Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 93, Number 26, 30 January 1923 — Page 1

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BILL AUTHORS TAKE HAND IN LEGIONJIGHT Revolt Among Posts Spreads Rapidly

British May Withdraw Troops From Occupied German Territory Leaving France To Go Ahead With New Measures to Curh Germans MAY EXTEND FRENCH LINE TO FRANKFORT

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Sregg, former commander of the Indianapolis department of the American Legion, and a member of the legislative commission of the Indianapolis department, announced today that the committee which framed the bill now before the Indiana legislature to prohibit the holding of the annual 500 mile automobile race, and other sports where an admission fee ia charged on Memorial day, would take a hand in the fight. The fight developed last week when the Skidmore-Dean post announced It opposed the bill and their charter was revoked by Perry Faulkner, state commander of the legion. Yesterday the St. Mihiel Loer post, announced that It opposed the bill and it likewise was Informed that Its charter had been revoked. H. C. Harrington, state judge advocate of the legion, was requested to resign by Mr. Faulkner, who said Harrington had deliberately misquoted him. Ask Fight Dropped Members of the legislative committee went Into session at a hotel here lart night with members of the local Chamber of Commerce and B. A. Worthington, president of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western railroad. It i9 understood that Mr. Worthlngton and members of the Chamber of Commerce asked the legion to drop its fight for the passage of the bill. The bill already has been passed by the senate of the legislature and will be acted on in the bouse during the week. Revolt of legion posts in Marion county against the state commander, spread rapidly today. Four posts had defied the commander by adopting resolutions of opposition to the bill pending in the legislature to prohibit the annual 500-mile automobile races here or any other commercial sporting events on Memor ial day. May Support Revolt. All post commanders of Marion county will meet tonight and the general ' sentiment was overwhelmingly in favor of suDDorting the revolting posts. The Memorial day bill became a question of secondary importance as the battle waged. The real question at issue settled down to whether Faulkner could enforce his threat that posts opposing the measure would be suspended and state officers not in harmony with him would be ejected. So bitter had become the feeling that secession of Marion county posts from the state organization was being seriously considered. This probably will be discussed at the meeting of post commanders tonight. Some members also advocated impeachment of Faulkner, who stood firm, and it was predicted among the ranks that, disruption of the Legion would be the outgrowth. ECONOMIC CONFERENCE PROPOSAL IS RENEWED BY BORAH IN SENATE (By Associated. Press-) WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 Senator Borah renewed in the senate today his proposal for an international economic conference called by President Harding. The conference proposal which already has been the center of one senate storm and Is expected to develop another was submitted this time by the Idaho senator as a separate resolution, which at his own request immediately was laid aside for consideration after pending farm credits legislation is out of the way. In order to prevent any undue delay, however, Mr. Borah indicated that when the time came he probably would move to add the resolution to an amendment to some bill already under discussion. POWER OF FARMER.S DOLLAR INCREASES (By .Associated Tress) WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.Agriculture from a financial standpoint is getting better although the farmers' dollar opened the new year with a purchasing power equal to 68 cents before the war. For last year the average index number of the purchasing power of farm products in terms of other commodities that farmers buy was 69, an increase of two points over 1921, but a ilfcroase of 17 point3 from the 1920 average, according to department of agriculture index figures just compiled. December improved over November, n increase of five points having been .shown in the index number of the average farm prices of 10 leading crops and a decrease of one point in the prices of com modi ties, excluding farm and food products that farmers buy.

Lord Kinnaird, Famous Y.M.C.A. Official, Is Dead (By Associated Press) IX) N DON, Jan. 30 Lord Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird, a prominent figure in the work of the Young Men s Christian association, died today. He . -had been ill for some time, but the i'T iWnd is believed to have been hastened Vhy the sudden death of Lady Kinnaird a few days ago. . Ixird Kinnaird, a former president of the Evangelical Council, was lord high commissioner to the church of Scotland from 1907 to 1909, inclusive.

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BALDWIN WILL SEND TEXT OF INTERVIEW TO OFFICIALS OF U.S. (3y Associated Tress LONDON, Jan. 30. The British cabinet is not enjoying that tranquility which Premier Bonar Law prescribed for the country upon taking office. As the ministers met today to consider Stanley Baldwin's report on his American mission it was under the shadow of a near east war cloud and the uplifting gloom, of the Ruhr situation. The two latter subjects it was expected would engage the attention of the. cabinet in part, but the primary purpose of the meeting was to deal with Great Britain's debt to the United States. It was not supposed that this question could be settled at a single session and the presumption was that two more meetings might be needed to bring the divergent views of the ministers into harmony. Some of the cabinet members are credited with the opinion that it would be better to continue paying 5 per cent relying on the hope that better terms can be arranged in the near future, interest on the debt as it now stands, Premier --Bonar Law himself is sup posed to hold this opinion or some view approximating it. To Send Text. Mr. Baldwin, in an interview with the Daily Mail regarding the effect of his Southampton interview in the United States, said he was sure that if the whole statement had been read in the United States no exception would have been taken to it. His principal object, he said, was to explain to the British people the position of affairs in the United States the difficulties and opinions of the great mass of the American people away from the eastern seaboard, regarding the debt. 'The newspaper asserts that the full text of the interview is to be sent to the American officials. The Times parliamentary expert ascribes to the premier an inclination to believe that the United States may be disposed to examine the facts and the figures again in the near future. The Telegraph's displomatic authority says "A fresh proposal which may conceivably be studied by the cabinet would provide for payment of interest at three percent for 10 years, reserving for discussion at the end of that period what r?e of interest would be paid thereafter." One of the possible changes in the future which is receiving much discussion is that Sterling exchange may rise above the dollar, thus enabling Great Britain to redeem her debt upon much more favorable terms. Favor U. S. Terms. The financial circles of London, according to the best informed writers, largely incline toward acceptance of the American commission's terms, although some would stipulate that if at the end of a decade monetary conditions improved in Great Britain's favor, this country would be allowed full benefit of that change in a revision of terms. Some financiers, however, favor Immediate acceptance, contending that the difference of four or five million pounds sterling between what Mr. Baldwin tried to get and what America offered, is too small to haggle over at tne risk ot disturbing the good relations between England and the United States. With reference to American criticism of Mr. Baldwin's Southhamton interview, one writer in the Telegraph makes the curious suggestion that the chancellor's statement "might have been inspired by the American secretary of the treasury for the purpose of providing inhabitans of the western states with a more exact knowledge of the situation." TWO KILLED IN FIGHT BETWEEN KENTUCKY OFFICERS, TRAINMEN (Ry Associated Press) CARBIX. Ky..- Jan. 30 Two men were killed and two wounded in an encounter between city special police and trainmen on the streets of Carbin early today. The cause for the clash has not been determined. J. C. Barker, engine dispatcher, 44, and George Yaden, 23 iyears old, special officer, are dead. Jeff Barker, switchman, and a man named Day, also an officer, are the wounded. Versions given the police indicated the two Barkers were going home from work and that they met the special policemen just as they reached their gate. The latter were seeking the scene of shots they had heard. When questioned, according to the surviving officers, the Barkers began shooting. "A boarding house in which 15 railroad men were sleeping was dynamited recently at Carbin, with no fatilities. Today shooting has not been connected with labor or strike trouble. ,

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MAIN STREET ROOMS SECURED FOR LEGION POST HEADQUARTERS Announcement of a change in the quarters of the American Legion was made by Commander Benjamin Ball Tuesday following receipt of word that a lease for the new quarters had been approved. The new Legion rooms will be in the large hall on the third floor of the William Turner building over the City restaurant. The lease will date from March 1 and Legion officers expect to have the post occupying the hall before that time. Present quarters in the K". of P. building will be vacated as soon as remodeling and decoration ' of the new hall are completed. American Legion members are enthusiastic over the possibilities of the new quarters. A space 60 feet square in the clear, without interfering posts, can be used for dances, while a balcony at the rear will be utilized for office and band rooms, with canteen and a kitchen for the auxiliary beneath it. Large Balcony Space taken up by the balcony measures about 25 by 40 feet and it is planned to partition off an office room which will be used for Forty and Eight club meetings and a band room which can be used for storage of instruments on the upper floor leav ing space for a motion picture booth and possibly space for dance orchestras. Beneath the balcony will be located the canteen with the kitchen in the rear of it. Davenports piano and other furniture and pool tables will be located on the main floor. The hall has 11 windows fronting on Main street "so we can see everything that's going on," comments a member, 1 and with eight additional windows on the north will be well lighted. The ceiling is 25 feet high. When the rooms are ready for occupancy officers plan to hold a com bined band concert, dance and reception for all members and tjiose eligible to membership, and auxiliary members. . POLITICAL BOSS TO RETURN FOR TRIAL (By United Press) CHICAGO, Jan. 30. Ferd Lundin. former Chicago political boss, indicted with 19 others on charges of defrauding the Chicago school board of $1,000,000, was reported today on his way home from Cuba to stand trial. Attorney Clarence Darrow appeared in court and announced his client would arrive here Wednesday to meet the bond of $10,000 fixed by the indictment. Lundin is accused of being one of, the leaders of the alleged ring which j systematically mulcted the school treasury. t Y .

Ship Captain Accused

Of Fiendish Torture (By United Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 30. George H. Miles, former captain of the shipping board steamer President Van Buren on trial here today on a charge of murder on the high seas, was accused of fiendish torture by witnesses testi fying against him. A. J. McDonald, boatswain's mate, declared that Miles beat H. C. Baxter, pantry man. and caused the latter' to be put in chains with food just out of his reach. Miles accused Baxter of feigning illness to avoid work, the witness said. Baxter died. Pittsburgh Coal Producers Sign Union Wage Scale PITTSBURGH, Jan. 30 Possibility or anotner - strike tins summer, was eliminated today following announce ment that the Pittsburgh Coal produc ers asspciation, representing twenty million tons annually has signed the present .union wage scale agreement for one year, beginning April 1, 1923 Weather Forecast FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY By W, E. Moore Rain tonight and Wednesday, Cold er Vednesday or ednesday night A slow moving Rocky Mountain storm indicates brisk winds, changing from southeast to . the' northeast by Wednesday night, rain probably turn I ing to snow flurries by Thursday or f ooner as the storm crosses the great lakes. Temperatures Taken Yesterday -At Pumping Station Maximum 37 Minimum 19 Today Noon 40 Weather Conditions: Generally, fair weather continues over the eastern states, while the Rocky Mountain storm is moving slowly eastward. The rain however has already reached southern Indiana. A cold wave is slowly overspreading the north-western states. Temperatures range from 10 to 20 below zero in western Canada and from 10 to 15 below in Montana. Heavy snows are falling in the Rocky Mountain Etates excepting the extreme southern portion. The cold wave is centered over Medicine Hat. Another cold wave covers the northeast. At Northfield, Vermont, 20 degrees below zero was reported.. Tem peratures are above' normal south of the great lakes. It is very- warm along the gulf coast. For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau: "Unsettled tonight and Wednesday rain south and rain or snow north portion, cooler Wednesday and west portion tonight. Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 12,170

M'CORMICK URGES BUSINESS MEN TO BUILD

CAREFULLY FOR PROSPERITY NOW RETURNING

Predictions of a resumption of pros perity,' accompanied by an earnest warning that American business men should not be misled into the same mistakes which preceded the recent depression, were given by Cyrus II. McCormick, Jr., vice-president ana works manager of the International Harvester company, in a noon address before the Richmond Rotary club ut the Arlington hotel Tuesday. "We made a long step from prosper ity to deflation two years ago, said Mr. McCormick, "ana. we had, a. hard fall. Let us cot do the same thing agin, in the stress ot over-proauction when we all were straining every ef fort to meet our orders, most businesses forgot that the only true, progress is by the slow method of growth. 'The disastrous business depression taught us some hard but valuable truths. We learned that business, to be really successful, must be econom ical. We learned that our elaborate preparations for selling were not built on a strong foundation. In dur own manufacturing business we made the mistake of assuming that, because we had sold thousands of machines every year in this country, we would continue to do so. "We, in common with others, learned on the contrary, that it is not safe to base business organization on the demands of the 'peak load." No business, nor even life itself, is always kept at the heights. There are seasons of height and depression, periods of optimism and pessimism. Growth Is Certain. "We should not make the mistake of accepting either extreme as per manent. It would be as false to assume that-depression will continue as it was to expect prosperity always to be easy. The country is going to grow, and it is up to the American business men to provide for that growth. "It is true that our foreign trade is gone now, but it will come back, although I will not. take the responsibility of saying when. The withtdrawal of the foreign trade has hurt all business greatly, which can be understood when I remind you that 14 percent of all our foreign business went, to Europe. In our own company, 45 percent of our-foreign trade was with Eur opean countries, and its loss effected j our domestic costs greatly. Failure to j sell in those markets cut our local production below the most economical point. ... Should Be Interested. "I do not say that we must get all mixed up in foreign affairs but they should be of interest to us. and we should know what is happening. It is impossible for us to be unaffected by world events now. All prices and all business are interlocking in all countries. We cannot discuss the price of wheat without considering the price in Liverpool, or cotton without knowing what Manchester mills 'are doing, nor sugar without thinking of the PhilipFATHER OF HQOSIER AUTHOR DIES TODAY (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 30. John Tarkington, 90 years old, father o? Booth Tarkington, noted Hoosier au thor, died at his home here today of pneumonia. Until recent years the elder Tarkington practiced law in this city and formerly was a judge of Marion county. He had been ill only a short time. Mr. Tarkington was born at Centerville June 4, 1832, the son of the Rev. Joseph Tarkington. For sometime he practiced law at Terre Haute and only a few years ago gave up the practice of law to write. - His law training started in the law office of Governor Parter, and later he served as secretary for Governor Wright. His writings included "Hermits of Capri" and "Auto Orphans." . Surviving are Booth Tarkington and Haute Tarkington Jameson', children; two sisters, several grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.

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pines, nor any textiles, leather, coal, or any other world commodity without considering the European events. "Sometimes, also, we overloked the vital interest that business men have in the farm. If we want to find the real basic industry, don't go to the railroads, or mines, or forests, go to the farms. We can heat our houses without coal, we can travel without, railroads, we can build without lumber, but we must all have food, and we must depend upon the farmer for it. ' Farmer Exception. k "The farmer has been the one exception to American business men, (and I say 'business men' advisedly, for he is one) in that he is the only one with absolutely no control of the prices he receives. Others can sell in a locai (Please Turn to Page Ten). TURKEY AND GREECE AGREE ON EXCHANGE, RETURN OF CAPTURED BULLETIN LAUSANNE, Jan. 30. Two conventions growing out of the deliberations of the Lausanne peace conference were signed today between Turkey and Greece. One provides for the mutual return of prisoners of war and host ages. The other puts jnto effect the compulsory exchange of populations arranged. The signatories were Ismet Pasha and Riza Nur Bey for Turkey and M. Venizelos and Caclamanos for Greece. LAUSANNE, Jan. 30. Fear of what might result from an abrupt termination of the near east conference here tomorrow when the allies formally present their treaty to the Turkish delegation is apparently having a temporizing influence at this critical stage of the negotiations and influences are at work to prevent Wednesday's allied pronouncement from savoring of an ultimatum. DUBLIN IS DISTURBED BY FRESH INSURGENT TERRORISM TACTICS (By United Press) DUBLIN, Jan. 30. Public buildings, the residence of Chief State Solicitor Corrigan and another passenger train were bombed and fired in fresh out breaks of insurgent terrorism today. Snipping, bombing and arson activ ities kept Dublin in a turmoil through out the night, incendiary attacks be ing made against the homes of Free State Officials. The - city hall and telephone ex change were bombed. At the Corrigan home the official's wife and children were ordered to the street, the residence, was mined and blown up. . The terriffic explosion scattered furniture for hundreds of yards. Another house was later blown up by a mine. A passenger train was held up by incendiaries in Kllliney, a Dublin sub urb and completely destroyed by fire. (By Associated Press) DUBLIN, Jan. 30. Sir Horace Plunkett's house at Foxrock, county Dublin, was raided by an armed band today. After expelling the occupants the visitors blew up the front part of the residence. The explosion shook the village. Sir Horace is in the United States and the only occupants of his residence were servants. . DUPLIN. Jan. 30. It Is reported that Liam Deasy, who is alleged to have shared with Liam Lynch, the supreme control of the Irish republicans has been arrested.

France.Belgium Agree

on New Steps (By Associated Pres) New .measures by, the French, and Belgians to make the extended occupation of the G-emian territory more effective are forecast in today's advices. General DeGoutte, French commissioner in tbe Ruhr is quoted as declaring, that further measures to bring the Germans to terms soon will be decided upon. In apparent pursuance of this policy, France and Belgium, it is announced in Brussels, have agreed on measures to be taken in the Ruhr in tie near future. Th agreement was reached at a conference between high French and Belgian officials, including General Weygand, Marshal Foch's chief of staff, and Premier Theunis, of Belgium. In the concerted action plan with Belgium to make the customs barrier in the Ruhr effective, an extension of the French to Frankfort may be necessary, it has been unofficially hinted. Complete stoppage of coal shipments into Germany is one of the predicted measures. Continue Sabotace. The German railway workers are continuing their sabotage campaign against French attempts to operate the Ruhr railway, but the Ruhr gas and electric workers have decided not to strike. The mines are still turning out at two-thirds coal supply, but the railroad tie-up threatens to compel shuting down of the pits. In Duesseldorf the striking teleeraph service employes have resumed work. The Paris foreign office declares the striking situation is improving particularly in the Rhineland, where Coblenz, Bonn and Treves, are the onlv points at which the men are still out. London advices indicate Premier Bonar Law will not accede to the British labor party demand that the British parliament be called into session before the date set for its assembly, Feb. 13, so that the Franco-German situation may be considered. In Washington, Senator Borah, of Idaho, has renewed his proposition for an international economic conference. DUESSELDORF, Jan. 30. The German telegraph operators who have been on strike here resumed work at 11 o'clock this morning, the French agreeing to . withdraw their soldiers from the operating room and post them outside. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. A charge that women employes of the telegraph office at Duesseldorf in the Ruhr "have been driven with blows of riding whips from their officers" was made in a German foreign office statement, received today at the German embassy here, (By United Press) PARIS, Jan. 30. The French foreign office today officially denie-i a report from Brussels that 20 Germans had been shot in a clash with French troops in tbe Rhineland. By Associated Press) PARIS, Jan. 30. A report uncon firmed that 20 Germans had ben killed in a collision with French troops at Boppard, and the announcement that General Weygand and Minister of Public Works L. E. Trocquer had gone to Brussels to discuss the Ruhr situ ation with the Belgian government, were leading topics of public discus sion here today. The Boppard incident was reported by the Echo de Paris, which asserted that the firing resulted from a demonstration by Nationalists in protest against the arrest of the city's burgomaster. Arrange Action. General Weygand and M. LeTrocquer, who recently returned from a visit to Duesseldorf, have gone to Brussels to arrange for concerted action with the Belgian government, it is said, before taking such a definite step as the establishment of a customs barrier in the Ruhr. This move, it now appears, will require more preliminary work than has been anticipated. To make it really effective, it is believed the French will be obliged to extend their line to Frankfort. The railroad and postal services, however, are to be taken over immedia'.ely, inasmuch as the necessary personnel for operating them is now on the spot. All recalcitrant German officials, it is announced, hereafter will be ejected even more promptly than to date. There is talk of appointing a high commission to direct the entire Ruhr operation, but only the names of civilians are now being mentioned in this connection. BERLIN, Jan. 30 Germans beyond the Ruhr today had the assurance of their hero, Fritz Thyssen. that "their brothers in the all but isolated occupied zone do not intend to yield to Franco-Belgian pressure; instead, they constitute a compact unit in the determination to resist French encroachments." . . . . This statement made public at a time when all attempts to communicate with Essen wer failing, declared that the Ruhr was united in supporting the government's policy. Herr Thyssen questioned whether the French could effect a customs ring that would serve their purpose, and said that strangers could hardly hope to operate the mines or railways successfully. Government spokesmen feel that the stern measures of the French are bringing on an acute situation, es(Please Turn to Page Four)