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VOL. XCIL, No. 119 Pa!faJfnm. Est 1S31. Consolidated With Sun-Telegram, 1907. RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1922. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS

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OREGON BATTLE

IS ANTI-ALIEN AND RELIGIOUS Ku Klux Klan and Patriotic Societies Indorse Candidates One - Aspirant . is Against Bonus Bill. PRIMARY WINS POINT By MARK suixivajt WASHINGTON, May 19. Only on one point will the Oregon primaries, now In the limelight, give us the same basis for clear deductions about the political trend that the Pennsylvania did. In the Oregon campaign a religious element has been introduced which obscures other things, not only with regard to the governorship, but also with regard to two of the three congressional vacancies concerned. One candidate in each case has

been Indorsed by the local Ku Klux Klan and by an .anti-alien combination known as the federated patriotic societies, while another candidate will be the beneficiary of the combined trength of those elements which Wavo been aroused by the activities of the Ku Klux Klan and the federated patriotic societies and are determined to defeat them. One possibility of this situation is that Oregon, which ' Is normally a strong Republican state, may elect a Democratic governor this fall. If the candidate of the patriotic societies should be nominated in the Republican primaries, he will undoubtedly be opposed in the fall elections by those elements in the population against whom the efforts of the Ku Klux Klan are directed. Religious Issue In Oregon the voters of Jewish, Catholic, or alien stock are mostly Republicans, and any defection on their part next fall would be a serious one for the party. Oregon is one of

three or. four, isolated- epota in the country where this religiouB issue is obscuring everything else. In the three congressional primaries being held in Oregon, there will be one result which may give us some lifcht on an important public question. Congressman C. N. McArthur, of the Portland district, took an anti-bonus position when that subject . was recently up in congress. He i now being vigorously opposed on this and other grounds. The outcome may provide a rough test of pubic opinion on this question. . It is one of the subjects about which politicians are most tager to find out what the majority of the public is really thinking. Another of the Oregon congressmen, N. J. Sinnott, is a Catholic, and for that reason is the particular object of the attacks of the Ku Klux Klan and the federated patriotic societies. What Victory Means. As to the recent Pennsylvania primaries, no words could possibly over state its political significance. President Harding and the Republican lead-j ers are bound to take note of it. The leadership and management of the Repubican party in tbe nation are at this moment in the hands of men who, while prevailingly "old guard" in sentiment, look upon it as a means of ascertaining contemporary sentiment and reflecting it. . For Harding, this rule works out strikingly in the progressive direction. He must see that the Republican party in. the middle west is being saved by the farm bloc; that in Indiana, Beveridge was preferred to his own friend, and that in Pennsylvania the progressive Pinchot administered defeat to the strongest political machine in the nation. Among other things, the result of the Pennsylvania primary is likely to give occasion for second thought to some Republican leaders who have had it in mind to do away with the direct primary entirely and to go back completely to the old convention system without attempting any compromise course. In Pennsylvania it was the direct primary solely that gave Pinchot his opportunity. Under the convention system as it used to be Pinchot would not have had a chance to become governor of Pennsylvania. Another Reflection. Another reflection that must occur to Harding and the Republican managers is that the selection of Pinchot Is a definitely measurable asset to the Republican party. The fact that PinTchot will be the Republican candidate "for governor, instead of the machine selection, makes it reasonably certain that the Republicans will elect from five to ten more congressmen in Pennsylvania than they otherwise would have elected. If the machine selection had been nominated instead of Pinchot every competent political observer would f have known today that with regard to the governorship of Pennsylvania and also with regard to several of the congressional districts, Pennsylvania in November would be a doubtful state. As It stands, however, the Democrats have no chance. Pinchot riii he flfcted eovernor, and the next two senators from Pennsylvania will j be the Republican nominees, uavio. Reed and George Wharton Pepper. In the Pennsylvania primary there was a larger participation and activity on the part of women voters than has taken place in any other state since women got the franchise. Of those who voted, It was easily apparent to any one who was in the state that certainly three out of five, and nrobably four out of five, of the woETre for Pinchot. If the politicians can discover just what it is in Pinchot and what it was in the Pennsvlvanla situation that caused the women to support him, with characteristically feminine determination and eagerness, they will have added something to their store of wisdom. 41 Copyright, 1922, by the New York Evening Post, Inc.)

EDISON RECOMMENDS GOVERNMENT ACCEPT HENRY FORD'S OFFER

(By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 19. Acceptance by - the government of Henry Ford's offer for development of the Muscle Shoals project was recommended to members of the senate ag ricultural committee, in conference last night, by Thomas A. Edison, who recently surveyed the Alabama property In company with the Detroit manufacturer. No announcement of the visit to Washington of the inventor was made and it was not until today that anybody, except those who participated in the conference, knew of them. Mr. Edison was said to have assured ' senators that Mr. Ford would use the Muscle Shoals plant in the manufacture of fertilizer, and in this connection declared he bimself was interested in developing an American potash supply to compete with the products of German exporters. The Inventor also told senators that he was causing experiments to be made in connection with an extensive elate deposit in Tennessee which had a potash content averaging . 18 per cent. . TO ASK INDICTMENT OF ALLEGED DRIVER IN "DEATH CAR" CASE (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, May 19. Indictment of John Miller, alleged driver of the "death car" from which shots were fired May 9, killing two policemen in disorders attributed by police to labor troubles, will be among those to be asked today by Robert E. Crowe, state's attorney. Police today continued questioning suspects arrested yesterday in an ef fort to locate Charles Daudzauskis and "Floater" Stanley, named by Miller as the other occupants of the car in a confession police claim to have obtained from him. Through Tony Schultz, arrested yesterday in a saloon owned by Charle3 Banaitis, who also 13 held, police say, they believe they can locate Daudzauskis. Schultz is known as a pal of Daudzauskis. N "Big Tim" Murphy, head of the Gashouse Workers' and Street Sweepers' unions; Cornelius Shea, of the Theatrical Janitors' union, and Fred Mader, president of the Chicago Building Trades council, were questioned by police until early this morning, but disclosures said to be made by them were not made public, . Miller, around whom police today are centering their attack, admitted that he was connected with other activities of Chicago gangsters, police said. Efforts are being made to connect him with the shooting of a saloon keeper at Cicero, 111., in November. Urges Jury Service. Kickham Scanlon, chief justice of the criminal court, before whom an application for immediate trial, filed by attorneys for Murphy, Mader and Shea now is pending, in an address last night denounced "big business man" who refused to serve on juries. "Much crime would be wiped out' be said, "if business men would accept ?ae responsibility of jury service. Some men are afraid to serve on jurys, although I do not remember one case of a juror who helped return a verdict in Cook county being molested. - "There have been 18 bombs thrown in Chicago in the last 60 days and the recent killing of two policemen brought matters to a head. If Mayor I Thompson had brought Murphy and Mariop intn hia rtffir-A anil nrriprpri thpm to stop any disorders in their organizations, this trouble would be done away with," he said. "The union situation is most critical. Many leaders are defying justice and leaders must be bribed before a building can be erected" he said. DAUGHERTY IS TOLD STEEL MERGER WAITS O.K. OF DEPARTMENT (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 19. Attorney General Daugherty was informed to day bv an official of one of the in dependent steel companies Involved in the projected merger, that the consolidation would be effected only after consultation with the department of justice. The official, whose name the attorney general did not disclose, and who talked with Mr. Daugherty over the long distance phone, requested a postponement until next Wednesday of the conference which Mr. Daugherty has asked the officials of the companies involved in the proposed merger to hold with him. The request was granted. Mr. Daugherty said the official also informed him that the steel companies never had any intention of bringing about the merger without laying their plan3 before the department of justice. BOAT GOES ASHORE; ABANDONED BY CREW (By Associated Press) AMAGANSETT, N. Y., May 19. Eagle boat No. 17 went ashore early today between Amagansett and East Hampton, near the southeastern tip of Long Island and was abandoned by her crew. It was expected she would be floated at high tide. The crew reached the beach safely, assisted by coast guards. The vessel's tailshaft was swept away. . . BOSTON, May 19. Eagle boat 1Y was reported aground and abandoned by her crew at Montauk Point., in a radio message received here today.

HEATED ROW BY SENATORS OVER TARIFF

Brief But Warm Squabble Arises Over Duties on Brick Involving Conditions in the Housing Industry. HOME QUESTION IS UP (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 19. There was a brief but heated row in the senate today over the duties on brick as proposed in the tariff bill. It was precipitated by the reading of a memorandum from Samuel Untermeyer, counsel for the Lockwood investigating committee in New York, which declared that the only remedy for the situation in the housing indus try, as uncovered by his committee, was the removal of tariff which excluded from the country basic building materials. Defending the proposed rate, Senator McCumber, North Dakota, in charge of the bill, said it was not the manufacturers in New York "who were charging five or six times what their materials are worth," who asked for the duty, but manufacturers near the Canadian border, who had to compete with Canadian producers. Senator Stanley, Democrat, Kentucky, opposed the proposed duties, declaring that the brick manufacturers were not to be considered; that the first consideration was for the great voiceless millions in America who wanted to oWn their own homes. The senate after the flareup returned to the consideration of items in the chemical schedule. Senator McCumber calling to attention that the brick schedule would come up later. NOT GUILTY MOTION IN CASE OF BLIZZARD ; OVERRULED BY JUDGE (By Associated Press) CHARLESTON, W. Va., May 19. Judge J. M. Wood today overruled a motion to direct a verdict of not guilty in the case of William Blizzard, youthful mine union official, charged with treason as a result of the armed march last summer against Logan county non-union stronghold in tbe coal fields of the state. Judge Wood on the other defense motion, limited the state as to the overt act on which it relied to convict the defendant to his presence with the armed marchers in Logan county. Questions of whether the offenses that might be charged against the miners could be construed as treason, and whether Blizzard's connection with the march as brought out in the testimony came within the allegations of the treason indictment naming him among the 53 defendants, were the principal ones debated by counsel on both sides. Some of the testimony adduced in the Blizzard case dealt with the killing of Deputy Sheriff John Gore during the fighting on Blair mountain, just within the county border where county and state forces met the marching forces. Eight of the more than 100 defendants whose cases were transferred from Logan to Jefferson county for trial are held in jail, the state be lieving that it has sufficient evidence to connect them directly with the killinS of Gore and it was indicated that j uie&e wuuiu pruoaoiy De select I cu LUcti PINCHOT CONFIDENT NO SORESPOTS LEFT (By Associated Press) -PHILADELPHIA, May 19. Confi dent of his victory over Attorney-General George E. Alter for the Republican nomination for governor of Pennsylvania and with assurances, he said, that his campaign had left no ' sore spots in the party that cannot be healed, Clifford Pinchot today, was at his home in Pike county. Latest returns give Pinchot a lead of 8,648. Most of the 272 missing districts are in counties where Pinchot ran strong. - Mr. Pinchot declared that he had received assurances that a united party would fight for his election next November against John A. McSparran, the Democratic nominee; Mr. McSparran said "'the terrific slump in the Republican vote under conditions that . usually would bring out a large vote shows that the rank and file of the Republican party care very little whether the followers of the late Senator Penrose or the other crowd won at the primaries. "The people of Pennsylvania will choose to place the longed for cleanup in the hands of those who have not been affiliated with either of their factions." it Tiger" Has No Bouquet For British Premier "(By Associated Press) PARIS, May 19. Lloyd George would hear nothing complimentary if it occurred to him to have a talk with Georges Clemenceau at the present moment, writes a representative of the Echo de Paris after interviewing France's war premier. . "But the British people," said M. Clemenceau emphatically, "you can be as certain as -1 am myself, remain faithful to France." Asked how he was getting on with his book, M. Clemenceau replied: "I expect to finish the first chapter in three years. The work greatly interests me, and I turn over ideas In my mind. I have got down the outlines. In a word, I take my time."

The Wrong Weapon To Use To Win Public Sympathy

DAWES, WHO WILL RETIRE JULY 1ST, PLACES BUSINESS IN GOVERNMENT WITHIN ONE YEAR

palladium nftws bureau i WASHINGTON, May 19. When General Dawes, director of the budget, gives up his important post the first, of July and returns to his beloved Chicago, he will fairly have won the reputation of being one of the most valuable men ever in the government service. Within less than one years time Dawes has placed business in government, and upon that accomplishment his fame will rest secure. From the first Dawes has had the loyal support of President Harding. That meant much to Dawes for he has not been following a primrose path. One of the most Important reforms accomplished by Dawes relates to the purchasing of government supplies. Prior to the establishment of the budget system, inaugurated last July, each department and independent bureau purchased its own supplies and this method caused a great waste of public funds annually. Under the Dawes system, purchasing has been co-ordinated. Four illustrations, taken at random from a list of thousands of transfers, show how the Dawes' plan works. Transfer Supplies. A few months ago the Veterans' bureau needed furniture to equip one of its offices. Had it gone into the open market and purchased this furniture, as it once would have done, the cost would have been $1,114. At Ore and Coal Miners Given Wage Increases (By Associated Press) ' BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. May 19. Wage increases of 15 per cent to ore miners and ten per cent to coal mines have been made effective as of May 16 by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railt road company. The advance, describ-' ed as the first upward movement of wages in this district 6ince the post war depression, was made on the company's initiative. Officials said the corporation plants were operating above normal. Weather Forecast FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY By. W. E. Moore. Partly cloudy butlnostly fair tonight and Saturday. Continuel cool tonight: rising temperature Saturday. , The gradual passing eastward of the storm over the Great Lakes indicates partly cloudy and somewhat unsettled weather this afternoon and tonight, followed by generally fair. It will begin to moderate by Saturday. Temperatures for Yesterday. Maximum 67 Minimum 51 Today. Noon 53 Weather Conditions The principal storm continues to move slowly eastward attended by brisk to strong winds and rain over the north and central states. Temperatures are below normal from Iowa and Missouri eastward and northward. It is much warmer in the western states and over western Canada. It was 76 yesterday at Medicine Hat, and 78 at Helena, Mont. Another storm with two cen ters is gradually overspreading the Rocky mountains. For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Saturday; somewhat warmer in north and central portions Saturday. Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 11,842

that time, however, the shipping board had among its vast amount of surplus supplies a large quantity of office fur-

niture. Based on the records of prices received by the' government for surplus property auctioned at forced sale, the shipping board would have received about $490 for this furniture had it disposed of it at forced public sale. But the Veterans' bureau did not go into the open market for furniture and the shipping board did not dispose of its surplus furniture at a pub(Continued on Pag Fifteen) HOOVER'S SCHEME TO CONTROL COAL PRICES UNDER WAY (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, "May 19. Plans to give effect to the scheme adopted by coal operators in conference with Secretary Hoover for preventing profi teering in the price of bituminous coal supplied by non-union and open shop mines during the present strike had been placed under way today , with the issuance of a call for a general conference of the operators whose adherence to the scheme is regarded as vital to its success. The recommendation for a general conference of operators now producing coal was drawn up by an informal committee of the 50 odd operators who met with Secretary. Hoover in a preliminary conference yesterday and gave their approval to a plan under which prices would be kept at a reasonable level by placing distribution upon the supervision of a clearing house committee In each producing coal district. . The committee would be made up of operators, consumers' representatives and a government agent, and a general committee in Washington would maintain co-ordination between the district committees. Need Co-operation. It is this plan which the operators producing the bulk of the coal now being mined having agreed to want to lay before the 1,500 other operators of producing mines whose co-operation, Secretary Hoover said after yesterday's conference is essential to its success and to obtain which form3 the chief task involved. The secretary described it as a plan to "see what we can do by purely voluntary action by the ' mine operators which calls for self-denial by all of them." The operators in the preliminary conference adopted Mr. Hoover's pro.posal that the price scale fixed by Fuel Administrator. Garfield in 1917, with any necessary adjustments should serve roughly as the basis for price agreements. ' TERRORISTS RENEW WORK IN BELFAST (By Associated Press) . BELFAST, May 19. The terrorists began their work again early today. Two hours before the expiration of the curfew period incendiary 'blazes were started in different parts of the city, and before 9 o'clock six buildings were on fire, including the offices of a distillery. Soon after midnight - a number of armed men attacked the barracks of the special constabulary in Dock i street and a fierce conflict ensued - in ! which several of the attackers were injured. It is reported that three motor I cars were used , to remove the ' wounded. None of the constables was injured.

in a Labor Controversy

RICHMOND LEGION BOYS RETURN ENTHUSIASTIC FROM 6TH CONVENTION Members of the delegation which representea Harry Hay post No. 65 American Legion at the Sixth district convention at Greenfield returned frnm that n1a,( late Thnrsfiav. full of enthusiasm and ready to forward the work of the order. Every post in the county was represented at the convention. N. A. Powell, commander, Ray Umpleby, adjutant, Harold Hiatt, finance officer, Benjamin Ball, vice-commander and Frank' Strayer, past commander, were among the officials of the local post attending. Dr. George B. Hunt, of this city,- Is Sixth district chairman. A membership drive to get 1,000 new members in the district is to be one feature of the program for the next few months, according to discussion at the convention. State officials of the order, including Claude E. Gregg, state commander, and Raymond S. Springer, past state commander, were speakers. Officials of the state auxiliary also addressed the meeting. Demand Bonus Support ' One of the most important actions taken was the passage of a resolution demanding of Senator James E. Watson his support of the soldiers' bonus bill. A vote of thanks was extended Representative Richard N. Elliott for his stand for the soldier legislation. . The convention agreed that Memorial Day should be observed with less hilarity and more respect, and so went on record. While Richmond was hoping to get the next district convention, to be held before the next state convention, the Shelbyville delegation won the honor. An interesting fact about the convention was that Paul Hunt Post 287. Centerville, had the largest representation in proportion to the size of the post. Eight of the 40 legion members were present. 7 CLERKS ARRESTED IN N. Y. POSTOFFICE FOR BIG BOND THEFT (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, May 19. Seven postoffice clerks were arrested early today charged with acting in concert in the theft of $1,500,000 worth of bonds from the United States mails here last July. The arrests resulted from a confes sion made, according to postoffice inspectors, by Mark Von Eschen, who was arrested in the Bronx with $39,700 of the stolen bonds in his possession on Jan. 19 and sentenced to the federal prison at Atlanta for five (years on March 28 after conviction of attempting to dispose of part of the securities. The theft became known last July after the arrest of Mrs. Abe Attell, divorced wife of the former pugilist, charged with attempting to dispose of part of the bonds which disappeared while enroute from the federal reserve bank to the treasury department in Washington. The prisoners were described as Gustave Feldman, Morris Steinberg, Edward Fogel, Abraham Goldsmith, Harry Shapiro, Gustave Galles and Irv ing Weitstein. GREGORIA SEMINOFF ORDERED RELEASED NEW YORK, May 19. General Gre goria Seminoff. former Ataman of the Cossacks, was ordered released from arrest today 4iy the appellate division of the supreme court, which reversed the decision of Supreme Court Justice Delehanty.

GENOA PARLEY CLOSES 'AFTER LONG SESSION Adopts Reports of Economic Commission for Reorganization of Europe Non-ag-gression Pact Proclaimed. BEGIN ANEWON JUNE 15

(By Associated Press) ' GENOA, May 19. The Genoa economic conference, one of the greatest political gatherings in Europe's history, which brought here the representatives of 34 nations, adjourned at 1:15 p. m. today, after Bix weeks of momentous deliberations. Its labors will be begun anew at The Hauge on June 15. The conference adopted the reports of the economic commission, which contains constructive recommendations for the economic organization of Europe, adopted the arrangements for the conference at The Hague and proclaimed Prime Minister Lloyd George's famous non-aggression pact, which though provisional in Its nature, it is hoped to follow with a permanent European peace pact. - Premier Facta of Italy, as president of the conference solemnly closed its sessions; by bidding farewell to all the delegations on behalf of the king, the government and the people of Italy, by thanking them for their valuable work, and by expressing best wishes for the future prosperity of all the nations. The Dutch, minister, on behalf of Holland, voiced the assurance that everything possible would be done by the Netherlands to facilitate the work of the forthcoming, conference of experts with the Dutch government and people contributing all they could to the . success of the meeting at The Hague. Warns Russians The keynote of all the remarks at the final session was one of friendship and earnest desire to help Russia, but Premier Lloyd George pointed out to the Russian soviet representatives the unfortunate effect their famous memorandum had had on the world and told them if they wished for success at The Hague they had better abandon their eloquent presentation of the doctrine of repudiation of debts. "Such a course is unwise, when one wants to borrow money," the British premier remarked. Foreign Minister t Tchitcherin of Russia protested against the exclusion of the Russians from the work of the labor committee of the conference, but M. Colrat of the French delegation retorted . that they had been left out because they did not attend the meetings and seemed to show little Interest In the cause of labor. M. Tchitcherin's last work at the conference was that the real cause of the failure to obtain a settlement of the Russian question was that the footing of equality between Russia and the other powers had not been maintained. Many Disappointments The period since the convening of the congress on April 10 has been one of disappointment in many ways for Mr. Lloyd George and other enthusiastic supporters of the conference who hoped when they came here to find that the soviet government had altered its economic policy sufficiently to make possible an agreement for the reconstruction of Russia which would meet with the approval of France and the United States. But Lloyd George went to San Giorgio palace today full of optimism for the outcome of the experts negotiations with the Russians at The Hague in June, an outgrowth of the present meeting. He cannot announce a ten year truce for Europe, as had been hoped but there is the eight-months' non-aggression pact, a gentleman's agreement as yet unsigned, but probably more effective than many signed documents. Palace Decorated San Giorgio palace and the Royal palace were still brilliantly decorated with flowers and the flags of all th nations when the delegates gathered for the last time. Immaculately uniformed soldiers were on duty everywhere. The report of the economic conference which has been laboring for five weeks studying projects for the economic reconstruction of the continent, was presented by its chairman, M, Colrat, one of the French plenipotentiaries and under secretary of state Jn the French cabinet. Foreign Minister Schanzer submitted to the meeting the project for The Hague meeting of experts and the text of the non-aggression agreement which would permit the discussion there with the Russians to take place in an atmos phere of mutual confidence and espe cially in the spirit of pacification, which he said had inspired the Genoa conference. The torch of this conference must not be extinguished," he declared. "Genoa passes it on to The Hague." I he nations represented except Ger many were called Jipon to accept the truce, ana tne heads of the various delegations arose and announced their approval. Several nations accented with reservations, especially the states on the Russian border which already have treaties, of peace with Russia wnich are not o be affected by the truce. ' M. Barthou of France merely said he would recommend the truce to his government Canada and other parts of the Brit ish empire accepted separately; Japan made no reservation In her acceptance of the pact. Former President Motta of Switzerland expressed the hope that the truse would be made permanent. Richard Washburn Child, American ambassador lo Italy, was present, sitting with a number of other visitors, among whom was the Archbishop of Genoa. r , M, Colrat, of the French delegation (Continued on Page Twelve.)