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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-19
MILTON RESIDENT
SUES BANK RECEIVER

Alleging that partners in the Farm
ers Bank of Milton knew that Oscar
NJ. Kirlin, deceased cashier. was dis
honest and unreliable two years prev
ious to the time of his death, William
Hicks, of Milton. filed suit against
Claude S. Kitterman, receiver for the
defunct bank, to collect $500 Fourth
Liberty loan bond, interest and costs
in Wayne circuit court Saturday morn
ing.
Ray X. Shively, attorney for Mr..
Hicks. obtained permission to sue the
receiver from Judge Bond Friday
afternoon.
The complaint is filed in three para
graphs charging conversion. The first
states that the bond was placed in the
bank on October IS, 1918 and the
same has not been returned to the
plaintiff The second paragraph al
knew that Kirlin was dishonest and
alleges that the partners in the bank
unreliable but Notwithstanding this
knowledge the partners negligently
continued to keep him as cashier The
third paragraph charges carelessness
and negligence on the part of the
partners and asks proper relief for
the plaintiff, Mr.. Hicks.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-19
STRIKE VOTE
OF PACKING
employees IN
Two Representatives of Union
To Confer With Secretary
of Labor Davis Monday
Walkout To Follow Failure.
|LLEGALITY IS CLAIM
(Ry Associated Press)

CHICAGO, March 19-The two rep
resentatives of the Union Packing
house. accompanied by executives of
nine other union signatories to the
wartime arbitration agreement in the
packing industry. today were on their
way to Washington to meet with rep
resentatives or the packers before
Secretary Davis, of the department of
labor, next Monday
Ballots of the employees at packing
centers throughout the country re-
ceived showed a vote of 44,799 to 61S
in favor of a strike if the union lead
ers fail to obtain revision of the pack
ers' recently instituted wage cuts and
return to the 1O-hour day before ex-
ira overtime pay.
I'VE will place our demands before
the conference clearly and succinct-
ly," said Dennis Lane, secretary trea S.
urer of the Butcher Workmen's union
and one of the two delegates TO the
conference. The other is Redmond S.
Brennan, counsel for the union. eff
they are not met. the only alternative
for us is to strike.
Claim IliegaIity.
I'VE are going to ask the conference
10 RUE tndt the packers DTOSdtlOQ Oh
the Alschuler arbitration agreement
was illegal. If this is done the recent
wage outs and changes in working
conditions effected by the packers are
also illegal. Before putting them into
effect, they must first show their
necessity before Judge Alschuler."
Federal Judge Samuel Alschuler
was the arbitrator chosen to handle
packing employe disputes under the
wartime agreement. An employe rep
resentation plan similar to the one on
which employees of Armour and com.
pany are now voting has been perfect
ed by Morris and company, it was an
| nounced today but is being withheld
pending the result of the Washington
conference.
Claim Intimidation.
A statement issued today by a score
of smaller packers after a conference
yesterday declared that the union of.
fcials have sought to intimadate the
consuming public by magnifying the
probability and extent of strike.
ut is doubtful if more than 80 per
cent of the employees of the plants af-
| fected are union men," the statement
| said.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-19
BAND CONCERTS HINGE
ON BASKETBALL GAME

Band concerts in Richmond for the
summer months will hinge upon the
attendance at the benefit basketball
game to be played in the Coliseum
Monday night by the Wilson Cleaners
team and the organization from the
Young Mems Business club. Both
teams have showed prowess during
the past season and game that will
give spectators the full worth Of the
price of admission is promised
The board of works has appropriat.
ed $3.50 to be used for Sunday con-
certs Since a total fund of $1,000 is
required the young business men de-
cided to make up the rest of the re-
quired amount by playing benefit
game Looking about for an oppon-
ent to furnish an interesting game,
the Y. NJ B. C. chose the Wilson
Cleaners.
Will Aid Concerts.
Tickets have been mailed out to all
members of the club and IL is reported
that the seat sale is meeting with
success.
Members of the organization are
calling the attention of the public to
the fact that those who witness Mon
day nights game not only will see a
real scrap on the basketball floor but
will ALSO provide the means whereby
regular concerts will be insured for
the summer.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-19
General Sales Tax is Opposed;
Claim System Would be Unfair

the sale of every commodity whether
it be in the form of a turnover tax
imposed at every sale or limited to
sales fer final consumption or use.
urge Serappins.
There has been in existence for
some time an organized movement to
influence congress to scrap the pres
cnt taxing system in favor Of a general
sales tax. A tax of l per cent on
every turnover has been urged. Pro-
ponents of this tax assert that it will
raise two or three billions of dollars
annually, or considerably more than
the present personal income tax
Yields. ---
The three important national bust
Eess organizations which have ex.
dressed disapproval to a general sales
tax agree that it Is desirable and
necessary that the extremely high
rates of the personal income tax
should be reduo ed and that the excess
profits tax on corporations should be
abolished, but they lake the POSITION
that in doing this it would be unfair
10 impose an additional tax OF two Or
three billions of dollars to be passed
on to consumers and paid by them
equally in proportion to their expendi-
lures.
Opponents of a general sales tax as
sert that the effect of such tax would
be opposed to the encouragement OF
large sales at small margin of pront
and in favor Of restricted sales with a
Continued op Pa sc Twelve
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-19
POLITICS ARE
DISRUPTED BY
HOME RULE
Affixing Of Signatures to Pc
titions Urging Adoption Of
City Manager Form Upsets
Organizations. -.s
ORGANIZE FORCES SOON

The affixing of 1900 signatures to
petitions for the adoption OF city
manager form of government in Rich
mond has had an upsetting effect on
the party organizations and candi-
dates who were getting ready for the
municipal primaries.
A meeting of the Republican city
committee will be held early next
week to discuss the proposed change
in form of government. according to
Harry Thornburgh. chairman of the
committee.
Mr. Thornburgh stated Saturday
that he did not know anything that
could be done only mark time until
the question was settled as to wheth-
er the new government should be
adopted. He stated that no complete
organiza ton had been made in the
city due to the uncertainty as to a
primary election.
Circulate Rumors
Reports are being circulated TO dis
credit the proposed plan They, are
said to be chiefly the outgrowth of
troll of city affairs in the hands of a
few who have always had finger in
the pie" locally.
Leaders in the movement for the
city manager plan say that these re-
ports are having very little disturb
ing effect on the average citizen.
Further organization of the forces in
favor of the city manager form of gov
ernment will be made at a meeting to
be held next Tuesday afternoon at
4:45 in the chamber of commerce
rooms in the X. of P. building. This
meeting will be attended by the orig
inal committee from the various civic
organizations and the ward chairmen.
Select Committee.
An executive committee to have
charge of the presentation of the petit
ton to council as an act of supervis-
ory committee for the campaign, will
be selected at this meeting.
The petitions that are now being
circulated will be out all of next week.
The final day for signing will prob
ably be Saturday. March %, it is said.
Ward chairman have been asked to
continue their work of securing sigma
lures until that day, according to an,
nouncements made Saturday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-19
BULLET WOUND FATAL
FOR LE we're BALL.;
INQUEST CONDUCTED

Funeral services for LIE We're Ball,
Is years old. who died at Reid Memor-
ial hospital Friday afternoon, following
the lodging of a bullet just beneath
the skull, while with a party of hoys
Saturday afternoon, March 5, will be
held from the Grace NJ. e. church at
!: 20 o'clock Monday afternoon. The
Rev. A. H. Backus will conduct the
funeral
Friends wishing to view the body
may call at the home, 2126 North E
street, Sunday afternoon and evening
Surviving are his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Ball, and two brothers,
Jerome F., and Harold H. Ball.
Coroner Bond is Investigating the
death. An autopsy performed Sa1ur-
day resulted In the finding of the bull
let very close to its entrance, just
beneath the skull. DR.. Bond has not
yet examined all witnesses. =. =
Shooting is Accidental
Everett Savage, about II years old,
one Of the party of five present at the
time Of the accident, said that he fired
the bullet which struck Ball.
1--WE just went out for a good time
he said.
We had been shooting at targets,
but after time quit. had two cart
ridges left in my gun which I wanted
to get rid Of. In discharging these bul.
let's fired backward LeVere did not
fall when hit, and didn't seem to be
much hurt. 1t made us boys sick. and
he said you fellows seem to be hurt
worse than L."
The hoys brought Ball back to town
in an automobile belonging to Ernest
Cooper, North Twenty-Second street
in whose car they made the trip. The
doctor dressed the wound and said
that it was only a scalp wound" said
Everett Savage. "He told us that the
bullet was not in lie Vere's head.
Parents Not Notified.
"None of us told LeVere's parents
about the accident, because we thought
that If it was only a scalp wound there
was no use in soaring them"
Balls parents told q reporter few
days after the accident, that their son
did not tell of being shot until the
Monday night following the shooting
on the previous Saturday afternoon
The injured boys temperature began
to rise and he went out to Reid hos.
pital on Tuesday morning, March g.
He was accompanied by his mother.
Operations failed to remove the bull
let. although it was said that an X-ray
showed its location quite clearly. FIe
died Friday afternoon.
Boys in the party were Robert
Reeves. North Eighteenth street: Err
nest Cooper. North Twertv-second
street: Everett Savage. North Twenty
second street: Hilton Lewis. North
Twentv-frst street; and LeVere Ball
! North E street.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-19
PALLADIUM NEWS BUREAU

WASHINGTON, March 13.-Pres-
ident Harding, it is understood, has
approved the plan of giving the ques-
tiOn of tax revision the right of way
over the tariff at the extra session of
congress. Announcement has also been
made that the referendum of the
United States Chamber of Commerce
was vote opposed to either a turn
over sales tax or tax on all retail
sales.
The action of the United States
Chamber Of Commerce follows that
previously taken by the tax commit
tses of the National Industrial Confer
ence Board and of the National Credit
Mems association.
Each Of these organizations has con-
cluded that any sales tax should be
confined to the sales of certain COM
modities, selected after investigation
Of the ability of each commodity to
bear the tax rather than extended to
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-19
BANKER OF ENGLAND
TO ORGANIZE CREDIT

LONDON. March 19.-Sir D. Drum
mord Fraser, the Manchester ba mixer
and financier. has been appointed by
the economic and finance committee
of the league of nations as organizer
of the scheme of International cred
it's, proposed by DR.. Ter-Meulen, the
Dutch financial expert, at the Brus-
sells fina ncial conference last October.
Sir Drummond's first task. it is
stated, will be to visit the impover-
ished countries for the purpose of
making a report on the extent to
which they wish to take advantage of
the plan. Broadly the scheme is to
finance essential imports into these
countries by the issue of gold bonds
secured by assigned assets in the i'm
porting country.
Sir Drummond is president of the
Manchester bankers institute and ha s
been student of national finance.
He was an insistent advocate of the
policy of continuous borrowing as a
means of financing the war and check
ing the evils of defla ton
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-19
FIND MARTIN GRuNzKE
DEAD IN HIS CHAIR

Martin Grunzke, about SO years old,
was found dead at his home ,113 South
Tenth street. shortly after noon Satur-
day, by several boys delivering a pack
age to his rooms. He lived alone, oc-
cupying two rooms in the residence.
He is said to have been ill for sew
eral weeks, and a physician had been
making regular calls. Persons living
in the same house said that he had
been very short of breath when talk
ing to them during the past few days.
When found, he was sitting in rock
er Coroner Bond was called.
Grunzke came to this country in
1881, taking up CLAIM in South Da-
kota. He had a wife and family of
FIVE children. Local people we're IN
able to state the whereabouts of these
children at present.
About ~ years ago, Grunzke came to
Richmond. He was connected with
the South Side Improvement associ-
alton as a collector of dues.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-19
TRIBUNE HUM0RIST
DEAD OF PNEUMONIA
(By Associated Press)

CHICAGO, March 19-Bert Lesion
Taylor, well known humorist, and con-
ductor of a column in the Chicago
Tribune "A Line O. Type or Two.
died of pneumonia at his home here
early today after an illness of two
weeks.
Bronchial trouble for several weeks
took a serious turn and he had grad
ually grown worse the last few days
The widow. who was Miss Emma
Banner, of Providence, r. l., and two
daughters, Alva and Barbara Taylor.
survive. So -
Mr.. Taylor was born in Goshen,
Mass, in 1866 and received his early
newspaper training on a newspaper
in Plainsfield, N. H. In 1896 he came
west to edit the Duluth, Mimi, News.
Tribune, where he remained for three
years, coming to Chicago in 1899, he
went to work on the Chicago Journal
and remained for two years when his
bentsfor the humorist side OF journal
ism led him to start the column for
which he became famous in the Chi
cago Tribune as "B. L. IT,
In 1903 he left his Line O. Type"
column and the Tribune. to contribute.
for several years to Puck, the New
York Sun and other publications. in
New York. In 1909 he returned to
the Tribune and resumed his famous
column and continued it until few
days before his death. ....-H -
Among his better known writings
are 1.-The Well in the Woods" "The
Pipe Smoke Garry" The Charlatans," !"
Motley Measures and a Line o.
Verse or Two"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-19
Weather Forecast
MOORE'S GENERAL FORECAST
Showers and Thunderstorms.

Rain in the form of showers and
thunderstorms are in prospect for the
next 24-heur period with strong winds
at intervals due to the eastward move
ment of Rocky mountain storm
which which now covers the entire
Mississippi valley. Cool weather will
follow the storm with south winds
changing l.: west and north either
Sunday or Sunday night.
For Indiana by the United States
Weather Bureau-Probably showers
and thunderstorms tonight and Sun
day: warmer in east portion tonight;
cooler Sunday afternoon.
Temperatures for Yesterday.
Maximum ................ .o9
Minimum ...o
Today.
Weather Conditions - The Rocky
mountain storm was central over east
ern Colorado this morning at a. m.
1t covers vast territory and is causing
warm weather throughout the central
states today. 1t is now turning cold
er over the northwest where it was
very warm yesterday. Maximum tenn
peratures occurred Friday as follows !:
Omaha, Neb., Sc; Huron, S. D., "a:
Bismarck, n. D., Sc; Concordia, Kans.,
88.
Barometer Reading
a. m. .30.OS
II Noon ...3O.O4
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-19
JAPAN STANDS FIRM
ON NATIONS MANDATE
over ISLAND OF YAP
(Bv Associated Press)

TOXIC, Ma rch 19-Japan will stand
firmly on her mandate over the island
Of zap, in the south Pacific Viscount
Uchida, the foreign minister, declared
at a meeting of the budget commit
tee Of the diet today in reply to a
question whether the attitude of
Great Britain and the council of the
league of nations did not affect ia
pans interests and also whether ia
pan intended to insist on her rights
under the zap mandate. Represen-
tative Uebara said that anti-Japanese
agitation in the United States was
spreading to other states besides Cali
fornia, which, he declared, was prob
ably due to the fact that the Califor-
mia agitators were communicating
with persons similarly disposed in
other states, thus tanning anti-Japan-
ese feeling. He also charged John F.
Stevens. Of Chicago. head of the Amer
lean railway mission in Siberia, with
carrying on an anti-Japanese move
ment as result of the clashing of his
views with those of the Japaneas
army in Siberia.
Viscount Uchida replied that he
knew nothing of the allegations
against Mr.. Stevens, but said the gov
ernment was adopting every possible
means to prevent the passage OF laws
similar to those adopted in California.
The foreign minister asserted that the
trade agreement between Great Brit.
ain and soviet Russia was only a
temporary measure. The interests of
Great Britain. France, Italy and ia
pan in Russia. he declared. all were
different and the negotiations of Italy
and France did not seem to progress.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-19
Whv Ric hmond is the
Best Place in Which
to Live

Each day a Palladium reporter
will interview persons mt random
to find out why they like to live
bere.
Talk about Richmond not
having good theatrical produc-
tions," said a business man who
visits New York frequently. Il
saw two shows advertised there
last week that had been in Rich
mond this season. We may not
have had the original company,
but we had a road company that
gave us excellent entertainment
You know it's easy to get in
to the habit of knocking your
old home town. Perhaps that's
owing to the fact that we stick
too close to Richmond If some
of our knockers would be com.
PEELED to live in some other
cities for six months they would
be glad to get back to the old
home town, and it's many
attractions.
Richmond offers all sorts of
good entertainments during the
year. We don't stop to count
them up. We overlook the good
shows, high class speakers, able
singers, nationally known musi-
cal organizations, and capable
lecturers who are booked here
annually"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-19
DENLY Leaves onight
to Inspect the Forces
(Bv Associated PreSs)

NbN aSSOCIdIeu
WASHINGTON, March 19.-Secre-
tary DENLY will leave Washington to-
night for Guantanamo, Cuba, and Haiti
and San Domingo. The water trips
involved will be made on a destroyer
on which the secretary and his party
of naval and marine officers will en-
bark. probably at Key West. Mr..
DENLY will first witness maneuvers
and target practice of the Atlantic bat
tleship fleet in uastanamo bay.
Following that he will make an in.
spection of the marine forces now on
pacification duty in Haiti and San Do
mingo. The party will reach Wash
ington on the return about April 5.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-19
CHESTER WOMAN HURT
IN AUTO COLLISION

Mrs. William Brown, living east of
Chester, sustained bruises and cuts
when a large touring car collided with
the machine she was driving shortly
after IL o'clock Saturday. The acci-
dent occurred near the Pennsylvania
Eighth street crossing. A rain had
passed only a moment before and the
large machine had just crossed the
tracks after the gates were lifted
The small car was struck on the
right front wheel Mrs. Brown was
thrown against the wind shield, and
her hand and arm passed through the
glass. She was taken to the home
of her brother-in-law, Harry Brown,
where her wounds were dressed. The
identity of the driver of the large car
was not learned.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-19
CROWN SOLDIERS KILLED

IBy ASSOClated PresS1
BELFAST, March ia great am.
bush by Irish representative forces
near Kinsale, county Cork, this morn.
ing in which six crown soldiers were
killed and five wounded, is reported.
The attackers suffered heavy casual
ties and the attack is still in progress
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-19
new STATE BACKERS
PROVIDE PROPAGANDA
tBv Associated Press,

SPOKANE. Wash, March 19.-
Northern Idaho residents. fostering
formation of the new state of Lin
coin, which would comprise 10 coun-
ties of north Idaho and part Of west
ern Montana and ca stern Washington,
are to raise fund to be used for prop
aganda purposes, it was stated here
today by Herman Taylor, of Sand
point, Idaho.
The campaign will be started with
in a few weeks and will be carried
on for two years, he stated.
The Idaho legislature recently
passed favorably on the scheme to
form the new state, of which Spokane
would be the capital.
Northern and southern Idaho are
separated by a high range of noun
tains and this would be the southern
boundary of the state of Lincoln If it
is formed
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-19

The F-5-L No. arriving at San Diego
bay at end Of journey, and Lieut..
F. L. Burke, section leader, aboard
No. Oeft), and Ensign Andrew
Crinkiey, first pilot of No. s.
Eleven of the fourteen seaplanes of
the Pacific air force which started a
6,5O0-mile round-trip flight to Balboa,
Canal Zone, from San Diego, Cal, last
December, recently landed in safety
at San Diego bay. The flight was a
record one in aviation records. The
other three planes, including the two
large NC planes, were lost en- route.
The men were saved, however. The
F-5-L No. S, which was the first to
take off last December, was the first
plane to complete the trip, alighting
in the bay sixteen minutes abe ad of
the F-5-L No. 4, the flagship of the
fleet.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-19

MUNITIONS DEPOT ExPLOOES
ERFURT, Prussian Saxony, March
19.-Many persons were injured last
night by the.explosion of a munitions
depot at Schmarborn, town about
four miles northeast of this city.
The Washington herald., 1921-11-16
Marriage Licenses.

Unless otherwise specified. all the fol-
lowing applicants are from this city,
Bert y. johnson. -. of Torowanda, n.
Y, and Beatrice o.. Stevenson, 81, Of
BesgIer. Kan. The Rev. J. II. Jeffries.
Robert Kelley. 81, Of Barbour. Va. and
Leniuel Ii. Thornton, IS, and Janet l..
Houston. 80 The Rev. J. J. Muir.
William \. B:air. Sc, and Willie A. Will
lars -. The Rev. c. Cuntee.
Joseph Givers, Sc, and Mary Jackson, 80.
The Rev. A. III. Catlett.
Hayes Moore, ~, CT Bladensburg, Nd.
and Charlotte p Goff. %. of Hyattsville.
Nd. The Rev. W. II. Dorsey.
westley W. Phillips, 81. and Pearl
Howard Acton. %. and Sadie Thnrston,
D. The Rev. W. A, Jones.
James W. Humphrey. "a, and Marie n.
Young, ~. The Rev. W. Brown.
Frederick b. Rupp. %. and Mary B..
Dengier. %. both Of Philadelphia, Pa. The
Rev. ]. II. Jefrries.
Benjamin F. Payton. 81. and Nycie A.
Freeman, 20. The Rev. j. G. Ball
Thomas Miller. ~. and Josephine WASH
ington, 20. The Rev. W. ]. Howard.
Charles o. Wood, 81. and Anne W. Pet
tus, 20, both Of Richmond, Va. The Raw
T. Z. Davis.
= William Spears. 25. and Sarah Carter,
10. The Rev. J. Lawson.
Walter 8. Beattie, 40. Of New York. and
Elizabeth Y. Patterson. IS. The Rev. Z. J.
Winters.
Moses Nervis. As. and, Lille ". Smith,
IS. The Rev W. J. Howard.
Vernon 5. Snow, %, and Mary A. Can.
Ian. "a. The Rev. P. G. Gavan.
Howard E. Chase. So, and Maryerace
Kearns. %. Of Brooklyn, n. Y. The Rev.
j. A. Cowan.