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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-20
Porto Rican Senate Head
Regrets Moson's Death
(BV Associated Prcssl

WASHINGTON. June 20.-Regret
over the death of Representative Ma
son of Illinois is expressed in a cable
gram received today by Speaker Gil
lett from President Barcelo of the
Porto Rico senate. The message re-
Porta Rica senate. The message re-
ferred 10 Mr. Mason as Porto Rica S
greatest friend
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-20
Prominent Churchman
Victim of Sudden Illness
tBY Associated Press

BOSTON, June 20.-The Reverend
William Shaw, general secretary of
the United Society of Christian En-
deavor, was patient at local hos
pital today as a result of sudden
illness, suffered while he was deliv-
ering an address last night. His
physicians said they did not consider
his illness critical.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-20
Fiiue Men Hold Up
Expressman: Get $4,000

GRANITE CITY. Ill. June 20.-Five
men today held up the driver of an
American Railway Express company
wagon here and escaped with safe
reported to contain $4,000 The
money was being transported from the
ST Louis office of the National Lead
company to its Granite City office.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-20
Masked Auto Bandits
Rob Bank MESSENGER

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, June 90
Four masked automobile bandits held
up Frederick Myers, a runner for the
Mutual Trust company, here today
and seized a bag containing between
$4,000 and 100000. The runner fired
after the fleeing bandits who escaped
with the money.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-20
HOUSE FAVORS BOOST
IN PHILIPPINE DEBT
CBy Associated Prcss)

WASHINGTON. June 20-The house
passed today a bill authorizing the
Philippine government to increase
the limit of Indebtedness FROM $4,000
600 10 S30,O0O,000 An effort will b.
made to obtain quick senate action,
proponents of the measure said.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-20
FRENCH STEAMER AGROUND.

NORFOLK, Va, June 20.-The
Grench steamer. Nord African, is
aground at Cape Lookout and a wreck
ing tug has been sent to her assistance
from this port. A wireless message
from the stranded ship said she was in
no serious danger as long as the wealth
er continued favorable. The vessel
grounded while en- route from Norfolk
to Charleston. S. c.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-20
Printing Plants Adopt
44 Hour Week Today


SARATOGA SPRINGS. n. Y, June
20.-The "A hour week became effec-
tive today in all the union printing
plants in Saratoga county. The agree
ment was reached by arbitration.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-20

Miss Leah Fletcher of Knoxville,
Tenn, holds an unusual position as
superintendent of the Knox County
Industrial school This school is a
county institution for dependent, or
phan and incorrigible children and
there are in the school both white
and negro boys and girls from six to
q years of age. Miss Fletcher is
thought to be the only woman in the
south and perhaps in the entire
United States to hold such a position.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-20

Weather Conditions. The severe
drought has now been broken over
Wayne and adjacent counties, due to
a storm which crossed the Great
Lakes and originated in the Rocky
mountains. The hot wave was severe
over the Southern and Central states
and in portions of the Northern states
At Charleston. S. c., 100 degrees, and
as high as "a degrees in Minnesota
The cool wave continues over the
Rocky Mountain states, with 28 above
at Flagstaff, Arizona Il
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-20
Weather Forecast
MOORE'S LOCAL FORECAST.
Fair. followed BY thunderstorms.

Generally fair weather of today will
be followed by unsettled during the
next 36 hours, with occasional thun-
dershowers.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-20

For Indiana by the United States
Weather Bureau.-Partly cloudy to-
night and Tuesday; probably local
thundershowers in south portion; lit
tie change in temperatures.
Temperatures for Yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-29
Fifty College Students
To Help Rebuild France
Premier BRAND Accepts Offer
of Aid From, Reconstruct
ton Association

The American Students Reconstruc-
tlon Association has just been organ
ized to send to France this summer
fifty or more college students of archi-
lecture, landscape architecture and en-
giAeering. These students will work
n the devastated area under the su-
pervision of .theFrench Ministry of the
Liberated Regions. A cablegram has
been received from Premier BRAND by
the French High Commission accepting
the Offer of the students and promis-
ing that trey will be called upon to
collaborate with the architectural serv-
ice of the departments OF the Marne
nd Meuse.
The organization has the support
and Endorsement of the architectural
schools of Yale, Princeton, Cornell,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
, Columbia and Pennsylvania. On the
university committee are Professor
Everett V. Meeks. of Yale; Professor
William Emerson, of the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology; Pro-
lessor F. H. Bosworth jr., of Cornell;
Professor William a. Boring, Of Co
lumbia; Professor Warren P. Laird, of
Pennsylvania, and Professor Howard
Crosby Butler, of Princeton.
On the honorary committee are: Miss
Anne Morgan, MISS Belle Skinner, Mrs.
j. W. Dickson, Mr.. Whitney Warren
and Henry D. Sleeper On the arch-
tcctural committee are H. Van Buren
Magonigle, James G. Rodgers, Charles
Butler. Lawrence Grant White, Thomas
| Hastings and 5. B. P. Trowbridge.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-29
Penrose Holds Negroes
Should Ride in Pullmans
From The Trsbunc's Wa.hingtom Bureau

From The Tribunc's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON. March 2s.-Social
equality for colored citizens in public
institutions such as hotels, restaurants,
abroad trains, Pullman cars and street.
cars was declared for to-day by SEN
ator Penrose, of Pennsylvania. He
made the declaration to delegation
of colored men from Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh, who called on him to ask
his support for the Asbury bill in the
Pennsylvania Legislature, known as the
equal rights bill" Senator Penrose
auth orized his visitors to announce pub
licly that he favored the Asbury bill.
"The time has passed." said Senator
Penrose, when there can be any dis
elimination against our colored citi-
zens. They should have assurance that
they will receive equal social, political
and commercial rights and be placed on
an equality in those respects with white
citizens.
GAS I understand it, the Asbury bill
guarantees to the colored citizen free
dom from discrimination in restaurants
and hotels. think they ought to be &C.
corded full privileges of that sort. The
Pennsylvania Railroad now hauls white
and black passengers in the same cars.
You see colored citizens in the Pull
mans. There is no reason why they
should not be there"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-29
$1,000 Bride-To-Be Gets
Offer of Theatrical Tour
Physicians Consider Girls Offer
to Save Mother Reflection
Upon Trenton Hosr;taI

TRENTON, N. j.. March 2s.-A ply
sician on the staff of the Mercer Hos
pital here asserted to-day that the
widely published offer of sixteen-year-
old Dorothy Miller to marry, two years
hence. any white man who would give
her $1,000 now SO that an operation
could be performed to save her
n.other's life, was a reflection upon
Mercer Hospital.
The institution commands the serv-
ices of she most skillful surgeons, he
said and one of its purposes was to
take, free Of charge, just such cases as
that Of Mrs. Miller. If an operation
was necessary, and she had not the
money to pay for it, all she had to do
was to apply to the hospital, he said.
When this was called to the atten-
ton of Mrs. Miller she asserted that
she was no charity patient The check
Tor $1,000 from man in. St. Paul
which was said yesterday tosbe on its
way to her had not arrived tonight.
An offer of S100-a-week contract
from theatrical agency did arrive for
Dorothy, however, and will be accepted
it the agency will send her ten weeks
salary right aWy.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-29
Woman Kidnaps Brides,
Sisters, We'd to Brothers

YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio, March 28.--
Mrs. Agnes Hetzcll, eighteen years old.
and Mrs. Thelma Hetzell, twenty, sis
ters, who recently married Henry and
Jacob Hetzell, brothers, of Atlanta,
Mich, have mysteriously disappeared,
the bridegrooms reported to the local
police to-day. Search for the brides in
this city and surroundings towns
proved futile.
The newly married couples were on
an automobile honeymoon trip to visit
relatives of the brides at North Jack
son, near here, according to the story
told the police. Soon after passing
Akron yesterday their car was stopped
by woman standing beside q big
touring car. who appealed to the men
to change q tire for her, which she
said had blown out.
AS the men worked the women
chatted together. When the tire was
changed the stranger requested the
brides to ride with her, saying she was
lonely.
The big car sped away from the un-
suspecting husbands, whose fears were
first aroused when they reached North
jackson anc found no one who had
seen the automobile containing the
three women.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-29
Business Activity Still
Marked by Conservation
Fourth Federal Reserve Bank
at Cleveland Says Labor Trou.
bles Are Present Problems

CLEVELAND, March os.-The utmost
conservation still marks business activ-
lty IN the Fourth Federal Reserve Dis
tr'ct, according to the monthly bust
ness review of the Fourth Federal Re-
serve Bank, issued to-day. some
plants that have been shut down for
many months are resuming operations
IN some degree, but others that are
more closely dependent upon the dailv
or weekly flow of orders are gauginr
their production to the orders on hand
Complaint still is made at MANY
sources of the alleged failure of the
retailer to pass on to his trade the full
benefit Of the reduction in prices in the
wholesale markets." the report con-
tinues.
"Uncmployment generally appears to
be slightly decreasing in the principal
cities, except where industry is Just
beginning to feel the full effect of
liiquldations. In the larger cities in
the steel industry, especially Pitts
burgh, it is said that reports of actiy-
ity there enticedt large numbers of
workers from other cities where in
dustry was less active.
Threatened labor troup,es, particu
larly IN the transportation and build
ing lines, are problems of the present"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-29
Good Motor Trade Gains
Reported From Detroit
Demand Best in East and Far
West; Higher Grade Can Sell
as Well as Cheaper Ones

DETROIT, March 28-A decided i'm
provement in the motor car business,
with resultant increase in produc-
tion, was indicated by manufacturers
here to-day. Demand for pleasure cars,
trucks and tractors, it was said. had
been growing steadily for several
weeks past. Producers of low-priced
machines first noted the improvement,
but now, it was indicated, higher-grade e
cars were in demand. One manufac-
turerr of high-priced car reported to-
day his stock was oversold.
The principal demand, according to
the manufacturers, comes from the
East and the Far West.
The Ford Motor Company announced
to-day that so per cent of the men en-
ployed here last fall were now at work
on six day a week schedule, while
the Dodge Brothers plant, which opened
only two weeks ago on 10 per cent
scale, was reported to be working at
go per cent normal. The Packard, Hud-
son and Essex plants are running at
New-York tribune., 1921-03-29
Nevada Adopts Gas
To Execute Criminals
Governor Signs Bill to Put Con.
victed Felons 10 Death
While They SJeen

CARSON CITY, New, March 2s.-A
bill providing for the use of lethal gas
in executing the death penalty in Ne.
vsda was sigred here to-day by Gov.
rnor Boyle.
Signing of the bill abolshes othe,
orms of capital punishment in the
tate. Hitherto condemned men ha6
he choice between hanging or shoot.
.ng. Nevada is believed to be the frs,
state to make gas the means of capita
punishment.
The law calls for suitable cell fo,
inf1icting. the penalty where gas is
lsed, and provides that the warden. q
competent physician and six other citi
sens must witness the execution. The
cell is to be alright, fitted with win.
dows OF thick glass and equipped with
valves to admit air.
When the condemned man is asleer
the air valves are to be closed anc
Others, admitting lethal gas, opened
life being taken without the prisoners
awakening.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-29

lakes region are in the grip Of severe
freeze. Reports from the Southwest
told Of blighted prospects for "a record
fruit yield in Missouri, KANSAS, Okla
homa and southern Illinois. The loss
due to freezing in Oklahoma was esti-
mated at $11,000,00o. Along the Okla
homa boundary thermometers regis
tered from IL to 80 degrees above zero
IN Chicago an icy blast out of the
Northwest sent the mercury down to
Il degrees at midday.
In Philadelphia the thermometer did
q nose dive of 80 degrees in as many
minutes after wind and rain storm
which followed sultry day. The mer-
curry there was still falling tonight.
a snow storm followed a drop in
temperature of So degrees in four
hours at Scranton, Pa, to-day. At II
m. the thermometer registered rs
degrees and at p. m. it was, 40, where
~ remained stationary the rest of the
afternoon. The snow storm lasted an
hour, about half an inch falling.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-29
Gale Kills
One, Injuries
Score i'm City
Continued from page one


numerous boats in Staten Island Sound
were broken. "Au
Twenty-nine lighters which were
moored at the foot of Ninety-sixth
street and North River, were torn from
thelr moorings at the height Of the
gaze There were no men on the barees
ana .ney were not missed until pier
waterman, making his rounds shortly
aleer all nine o'clock, discovered the loss.
me harbor police were notified i'm.
mediately and the John F. Hylan was m
boats f' "e ''"s
All Of the twenty craft were
accounted for by midnight Some of
them had been found as far M The
river as 10th Street, others were
scattered along the Jersey shore. while
lew had drifted down stream and
gave considerable trouble to regular
harbor craft until they were taken in
low ana returned to their moorings.
Eighteen of the barges were owned
by the Interstate Lighterage Co.. 1eo
Liberty street, and the remainder be.
longed to Robert II. Haight, II State
street.
AT the enhance of Staten Island
Sound, off ST. George, a barge of the
Standard Oil Company, loaded with
1900 barrels of oil, was almost cap
sized. The barrels were blown over
, board and 1000 OF them were pickle d
up by towboat as they were drifting
to sea.
Jersey Towns Hard Hit
Many Jersey towns suffered from the
gale. At Plainheld a score of houses
were unroofed and a large number of
trees uprooted. Peter Kane, twenty
four years old, driver employed by
the American Express Company, was
crushed beneath his overturned wagon
and carried in a serious condition to
the home of a nearby physician. The
accident occurred on West Front
Street, Plainfeld. On Manning Avenue
horse was killed. The large estate
on East Front Street of Pierre Mali,
the Belgian Consul. suffered great dam
age. The home of Martin Giles in
North Plainfeld was wrecked The
Bound Book Ice Company's plant at
wrecked and bricks hurled for several
hundred yards.
In other Jersey towns porches were
torn from houses, chimneys and trees
blown down, telegraph and telephone
poles demolished and trolley service
badly crippled
The weather man predicted last
night that the mercury will drop to the
freezing point to-day. The highest
temperature yesterday was rs degrees
at 2 p. m. At 6 p. m. the mercury
had fallen to 80 degrees. The entire
central and northwest sections Of the
United States experienced sharp drop
in temperature yesterday Snow fell
at Buffalo and Syracuse and the Their
mometer registered degrees below
zero at Duluth.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-29

about SO per cent and the Cadillac,
Lincoln, Paige, Hupp, Studebaker, Coz
lumbia, MAXWELL Chalmers and Scripps-
Booth factories here announced guam
New-York tribune., 1921-03-29
New Haven Cuts Shop Wage
Men Reject New Scale When 1t
lis Announced

The New York, New Haven & Hart
ford Railroad Company yesterday noti-
fed its shop employees of its intention
to put into effect the scale Of wages
that prevailed before July 20 of last
year, when the Federal Wage Board
granted the last increase to the work
ers. A proposed reduction in the pay
OF the unskilled laborers on this sys-
tenn already has been announced.
The contemplated lower scale for t.ae
shop employees was made known by
conference committee of the employees
at New Haven yesterday. The reduc-
tion is roughly estimated at from II to
% per cent. 1t is understood that the
committee Of employees at the meeting
rejected the proposed cut. The matter,
therefore, will go before the Railroad
Labor Board at Chicago for adjudica-
fion
New-York tribune., 1921-03-29
No Trace of Lost Flyers;
Search To Be Continued

PENSACOLA, Fla, March 2a.-Ofi-
cials at the naval air station said to-
night that although no trace of the
missing naval balloon and FIVE men.
which departed on a practice hon
March %, had been found, the search
would be continued indefinitely.
A strong northwest wind, accom-
panied by rain squalls, interfered to-
day with the search, but the dirigible
and planes will renew the quest as
soon at the weather moderates.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-29
Mexican Trade Mission
Here on Goodwill Trim

The Mexican Goodwill Commission.
which arrived in this city yesterday
morning, will describe business CON
ditlons in Mexico to a committee of
the New York City Merchants Assoc;a-
ton this afternoon at the Hotel Ma
Jestic. The members will present an
official invitation to American business
men to attend the International Trade
Conference in Mexico City on June ~.
Yesterday the delegates were met
by Major George II. Richards. of the
Merchants Association, and receu
tion committee, which escorted them
to West Point on sightseeing trip.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-29
Freeze Does IL Millions
Harm, to Oklahoma Fruit
Storm From Vest Sends Ther.
naometer Do,on 80 Degrees in
Half Hour ut PhiZ0deLnhsn

WASHINGTON, March 28.-The cold
wave marching swiftly on the Eastern
states tonight swirled in from the West
and Southwest, where It was freezing
fruits and early vegetable crops and
causing physical suffering
Shortly after noon the Weather
Bureau issued storm warning for the
Atlantic Coast, from Eas.cort, Me-, to
Cape Hatteras. 1t prophesled north
west gale.
The Mississippi Valley and the great
New-York tribune., 1921-03-29
Bandits Rob Shop of 5000
On Crowded Bronx Street

Although the street outside was
crowded, Arthur Lester, manager of
Longs hat store at 1888 Third Avenue,
the Bronx, and David Buchanan, a
salesman, esterday were held up in
ihe store by three men, who escaped
with 5000 in cash which they took from
the till.
Before escaping the hold-up men
forced Lester and Bucknan down a
trapdoor in the store sading to a
cellar.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-23
Enrigght, Reiterating
Crime Wave Denial.
Asks for More Men
Addressing Brooklyn Com
merce Chamber, He Urges
Central Bureau and Life
Sentences for Burglars

Police Commissioner Richard En-
right yesterday afternoon repeated his
plea for more men to police greater
New York: life sentences for burglars;
repeal of laws which have not the sup
port Of public opinion, so that the po-
lice may have time to enforce laws
that have that support. and the CO.
operation Of all honest citizens and
business men, particularly in keeping
up the morale Of the force, which he
contended has been nampered by criti-
cism.
The Commissioner Of Police and DR..
Royal S. Copeland, Commissioner of
Health, were speakers at forum
luncheon of the Brooklyn Chamber Of
Commerce and about ESQ men heard
another Of Enright's denials that a
crime wave exists or has existed since
he became commissioner. He talked
for more than an hour and wound up
by saying he had many other police
questions to discuss and that he would
be available for other talks at the con-
venience of the organization.
Enright argued that he has been in
New-York tribune., 1921-01-23

charge OF the Police Department at q
most troublous time, when war condi-
tions have made the work especially
difficult, and when il was reasonable to
expect q wave of crime. He said:
In spite Of the increase in popula-
tion until we are 9 city Of 5000, 900
residents and 100000 transients; in
spite Of the fact that in the three
years since I took command Of the
force, have not had man added to
the 10,700 regular members of the de-
partment, and in spite of conditions
brought about by q world war, there
has been decrease in the four felon-
les which most affect the public at
large.
in 1915. the murders, felonious as
saults, assaults and robbcries and bur-
glaries totaled 14,43l; in 1917 these
crimes numbered 1914 and in 1920
1857. In December, 1915, there were
l,156 Of these crimes; in December,
1917, there were l,194, and during last
December 1895"
The Commissioner told Of the need
for additional north and south traffic
ways in Manhattan to care for the
eity's increasing commerce. He urged
the business men Of Brooklyn to get
behind the movement for q central po-
lice information bureau in Washington.
and asked that leading men under
stand and appreciate the difficulties
with which the Police Department is
faeed