NEEDED FOR BONUS EXPENSE, OFFICIALS ESTIMATE (Bv Associated Preas) WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 The.. ..soldiers' bonus would cost the federal government approximately $2,500,000,000, on the basis of estimates prepared for the house ways and means committee by fiscal officers of the army, navy and marine corps. This total is predicated upon the assumption that 50 per cent of the men who served with the army, and 7." ppr cent of those who saw service with th navy and murine corps will take cash. American Legion officers have estimated that not more than half of th army men would elect the cash provision, and they took issue today before the committee with navy and marine corps officers, who figured that 75 per cent of the men who served in those services would elect to take money. Other Estimates Captain Phillip Williams, of the navy bureau of navigation, and Major R. B. Putnam, assistant paymaster of the marine corps, estimated that only 2 per cent of the navy and marine corps veterans would elect to take vocational training; that 10 per cent would take the insurance certificates; (Continued on Page Twelve) JONES DECLINES JOB TO SUCCEED WARFEL (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 7. John Jones, former mayor of Brazil, announced today that he would not ac cept appointment as chief clerk of the oil inspection department. No announcement was made by Governor McCray, who offered the position to Mr. Jones, whether another would be selected to succeed Edward Warfel, of Richmond, as clerk. "The position is more clerical than either the governor or myself had thought," said Mr. Jones, in announcing his non-acceptance of the clerkship, after he and I. L. Miller, state food and drug commissioner, had conferred with the governor. The appointment rests with Mr. Miller, who had been told by the governor to replace Mr. Warfel, an appointee of the Goodrich administration. "We farmers should see that our children get as good an opportunity and as good care as the city children," said the speaker. "During the last seven years chambers of commerce, medical bodies and other organizations have given so much attention lo improvement of health conditions in the cities that they have far outstripped us. Cites Tuberculosis Deaths "As an example, we had 30,000 tubercular patients In Indiana last year, and the majority were in the country. The majority of the 3,151 deaths were in the country also. "An examination of 10,000 city children and 10,000 country children, the results of which have just been compiled, show that country children have 48 percent of tooth defects against 33 percent in the city, 28 percent diseased tonsils against 16 percent in the city, (Continued on Page Five)

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VER CHOICE OFJIUS XI Believe New Pontiff's Influence May Heal Long Standing Breach Between Church and State. CORONATION ON FEB. 12 (By Associated Press) ROME, Feb. 7. The Vatican today began to resume its usual brilliance, eclipsed by the death of Benedict XV In preparation for the coronation of the new pope, Pius XI on Feb. 12. The pontifical household was being set in order, and the rooms used by the conclave during the election will soon assume their normal appearance. All Italy, judging from the messages received at the Holy See, seems full of joy that Pius XI sits on the throne of St. Peter. All predict from his first apostolic "benediction that the breach between the church and trfe state will be healed during the present pontificate. Recall Utterance. The pontiff's position in this regard as summed up in a speech which he delivered when installed last summer as Archbishop of Milan, is now being widely quoted. He then said: "It is. above all, abroad that one sees and feels how the pope constitutes the greatest dignity and prestige for Italy. Through him all the millions of Catholics in the whole world turn to Italy as a second fatherland. Through him Rome is truly the capital of the world. "One would have to close his eyes not to see the prestige and advantages our country derives by his presence. Then international weight is considered he is super-nationally sovereign. All nations recognize in him a divine institution. We Catholics of Italy who by divine ordination have the care of him are responsible in honor before the Catholics of the whole world." Expect Few Changes. Pius XI Is occupied with the preparation of long lists of the prelates who will surround him as the spiritual head of 300,000,000 persons. There are unlikely to be very radical changes in the pontifical household since Cardinal Gasparri retains his post as secretary of state, and many of Benedict's appointees are certain to be reinstated. I An army of workmen was busy in me vaucan today, re-establishing the offices, ante-rooms and audience chambers, and the beds, tables, chairs and wash-stands used for the conclave were being returned, to the. hospitals and colleges from which they were secured. Within a day or two all will be as usual ;the ambassadors will be making their calls on the new pontiff and the flowing robes of the prelates and uniforms of the diplomats again will be in evidence. First Statement. Prince Chigi-Albani, the marshal of the conclave, by order of the secretary of state of the conclave, issued the following: "His holiness Pope Pius XI. while making every reservation in favor of the inviolable rights of the church and the Holy See, which rights he has sworn to defend, has given his first blessing from the exterior balconv overlooking the square of St. Peter's in the special intention that his blessing should be addressed not only to those in Rome and Italy but to all nation? and all peoples, and should bring to the whole world the wish and announcement of that universal pacification we all so ardently desire." NEW YORK. ib 7.-A pledge of devotion from the 600.000 members of the Knights of Columbus in the United States, Canada, New Foundland Cuba and Mexico, will be delivered to the new pope, Pius XI, by a special representative of the organization. Edward L. Hearn, of this citv, announced today he would sail Saturday for Italy, where he is to direct the proposed Knights of Columbus welfare work program. Before taking up these duties he will visit the Vatican and present the pledge, it was announced. Expressions of fealt I . j me ui ; ganizatlon already have iien uo,if m ithe pope through Cardinal Casparri, ! wiioiH supreme Knight James A I Flaherty of the Knights of Columbus (cabled, asking that the tribute be laid . before Plus XI in the name of the organization's members WORLD'S CHURCHME WILL HELP PRESERVE ARMS PARLEY RESULT NEW YORK, Feb. 7. Churchmen from all parts of the world will be asked to organize international religions forces to help preserve the results of the Washington armament conference when American delegates go to Copenhagen next August to a big International religious conclave. This was announced by Mr. Henrv A. Atkinson, a passenger on the Aquitenia today on his way to confer with European branches of the World church alliance. Dr. Atkinson is general secretary of the World Alliance for Internationa) Friendship through the churches. NEW YORK, Feb. 7. Diplomats and officials of various nations gathered here today to bid farewell to many notable figures in international affairs sailing on the steamship Aqui tania. for Southampton and Charbourg. Among the passengers was Arthur J. Balfour, head of the British delegation to the armament conference. In his party were Lord Lee cf Fareham, first lord of the admiralty, and Lady Lee; Rear Admiral Sir. i Chatfieldg and Lieutenant Colonel M. I

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Children of Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt. They are Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., 6 years old; Willard Roosevelt, who is 4, and Belle Wyatt Roosevelt, 2.

ME-OW! SHE DYED CATS NEW YORK, Feb. 7 Miss Margaret Owen, 22 years old, a singer, has her freedom today because she promised Magistrate Hatting that she will never again dye her cats to harmonize with her house draperies or the vivid-hued clothing she wears. Miss Owen was haled before the magistrate when agents of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals testified she had dyed a valued pet feline blue to match draperies in her home. The animal died, witnesses testified. "If I consent to be lenient," said Magistrate Hatting, "I want you to go back to Florida and stop dyeing cats." She promised. REPUBLICAN LEADERS CONFIDENT OF VICTORY AT THE FALL ELECTIONS TAI.I,TmI XEAVS DtREVr WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. Being the party In power the Republicans have entered the campaign this year for a continuance of their control of congress on the defensive. Members of the Republican national committee and of the Republican congressioal committee express confidence, however, that the fall elections will result in another endorsement of Republican policies. While they are predicting that the G. O. P. will retain its control of congress it is hardly probable that any of the party leaders expect the Republican majorities in both branches of the next congress will be as large as the majorities in this congress. The Republican organizr.tion is basing its confidence in the outcome of the battle at the polls next November on its plan for persistent distribution of information, through the press, the (Continued on Page Five) Weather Forecast MOORE'S LOCAL FORECAST. Fair and continued cold tonight; Wednesday fair with rising temperature. The cold wave central over the upper Mississippi valley and western lake region will cause continued low temperature tonight followed by general moderation beginning after sunrise Wednesday, and probably will continue to moderate Thursday. Fai" weather will continue for the next hours. For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau, Fair tonight and Wednesday: colder in northeast portion tonight; rising temperature Wednesday. Temperatures for Yesterday. Maximum :u Minimum 27 Today. Noon 23 Weather Conditions The central, north and eastern portions of the United States are now- covered with temperatures below normal, due to the cold wave central over the western lake region, wiih temperature r low as 20 below in portions of the northern states. It is considerablv warmer over western Canada. Montana and northern Rocky mountain region, due to a decided fall in barometric pressure, over western Canada. It remains very cool for the latitude over the southern states General snow over the northeast, central and eastern states and general rains over the South Atlantic coast, elsewhere mostly fair. A storm in the far northwest is causing unsettled weather in that district. Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 11,565

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MISSING BUTLER STILL ELUDES POLICE NET

(By Associated Press LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7 Police announced today that no warrant on a murder charge has been issued against Edward F. Sands, former butler, and declared to be the most important witness, sought in connection with the mysterious murder Wednesday night of William Desmond Taylor, noted motion picture director, also known as William Cunningham Deane-Tanner. The search for Sands, alias Edward i Fitz Strathmore, leaped early today from Los Angeles to Carlin and Elko, Nevada. Officers in the two Nevada cities, supplied with all data possible to give them by telephone were reported in readiness to take into custody a man believed to be Sands and thought to have been hiding in Carlin until an opportunity came"Tdf" him to board an eastbound train at Elko. The suspecions of Constable Beming at Carlin. were aroused when he learned that the man under surveillance at that point planned to board the train today at Elko. He communicated w ith the Los Angeles police and the latter sent, a description of Sands to him and to Sheriff Harris at Elko. The police were hopeful Constable 3 DEAD725 INJURED" IN RICHMOND FIRE; LOSS IS $150,000 (F!v Associated Press) RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 7. Three persons are known to be dead and at least 25 injured in a fire here early today which destroyed the Lexington hotel and several adjoining buildings, with a loss estimated at $150,000. A wall at the fire escape collapsed, and it is believed to have entombed several persons. Many were Injured by leaping from windows. The flames quickly spread to the Savings bank of Richmond, the Pearl laundry, the Co-operative Exchange, the Anderson-Wilson Paper company plant, and the Clyde W. Saunders printing plant, all of which were badly damaged. Two Dead Identified Two of the dead are M J. Fox. Williamsport. Pa., neck broken, and Hiram F. Austin, Fincastle, Va., who died cn the way to the hospital. J. N. Thomas, sheriff of Albemarle county, Virginia, was among those also reported dead. Among the injured were: William O. Bailey, New York, badly burned about the face; Paul Bigone. New York, fractured hip; William P. Little, Portsmouth, Va., and J. H. Webb, Fincastle, Va. Belief was expressed that most of rhe unaccounted for later would be found. David H. Pitts, member of the Virginia house of delegates, who lived at the hotel, was seriously injured in jumping from a window of the structure, which at one time was one of the leading hostelnes of Richmond. Of the 67 guests reported registered at the hotel, 28 were unaccounted for this morning. ATGHELOR SEEKING PAROLE FROM PRISON (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 7. Parole' of Russell Batchelor, sentenced from Wayne county Sept. 21, 1920, to two to 21 years imprisonment for rape, will be considered by the state pardon! I bourd at its meeting Feb. 13 to 17. He is now at the Michigan City prison. MRS. BLANCHE BURKE DEAD (By Associated Press) HASTINGS, N. Y., Feb. 7. Mrs. Blanche Burke died today at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Florenz Ziegfield (Miss Billie Burke). She was born in New Orleans, but had made her home here for the last 15 yeajs.

Berning's suspicions might prove of consequence, as they have stated they believed Sands could solve the enigma of Taylor's slaying. Thinking possibly that the butler feared prosecution upon the grand larceny charge preferred against him last summer by Taylor, the police announced that it would not be pressed .(Continued on Fage Four) HARDINGTOORDER CESSATION OF WORK ON NEW WARSHIPS (Cv Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Feb. 7. President Harding will order suspended all w ork on vessels now building which are destined for the scrap heap under the naval treaty, but will issue no final order for discontinuance of the work until the treaty is actually ratified, it was said today at the White House. The president, it was stated, already has ordered suspension of work on additional fortifications on the island of Guam and likewise further developments undr way in the Philippine Islands, taking his action in view of the clause of the naval treaty fixing the status quo for those Pacific inlands of ti'e United Statts. Send Treaties to Senate. The treaties resulting from the arms conference, it was said at the White House, are expected to be sent to the senate tlp last of this week, although this will depend on submission of the report of the American delegation to the president. Mr. Harding, it was added, has not yet decided whether he will present the treaties in person or by letter. The president was represented as of the belief that some reduction in the personnel 0f the army and navy would result from the arms conference agreement bur. "of reasonable relativity." The navy, in his opinion, it w as said should not go beyond 80.0(H) men the lowest minimum for safetv.

HUGE LOAN ASKED BY FARMERS FOR RELIEF fRy Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. Extension to the farmers of the nation of a loan of $100,000,000 by the government, and revival of the United States Grain corporation, were recommended as agricultural relief measures by Benjamin C. Marsh, managing director of the Farmers' National council, testifying today before the senate agricultural committee. The pending Ladd bill, which would fix prices on principal farm products, the witness asserted, would mean relief eventually, but only the measures he recommended would give immediate relief.

CHURCH FOR "DOWN AND OUTERS" TO TAKE PLACE OF GOTHAM'S NOTORIOUS "THE DIVE"

(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Feb. 7. Paul Kelley's dive, a notorious den of concentrated vice in the days when the Old Bowery was world. famed for Its brazen iniquity, soon will undergo another metamorphosis. Gambling joint, saloon, rendezvous of the underwood imrioni v,,,oo poolroom and hangout for "Leftie" ! uuie, uago Frank," "Gyp the Blood," and other notorious characters, and finally a rescue mission for human derelicts Paul Kelley's dive has all of these. Now comes the announcement of "Doctor" John Callahon, "Bishop of the Bowery," chaplain at the Tombs, and superintendent of the Hadley rescue mission, that a $300,000 Church, of All Nations will be erected on the site. Becomes Rescue Home Where ohce the human derelict was drawn through the barred doors of "The Dive" by the cdor of liquor, the

KING GEORGE LAUDS ARMS CONFERENCE

Calls on Parliament for Steps to Give Effect to Irish Agreement Refers to New Alliance. EXPECTS BIO RESULTS (By Associated Prets) LONDON, Feb. 7. The imperial parliament, which was prorogued Dec. 19 to await action on the Irish treaty by the Dail Eireann, was reopened today with the reading of the speech from the throne by King George. Regarding the Irish treaty, the king said parliament would be called upon to consider "such measures as may be necessary to give effect to the agreement." He also touched upon the negotiations for a pact with France to guarantee action in the event of "an unprovoked attack by Germany," an.l paid high tribute to the accomplishments of the Washington conference. In his speech the king said: "During the last three months the Washington conference on the questions of disarmament and the far east continued its sessions. A treaty designed to maintain peace in the Pacific has been signed by representatives of the British empire, the United j States, France and Japan, and awaits rauncauon. New Friendships Made "While this treaty replaces the Anglo-Japanese alliance, I am happy to feel that the long standing concord between the two countries will remain as cordial as ever under the arrangements thus concluded. At the same time! our relations with the Unite! States of America enter a new and even closer phase of friendship. "An agreement also was reached on the question of disarmament ard a treaty ha-5 been signed providing, a large measure of relief from thi? burden of armaments. In all these respects great results have been attained, and the success of the conference, for which the world will owe a, debt of gratitude to the initiative of the president of the United States of America, will be the happiest augury for future international relatiox." On Irish Question. ( To both the House Of Lords and the Common-, lie said: "The articles or agreement signed by my ministers and the Irish delegation to which you already have signified assent, have now been approved in Ireland and the provisional government contemplated in that instrument is at present engaged in taking over the administration of the country. "Final establishment of the Irkh Free State as a partner in the British commonwealth is anxiously awaited throughout the wcfrld. You will therefore be invited at an early date to consider such measures as may be necessarv to eive effect to the agreement. A bill of indemnity will also be submitted to you." Attack Administration. The newspapers of all party affiliations except the few definitely supporting the government for a lonst time have bfen cudgeling the administration for its alleged delinquencies, each party organ having its own grounds for attack. Accusations of extravagance and failure to grapple with the question of national economic were among the foremost while others arose from th discontent regarding Ireland, the unemployment situation and several minor matters. The uncertainty of the immediate parliamentary future is emphasized by political writers in the morning newspapers, some of whom take the viewthat such dissatisfaction with the government will be revealed at an early date that its resignation is inevitable. See Irish Danger. One writer declared that the -government's attitude toward Ulster had so strengthened the supporters of northern Ireland that an almost complete withdrawal of the conservatives from the coalition was possible, forcing Premier Lloyd George to resign. This extreme view was not. genuine. Such headlines as "on the brink" and "under the shadow of dissolution" which top the political columns today areindicative of" the general belief. In these circumstances, the premier's speech, which is expected today or tomorrow, is waited with keen interest. Premier Lloyd George, speaking at the opening session termed the Washington conference one of the greatest achievements ever registered In tha history of the world. click of the wheel and the laughter of women, he now will enter the place at the invitation to a bit of gospel, the promise of "a feed, a flop and breakfast in the morning." The original Paul Kelley's dive wa3 sheltered in the basement of the building at 293 Bowery, where the Hadley mission now houses several hundred men each night Poker, black Jack, fan-tan, the roulette wheel, the races all were played day and nighL On the ground floor front was a saloon, with "tables for ladies,, and at the rear a burlesque show in continuous progress. On the floor above was a dance hall. A door opened from "the dive into McGuirk's "suicide hall" on on side, a place which gained its name because of the number of discouraged girls ' who drank poison or shot themselTe( while seated at McGuirk's tables A, (Continued on Pago Fivei