Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 200, 23 August 1922 — Page 1

P H A AJfD Sl.TELEGHAM VOL. XCII., No. 200 Palladium, Est. 1831. Consolidated With Sun-Telegram. 1907. - RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUG. 23, 1922. SINGLE COPY, S CENTS BONUS DEMAND MUST BE MET, SEN. f.rCOf.iBEP, Mother and Daughter Both Politicians GOAL INQUIRY PLANS UPSET BY NEW BILL Niece of Martyred President Throws Bonnet in Ring

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ROAD HEADS TO STAND PAT : ON SENIORITY Railway Presidents Go Into Session to Vote on Reply to Mediation Proposals Call Awaited by Brotherhoods.

Finance Chairman Says Bill Equalizes Pay of Men Called to Colors With Those Who

Stayed at Home. SENATE PASSAGE SURE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 23 En actment of soldiers bonus legislation at this session of congress is de macded by every precept of financial Justice and every principle of political honor, Chairman McCumber of the flnanciaj committee, declared today! 4n opening the senate debate on the amended house bill, with its bank loan certificate provision in lieu of the original proposal for a cash bonus. Asserting that the term "bonus", was a -nisnomer. Senator McCumber eaid the purpose was to equalize in a measure the pay of the men called to the colors with that received by

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wua, arunKen orgy of extravagance that accompanied the war." The finance committee chairman told the senate the time had come fof congress to show that it was "not attempting to play politics ' with the American soldier," that 'it was acting in "good faith" when it passed the first bonus bill just before the election In 1920. Uges Debts Used Senator McCumber argued that the funds necessary for the financing ot the bonus legislation could be obtained from the refunded foreign debt and that if the refunding were not completed when it became effective the Interest from the Eritlsh debt, which he said, the British government already had planned to pay, would be Euificient. ; Explaining the provisions of the bill as reported," he said the cash provision had been eliminated except in thej cose vi veterans entiuca to 550 or less, with the total of these payment AC?iminttj4 n (If AAA AAA 4 1 .1 . cmuaicu a l fio.uuu.uuu, iq Dc paia next year, and that in its place had been substituted a certificate plan with loan privileges. He estimated that 75 per cent of the veterans would accept the certificate option. ' - The next plan, he went on, is the vocational training aid under, which the government would advance the amount due a soldier on the basis of $1 a day for domestic service and $1.25 a day for foreign service, to be applied toward his vocational training. The final option is the farm or home aid, by which the sum due the veteran would be advanced to him as might be necessary, to be applied toward the purchase price of a home or a farm. Satisfactory to Vets "The bill as reported is satisfactory to the soldiers," continued Mr. McCumber. "It ought not to be materially changed. "Twenty millions given in charity to Russia, $25,000.00Q to salve Colombia sentiment, $20,000,000 for ship subsidy and not a ripple of comment! We talk of $125,000,000 for good roads, or two or three hundred millions to assist railroads, all in a single year, as if they amounted to nothing. Why on earth, then, should be approach this soldiers' compensation bill as though it were an obligation requiring a special tax levy?" Passage Is Certain. While passage of the bill by the tenate, eventually was regarded as a certainty, there was no -assurance of action in the immediate future. Negotiations for an agreement fixing a definite date for a vote with an intervening recess of the senate was continued, but without success. Some progress was made, however, opponents of any recess aggreeing to a short vacation providing the bill was taken up later with an agreement that is should not be supplanted. Aside from the uncertainty as to the time for action in the senate, friends and foes of the bill alike were in the darii regarding President Harding's at titude. The last official word from the 'executive expressed just before the houso acted last March was thai congress either find some means of financing the legislation or postpone its enactment. The bill does not carry this means, and some of those close to the president said he was still disposed to veto it. Friends Optimistic. Some proponents of the legislation were optimistic however, contending that since tbe bill would entail no heavy draft on the treasury until after the refusing of the short-time public debt had been completed the basis of the president's obejetion to a taxless bill had been removed. They argued that the interest from the British debt would take care of the payments for the first three years, at least, and looked for the president to approve such use of this fund. Another move was reported on foot to get a more definite expression from the executive but there was doubt whether it would succeed as Mr. Harding was said not to be disposed to discuss the measure further with senate leaders. Opponents of the legislation claimed strength of 35 votes, not sufficient to prevent its passage but more than enough to sustain an executive veto. SHOPMEN PROHIBITED FROM INTERFERENCE RICHMOND, Va.. Aug. 23 Striking shopmen on the Southern railroad system in seven states were prohibited today in a restraining order issued by Judge Woodhill in the U. S. district court o Eastern Virginia from interfering with the movement of trains or the employes of the roads or with statlonfng more than one picket within 200 yards of any Btation yard, shop, r roundhouse of the company.

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Mrs. Lorna Hooper Warfield, formerly president of the Milwaukee League for Woman's Suffrage. Her mother, Mrs. Ben Hooper of Oshkosh, is the Democratic candidate for United States Senate from Wisconsin. Mrs. Warfield's husband. Dr. Louis M. Warfield, has recently joined the medical faculty of the University of Michigan..

of Defcfs Disagrees With English Stand Bt MARK Sl'IXIVAW WASHINGTON. D. C, Aug. 23 With resDect to debts owed to U8 by Great Britain there is," both in ofii thoi nwtiv. aiiijrm to these, debts, a form of description . which i3 reconcilable with the nature of the debt as it Is understood in America. Lord Balfour, in his letter after saying that Great Britain fn the war bad provided for her own needs out of internal borrowing and taxation said : . - "Unfortunately, a similiar policy was beyond the power of other European nations, an appeal was therefore made to the government of the United States and under an arrangement then arrived at, the United States insisted, in substance if not in form that though our allies were to spend the money, it i was only on our security that they were prepared to lend it." That is Lord Balfour's official description. of the nature of the transaction. Unofficially, the new statesman a British weekly of high class which is read with attention and respect by the best informed persons in England on international political affairs, in its issue of Aug. 5, contains the following sentence. "The American public is, we believe, almost wholly ignorant cf the fact of the case largely owing to a mistaken reticence on this side of the Atlantic. The time seems now to have come when they should be stated with an even greater frankness than is to be found in Balfour's note. The debt was incurred after America came (Continued on Page Fixe) ALLEGED COMMUNISTS IN JAIL AFTER RAID; PROPAGANDA FOUND (Bv Associated Press) ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Aug. 23 Although definite announcement of disposition will be made of the 17 alleged members of the communist party of America, detained in the' county jail here, was withheld, it was estimated that they may be prosecuted under the Michigan criminal syndicalism act. Following the raid that resulted in the arrest by federal agents and Sheriff George Brldgeman of Berin county, returned to Bridgeman, five miles south of here, and af - ter digging in the sand of the ravine where the meeting was broken up unearthed several barrels. The bar1rels it is said contained a list of all the radical leaders in the United States, four typewriters, a quanity of stationary, machines for the reproducing of letters, and a large amount of literature. - BRIDGEMAN, Mich., Aug. 23. Fifteen alleged members of the Communist party of America were under arrest today following a raid on a meeting in which 4hey were' participating in the woods near here. Federal officers and Berrian county deputies captured the men. after they had received information, it was said, that 76 reputed radicals were in session. The raiders seized a large quantity of literature which, they said, indicated a purpose of utilizing the coal and rail strikes as a means of obtaining control of government policy. The papers indicated also, It was added, that the meeting here was pre liminary to the national convention of the Trades Educational League and National Workers' Party to be held in Chicago Aug. 27-28. Conspiracy Charged The suspects were surrounded In a ravine and capitulated without a struggle. Officers said all would be charged formally with conspiracy against the government. Those arrested included C. E. Ruthenberg, of Cleveland, executive secretary of the Workers' Party of America; Max Lerner, Seattle; Charles (Continued on Page Two)

SOUTHERN RAILWAY TROUBLES CLEARING; OTHER SPOTS TENSE

- (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Aug. 23 As railroad executives gathered In New York to day to consider peace proposals by the heads of the transportation broth erhoods acting as mediators in the shopmen's strike, trouble on the Southern railway, principal sufferer from' trainmen's -walkout during the past few days, began to clear . away. Exploding bombs kept the rail strike fever at a high stage in some of the nation's rail centers, however. A tremendous explosion early to day in the Chicago and Alton roundhouse at Venice, 111., shook buildings within the radius of three miles and police squads were rushed to the shops when further violence was threatened. Several sticks of dynamite were thrown on the roof of the roundhouse in which a number of men were working. . s . . . Bombs are Hurled Bombs were hurled at the houses of Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe employes at San Bernardino, Calfornia, where daily outbreaks have markedthe shop men's strike. Windows were broken by explosions, but no injuries were reported. Michigan Central officials increased their reward for the arrest of plotters accused of causing the Gary, Ind., wreck. Sunday to $6,000. The original reward was $1,000. Little Rock ( Arkansas) police failed to locate a Missouri Pacific shop employe who was reported to have been kidnapped and severely beaten Monday night. A companion, who escaped after a fight with his captors, carried the story of the kidnapping back to Little Rock. Switchmen Balk. Switchmen in the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis yards at Paducah, Ky., refused to go to work be cause of an alleged attack on one of their number by a railroad guard. Train service was restored on the Southern railray following the remov- j ai of. most of the troops which had been on guard in the Spencer and Salisbury, N. C, and Princeton, Ind., yards. The guard "was reduced in a compromise with trainmen who walked out when soldiers were sent out to quell disturbances. Striking shopmen of the Southern railway at Salisbury were on guard around the home of the Rev. Thomas iS. Jimison, who received threatening letters following an alleged assault upon him by a postal employe. The minister had been a champion of the shopmen's strike and strikers went to his defense, maintaining guards in eight hour shifts at the preacher's home. CHINESE PRESIDENT WILLING TO RESIGN By Associated Press) PEKING, Aug. 23 The reublican cabinet announced today that President Li Yuan Hung is willing to resign in favor of Sun Yat Sen deposed head " ' It is stated in official circles here that Li Yuan Hung"s attitude toward Sun is friendly ' " Representatives of the Peking administration sent to Shanghai to negotiate with Sun with a view toward uniting the whole of China under one stable government still are urging the former head of the Canton government to come to Peking but he refuses to come until assured that the various military - factions in China have composed their differences. Consequently Chang "Tso Lin, governor of Manchuria and Fu Pei-Fu, military leader of North -China have entered into negotiations looking to an agreement on the issues on which they have been at odds. Cabinet members told the Associated .Press today that these mediations between China's two leading military rivals were progressing.

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ators and Miners Place m Investigation Given Right of Way in House. G. 0. P. CHIEFS CONFER (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Auer. 23. A com mission bill tor giving operators and miners a place m the proposed government investigation of the industry was given the right of way by the Louse rules committee today over the bill, which had been prepared with the approval of President Harding, for a commission com Dosed wholly of impartial representatives nt the miblic. The measure, which was given pref erence was that of Representative Bland. Republican, Indiana, which the committee majority voted to prefer, after its provisions had been compared with those of the measure introduced by Chairman Winslow, of the interstate commerce committee, as a result of conferences with the president. The action upset the plans of the house Republican leaders, and failing on a tie vote to secure consideration f the committee decision they went into a hurried conference to draft a new plan of campaign. Opposes Partisan Body. President Harding was said at the White House yesterday to be apposed to any but a non-partisan commission. In a telegram to Representative Bland yesterday, John T. Lewis, president of the miners, declared if the federal government in making an independent inquiry, proposed to disregard the rights and privileges of miners and ; opeeators. after the Cleveland confer-; ence providing for a commission with equal representation, the "responsibility will be with those who recommend such action." Meanwhile as to the rail strike situation, the government remained in the role of an observer today as tha railway executives assembled for their conference in New York in connection with the strike settlement negotiations there. While hopeful of success of the negotiations, President Harding was represented at the White House as unready to take any further steps in the sitiiation than those stat ed in his recent address to cpngves3. WAGES ARE BOOSTED FOR STEEL WORKERS; OTHERS TO FOLLOW BETHLEHEM, Pa., Aug. 23 President E. G. Grace, of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, today announced an. increase of 20 per cent in the wage rates for common labor, together with equitable adjustments in the wage scales of other classes of employes, to be effective Sept. 1. Mr. Grace said the workers had been notified yesterday of the increase through their employes' representation plan. The advance is the same as that announced iby the United States Steel corpora tion. YOUNGSTOWN, O., Aug. 23 Youngstown independent Steel com panies probably will follow the action of the United States Steel corporation in increasing the wages of common labor 20 per cent. Announcement already has been made by James A. Campbell, president of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company, and T. J. Bray, president of the Republic Iron and Steel company, that their companies would grant the increase. Officials of the Brier Hill Steel company said that company undoubtedly would take similar action, but re frained from making an ofncial announcement in the absence of President James Grosse from the city. STEUBENVILLE. O., Aug. 23-A1I . ui0l,.t, le!mDJ !nTie!m:i yauy aim iuc i-.ajnc iwuaj, announced that they would follow the lead of the United States Steel CoriDoration in advancing wages of day I it""' 'V" v" - K,rVtw , benefit. . .' . Weather Forecast FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY ' By W. E. .Moore Occasional showers and thunderstorms tonight and Thursday. A storm center over the Rocky mountains will cause warm and sultry i weather for the next 36 hours except for temporary cooling due to rains. Temperatures Yesterday Maximum 86 Minimum 64 1 Today Noon 71 Weather Conditions The barometric pressure continues high over the south Atlantic coast and low over the ! north and west. . The rain area extends as far south as tne unio river. Extremely hot weather with severe drought continues over the southern plain states and as far north as Kansas, where temperatures range from 100 to 106 degrees in the shade. For Indiana, by the United States

, - uaaacueviu v "'u x alio CU i Weather Bureau Unsettled weather , plane narrowly escaped death yestertonight and Thursday with probable j day wnPn the machine crashed at

local thundershowers. Not much change in temperatures Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 11,638

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Mrs. Mabel McKinley Baer, niece of President McKinley, who has become an "Insurgent" candidate in Westchester county, N. Y., lor the Repub

lican nomination for the Legislature. IRISH TRIUMVIRATE TO FOLLOW COLLINS IN FREE STATE RULE (By United Press) DUBLIN, Aug. 23 Fighting st the head of his staff officers against Irish rebels who ambushed his car on the road from Bandon to Macoon, late yestPTdav Micheal Collins. Ireland's leata-. 'feu .aorta!!, wooaded ,t the moment of victory. As he died, the j rebels -were- beaten off. . : . ! For half an hour," against overwhelming odds, the fiery leader of the Free State and seven staff officers who were in his party fought off their assailante. j At least three of the rebels were wounded. They were being slowly driven back and it seemed that Collins, , hero of a hundred escapes had once more come through, when a rebel bullet struck him and he fell. Triumvirate to Succeed As he lay dying in the dust, his smoking revolver stil clutched In his hand, Collins raised his head and murmured: "Forgive them." A triumvirate will succeed Collins at the head of the Irish Free Stat Death that claimed Ireland's two greatest leaders, Griffith and Collins, within ten days, left no single out standing figure. Lian T. Cosgrove, chairman of the provisional government cabinet may rise to be Collins' successor or it may be dashing "Dick" Mulcahy, commander-in-chief of the Free State army. George Gavan Duffy former envoy is the third outstanding figure. To Head Government For the time being, it was learned, these three will head the Free State government. None of them is comparable to Collins, who especially after the death of Griffith, due to heart trouble last Saturday, stood out head and shoulders above all Ireland. I "u,'cf, "f Vnr." rebels under DeValera which would again bring invading forces of Brit ,. . . TrolanH and rniiBA a renewal nf centuries-old conflict. Collins, . in known as the recent , months, . was Lincoln of Erin." He had been largely instrumental in in ducing his people to accept the free state government. His death came at a time when Ireland was about to rest easier and devote her energy to the development of resources. Michael Collins' forces had been victorious over the rebels and were in power in most portions of Ireland. Issues Statement Chief of Staff Richard Mulcahy, on whose shoulders the mantle of Collins fell for the time-being at least, issued the following appeal to his fellow countrymen: "Stand calmly by your posts. Let no cruel act of reprisal blemish your bright honor. The dark hours which Michael Collins has met since 1916 seemed to steel . his .bright strength and to temper his gay bravery."; AMERICANS ESCAPE DEATH IN AIR CRASH fBy Assncintrt Press.) PARIS, Aug. 23 Five Americans, Barck-Place. about 22 miles south of Boulogne. The pilot had landed a passenger at Berch and was resuming the i flight when engine trouble forced the ! plane down. Although the machine was smashed the passengers escaped with, bruises and torn clothing. The Americans were J. Edwin Weissepfluth and daughter of Seranton, Pa.; Miss H. M. Roech, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. M.' Heins and daughter of New York City.

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Britain's Navy Slowly Dwindles Under Terms of Washington Treaty By DAVID L. BLUMENFELD (United Pres3 Staff Correspondent) LONDON, Aug. 23. Great Britain is scrapping her capital ships "gradually." Many people have had visions of 'dockyards, swarming with workers, at grjj sUps alongside the quays, battering off guns and searchlight platforms, as if nothing else on earth, mattered. In England, at any rate, this Is far from fact In the first place, most of the heavy scrapping to be done by England, admiralty officials showed, is not scheduled before 1925, when four super Dreadnaughts of the King George, V type come under the shiphreakers hammer, or are sold, minus their armament and implements of warfare. After that, the famous Queen Elizabeth come up for destruction in 1935 , the Royal Soveriegn in 1936, the Renown (already on the reserve list since the return of the Prince of Wales from his world tour) in 1940, and the famous Hood in 194L 16 Ships Scrapped In the meantime 16 ships obselete vessels have gone to the scrap heap. They are the pre-dreadnaughts: Mars. Ceasar, Queen, Swifsture, Hindustan, Lord Nelson and the Dreadnaughts Bellerophon, Temeraire, St. Vincent, Dreadnaughts (the original of her type) Hercules, Indexible, Indomitable Crescent and Commonwealth. These ships it is true, were partly scheduled for the scrap heap before the Washington conference took place. ,- (Continued on Page Five) GOVERNMENT ASKS FLEET CORPORATION STATUS DETERMINED (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Aug. 23. Asserting that there is an "apparent irreconcilable conflict between the 'doctrine an nounced by the supreme court in its recent decisions defining the suability and status of the emergency fleet corporation as a government agency. and 'the settled rule established by the court in a number of prior decisions," the government has filed a petition asking for a re-hearing. "The opinion has introduced a practical difficulty of far reaching effectiveness with regard to the administrative action of various government officials, the petition asserts. It asks whether contracts made by the fleet corporation are contracts of the United States and what authority the shipping board of the fleet corporation has to

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payment of the debts or the fleet corporation when incurred under contracts made by it. The government also wants to know whether treasury officials are justified in honoring checks drawn by the fleet corporation for paying debts or satisfying claims for damage. Claims Pending It is pointed out in the petition that "the fleet corporation in its own capacity and not as representing the United States has no assets but it has enormous debts," which the court stated are "its debts and not the debts of the United States." It is explained

that there are hundreds of such claims ition employes was generally looked uppending against it for sums aggregat-!on as a sinister omen for the " "dicing more than $100,000,000 and the hards" element It came 24 hours becourt is asked whether "all payments j fore this session it was declared, as

by government funds must be suspended." The government also wants to knowj whether funds derived from the sale of ships can be applied by the fleet corporation to the payment of damages claimed against it, or whether the money belongs to the United States. As the opinion will become the guide for United States district courts (Continued on Page Two)

COUNTER PROPOSAL UP

By Associated PressNEW YORK, Aug. 23, American railroad presidents went into session this afternoon at the Yale club to vote on a resolution embodying the reply to be made to last week's proposal by mediating brotherhood chiefs for settlement of the shopmen's strike. it was understood that the carriers heads at their morning session had voted unanimously to stand pat on their refusal to reinstate strikers with full seniority rights, but that the reply would contain counter-proposals which would leave the doors to peace open. This reply, it was expected, would be conveyed to the mediators late today. A statement issued by the brother"The mediation committee of the five transportation brotherhoods has returned to New York to be of any service possible to effect a settlement. We are holding ourselves in readiness to confer with, the executives whenever they desire and are keeping in touch with union officials.. ! To Transmit Answer It was announced that a meeting of the mediation committee and the committee of executives who drew up the resolutions would be held at the Grand Central terminal at 3 o'clock today, at which time the answer of the carriers would be transmitted. "The strike can be settled, because it must be settled, because tie public demands a settlement," the statement continued. "The crews who are now operating the trains form that part of the public which knows best why settlement must come. We hope that patience will establish peace, and we believe newspaper propaganda by either side will produce nothing but embarrassment for both sides. Two Hour Discussion , . . The executives convened In th morning at the Yale clnb, to consider the proposals and adjourned at 12:50 o'clock, after a discussion lasting more thaa two hours. - v v v Although no official statement was forthcoming, it was reported that certain counter proposals bad been under discussion. - . This was taken to indicate that should the executives not accept the suggestions of the union leaders, the doors to peace would still be left open. "The situation looks mighty serious," Howard Eliott, of the Northern Pacific, said to a colleague on leaving the meeting. Heads of the western lines entered the conference full of optimism as they have entered each of the two previous conferences when President Harding through his peace proposals adopted fbe role of mediator. Wnat Strike Settled. Frankly and unreservedly these western chiefs want the strike settled and express a willingness- to make any practical concession which will ralieve their roads of a growing shortage of usable rolling stock with a bumper crop nearly upon them and coal mining already being resumed on a large scale. "As we have already indicated," said the president of a large road which serves the upper Mississippi valley states terminating at Chicago, "we believe we could take back every man without having to release a single of the new men now in our shops. Need Men Back. -t "The seniority question? Well, we are not In a position to dictate. We need our men and are willing to take them back with their old rights If it can be arranged to the satisfaction of those now in our employ." Opposing this attitude, and with forces more compactly mustered were the heads of the powerful eastern roads led by L. F. Loree of the Delaware & Hudson. W. W. Atterbury, of the Pennsylvania, A. H. Smith of the New York central, Frederick Under, wood of the Erie, and E. J. Pearson of the New Haven. Their roads are in excellent condition; their shops &ts well manned; they are near to the largest labor markets, and they maintain they are ready to back their pledge to stand by the loyal men who refused to strike and the new men whom they hired on promise to put them ahead of strikers on the senior ity rolls." : Willard May Join. . The only eastern president about easiness was uaniei wiuara, wno it wa3 said might join the "peace at any price" delegation from the west, of which Hale Holden, president of the C. B. & Q.. and S. M. Felton of the Chicago Great Northern, were pointed out as leaders. Several developments of late yesterday injected a spirit of uncertainty into the ranks of the executives and brought predictions in some sources that a re-alignment would set In as soon as these new factors were recognized at the conference. . . The granting of a 20 per cent In crease to about 300,000 steel corporaJ the ultimate argument or the powerful banking interests who invest in both steel and railroads andwho for weeks are known to have urged the rail exe cutives to capitulate, was the view in some quarters. - .. Another factor i the significance ot which there was much speculation was the expected arrival from Europe today on the same, ship of three eastern rail presidents,, who it was be- - - ..... ... (Continued on Page Two) S '

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