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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-01-18
TEACHER DISCHARGED
FOR Being COMMUNIST
(Bv Associated PreSS)

ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. 1S-Member-
ship and participation in the COM
munist party of America was held to
be sufficient grounds for the dis
charge of public school teacher in
decision made public today by Frank
education.
Pratt from the action Of the Buffalo
board of education in removing her
the head of the states public school
system held that public avowal or sup
port Of the principles advocated by an
organization like the communist party
would show such a mental and NOR
al condition as to make her unfit as
an instructor of the children of our
public schools
Miss Pratt was teacher in Buffalo
for II years. Charges were preferred
against her by the superintendent of
schools in February, 1920, and her dis
missal by the board Of education came
the following April. after hearing
1t was charged that the teacher, by
engaging in the party's activities, had
violated her duty as teacher. "ren-
dering herself as unfit person to in
in the minds and hearts of her pupils"
and was guilty Of conduct unbecom-
ing to a teacher in the public schools y
1t was not shown that the teacher
had ever attempted to teach commun-
ist principles to her pupils and she
eventually resigned from the party.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-01-18
Congressuoman of Oklahoma
Meets Approval in Washington

myself, devoted most of their lives
to missionary work among the In
dians. One of them translated the
Bible into the Indian tongue and
taught the savages the gospel in the
wilds and dangerous country of Indian
territory, nearly Is years ago"
Oklahomas first congressman was
once before in the government serv-
ice. In the early seventies she was
employed as a clerk in the office of
the Indian commissioner, which posi-
ton she resigned to take up the work
of her father and mother among the
Indians of Oklahoma.
Uncle Sans Workshop.
Many Americans have no conception
of the magnitude of Uncle Sans
workshop, which is the largest busi-
mes enterprise in the world. For
instance the treasury department not
only occupies the imposing edifice on
Pennsylvania avenue, but also Al Of
flee buildings on Washington, besides
81 barracks buildings for storage pur-
poses. This is on the authority of
w. G. Platt, chief clerk and super
intendent
red tape it is not by any means figur-
ative. An appropriation bill pending
before congress at this time carries
$1,000 for red tape used by the treas
ury department; also $4,000 for seal
ing wax for the same department
Appearing before the house appro-
priations committee, F. F. Weston,
chief of the division of printing and
stationary, st treasury department, said:
"The use of sealing wax is an old
custom that has come down to us from
the days when kings used to make
an impression on wax with his seal
for the issuance of orders and procla-
nations"
Heavy Mail.
Frank w. Collier, postmaster for the
house of representatives, testified re-
Gently that the 435 members of the
house received on an average of 500,
600 letters and other small mail every
week and from ten to fifteen tons of
heavy mail every day. Secretaries to
members of congress believe Golfers
Continued on Page Eleven)
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-01-18
BUILD ROADS At ONCE
DECLARES ONE Faction;
OTHER ADVISES DELAY

Two factions seemed to be repre-.
sented at a. meeting to discuss the
building of hard surface roads in
Wayne county. held in the superior
court room of the court house Tuesday
morning.
The Wayne County Farmers FEEDER
alton representatives, who seemed to
be leading in the fight against the con-
structiOn of the roads at this time
but who favor the construction later.
and representatives from virtually
every other organization and individ-
uals who were In favor of beginning
the preliminary work of constructing
the roads at once, were the two
factions.
Keller For Petitioners.
w w. Keller, of Richmond, spoke
for the petitioners for the. roads and
stated that the purpose of the meeting
was for the purpose of getting an in
timation from the council relative to
their action if the county commission
ers should see fit to recommend the
making of drawings and surveys of
the roads.
Mr.. Keller stated that the question
that the county council would have
to settle was whether the road was
public utility or not. He then out.
lined the reasons why the road should
be built.
Horton Gives Figures.
Howard Horton presented figures
compiled by himself showing the esti-
mated maximum cost of the road to
tax Payers. He stated the total amount
per 500 for the 20 years duration of
the bond issue would probably be
about $136. This would be for the
Hagerstown, Boston and New Paris
roads. The cost per year would be
about 68 cents per 500.
Lee N:-Sbaum, president of the
county council, spoke and said that as
an individual he was in favor of the
improvements, he stated that he would
! not say what the county council would
do when the question was brought up
to him.
Davis Opposed.
Theodore Davis. president of the
Farmers Federation stated that he
represented a large percentage of the
farmers of the county and that they
were as rule opposed to the roads at
this time.
Other representatives of the fedora
! ton stated that the farmers were op,
posed to the road improvements.
Farmers from Boston township stat.
ed that the farmers in that part were
strongly in favor of the improvements
stating that the BENEFITS TO be derived
were such as to make the extra taxes
a minimum.
New Paris Favors
/ New Paris had a representative who
| stated people in that neighborhood
were for the road.
| The debate waxed warm at times
but was ended finally with the sugges
! ton that detailed estimates of the
! costs of the roads be made up and for
! warded to people so that it could be
! taken up at meetings over the county
and discussed from matters of fact.
! No definite action was taken by the
meeting, however. it cleared up many
| ideas that had been prevelant previ
Gus, county commissioners stated.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-01-18
FIVE YOUTHFUL YECCS
HOLD UP MAIL TRUCK
IN CHICAGO; ESCAPE
sEy associated Press,

CHICAGO. Jan. 1s,-Fiye youthful
bandits held up United States mail
truck at the Union station here early
today, escaping in an auto with
twelve sacks of mail, ten of which
contained registered mail. Police said
that the best information obtainablc
this morning indicates the pouches
contained part of a federal reserve
bank money shipment which was to
go on train for st. Paul, Mimi, at
$50 a. m.
The bandits surprised three postal
employees guarding the pouches, fore.
ing them at the point Of guns back
into the truck, while the bandit car
drew along side and the twelve mail
bags were transferred to it. The rob-
berry was accomplished in few
minutes.
Currency in Bags.
The regular mail was composed
solely of city collections, the police
said. The registered mail bags were
supposed to contain currency and
bonds whose value cannot be esti-
mated vet.
One of the postal employees said that
only few minutes after they had ar
rived at the station with their truck,
the bandit car dashed up. The police
believe the robbery was an inside job
as the bandits seemed to have knowl-
edge of the bank shipment as we'll as
the time the truck would arrive and
the number of men guarding it.
Wear Black Masks.
Thomas Carter. Richard J. Sliney
and Phillip Cahill, postal employees,
said the five men. none of whom ap-
peared to be more than 20 years old,
all wore black masks and carried out
rhe robbery in such a short time that
the attention of a watchman and rail-
road mail foreman working near by
was not attracted until the robbers
were speeding away in their motor
car with the twelve pouches.
Carter, who drove the mail truck.
said he believed the bandit car fol-
lowed him from the postoffice to the
station. The alarm was sent to the
Federal building, the City Detective
Bureau and the Desplaines street
police station. Several squads of Of
flcers were On the trail of the robbers
within few minutes
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-01-18
IRON OUT DETAILS ON
SIZE LIMIT OF ARMY
(By Associated Press)


WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.-Only min
or differences of language between
the senate and house measures re-
mained to be Strengthened out today
to send on its way to executive action
joint resolution of congress limiting
the size of the army to $4,000 enlist
ed men.
Adoption by both houses of joint
resolutions cutting the army to that
figure came almost simultaneously
yesterday. Ten minutes after the
senate voted to set aside its decision
of last week to reduce the army to
100000 and approved the higher fig
ure, the house adopted the joint res
olution sponsored by Chairman Kahn
of its military affairs committee di-.
recting the secretary of war to stop
enlistments until the army is reduced
to 175,00O.
Action of the senate was taken
without record vote, but adoption of
the resolution in the house was op-
posed by only four members.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-01-18
PALLADIUM NEWS BUREAU.


WASHINGTON. Jan. 1S.--Washing-
ton. has just had it's first glimpse of
Miss klice yfobertson,1of Oklahoma,
who will, after March 4, be the second
woman to sit as a member of the
national house of representatives.
"Miss Alice" as Washington already
calls her, has white hair, clear gray
eyes, and a direct, frank manner,
which has quite won the hearts of all
who have met her. Practically all of
her life has been devoted to mission
ary work among the Indians in the
state which she is to represent in
congress. Although a devoted church
woman Miss Robertson stated that
self-constituted regulators of public
morals and manners will receive no
encouragement from her.
Works for Indians.
I'm against this fad of trying to
legislate morals into the people. 1t
just can't be DONE" she remarked.
On her arrival in Washington Miss
Robertson expressed the hope that
when she took her seat in congress
she would be assigned to the CON-
mittee on Indian affairs. =
my grandfathers were both or
dained ministers" she said, land like
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-01-18
Why Rich h d is the
Best Place in Which
to Live

Each day Palladium reporter
will interview persons at random
TO find out why they like to live
here.
I'll tell you why I think Rich
mond is the best place to live
in" said a recent arrival, who
had come to make his home in
the city.
I'm the first place, Richmond
has a history. Her growth has
not been of the mushroom type,
but slow and and steady, and the
very fact that it has been of
this type is shown in her charac-
ter today. Richmond is pro-
gress;ve, but not radical. She
has a number of successful
manufacturing plants within her
limits but they are properly bal
anced by a well developed agri-
cural district. Her development
has not been one-sided.
"The man who can't see any
thing good about this town is
pretty far gone," he concluded.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-01-18
STATUTE
EXTENSION IS URGED
(By Associated Press)

. WASHINGTON, Jan. 1s.-Extension
of the statute OF Limitation from three
TO seven years was urged before the
House Judiciary committee today by
Representative Mason, Republican, of
Illinois, who said the purpose was to
enable the government to proceed
against person charged with profiteer-
ing and graft during the war.
Mr.. Mason declared that by amend
ment to the criminal code, the in
coming attorney general would be able
to proceed in cases where there had
been much talk and no prosecution,
and which might not come to trial be-
cause Of the expiration of the three
year limit.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-01-18
Weather Forecast
Mcore's Special Forecast

A general moderation in the tenn
perature is indicated for Wednesday
and prota bly, Thursday. 1t will be
cold Tuesday night. Temperatures
will begin to rise before Wednesday
morning. with east winds shifting to
southeast and south, due to the east
ward movement of Pacific coast
storm of great size. Cloudy and un-
settled weather, followed by rain or
snow, within the next "a to 4S hours.
Temperatures Yesterday
MAXIMUM ............ .......... "a
Minimum ................. IL
Today
Noon .......... ~
For Indiana, by the United States
Weather 6ureau-Cloudy and unset
tied weather tonight and Wednesday;
rising temperature.
For Wayne County, by w. e. Moore
Increasing cloudiness and cold
Tuesday evening, followed by rising
temperature late Tuesday night and
Wednesday. becoming unsettled and
followed by rain or snow.
Weather conditions-The center of
the cold wave now over southern Can
ada; temperatures are from 80 to 36
degrees below zero; freezing tempera-
lures as far south as the southern
states. DEVILS Lake, N. D., is the
coldest place in the United States-22
degrees below zero. The Pacific
coast storm is now moving east; ris-
ing temperature throughout the west;
snow in the north, and rain in the
southwest of the Mississippi river.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-01-18
Forty BeloD Zero
In Ontario Todav

TORONTO, Ont, Jan. 1S.-Forty be-
low zero was the temperature at Iro-
quois Falls, Ont, this morning. All
Canada, except the Pacific and At
lantic coast is apparently in the grip
of zero weather.
Ottawa registered IS below, Winni-
peg two below. Yesterday it was 50
below at Winnipeg. which would indi-
cate that the cold wave is moving
eastward
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-01-18
Sim Fein Founder
To Be Court Mdrtialed
(By Associated Press. }

DUBLIN, Jan. 1S.-Arthur Griffith,
founded of the Sim Fein organization,
who was arrested in his home on the
morning of Nov. 26, will be court mar
tailed If the present plans of the
authorities are carried out. The date
of the court martial has not yet been
set.
The New York herald., 1921-08-01
MRS. HARRISON NEVER
IN DANGER OF STARVING
M the Associated Press

RIGA. July 3l.---The release OF all
Americans still In prison n Russia
may. be expected within few days. ac-
cording TO Mrs. Marguerite r. Harri-
son of Baltimore. who herself spent
many months I'm Imprisonment at Mos
COW. but who was released and came
here under the protection cf United
States Senator France of Maryland.
She was Informed before leaving Mos
COW that all would be out soon.
No formal rotifcation of the release
OF he Americans has yet been re-
ceived at Riga. and the American Of
ficiaIs havo not been advised as 70
whether tho prisoners will be freed
one at n time or in a group.
Mrs. Harrison related her story to-
day and pictured her life IN, prison as
differing far from sketches OF her suf-
ferings drawn from time to time BY
travellers arriving in the Baltic state
from Russia. Although under close
confinement for considerable time
Mrs. Harrison gave an unemotional
statement OF net ohc
was tl:in and frail. and her recital was
interrupted occasionally by deep
cough as to-day she unresentfully told
Of the events from the day Of her
arrest 70 her release She said:
~ was frst arrested on April :.
1920. two months after 7 arrived ~
Russia by way OF the Polish frontier
was detained two days for cross
examination. then was released. and
for six months was permitted TO work
unmolested in Moscow.
"Tn October was again arrested
by order OF the Cheka Che Soviet IN
ouisition). was charged among other
things with having come TO Russia
without permission. with having sup
piled food illegally 70 American ara
British prisoners and with having been
h communication with people hostile
to the Government all Of which was
true. The examiners were polite. but
The New York herald., 1921-08-01
LIGHTNING STUNS 80,
TWO THOUGHT DEAD
Bolt Skaters Flagstaff and
Knocks Out Members Of
N. Y. Athletic Club.
VICTIMS ALL ARE MARKED
Hailstones Had Driven Swim
mers to Shelter in Shed OH
Huckleberry Island.

A bolt of lightning. which first shat
tered a tall f1agpole. knocked thirty
members of the New York Athletic
Club senseless yesterday afternoon In
front of q dressing shed on Huckle-
berry Island, near New Rochelle, whore
they had taken shelter from the storm
after swimming off the island. Two cf
them. DR.. Joseph F. Mccarthy of COL
West 115th street, and j. G. Calhoun,
were so badly shocked that their COM
panions believed for some time that
they had been killed. Others n the
party were 0. Viking Hedberg, A. Eli
oft Ranney and r. Z. Stewart.
The thirty members of the club went
to the island just before noon and
changed into their bathing suits In a
dressing shed on the shore. The rain
and hail began to fall about 3 O'Clock,
and they became so uncomfortable in
their bathing suits that they ran to
the shed for shelter. Most of them
stood on its veranda watching the
storm. and they were standing there
when the bolt Of lightning struck the
fiagpole. thirty feet in front OF the
shed.
All of the thirty appear to have been
struck at the same time, as none of them
can recall anything that happened be-
fore two or three OF them awoke to find
themselves lying on the porch sur
rounded by their PROSTATE companions.
Dazed and staggering. they rose one by
one until all had recovered excepting
DIR. Mccarthy and Mr. Calhoun. They
were quickly revived. however. by arti-
fetal respiration. All of them we're able
TO attend the baseball game at Travers
Island later in the afternoon. but for
several hours they were very nervous
and upset as a result of their expert
ence.
Every member OF the party was
marked by the lightning. Down the
right arm of DR.. Mccarthy ran a red
welt. extending from shoulder TO wrist
with the hair burned of. showing a de-
sign like vine. with the leaves clearly
defined. On the chest or back Of every
man struck was similar but smaller
design of leaf or a twig. This Is not
unusual In the case OF lightning victims
however. and is believed to be due to the
diffusion OF the veins.
The New York herald., 1921-08-01

pened to him after he started on the
raid with other airmen
The parents of Lieut.. Hamon
learned of his plight through Earle
Samon of Oklahoma City, Okla, whose
name Lieut.. Hamon remembered and
to whom he wrote from the hospital
asking for money. They also heard
of it through Lieut.. McMurtrie of
California, who happened to be In New
York and read of lannon's case in the
newspapers. The information the
Weehawken police have is that
lannon's father is retired oil man
and first cousin of the late Jake L,
Hamon, the Oklahoma politician who
was murdered recently.
Lieut.. Hamon kas frequently told
the New Jersey authorities and re
porters who visited him that he had
been member OF the Lafayette Es-
cadrille, but his name does not appear
In any of the lists OF members given
out during the war. He said yester-
day that when his plight had become
public the Army and Navy depart
ments sent physicians to examine him
and twice sent men to remove him to
the Brooklyn Naval Hospital. He re-
fused TO go. however, saying that he
was being treated very well in the
North Hudson institution.
The New York herald., 1921-08-01
LIEUT.. HAMON, IN HOSPITAL,
PLANS TRIP TO BATTLEFIELD
TO RESTORE LOST MEMORY
Patient, Once Flyer in Army, Recalls Nothing Since
Air Raid in September, 1918-Parents on
Way to Reclaim Him as Son.

The parents OF Lieut. George
about the Weehawken ferry house
two weeks ago and who has not been
able TO remember anything that hap
pened since September, 1913. except
ing that he started on an air raid at
that time. are expected TO arrive in
New York to-day and probably will
are Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Hamon Of
Tulsa, Okla. and according to infor-
nation received by the New Jersey
authorities last night they had not
seen their son for six years and had
given him up as dead.
Lieut.. Hamon has been in the North
Hudson Hospital at weehawken since
the Weehawken police found him wan
dering aimlessly about the ferry house.
He was reported yesterday as being
much improved, but his memory Is
not yet clear on many things. He
still recalls nothing of himself or his
actions save that he started on an air
raid, and that he remembers being in
an American army hospital in France.
He said yesterday that IL his memory
does not improve within the next few
months he intends to go to Francs
and visit the sector he fought in and
see If he can find out there what hap
The New York herald., 1921-08-01
FAMINE THREATENS
MILLIONS IN SIBERIA,
HARVEST IS BURNT
Lenine's Newspaper Says
Anti-BOlsheviki Must Be
Modified TO Fight
Starvation.
FORESTS ARE ABLAZE
kemeneff Says That He
Cannot Feed Moscow
WOrkmen, Let Alone
25,OOO,OOO
PRISON LIFE REVEALED
Release of All Americans May
Be Expected in Next Few
Days, Mrs. Harrison
Says.
PRISON LIFE REVEALED

Special Cable 10 THE NEw YORK HEnNp
Copyright. 1927, By TIE NEW York HERALss
REvAL, via London. July 31.-Ths
Let's who settled in Siberia are
trying to escape from the famine
there, but few have succeeded. These
few report that famine also threat.
ems Siberia, as owing to the drought
the harvest Is burnt and the forests
and steppes are ablaze.
The price of flour is prohibitive.
Millions of people are now in the
breadline, compared with $4,000 last
March. Bread is dearer in the gov.
ernments of Perm, Tcheliabinsk and
Viatka than In Moscow
Commissar Kameneff told the
Council of National Commissars in
Moscow: I'VE are unable to feed our
100000 Moscow workmen. let alone
25.00o,0o0 peasants"
DR.. Senasho, National Health Com.
missar, says. THE child mortality Ia
awful. We must give full freedom
of action to foreign philanthropic or
ganizations like the English Quak.
ers. who already are assisting"
Lenine's newspaper says: I'VE must
mobilize to fight the famine. Innu-
merable anti-Soyiet bureaucrats and
intelligencia and students who In
1892 enrolled by tens OF thousands
voluntarily to fight the famine
haven't given a whisper Of any such
movement now We must make them
move. In the face Of a general fam.
inc all citizens must work
Esthonia has formed special
commission to help famine stricken
Russia. 1t includes the Ministers OF
the Interior. Industry, Commerce
and Foreign Affairs. The Esthonian
Government began sending food
Wednesday TO the starving. Students
in several foreign countries have
asked Esthonia to act as intermedi.
airy in sending help TO Russia.
The cholera is worse on the Volga,
where there are 1000 cases in Sara
toff alone.
There is proposal TO transport
starving peasants in European Rus
sia to Siberia. but Economic Life,
the Bolshevik organ. says that the
transport difficulties were insur.
mountable even in the Cars time.
when an attempt was made to expel
these peasants. but only half mil.
uon could be transported.
The New York herald., 1921-08-01
Lord Northcliffe Leaves
Toronto for Winnipeg
TORONTO, Ontario, July 31.-

TORONTO, Ontario, July 81
Lord Northcliffe, British pub
Usher, arrived here to-day from
New York on his tour Of the
world and announced that he
was in Canada to look into the
immigration problems
''They tell me-" he said, there
are 10000 men out of work in
Toronto and that is matter
which interests me because we
have millions of people at home
proposing to emigrate."
Lord Northcliffe and his party
were entertained to-day by
Leighton Mccarthy, Toronto law
yer. A round of golf and a visit
to a farm made up the pro-
gramme. Lord Northcliffe and
his party left tonight for Win
nipeg.