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Evening star., 1922-04-11
USUAL MILITARY BURIAL
FOR SLAIN AIR OFFICER
Honors to Be Paid Lieut.. Col. Beck
at Arlington-Body Arrives
This Afternoon.

Usual military honors will mark
the burial in the Arlington national
cemetery this afternoon or tomorrow
of the body Of Lieut.. Col. Paul w.
Beck, air service. stationed at Post
Field, Fort SILL. Okla, recently shot
and killed by Judge Day at his home
in Oklahoma City. The body ar
rived at the Union station this
afternoon, accompanied by the
oficer's mother and other relatives.
An inquiry into the circumstances
surrounding the death Of Col. Beck
was made by q board OF o1icers at
Fort Sill and the result will be re-
ported to the general commanding
the Sth Corps area, with headquarters
at San Antonio. Tex:
The boards report will determine
whether the officers death occurred
In line Of duty or whether 1t was the
result of misconduct on his part.
Evening star., 1922-04-11
D|SMlSSALS SEEN
STIMULATING TONIC
Some See SpoAs System,
Others Efficiency, Outcome
of Presidents Action.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

The Harding administration is
thoroughly aware of the criticism
that has been sweeping the country
with reference to it's comments on
the civil service system and the sum-
mary removal of a score of division
chiefs and employees in the bureau Of
engraving and printing. And the
word is being passed back to the
friends of the administration who
have been afraid a. mistake has been
made that they need not worry-the
investigation in progress will fully
justify the step that has been taken.
In other words the statement of
President Harding and Secretary
Mellon that no charges had been filed
that nothing had been discovered to
impugn the honesty or integrity of
the employees is to be taken literally,
but the charges of gross ineficiency
will not be Withdrawn. Indeed. the
closing down of a large part of the
bureau and the taking of inventory is
expected to reveal sufficient evidence
of inefficiency to answer any criticism
that now is being made.
All sorts of rumors have been cur
rent that President Harding was
misled to believe that great scandal
would be unearthed at the bureau
and that he would find all the evil
dence he needed as soon as the or
ganization in charge of things there
was removed. The friends of the
dismissed employees insist that the in
vestigation will disclose no more evil
dence of inefficiency in the bureau
tt1av ant Hny ar~S-
ment.
Spoils System Denied.
Meanwhile, the letters being re-
ceived from all parts of the country
indicate a widespread interest in what
is being done with respect to the
civil service system. Mr. Harding's
declaration that he was not starting
a deliberate drive on the civil service,
but merely was trying to improve
it, was made in an effort to stem the
tide Of reproach for what appeared
to be a return to the spoils system.
Party workers far and wide, however,
have welcomed the Presidents action
the main reacted enthusiastically on
the principle that ito the victor be-
longs the spoils." 1t is admitted even
by administration officials that many
Of these letters come from political
ly minded folk who believe in gov.
ernment by party and the removal of
any restrictions on that system.
The democrats are watching devel-
opments carefully in the belief that
the episode will be of value on the
stump during the next campaign. Gu
riously enough, one of the first issues
made by Charles Evans Hughes in his
presidential campaign Of 1915 was on
the alleged Indifference of the Wilson
administration to the civil service In
making certain appointments: Party
platforms of both sides have indorsed
the civil service idea for many years.
Stimulate Government.
President Harding. however. be-
lieves that the incident will be a tonic
to the whole government service; that
it will stimulate efficiency and show
government employees that they can
not expect to be protected from re-
moval if their work is unsatisfactory.
Already there has been. .precipitated a
discussion. as to how far the civil
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Evening star., 1922-04-11
By the Associated Press.


RAPALLO, Italy, April 1.-THE
Genoa conference is easily the
most extended" on record-twen-
ty-flve miles Of diplomats scat
tered along the rugged Italian sea-
coast with mountains between
them. If there is any advantage in
keeping rival delegations from see
ing one another this conference is
well located.
But it would be hard to persuade
the breathless delegates who pass
their days and nights in motor
cars or suburban trains that long
distance diplomacy is desirable.
When the delegates commute they
wish they had motored, and when
they motor they wish they had
taken a train.
The railway passes through 4
score Of tunnels between Rapallo
and Genoa. so the cars are hot and
dark. and after half a dozen trips
Evening star., 1922-04-11
FUNDING BODY COMPLETE,

The Senate this afternoon con-
firmed the nominations of Senator
Smoot Of Utah and Representative
Burton of Ohio to be members Of
the Allied Foreign Debt Funding
Commission.
The nominations had been opposed
by some republicans and some demo-
Gratis on the ground that as men,
bers of Congress Senators Smoot and
Mr.. Burton were ineligible to serve
on the commission.
Evening star., 1922-04-11
MEXICAN REV0LTS
ARE ON INCREASE
Advices Received Here Re-
port Wide Bandid Activity
in Three States.
By the Associated Press.

Off1cial advices received here today
indicate increased revolutionary and
bandit activity in the states of Vera
Cruz, Jalisco and Nayarit in Mexico.
The rebels in Nayarit were reported
to number from 200 to 400 men. under
the leadership of Pablo Gonzales. In
Jalisco six separate bands were re-
ported in the field in open rebellion
against the central government. al
though their strength thus far is re-
garded as insignificant.
Anxiety in Vera Cruz.
The activity in Vera Cruz was re-
ported to have assumed considerable
Importance in view of the defeat
which the rebel leader, Gen. Miguel
men, recently administered to the fed
eral forces. The federal commander in
Vera Cruz. it was said, has reported
that the rebels are better armed and
equipped than his own forces, and has
requested authority to suspend the
sales of arms and munitions of all
kinds.
Noticeable decline in bandit move
ments in the northern states of Mex
leo was reported in the dispatches
despite sporadic uprisings in the state
of Coahuila and in southwestern Chi
huahua and Durango.
Radicalism ON Increase.
The spread of radicalism. it was re-
ported, continues unabated, with i'm
petus being given to the movement
by emissaries from various countries
including the United States. Those
emissaries, it was said, are organized
and assisted through the agency of
various radical organizations, and
have the support of some Mexican
officials.
Control of the federal army, regard
ed as loyal to President Obregon. and
development of the governments
finances, however, were declared to
be the chief factors in the present
MaY Sifna tion
Evening star., 1922-04-11
DEMANDS ACTION
BY Mr.. DAUGHERTy
Mr.. Woodruff Talks of Ask.
ing Impeachment in War
Contract Cases.

Representative Woodruff, repub-
lican. Michigan, said in the House to-
day if the Attorney General did not
fully look to the interests of the
government" in a pending claim suit
against the Lincoln Motor Company
he would consider him guilty of mis-
feasance" and move his impeachment.
Mr.. Woodruff's statement was made
in the course of an extended speech
in which he charged that the Depart
ment Of Justice had failed to proceed
in civil and criminal courts against a
number Of war contractors on testi-
mony brought out before congression-
al investigating committees.
Demands Fuii inquiry.
At the same time the Michigan
representative introduced a resolu-
ton for appointment of a committee
to investigate all war contracts made
by the War and Navy Departments
and the alien property custodian, the
settlement of such contracts by these
departments and the Attorney General
and ''the civil and criminal prosecu-
tions or lack of prosecution of
claims of the government arising
out of such contracts or the settle-
ment thereof.
Citing specifically the case Of the
Lincoln Motor Company. Mr.. Wood
ruff declared it received large con-
tracts during the war for the air
service. that government audit
showed it had been overpaid $685.
561, and that a receiver put in charge
of the nronerfv hal aold II IN Harry
Ford for $s.O00.000 and now holds the
cash. The case, he added, had been
turned over to the Department of
Justice and referred by it to the
district attorney at Detroit. The
claim Of the government was de-
constitute a first lien against the
money.
Hearing Set for Tomorrow.
1--WE find the policy pursued in the
past in some other cases now being
pursued by the Department of JUS
tice in the case of the Lincoln Motor
Company" said Mr.. Woodruff. This
case has been taken out of the hands
of the district attorney at Detroit
and returned to the department here.
attorneys for the receiver April IL.
"Inasmuch as an unbiased govern
ment audit, conducted by men who
have no personal interest in the case
whatever, has shown this indebted
ness to the government, and mas
much as hearings and rehearings had
already been granted, 1 wish to in
form the House and the country that
if history repeats itself in the case
of the Lincoln Motor Company, and
the attorney general does not look
fully to the interests of the govern
ment in this case and allow the
courts of the nation to determine to
what extent the company is indebted
to the government, I shall consider
him guilty of misfeasance in office
and shall move his impeachment
upon these grounds"
Pleadu for Personal Attention.
Mr.. Woodruff said he knew it was
for the Attorney General
to go into the details Of all cases.
but believed this to be ''of such mag
nitude" to warrant the personal at.
tention Of Mr.. Daugherty.
.It is inconceivable," he added,
that the President should be aware
Of the facts have set forth. I do not
believe President Wilson was aware
Of the conditions that existed during
his administration. L do not believe
President Harding is aware Of condi-
tions as they exist today"
Evening star., 1922-04-11
LUIS BORNO ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF HAITI
BY UNANIMOUS VOTE

By the Associated Press.
CAPE HAITIEN, Republic of
Haiti. April 11.-Luis Borno,
prominent Haitien attorney and
member of the present cabinet, has
been elected president of the re-
public of Haiti by unanimous vote.
IN succession to Sudre D'Artigue-
nave. whose term expires next
month.
Luis Borno. who has been elected
President of the Haitian republic
was at one time secretary of state
for foreign affairs under President
II DArt1guenave, and was late
transferred to another cabinet
post. He has been a long time in
public affairs in Haiti. and fufills
the constitutional requirements
that he be born of native father.
BY marine officers who knew him
under marine occupation, the new
president was described today as
mot violently hostile" to the
United States. He is said to repre-
sent the orderly conservative ele-
ment.
Evening star., 1922-04-11
GREECE HALTS ARMISTlCE
Objects to Pact With Turks Re-
quiring Removal of Army.

ATHENS, April 11.-A telegram to
the Exchange Telegraph from
Smyrna says Greek headquarters
there has categorically rejected the
proposals for an armistice with the
Turks in SO far as they deal with
the removal of the Greek army from
the line between Afiun hissar
and Eski-Shehr.
Evening star., 1922-04-11
WEATHER.

Thunderstorms this afternoon or
tonight, cooler tonight; tomorrow
fair and cooler.
Temperature for twenty-fou hours
ended at 2 pm. today: Highest, SO, at
$3.50 pm. yesterday; lowest, 60, at
Z am. today.
Full report on page :.
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The Associated Press 10 exclusively entitled to
the use for re2ublicat ton Of all news dispatches
credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this
raper and also the local news published hereis.
All rights Of publication Of spscisl
dispatches herein are also reserved.
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-09
BELIEVE MEMORIAL
DAY DRIVE THIS YEAR
WILL BE LAST ONE

What is believed to be the final cam
paign for Memorial Day funds since
the formation of an endowment for
that purpose about II years ago, will
be undertaken shortly by the Won
ems auxiliary of the Sons of Veterans.
The campaign this year will be to put
the final addition to a Memorial Day
fund which has been growing for over
a decade, since the state G. A. R. en-
campment was held here.
Over 500 was left in the treasury
after the state encampment held at
that time land it was decided to put
this into a fund which would serve to
celebrate Memorial Day. Since that
time, the fund has been gradually
growing through the contributions
made for Memorial Day each year.
This year, it is expected, enough will
be added to the $4,000 now in the
treasury, SO that hereafter only the
interest from the sum will need to be
used, thus leaving the principal I'm.
touched.
A Memorial Day executive commit
tee of which Charles w. Jordan is
chairman has had charge of the fund
Other members are L. A Handley
Elmer Hawkins, George Matthews, E
F. Ireion, F. S. Webb and William H
HanSche
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-09
Short News Of CITY

Committed to HospitaI-Orissa Rob-
bins, living on the Abingdon pike south
of Richmond, was committed to the
Eastern Indiana hospital for the in
sane late Monday. She was taken
there by Sheriff Carl Wadman.
Licensed to Marry - Marriage Ii
censes issued Monday were: Ebert
Austin Ulrich and Minnie Mildred
Shafer, both of Richmond, and Howard
S. Null and Clara May Fox, also of
Richmond.
To Present Report-The report of
Miss Norah dollhouse, agent for the
board of Children's Guardians, will be
presented at the monthly meeting of
that board, to be held at o'clock
Wednesday afternoon in the juvenile
court room at the court house.
Run to Trash Heap-A blazing trash
heap at ga North Third street
brought the fire department to the
rescue Tuesday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock. The services of the chemical
tanks were required for two minutes,
School Exhibit Friday-All parents
and friends of Baxter school are in
vited to attend the school exhibit
which opens Friday afternoon. Tea
will be served to guests at 80 o'clock
by the P. t. A. The exhibit will be
open all afternoon. cup shower will
be held in connection with the exhibit.
Each person is invited to bring one or
more teacups to increase the schools
permanent supply.
Fem Fem Meeting-Members of the
Fem Fem Shrine club will meet in the
Masonic club rooms Wednesday night
at 1880 o'clock and all members of the
club are urged to be present. Final
preparations will be made for the
Shriners' part in the big parade to be
held by the Veterans Of Foreign Wars
Saturday morning
City Departments Decorate - City
hall decorations, put up under the di-
rection of Chief Ed Miller with the CO.
operation of the police department,
caused the passerby to take new
view of the city hall, Tuesday. Flags
and red, white and blue butterflies
on the front of the building, gave it a
holiday appearance.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-09
JAIL Superintendent
SAYS RULE OF IRON
PRODUCES CONVICTS
(By Associated Pressl

JOLIET, ILL.,, May 9.-An iron hand
and mere confinement make convicts
and no more; a progressive scale of
privileges and freedom within a prison
makes men," according to J. L. Whit
man, superintendent of Illinois pris-
ons, under whose supervision the new
state penitentiary at Statewide, near
here, is being constructed. The archi-
lecture of the building is designed to
facilitate application of the illinois
idea" or progressive merit system.
Prisoners will be grouped according
to their grade of advancement under
the system, and each group will be as
signed to one of the eight cellhouses,
the second of which will be completed
and in use within few days. Pris-
oners will move from dollhouse to
dollhouse with their advancement in
grade.
The plan provides that prisoners
may pass through the following stag
es; confinement under strict prison
discipline; increasing opportunity to
merit more confinement on the part
Vi PllSOA pOSltlOuS OIL
trust within prison walls; life in cot
tages outside the prison but under the
supervision of prison authorities;
parole; freedom.
The system is an outgrowth of psy-
Geological study of convicts which
was conducted by Superintendent
Whitman, the late Warden Everett ]
Murphy, and a staff of experts dur
ing the last twenty years.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-09
Green's Fork Ind.

GREEN'S FORK, Ind.-Mrs. Lewis
Stone, of Hagerstown, spent Friday
and Friday night with Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Cranor. Mrs. Ida Pickett
spent Friday in Hagerstown. :. A din
ner was given Sunday in honor of Mr..
Jonathan Clouds seventh-fifth birth
day, which is Tuesday, May g. The
following were present: Mr.. and Mrs.
Ora Cloud and children, Mr.. Cecil
Cloud of Richmond, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Cloud and son, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Cloud and family. ;. Mr..
and Mrs George Mosey and family
entertained the farmers brother and
family from Dayton, Ohio, Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde McMullen and fam
here with relatives. -. Mr.. and Mrs.
Everett Chapman attended the COM
mencement at Jacksonburg Saturday
evening Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Stin-
son and daughter Inez, of Centerville,
Mr.. and Mrs. F. W. Bonn and daugh-
ter Opal of Richmond, and Isabelle
and Dorothy Carter took dinner Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. E. NJ. Stanton
and family Rev. Knowls preached
at the Methodist church Sunday morn
ing. Miss Marie Bond spent the week
end in Richmond. =. Mrs. Letitia Rog-
ers and Mrs. Sue Gaylor of Richmond.
spent Sunday here. :. Prayer meeting
at the Friends church Wednesday eve
ming at 7:30 o'clock. =. Prayer meet
ing at the Methodist church Thursday
evening at 7:30 o'clock. "A large del
egation from Clay township went to
the Sunday school convention at Rich
mond Saturday. The five Sunday
schools were represented. Mr.. Jon
athon Cloud spent Saturday night in
Richmond, the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Ora Cloud and family.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-09
SAYS PUBLIC SAVES
BY elimination OF
ESSENTIAL THINGS
CRy Associated Press.l

NEW YORK. May 9-Reviewing
business conditions of the year past,
which necessitated rigid ratrenchment
by manufacturers, John E. Fdgerton
Of Nashville, Tenn, president of the
National Association of manufacturers
in his address before the convention
today declared it "as strange as it is
regrettable that economies are started
by the elimination of essentials by the
public, while non-essentialS are chung
to. He said that the association tried
in every honest way to influence the
course of legislation touching partic-
ularly on those things that help or
hurt American business.
THAT is not only entirely proper,
he said, and within the scope of this
associations functions, but we regard
it as one of the sacred obligations OF
citizenship to cooperate with every
department of our common govern
nient in the solution of all problems
involving the common welfare.
Payroll Factor.
1--WE proceed upon the commonly ac-
copied theory that nothing is or can
be of lasting value 10 industry that is
not of equal value to every other class,
group OF individual in this country.
The industrial payroll contributes
more than any other factor to the de-
termination of the purchasing power
of the American public and the ma
lions purchasing power is prosperity
weather vane."
A world production sufficient for
the worlds needs, he declared, was
the chief of all the economic problems,
adding that the proportion of consum-
ers to producers was too large, and
that there were too many people en-
gagged in the process of distribution.
His address concluded with an ex-
preston of his belief that this country
would continue to the heights of a
national and world greatness not hith.
erto known.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-09
FRIENDS FROM MANY
MEETINGS AT SESSION

Representatives from nearly all the
Yearly meetings of the Five Years
meeting of Friends were present at
the meeting of the American Foreign
Mission board at the South Eighth
Street Friends church Tuesday morn
ing and afternoon.
President Rev. George Moore, of
Georgetown, ILL.,, gave his annual re-
port at the morning session and B.
Willis Beede, acting general secretary
of the board, issued his report of the
critical financial condition of the
board.
The problem of facing the deficit
which has been incurred during the
past year was discussed Tuesday
morning.
The board read over the minutes of
the executive committee at its Ieet-
ing Tuesday afternoon.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-09
HAGERSTOWN WOMAN
ATTENDS CONCLAVE
OF WOMEN VOTERS
(Ry Associated Press)

LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 9.-Hun-
dreds of women were arriving here to
attend the third annual conference of
the Indiana League of Women Voters,
which got under way today and will
continue through May II. Many more
delegates were expected to drive
through by automobile to this city.
A feature of the conference is eX-
pected to be the appearance of former
Senator Albert J. Beveridge and form
er Governor Samual M. Ralston, Re
publican and Democratic nominees re-
spectively, for United States senator
for Indiana. Each has accepted an
invitation to address the conference.
1t will be the first differentiation
address of either senatorial candidate.
Mrs. Charles Teetor, of Hagerstown,
is the only representative attending
from Wayne county, as far as is
known.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-09
$4,000 DELEGATES
TO ATTEND YEARLY
CONGRESS in SOFIA
(By Associated Presa)

SOFIA, Bulgaria, May 9.-Fifty
thousand delegates will attend the
yearly congress of the National Peas
ant party in Sofia next month. Pass
enger and freight traffic on the Bull
garian railroads will be suspended for
whole week in order to give the dele
gates prompt transportation.
Thousands of home jewellers will be
elected to make way for the huge in.
fiux of peasant politicians that will
find its way to the capital. A mans
home in socialized Bulgaria no longer
is his castle; it belongs to the govern
ment quite as much as to himself and
can be requisitioned any time without
penny's compensation.
Representative of Peasant parties
in Jugoslayia, Rumania and Poland
will attend the congress. The secre-
tary of the Green Internationale also
has been invited. Alexander Siam
boulisky, Bulgaria's picturesque prem
Ter and peasant potentate, will preside
over the deliverations of the vast
| assemblage
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-09
Secretary to Hoover
to Study Russ Conditions
tBy'AssocIated Press)

WASHINGTON, May 9.-Christian
A. Herter, private secretary to Secre-
tary Hoover, will sail from New York
next week for Russia to make a spe-
cial study of conditions in the Volga
valley famine area, it was announced
today. Mr.. Herter, who has had
charge of much of the American re-
lief administration work here for Mr..
Hoover, will, it was said, spend about
month in the famine districts to OBJ
tain first-hand knowledge of the stu
alton in the light of future food relief
plans. Before returning to this coun-
try he will represent the commerce
secretary at the conference of Euro
pean representative of the depart
ment to be held in Berlin early in
July.