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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-08
AIRCRAFT VS. SHIPS
CONTROVERSY. MAY Be
SETTLED BY TEST

WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-Prepara-
lions were under way in the navy de-
partment today to decide by actual
tests the question of the relative SUI
periority of aircraft and the modern
battleships. Secretary Daniels in a
letter to Secretary Baker yesterday
invited the war department to par
ticipate in experiments to be carried
out within 80 days in which the sur
rendered German battleship, Ostfrie-
land probably will be used as the OBJ
ject Of the attack by aircraft dropping
high explosive bombs from the air.
Conditions approximating as closely
as possible those of battle will be sim
ulated in the tests, it was said.
Consider Naval Additions.
With the importance of aircraft de-
velopment brought to the fore by the
projected experiments, the house ma
val affairs committee today planned to
consider in executive session a meas
ure authorizing the immediate con-
struction of two speedy aircraft car
riers for the navy. The senate naval
committee at the same time was pre-
pared to hear views of the navy gen
eral board on the resolution of Sen
ator Borah to suspend naval con-
struction for six months to give ex-
perts an opportunity to study the ma
val lessons Of the war.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-08
PRISON BUYS COAL;
SUPPLY IS AMPLE
NV Associated Press)

CHARLESTON, W. Va. Feb. s.
There is enough coal in the mine re-
Gently bought by the state and OPP
Grated by convicts from the peniten-
tiart at Moundsville to supply the
prison and all its shops for fully 100
years. H. NJ. Lambie, chief of the
department of mines. made this es-
innate upon his RETURN to Charleston.
last night. after an inspection of the
mine.
Mr.. Lambc said the shaft had been
driven down 81 feet and had been
concerted from the surface to a point
where it entered the solid rock. Coal
is being mined from the Sewicklev
seam which at this point is almost
five feet thick. The mine is well To-
Gated on the prison farm about mile
from the penitentiary. A hard brick
road is being laid from the mine to
the powerhouse. Transportation. when
the road is completed, will be by mo-
tor truck. The penitentiary uses ten
tons of coal a day.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-08
RICHMOND COMPANY
RECEIVES AUTHORITY
FOR new BOND ISSUE

Richmond Light, Heat and Power
company was authorized to issue and
sell s450,0OO par value of it's seven per
cent notes dated March 1, 1921 and
maturing March l, 1922, by the In
diana Public Service commission
Monday. This is for the purpose of
refunding the bonds now outstanding
and due against the company, it is
said. The new issue will be at ap-
proximately eight and one-half per
cent.
The total issue will be divided into
two parts, $225,000 of the notes to be
sold and the company to pay the pur-
chasers in cash one and one-third per
cent of the par value of the notes pur-
chased. The proceeds from the sale
half of the petitioners outstanding
note issue.
To Exchange Bonds
The other $225,000 is to be given to
holders of the present outstanding
note issue in exchange for $225,000 of
the plants outstanding issue of notes,
the plant to pay the holders whose
notes are exchanged one and one-half
per cent of the par value of the notes
exchanged, according to the commits
sion's report.
City Attorney Keller opposed the
payment of eight and one-half per
cent on the proposed note issue. This
was overruled by the commission. The
commission stated that with the pres
ent price of call money and the shy
ness with which the public regards
utility properties, higher rate would
be necessary.
In effect, the company desires to
pay to the present noteholders one
half Of their holdings in cash. In or
der to do that it proposes to sell $225.-
900 Of the notes petitioned for, giving
to the buyers thereof, one and one-half
per cent of the principal amount as a
bonus to induce buyers to purchase
for cash. these notes. The company
desires further to offer the remaining
new notes to pay for the remaining
SO per cent Of the. old note issue nov
in the hands of buyers and to pay to
such holders of the old notes the same
one and one-half per cent in cash.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-08
MISSIONARY SESSION
PROGRAM IS ARRANGED

Music for the meeting of the Fed
Grafton of Woman's Missionary So
cieties at Grace NJ. E. church next Fri
day will be furnished by Mrs. Fred ].
Bartel, Mrs. Ray Longnecker. Mrs.
Irene Ryan, orsanist. and a quartet
composed of Mrs. F. w. Kruger, Mrs.
Haisley. Mrs. Otto Krone and Mrs.
Lloyd E. Harter.
A full program has been arranged
for the day, and the conference prom
Uses to be an unusual success. All
women of the city. whether members
of missionary societies or not, are
invited to the conference. 1t opens
at 10 o'clock and lasts all day. Every
woman is asked to bring her lunch.
The program of events will be as
follows:
"All Hail the Power Of Jesus
Name" audience; Presidents well
come, Mrs. A. H. Backus; Devotions,
Mrs John r. Webb; Solo. Mrs. Fred
J. Bartel; Business: Address. Mrs. j.
F. McCrea, of Indianapolis; Noontide
prayer.
Following a short intermission for
luncheon, the afternoon program will
open as follows, at Ia O'Clock:
Organ, Mrs. Irene Ryan; Devotions,
Mrs. H. S. James; Solo, Mrs. Ray
Longnecker; Business; Address, Mrs.
Lulu Hamilton, former missionary in
China; Songs, quartette, Mrs. Kruger,
Mrs. Haisley, Mrs. o. c. Krone, and
Mrs. l.. Harter; Talk, A. S. Waung,
of China; Playlet, Mrs. Jesse Wiech.
man and Mrs. Carl Sporting.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-08
SEVEN AUTO DRIVERS
FINED FOR VIOLATIONS

Seven automobile drivers appeared
in police court Tuesday morning and
paid their fines for violating the motor
vehicle law by operating their cars
without 1921 license plates. Numerous
others put in their appearance to show
that they had applied for their licenses
before Feb. 5.
According to the orders carried out
in court Tuesday morning, drivers
must have applied for their licenses
before FEB. ! or they must discon-
tinue driving their cars until their
plates arrive.
Chauffers licenses must be had by
all drivers of trucks, according to the
prosecuting attorney.
Frank Conner, justice of the peace,
sat as special judge, and fined the fol.
lowing persons: c. NJ. Robinson. A.
Klingebiel, Wilbur Turner. r. Bailey,
Charles W. Howard, Fay Brandenburg.
and George Pfafflin.
Fred Porterfield was fined 81 and
costs for selling milk unlawfully with
cut procuring a city license from the
dairy inspector.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-08
Give IRON POLICEMAN
CREDIT FOR ARREST
(By Associated Press)

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Feb. 8-An
iron policeman is given full credit for
the arrest here today of Frank Gore,
a negro, charged with being the driv-
er of an automobile which Saturday
night struck and killed Walden Bailey
aged 7, and seriously injured Jack
Brewer. II. A negro driving big
touring car was seen to speed away
from the place of the accident and
over a railway crossing where an iron
figure with outstretched arms stands
as a warning to motorists to slow
down.
When he saw the policeman"
blocking the way the driver jumped
from the car and fled. The automo-
bile continued on its wild dash until
it brought up against an embankment
beside the railroad tracks. The driv-
ers hat and overcoat and letters in
the coat, found in the machine led to
his Identification and arrest.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-08
Parent Teachers Club of
Findley School to Meet

The regular monthly meeting of the
Parent-Teachers' association of the
Findley school will be held in the
school building Thursday afternoon,
starting at $3.50 o'clock, according to
an announcement made Tuesday. OFF,
Gals said it will be an important meet
ing and the presence of every mother
in the district is desired.
The following program has been ar
ranged: Piano solo, Miss Ruth Hase-
meier; song by Misses Ruth and Cor
inne Mcpherson; address by Superin-
tendent Bentley on a building program,
and a report on the state convention of
parent-teachers' clubs by Mrs. George
Brehm, present of the local organiza-
ton.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-08
Bury Emma Mitchell
Thursday Morning

Anna Carmaletta Mitchell, 80 years
old, died at the home of her sister
Mrs. Carl Houts, of 316 North Thir.
teenth street, Monday at 230 p. m
of carcinoma after an illness of eight
weeks.
She is survived by two brothers,
James and Michael and three sisters,
Mrs. Ellen Fry, Mrs. Frank Law
Ter and Mrs. Carl Houts. Miss
Mitchell was saleslady at the Mash.
meyer dry goods store for Is years
and later at Nigran's Fashion shop.
1t is said she was one of the city's
most pleasant saleslady, always
greeting everybody with a smile.
Funeral services will be held from
ST. Mary's church Thursday at 9 a. m.
with the Rev. Walter Cronin official.
ing. Burial will be in st. Mary's
cemetery. Friends may call at any
time.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-08
C0L0RED man INJURED
IN SHOOTING ARRAY

George Makins, % years old, colored,
was arrested Tuesday afternoon at l
o'clock after he had emptied two bar
rels of shotgun at Bunk Ramsey, col
ored, at Makins' home at Seventeenth
and North F street. Both men are
married.
Ramsey was shot in the left side, his
left arm and hand being torn by the
shot and his left hip being torn open.
He was taken to the home of DR..
Huffman where five shot were taken
from his arm and hip. His injuries
are not serious and he joked when
questioned about the incident.
Makins stated that he had told
Ramsey to quit beating his wife Mon
day night, when Ramsey came after
his spouse in Makins' home. He stat
ed that Ramsey told him at this time
that he had already killed one man
and was not afraid of police or anyone
else. Ramsey denied this, although
he admitted that he was convicted of
killing a man in Springfield, O., for
which he served over two years time.
Claims Threats.
Ramsey stated that he did not know
why Makins shot him. Makins stated
that Ramsey had made threats against
his life and that he started towards
his house and he emptied the gun at
him He stated that he aimed to pre-
vent his coming into the house, and
according to Ramsey he made no fur
Their effort to enter the house but ran
for his own home a few doors away
when Makins opened fire.
Police were called to the MakinS
home Monday night when they were
Informed that Ramsey was beating his
wife there. Ramsey admitted that he
had been drinking denatured alcohol
Monday night. Chief Wenger. Off
GERS Bundy and Frame made the ar
rest Tuesday afternoon.
Charges of assault and battery with
intent to kill will be filed by Prose
cutor Beckett Tuesday afternoon, it is
said
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-08
.EASTHAVEN ENLARGED
BY M'CRAY'S PROGRAM

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb S.-Governor
McCray, in conference late today with
superintendent and trustees Of the
five state hospitals for insane, de-
clared in favor of immediate improve
ment of the institutions, including the
construction of new buildings, so as
to care better and more adequately
for the states insane wards. His pro-
gram probably means the establish
ment in time CT new institution.
An early morning visit to the CEN
trail hospital in this city where the gov
ernor said he found "deplorable" con-
ditions, led him to call the confer
ence. Conditions there, he said, are
due to use of two buildings, one built
in 1S47 and the other in 1878. Both
should be torn down and two new in
firmaries built, the governor believes.
The governors program of limiting
the hospitals patients to 1900 patients
would result in the removal as soon
as possible of 210 patients at the Cen
trail hospital in this city and a few
from the Southeastern institution
The other hospitals would be enlarged.
the Northern to care for 200 more
than at present, the Southern for 500
more and the Eastern for 300 more.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-08
HOLDEN TO DISCUSS
COMMUNITY SERVICE
AT COLISEUM TONIGHT

There is need for better commun-
ity spirit, and l think that Richmond
is ripe for it development" said Will
Rooney, commenting on the speech by
Prof. P. G. Holden at the Coliseum
Tuesday evening. Il am glad to see
this question discussed, and l hope the
people of Richmond turn out well for
this meeting. There are several con
ditions which can be bettered by com
munity service work in this city, and
we hope to accomplish something
when we get the service organized"
Il am for community service be.
cause l saw what it had accomplished
with soldiers who went to France from
places which had given such service,
and l would like to see Z similar spirit
here" said DR.. George Hunt, also com
menting on the evening session of the
institute. "Those boys would lie all
night in the mud of the front line, and
Weakening to an attack in the morning
would meet it singing. They had had
hearts put into them by community
service work in the camps"
Committee Urges Attendance
The temporary committee which is
organizing the permanent community
service is anxious that all interested
in this service should attend this meet
ing and sent out letters Monday even
ing to all on its lists calling their at
tention to Prof. Holden's subject and
urging them to attend.
The letter reads:
you are strongly urged by the tenn
porary community service committee
to attend the lecture by Prof. P. G
Holden at the Coliseum at 1870 O'Clock
Tuesday evening. on the subject Com
munities are Made up of Folks Not Of
Farms, Houses and Factories
Prof Holden himself engages ir
community service work while at home
in Chicago and has done much com
munity service work in various parts
of the United States. He therefore
speaks from experience when he tell:
of the possibilities of community serv
ice work and what has been accom-
plished by cities which have developed
the community spirit.
Several Richmond citizens have
heard this lecture delivered at Eaton
Jan. 81 and state that it will be an in
centive to the audience to cooperate
in this work.
Community Service Committee"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-08
DEMOCRATS OF CITIES
TO ORGANIZE FEB. u
(By Associated Press.)

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Feb. S-Mon-
day, Feb. Il was fixed as the day
county committee chairmen shall call
meetings to select city chairmen and
begin city organizations for the COM
ing municipal campaign by the Demo
Gratis state central committee which
met here today.
The state committee still has a debt
of $4,000 to pay, Chairman Bosse
said. He added that $4,000 of it's in
debtedness has been paid since the
meeting and that there remained ST.
100 in the treasury. Women, the
chairman said, must assume some of
the responsibility for financing the
party and urged that a woman finance
chairman for each district and county
be named. The resignation of E. Nc
Farland, of Vincennes. was presented.
Charles H. Bodwell. of Sullivan, was
mentioned as a possible successor to
Mcfarland.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-08
ALLEGED CONFESSION
SHOWS FRAMEuP IN
MOONEY BOMB CASE
(By Associated Press)

NEW YORK, Feb. s. - Frank p.
Walsh counsel for Thomas J. Mooney,
convicted of murder in San Francisco
in connection with the preparedness
day bomb explosion in 1916, early to-
day telegraphed San Francisco au-
thorities apprising them of an alleged
confession by one of the witnesses in
the case that he had given perjured
testimony at the trial A special
grand jury now is investigating an al
legged conspiracy to convict Mooney.
The witness named by Mr.. Walsh
was John Mcdonald, now a resident of
Trenton, N. j.. with whom Mr.. Walsh
had a long conference last night. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Walsh. Mcdonald de
clared in an affidavit covering thir-
teen typewriter pages that the case
against Mooney was a frame up
Involves Prosecutor.
mcdonald swore in his confession
Walsh said, that ne could not identity
Mooney as the man he had seen with
a suit case prior to the preparedness
day explosion although he identified
Mooney during the trial He said Dis
trict Attorney Fickert, the San Fran
cisco prosecutor had forced him to
make the identification.
Mr.. Walsh quoted Mcdonald as say
ing he stood in Stewart street, near
the corner of Market, in San Francis
CO at about / o'clock on the afternoon
of July p, 1916. He said he saw
man set suit case on the sidewalk
then accompanied by another man
who came from saloon, walk away.
Coached Witness.
Further Mcdonald is alleged to have
stated he was coached with other wit
nesses in testimony to be given. He
asserted he fixed the time of seeing
the suit case dropped at 1:50 o'clock
in Billings trial. In the Mooney trial
he stated that at the instance OF the
assistant district attorney Edward
Cunha, he changed the time 10 30
o'clock in order to break MONEYS
alibi."
Nine persons were killed in the pre-
paredness day explosion. Mooney was
sentenced to death and Billings to life
imprisonment After every appeal
from the sentence had failed President
| Wilson interceded in MONEYS behalf
and the sentence was committed to life
imprisonment.
The first charges in which the prose
cution of Mooney was characterized a
frame up" were made recently by
Policeman Draperhand, another i'm
| portant figure in the case.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-08
START new CLASS IN
DRESS FORM MAKING

So popular are classes in dress form
making that another is TO be started at
Starr school next Thursday at 1:30
o'clock it is announced at the vocation
al Office. The class will be held at
1870 o'clock every Monday and Thurs
day up to Feb. "a. The course is COM
pleted in five lessons.
Only Is women will be admitted to
the class, it is stated, as a large num-
Der cannot be accommodated satisfac-
torily. Mrs. Laura Walters will be
instructor for the Starr school class.
Further information regarding the
class may be obtained by calling the
vocational office, phone 5277.
Another class in dress form making
will be opened at Hibberd school If
the demand is sufficient, it is said. At
present the course is being offered in
the night school and at Baxter.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-08
OPERATE FIRST CAR
IN TRACTION STRIKE,
POLICE CLEAR WAY
(By Associated Press)

ALBANY, n. Y, Feb. S.-Heavily
guarded by mounted police and patrol
men in automobiles, the first car to be
operated by the United Traction com
pany since its employees went on strike
Jan. 20, left the North Albany car
barns al 1920 this morning amid a
crowd of jeering men. After the car
had proceeded a short distance down
Broadway toward the business section
a rock was hurled at it but missed its
mark.
The car manned by strike breakers,
was nearly filled with company guards.
Its windows were screened, and be
fore 1t started automobile loads of
private guards were sent over the
route to be followed, men being let off
at various corners. Following the car
and the police guard were several au-
tomobiles filled with newspaper re-
porters, photographers and moving
picture opera tors. Mounted police
cleared the way when the crowd
swarming about the car blocked the
tracks. Word from Troy indicated
that the first car which left the barn
there had proceeded only a short dis
lance when forced to stop because OF
a trolly wire being down. The 1900
employees on the company lines mere
and in Troy and other nearby cities
are striking against a reduction in
wages.
TROY. n. Y, Feb. 8.-Two railway
strike breakers were taken to a hos
pital here today after an alteration
with traffic policeman. a third man
was arrested. The officer charged
that the men, who were operating an
emergency repair wagon, attacked him
with a wrench and that he acted in
self-defense.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-08
LEGAL BATTLEF0R
FREEDOM OF erwin
BERGD0LL IS OPENED

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Feb. S-The
legal battle to free Erwin R. Bergdoll,
wealthy Philadelphia draft evader,
from the disciplinary barracks at Fort
Leavenworth on a writ of habeas cor
pus, began today in federal court at
Kansas City, kas., before Judge John
c. Pollock.
The case of Erwin Bergdoll, brother
of Grover c. Bergdoll, who recently eff
fected sensational escape into Ger
many from the United States, is Of
wide Importance, because of the legal
points involved, court officials said.
The cases of many other persons tried
or awaiting trial by courtmartial for
violation Of the selective service act
hinge on the outcome of the Bergdoll
case. The legal point raised is the
right of military courtmartial to try
a person who is not actually in the
service as one who registered for the
draft but failed to respond when
called.
Others May File Suit
There are about twenty other men
confined at the military prison whose
cases are similar to that of Bergdoll.
About five similar cases are held in
allegiance pending the outcome of the
Bergdoll case, it is said.
Attorneys on both sides said that the
decision of Judge Pollock would not
be final, as appeals will be taken to
higher courts either way the case is
decided If the case is decided in fav-
or of Bergdoll he then may be releas-
ed on bond while the government
takes the appeal to a higher court but
if the decision of the case is against
him he must remain in prison.
Bergdoll was convicted by court
martial at Fort Jay, N. Y, last year
and sentenced to five years impris
onment.