Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 45, 22 February 1922 — Page 1

ttONB PAIXAD1UM VOL. XCIL, No. 45 Palladium. Rat '1831. Consolidated With Sun-Telegram, 1907.RICHMOND, IND.; WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEB. 22, 1922. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS

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FIGHT SECRET NEGOTIATION OF TREATIES Democrats to War on Four Power Pact Hughes to Come in for Criticism of Methods.

From Indian Tepee to Operatic Stage BEGIN INQUIRY OF GREATEST AIR DISASTER (I I .III 5 S4

Caruso's Wife and Baby Attend Memorial

SINN FEIN TO ADJOURN FOR NINETC DAYS Agreement Reached to Ad

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WANT OPEN PARLEYS By MARK SIXLIVAV WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 22. President Harding ha3 already paid pome of the price of secret diplomacy in the emotion it must have cost him to tell the senate he had no information to give about the negotiations leading up to the four-power treaty. When the president's letter was given to the senate one of the senators remarked, with a sarcasm of which the country will hear more later; "surely there is some mistake here; that letter isn't from President Harding; that must be one of those old letters that President Wilson sent to the senate in 1919."

This is the sort of thing with which ihe Democrats are going to be devil Harding, Hughes and Lodge, especially Lodge. The negotiation of this four-power pact, was just as secret as anything Wilson did at Paris; and the Democrats are going to dig up some of the preserved horror with which the Republicans filled the congressional record during the League of Nations debate. Stirs Up Suspicion. There is no denying that this sort of thing may stir up some popular suspicion; and while at present the great probability is that this as well as the other treaties will be ratified. It is also probably a fact that the fourpower pact Is at the height of its popularity now and that, as in the case of the league of nations, all the developments that come out from now on will tend unhappily to undermine the present popular confidence. If it were not for a sense of international responsibility for a hesitancy to give the world for a second time the spectacle of the United States senate upsetting the work of a great conference, the present Democratic sullenness. would express itself in thoroughgoing opposition. Embarrassing for Hughes It Is going to be embarrassing for Hughes to explain, when he is summoned beforo the senate foreign relations committee, on his return from Bermuda, just why this part of the conference was so secret, when the

rest was so open

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A new and interesting photographic study of Mrs. Enrico Caruso and little Gloria, made at the Caruso memorial concert at the Metropolitan opera house, in honor of her late famous husband. Mrs.' Caruso recently surprised her friends by admitting that she was interested, in psychic subjects.

CIVIL AVIATION BILL DESIGNED TO REDUCE NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS IN AERIAL TRAVEL

PAIIADICH XEWS Bl'RK.W

WASHINGTON. Feb. 22. The civil

It will be hard to explain why his ! aviation bill which was passed by the

negotiations with Mr. Balfour and senate a tew ays agu a a u

material modification win give impetus to. the development of air trans-

Baron Kato couia not have been re-1

ported as promptly and completely as were, for example, those extremely acrimonious passages between the British and the French about the submarines. It will be hard to give a good reason why the speech Mr. Balfour made

portatlon and the industries which go

with it. The senate bill was so drafted as to give the. public assurance that aerial

transportation will be safe, permitting

after the treaty was written, in which nlv the-use of stanch aircratt oper-

assurance it is predicted that all the capital necessary for a tremendous development of the aircraft industry will

he explained frankly that its purpose ;

was to placate Japan for the termination of the Anglo-Japanese alliance could not just as well have been made in advance of the adoption of the treaty. Partial Explanation There is one partial explanation that may be made which Is of a technical nature, and not likely to be very persuasive. It Is to the effect that this four-power pact was not the business of the conference as a whole, but of a group within the conference. Also, there is just a possibility that Mr. Hughes might be able to say, if he chose to, that he wanted these nego

tiations open, but was overruled. One fundamental fact about the conference which must be remembered in respect to everything that was done is that this was not an ordinary parliamentary body in which the majority rules. In the conference every deciion had to be unanimous. An objection from any one power was sufficient to dictate. Want Open Parleys Harding, as well as some other statesmen, seem to think that secret diplomacy means only secret bargains not made public until the occasion for their operation arises. They think that if the results of negotiations are Riven to the public promptly that is sufficiently open diplomacy. P.ttt the more modern public opinion insists that not only the results of negotiations themselves shall be made known to the public from day to day. so that if there is popular disapproval for a course that disapproval can express itself in time to change the course. This whole embarrassment ought to be the final lesson to convince statesmen that secrecy of negotiations must go into the scrap heap along with big navies and a good many other of the

be forthcoming

Except in the states of California, Kansas, Connecticut and Massachusetts there is no law today which provides that th-e pilot of an aircraft must be licensed, after an examination, to

OSAGE INDIAN BANDS WEALTHIEST OF ALL, SAYS.FRIEND WORKER

"Osage bands of Indians in the United States are the wealthiest of all other Indian tribes," stater Mrs. Amelia Ruger Lindley, before a large audience at the Whitewater Friends' church Tuesday night. Mrs. Lindley is the wife ,of the superintendent of Friends Indian missions in Oklahoma,

"The Osage Indians are, by tar, tne most aristocratic which are in the United States today. They are all wealthy, having struck oil and saved their money to invest in fine bungalows, expensive machines and the finest of household furnishings. "Even with the outward appearance of luxury, the Osage Indian has not overcome the tendency toward the habits of his ancestors. Often, if one was to step into the house of a rich Indian, it would be noticed that when sleeping, they wfll roll up in a blanket and sleep on the floor in preference to the juxurious beds." "Big Jims" Bad. Mrs. Lindey stated that the "Big Jim" band of Indians, were the most

degraded of them all, and that they

living

! show -that he really knows how to

operate a flying machine. Nor is there any law which provides for an

inspection of aircraft to show that they are properly constructed and in condition to make flights. On the other hand, there is not a state in the union where the driver of an automobile is not required to be licensed. Despite the absence of a federal law regulating the operation of commercial aircraft that industry has made (Continued on Page Five)

CLAIMS WOMAN PAID HIM FOR FAKE THEFT (By Associated Press) I)NG BRANCH, N. J., Feb. 22. Alleging, police said, that he was paid

$1,000 by Mrs. Sarah Robertson to stage the holdup in her home at Deal last Saturday night, in which she claimed to have been robbed of a handbag containing $50,000 in jewels, John Bailey, 20, was arrested today here on a charge of conspiracy. Police' authorities announced they were sending to Asbury Park for a warrant for the arrest of Mrs. Robertson.

journ Ard Fheis, National Convention, by Leaders Unity Seems Desired. SPLIT ISMIFAVORED

BULLETIN DUBLIN, Feb. 22. An agreement to adjourn the Ard Fheis, the Sinn Fein national convention, for three months was reached today by the convention's leaders.

DUBLIN, Feb. 22. The first day's debate in the Ard Fheis seems to have cleared the atmosphere to a great extent, and the feeling as the

delegates assembled again today was

that the Sinn Fein would retain its

unity despite the bitter feeling of the

Anglo-Irish treaty.

The political correspondent of the

Freeman's Journal says that late yes

terday the feeling among the dele

gates in favor of an understanding, which had found expression only in

whispers during the morning, had become the dominant, note of the assem

bly. Indeed, as the day wore on it seemed as if the great bulk of the delegates were opposed to division on any subject. Majority Slender. In the event of a division the majority on either side would have been very slender, but toward the close of the day the sentiment for unity overshadowed all else, although few seemed to envisage any practical road for its achievement. The Irish Independent says the delegates from the country, in daily touch with the people, and with the recol

lection of the many cases of disastrous consequences from former dissentions, showed true appreciation of the grave dangers involved in the prospect of a split.

Rumors that an eleventh hour attempt' to reach a compromise were being made among the leaders of the opposite groups in the controversy over the Anglo-Irish treaty were in circulation, as the delegates to the Are Fheis were assembling today. The tardiness of the leaders in appearing gave rise to these reports. Erckine Ohilders, one of the leading Republican advocates who was absent yesterday, appeared today, taking a front seat.

Officers Still at Loss to Account for Mishap that Caused Ship's Rudder to Tilt. : : . , - ,

YIELDS UP 34 DEAD

NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 22. Completely wrecked by fire and explosion, the Roma, the world's largest semirigid airship and the pride of the American air service, had yielded up today the last of the dead of the dis

aster, which overtook her yesterday

while manuervering over Hampton

Roads and sent her downward to

crash into the network of high-power

electric wires . that wrought her destruction. Recovery of the last body fixed the toll of the disaster the greatest in the history of American aeronautics at 34 dead, eight injured and three practically unhurt. Of the dead, 30 had been identified, although many of the bodies of those caught in the interior of the ship when she crashed were burned, blackpnpd ntid rhrrffl almost hpvonrt rec-

Miss Iva Rider, Cherokee Indian girl, is about to realize her ambition In i ognition. grand opera. She is still a child of the plains at heart and has variously These dead included some of the air been stenoeraDher. screen actress and entertainer duriner the war. Miss service's most gallant officers and

Rider was born at the foothills of the Ozark mountains in Oklahoma. Her father is a senator and natural leader among men. She not only looks forward to a success on the stage but has a greater ambition, the birthright of every woman a home and all that home means. Here is the answer to that once grave question, "Can the first Americans be assimilated?"

MEMORY OF FOUNDER OF REPUBLIC GIVES LEGION INSPIRATION

SEVEN LOSE LIVES IN TRAGEDY AT SEA

'Bv Associated Press) GALVESTON, Tex.. Feb. 22. When the Morgan line steamship, Lelorienpe

arrived in this port today from New

York, she brought the story of a

tragedy of the sea, in which seven men lost their lives, after hours of suffering and only two survived. The men were the crew of the fishing schooner, Coaldwell C. Holt, out of Pensecola, which was wrecked on a reef during a gale on Feb. 13, near the Tortugas light. : . .- -

TUNNEL CAVES IN; THREE ARE BURIED

(By Associated Press) CANTON, Ohio, Feb. 22 Three men were buried when a tunnel being dug under car tracks in a city street" here caved in this morning. One man was rescued alive and will recover. Two others have been imprisoned for more than an hour and authorities fear they have been crushed to death or suffocated. The tunnel was being put through the street under the car

were always aesirous or living to

older institutions of international re- themselves away from others and

lations

Here was a conference that had the good will of the world to an enormous degree, and its results are jeopardized by an undermining of popular confidence and the arousing of a suspicion iigainst not necessarily the merits of a treaty, but merely the method by which it was arrived at.

POSTAL EXAMINATION AT LIBERTY MARCH 14

P.UXAUItM SEWS BIRKAU WASHINGTON. Feb. 22 Candidates for appointment as postmaster at Liberty, Ind., will be examined March 15. It is understood that there will be a number of candidates, including several women. The postmaster at Liberty, Albert T. Sering. resigned recently on account of ill health, the resignation to become effective, Feb. 28. The Liberty offioe is second class and the salary of the postmaster is $2,400 per year.

keeping up their old time customs. She also stated that 300,000 Indians were now in America and that 117,-

000 of that number were in Oklahoma.

"The average Indian is a dull personage, due to the fact that he indulges in a drink made from a bean called. 'Pehote,' which tends to dead

en the senses the same as tobacco or

opium.

"The white's take advantage of the Indian's illiteracy and when the Indian comes to buy a thing, the white man often tacks an additional price to the original sum and therefore rob

the ignorant Indian of his money. ' In the remainder of her talk, Mrs. Lindley explained some of her personal experiences with the Indians and their habits.

SEVERAL WOUNDED

IN BELFAST FIRING

' ' "(By Associated Press) BELFAST, Feb. 22. Several persons were wounded today in a fresh

outbreak of firing on the east side

said to have resulted from a vendetta

against saloon keepers of that section.

having Sinn Fein sympathies. Military guards were stationed at all the saloons in the York street district.

(By Associated Press)

INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. 22. Hanford

MacNider, national commander of the imorlKiin loo-inn tndflV PiVP OUt the

following message on Washington's tracks in connection with the laying of birthday: a lare sewer- ' "On the day when every American .... ., . who loves his country and respects i HI III TnP 111 MT flKIl V

its privileges of citizenship and its ln-j 11LI10 If HI1 1 . UIlL I

stitutions honors the memory or tne Founder of this Republc, the men and. women of the Amercan legion draw

! renewed inspiration from the memory

of Washington to carry on our work and to serve in peace as well as in war as constructive citizens. "His high devotion to the principles we like to call American and splendid faith in his fellow men, particularly those who served with him in America's first battles for the rightful integrity of our country, form a firm foundation for our future endeavors to uphold the government Washington and his continentals created for us. "The American legion stands for America and for the defenders of

America. It Is our aim to instill in our organization and through it to all America, a vital sense of civic righte

ousness in dealing with the intricate ajid ever-increasing problems 'before us which shall guarantee to posterity an unswerving and exact fulfillment of the principles whereof the founder of our country gave us such wise and high example."

POINGARE TO CONFER WITH LLOYD GEORGE

(By Associated Press)

PARIS. Feb. 22. Premier Lloyd George of Great Britain and Premier Poincare of France will meet somewhere in France Saturday for a conference. The - principal subject for discussion will be the agenda and the date, of the Genoa conference.

Weather Forecast

MORAL SUPPORT OF RAIL WORKERS, LEWIS

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CHICAGO, Feb. 22. The United Mine Workers of America do not want the nation's railroad employes to join

them in a strike, President Lewis of

the miners, said today, in an address

opening the conference of leaders of

mine and railway unions,

Mr. Lewis spoke of what he termed the coming strike of miners and said his organization wanted only the full moral support of the carrier employes. - Mr. Lewis without suggesting any specific program, told the delegates that he felt the miners and railroad

SHOULD LOWER FARM LAND VALUATIONS, SAYS TAX ASSESSOR

Wayne county farm land should be

lowered in its valuations for tax as

sessment purposes, and city property

should be increased, according to rec

ommendations made by W. C. Nusbaum, state tax assessor, in address

ing a tax meeting in the courthouse Wednesday morning. Farm land has decreased in value about one-third, during the last year, according to investigation in 12 representative counties, and city property has suffered a smaller decrease. Indiana assessments have not been on a 100 per cent valuation heretofore, as is required by the present law, he said, and putting ail property on a "full, true value assessment," will take care of the former inequalities.

With valuations that were 80 per cent of true values as shown by sales, and a full value assessment allowing for a 30 per cent decrease in values, a slight decrease may be shown in farm land valuations. City property, on the other hand, valued at 67.82 of its sale value, with only a slight decrease from figures shown in sales during the last two years, may be increased ,ln valuations by the difference between former values and 100, about one-half. Gather Figures For, purposes of revising tax duplicates and making new valuations, state tax officials have been gathering figures on sales all over the state, and comparing these figures with the assessments. These figures for Wayne county show an assessment for farm land of 80.12 per cent of ita sale value, while city property has been assessed at 67.82 per cent of its sale value. , These figures are taken from 244 sales of farms and 183 sales in the (Continued on Page Ten)

IDENTIFY 30 OF 34

. KILLED IN DISASTER

NEWPORT NEWS. Va.. Feb. 22.

Officers and men from Lanelev field

workers should form some definite co-! early today had positively identified alition which would react to the bene- 30 out of the 34 men burned to death

aboard the Roma. Among them was

Night School Session Tonight Despite Holiday Night school classes will be held Wednesday night in the high school as usual, even though the regular high school day session was closed for Washington's birthday, it was announced. ,

GENOA CONFERENCE WILL OPEN MARCH 15

' ' ' (By -Associated Press) ROME, Feb. 22. The Genoa conference, according to the newspapers, will open March 15. instead of March

8, as originally announced. The delay is said to be necessary in order to

complete preparations. Father of Fiii Potter'

Is Dead In Virginia

RICHMOND, Va:, Feb. 22. James Potter, father of ' Mrs. Fifi Potter

Stillman, of New York, died suddenly

toflay at the home of Frank Powers in West Hampton, a suburb of Rich rftond. Mr. Potter came here from

New York last night.

FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY Rain in the form of showers or thunderstorms tonight, much colder tonight or Thursday; brisk to strong shifting winds, cold blustery weather. The eastward movement of the Rocky Mountain storm followed by a

cold wave over the northwest is the

reason for the above forecast.

For Indiana by the United States

Weather Bureau Probably rain tonight and Thursday; much colder Thursday.

Temperatures for Yesterday

Maximum 53 Minimum 33

Today

Noon 66

Weather Conditions The rain fall during the past 36 hours has been confined mostly to the northern portion of the state, but Is spreading southward. A severe local hail and thunderstorn occurred yesterday at Tipton, Ind. The warmest weather so far this season now covers all the central and southern states, while a cold wave covers the entire northwest Temperatures are considerably below zero, with snow on the northern plain states.

fit of both.

"We are ready to fight," Mr. Lewis

said, "although I am not yet absolutely convinced that the operators will force us to carry out our plans for a strike." Mr. Lewis said that if the railroad workers ever went on strike, it would not be necessary for the miners' officials to make a declaration of support by the mine workers. The miners would of their own accord give support to a railroad strike, he said. "We do not ask railroad workers to go on a sympathetic strike to help us," he added, "but we do ask their support."

COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 22 Operators of the Ohio Southern coal fields today notified President Lewis of the United Mine Workers, that they must decline to be represented at the Cleveland meeting. .

Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 11,566

SEVERE COLD WAVE

GRIPS NORTHWEST

CHICAGO. Feb. 22. The northwest

and the upper Mississippi valley today were in the grip of a cold wave,

accompanied by heavy snow and sleet which were seriously hampering trans

portation, and communication systems in Upper Wisconsin and Minnesota were cut off from all telegraphic

communication from Chicago today.!

aieagre reports drifting in over crippled wires indicated that many towns were completely isolated.- , At- the same time a new record for maximum temperature for, Feb. 22 was set in Chicago when the mercury

soared to 58 degrees at 10 a. m. witht

Captain Dale Mabry. of Tampa, Fla.,

but stationed at Langley field for some time. ! Names of those positively identified follow: l Captain Dale Mabry. I Major John Thornell. Master Sergeant R. D. McNally. Tech. Sergeant L. M. Harris. Staff Sergeant Lewis Hilliard. Staff Sergeant Marion J. Bealle. Sergeant William Hyan.

Sergeant Virgil Hoffman. Corporal Irby B. Havron.. Private Gus Kinston. Private Vernon Blakely. Private John Thompson. Private Marion Hill. Mr. Stryker, McCook field, Ohio (civilian).

Robert J. Hanson, McCook field,

umo (civilian. William O'Laughlin, McCook field Ohio (civilian). . , ,

F. Harriman, McCook field, Ohio (civilian). L : , Major Vautsmeier. - Captain Durschmidt Captain Watts. Lieutenant W. C. Burnes. - Lieutenant W .B. Cu minings.' " Lieutenant Riley (killed in fall). Lieutenant Smythe. - Captain McFarland.Lieutenant Clinton. Lieutenant P. K. Hine. Sergeant J. M, Holmes.- .

Schulenburg. Dayton, Ohio

(civilian j. . . There were four bodies which the

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men. The lists contained the names of Major John Thornell. commander of the ship at her christening at Washington last December, and Dr. Dale Mabry, her commander during yesterday's ill-fated flight. Clear Up Wreckage. Air service men from Langley field the home station, began shortly after dawn today the clearing up of the wreckage of the warped and blisterul skeleton and at the same time preparations began for the official inquiry. Major General Patrick, chief of th? air service, who came here by aeroplane yesterday, as soon as word of the disaster was flashed to Washington, made a personal inspection of the wreck during the night, and ordered an immediate investigation.

Officers at Langley field still wew at a loss to account for the mishap that caused the ship's rudder to tilt -and thereby render the giant cratt . unmanageable. Possibility developed, however, that the inquiry would take notice of reports that the bag of the Roma, built in Italy, was rotten, although officers at the field declined to discuss such reports. Says Cause Not Known. "I have nb idea what caused the accident," said Capt. Walter J. Reed,

chief pilot of the ill-fated airship, in a statement given out at the Public Health Service hospital here today. "I doubt if it will ever be known. Of course, we have our own theories, but we are not certain which is correct. "I had known that there was trouble with the control of the ship and it was impossible to correct it after it wa3 discovered. The first intimation we had that there was trouble was when we saw the nose of the ship down. ' -. "We went back to see what caused it and found the control was not working. Everything possible was done to straighten the ship and get her on an even keel again." Shuts Off Motors. "Captain Mabry gave orders ,to shut off all motors. The last four were shut off. ;The forward motor was still running. It is possible that tLe engineer was so thrown out of his position that he could not see the signals on his dial. "Every effort to get the Roma on an even keel proved useless and , she pitched into the ground In a nose dive and turned over on her side. When the ship hit, I was thrown into tiie upper part of the cabin.: I-was shut in and got out only when a hole was burned into the cabin. Lieutenant Welch crawled out with me. Both of us had to go through flames to get to

safety. . . . Rudder Blamed Army officers who survived the disaster declared it was caused by the collapse of the elevating rudder. The Roma was sailing along smoothly about three hundred feet in the air. they said, when the elevating rudder suddenly buckled, throwing the stern of the craft upward. The buckling of the rudder crippled the steering apparatus and started the Roma on its plunge toward the ground. The downward progress of the airship was checked by shutting oft the engines but the pilots were powerless to right the craft and it plunged to the ground, crashed through a line of high tension electric wires and landed upon a pile of steel rails and wheels. Heat Caused Fire The survivors emphatically 'denied statements of civilians who saw the accident from the ground that fire broke out on . the ' Roma before she

struck the ground. The army officers who escaped also said they believed the fire and explosions which followed the crash were caused by the heat of the airship's motors rather than by contact with the electric wires. Striking these the big dirigible capsized, its great 410 foot hydrogen bag smothering the passenger and engine compartments as it crashed to earth to become immediately a raging furnace of blazing hydrogen gas in which all who had not jumped to earth met a terrible death. All of the eleven survivors escaped by jumping as the ship struck, only one of the victims

meeting death in this way. Investigate Report , Reports that the. bag of the semi

rigid dingiDie was- rotten, will be

cers and men from Langley field

SSSr'W t0 7' ProbVby the army board' of "inquj close friends will be called in this r,, mp -,., tAlr Z

morning. They are Sergeant Yarbor-

ough. Lieutenant Hall. Sergeant Gor-

by, Sergeant' Schumaker.

Addresses of the dead are now be-

lnalcatlons that it would so consider- ins- rnmniloH fmm tya nn,a . it

I ably, higher 'before nightfall. . Langley field.

Both officers and men early today, declined to comment on the report. The board of inquiry will be named today or tomorrow and there -will bea full and complete investigation of (Continued on Page Ten) "i ''