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Palladium. With Sun - KNAPP. LAFUZE ARE TO HEAD COMMITTEES Get Road, Education Chairmanships (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 8. The fight ships in the house of representatives for important committee chairmanwhich began immediately following the opening of the session of the legis lature last Thursday was carried on today until the assembly reconvened at 2 p. m. Speaker Morgan conferred with the governor this morning regarding the committee assignments. Following this conference it was understood that Oliver P. Lafuze, representative of "Wayne and Union counties, would be chairman of the roads committee, and Rep. James M. Knapp, of Wayne county, would head the education com mittee. A bitter fight for the roads commit tee chairmanship has been waged by Luke W. Duffey, Republican, of liar ion county, while J. Glenn Harris, Republican, Lake county, has insisted upon appointment-as chairman of the education committee. Branch Non-Committal. Lemuel A. Pittinger, of Delaware county is to head the ways and means committee. Lieut. Gov. Branch preserved secrecy regarding the sen ate committees, and apparently has made the assignments independent of any other influences. Mr. Morgan, in making the house committee appointments, has had the assistance of Bert Thurman, who is prominent in Senator Watson's faction of the Republican party; Lawrence Lyons, chairman of the state committee; Elmer Waters, representative from Tippecanoe county, and Oscar A. Ahlgren. Republican floor leader. - , Machinery Provided. The appointment of committees was to be announced in both houses when they reconvene at 2 p. m. The appointment of the committees will provide the necessary machinery for the consideration of bills. Despite Governor McCray's suggestion for a season of "legislative inaction," it was indicated this morning that the legislators were preparing a host of bills. Charles Kettleborough, director- of the legislative reference bureau, said that he had prepared 160 bills for introduction and that by tomorrow at least 90 more would be ready. Practically all of the legislators who left the capitol, following the adjournment last Thursday were hack in the city today ready for the session this nnnn uatedo noAUi TLUUU IfHILliO UI1H1I CLOSER GORDON ABOUT PORTLAND DURING DAY (By Associated Press) PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 8. Flood waters drew a closer cordon about Portland today, while reports from all flections of western Oregon and south- j western asliington picturea vasi areas under water and many towns and communities isolated. Rush of r-trpams tributary to the Willamette and Columbia rivers caused them to rise rapidly but a cessation of the torlentisl rains of the last few days gave promise that the crest of the flood was about ovrr. Although the Cowlitz and a few other small streams late last night still were rising, reports from Willamette valley points were that many rivers tributory to' the Willamette were falling rapidly. A cloudburst on the east fork of the Tilton river, four miles from Morton, Wash., Saturday, wrecked the west folk logging camp. A five foot wall of water rushing down the Tilton river overturned nearly every building in the camp. One man and his two year old son were reported missing. River Rising Rapidly As the situation stood early today the crpst of the flood pouring down thr Willamette had not yet reached Portland and the river here was rising nearly two inches hourly. Trains were running in and out of the city in haphazard fashion or not at all. Highways were blocked to a greater extent than since the storm began and mails were held. Reports from Salem were that the country roundabout was experiencing the most severe flood since 1890. With railwav service closed and highways flooded, the city was virtually isolated. Convening of the state legislature there today was not expected to be interfered with as most of the members had arrived. SEATTLE. Wash.. Jan. 8. Flood waters in the White river valley, be tween Seattle and Tacoma were receding slowly according to reports reaching her at midnight but all highways between the two cities still were flooded and impassible. The towns of Kent and Thomas and a part ot Au hum were inundated. All farms and tristii'-es were transformed into lakes in which the only islands were the farmers' homes and barns. The dam age however, will be comparatively small. Admiral Mura, Japanese Naval Staff Chief, Dies (F!v Unitod Press) TOKIO. Jan. 8 Admiral Baron Havao Shima Mura, chief of the gen era'l naval staff, died today. Admiral Shima Mura was born in , 1S58. He was wounded in the war hptween Japan and China. During the Russo-Japanese war he was chief of staff to Admiral Togo. He naa serveu as president of the naval staff col lege.
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1 1 i tVV' Lady Elizabeth LONDON, Jan. 8. Reparations may come and ententes may go, France may seize the Ruhr and the Turks Mosul, but the capital of the far-flung ; British empire is too busy these days I to pay heed to any of these minor details. For England' or at least ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the individuals of this tight little isle now are engaged in that popular and perennial game called "Marrying off the Prince of Wales." Every once in a while, regardless of the position of the sun, moon, stars and miscellaneous planets, London and the rest of the king's domain indulges in a reckless orgy of speculation as to who will be the next to sit under the queen's crown jewels. A few days back the London News, which also is sitting in tne game, ae-; . 1 ,1 4V. i 1 r-w-1- n - CI, Italian i beauty, Princess Yolanda, soon was to become "Mrs. Prince of Wales." Now even the royal household takes Blue, Red Blood On Equal Footing At Inauguration By L. L. SISK OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Jan. 8. A run as wild as the opening of the j "strip" in '89 was on in Oklahoma to day.' Cowboys atop Pinto ponies galloped into the capital, a yip-e-e-e and an occasional blazing revolver announcing their arrivals; quaint vehicles bringing quainter people, rumbled behind staid ox teams over the paved streets; highpowered motors carrying Indians, rich from Dii leases honked their ways through swarms of pedestrians, while overhead hovered airplanes seeking a landing spot. Special trains steamed into the Union depot in rapid succession, depositing delegations from states from Washington to New York. With thousands already jamming the streets, trails, paths and roads converging here were swamped as all Oklahoma made a mad rush to attend the inauguration of Governor Jack C. Walton a reversion to the days when the "wild west" was wild. On Common Plane The elite and the riff-raff met on a common plane. Millionaires rubbed shoulders with pickpockets and gang-Ktprs-and uDroarious plainsmen, pic turesque in tall hats and high-heeled boots, jostling Indians. And throughout the crowds mmgiea painted ladies and gamblers as true to type as in the days, before statehood. T.imior. choc beer and other beverages flowed as freely as in the days that were, giving a realistic atmospnere to the page from the state's early history. Fires gleamed in rows ana rows ui trenches preparing savory meats for the barbecue tomorrow. Hundreds of men were kept constantly l)usy. The formal inauguration took place at noon but will be repeated before the thousands of visitors tomorrow. From then until Wednesday mid-night, square dances, Indian war dances, the barbecue and other events on the pro gram will follow in rapid succession. M'CORMICK STRICKEN WITH APPENDICITIS (By United Press) PARIS, Jan. 8 Harold McCormick, stricken suddenly, was operated upon at midnight for appendicitis. His condit ion today was announced as satisfactory. Ganna Walska has abandoned her American Opera tour and will nurse her millionaire husband back to health Haggard after an all night vigil, the Polish prima donna told the United Press: "The operation was simply for appendicitis and has nothing whatever to do with Mr. McCorniick's Chicago operation." Three days must pass before the harvester magnate can be declared out of danger. "Until Wednesday or Thursday, we cannot tell if complications will set in." Mme. McCormick declared. The illness came upon McCormick so suddenly that three doctors were summoned to his home last night and there was no time to take him to a hospital.
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$ Bowes-Lyon. part in this fetching game. For no sooner had the News made its announcement than royal pronouucemen nouncement than royal pronounciamentos were forthcoming from Buckingham palace to the effect that there was about as much chance of that match taking place as there is of England paying its American war debt in farthings. But undismayed, the News came right back and went the palace one better by announcing that it had authentic information that the announcement of the engagement of the prince to the daughter of a Scotch nobleman would be announced within two weeks. Not only that, but the paper went so far as to describe her in a manner that left no doubt as to her identity ;Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, daughter of the Eari of strathmore. But the royal typewriters showed rare ability and refused to succumb (Please Turn to Page Foui) ENFORCEMENT OF LAW IS PLEDGED BY DONAHEY IN INAUGURAL ADDRESS (By United Press) COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 8. The text of Governor A. V. Donahey's inaugural address, delivered i'rom a platform at the west door of the state house here today follows: In common with several other elected state officials, representing two political parties, I have just taken the oath of office which requires the governor of Ohio to support the constitution of the state and the United States and to enforce faithfully all laws. I have done so without mental reservations. Witnout the loyal support of the public, however, the gov ernor will be helpless. At the outset. therefore. I must appeal to the good will and the helpful support of the people, as well as of all otheials, it l am to fulfill the vow I have just taken. Permit me to outline briefly a few specific duties affecting the economic and social welfare of the people, which our constitution and laws impose on the chief executive. The constitution declares that the supreme executive power of this state shall be vested in the governor. This necessarily em (Please Turn to Page Ten) PENNSY LINE CHANGES TRAINS, SCHEDULES IS EFFECTIVE JAN. 1 4 The suspension of two trains between Richmond and Cincinnati, and o ftwo runs between Rlchmonr and Logansport, and slight changes in the time schedules of several of the remaining trains of the Richmond dijsion, are the Important features of a new train schedule of the Pennsyl vania .which will go into effect at one minute after mid-night, the morn ing of Jan. 14. Trains which will be abandoned are No. 837, leaving Cincinnati at 4: SO in the afternoon and arriving, in Rich mond at 7:30 o'clock; No. 836, leav ing Richmond at 5:50 in the afternoon and reaching Cincinnati at 7:45; No. 817, leaving Richmond at 3:50 in the afternoon and reaching Logansport at 7:35 in the evening, and the Logansport run of No. 806, leaving Logansport at 5:30 in the morning and reaching Richmond at 9:18. Arrives Later. The latter train, which now leaves Richmond at 9:30, will have the same schedule at this end, but will "arrive at Cincinnati 10 minutes later than at present, at 12:30 in the afternoon. No. 816, due in Richmond from Cin cinnati at 6:40 in the afternoon on the present schedule, will arrive at 7:10 on the new schedule. No. 503, at present due to leave Richmond at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, will leave at 9:30, but will arrive in Richmond at the same time as at present No. 807, leaving Richmond at 6:20' in the morning, will still leave at the same time, but will arrive in Logansport a half hour later, at 10:45. No. 216, now arriving from Logansport at 3:45 in the afternoon and leaving at 3:50. will arrive at 3:42 and leave -at 3:47.
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SQUARE DEAL ALL BRITAIN ASKS ON DEBT Will Not Ask Favors or Generosity (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. Great Britain wants a fair business settle ment of her 15,000,000,000 war debt to the United States on such terms as will produce the least possible disturbance in the trade relations of the two countries, Stanley Baldwin, the British chancellor of the exchecker declared today in an address before the joint meeting of the British and American debt funding commission. "We are not here to ask for favors or to impose on generosity," said Mr. Baldwin. "We want a fair business settlement, a square deal, a settle ment that will secure for America, the repayment to the last cent of those credits which the United States gov ernment established in America for us, their associates in the World war."' Welcomed by Mellon Mr. Baldwin's address was in reply to one of welcome by Secretary Mellon, chairman of the American commission, who expressed particular appreciation of the courtesy of the British government in having designated as its delegate a man so distinguished. He called attention that this was the first time a chancellor of the exchequer had left his country (Please Turn to Page Ten). AUTOS AND QUARTERS DEMANDED BY FRENCH TROOPS IN GERMANY (By United Press) BERLIN, Jan. 8 Fifteen hundred fresh French troops arrived at Dusseldorf Sunday and demanded accommodations, the mayor of the city notified the government today. Three hundred automobiles were commandeered by the troops. Two schools and a part of the bureau of finance were demanded as quarters tor jou onicers tne mayor reported. The town is in a state of excitement. Tanks and calvary patrol the streets. COBLENTZ, Jan. 8 French troops were on the march today, along the Rhine. Engineers and a detachment of railway workers have gone to Essen, first city to be seized, as France takes steps to enforce reparations payments. Two regiments, one of artillery and one of infantry, have been ordered forward from Epinal. Troops are quietly concentrating at Dusseldorf in small detachments. Fast tanks and armored cars will form the advance guard, it was reported, when actual invasion of the Ruhr starts. Only Word Needed All that was needed to put in motion the horizon blue machinery of war which France has drilled and kept so long throughout the Rhineland, was word from Paris that the reparations commission had formally found Germany in default. Infantry, it was believed, then would be rushed to Essen to support the engineers and railway detachments and from that center French troops would spread through the Ruhr valley. For all this business-like attitude and the pulse of war drums along the Rhine border, it was believed France would proceed cautiously and that actual invasion cannot yet be said to have begun. France wants to learn more of America's intentions regarding her troops and about what Britain is going to do next before taking irrevocable action. Weather Forecast FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY By V. E. Moor. Mostly cloudy with rain at intervals tonight and Tuesday. Moderate temperatures. The rapid succession of storms moving southeastward from the northern Rocky Mountain states to the central plain states indicates partly cloudy weather for the next 36 hours, with occasional rains and temperatures averaging about freezing. Much colder weather is indicnted for the latter part of the week, if not sooner, but it will remain mild for the next 36 hours. . Temperatures Yesterday at the Pumping Station. Maximum ?,6 Minimum 26 Today. Noon 35 Veather Conditions General rains over the Ohio valley and snows over the north occurred during the past 24 hours, due to the storm center which crossed the central states Sunday evening. A severe storm Drev&iled Sunday over the far northwest, causing torrential rains on the North Pacific coast, over Washington and Oregon. Temperatures are far above normal over the west. Dodge City, Kansas, reported 60 degrees while 56 degrees was the report from Rapid City. South Dakota. Cold weather is confined to the Saint Lawrence valley and the Hudson Bay region. For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau Unsettled weather tonight and Tuesday, probably rain. Somewhat warmer tonight. Paid Circulation Saturday, was 12,221
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NEW YORK, Jan. 8. Half a million dollars worth of flashing jewels are hidden by the shroud of mystery which surrounds the robbery of Mrs, Irene Mamlock Schoellkopf and which the greatest sleuths of the metropolis, so far, have been unable to penetrate. Was Mrs. Schoellkopf robbed by a new Raffles, aided perhaps by a beautiful, cunning and clever woman companion or by a band of crafty "furlined" thieves? Police do not know. They can only conjecture. They do realize, however, that they are confronted with what promises to be the greatest jewel robbery in the history of American crime. Mrs. Schoellkopf, beautiful and vivacious, the second wife of Hugo Schoellkopf, sixty-two-year-old Buffalo capitalist, was the guest at a gay New Year's party in the apartment of PUBLIC WORKS BOARD PROPOSES CONCRETE RIDGE OVER TRACKS A proposal for the erection of a concrete bridge on North West Fifth street across the third division tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad which run to Chicago, was made Monday by the board of works to W. C. Higginbottom, superintendent.of the Richmond division of the Pennsylvania. The wooden bridge which i3 now in use is inadequate and will be of no service for traffic when the new paved street is made on West Fifth street. due to the change in grade of the street at the entrance of the bridge. Members of the board favored a 60foot bridge, inasmuch as the street probably will be made the same width to handle what is expected to be heavy traffic in future years. The board believes that th. street will be one of the main thoroughfares of West Richmond in the near future. Superintendent Higginbottom and S. W. Hodgin, division engineer, expressed their belief that the bridge should be put in, in compliance with the street dimensions and they declared that they would do all that they could to help make the bridge of the correct width. Sidewalks to Conform. An effort will be made to make the sidewalks on the bridge correspond with those which eventually will be put in along the roadway. Resolutions were passed: by the hoard for the improvement of South Fifth street from South E street to South H street and South B street from South Twenty-first to South Twenty-third streets. South Fifth street will be repaired with a cement I construction of roadway, curbs and gutters on both sides of the street, The gutter will be one foot wide. South B street will be of cement construction with gutter on both sides of the street and cement sidewalks, six feet wide on the south side of the street. ..... APey Improvement Another resolution was passed for the improvement of the alley between Charlies and Williams streets by constructing a cement roadway the full length of the alley, from Eoyer street to North West Second street. Dell B. Davis,, city civil engineer, submitted the following estimate of cost for the improvement of Sherman street from Butler to Sheridan streets by constructing cement sidewalks, curb and gutter and gravel roadway at 58.82 per linear foot, show'ing cost of construction to owners would exceed valuation of lots. Estimation per lot. follows: Lot owned by K. Marmon, cost to lot $392.04; valuation, $250; excess, 57, $142. Lot owned by R. and V. Newman, cost to lot, $407.48; valuation, 200; excess, 103, $207.48. Lot owned by M. Hengster, cost to lot. $486.47; valuation, $360; excess, 35,' $126.47. Iot owned bv O. Norman, cost to lot, $409 24; valuation, $300; excess, 36, $109.24. $10,000 were allowed by the board. Bills amounting to approximately POLICE AUTO KILLS BOY YOUNGSTOWN. O., Jan. 8. A policeman's auto killed Andy Zagila, 3, here today. Andy was coasting down a hill when the auto, driven by Patrolman John Fell, struck him. The boy's skull was fractured.
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'dress Frank Barrett Carman, an actor and close friend of the Buffalo matron. In the early hours of the morning she left the party. On her way down to the street she was seized, dragged into a flat on a floor below and strip ped of her gems. Five minutes later, hysterical, ehe was back at the soene of the party, stammering that she had' been robbed1. At present she is in a state of partial prostration in her suite at the Ritz-Carlton. Carman is being held by police, although protesting ignorance of the whole affair. Dredging the dark byways in which the society men and women and Raffles met on a party in quest of adventure and romance, police have found a beautiful woman who is al(Please Turn to Page Four) W ashington Cops Trace Leaks in "Embassy" Liquor fBy Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. An effort to trace the possible "leaks" through which they claim to have found indi cations that "embassy" liquor stores of consignments were finding their way into the illicit traffic here were being made today by the District of Columbia police. Rumors of an organized traffic in liquor brought in by some of the em bassies and legations reached the po lice some time ago, it was said, indi cations that these were more than rumors now are declared to have been found during successive raids in three apartment houses in the fashionable northwest section. Lieutenant O. T. Davis, chief of the vice squad, under whose direction the raids were conducted, declared information had reach the police that attaches of some of these establishments have been parties to this traffic. During the latest raid by the vice squad, which included federal officers, a large quantity of Imported wines and whiskies was seized and a man who said he was Joaquin Mendez, former minister from Gautemala, was taken into custody. Lieut. Davis said the man arrested claimed ownership of the liquor and protested against its seizure on the ground that it was the property of a diplomat. Mrs. Elizabeth Heicht, also taken into custody in the raid, was said to have admitted that the liquors found in her apartment were foreign sources. Inquiry at both the state department and the Guatemalan legation, Lieut. Davis said, brought the infor mation that Joaquin Mendez hd no present connection with that estab lishment. THREE PERSONS DIE WHEN AUTO SKIDS CLEVELAND, Jan. 8 Slippery car tracks, police said today, were respon sible for the death of two women and a man when an automobile : plunged from the Harvard Avenue viaduct at East Twenty-second stree last night The dead: Mrs. Christinia Blaha, John Uridil and Mrs. Ruth Uridil, his daughter-in-law. James Blaha. husband of the dead woman, and Florence, their five year old daughter, were seriously injured. Blaha probably will die, physicians said. His skull is fractured and nearly every bone m his body. The auto in which the five people were riding skidded on slippery tracks and pavement, police said, and crash ed through the viaduct railing. REDUCE LOUISIANA MILITARY FORGES BASTROP. La., Jan. 8. State mili tary force on duty in Morehouse par ish were reduced today to two units a cavalry troop and a machine gun de tachment with the issuance of an or der for Company A of the infantry to entrain tor its home in Alexandria, i Infantry Company G. of Monroe, was relieved from duty at Mer Rouge late yesterday.
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FRENCH PLAN FOR INVASION PUSHED AHEAD While Commission is Deciding Default By Associated Press) PARIS, Jan. 8. The meeting of the reparations commission today to de termine whether Germany defaulted in her deliveries of coal In 1922. found the French government going ahead with its plans for a coercive movement in the Ruhr valley. The plans themselves were still the property of high officials. Louis Barthou, replying to Ger many's objection that her experts might not reach Paris In time to ap pear before today's session of the commission, asserted that that body was not obliged to hear the German spokesman anyway. It was regarded as certain, however, that the experts, tterr Yvalmischratte and Herr Lubsen, would arrive in good time for the meeting. While it was generally understood that the reparations commission woul.1 declare that the Germans in default.. at either the meeting today or tomorrow, there remain a number of delicate points for the French to clear up before the plan to operate the Ruhr basin can be put in operation. One of these difficulties is whether the German engineers and mine managers shall be retained, in view of the fact that it would take French officials at least a month to master the details of administration. Apparently it was with the idea of losing no time in thi respect that the first contingent of 40 engineers was rushed to the Rhineland last evening. Denies Mobilization Following a cabinet meetinz todav. Premier Poincare denied rumors printed in communist newspapers as to mobilization. "I will not mobilize a single soldier or railway man," Poincare declared in answer to reports that additional men would be called to the colors. France is planning to push thousands, of troops into the territory at present occupied to replace the number, probably 45,000 that will move forward into the Ruhr. Marshal Foch, Generals Weygand and Magonit, Premier Poincare, President Millerand and other high officials and army chiefs, were busy day and night over the week, end, workirs out plans for the invasionActual intentions of the government are kept secret but may be announced by Poincare Thursday. RORAH MAY REVIVE PLAN FOR CALLING WORLD CONFERENCE WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. Another move may be made soon by Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, to secure a senate consideration of his proposal for the calling of an international economic conference to discuss European reparations and other problems. In view of a recent definite an nouncement that the American gov ernment is not now considering the calling of such a conference Senator Borah indicated today that he was de bating seriously whether he should not revive his request for some sort of intervention. He said he had not determined upon any definite course. NINE PERSONS INJURED PASSENGERS TRAPPED, WHEN TRAIN UPSETS (By United Press) FREMONT. Ohio. Jan. 8. Nine were injured and fully a score of other passengers were trapped like rat--, when a Lake Shore electric train up set here Sunday night after crashing into an auto truck. They were rescued through a hole sawed in the roof of the car, a task which required fullv half an hour, attended by the screams of the hysterical women and children and groans of the injured. The injured were: William Heim, 79, Fremont, Inter nal injuries. Clarence DeCrost, 4o, Fremont, mo torman, fractured ribs and internal injuries. Miss Matilda Thomas, 2j, Detroit. cuas ana Druises. Mrs. Clara H. Stutesman, 60. To ledo, cuts about the face. Harold Stiger, 26, Fremont, conduc tor, lacerations and Internal injuries. William Conway, 41. Ureemont, dis located hip. Miss Maude Timball. So, Fremont, cuts and bruises. John Fox, 54, Fremont, cuts and bruises. A transport truck, stopping for gas. was standing on the tracks when the interurban crashed into it. The first car turned over on its side while the trailer stuck on the track. Both ends of the first car were so badly wrecked that the passengers were unable to escape until a . hole was cut in the roof. According tq the truck crew, they had rushed up the track to flag the interurban. but the motorman denied seeing their signal. hsih National Troops Arrest 28 Irregulars (By Associated Press) DUBLIN. Jan. 8 Twenty-eight Irregulars were arested yesterday at Glanigan, west Meath, by National troops operating from Mullingar. A quantity of arms and ammunition 3 seized.