Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 37, 13 February 1922 — Page 1

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ULSTER FIGHT BRINGS DEATH TO EIGHT MEN Curfew Laws Again in Effect

in Belfast British Troops Held in Dublin Awaiting Developments. LONDOtlTS DISMAYED BULLETIN LONDON. Feb. 13. Michael Collins, head of the Irish provisional government, has Bent a cablegram warning the American Association For Recognition of the Irish Republic not to assist or countenance a coup d'eta, which he declared was being planned against the Irish provisional government, says a Dublin dispatch today to the London Press association. (Bv Associated Press) BELFAST, Feb. 13. Beginning tonight the curfew extending from 9 o'clock in the morning until 5 o clock in the morning will be re-imposed. This action was decided upon today in n conference between the lord mayor, the military commander and the police ommissioner, as a result of renewed reorders yesterday, which continued oradicallv today. Up to 3 o'clock ihis afternoon a total of eight persons had been killed since Saturday. DUBLIN. Feb. IV-The evacuation of the British troops and other military forces from Dublin was unexpectedly suspended today. The sailing of the steamers due to lave for Holyhead rnd Liverpool with contingents on board was cancelled. It was thought the suspension might be due to the events in Ulster. IX)NDON. Feb. 13. The situation in Ireland which had seemed to be improving under the apaprent efforts of Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins to obtain the release of the kidnapped I'lstermen has become acutely dangerous as a result of the affray on Saturday. . The Times' Dublfn correspondent says dismay followed the news of the clash, in which four special Ulster constables were killed, eight wounded and six made prisoner, and the leader of the Sin Feiners, Matthew Fitzpatr!ck. shot dead. The provisional government was perturbed as the affair dashed the hirh hopes based upon. its manesty proclamation and the British decision to release all prisoners held for offenses committed in England from Irish political motives prior to the truce in Ireland, nevertheless are awaited with the utmost anxiety. Discuss Situation. There is some conflict in the ac- ' counts of how the shooting was precipitated. Irish Republican army men at Clones and their sympathizers take ihe stand that armed and uniformed Ulstermen had no right to enter Free State territory and subjected themselves to arrest by so doing. It i-3 pointed out that the Catholic football players now in the Derry jail were arrested for a similar reason by the iristerites. The account of the shooting from the same source is that Fitzpatrick apoached the Ulster constables an i ! pr ordered them to raise their hands, promising no violence if they surrendered. The only reply to this demand, it is said, was the shooting and killing; of Fitzpatrick, and then the Republican army men fired. In Belfast, on the other hand, it is contended that the rights of southern Ireland were not infrinp-ed by sending he police from Belfast to Enni&kellen by train, although the line passes for a few miles through Free Statcj territory. Northern police are declared to have travelel that route on Thursday and Friday wthout molestation or protest either locally or from the provisional government. WOMEN DEANS FROWN ON CO-ED SMOKING (Ry Associated Tress) CHICAGO. Feb. 13 Smoking by cirls is a vile, dirty, vulgar habit, which should be prohibited in every university, but It is a fad hard to regulate, the deans of women at Chicago and Northwestern universities said today when informed of the statement from a Columbia university official that smoking was banned in the graduate teachers' college there, only because it made the room so stuffy. Marion Talbot, dean of women at the University of Chicago, said that they had no regulations against smoking by co-eds because "although it is a filthy habit, it is almost impossible to prevent it and there is little use in trying." Dean Mary R. Potter, at Northwestern, said she had issued stringent rules about smoking by girl students. HARDING GETS TREATY FIXING STATUS OF YAP WASHINGTON. Feb. 13. The treaty between the United States and Japan, fixing the status of -the island of Yap and covering the allocation of wireless and cable rights on and from that island was sent to the senate today by President Harding. American Exports Lowest In Last Seven Months WASHINGTON, Feb, 13 Exports in January aggregated $279,000,000. the lowest in seven months and amounted to a decrease of about $15,000t000 from December. Imports for January totaled $216,000,000 as against $237,000,000 the previous month, and 20,1.000.00 in January. 1921.

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the congregation. CHARGES DISMISSED AGAINST TRAIN GREW IN PORTER WRECK (By Associated Press) VALPARAISO, Ind., Feb. 13. Charges of manslaughter against William S. Long, of Jackson, Mich., and George F. Block, of Michigan City, Ind., engineer and fireman on the Michigan Central train, which collided with a New York Central train at Porter, Ind., last February, causing th death of 37 persons were dismissed today in the circuit court here on the motion of Prosecutor J. S. Bartholomew. , RECEPTION ACCORDED PONTIFF UNEQUALED IN ITS ENTHUSIASM ROME, Feb. 13. Pius XI was crowned pope in the basilica of St. Peter's yesterday amid scenes of pomp and enthusiasm and in the pres ence of princes and dignitaries of the church, the dinlomatic representatives of foreign countries, members of the Roman aristocracy and a vast assemblage filling the great structure to the very doors. The ancient custom was carried out with impressive ceremonies and the newly elected pointiff now occupies the throne of the first pope reported crowned, Leo III, who reigned from 795 to 816. With the exception of Leo XIII and Benedict XV, who, owing to the strained relations existing between the Quirinal and the Vatican in 1878 and the world in 1914, preferred to he crowned in the Sistine chapel, the coronation t of all . the. popes elected since the erection of the basilica has been celebrated there. Cry "Long Live the Pope" Pius XI again blessed the crowds from the outer balcony of St. Peter's, j this time nearly 200,000 people cheer ing "long live the pope' and waving handkerchiefs, many 6f them multi colored, and admission tickets to the Vatican, which had failed to find them room inside the great church. It had been officially announced that "owing to the cold weather." the pope would not bless the crowds from the miter halconv. but such was the insistence an(j warmth of the cheers, lasting tnree-tiuarters oi an nour, tnai ine pontiff finally decided he must answer the call. Thus it was long after 1 o'clock in the afternoon when tha pope appeared on the balcony, surrounded by Cardinals Vanutelll, Gasnarri. Mercier and Bourne, and be stowed the apostolic benediction, again waving the familiar little shake of the hand as he disappeared into the interior of the basilica. Cheered by Crowd Previous to this 90,000 gathered within the edifice rising spontaneously, had cheered the pope as Cardinal Lega placed upon the pope's head the tiara, emblem of supreme sovereignty. The cheers continued for so long a time that Pius was compelled to make signs with his hands as if seeking silence in order that the ceremony might continue. Old Romans, who had witnessed the coronation of several popes, say the enthusiastic reception accorded the present pope has never been equaled in their memory. CANNON NOT TO SEEK RETURN TO CONGRESS By Associated Tress) WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. Uncle Joe Cannon, oldest member' of the house, announced today he would not be a candidate for re-election as representative from the eighteenth Illinois dis trict.

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pnot wm cone waning motor nearses The Pilot Car company will continue the manufacture of motor hearses here if Judge W. A. Bond upproves the petition of the receiver of the Lorraine Motor Car company, which was filed with him Saturday, and which he now has under advisement. The remaining assets of the Lorraine company, including stock, materials and tools, were sold for $2,083.43 to the Pilot Car company, last Saturday, ' The same petition asked that the re ceiver be dismissed and the final report approved.s During the last two months representatives of the Pilot Motor Car company have been settling with creditors on the basis of 40 cents on the dollar. Creditors received about $21,000. The Pilot Motor Car company will issue $150,000 of first preferred stock to take the place of $150,000 first preferred of the Lorraine company. REMONSTRANCE HALTS SUNDAY TABERNACLE The first move to erect a tabernacle for the Billy Sunday campaign in th:3 city came to an abrupt halt Monday as a result of the action of residents living in the vicinity of the East Main street Friends' church. Remonstrance to the petition asking permission to build the tabernacle was filed by 17 residents of the vicinity. At the last meeting of the board of works, permission was asked to tem porarily vacate one-half of the alley south of the Ftiends church, that a tabernacle might be erected on the north half of the alley, a strip of. land 10 feet wide running from Ffteenth to Sixteenth streets. The petition was referred to the fire chief. The remonstrance of the citizens is based on the claim that they will le unable to have the use of the alley, aa the building will be too close to ther garages to allow them to get their cars in and out Their action was endorsed by the fire chief. APPARENTLY FAVOR PRESENT SCALE FOR SOFT GOAL MINERS (By Associated Press) ! INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 13 Retention of the present wage scale for soft coal miners instead of a demand for increased pay was favored apparently by members of the scale committee of the United Mine Workers of America, when they met this afternoon to make a final decision on the wage policy to be recommended to the union's special convention that begins here tomorrow. Before the 27 district presidents, composing the scale committee, met to make the final decision, a sub-committee of the four presidents of the central competitive field, drafted a formal report, which was understood, among convention delegates, not to ask for an increase in the basic wage rate Announcement of the sub-committee decisions, however, was withheld, but; delegates said the district officers fav - ored a policy centering about a fight against wage reductions. Aside from drafting the scale demands for the soft coal miners the convention will consider the demands for increased pay, already made by the anthracite miners. j Both officials and delegates said a. stand might consistently be made for retaining the present scale for the ! soft coal miners and as higher wages in the union anthracite fields, it being asserted that inequalities now exist in' i the wagei between the two fields. i

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BONUS CONFERENCES AWAIT PRESIDENT'S DECISION ON BONDS WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. Conferences between Republicans of the house ways and means committee and the senate finance committee on the soldiers' bonus program, were suspended today pending a decision from President Harding on a proposal to finance the cash feature of the bonus by means of bonds instead of taxes. f-"Therbona proposal was" advanced by Chairman McCumber -. and Senator Smoots, senate conferees, who took the position that it would be unwise to increase taxes at this time. The president, it was understood expects to discuss the plan with Secretary Mellon. Under the senator's plan, short time bond3, to the amount of approximately $350,000,000 a year would be issued over the three-year period during which the cash pay ments would be made to the former service men. The sub-committee of the majority j members of the house ways and means committee had proposed that! the money be raised by levying new taxes and increasing some of the existing taxes. Members of the senate committee were understood to be particularly opposed to the proposition to increase the stamp taxes on transfers of capital stock and bonds and also to the suggested two and one-half percent tax on the undivided profits of corporations. Bandits Take $100,000 From St. Loais Hotel Safe ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 13. Jewelry estimated to be valued at $100,000 was obtained by bandits who early today looted safety deposit boxes at the Washington hotel in the western part of the city. H. A. Crofton, night clerk, was forced to open the safe. The jewelry was the property of guests and the exact value will not be determined until the guests list their losses. " - BANDITS ROB BANK PAWHUSKA, Okla., Feb. 13. The First National bank was robbed today of several thousand dollars. The bandits escaped. Weather Forecast Fair tonight and Tuesday; continued cold tonight, near zero, but probably above. . The weather will continue fair for the next 24 hours, with temperatures lower tonight than this morning, due to a severe cold wave central over the far northwest. For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau Fair .tonight and Tuesday; slightly colder tonight in the east and extreme south portions ; slightly warmer Tuesday in. northwest section. Temperatures Yesterday Maximum 34 Minimum 25 Today Noon ; 22 Weather Conditions The center of the storm which caused light rains and snows during the last 4S hours passed through Wayne county Sunday morning, when winds suddenly shifted to the west. Very cold weather covers western Canada and the western states, with temperatures 42 below .zero at The Pas, Canada; 30 below at Medicine Hat, It is raining and snow ing over the New England coast. The weather is becoming unsettled over the far northwest Paid Circulation Saturday, was 11, 60S

DENBY RECOMMENDS BIG CUT ill NAVY; $70,000,000 SAVING (By Associated Press) - WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. Secretary Denby appeared before the housb naval committee today to recommend that the navy personnel for the next fiscal year be fixed at 90,000 men. and

6,000 apprentices, as compared with' 100.000 men and 6,000 apprentices now authorized. ' Mr. Denby recommended that there be no reduction in the existing strength of, line officers ot the navy: that the first class at Annapolis be graduated and commissioned, but that appointments to the academy here after be reduced to three for each member of congress instead of five. The navy secretary also recommended that 100 destroyers be Dlaced out of commission. He estimated that! the program would effect a saving of $70,000,000 in next year's budget. TONS WAR IS FEARED; 4 CHINAMEN KILLED IN WFTFRN P.ITIF Ill If LO I Lllll Ul I ILU SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 13 Chinese tons: men throughout the west were reported under or on their guard today as the result of an apparent outbreak of a tong war last night, when two Chinese were killed and a third wounded in Seattle, Wash., one slain in Butte, Mon., and one shot probably fatally, in San Jose, Calif. In every instance the shootings were carried out in characteristic tong war fashion, police reports indicated. In Butte and in Seattle, the Chinese, said to have belonged to tongs, were shot down on the street. Seattle police made five arests in connection with the shooting. Low Mow. 72 years old, said to. be the only member of the Bing Kong tong in San Jose, was met at his door, according to police reports, by three young Chinese, who fired three bullets into his body. While San Francisco has the larger Chinatown and is headquarters f&r most of the tongs, no trouble had been reported here early today. SEATTLE, WTash.. Feb. 13. Two Chinese are dead, another lies badly wounlded in a hospital, and five others are in the city jail as the result of a tong war which broke out here late last night. Toy Jow, 40, and Hong : Song, 30, both cannery workers and members of the Hip Sing tong, weie killed and En Engyn, known in China, town as "The Duke," also of the Hip Song, were shot in the thigh. Eight pistols and nearly 100 cartridges were seibed by the palice. .r.f BUTTE, Mon., Feb. 13. Hun Tons, 70 year old Chinese, was shot and killed last night in an alley in Chinatown here. Police at first attributed the killing to private revenge, buo later said it might have been the result of a tong war. MARY WINTER DEFENDS TAYLOR'S CHARACTER AS A PICTURE DIRECTOR (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13. Mary Miles Minter, motion picture actress, Issued a statement here today through her attorneys, declaring that she had told investigators all that she knew of the life of Wiiiiam Desmond Taylor, motion picture - drector, mysteriously killed 12 days ago. It was said she could not conceive how any person could, voluntarily wrong Taylor. The statement follows: "There is no personal or financial sacrifice which I would not gladly make to bring the slayer" of William Desmond Taylor to justice. "Mr. Taylor was one of. my best friends. His death was a great shock to me. I met Mr. Taylor first in 1919 when he became my director. I was then only 17 years of age and his In spiration, his unfailing courtesy and consideraton, not only to me, but to all with whom he came in contact, ! immediately won my nighest admira tion. Sees Highest Virtues. From 1919 until the day of his death. Mr. Taylor was to me the symbol cL honor and manliness, an - inspiration, friend, guide, counselor the symbel of all a girl admires in a man. "His friendship was uplifting, and his advice and aid were invaluable. It would be nothing less than veritable ingratitude, if I did not , now that he is dead, raise my voice to proclaim what he was, and to repudiate those who would besmirch his character. "I have told the authorities all that I know of both his life here and in tho east. That, I fear, has been of little 3 id to them. I cannot conceive the character of a person who would vol untarily wrong Mr. Taylor or cause his death.' OHIO BONUS CHECKS WELCOME VALENTINES (By Associated Press) t COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 13. Tomorrow is St. Valentine Day, and the state of Oh!o is going to celebrate it, by mailing . adjusted compensation checks to approximately 25,000 Ohio veterans of the World war. . KODeri R. Roberts, state bonus director,, said that this initial " distribution will amount to approximately; $3,350,000. He said that at the rate the bonus department is checking applications and approving claims, it will be possible to continue sending out checks at the rate of 2,000 a day. The first checks to be sent out tomorrow, will be payable the following day. Average payments to be made tomorrow will amount to more than $100 and most of the payments will be made to Ohio National . guardsmen, who served nearly the entire time of the war. ir

DILLON ASKS BOND REDUCEDCOURT TO RULE LATE TODAY; KELLEY TO HELP PROSECUTION Maintains Innocence of Falsifying Payroll of Municipal Electric Light Plant in Seven Instances Examiners of State Boards of Accounts Continue Investigation of Records in Light Plant Prosecutor Beckett Said He Had Other Charges in Reserve Dillon's Record Under Scrutiny by Officials. FREQUENTLY MADETRiPSTQ TWO OHIO CITIES BULLETIN At 4 o'clock this afternoon Judge Bond had not yet ruled on the motion to reduce Dillon's bond.

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was to be given by Judge W- A- Bond at 3 O'clock Monday after. noon. Dillon is held in the county jail on a charge of padding the

ngnt plant payroll. , . ' r Dillon was arrested late Saturday night in Hamilton, Ohio, and brought back to this city by Sherif f Carl Wadman and Chief of Police William Eversman. He was at the home of a friend, Warren W. Weller, 21 Ludlow street. Seven separate affidavits were made out, each covering an alleged falsification of the payroll and charging that the foreman of a local garage had been carried on the payroll. : ?.

He had received pay for nine hours j per day at 50 cents per hour for a; period of six months, according to Prosecutor Paul A. Beckett. Prosecutor Beckett said the followlng eleven instances of alleged false J. P. Dillon entries were found: On July 1, August 16, September' 1 and 16, October 1 and 17, November 1 and 16. December 1, 16 and 31, all In 1921. Warrants charging falsification were made out for seven of these alleged instances, the prosecutor said, their total being $735. - Explains Method Clyde Green, foreman of the Chenoweth garage, to whom these checks were made out, is innocent of any will ful wrong doing, Prosecutor Beckett said. Green was in no way connected with the light plant, but did repair Dillon's car at the parage. After the foreman had received the checks the latter would cash them and credit Dil lon's account at the garage with the amount. Examination of the books of the garage, the prosecutor said, show ed entries were made a few days after the checks had been issued to the foreman. , , , , Will Kelley has been retained, to help Prosecutor Beckett with the case. Attorney Henry U. Johnson is de fending Dillon. '- ; ', ; ; Whenasked if he had any "statement to make, Monday, Dillon said: "I am absolutely innocent of any in tentional wrong-doing. When notified Jan. 2 that I had been relieved as superintendent of the light plant, I simply took all the records in my desk in the office and left. "' Welcome to Records. "They are welcome to any records I may hae, if they wish to look into them," with the exception of course of my personal memodanda." Members of the state board of accounts have been going over city records for some time past, and are said to have been hampered in their work because some records were missing. Dillon said Monday that he had been in the city only two or three days since Jan. 2; but that he would turn over what records he had if they could be of use to the city. Sometime before the first of the year Dillon had made the statement that he was , ready to drop everything and leave at a moment's notice should he be relieved. i-Had Police Power Dillon had police powers by virtue of , his connection with the city light plant. Police officials said Monday that he had been given these powers about a year ago by the board of police commissioners. s That - the first: charges brought against Dillon may not be the only ones was indicated by a statement made by Prosecutor Beckett. . '"We have other charges in reserve it we fail t get a conviction on these," he-said. t ' "What did" Dillon do with this money?" he was asked. "I will not say that he got the money, but he got the benefit of it." was the answer. Zimmerman's Statement "If I had $21,000 I'd bail Dillon out," said Dr. W. W. Zimmerman, former mayor, - aionaay. Zimmerman appointed Dillon superintendent of the light plant a short time after he assumed office for his last term. ."Jimmy Dillon was the best superintendent the light plant ever had. "I'm terribly upset about the whole affair," the former mayor said. "I cun

not believe that they have anything on Dillon. I appointed him on the recom-'

mendation of several of the leading bankers of Richmond, and felt that I was choosing exactly the right kind of man. I took him out of a bank where I thought one would be most likely to find a man of honesty and uprightness. "During all my term I felt that Dillon was conducting the affairs of the plant in an efficient manner. The excellent condition of the plant at the present time shows that he was a good manager. There may be something wrong with the . accounts, but not with the plant. . .. ... Satisfied with Work. "I never had any occasion to think that there was anything wrong with Dillon. He seemed to me to be conducting the affairs of the plant in toe proper way. , "The state board of accounts sent n man here regularly to go over th?: books. Since he didn't find anything wrong, I supposed that everything was all right. If there was anything wrong l aon t see why they didn't find it. "I did not " know anything about the affair until I read it in the paper. I feel sorry for Dillon and hope he wil! be found innocent of doing wrong. I just cant believe that there is any- -thing wrong. They will have to showme hefnrA I helievB that Dillnn Hi.f anything that was out of the way." .' Wonder About Money The prodigality , with which Dillon spent money has been a source of comment. At Hamilton, it is said, he was sometimes referred to as the "millionaire kid" because of the large rolls of bills which he flashed. Dollar tips, it is declaredf were common. He ran his ' car on an average ot 1,000 miles a week, one city official said. It was equipped with the best accessories, and it was kept In the highest state of efficiency. The purchase of his first automobile, when his salary was only $1,800 annually, provoked gossip as to the source out of which it was paid. When this automobile was discarded for one of a later model, persons who were watching his career were still more, mystified. Salary Increased. Even when the salary of light plant superintendent was increased to $2,400 it was maintained that he could not keep up his standard of living with that amount. - ... At Hamilton and Cincinnati, a city official said, he was sometimes known an .jiiiiuij' kjmiiu. r g - - -5 - 1. - Other rumors that were heard recently were that he had large sums of money on deposit or in a safety deposit box in either Cincinnati or Hamilton. These reports, however, have not as yet been verified. His frequent trips to Hamilton or Cincinnati, observers say, consumed large sums of money. In Richmond, his habits were not flagrantly bad. He was never seen to play cards or to indulge in other practices that might involve the expenditure ot large sums of money. The entertainment of friends in the two Ohio cities. It is believed, cost him much money.: .' ; . , - . Builds Extra Tank Many of his bills here were paid with cash instead of check, It was learned., ; , .. . An extra 10-galIon tank had been made and installed inside of Dillon's automobile, apparently for gasoline, so that he would be ready to go at a moment s notice. Clyde Green, employe of the Chenowetli garage, said Dillon stored his car In that garage and had repair made on it from time to time. He re fused to say whether or not Dillon paid for the repairs with checks drawn on the city. - - Dillon drove the car a great dealv he said. .He said he did not know Dillon before he entered the service, of the garage.- . . . ' "My conscience is clear on (Continued on Page Three) th-j Dynamite and Cinders . J On Fairmount Streets ... ' -r (By Associated Press) ,. MARION, Ind, Feb. 13. Streets In Fairmount. near here, recently wero treated with a covering of cinders, which have been found also to con tain a number or pieces or dynamite. An investigation is being made. , Several sticks of dynamite were found by workmen Saturday whd ere ttcattei--ed in the cinders. The explosive so far as could be learned still eefntains the original amount of kick and is regarded as dangerous. 1