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CALL IK VETS TO CONSIDER B3MUS PLAN Officials of Legion and Other

World War Organizations Meet With Senate Republi cans MacNider Talks. IMPATIENT AT DELAY (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 24. Officials of the American Legion and other organizations of World war veterans, were called Into secret conference to- . lay with Republicans of the senate finance committee to discuss soldier

bonus legislation. Various plans of payment of the compensation and of financing it were presented to the spokesmen for the veterans who agreed to discuss it among themselves, and to meet with the committee members again tomorhow. Senator Watson, of Indiana, said that the American Legion officers, who included Hanford MacNider, national commander and John Thomas Taylor, chairman of the legislative Vi'ommitte, had expressed approval of the house bill with its bank loan provision, and that apparently they were not "enamored" of the proposal for substitute endowment insurance policy feature without any specific loan authorization. MacNider Talks. Before entering the committee room, Mr. MacNider made public a statement addressed to the chairman and members of the committee.

In it he expressed the hope that "this will be the last time that it is necessary for us to appear before you upon the so-called adjusted compensation bill." He reviewed the history of the legis lation and said he believed that vet erans and "the business men generally throughout the country look to the senate to pass this bill without fur ther delay and so complete the work which has been done by the lower house of congress." "What has impressed me most," the statement added, "is .that the ex-service men and women cannot understand the delay and the time which it

has taken not only to perfect this bill but to receive favorable considerations of it." Question of Financing The question of financing the bonufc of treasury certificates of indebtedness was also one of those put up to the spokesman for the veterans. Senator Watson said that while It would be necessary to grant additional authority to the secretary "of the treasury to issue such certificates, it was his judgment that If this plan of financing finally were agreed upon, such authorization would be contained in the bill. . As to the use of the foreign debt, Vthe Indiana senator said that if this course be decided upon he would favor a provision in the bill carrying such an authorization.

THINK WASHINGTON PARLEY WILL SETTLE PERU -CHILE DISPUTE (By Associated Press.) PARIS. April 24 Belief that the long-standing dispute over the application of the treaty of Ancon between Peru and Chile will be definitely settled at the coming conference in Washington is expressed by Dr. Meliton F. Porras. one of the Peruvian delegates, in an interview with L'EcIair. "I am absolutely convinced that the Pacific question has reached its final stage, and that an equitable solution will be found in Washington," he said. "The great moral authority of the United States is evidently to contribute to bring our labors to a happy conclusion. The American politicians understand the question thoroughly. "I cannot exactly say what form a solution at once compatible with the realities of the situation and the justice of our cause will take, but what I think we are entitled to hope for is that under the aegis of the United States we shall achieve practical results." LEWIS WILL JOIN MINING CONFERENCE (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, April 24. The anthracite coal miners' committee, here in conference with the operators on the new wage scale, will be reinforced by the presence of John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers. They go into direct conference again tomorrow with the owners' committee. Iewls is expected to act as adviser when the operators' concrete wage basis offer is submitted. His presence will transfer to New York the temporary headquarters of the bituminous cow nw. 33 7 Vh't for the wage conference insist that thr .ill ;ot .cpt a we J1od and say that the Lewis "fight to the finish" tactics Tiill be of great. value in getting the operators down to a brass tack discussion. - BELIEVED SHIP SUNK WITH CREW OF 17 SATTLTK STE. MARIE, Mich., April 04. The steamer Lampden of the Canadian lighthouse service, carrying a crew of about 17 men, is believed to have sunk southeast of Michipicoten island, in Lake Superior, during the Btorm of last week.

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The Princess Bertha Cantacuzene-Sperensky, great-granddaughter of exPresident Grant, who with her mother will unveil the memorial to the illustrious soldier and statesman in Washington on April 27. Besides the exercises in the national capital, ceremonies will be held simultaneously in Point Pleasant, Ohio, the birthplace of General Grant.

EXPECT INDIANA REPUBLICAN, DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION TO SOUND CAMPAIGN KEYNOTES

PALLADIOI WEAVS flrBUAC WASHINGTON, April 24. The Republican and Democratic state conventions In Indiana which will follow the Indiana primary election will be of national importance, as the two parties will sound at these conventions their "keynotes" of the campaign preceding the November congressional elections. The Indiana Republican convention will be held at Indianapolis, May 24 and 25. The Democratic state convention will be held at the same place, May 31 and June 1. The platforms which the Republicans and the Democrats will construct MUST ASK FOR PARTY BALLOT AT PRIMARY; RIGHT TO CHALLENGE At the primary election May 2, both Republicans and Democrats will participate and there will be ballots for each party. A voter may vote the bal lot of his party only. If he or she Is a Republican she must call for a Republican ballot and if a Democrat, for a Democrat ballot. A voter cannot vote both. Democrats cannot lawfully vote a Republican ballot nor can a Republican vote a Democrat ballot. . The coming primary is no different in any respect than those held during the last six years and the law is plain as to party affiliation and a voter is subject to challenge should he seek to vote a party ballot other than of the party to which he belongs or for a ma jority of whose candidates he voted at the last general election and expects to vote the ticket of that party in November. In other words, it is

pointed out, the purpose of the pri- They will escort the reat French milimary is for Republicans to nominate j tary leader to city hall at 3 o'clock, their own- candidates and for Demo-! when Mayor Hylan will present him crats to nominate their own candidates j with the freedom of the municipality.

without interference from the op.poslte parties of either. No Chang- In Voting The voting will be precisely as in other primary elections, the rule being to mark a cross (X) after the name of the candidate for whom a person, desires to vote. In regular elections the cross is made in front of the name of the candidates, but voters should remember that in primaries the cross is made after the name, not in front of it. This will apply to the May primary. According to predictions made by party leaders at Indianapolis the vote at this primary will not bring out more than 75 per cent of the strength of either Republican or Democratic parties. In some localities where there is much interest in local tickets, the percentage may be greater, It is believed, but as a general proposition the vote at Indiana primaries in the last 12 years has ranged between 55 and 75 per cent of .the normal vote of either of the leading parties. POINCAHE THREATENS FRANCE WILL LEAVE GENOA CONFERENCE (By Associated Press.) BAR-LE-DUC, April 24. Premier Poincare announced in a speech here today that if the French delegation at ' ,, n .hc.H wtth u. I "J" J VpSd con jiuoS France would regretfully have to cease participation in the conference. France will, if necessary, undertake alone to see that the treaty of Ver sailles is executed if the Germans default in their reparations payments. Premier Poincare intimated in a speech before the general council of the department of the Meuse today. The 31st of May, when the Germans must either accept the conditions laid down by the reparations commission or default in their payment, is an important date for France, said the premier. It is France's duty, he added, "in full independence" to assume the duty of maintaining the integrity of the treaty." '

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hi at the Indiana conventions are expected to serve as models for subsequent state conventions. At this time na tional leaders of the two major parties in Washington have their heads to gether determining the various planks to be fitted into the Indiana platforms. Planks dealing exclusively with local 8 Hairs will be shaped by state leaders. The planks dealing with subjects of national interest will be prepared in Washington. Officials high in the administration are expected to have much to eay about the planks dealing with national issues which will be put into the Indiana Republican platform. Members of the executive board of the Republican national committee and Republican congressional leaders will also be consulted. Republican platform experts are framing the record of the administration and of the dominant party in congress. "We point with pride" will be (Continued on Page Sixteen) BANQUETS, REVIEWS, AND CELEBRATIONS FOR JOFFREINN. Y. (By Associated Fress) NEW YORK, April 24. With a week of fetes, dinners, military views and special celebrations to occupy every minute of his time in New York, Marshal Joffre, hero of the Marne. accompanied by his wife and daughter and his military aides, will arrive from Washington today. He will be received by Gaston Lieber, consul general of France, and a committee of welcome for the city, I Immediately after he will be greeted by the United States French societies at a reception at the seventh regiment armory. This evening Marshall Joffre will attend the dinner of the Academy of Arts and Letters given in honor of M. Donnay and Chevrillo, here to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Moliere. - : ner bv the citv of New York in honor guard troops and a reception by the American committee for devastated France. During the rest of the week Marshal Joffre will pay tribute to Gen eral Grant and unveil a bust of the great American military leader and president on the 100th anniversary of his birth in the hall of fame. The marshal also will visit Brooklyn and review the 106th infantry, part of the 27th division. Thursday evening he will attend a dinner of the FranceAmerican society and also be at the Ulysses S. Grant anniversary meeting in town hall. The gallant Frenchman will spend Friday in complete seclusion and Saturday he will bid New York adieu, sailing the in morning on the Celtic for France. JOHN MEREDITH, 28, KILLS SELF WITH GUN John Meredith, 28 years old, shot and killed himself with a 22-calibre rifle at his home east of the Isaac Wilson farm, south of Richmond on the Liberty pike, about 8 o'clock Monday morning. "Mr. Meredith was subject to men tal disturbances," said Coroner Edgar S. Bond, in making a report of the death. "On occasions he suffered from fits of anger, some times over trivialities." It is said that of Mr. Meredith's two young children saw the father in the yard with a gun at his head and that the child ran to tell Mrs. Meredith, but before she could intervene the shot had been fired. Mr. Meredith was a tenant on the Wilson farm. The widow and two children survive. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.

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PACT TO END WARJOVES Delegation Announces It Favors Proposal by Which Na tions Will Abstain From Aggression. GO GRIMIYTOTASK (By Associated Press) GENOA. April 24. The French delegation announced today that it was willing . to subscribe to the proposed pact under which the various nations would agree to abstain from aggression, provided It was backed by prop er guarantees considered especially necessary in view . of the Russo-Ger-man treaty. Once more today the gyrating Genoa) conference, which has been alterna'-; ing between fears and the political! crises which have threatened it alto-! gether, set itself grimly to the task of. readjusting the economic life of Europe. The announcement by the German delegates late last night that they would not reply to the allies' second note because they did not wish to endanger the success of the conference was received everywhere with frankly uttered words of relief, for almost everybody was beginning to despair secretly that the conference would end in economic achievement. Praise Italian Heads In all quarters today were heard words of praise for the patient effort of the Italian leaders to establish harmony so that the conference might concentrate upon the constructive problems for which it was organized. Six sub-commissions were scheduled to hold meetings today, and the committee of experts on the Russian question made plans to take up seriatim the report on the reconstruction of Russia prepared by the allied experts who met in London. Thi3 report concerns not only the question of the handling of Russia's debts, but al so matters vital to foreigners in their relations with Russia, bearing on the legal protection they are to have in their dealings in Russia. The soviet delegation has overtnrown for the moment its noted mem orandum issued as an answer to the experts, because it is in contradiction with the later Russian note eccepting the allies' terms as a basis of discus sion. Russ Modify Opinions. Russian spokesmen explained that the memorandum, which the powers found unpalatable merely voiced the opinions of the Soviet delegates at the first stage of the negotiations, whereas now they have decided to modify their earlier opinions. They were careful, however, to make the reservation that this modification was contingent upon "the successful! outcome of the present pourparlers,' but the conference has produced so many shocks and examinations mere phrases no longer are causing the panic which they did at the outset of the deliberations. Everybody appears to desire some concrete results, and then to return home feeling that at least a hopeful beginning has been made toward rebuilding the deranged economic machinery of Europe. Such seems the spirit at the opening of the third week of the conference. RUSVILLLE BANKER GOES TO PORTO RICO (By Associated Press) RUSHVILLE, Ind., April 24. Ernest B. Thomas, secretary of a loan company here, will take up his duties as president of the United States Federal Land bank, of Porto Rico, soon after May 1, it was announced here today. Mr. Thomas was a member of the board investigating farm loan conditions in Porto Rico in 1920, and recommended that congress establish a loan bank in that country. . As soon after May 1 as Mr. Thomas I can wmd up hia business affairs here, it was said. Weather Forecast FOR RICHMOND VICINITY By W. E. Moore Showers and possibly thunderstorms tonight and Tuesday; moderate tem - perature. 'the slow eastward movement 01 the Rocky mountain storm indicates unsettled weather for the next 36 hours with occasional rains. Temperatures For Yesterday Maximum 60 Minimum 30 Today Noon 59 Weather Conditions The cold spell which has prevailed for several days is slowly drifting southeastward and is now central over the middle Atlantic states, while mild spring weather covers the states west of the Mississippi river. A storm over the west is caus ing cloudy unsettled weather over the plain states with showers and thunder storms. The heavy frost and freeze of Sunday morning was nothing unusual for the season .as the average date of the last severe frost is around April 19 for this section. However, occasional heavy frost occurs sometimes during the first week of May. For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau Showers tonight and probably Tuesday; slightly wanner tonight. Paid Circulation Saturday, was 11,703

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Miss Olive Clarke has just beep appointed a deputy sheriff and is the first woman in the state-of Arkansas to hold such a position. She is also an honorary member of the Arkansas State Sheriff and Collectors' association.

CHARLES B. LANDIS, NEWSPAPERMAN AND EX-LAWMAKER, DIES (By Associated Press) ASHEVILLE, N. C, April 26. Charles B. Landis. former member of congress from Indiana, and for a number of years an official of the Dupont Powder company, died early today at a local hospital. He came nere a week ago from Chicago for his health. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, his brother, was en route to his bedside when death occurred. Mr. Landis was a graduate of Wabash college and for four years was editor of the Logansport (Indiana; Journal. He was a member of the 55th to 60th congresses, from 1899 to 1909. . ... . . INDIANAPOLIS, April 24. Charles Beary Landis, former congressman and , Indiana newspaper editor, was born July 9, 1858, at Millville, Butler county, Ohio, of German-Swiss ancestry and was the older brother of former Judge K. M. Landis and former Congressman Frederick. K. Landis. The Landis family moved to Logansport, Ind., while the boys were small, and it was in the public schools of that city that Charles obtained his early education. He was graduated from Wabash college in 1883 and that year entered newspaper work on tho Logansport Journal. He later became editor of the paper, but left it in 1887 when he purchased the Delphi Jour nal. Former Congressman Landis be came actively interested in politics about this time and was elected president of the Indiana Republican Edi torial association in 1894. He was reelected the following year. Mr. Landis was elected to congress from the Ninth Indiana district in 1896 and served his party in that capacity from 1897 to 1909, when he was defeated by Martin A. Morrisson," a Democrat. ' He resumed newspaper work for a while at Delphi, then moved to Wilmington, Del., where he became connected with the Dupont Powder company. It has been said that the for mer congressman Invested heavily in the Dupont company and in recent years had become very wealthy. SIPE IS SENTENCED AND FINED $7,000 FOR EMBEZZLEMENT (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, April 24. Richard V. Sipe, former clerk of Marlon coun ty, who confessed to county -offiolan , tht h- ., short morft thaI1 sioo.000 jia h5s accounts, today was sentenced TO the state prison on two sentences nf Trnrn trrt tn 14 v(,ars and one n 1 from one tQ five yearg and fined a to tal of $7,000. Sipe was charged in grand jury Indictments with embezzlement on two counts and conspiracy to embezzle on another. had indicted him,-he pleaded guilty to the three charges. William H. Latta, a prominent attorney, and Edwin A. Hunt, president of the Pivot Realty company, and Mr3. Mary G. Bell, former cashier in Sipe's office, also were indicted on charges of embezzlement. Latta and Hunt were charged with embezzling $10,000, while Mrs. Bell and Sipe were charged with em bezzling $150,000. ; . , TO TRY MINERS' ON: TREASON CHARGES i (3v Associated Press) CHARLESTON, W. Va., April 24. Charges of treason, growing out of the Logan march last fall, were selected today by counsel for the state as the first upon which nine union leaders and members are to be tried in the circuit court here. The defense announced its intention to enter a de murrer to the treason charge and to file a motion to quash the indictment.

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"CLEAN-UP" DRIVE TO RELIEVE SOLDIERS HAS BEEN COMPLETED PAI.UDIIM SEWS BIREAC WASHINGTON. April 24. The "clean-up" drive conducted by the United States Veterans' bureau for the purpose of locating and extending government relief to disabled veterans of the late war has been completed and bureau officials state that the results were very satisfactory. This under taking was Inaugurated shortly after the decentralization of the bureau, nearly a year ago. More than 17o,000 disabled ex-serv ice men were interviewed during the campaign and 'approximately 110,000 new claims were handled. The number of cjaims filed by the clean-up squads during the drive indicate that there were thousands of veterans throughout the country, particularly in the mountainous and rural districts of sparsely settled communities, who were unaware of the benefits to which they were entitled and uninformed as to the procedure of obtaining relief from the government. It. was largely on the basis of these men for whom no claims had been filed that the charge of neglect of disabled veterans was founded. Thousands of these cases would never have been brought to the attention of the government had it not been for the work of the cleanup squads. Visited 1,500 Towns The squads sent out from the vari ous district offices of the veterans' bureau visited over 1,500 towns and cities in every state in the union. In remote districts transportation facilities were inadequate and it was fre quently necessary for the bureau rep resentatives to travel by horseback. During the heavy snowfall of the past winter members of clean-up squads in the northwestern states often went about on snowshoes and ski is. I As the result of the now concluded drive 47,845 new compensation 'claims were filed and 32,804 apeals from previous compensation awards were made. The medical officers with these squads made 71,681 physical examinations. Disabled veterans who were in such condition that they required treatment were immediately hospitalized. Many Tubercular Many of the men who were examined were found to be tubercular. Such cases formed a large part of the 4.957 hospitalization cases. The cases sent to hospitals by the clean-up workers form one-sixth of the entire exservice hospital population of the veterans bureau. There were 27,234 claims for vocational training filed by ex-service men during the clean-up campaign. In addition - to the filing of compensation claims and vocational training applications there were a large number of applications for reinstatement and conversion of war risk insurance. Thousands of veterans now have their disabilities on record with the veterans bureau who prior to the clean-up drive had made no appeal for government aid. In the future should their disabilities become aggravated it will be less difficult for them to establish their right to com pensation or an increase of the same tha"l,f ther dld not have thl3 recori on file This is particularly true of tuber(Continued on Page Eight; ORDERS 300 LIBERALS HELD IN NICARAGUA MEXICO CITY,' April 24. The arrest of more than 300 members of the Nicaraguan Liberal party, because of revolutionary activities, has been or dered by President Chamorro, accord ing to private advices received here. The liberals are reported to have been unusuall yaggressive during the last week, and a coup against the governmemt was feared. A Managua dispatch on April 6 said martial-law had been proclaimed in Nicaragua for thirty days, following discovery of a plot, against the gov ernnient .and that 34 Liberals had been arrested, charged with conspir acy to assassinate the president and other officials.

SOVIET SEEKS STABILITY IN HOftlEAFFAIRS While Delegation Is at Genoa Bolshevik Government Trying by Work at Home to Steady Finances. fc

SHIFTING GRADUALLY (By Associated Pross MOSCOW, April 24. While its delegation at Genoa is trying to reach an agreenunt with the European power for economic aid for soviet Russia, the Bolshevik government is seeking to bring its financial and other affairs to a sounder basis by work at home. The all-Russian communist Farty congress has bet-n the preliminary battlefield on which this internal struggle to bring order out of chaos -in Russia's finances has been sought. Against the few remaining members of the Communist who still cling to the idea that money should be eliminated. M. Sokolnikoff. assistant to th commisar for finance, supported by tne majority, carried his point that a sound monetary system for soviet Russia can be gained only by curtailing the issue of paper money, on one hand, and by collecting taxes, to bring 1h money back to the government, on the other. Expect Income to Grow Sokolnikoff said that Russia's industry and economic resistance was now dependent upon the amount of "hard" and foreign money the government could get into its hands. To attempt to go to a gold standard immediately he declared, would be futile, as the recent attempt to calculate taxes, etc., on a gold basis, had failed because of the impossibility of setting exchange rates quickly enough to keep up with the market fluctuations. Up to the last of March, 25 trillion paper rubles had been issued in 1922. it developed at the conference. Hitherto the government, while paying out huge sums in paper, scarcely ever received any of it back, as there were no taxes in money to be paid, no tram fares, railway fares, or postal or othe revenues.- Now the income is expect ed to grow and there will be an ef '.fort to check the outgo. Cut Budgets ' From April 1 the gold standard at tempt was abandoned, and all taxe. railway fares, etc., calculated in on tha basis of the paper ruble. Foreign currency, which had reached unprecedented exchange quotations on tho curb as high, for example, a3 two million rubbles to the dollardropped slowly soon after the plan was announced. Municipalities must support themselves under the new plan. All government budgets are to be cut to tho bone and new budgets arranged everr three months. The council of commissioners has appointed a special commission, in line with the new policy, to eliminate bureaucracy in the state institutions ! and has proposed a further reduction 1 Yiv K0 npr ppnt rtf tho pnirernmpnf em ployes. LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS WILL OPEN CONCLAVE TUESDAY (By Associated Press.) BALTIMORE, April 24. Conferences of committee groups of the National League of Women Voters were held today to clear the way for the opening of the third annual convention of the league tomorrow morning. While these were going on the delegates to the Pan-American conference of women, which ended last night with a symposium on the "great women of all the Americas," met informally today to consider a resolution proposed by the delegates from Uruguay, Senora de Vitale, suggesting a permanent pan-American union of women. Strong sentiment for the proposed organization was manifested but leaders of the conference felt that the subject was so large and affected so vitally the interests of the women of the Latin-American countries that the delegates from these countries should have opportunity to consider it in detail and reach a conclusion among themselves. This afternoon the delegates will visit the naval academy and points of historical interest at Annapoli3 and afterwards will be received by Got. Ritchie at the executive mansion. BERGDOLL'S BROTHER MUST STAY IN PRISON (By Arsociated Pre) WASHINGTON. April 24. The supreme court today denied the application of Irwin R. Bergdoll, of Philadelphia, for a writ of habeas corpus Irwin, a brother of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, is now serving a sentence of four years at Leavenworth for a failure to perform military service during the war, and contended he was illegally convicted. Robbers Wreck Bank Safe ; Loss, If Any, Not Known fV.y Associated Press) BRUCETON, MILLS, W. Va., April 24 Robbers who gained entrance to the Bruceton bank; here early today wrecked the combination mechanism of the vault and oficials of the institution said they had called an expert from Pittsburgh to open the big steel door. Jeremiah. Thomas, president of the bank, said that it had not been determined whether the robbers had entered the vault in which was stored $300.000 in bonds and securities and $10,000 in cash.