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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-06
AIR MAIL TO CHICAGO
SOON, is PROMISED
Regular Service to Be Started
in Few Weeks, Praeger
Announces.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-The New York
regularly within a few weeks. acorling
to Second Assistant Postmaster General
Praeger, who has supervision Of the en-
tire air mail system.
Lack Of cooperation and need OF mod
flying equipment for the long aerial mail
course have held back the start, Mr.
Praese- said. He also laid stress or the
fact that an undertaking Of the sort has
never been accomplished and that six
months ago It would have been regarded
as impossible to make a flight OF 500
miles each way every day over noun
tains with few landing places and q
single motored planeS
Trouble was experienced in trying TO
make military planes DO the work called
for by the long mail carving trips. "A
military plane Is designed for military
purposes" said Mr.. Fraeger. mot mail or
commerce. Its weight distribution Is
faulty when II comes to carrying letters
and the hope Is to have In the New
York Chicago service n machine pro-
vided with a distinct compartment. This
will do away with the makeshift OF US
Ing the gunners' cockpit for mail.
The reason We have had success in
the service between New York and
Washington Is that training planes and
not fighting planes have been available.
When the New York-Chicago service is
resumed We expect 10 have low COM
preston Liberty engines rather than
the high compression military type. The
high compression motor Is designed for
altitude work; in carrying the mails
we fly at a comparatively low height.
and so require a motor that functions
efficiently at the proper level"
Much OF the military equipment can
be altered and used, he added. Speak
ing of the route TO be followed Mr..
Praeger stated:
Further preparations are also being
made along the New rk-Chlcago
route The Department has established
five landing fields and emergency stops
for the 500 miles. Leaving Belmont
Field. y. Y, the air mail pilot will have
an emergency haven at Lehighton. Pa,
105 miles distant. He will have a reg
ular stop lis miles further on az Belle
fonte. Pa
Across the crest OF the mountains,
a stage OF 81 miles, he will have a safety
field at Clarion. Pa From this point
ne will have a clear flight of l2s miles
to Cleveland. His next stage and land
ing field will be 157 miles 10 Bryan.
Ohio. and lss miles further on, the
Chicago terminal.
Each Of these fields will have an
extra ship. a hangar, an extra hier and
a mechanic and a Waterman In addition
70 fuel and other facilities. The staff
of pilots engaged for the New York
Chicago route Numbers twelve. all OF
whom have flown more than 1000
hours. Five OF these have seen battle
service and a number are aces"
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View OF 3. Davies warfeId.

or the executives plan 5. Davies War
field. president OF the National Associa-
ton of owners of Railroad Securities
made the following statement in New
York:
The work Of the moment is to meet
the question Of a five year extension OF
Federal control and operation The off,
/ cial positions formerly held by execu-
| tives of railroads who operated their
respective properties have been taken by
Federal managers under regional direc-
| tors and In most cases these executives
are now presidents OF the corporations
! they formerly operated. They are IA
! miliar with the effect and consequences
of Federal control and operation not
only upon their respective railroads but
also upon the facilities and service fur
ntshed to shippers and the travelling
public. They can supply the data and
information In respect to TIE effect a
continuation Of such control and opera
/ tion VIII have upon the railroads and the
| shipping interests OF the country.
''Thcse presidents compose very largely
the Association OF Railway Executives.
and We have therefore written their
chairman tina; the furnishing of this data
anc Information before the Senate Com
mittce on Interstate CCuTnef'>c at the
Ee;. rings now to begin would seem to be
Tie immediate necessity. Tho conditions
'ound 10 exist VIII likely constitute a pa
sis for the request by the Senate Com
nittee that the Congress adOpt a Joint
resolution calling upon the Railroad Adj
m.nlstration to give sufficient time for
Congress to enact legislation for the
| proper and the safe return of the rail-
| n ads under proper governmental regula-
| tory measures. wh"h doubtless would oe
| readily given. There can be little doubt
that those who have been operating these
properties for the purpose OF the war, in
which they have received every coopcra
| ton. will now cooperate in putting then,
| in condition for their proper return wher,
tho use for which they were taken has
been accomplished"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-06
RAILWAY HEADS
AGREE ON PLAN


accomplished after period OF turmoil.
distress, bitterness and heavy loss. and
In the face OF immense difficulties.
Legislation to correct the shortcom-
ings and incongruities OF the present
railroad situation and to establish a
system of railroading advantageous to
the public and fair to the railroads offers
no problem OF excessive difficulty. Such
legislation can be had--if at all--withln
two years Just "a we'll az within FIVE
years. In fact. It Is more likely to be
obtained within the shorter than within
the longer period.
ITO return the railroads 70 private
management, especially after the grave
changes which governmental admin
isration has wrought IN their status.
without adequate legislation would
lead to serious financial and economic
disturbances affecting the entire struc-
ture OF national credit"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-06
Expect Cat show 10 he Best.


On January II and Is the Cat Show
of the Empire club will be held in the
Hotel McAlp.n and the net proceeds are
TO he given 10 this fund. Mrs. Ida b.
Kitchen president of the Empire. states
that from the number Of entries received
the hopes Of the members mat this will
he the best show ever q en- In New
York may i've fulfilled. Celebrated and
champion cats from all over the country
are to br among the exhibits and many
OF them have already arrived, including
eats from the Pacific coast. For two or
three years the cats from there have not
made the journey East, but this season
they have again begun to take an in
terest in Eastern prizes and ribbons. A
number OF cats from Canada are among
the eutri6-
Purchasers Of tobacco IN the Schultz
and United Ci-ar stores should MI THE
SUN Tobacco Fund boxes TO overlooking
the hrst half OF this week. for the ar
rangement between these stores and tho
fund has not much longer to run. They
should therefor" use these days 10 get
AS many coupons as possible in the boxes
TO the credit Of the smoke fund.
As yesterday Wa Sunday contribu-
tons sent in then will be listed to-mor-
row and the grand total OF the fund is
repeated here as 1t stood in THE SUN
yesterday;
How the Fund stands To-day.
THE SIN and THE EVENING SUN 5000 no
United Cigr stores boxes including
spccll 80 uf -rpss sales day. 7ol7357
Otherwise 1CknoA lodged .-,....-...... 30S 1871
New contributions .....,...,,..... 2,s 20
Total ......... ......... S3si i3s IL
shipped and pad for t377.3G29I
Cash balance ............ 7O112I
Received through the schultz cigar
siores ''''..','.'"'.. ,.........,,.,.. 90 ,ss762
Grand total '''..,.,,......-.........t4 san .ls3.H
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-06

RICAs FOREMOST THEATRES UNDER DIRECT
J.. J. SHuBERT.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-09
LAFoLLETTE OPPOSES
RETURN OF ROADS
(Bv Associated Press)


WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-Return Of
the railroads to interests that con-
trolled them before the war was op-
posed in the senate today, by Senator
Lafollette. Republican, of Wisconsin,
who said the roads had failed to func-
ton in the emergency, and had the
government not taken over control,
would have been in worse shape than
they are.
Before the Wisconsin senator began
his argument, the senate reconsidered
its action taken yesterday. advancing
the Cummins bill toward final passage
by restoring the measure to a COM
mittee of the whole for the considera-
ton of amendments, which various
senators plan to offer Senator Cum
Minis did not oppose this action.
Immediate return of the roads is
impracticable and would render them
Incapable of giving adequate service
unless given governmental financial
assistance. Senator Lafollette said.
Government control was inevitable, he
said, if the roads were to continue to
function. Government regulations un-
der pre.war conditions were liberal
to the last degree" the senator assert
ed, "yet, the railroad business of the
country fell under that liberal control
into state of being unable to serve
the public interests.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-09
2 Held FOR Death
OF "B|lLY" DANSEY
(By Associated Press)

HAMMONTON, N. j., Dec. 9. =
Charles S. White, son of council
man Edward H. White, and Mrs. Edith
Jones, housekeeper for the council
man, were held in the county Jail at
Mays Landing today, to await the &C.
ton Of the grand jury in connection
with the death of three-year-old
BILLY" Dansey, whose body was found
by hunter in a swamp about two
miles from his home here on Nov. 81.
White is charged with the murder
of the child, while Mrs. Jones is ac-
cused of being an accessory after the
fact. Both we're taken into custody
here yesterday, after hearing be-
fore a magistrate at which they plead
ed not guilty They were held with
out bail and locked UP in the county
Jail.
White is the owner OF dahlia farm
adjoining the Dansey farm and Is said
to have been the last one to see the
child alive. He is alleged to have
told the investigators that BILLY was
walking in a different direction from
that In which the body was located.
He is 20 years old and is the father of
Charlie White, the child playmate OF
Billy" Dansey. Mrs. Jones is So
years old and has been housekeeper
for Whites father for is years.
The Dansey boy disappeared from
his home here on Oct. 8 and a nation.
wide search had been conducted for
him on the theory that kidnappers had
taken him.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-09
COMMITTEE OF 48
DENIED PLACE TO
meet IN ST.L0UIS
(By Associated Press)

ST. LOUIS. Dec. 9.-The conference
Of Liberals, known as the committee of
4S, was unable to open its first ma
tional convention on scheduled time
today because it had not found meet.
ing place. Charges of disloyalty
brought against it by certain posts OF
the American Legion, caused the man
ager of the hotel where the conference
was to have been held. to notify the
committee that he could not permit
the meeting in his establishment.
Hundreds of delegates from all Sec
tions OF the country are here, and all
protested the loyalty Of the organiza-
ton.
Delegates asserted the principal OBJ
ject Of the conference was to formu-
late a program to solve the econimic
and social problems confronting the
country and to improve the tnterna-
tional relations of the United States
and to adopt definite plan OF political
action to enforce the program.
A referendum held by the committee
showed that so per cent Of the mem
bers favored the amalgamation of the
committee, the Nonpartisan League
and the newly organized Labor party;
80 per cent wanted a new political
party and II per cent believed In a
league to work through existing po'
litical parties.
The majority of the members dis
approved of espionage laws. compul
sorry military training and curtailment
of freedom of speech and OF the
press, the referendum showed.
J. A. H. Hopkins, Of New York, for
merly national treasurer of the Pro
gressive party. is chairman Of the
organization. All shades Of political be
liefs are here for the conference, the
labor party and the Nonpartisar
League.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-09
HISTORY COMMITTEE
TO CANVASS COUNTY

Plans for the house-to- house canvass
to be made early next week In the In
terest Of the war work history COM
mittee of Wayne county, will be dis
'cussed at a meeting of the advisory
committee Of the organization in the
office Of e. M. Haas, at p. m. We'd
nesday.
The Richmond end Of the undertak-
ing has not been started, while Hag-
erstown and Centerville have both
sent in completed reports. Work in
the rural districts started last week
and Is making splendid progress.
The War Mothers and the Ameri-
can Legion will assist in collecting
the data of Richmond enterprise dur
ing the world war. The collection is
planned to be finished in days. The
general work of collecting this data is
progressing rapidly, but Haas urges
that people, consulted by the workers,
volunteer all information they pos
sess.
A carbon copy will be made of all
Information collected and the original
copy sent to Indianapolis for use in
the general state history. The carbon
copy remains in the Wayne county
court house and putting this informa-
ton into book form will be left to
Wayne county authorities.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-09
Winter Orders Ne,u Drive
on Richmond Sector as
Coal Continues to Dluindle

Is Old Man Weather in cahoots with
the miners?
Just as coal gets scarcer, the wealth
er man orders some old-fashioned win
ter weather. And just to show that
he means business, he sends plenty
of snow. q
"The severest cold spell Of the sea-
son." says Weatherman Moore, in de-
scribing the change that is to come
within the It SO hours. He adds
that snow Tuesday afternoon and eve
ming will precede the drop.
This storm is coming from Medi-
cine Hat, where all the cold waves
come FROM" says Moore, and temper
atures will reach zero and may go
below. The zero line already has
reached as far south as Oklahoma.
and as far east as the Mississippi.
However, there is hope for those
with the dwindling coal piles, for
Moore says the severe cold will be
brief.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-09
RUSSIAN Government" BEHIND RED
ACTIVITIES IN U. S. REPORT SHOWS

NEW YORK. Dec. 9.-Radical agita-
ton in this country with it's resultant
social unrest. is not due to economic
conditions but to an organized, arti-
ficially stimulated movement under the
inspiration of the Russian soviet gov
ernment. This opinion will be submit
ted to the New York legislature in an
exhaustive report by the joint legisla-
tive committee. which has been in
vestigating radical activities here
since its organization last May, it was
learned today.
Three big groups Of the radical ele-
ment have been supplying the forces
for wholesale dissemination of Boil
shevist propaganda throughout the
depth and breadth Of the land. the re-
port will assert.
'The anarchist group, including the
Union Of Russian Workers, and other
organizations; the syndicalist group.
the main body Of which are the Indus
trial Workers Of the World, and the
communist group, including the COM
munist party of America and the COM
munist labor party. In each of these
by illegal means including violence is
report will state.
New York city is one Of the big
headquarters for the organized move
ment, the report will point out with
Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and vir-
tually every Industrial center from the
Atlantic to the Pacific harboring a
headquarters for the radical cam.
paign. ..........
New York 10 Searched.
In the six months Of the committee s
active investigation, practically every
nook and Granny in Greater New York
where radicahsm extending to all sec
tions Of the country, has its nest
Hundreds of arrests have been made
m information furnished by the com.
mittee. Scores Of indictments for
criminal anarchy have been returned
on data procured and made available
by 1t.
/ The first conviction for criminal an.
archy in the United States Is claimed
| for New York on Information furnish.
ed by 1t on which Carl Piavio and Gust
Alonen. publishers Of a Finnish Rad.
ical newspaper here, are serving sent.
| ences Of from to years In Sing
Sing. (The so-called Chicago anarch-
lists arrested in the Haymarket riots
there, 33 years ago, were convicted OF
murder and not anarchy
Upwards of 700 men have been en-
ployed by the legislative committee in
its investigation of the radical move.
| ment.
The 10 persons indicted here yester
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-09

day charged with criminal anarchy
were arrested on information pro-
CURED by the committee. Sixteen ar
rests in Cortlandt, N. Y, were made
on information similarly procured.
Indictments OF Jay Lovestone. and Hy-
man Bleiweis, communists. in the
Bronx recently, and three others in
New York county on criminal anarchy
charges were returned on evidence
collected by the legislative committee.
TWO men are held now in Brooklyn on
the same charges on similar informa-
ton similarly procured.
Ask Aggressive Move.
These facts will be pointed to by the
committee in its report to the legisla-
ture as indicative Of q need for aggres-
sive action in dealing with the radical
movement. The thoroughness of its
work will be pointed to with reference
to its attention to deail. Before start
ing search for new evidence, the
committee amassed a complee library
Of radical literature books. period.
fcals, newspapers.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-09
KRUGER JURY
CAN'T AGREE

The Kruger jury was dismissed
late this afternoon after disagreeing
on the case Of DR.. F. w. Kruger, tried
for involuntary manslaughter in con-
nection with the death of infant John
Smith, last summer.
Prosecutor Freeman would not indi-
cate after the dismissal whether he
would ask for a new trial. The vote
is understood to have stood to for
acquittal on the first two ballots taken,
and thereafter to have stood at 10 to
for acquittal until the disagreement.
Eleven ballots are understood to have
been taken.
The jury was out about 10 hours.
from p. m, Monday to about 3 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-09
Shop Early in
the MOrninP

You always thought it was
electricity that turned night
into day in the stores and
streets of the business dis
trict.
The coal strike has taught
you. differently. Back Of
electricity is coal and with
that article growing scarcer
because of the strike. the
stores must close every aft
ernoon at 5 o'clock. Z.
Night shopping during the
Xmas season is a thing of
the past. Consequently. ev-
cry daylight shopping min
ute must work over time If
everyone's Xmas wants are
to be satisfied.
The only spare shopping
minutes now are the morn
ing minutes. ct downtown
early in the morning to do
your Xmas shopping. You
will do yourself a good turn
as well as the stores sales
people.
ONLY II SHOPPING
DAYS TILL XMAS
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-09
FACTORIES
LIMITED TO
HALF WEEK
Local Plants Taking Power
From Light Plant to be Civ
en- Current on Monday,
tuesday and Wednesday.
IN EFFECT THURSDAY

Superintendent ]. P. Dillon, Of the
city light plant. Tuesday gave notice
to all factories on his line. effective
Immediately. that he could not con-
tinue to furnish power or light to
them except on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday of each week. between the
hours of a. m. and p. m.
This order was issued to conform
to instructions received by T. A.
Greenstreet, Local representative of
the fuel administration Tuesday morn
ing, which authorized him to deliver
one car OF coal a day to the light
plant, providing it had complied with
the instructions in regard to the cut
ting of Of service to factories.
In order to conform with Fuel Ad-
ministrator Garfeld's instructions the
merchants. while opening at the pres.
ent hours, may only use the electric
light service from the hours of IL g. m.
to p. m. except Saturday, when light
service will be from p. m. to p. m.
Shows May Run.
Moving picture shows and bowling
alleys will still be permitted to run
from p. m. to 10 p. NJ, with the
exception of Sunday. when they will
be closed.
The mayors proclamation. issued
Monday. and effective today, WIN hold
in regard to the articles not already
named, until further notice.
Dillon, after weeks endeavor, was
finally forced to resort to such dras.
tic action to insure the city any cleo
trio light service at all. he said Tues
day.
Previous to the issuance Of this or
der the plant had succeeded in con
serving only about one-half as much
fuel as the city had been called upon
to save, it was stated.
Terms of the mayors order follow
Stores and business houses which
have been opening at $3.50 a. m. and
closing at 4. p. M, opened at $3.50 this
morning and will close at O'Clock
this afternoon.
Stay Open Saturday.
Saturday all business houses and
stores will remain open till Z p. m
Restaurants may operate "a hours 8
day, but may sell only food beyond
the hours to which other business 4.
restricted. The theatres and the coli
scum will be allowed to remain oper
from to 10 p. m, 6 days a week
but must remain closed on Sundays
Bowling alleys were included in the
proclamation. They will be allowed
to open from 6 to 10 each evening
but must remain closed on Sunday
while no cigars or merchandise viii
be sold, or billiards or pool played
during the evening hours.
Churches may hold morning and af
ternoon services but must remai1
closed Sunday night. Appointment o
a committee as a precautionary meas
ure, in the event the coal situatiol
would become acute and the need O
a committee to regulate the distribu
ton should be necessary, was alst
made. Members follow: Elmer Egge
meyer, Joseph Hill and Henry Gold
finger, representing the citizens; c
E. Slifer of the Pennsylvania railroad
and T. A. Greenstreet, of the C. & O
Since q change in mail deliver.
schedule proved unsatisfactory tn
postoffice announced Tuesday that tn
regular schedule would be resume'
Wednesday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-09
Fair Price Rules Giuen
Out by State Commissioner
(By Associated Press)

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. "a list Of
percentages and margins of prolific to
serve as a basis on which county fair
price list committees will determine
the profit which retail grocers may
collect on 27 commodities, was an
nounced today by Stanley Wycoff,
fair price commissioner for Indiana
Directors for the fixing of margins
of profit on shoes and clothing will be
issued by Mr. Wycoff later. it was
said.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-09
FORMER CHAPLAIN
FALLS TO DEATH
fRv Associated Press,

(By Associated Press1
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 9.-The body
Of Rev. Edward B. Henry, a former
chaplain in the United States navy,
who fell to his death from a seventh
story window of hotel here yester-
day, will be taken to his former home
at Winthrop, Maine. for burial, it was
announced today. A deputy coroner,
who Investigated the case. said Father
Henry, who at one time was connec-
ted with Catholic, churches in Port
land, Maine, probably was seized
by an atatck Of vertigo, after he had
raised a window in his room and fell
out.