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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-04
RELIEF DEMANDED,

WASHINGTON, Aug. -Four hun
dred fifty thousand members of the
brotherhood Of Railway and Steam
ship clerks, freight handlers, express
and station employees today joined
with other railway workers in de-
manding that unless something be
done materially to reduce the cost Of
living our wages must be raised to
give us immediate relief" The de-
mands have been transmitted to the
railroad administration, J. J. Forrest
er. president of the brotherhood, an
nounced
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-04

1t Is reported that President Ber-
trand of Honduras has imprisoned
his vice president, DR.. Alberto Mem
breno, chgrceing the latter with hav-
ing taken the leading Sart in revo-
luton proclaimed recently in Hondur-
as. Membreno was formerly Hondur-
an minister to the United States.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-04
SENATE TAKES
UP BATTLE ON
COST PROBLEM
AGAIN TODAY
Agriculture Committee Called
for Tomorrow to Discuss
Means of Lowering Living
Cost-Wheat Debated.
PRESIDENT RETURNS
(By Associated Fressy


WASHINGTON, Aug A. President
Wilson returned to Washington early
today from a weekend trip down the
Potomac on the Mayflower He had
no engagements for the forenoon and
was understood to be devoting his at
tention to the high cost Of living
problem.
NO REMEDY OFFERED
WASHINGTON. Aug. 4-Discussion
OF the high cost Of living was resumed
in the senate today Immediately after
the session opened. Chairman Gronna
OF the agriculture committee announo-
ed that he had called a committee
meeting tomorrow to discuss means of
reducing the cost of living. He said
he had no remedy to offer but de-
clared that increase of wages and de-
crease Of working hours was not a
panacea nor would government own.
ership or control of Utilities solve the
problem.
Relation Of the price OF wheat to the
cost OF living was debated by several
senators.
Continued on Page Thirteen)
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-04
HINES CALLS
RAIL union
LEADERS IN
CONFERENCE
Effort Made to Meet Railroad
Problem-Railway Clerks
and Freight Handlers
Threaten Strike.
SHOP STRIKE GROWS
(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Aug. ALL rail-
road union officials now in Washing
ton were asked by Director General
Hines to meet with him at noon to-
day for a conference on the high cost
of living.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-04

For Wayne County, by w. E. Moore
are probable this
afternoon or tonight. and Tuesday.
General Conditions-A marked rise
in temperature has taken place gen.
orally over the central states, the CEN
ter Of the warm wave being east Of
the Tooth meridian and south Of the
lakes. Thunderstorms are developing,
due to a storm crossing the Great
Lakes. The weather will continue to
be unsettled for the next thirty-six
hours.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-04
Weather Forecast

For Indiana, by United States
Weather Bureau-Partly cloudy, prob
ably showers and thunderstorms IN
north portion tonight and Tuesday.
Not much change in temperature.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
AUSTRIAN ASSEMBLY
TO TAKE UP TREATY
Committee Is Expected to Make
Its Report on St. Germaine Pact
at End of Week.

VIENNA, October Is (by the Asso-
ciated Press).-Austria's national as
sembly met today for consideration
of the peace treaty framed by the
peace conference at Paris and signed
at st. German September 10 last
The treaty was referred to a special
committee, the government program
being carried out in an uneventful
session.
1t is probable that the treaty com
mittee will make it's report by the
end of the week, when it Is expected
that the ratification of the instru-
ment will take place.
DR.. Otto Bauer. the minister of So
cialiZation, as had been forecast, an
nounced his retirement from the gov
ernment He will take the leader
ship Of the opposition.
Today's session was presided over
by DR.. Karl Seitz. the president OF
the republic.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
WOULD TRAIN FEDERAL
AND D. c. EMPLOYEES
Senator Pomerene Proposes Service
School in Amendment Offered
to Deficiency Bill.

A service school for employees of the
Federal and District governments is
proposed in an amendment offered by
Senator Pomerene to the general de-
6ciency bill, now pending before the
Senate appropriations committee
Senator Pomerene believes that the
establishment of such school 10
train new employees of the govern
ment in the duties expected of them
and to train others for advanced no
sitions, will result in greatly increas-
ing the efficiency of the government
service.
The bureau deficiency, under the
plan of Senator Pomerene, is to he
authorized and directed to establish
and conduct the school for the gov
ernment employees. 1t is to be loca
in the District of Columbia and in
government buildings available At
hours that will not conflict with the
usual government Office hours.
Officers and employees Of the fed
eraI government and also of the Dis
trict government are to be seIected
as teachers in the service school and
NAV be detailed for such work upon
the request of the chief of the bureau
of efficiency.
IT is provided that not more than
ak 600 of the current APPROXIMATION
for the bureau of efficiency NAV be
used to carry out the plan for the
school.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
NC-4|S WELCOMED
by NAVY SECRETARY
Mr. Daniels Tells Command
er Read of Pride in Record
of Flights.
RECRUITING AIM OF TRIP

Secretary Daniels in the name of The
Navy Department, today extended an
ofhcial welcome to Lieut.. Comma nder
Read. commanding sofiicer of the NC-4,
the first airship to cross the Atlantic
ocean. and to members OF the crew OF
the Nc-4. which landed here late yes-
terday afternoon after a flight from
Baltimore. and is tied up at the wharf
of the District of Columbia Naval Mi
htia, where the welcome was ex-
tended.
In short talk Secretary Daniels
expressed the pride of the Navy in the
exploit of the Navy aircraft and her
commander and crew, and prophesied
that within a few years airships, fol-
rowing the path blazed by the Navy
would be operating on regular sched-
ules not only across the continent and
across the Atlantic, but across the Pa
cine and around the world.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
ARBITRATION ISSUE
HANGING FIRE IN
CONFERENCE TODAY
No Definite Result Over Steel
Strike Expected This
Afternoon.
COMPROMISE PROPOSAL
BY COMMITTEE FAILS
Hope Expressed Confidently, How
ever, Delegates VIII Persevere
Till Settlement Is Reached.

4 declaration of "thc right of
wage earners'' to "barGain cOIlec-
lively" and to ..be represented by
representatives of their own chOOs-
tionaI Industrial committee today
by Thomas l.. ChadbOurne. chair
man of the committee of fifteen.
The steel strike arbitration question
will not be definitely answered at the
session of the national industrial con-
ference convening at 2:3O o'clock this
afternoon. Futile efforts to formulate
compromise proposal were made by
the general committee of fifteen yes
terday afternoon and this morning
The committee is expected to ask for
conference adjournment until Monday
afternoon.
Thus the fate of the efforts of lead
ing men and women of the nation to
bring Industrial peace to the country
appears 10 rest with the committee
OF htteen; on the outcome of the ef-
Iorts OF the labor and public group
committeeman to persuade the en-
ployer group committeeman to accept
compromise agreement. Several
conferees said this morning that nm
less both capital and labor show a
ciean-cut spirit of compromise the
conference may as well quit and go
home.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
Secretary Wilson's Statement.

The words of Secretary of Labor
Wilson are still pertinent. in that they
express the fears of a majority of the
conference, as well as the people in
the government itself. He says:
There can be no permanent indus
trial peace that is not based upon in
dustrial justice. Just as international
wrongs may accumulate to the point
where war is necessary to bring re-
lief, so industrial wrongs may make
industrial conflict preferable to the
further endurance of the wrongs i'm
posed. Nor is il sufficient that either
side to an industrial controversy
should be the sole Judge of what con-
ist by which all men may know that
justice has been secured"
So il is a fundamental issue of JUS
tice that is up. Action on the reso-
luton proposed by Samuel Gompers
asking that the conference reuuest
the steel employers and employees to
go back to normal conditions till the
issues of the industrial conference
are settled has been indefinitely
postponed. The conference is trying
in the meantime to get harmony on
the principle of collective bargain
ing. The public group is much more
advanced in it's discussion of what
should be the principle of collective
bargaining than is the general COM
mittee of fifteen. In the latter COM
Ihiiltt inc are Op-
posing anything but an organization
created by their own men in their
own shops and having no authority
outside their shops. In the public
group two classes of opinion prevail
those who would grant the right
OF wage-earners to elect their own
spokesmen and duly accredit them
as their representatives in dealing with
employers. But the labor group
served notice that they wanted the
right recognized of wage earners to
associate 'in trade or labor unions"
so as to deal with employers, and to
be permitted to employ counsel OF
anybody else to represent them in all
negotiations.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
PRESIDENT RESTED
WELL LAST NIGHT
Discomfort Is Relieved, Says
BuIIetin-King's Visit Is
UncanCeIed.

President Wilson had a good nights
rest last night. said the bulletin issued
today by his physicians.
The bulletin follows:
1.-The White House, 11:55 am,
October 1S, 1919
THE discomfort which the President
suffered for two days has been relieved
to a very great extent. He had a good
night. His temperature, pulse respira-
ton and kidney function continue nor
NAL.
(Sigaed) "GRAYSON.
"RUFFIN,
"STITT."
DIR. Grayson said informally that the
President was cheerful and that he was
enjoying having Mrs. Wilson read TO
him.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
ORGANIZERS TURNED BACK

HUNTINGTON. w. Va, October 16.
The fifty union organizers. who went
into Logan county yesterday in an at
tempt to unionize coal miners of the
Guyan valley, and who claim they were
forced to leave that region by several
hundred armed men," reported their
case today to district headquarters of
the United Mine Workers of America
at Charleston.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
MEN IN AUTO ROB BANK,
SHOOT A POLICEMAN

ROSELLE, N. J., October ia
gang of seven men, travelling in a large
touring car, robbed the First Nation
al Bank of Roselle today, shot a po-
Hceman in duel in which one of the
robbers also was wounded, and es-
capped with about $1,000 of the bank S
cash.
The car in which the men escaped
bore the license No. 52994. and is said
to have been stolen in Eliza beth.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
GOMPERS is IMPROVED,
BUT MUST STAY IN BED

Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor. who
is suffering from nervous exhaustion.
was reported somewhat improved to-
day. but his physician ordered him to
remain in bed. Last night Mr.. Com
pers' temperature rose to 10O.S de-
grees. but it had receded this morn
ing to 9S.4.
The following statement was issued
today at American Federation of La
Dor headquarters:
"Dr. Henry Porter states that Mr..
Gompers' temperature is 9S.4 He
seems considerably rested and ap-
peared better, but must still remain
in bed"
Evening star., 1919-10-16
CROWDED SCHOOLS
SHOW c|TY'S NEEDS
Park View and Takoma Sit
uations Presented in Re-
port to Mr.. Thurston.

How the District public school sys-
tenn is teaching hundreds of children
more than the existing buildings
were intended to accommodate is i'll
lustrated by conditions in the Park
View and Takoma schools.
The Takoma School is an eight
room building. which should provide
for 800 children, allowing forty to a
class. At present there are 5S1
pupils enrolled there, with a waiting
list. The overflow is being cared for
by a one-room portable, by the rent
ing of a nearby parish hall and by
establishing. halliday classes for. the
first and second grades.
superintendent of Schools Thurston
largest number of children who can
be taught with any degree Of eff
ficiency by a teacher, but that the
rapid growth of population has made
1t necessary to admit as high as
fifty -four to some classes. In seven
of the classes at the Takoma School
there are forty eight pupils.
Halliday classes for the first and
second grades have become necessary
in practically all of the buildings.
Situation at Park View.
The Park View is a sixteen-room
building. with two one-room portable
structures added. In these eighteen
rooms twenty-three classes have been
organized. by making use of the half
day plan. to accommodate the children
of that neighborhood.
superintendent Thurston told of
conditions at these two schools in re-
sponse to request for an illustration
of the conditions which have been
brought about by the growth of the
population. The superintendent is
receiving similar facts from all the
schools, and when all the data are in
he will go over them carefully to deter
mine just how badly Washington
needs more school buildings.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
Kirby and Miller Killed
in 2OO-Foot Fall; Smiths
Plane Burns at Buffalo

SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. Oct,har ,e
Lieut.. French Kirby, pilot. and Ti.It 10
Stanley c. Miller. observer Of air1,a1o
No. "A. in their transcontinen,aiI =, e
aerby, We're killed at Castle Rock Irtab
late yesterday. when their plane trau'
eng westward, fell a distance of an-
proximately 200 feet. vi ap-
according to the man,per ~ +ho
tagby ranch, the machine was aYirt,
hlgh when the engine was heard to stnS
anu hiTpy was seen to float downward rd
suddenly. when about 200 feet in ~
air, the machine banked sharnIv and
dived straight for the ground ;a,',
KIRBY was dead when ranch hands
reached the machine. Lieut. MiI,er u,a .
alve and medical assistance was sent
Tor, but he expired before phvsician
could arrive either from Castle Rocl1 nr
Evanston, Wyo 'ooN vi
Smith Plane Burns at Buffalo.
BUFFALO. N. Y, October 1s-rha
alrpIane IN which Capt. l.. IT Smii h
arrived here from New York yastar
day was destroyed by fire at The
local landing field last night Can't
smith was the leader in the return
night or western aviators in the
cross continent air race
Mechanlcs were at work nrenarinp
the plane for the RESUMPTION OF Cant
am Enitn nlsht when the wings caught
nre from lantern. In a few minut es
the aHpiahe was destroyed.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
ALBERT TO BE RECEIVED
BY SENATE OCTOBER 28

The Senate will receive King Albert
of Belgium in the Senate chamber at
1870 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, Octo-
Der %. A motion of Senator Lodge
chairman of the foreign relations
committee. to take a recess at that
hour of the day for the purpose of
receiving King Albert was unani-
mously adopted by the Senate TODAY.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
Again Today

The Star is obliged to omit
over 2l columns of advertis-
ing, as 81 pages is the largest
daily paper it can issue.
Advertisers are requested
whenever possible not to
schedule ! General Publicity
matter for the lst or 18th OF
the month or for THURSDAYS
and Fridays, as on those days
the pressure for space is
usually so great that it is not
possible to use all of the ad-
vertising that is offered.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
TWO LANGUAGES RECITE
GLORY OF WASHINGTON
ON VERSAILLES STATUE

PARIS, October 15.--In the
american Independence room"
in the Versailles palace two
setting forth in English and
French George Washington
everlasting glory as a patriotic
citizen and leader
one bears an inscription that
his statue now there was pre-
Sented to France by the people
of Virginia, as a mark of friend
ship and esteem for the splen-
did and opportune services rem
dered to Virginia and the other
sets forth the aid given the
American colonies by France in
the war of independence,
Evening star., 1919-10-16
Not Likely to Go to Pieces.

Despite surface aspects of small
nope apparent today, there is slight
Likelihood the conference will go to
pleces. Belief was expressed by Sec
Tetary Lane of the Department of the
interior, chairman of the conference
that the majority of delegates in
each group will stick together a
month or more, if need be, to COM
pose a plan TOR Industrial peace and
expansion and work out the method
This spirit is very strong among
representatives of the public AS de-
scribed last night, Mr. Baruch, Mr..
McNab, Mr.. Rockefeller, Mr.. Chad
bourne and Mr.. Feiss, themselves
wealthy employers, continue decided
~ hopeful and determined to carry
out the wishes of the President and
the mass of the people if it takes
many weeks.
With the others of the public group.
they have effected an alliance with
the labor group on a liberal basis for
the workers. There is every indica-
tion these two groups will cooperate
steadily henceforth. Then if the en-
ployers quit, II was pointed. out, the
claims of capital will be discredited
in the eyes of the nation.
AS soon as the committee of fifteen
assembled yesterday afternoon the
labor wing demanded immediate con-
sideration of propositions 1, 2, and
of their declaration of principles as
laid before the conference several
days ago. This demand deadlock ed
the committee and held it deadlock ed
through both it's meetings.
The particular snag was proposition
s, which reads: The right of en-
ployes to organize into associations
OF groups 10 bargain collectively
through their chosen representatives
in respect to wages, hours of labor
and relations and conditions of en-
ployment" The employer committee
men pressed the labor men for labor's
definition of the term representa-
tives" as applied to employees.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
PAT GROVE IN Job
OF TRUST IN D. c.
Banker Finds Place for Ex-
Bank Robber-Straight
for Ten Years.

Vice President Charles W. Warden
of the Continental Trust Company has
practically secured position of
trust with big Washington firm for
Pat Grove, ex-bank robber, dup
expert and kidnapper of Edward Cud-
ahy's son some two decades ago. Mr..
Warden declined to give't the name of
the firm.
Twenty or thirty years ago
throughout the west. bankers shiv-
cred when they heard that Pat Grove
was in the vicinity. The news also
meant extra jobs for special bank
watchmen. Mr.. Cudahy will always
of Pat Grove. 1t cost that much to
get his son ransomed.
Four years after the KIDNAPPING of
young Cudahy. Grove gave himself
up. He was tried and acquitted. Then
he offered to make up the $25, 1000 ran
som which was taken for the boy. The
offer was not accepted.
Goes Straight Ten Years.
For the last ten years Grove has
been travelling the straight and mar
row path. but finding it hard baIanc-
ing, he said today.
A few days ago. with frayed coat
and seedy trousers. he walked into
the offices of the Prisoners Relief So So
ciety. He was out of job. He was
down on his luck" and he went to
DR.. E E. budding for help. A dis
tinguishing mark about the attire was
a Red Cross button in his coat lapel.
Yesterday he was outfitted at a
clothing store here. Today he might
easily walk into bank and be taken
Gray hair grows sparsely over a high
forehead. He is more than six feet
tall. Altogether he presents an i'm
posing figure.
Position Is Secured.
DR.. budding introduced him to R. N.
Harper, president of the District Ma
tional Bank. who was considering his
application for bank watchman, but
from latest reports Vice President
Warden has beaten Mr.. Harper to the
wire in giving the man a chance"
He was introduced to Mr.. Warden
yesterday. Today Mr.. Warden de-
clared that a position had been Sc
cured for Grove.
At the conclusion of a short inter-
view this morning, when Grove was
asked about the Cudahy case. the only
thing he would say was that Cudahy
probably owed him several thousand
dollars commission for the publicity
lie gave him in the kidnapping case.
He got so much publicity he had to
call his selling agents off the road
throughout the west. as my lawyers
brought out at my trail" he declared.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
Proud of Naval Feat.

The imaginings of Jules Verne"
SAID Secretary Daniels. already have
been thrown in the shade by the ac-
compllshnents of this decade. We are
proud of our Navy because it was a
Navy aircraft manned by a Navy
crew that first flew across the At
lantic- In few years we shall read
In the papers schedules of regular
trips through the air across the con-
tinent. to the orient, from Washing
ton to Liverpool; yes. and instead of
around the world in eighty days. as
Verne imagined, we shall be making
the trip in eighty hours. Why not?"
AT the close of his talk Secretary
Daniels shook hands with Lieut.. Com
mander Read while a battery of cam
era and moving picture men filmed
the scene.
troduced by Conrad H. Syme, corpora
sioner Brownlow, who was unable to
be present With the Secretary on
the small stand erected on the wharf
in the rear of the naval Militia Ar
mory, besides Lieut.. Commander Read,
were the members OF the crew of the
NC-4, making the tour of eastern
coast cities in the interest OF the
Navy recruiting drive, and several
naval officers.
The NC-4 left Baltimore at 1:55
o'clock yesterday afternoon, and after
a trip down the bay and up the river
alighted in Washington channel at
4:10 o'clock The only incident of the
trip was some slight ignition trouble.
which was remedied without coming
down.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
Bouts to Leonard and Moore.

DETROIT, Mich. October 16.-Ben-
ny Leonard. lightweight champion,
easily outfought Phil Bloom in a ten
round no-decision bout last night.
Pal Moore was given the newspaper
decsiion over Jabez White at the end
of ten rounds.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
AIRMAN'S BODY FOUND.
Observer verheyder Was Flying
With Capt. Dammann. Ralloonist.

DETROIT. October ia body pick
ed up yesterday off Cape Hurd. Lake
Huron. by Eagle Boat A. has been
identihed as that of Observer verhey-
der, VINO with Capt. Dammann has been
missing since their balloon, participat-
ing In the national championship race,
was found wrecked off Cove light, Oc-
tober 4.