Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 93, Number 23, 26 January 1923 — Page 1

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. Action on Senator Robinson's resolution propos ing full American membership in the reparations commission, was postponed indefinitely today by the senate foreien relations committee, after it had discussed behind closed doors, the confidential information on the repara tions problem, submitted yesterday by Secretary Hughes. By LAURENCE MARTIN WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. The senate is on the eve of another wide open discussion of international relations. Definite expressions of senatorial opinion' that this government ought not to remain longer aloof seem certain to be forthcoming. Many of both parties believe the Franco-German situation should not be permitted to develop to its logical conclusion. That conclusion. many! senators fear, will be war. or if not . that, an accentuation of present world ! turmoil which will still further de-, preg American markets, curtail Amer-, ican industry and hurt the tanner immeasurably. Administration leaders admitted today thy would not be-surprised to see the senate adopt Senator Borah's resolutions for an international conference which Borah today announced he would re-introduce, probably next Monday. To Be in Same Form Eorah will present it in the same form as when he offered it as an rmendment to-the naval appropriation bill, some weeks ago. He withdrew it then, when assured by administration spokesmen that its addition would rmbsrrass the administration in pursuance of its policy. It is evident, Borah holds, that the administration policy is entirely negative. Tublic opinion, he declared tortav, was overwhelming against such a policv now. The American people, Borah said, want their government to u-ield its tremendous Influence in an effort to straighten out the snajLJ The impending senatorial aeDate mar be brought on by Secretary Hughes' letter . to Senator Lodge on I he status and activities of Roland "W. Royden. American unofficial representative on the reparations commission. Position Influential Hughes' letter, as hastily analyzed hv Senators, was regarded as showing conclusively that Hoyden, though he and this government were careful to repeat that he was there unofficially, nevertheless occupied a position virtuallyas influential as though he had been an official member, with the single exception that he had no vote on th" commission. The foreign relations committee met today to take up the Hughes letters and a number of confidential documents submitted by the secretary. EX-KAISER'S MARITAL LIFE VERY UNHAPPY, SAYS ENGLISH WRITER LONDON', Jan. 28 The correspondent of the Yorkshire Evening News, wiling to his paper from Doom says: "In spite of elaborate efforts to hide the truth I have discovered that the second marriage of the former German emperor has been a complete failure snd that at the present moment he is living in one part of the castle, while his wife and her children are in another. I am told that a very few weeks eufficed to bring about the breakrlow.n "Those who are near the ex-kaiser have been struck by the grave altera tion not only in his moods but in his character, lie is said to have been affected very unfortunately by the oporation for gland transference he underwent before his second marriage. His own children have not forgiven him for the second mairiage and his ; tpp-ehildren avoid him. "His means are reduced and his private expenditures strictly limited. He is living today under most unhappy family conditions. He can command rrither service, affection, nor companionship and the breakdown in his domestic arrangement is painfully apparent to Cue very few who visit him." DAUGHERTY CHARGES CONSIDERED CLOSED 'F.y Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. The important charges brought against Attorney General Daugherty by Representative Keller. Republican, Minnesota, yere regarded today as a definitely cjlosed incident following approval by the house of the action of its judicia ry committee In giving' the Attorney General a clean bill of health on tlie chaige". Bi a vote of 204 to 77, the house lute yesterday gave approval to the torn pit tee's findings and later by a practically unanimous vote adopted a ffsojlution discharging the committee frorin further consideration of the Chairges and laying the Keller inijeakhment resolution on the table. On he proposition to give Mr. Daugherty! a clean bill of health there was a split in party lines, 12 Republicans voting in the negative and ten Democrats! in the affirmative.

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The unusual operation of substituting the lens of a pig's eye for the

destroyed cornea of the right eye of Alfred Lenionowicz,'of Lyndhurst. N. J.. was performed in Paterson, N. J., by Dr. Edward B. Morgan and pronounced a success. The operation was. witnessed by noted scientists and surgeons

from different parts of the country. "r. Morgan surrounaea uy a siu"i i IMPERIAL OFFICERS OF RUN APPEAR IN PUBLIC, THEN VANISH (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Jan. 26-Imperial officers of the Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, after publicly appearing here for the asserted purpose of defending their Chicago members and issuing a statement tnat hereafter the klan would defend itself from at-j tacks, gave newspaper reporters a practical demonstration of the word "invisible" in the organization's appellation. Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard; Edvyard Young Clarke, Imperial Giant; S. I. Savage, Imperial Klaihff and Paul Etheridge. Imperial Klonsel, arrived here yesterday went to a hotel, met newspapermen in an interview and thei disappeared. The four klan officers arrived prepared they said to challenge press reports that the city council had requested the resignations of all city employes holding membership in the klan. -Fireman Suspended. One city employe, a fireman, was temporarily suspended and others transferred recently as a result of an investigation of klan membership i charses against city employes Dy a special council committee. The Bastrop, La., investigation was included in rlie klan's program of reciprocity. Imperial Wizard Evans paid, announcing he would issue a statement in answer to published declarations of Louisiana state officials, after analyzing them. William Wrigley. Jr., a Chicago manufacturer and owner of the Chicago National league baseball club through his secretary issued a statement denying that he held membership in the Ku Klux Klan or that he ever applied for membership. (By Associated Press) BASTROP, La., Jan. 26 With the closing yesterday of the state's open hearing here into masked band activities, the chief offense of which was the kidnaping and slaying of Watt Daniel, and Thomas F. Richard, on August 24, and the withdrawal of the last detachment of troops which were ordered here a week before Christmas by Governor Parker, Bastop and its neighboring village of Mer Rouge began today to settle down to its normal life. Approximately 75 to 100 indictments will be asked, it was declared by the Attorney General. Because of the voluminous nature of the evidence, briefing will consume several weeks and it is unlikely that it will be submitted to the grand jury before Mar. 1. NEW YORK, Jan. 26. Eight men alleged to have been leaving a meeting of the Ku Klux Klan, held in a Brook lyn traffic courtroom were arrested and jailed early today by detectives of the bomb squad. A bottle of Scotch whiskey, two black-jacks and a white robe with eyelets in the head were found in the car in which the men were preparing to drive away when seized, according to Lieutenant Gegan, head of the squad, and other detectives. Seventy-five men had just completed a meeting under the name of the "Marines Circle Club," Gegan declared. (By Associated Press) ARDMORE. Okla., Jan. 26. Eleven prominent citizens of Carter county faced trial -today in district court here on charges of murder growing out of the slaying of three men near Wilson, Okla., during the operations of a masked band on the night of Dec. 15. 1921. , , The Ku Klux Klan was definitely brought into the case when it questioned witnesses at the preliminary hearing as to the existence of the organization in this county and as to a meeting which was said to have been held here a few nights prior to the killings. The hearing was brought to an abrupt close after a witness refused to answer a number of categorical questions concerning the klan. AWARDED $20,000 DAMAGES ANDERSON. Ind., Jan. 26 Roy Phillips. ex-Big Four brakeman here, who had both feet amputated as the result of injuries suffered when he was run over by a cut of cars in the yards here. May 24. 1922, has been given $20,000 as a compromise in a $85,000 damage suit against the company.

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j' t.?w -srr Fhoto shows the blind boy, the pig ana su'u"3' Indians Convinced By Dusty Records of Title to Land (By Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 26. Dusty records showing land titles granted byWilliam Penn and his commissioners in the early days of the founding of Philadelphia have been brought forth in an effort to convince Chief War Eagle and Chief Amos S. Boar, of the Oneida tribe of Indians who rep resent the six Indian nations that a plot of ground in Second street, below Chestnut, does not belong to the Indians. The chiefs, who came here from Wisconsin to establish the Indian ownership of the land contended that it belonged to the six nations under a warn pun agreement with John Penn. grandson of William Pen, when the former was governof of Pennsylvania., . The wampum belt, they declared, was in possession of the Oneida tribe at its reservation in Wiscinsin. The records at city hall showed that the title to the land was clear and that it was the property of the Keystone Telephone company. ' They traced the title from its sale by commissioners for William Penn, to Rob ert Grenway, on Dec. IS, 1864. The two chiefs appeared today to be satisfiied that under the law there was no chance for the six nations to gain possession of the land. ARKANSAS ASSEMBLY INVESTIGATES ACTION OF HARRISON CITIZENS (By Associated Press) , LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 26 Whether the "citizens' committee" usurped the powers of the legal authorities in the recent disorders at Harrison and other points on the Missouri and North Arkansas, during which numerous striking employes of the railroad were expelled or fled from the territory, is one of the chief points on which members of the Arkansas legislature's committee is investigating the Harrison situation Further testimony bearing on the causes for the action of the "citizens' committee" was to be brought out by the committee of legislator's today, after a session which lasted until late last night.. Senator J. R. Wilson, of Eldorado, who did much of the questioning last night, sought to establish whether there was just cause for the alleged deportation of the union men. Must Destroy Cards. Strikers, who testified earlier in the hearing, declared that they were told by members of the citizens committee" that they must '"tear up their union cards" or leave the region. Citizens who have testified have declared that numerous bridge burnings caused them to fear that transportation on the railroads would break down completely. The "banishment of striking employes was not due to any prejudice against labor organizations," said R. E. Dickenhorse of Heber Springs, a banker, who acted as "squad captain" for the "citizens committee" and who" testified late last night. He added that "we -would be glad to have the union men return and run the road." Serves as Chairman. O. B. Robins, a motor car dealer of Ileber Springs said he served as chairman of a mass meeting in which Sheriff Baldridge had appointed the "citizens committee" of 12 which was an executive body of the larger "citizens' committee." He afterwards served as the sheriff's right hand man he de clared. ' , Other witnesses told how, after the burning of bridges, the business men of the region decided that something ought to be done. Business men of ITeber Springs then contributed $200 with which to employ a detective to get evidence on persons guilty of sabotage. A few days later. according to the testimony of Chester Casey, Heber Springs merchant, a committee was organized which wanted men who "would do something." Later he said, armed posses made their appearance in Heber Springs. A member of the posse came to his store, Casey said and asked him to wear a white ribbon which meant that .he was "100 percent for the railroad."

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(By Associated Press) PARIS, Jan. 26. The allied reparations commission this afternoon declared Germany in default of all her reparations obligations to France and Belgium under the treaty of Versailles. The vote was the same as in the previous default decision. France, Italy and Belgium favored the declaration and Great Britain abstaining from voting. The German obligations to Great Britain and Italy were not mentioned in the decision because of Germany's announcement of suspension of deliveries mentioned only France and Belgium. . .

PARIS, Jan. 25. Announcement of General Wreygand's appointment as high commissioner of the Ruhr district now is said on good authority to be waiting for the French cabinet to conciliate differences which have aris en over the selection of an officer not directly under the war office for so important a post. It is understood that Premier Poincare chose Gen. Weygand because lie was recommended by Marshal Foch, who still is regarded as the head of the Interallied forces. A majority of the cabinet is with the premier in holding that the Ruhr occupation is not distinctly a French action but an allied operation and therefore properly under the direction of an interallied organization. To Co-ordinate Action. The movement of French troops so far as they alone are concerned will remain under the direction of the French war office and Marshal Petain and General DeGoutte, General Weygand's mission will be to co-ordinate the French and Belgian action. It is pointed out in well informed circles that Marshal Foch would nat urally be expected to organize any extension of the military operations. Hence it is said to be quite natural to select Foch's chief of staff lor a mission which though chiefly economic today, may become chiefly military at any moment. ANTI-BOLSHEVIST SHIP OF REFUGEES WRECKED OFF FORMOSA COAST BULLETIN MANILA, Jan. 26. One ship of the divided fleet of Russian ships carrying anti-Bolshevist refugees from Vladivostok has been wrecked off the coast of Formosa, according to an unverified report received - here. MANILA, Jan. 26. Seven ships of the Vladivostok refugee . fleet, flying the flag of imperial Russia, and commanded by Admiral Starke, anti-soviet leader, were at Meriveles quarantine station of the Philippines today, undergoing inspection and fumigation. Three other such vessels are supposed to be enrou te here from Formosa, while the remaining two have returned toward Shanghai or Dairen. PEOPLE OF GERMANY URGED TO SACRIFICE BERLIN, Jan. 26. The German government has issued an appeal to the nation, signed by President Ebert and Chancellor Cuno, urging the people to renounce luxuries and extravagances of every kind and to make the greatest possible sacrifices "in view of the common need of the whole country, which involves the very existence of all future Germany and the liberties and rights of the whole people." Leading industrial and commercial firms have issued a similar appeal to employers and workers throughout the reich. Weather Forecast FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY By W. E. Moore Cloudy tonight and Saturday; rain, fog and moderate temperatures. Under the influence of a Rocky mountain storm, which is moving slowly eastward, rain should arrive this afternoon or tonight, accompanied by thawing weather. Temperatures Yesterday at the Pumping Station Maximum 34 Minimum T 31 Today Noon 4 Weather Conditions: The principal storm center is over the eastern slope of the Rocky mountains. Tempera tures are above normal over the plain states and it is colder in the north west. General snows are falling over southern Idaho, Utah and western Wyoming, and rains are over the western plain states south of South Dakota. The severe storm over the New England states caused a 48-mile per hour gale at. New York City. This storm is now moving out to sea. For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau: Unsettled weather tonight and Saturday, probably rain south and rain or snow north portion; colder extreme northwest portion to night. Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 12,186

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KLAN OFFERS PORTLAND NEWSPAPER 1,000 PAID UP SUBSCRIBERS TO "KEEP QUIET"

PORTLAND, Ind., Jan. 26. The Ku Klux Klan offered a newspaper of this city 1JJ00 subscribers' with subscriptions paid in advance for one year, if the newspaperwould keep silent about its activities. The circulation was offered if the paper "kept quiet," it was learned Friday. This offer is in line with the general policy of the klan to obtain newspaper support for its activities. Its organizers and promoters are willing to pay the price if newspapers "keep quiet" about its affairs, it was said here. The invasion of the Muncie klansmen into Portland, in defiance of a city ordinance and the request of the mayor that they refrain from entering the city, has stirred the citizens as has no municipal matter in many years. Anti-Klan Organization Protestants who are opposed to the klan are oreanizine an anti-klan so ciety to stiDoort the city authorities. The citizens are nnticinatine another I nvasion from the klansmen. Citizens are carrying guns. During the invasion of the Muncie klansmen 40 national guardsmen, armed and in uniform, marched at the side of the klansmen. When an officer was asked why the guardsmen marched at the side of the klansmen, the answer was: "We want to protect the flag." ' Citizens say the officers and guards men expected the city fire department to direct streams of water against BIG CROWDS GREET HIGH "A" ORCHESTRA PORTLAND, Ind.,' Jan. 26 The auditorium was crowded to capacity with school children here this afternoon to hear the concert of the Rich mond high school orchestra. Seven automobiles with 75 players arrived here early in the afternoon. All schools were dismissed so that the pupils could attend the concert, for which an admission of 25 cents was charged. Another capacity audience Is ex pected at the auditorium tonight when the orchestra will give another concert for which an admission of 50 cents will be charged.' The orchestra will net a profit which will be placed in its treasury. DONAHEY ADVOCATES OHIO PRISON REFORMS (By United Press) COLUMBUS, Jan. 26 Gov. Donabey's first supplemental . message to the legislature, read by clerks late yesterday, included the following recommendations: 1. That all penal, correctional- and charitable institutions be placed under control of a bi-partisan board, abolishing the one-man "welfare director system. 2. That only "hardened" criminals be kept at the State penitentiary, allowing the others to "produce food for the other state insitutions," by woiking on the Ijtmdon prison farm. 3. That the state build a cement factory where prisoners would be put to work making material for 1 state highways. 4. That members of the board of pardons and paroles give all their time to consideration and investigation of applications. The governor's recommendations are to be referred to committees dealing with the subjects mentioned.

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good luck. the marchers. In this event, the guardsmen would have charged the fire department and the opposing citi zens on the theory that water had been thrown on the flag. The captain notified the guardsmen before the parade that the mayor had no right to swear them in as deputies and that they were to receive their orders from him (the captain). Doug Says Hays Is Only "Fixer? -Not "Uplifter" (By Associated Tress) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26. Will II. Hays, titular head of t lie motion picture industry, is the "official fixer of the films" and draws his yearly salary of $150,000 in that capacity and s not the 'uplitter of the movies. Douglass Fairbanks, motion picture jstar, declared, the Los Angeles Times stated today. Mr. Fairbanks made the declaration, the Times said, in an interview in which he commented upon his hope of banding together the stars of filmdoni under a "gentleman's agreement" which would "give photoplay patrons art" instead of "what the parasites of the industry," as .he termed them, "think is art." He made 'public several weeks ago his plans for grouping the leading actors and actresses of the screen in a combination designed to assure them a free hand in making and distribut ing their products. Group Considered The group includes himself, his wife, Mary Pickford; Charlie Chaplin; Pola Negri, to whom Chaplin is said to be engaged to marry, and Harold Lloyd. It plans to deal with no huge cinema corporation in the production or distribution of its films, but to transact its affairs, more directly with the exhibitors throughout the country. A direct and flatfooted defiance of Mr. Hays and the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors was said by the Times to be Mr. Fairbank's plan. It was when asked about this that he declared Mr. Hays was not the "moral uplifter of the movies." Is Only "Fixer." Mr. Hays has nothing whatever to do with the art or morals of the motion picture industry," asserted Mr. Fairbanks. "He is simply the hired intermediary or 'fixer.' He has done wonderful work in straightening out the censorship tangle, but that, and only that, is his function. "When Mr. Hays was here last month I .told. him. the public ought to be informed that 'moral uplift' was not his true role. - "I admire his ability and admire him as a man, but I believe his true status should be made known." He was quoted as condemning the film faction he . described as "parasites" as being men without vision, thoughtful, not of the future of motion pictures, but only of the money to be made from them. Thompson Not to Ran For Mayor of Chicago (By Associated Press) CHICAGO. Jan. 26 William Hale Thompson, for eight years republican mayor of Chicago, announced today he would not be a candidate for re-election. In the statement announcing his withdrawal from the race, Thompson declared that eight years was "long enough for anyone to be mayor" and that he needed a rest. Thompson said he would be an active participant in the coming campaign on the "principles for which I stand" but declared he would have no candidate of his own.

(By Associated Press) . The Ruhr valley was reported quiet

but sullen today following the disturbances last night at Dusseldorf and Essen, quelled by the French with only minor casualties the wounding of two Germans in the former city. Strong military precautions have been taken by the French to prevent recurrence of the demonstration. Artillery has been posted all around Essen and two additional army corps are said to have been ordered up in haste from Alsace-Loraine. Ninetetn arrests were made in Duesseldorf. The Ruhr continues also completely tied up by the railroad strike, and navigation by the Rhine from the valley is similarly at a standstill. 15,000 Miners Idle Dispatches from the Ruhr declared 150,000 miners now are idle, the movement out of the pits gradually increasing unemployment. Paris despatches reflect a more favorable opinion of the situation. The strikes, it is stated, are only partial and government reports show but 10.000 miners out in the Essen region. The British cabinet meeting today had the Ruhr situation before it. While many quarters including labor are demanding the recall of British troops, others are decidedly opposed and the cabinet is reported divided. Forecasts were that the cabinet would probably decide to await developments and that not even a definite announcement on the subject would be made. BERLIN, Jan. 26. A state of siese has been proclaimed in Aix-la-Chapelle and Krueznach districts by the French occupational authorities as a result of yesterday's demonstration, according to the correspondent of the Berliner Tageblatt at Aix-la-Chapelle. BERLIN, Jan. 26. A state of sieg" has been declared in Trier, because of anti-French demonstrations by the German population, according to an unconfirmed report today. Trier, better known to Americans as Treves, is in the Rhineland. It is a city with a population of about 40,00". By CARL D. GROAT ESSEN, Jan. 26. France today or dered her 6teel ring around the Ruhr hermetically sealed as punishment for outbreaks of violence against French troops in various parts of the occupied zone yesterday and last night. The blockade line ran through Dort mund, Castrop and Recklinghausen in an arc of bayonets past which no coal was permitted to move. Troops were moved up to reinforce the customs lines guards which were placed on railway lines; all night long French cavalry clattered through the streets of Essen; troop movements were partly shielded by censorship; everything was quiet at dawn. No fuel whatever is to be permitted to pass from the mines of the Ruhr valley to German sources outside, ac cording to French reports. Simultaneously with this reported restriction, French guns, tanks and machine guns struck warlike attitudes about Essen and Duesseldorf. cities whose people showed signs, of physical resistance to the invasion. From passive sabotage the RuTir mood turned Thursday to petty violence scarcely restrained. French cavalry was forced to charge a crowd at Duesseldorf, and two Germans were trampled. At Essen last night there was a succession of rows between overheated civilians and French patrols, in which stones were hurled by the former. Bloodshed waa averted only by the restraint shown by the troops, Following return of Fritz Thyssen and the industrialists from Mayence there were further demonstrations. Commanders Meet General Waygand, Marshal Foch's chief of staff, held a meeting today with commanders of the army of occupation, and it was permitted to be definitely understood that the French are here to stay "not months, but years, if necessary." Burgomaster Kulb. Police Director Worman and Police Comis'sary Enders of Mayence, where rioting occurred Wednesday night, were ordered expelled together with their families, for failure to stop the anti-French demonstrations. Coal shipments 'to Germany from the Ruhr, which have been permitted by the French at some points to prevent a general sttike, will be interrupted completely after today, it was indicated. In the face of further coercion, Germany is reported steeling herself for privation, a government appeal calling upon all good citizens to give up lux uries for the common need of the whole country. ( Kv Associated Tress) DUESSELDORF, Jan. 26 Desultory rifle firing which was in progress in various parts of the city throughout the evening ceased at a late hour when French cavalry and infantry patrols cleared the streets. At midnight Duesseldorf was outwardly calm. Two Germans were reported as wounded during the course of the disturbance, which started early in the evening when a mob celebrated simultaneously tha return of Fritz Thyssen and a two-hour protest strike. That more persons were not hurt was due to the fact that the sentries and patrols were under orders to fire into the air and only Fhoot to kill should the crowed refuse to break up. Whenever and wherever the French rifles spoke the populace scampered to cover. A heavy rain which, began to fall at 10 o'clock also dampened the bellicose ardor of the German patriots. The French, however, are under no (Please Turn to Page Fourteen) .