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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18
DEMOCRATS UNITED
IN OPPOSITION TO
PROPOSED TAX BILL
CBy Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1a- With
Democratic opposition pledged as a
result of the party caucus last night.
general debate on the Republican tax
revision bill was continued in the
house today. .. ss- -
The caucus, which was the fourth
held in an effort to determine a pro.
gram for the minority, was attended
by so of the 1872 Democrats in the
house and the vote for opposition was
said to be unanimous. No indication
was given of the probable attitude OF
those members of the party who did
not attend.
Vote Due Saturday.
General debate, which was opened
yesterday by Chairman Fordney of the
Republicans was scheduled to end to
night and tomorrow amendments will
be taken up under five minutes speech
limitation with final vote due late
Saturday.
Mr.. Fordney in outlinig the repub
lican position on the bill said it was
"as equitable a measure as was pos
sible to draw under the circum
stances"
The Democratic line of attack was
indicated in resolution adopted al
the party caucus, which declared the
measure to be "subversive of the prin
ciple' that should govern taxation fol
the support of this government" anG
charged that it relieves profiteers
and taxpayers of large incomes from
their just share of the load of taxation
and leaves an unfair portion of the
burden to be borne by the people o.
moderate means"
kitchin Active in Fight.
Representative Claude Kitchin
Democratic leader in a telegram sen
from his home at Scotland Neck, n
c., yesterday to Representative Gar
| rett, of Tennessee. acting minorit.
| leader, urging house Democrats to op
| pose the tax bill, declared its repea
| of the excess profits tax and increas'
+, of the corporation tax to Is percen
meant that the big ''profiteering cor
| porations" would escape payment of ;
half billion dollars in taxes whicl
| would fall upon the smaller corpora
tons of less income.
The Democratic leader said it woul,
be fatal mistake" for any membe
Of his party to vote for the bill.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18
p.I,.n,rH NEWS BUREAu

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.-The COM
plete and final statistical report on the
1920 census for Indiana, just issued by
the bureau of the census, indicates
among many things, the acute housing
shortage which exists in that state.
The report gives the total number OF
dwellings, 696.466, and lists the mum
Der of families at 737 .707, showing that
there are 41,241 families without dwell
ings.
In Wayne county shortage of 70S
dwellings is shown, there being 1858
families listed and 1885 dwellings.
In Richmond a dwelling shortage OF
$40 is reported, 1865 families and
6,506 dwellings, being listed.
One item of historical interest con
cerning Wayne county is included in
the report, the fact that only one
Indian now lives in that county
whereas a century ago it was overrur
by aborigines. The county's one
Indian resides in Richmond. There
are only nine Chinese residents oi
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18
(Bv Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.-Samuel
Tilden Ansell, former acting judge ad-
vocate general of the army and OF the
prisoners legal counsel; Colonel John
E. Hunt and Colonel C. c. Cresson,
were charged with conspiracy in con,
nection with the escape OF Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll, the draft evader,
in report signed by three of the five
members of a special investigating
committee, filed today with the house.
Characterizing Ansell as the mas
ter mind" in the plan by which Berg
doll was released from a military pris-
on under guard to dig up pot OF
gold, the majority report recommend
ed that he be disbarred from practic-
ing in the courts of the nation above
whose safety and integrity he has
placed gold
A minority report filed at the same
time held, however, that there was no
testimony TO support the charge that
Ansell, through whose efforts as coun'
sci the prisoner was released con
spired to effectuate his escape, or
that his motive was improper.
Minority Views
Luhring, of Indiana-and two Demo
Gratis, Johnson of Kentucky, and Floou
of irginia, signed the majority re
port. The minority views were pre-,
sented by Chairman Peters, Maine aud
Representative Macarthur, Oregon, Re,
publicans. The majority findings, the
first of the many investigating reports
submitted to the house since the close
of the war, where a Republican menr
ber joined with Democrats and en-
abled them to file majority views.
The majority held that Col. Hunt
commandant of the barracks at Gov
ernors Island, from which Bergdol
set out on his errand, was directly re
| sponsible for the slacker's escape
| through failure to handcuff him or t
| provide an adequate guard. The min
ority, after declaring that no office
of the army knowingly participated
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18
FORMAL ACCEPTANCE
TO ARMS CONFERENCE
FORWARDED BY CHINA

PEKING, Aug. 1S-China has for
mally replied with a cordial accept
ance to the invitation to attend the
Washington disarmament and far
eastern conference, it was announced
today.
President Harding's sincerity In
calling the conference, manifested in
the absence of limitation of the sub
jects which may be discussed, says the
reply, is appreciated, and the hope Is
voiced that the mutual exchange OF
views will enable a clearer interna
tional understanding to be had regard
ing the problems of the Pacific, which
have been the focus of world atten'
ton since the conclusion OF the
world war.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18
PETRiFIED SEA MONSTER
FOUND ON MISSOURI FARM

JOPLIN, Mo, Aug. 1S.-The pet
rified remains of what is believed
to be prehistoric reptile or deep
sea monster of gigantic proper
tions has been uncovered on a
farm near Racine, Mo, Is miles
south of here.
The general contour of the fos-
sill is in a good state of preserva-
ton and resembles a giant lizard
The head is two feet long. The
forelegs measure II feet in length
and the petrified object is "a feet
long, from head to tail, the tail
measuring II feet. Imbedded in
the legs of the monster are numer-
Gus fossils and shells. This led
many persons who visited the
scene of the discovery today to
the belief that it might have in
habited the sea in prehistoric days
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18
Think Fl. WAYNE MAN
VICTIM OF BLACKMAIL
a. Associated Press

MUNCIE, Ind. Aug. 1S.-Police in
vestigating the death of Irwin Parish,
FIT. Wayne salesman, who was shot to
death here last Saturday by three
masked men, today reiterated the be-
lief that the Ft. Wayne man met his
death at the hands of a band of local
blackmailers. The. authorities say
they are confident that some of the
clues on which they are working will
reveal some of the men and will bare
a blackmail plot which, they say, has
been worked frequently on Muncie
men and women found together along
country roads at night
Miss LaVaughn Cunningham. who
was with Parish in his automobile at
the time, was again questioned by
the authorities. She added nothing
further to her previous story, it was
said.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18
John w. Mueller Named on
Stote Engineering Board

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. IS. Cover
nor McCray announced yesterday the
appointment of John w. Mueller OF
Richmond, as member of the state
board for registration of engineers
and land surveyors. Mr.. Mueller sue
ceeds Ray Seely, Lake county sur.
veyor, who resigned after Attorney
General Lesh ruled that a county sur
veyor was ineligible to serve on the
board.
Mr.. Mueller is regarded as one OF
the leading engineering experts OF In
diana He has supervised the con
struction of several of the largest
bridges in the state, including struc
ture near Richmond.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18
SOVIET CONCESSIONS
SAID TO Be LIMIT
rRy Associated Pressl

RIGA, Letvia, Aug. 18.-Maxim Lit.
vinoff, the soviet envoy in the Rus
sian famine relief negotiations here
with Walter Lyman Brown, Of the
American relief administration has
gone to the very limit in making con
cessions to meet the demands of the
American organization as to control
of the relief work, says the newspaper
Novy Put, the Bolshevik organ here.
NJ. Litvinoff has already exceeded
his instructions, the newspaper in
sists, and in the event of an unsatis
factory reply from Mr.. Brown, on the
points still in dispute, "the negotia
tions can be considered as without re
suit" it declares.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18
AsHHURST, ARIZONA
QUITS Beer MEETING
tBy Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Aug. IS Senator
Ashhurst, Democrat, Arizona, an
nounced today that he had refused to
participate in further conferences in
the anti-beer bill, because "of an evi-
dent intention on the part of the con-
ferees to weaken and destroy the ef-
feet of the Stanley amendment adopt
ed unanimously by the senate"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18
SING SING INMATES SING
EULOGY OF SILK SHIRT

OSSINING, N Y, Aug. 18-
Then that has 'em can wear 'em."
This word, referring to silk shirts,
was passed along the corridors in
Sing Sing prison today, bringing
10y to some inmates and gloom to
others.
The radiant garments worn pre-
viously by those who could afford
them were tabooed recently when
the poorer inmates grumbled at the
unequal display and requested "cot-
ton for air. The states short cot
ton shirt supply interfered with
the program, however, and a few
weeks grace was granted to lovers
of brilliant hues
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18
QUESTION RICHARD
ABOUT FIGHT FILMS
(Ry Associated PressD

CHICAGO, Aug. 1S.-A department
Of justice agent today was sent to a
downtown hotel to question Tex Rick
ard, promoter of the Dempsey-Carpen-
tier fight about the bringing of the
films from New York to Chicago.
AN arrest may follow" Col John
V. Clinnin, assistant United States
district attorney said. Rickard show
ed the films to wounded soldiers at a
government hospital here last night
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18
Wayne County Lacks 7O8 Houses;
Richmond Shortage Fixed at $40
Only One Indian Lives in County where Thousands of Fore
fathers Formerly Roamed-Nine Chinese Make
Homes Here-Negro Population 67l

Wayne county, all of them making
their homes in Richmond. There are
no Japanese residents
Negro Total 1871.
Richmonds population of 26,765 in
cludes 13,416 males and 13,349 females.
OF the total population of the city
24,134 are native whites, 1927 foreign
born whites and 1,494 negroes. The
greatest percentage of Richmond 8
population are between the ages of 20
Continued on Page Ten)
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18
ANSELL, MASTER MIND, CONSPIRED WITH TWO
ARMY OFFICERS TO FREE bERGD0LL, CHARGE

in the conspiracy" found grave deri-
lection of duty on the part of Hunt,
AS a basis for its criticism of Col.
Cresson, the majority report said that
as ugly as are many phrases of the
wohle matter, none is more defenseless
than the conduct of Col. Cresson in
Continued on Page Twelve)
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18
RAIL BILL FAVORED
BY HOUSE COMMITTEE
(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S-Favorable
report on the administration railroad
re-funding bill was ordered today by
the house commerce committee.
Republican leaders plan to have the
house pass the measure early next
week. A committee amendment pro-
vides that the act in no way shall af-
feet proposed government relief for
farmers.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18
BURNS NAMED HEAD
OF FEDERAL BUREAU
(Ry Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S-Appoint-
ment of w. ]. Burns, of New York as
the director of the bureau of investi-
cation of the department OF justice,
was announced today by Attorney
General Daugherty. He succeeds VIM.
]. Flynn,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18

Weather Conditions. The rain
storm of Wednesday night and Thurs
day has moved to the Atlantic coast
Generally fair weather now prevails
over the Central states. Hot weather
covers the north and west; tempera-
lures ranging from IS to 80 in Mon
tana and western Canada
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18

Next Tuesday the citi-
zens of Richmond will
choose the candidate who
will manage the city af-
fairs for the next four
years.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18
Weather Forecast
MooRE's LOCAL FORECAST

Partly cloudy, but mostly fair to-
night and Friday; warmer Friday
afternoon.
Generally fair weather will prevail
for the next "a hours. followed by un-
settled conditions due TO a storm now
overspreading the north and west.
For Indiana by the United States
Weather Bureau. Fair tonight ana
Friday; somewhat warmer Friday in
north and central portions.
Temperatures For Yesterday
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-18

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Arizona republican., 1921-03-21
oRANG-ourANe IS DANGEROUS

Fighting a fullgrown orang -outang with weapons as primitive as the native blow pipe is extremely hazard ous work, and the natives of Borneo avoid it except when a beast becomes a menace to the village. An orang- outang in battle is ferocious. If it is treed and afraid to come down. it goes into a paroxysm of fury. It will bite it's arms tearing the flesh away and inflicting frightful wounds If there are two of the animals, they bite and hug each other
 An orang- outang that has been struck by an arrow can follow the native in the trees or on the ground while the poison is taking effect. The only refuge from the frenzied crea- ture is the smoke of fire, and, when 1t is sufficiently enraged. even that will not stop it. The best chance lies in keeping it so married that it does not know whom to attack: once it decides on a particular native, the native is as good as dead.
 When the poison begins to work, af- ter an animal has been wounded the natives end the fight with knives. The possibility of an orang-outang is a danger that all the men must be pre- pared to face, and the duty of engaging in an orang -outang hunt is no less i'm portant than that of making war; Charles Mayer in Asia.
Arizona republican., 1921-03-21
Little Stories for Bedtime
JIMMY SKUNK CALLS A MEETING

JIMMY SKUNK CALLS A MEETING
 By Thornton w. Burgess Inose friends are most your friends
 and best
 Who prove it by the trouble test; Who when old Trouble squeezes tight Some to your side and help you fight
 That's the kind of a friend worth having, and that's the kind of a friend Jimmy Skunk is. No sooner did he near from Sammy Jay of how Unc' Billy Possum had been caught than he forgot all about how he had gotten into trouble himself the last time he visited Farmer Browns dooryard Yes, sir. he forgot all about that! Unc' Billy was in trouble, and that was enough to make Jimmy Skunk forget about his own troubles.
 Jimmy asked Sammy Jay all kinds of questions but Sammy couldn't tell him much, because, you know. Sammy didn't know a great deal about how Unc' Billy had been caught. All he knew was that Unc' Billy was pris- oner in wire covered box under the tree in Farmer Browns dooryard.
 You go back there and ask Unc Billy what kind of a trap he was caught in and where it was set. Tell him I'm coming up to see him tonight, and don't want to be caught. too. Now. hurry, and let me know what he says" said Jimmy.
 So Sammy Jay flew back to Farmer Browns dooryard and asked Unc' Billy just what Jimmy Skunk had told him to. Unc' Billy looked very foolish as he replied:
 s'Yo' tell Brer Skunk An was just caught mapping. Yo' tell him that there are no traps, and it was nah own foolishness that brou8n me here. Tell him Ah'n be right glad fo' to have him make me a call"
 So Sammy Jay flew back and told / Jimmy Skunk just what Unc' Billy had said. Jimmy made up his mind right away. He would go up there just as soon as it was dark. and he was sure that no one in Farmer Browns house was likely to come poking around in the dooryard. And that is just what he did do. He didn't waste any time. He crept past the little house of Bow ser the Hound without waking him and went straight over to the tree in the dooryard. There under it were two wire-covered boxes. just as Sammy Jay had said. Jimmy listened at the first one. Someone was asleep in that
Arizona republican., 1921-03-21
Confessionsofa Bride
~ac~1.oraearuc e,o..1

fluence of German money had so far prevented his execution
 "Certeis still lives." gasped. I per ceived why I should never refer to Jordan Spence
 Rather. Certeis was alive a month ago. And in a Russian prisoni It's horriblei No one can help him. Daddy says so- Daddy is half sick-he and Certeis were business partners for years-before the war"
 The elegant Dr. Certeis-in a dirty prison-haf starved, I cannot picture him sol He was the most fastidious, the most cultured as well as the hand somest of men! How can he endure to be shut away from the. refinements and the luxuries of life?"
 I unused, as we walked. pr. Certeis had wooed me, madly, before Bob came home from college. He had followed me, like a shadow, when Bob was in the war. and when peace came he had ing he had induced Chrys to marry him on the plea. that he wanted him fortune to go to his best friends daughter, in case anything happened to him. So Chrys the daring ChTys the ad- venturous, was wedded-but never a wife. Welded, only to become widow :! It was a secret marriage. Her friends had always regarded her as spinster. Jordan Spence had proposed to Ter and when she had told him the truth he had hurried off to Mexico to devote his talents to curing sick babies. That was about the most unprofitable occu- patton on earth, according to Daddy Lorimer
 l Our last news from Certeis read like
 a chapter. from some new Arabian l Nights. As a great adventurer, he had
 no living rival except DAnnunZio 1 Certeis had bought a magnificent | yacht from a sugar manufacturer il
 Honolulu, and with two Russian finan.
 ciers, picked up in Hawaii, was makins for Asia
 Daddy had had the news from secre
 service men who were watching fo
 international spies. Certeis was sus
Arizona republican., 1921-03-21
NEW ARMY AlRsHIP

The American Narmy will have an airship capable of carrying one hun dred passengers in addition to the crew when the great Italian semi-rigid dirigible Roma recently purchased, arrives An air service detachment is en route to Italy to deflate the big bag and bring 1t home on shipboard-
 The Roma" driven by six 12-cylin
 der engines, developing an aggregate of twenty -four hundred horsepower. has a lifting capacity of sixty five thousand pounds. It can carry nearly nineteen tons through the air in addi- ton to itself and it's crew at an esti- mated maximum speed of eighty miles an hour. The big gas bag, holding l 100000 cubic feet of gas is longer than all but the most modern war craft, 40 feet. and is S2 feet wide. while the bag and car tower to a
Arizona republican., 1921-03-21
CALLS QUEEN BIC AND HoMEIr

MONTEVTDEO-Th publication by the newspaper Fl Dia. of a photograph of the royal family of Italy during the recent visit here of Prince Aimone de Roma resulted in two challenges to fight duels and the early departure of the prince.
 One of the officers of the Italian cruiser challenged the editor, who in turn challenged the Italian minister. but no duel was fought
 Offense was taken by the Italian visitors to the captions under the photographs. which they considered disrespectful to the royal family, and which described King Victor Emman- uel not as having the appearance of one chosen to rule a people, Queen Dowager Margherita as small and, in elegant and Queen Helena as 'big and homely."
 Lieutenant Giovanni Gallad of the Roma according to the accounts, was chosen by lot among the officers of the vessel to demand of the editor either a retraction of the phrases or reparaton by arms on the field of honor Fl Dia's editor, Julio Maria Sosa. published his reply, saying he had no explanation to give. but that if any offense had occurred, the proper per son to challenge was Prince Aimone himself, as member of the royal family, or the minister of Italy in Montevideo, or the commander of the | Roma.
 | Neither the prince nor the two others
 mentioned came forward with a cha1- 1 lenge, but the upshot was that a court of honor was appointed in accordance with the uruguayan duelling law which handed down a verdict that the | offense was not of a character to re- quire resort to arms, but commented [ the attitude of Lieutenant GiIad as l patriotic. New York World
Arizona republican., 1921-03-21
CREASE FOR GRLDoLEs

Save the bacon and ham rinds to grease the pancake griddle. There is no nicer way of putting just enough and not too much grease on a griddle Is so evenly oiled and there is no bubbling of fat in one spot and dull blacllness in another.
 It's a homely old expedient of our grandmothers, but well worth trying.
 Menu for Tomorrow
 BREAKFAST-Halv of grapefruit, fried hominy, syrup. coffee.
 LUNCHEON-Veg egetable soup, crou- tons. leftover salad, peanut cookies, tea
 DINNER-veal pot-pie, fried par snips. mixed pickle, coffee, jelly cake.
 My Own Recipes
 If coffee is served at the end of the dinner with the coffee jelly there is a repetition of flavors- Tea could be served with the meal if a hot drink IS necessary. The leftover salad might be made of two or three radishes, or two spring onions, and a few dices of celery on a lettuce leaf with French dressing poured over the whole
 Vegetable Soup
 One carrot, heads celery. 1 turnip 3 potatoes l onion, cups tomatoes, 1 sprig parsley, cups cold water, tablespoons butter or bacon fryings salt and pepper.
 Scrape carrot and turnip and cut ir one fourth dices- Pare potatoes and cut in dices. Slice onion and choI celery. Mix vegetables, except pota- toes. and cook for 10 minutes in the butter or fat, stirring constantly. Add potatoes and cook three Or four min ates. Add water and simmer tightly covered until vegetables are soft Ado tomatoes. salt and pepper and cook 2i minutes longer. Rub through a sieve and serve very hot.
 Veal Pot-Pie
 Two pounds veal cut from shoulder or breast, F pound salt pork. 4 pota-
Arizona republican., 1921-03-21
MAID, WIFE OR WIDOW? ! JAMES BOOk-cHAPTER II

not from him."
 Chrys stopped, leaned toward me. put m arm around me, and whispered:
 Please, Jamie! Please do not men tion him, ever again, to mel"
 I'm so sorry. dear! thought you had cured yourself-''
 Its time I did'' Nobody can be quite so cross with her weaknesses as Chrys can be. Read this!'
 She handed me the yellow paper. It was a cable from Berlin, concerning Hamilton Certeis, I didn't wonder that Chrys was depressed. A German banker, returning to his home after a trip into Russia, informed Chrys that Hamilton Certeis was in Russian prison! He was charged with plotting against the bolshevik regime. The in-
Arizona republican., 1921-03-21

Unc' Billy wouldn't be asleep at this hour: so it must be the baby Chuck Jimmy hurried on the second box
 "Unc' Billy" he said in loud whis- per.
 'Is that yo', Brer Skunk? An cer- tnly am right glad to see yo,,' said Unc' Billy.
 Jimmy Skunk climbed up on the box and then Unc' Billy told him all about his troubles and how it happened that Farmer Browns boy had found and caught him. Jimmy listened without saying a word until Unc' Billy was through Then he asked:
Arizona republican., 1921-03-21

Her Escort-There they are now. in the ring. They'll be at it in few minutes What do you think of them2
 Mss Seeitall-Why. they don't look at all brutal Even their costumes seem to be patterned after women's ievening clothes