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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-13
SINGLE HEAD
OF NAVY AND
ARMY URGED
Harding Considering
Consolidation

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 - Consol-
idation of the war and navy depart
ments into a department of national
defense, designed to function under a
cabinet member with assistants in
charge of the army and navy respec-
lively has been definitely recon-
mended to President Harding by Wal
ter F. Brown, head of the commission
appointed to prepare a. plan OF govern
mental reorganization.
The president is giving serious con-
sideration to this and other recon-
mendations made by Mr. Brown and
may lay them before congress within
a week or two, accompanied by a spe-
cial message expressing the opinion
of the administration on each Of the
changes suggested
Under the bill as brought into the
house the president would be asked
to open negotiations with Great Brit
ain, Italy, France and Japan, which
would limit future building of all sur
/ face and submersible types of war
craft having tonnage of 10000 or
i less and on all classes of army and
navy aircraft.
More Competition
/ In its report the committee pointed
out that the arms conference did not
limit the number of types of smaller
war vessels, and added that informa
tion had reached congress that al
ready large programs are planned OF
vessels up to the maximum size per
mitted under the agreement and that
new and large types of sub-surface
craft have begun to put in an appear
ance"
! In other words, the reports con
tinue, Competition is on again in the
/ single direction to which the unrati
fled agreement does not extend, and
if it be allowed to go unchecked the
purse strings again must be relaxed
and this government, like all others
will be constrained to launch upon q
new program to an extent to keep us
at least abreast of any of the other
powers"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-13
CLEMENCEAU SAILS
TO RETURN AGAIN
''ONLY ASA GHOST"
(Rv Associated Pressl

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-His speak.
ing mission ended, Georges Clemen-
ceau, war time premier of France,
sailed for home on the steamship
Paris today. declaring he would re-
turn again, but only as a ghost"
The aged statesman who closed his
strenuous tour with a short speech
before the American Committee for
Devastated France. last night appear
ed in fine health and rare good humor,
as he took his place on the upper
deck to watch New York vanish be-
hind him. Just before the Paris cast
off the Tiger kissed Mrs. Charles Dana
Gibson on both cheeks, laughingly en-
joining her not to dare to tell her
husband.
Others at Pier
Mr.. and Mrs. Gibson we're Clemen-
ceau's hosts during his stay here last
month. Others at the pier TO see him
were Jules Jusserand French ambas-
sador to America and Mrs. JISserand,
CASTOR Liebert. the French consul
here, Colonel Il. NJ. House, who ar
ranged the Tigers American speaking
tour, and Bernard NJ Baruch.
Clemenceau, who spent last night on
the Paris, was up at o'clock this
morning and after a breakfast of
grapefruit, ham, eggs and coffee, the
first coffee he had taken in many
months, took promenade of about
three miles about the decks of the
steamer His constitutional over he
spent the rest of the time before the
sailing of the Paris shortly before
noon in chatting with friends who
| had come to see him off
Travels 5,oo5 Miles
! The 81 year old statesman arrived
/ in the United States ON Nov. IS for
i his extraordinary speaking tour. Dur
4 ing his stay of little more than
three weeks he travelled 5,005 miles in
/ a private car, visited nearly a dozen
cities and towns in the east and west
and delivered 16 addresses long and
short, in an effort to convince the
nation that it ought to assume an
active participation in European af-
fairs. He declined to say yesterday
how much he believed he had accom-
plished but declared he had been re-
ceived more warmly than | had ex-
pected" and that he hoped much
good might come out of his tour.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-13
BRITISH STEAMER
REPORTED AGROUND
(By Associated Press)

BOSTON, Dec. L3.-The British
steamer Manchester Spinner which
sailed from this port yesterday for
St. John. N B. went aground on the
tip of Long Island in Boston harbor
early today. The windlass had brok-
en- while she was at anchor in the low
er harbor riding out a northwest gale.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-The Man
chester Spinner reported ashore on
Long Island is a British freight OF
4,767 tons and is owned by the Man
chester lines Ltd The last available
records show the vessel arrived in
Boston Dec. s. from Hull She was in
command of Captain Fuller
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-13
FIRES DRIVE FAMILIES
FROM THEIR HOMES
IN ZERO WEATHER
CBy United Press)

CHICAGO, Dec. 13.-Fifty families,
scantily clad, were forced to flee from
their homes in near zero weather to-
day when fire destroyed a four-story
apartment house here.
One woman, Mrs. Hulda Smith was
reported missing.
The fire was discovered by a taxi
cab driver who dashed into the build
ing and pounded at apartment doors.
Clad only in night clothing many of
the men, women and children fled to
the streets, swept by a biting wind,
with temperature near zero.
Alice Karleson, 10 years old, who
was left in the building, was rescued
by firemen.
Damage was estimated at $4,000.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. 13.-Three
persons burned to death here today
in fires which drove many victims
into the bitter cold and did $500, 0C0
worth of property damage.
James MeQuively, 55, Utica, N. Y
perished when the Cold Springs car
barns of the International Railway
burned. Two unidentified persons
died in two other fires in which seven
residences were destroyed.
Defective wiring was blamed for
the car barn fire. The cause of the
two residence blaZes is unknown
NEW YORK, Dec. 13-Three chill.
dren are dead today as the result OF
a tenement house fire. The victims
are Joseph, 8; Rose, 3, and Anna
months, all children of Joseph Mac.
Gowan. Their mother left them OF
bed while she went to the store
Win she returned the flat was aflre
Joseph tried to carry the baby tC
safety, but they fell into the flames
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-13
Weather Forecast
FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY
BY w. E. Moore

Snow or sIeet tonight; Thursday
mostly cloudy and warmer, followed
by rains.
The cold wave which caused tenn
perature of seven degrees above zero
at Richmond will gradually break up
and precipitation will begin tonight,
if not sooner, in the form of snow or
sleet, turning to rain as the tempera-
lures rise above freezing, due to the
falling of barometric pressure in ad-
vance OF the storm now approaching.
temperatures Yesterday
at Pumping Station
Maximum ............ .'.....'' 81
Today
Noon ................ Y
Weather Conditions - The cold
wave has now divided into two sec
tions-one section south of the 40th
parallel which has caused freezing
temperatures south to Dallas, Texas,
and zero weather in portions of In
diana and Illinois Dublin, Ind, re-
ported three above zero last night,
and Earlham college reported seven
above zero at midnight The other
section of the cold wave continues in
the northwest, where it is intensely
cold. Havre. Mont. reported "a de
grees below zero and Medicine Hat,
Can, reported 80 below. The tenn
peratures ranged from 30 to 26 below
in the Dakotas and below zero as far
south as northern Kansas and Mis-
souri, A storm of considerable en-.
ergy covers the far southwest. and
rain and snow are now falling over
the southern plain states.
For Indiana, by the United States
Weather Bureau-Snow tonight and
Thursday, probably turning to rain by
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-13
JAPAN TO RELINQUISH
PORT CONTROL AT ONCE
(Rv Associated Pressl

TOXIC, Dec. 13.-Japan, in the pro
cess of relinquishing Kiao Chow lease
hold to China, expects to complete its
withdrawal tomorrow The Japanese
cabinet, resenting charges from Chi
nese sources that Japanese troops
we're encouraging Chinese bandits at
Using Tao, has decided not to remain
in control of that port until Dec 20, as
China requested.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-13
Two Rescue Planes
Crash During Hunt

Ell PASO, Texas. Dec. 13.-Three of
the five airplanes which left San An
tonic Tuesday morning TO search for
the missing aviators, Col. Marshall
and Lieut.. Weber, arrived here yes
terday afternoon. The other two
planes crashed on their way here, it
was announced at headquarters of the
Twelfth Observation squadron.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-13
BLAST TOLL NOW FOUR

WILkESBARRE, Pa, Dec. 10
Three mine workers who were burned
in a gas explosion in the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal company at Sugar
Notch died late yesterday, making four
deaths in connection with the blast
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-13
TURKS GIVEN
WARNING NOT
TO OBSTRUCT
Sharp Rebuke Made
by Curzon
(By Associated Press)

y AoSH <ASSDGiaLeu HreSSD
LAUSANNE, Dec. ia refusal by
turkey at this mornings session OF
the Near East conference to accede
70 the demand for national home for
the Armenlans for international regu-
latlon OF the rights of the minorities
IN turkey brought a sharp warning
10 the Angora delegation from Mar
quls Curzon, head of the British del
egauon. The British foreign secreta-
ry told the Turkish delegation its
persisted imposition of barriers 10
satisfactory settlement of the minor
lty problem, was having a bad ef-
fect on the conference and the entire
world.
When we leave Lausanne-and It
may be we shall leave sooner than
you think-when the world hears that
the allied powers have been fighting
the battles of the minorities and get.
tlng nothing but platitudes in return
the general impression will be deplor.
able Tor Turkey said Lord Curzon.
elames Turkey.
Do not let us darken this scene
with charges and counter charges OF
horrors. We wish to obtain a sol,-
ton for the future I deeply regret
I
ulation-this bad and vicious sorl-
ton for which the world will pay for
hundred years to come. | detest
having any hand in it, but to say that
the Greeks proposed it is monstrous
1t has been forced by the Turks By
their expulsion of the Greeks.
1T is perfectly clear that the TURKS
wish to rid themselves of the Greeks
or to make their conditions of life in
| Turkish rule impossible"
Turks Obstruct.
Reviewing Ismet Pasha's address
4 Lord Curzon said the Turks had re-
| jected practically all the suggestions
made to them. They had spurned
| the idea of an Armenian national
/ home on the plea that it would mean
a ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Turkey and had
/ rejected control or administration OF
/ the affairs of the minority by the
| League of Nations and any other
/ international body
Il implore the Turks not to take
refuge in words" he continued r
urge them to cooperate with the pow
ers in an effort to bring about a
solution of this tangled problem"
Urges Realization
Il venture to speak with great seTi-
BUSINESS, for the Turkish delegation
seems hardly to realize the situation
in which we are placed in this question
of minorities and in some of the other
problems and their consideration.
| Il repeat that We are here for one
object only, and that is to make peace.
but the Turks are continually obstruct-
ing. This can not go on indefinitely
! Europe has other things to do.
This question of minorities excites
almost more attention than anything
else we are discussing and we shall be
Judged especially by its solution
IF we break on this question, if we
leave these miserable minorities un-
! protected, not single voice will be
i raised in defense of Turkeys position.
The Turkish delegates may be support,
ed by the Angora government, but il
will not have support anywhere else in
the world.
Il have spoken clearly in a spirit o.
friendship and respect, but with ali
seriousness"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-13
Ohio Holiday Celebrations
Pledged to Be "Dry" Ones

COLUMBUS. Ohio, Dec 13.-Ohio's
Christmas and New Year celebrations
will be the driest in history. State
Prohibition Director Don V. Parker
said TO-DAY. The full force of state
s1euths viii be on the job and will in
all probability be stationed in the
principal Ohio cities where booze rev
elries have been the program in years
mast he said
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-13
WORK ON MURDER THEORY

CHICAGO, Dec. ia sweeping
search of criminal hangouts was
launched today in an effort TO find
the body of pretty Mrs. Kate Mitchell
Trostell, who disappeared from her
home here Dec. g. Police are work
ing on the theory that the young
widow was slain by a rejected suitor,
and grilled Arthur Foster for hours.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-13
Japanese Prince Regent
Is TIL With Measles
fRv Associated Press,

TOXIC. Dec. 12.-Hirchito, the
prince regent is seriously i'll with the
measles. AT noon today his .tempersi-
ture was 1049 and his pulse 108.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-13
.BROOKSHIRE GRILLED
IN EFFORT TO GAIN
MURDER EVIDENCE
{ Special to the PalIadium)

NEWCASTLE, Ind, Dec. 13-Ques-
tioning of Ben Brookshire, % years
old, of Newcastle, who until shortly
before the brutal Staying of Mr.. and
Mrs. William G. Sohaffer, living eight
miles northwest of here was discover
ed Tuesday, had been living with the
Schaffer family had failed Wednesday
to give the coroner sufficient evidence
to announce the date for the special
grand jury session.
Brookshire was grilled until mid
night Tuesday, and again Wednesday,
but the story of his movements was
not shaken. William Huffstickle, of
Muncie, brother of the slain woman,
testified Wednesday that Brookhire
had told him Monday of the loss OF
the Schaffer automobile, found aband-
oned by local police last Thursday
The fact that the Newcastle police
did not learn to whom the machine
belonged until Tuesday, is regarded
as significant.
Find VaIuables Gone.
Huffstickle also stated that Mr.. and
Mrs. Schaffer had visited them at
Muncie last Wednesday. while Brook
shire said the day was. Tuesday, Dec.
5. The Huffstickles also say that 5000
was given Mrs. Schaffer at the time
of her visit. When police searched
the Sehaffer home following the muir
der they found only $50 in the pocket
book. Five or six diamond rings
known to have been worn by the wom-
an, and said to be worth about $4,000
are said to have been missing, as also
was a ring valued at 500 usually worn
by Mr.. Schaffer.
tiles to believe robbery the motive for
secuted was that of revenge of for
mer employe.
Other clues are said to be furnish
ing police food for action While
Brookshire is being detained for ques-
tioning, no charge has been placed
against hrm.
(By United Press)
MUNCIE, Ind, Dec. 13.-LittIe
Billy Huffstickle, three years old, who
saw his uncle and aunt murdered at
| their farm near Newcastle, implicated
a woman in the crime today.
Mamma, there was a woman in Un-
Gle Bills house" he declared again
and again. 81 thought it was you.''
Billy was found by farmers when
they broke into the house after dis
covering Shaffer's body in the corn
| crib.
The baby was nestled against the
cold body of his aunt.
/ Billy insisted the crime was com
mitted Monday night, but authorities
/ declared the condition of the body in
dicated death occurred several days
ago.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-13

For Indiana, by the United States
Weather Bureau-Snow tonight and
Thursday, probably turning to rain by
Thursday night; rising temperatures.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-07-14
which they were quite unprepared to

which they were quite unprepared to
meet.
A wage scale based on the cost of
living in accordance with American
standards is a recognition of the hu-
man element. 1t puts the man above
the dollar. A wage scale based on
comparison with wages paid in other
industries is a ''level-down" wage and
puts workers, coal, iron and box cars
on common ground. 1t puts the dollar
above the man. A government board
that would substitute the comparative
wage for living wage is but moving
backward with the autocrats of pri-
vate industry. It violates the spirit
and the letter of federal law which
declares that labor is not a commod-
ity.
So the strike of the shopmen is a
strike against industrial diluvialism
on the railroads They are making
the fight alone. Whether they win
back their jobs or lose them they are
performing a great social service
They are stemming the tide of indus
trial reaction. They have called a
halt on the back to normalcy" pol
lev of the republican administration
They will win that if they don't wiz
anything else and every worker II
America will be benefited as the re-
suit of the struggle and sacrifices Of
the 100000 gallant shop craftsmen
who have had the temerity to chal
lenge the railroad labor board whel
| it became patiently unfair to all rail
road labor
But the shopmen will not lose thei
Jobs. There are signs already in tn
news stories which indicate that tn
case of the shopmen will be reopene'
by the labor board If the men stan
firm they will render railroad strike
in the future less necessary.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-07-14
FAKE CO-OPERATORS
Checked By Organized La
Dor
rs Em na rR ER

Detroit Mich.-Organized labor in
this city has refused to be hurrahed
into cooperative bankink scheme,
that has been exposed as a fake of the
most glaring kind
The matter was considered by the
executive board of the Federation of
Labor, which reports that under the
scheme labor would have no control,
and was "merely expected to furnish
, the steam"
Four adventurers proposed that a
So, 100000 corporation be formed and
that they be appointed fiscal agents
These agents would have absolute
control of all funds until $4,000 was
received The agents could make
loans to themselves from this fund
All money received in payment or
stock would have a first charge OF
Is per cent commission payable to
the agents
The Federation of Labor accepted
the recommendation of its executive
board that organized labor should
have nothing to do with this privately
promoted "co-operative" scheme
There is no guarantee that the
bank itself would ever come into ex.
istence, and a very strong possibility
that the stockholders themselves
would be duped, said the report
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-07-14
UNEMPLOYMENT is
LESS

Milwaukee, Wis.-In a bulletin is
sued by the Wisconsin State FEEDER
alton of Labor it is statd that for the
first time in 18 months 1--WE can re-
port relief in the unemployment situ-
alton
"While there is no boom in trade
conditions, we are satisfied that de-
cided gradual improvement has set
in. Now is the time to recount some
of our past errors and profit thereby.
The unions have retained their mem
bership better during this panic than
during any past depression. All that
is necessary now is the right CO.
operative spirit with a little extra
energy by the officers and members
of every union"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-07-14
LIVING IN BARNS

Pittsburgh, Evictions of strik-
ing miners from company houses in
the Fayette coal field are going for
ward at the rate of rs to 100 day
according to a statement from district
headquarters of the United Mine
Workers.
"These poor people are being put
out of their houses and as far as pos
sible are being taken care of by
friends in neighboring towns" saic
the statement. "In many instance:
they are living in tents on ground do
mated to them by sympathetic people
Where tents are not available, the.
the living in barn lofts and sucl
other shelters as can be found.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-07-14
THE Shipments STRIKE

The strike of the railroad shopmen,
unfortunate as it may be held to be,
is one of the most justifable walk
outs in the history of labor. It is not
strike against the railroads. The
employers have had very little to say
about the trouble. All personal re-
lationship between railroad officials
and the employees was long ago sew
cred. The human element is absent.
Cold judicial determination has taken
its place, and the results early pre-
dicted by labor are occurring.
The United States railroad labor
board, like the supreme court, has or
at least it is attempting to assume,
power not delegated to it by the
transportation act which created it.
Congress decisively defeated provi-
sion in the Esch- Cummins bill giving
to the labor board absolute power and
making it unlawful for rail road en-
ployes to strike
The board is attempting to enforce
its rulings against labor, but it seems
unable to compel the railroads to com
ply with its decisions that were ad-
verse to them. AS a matter of fact
the railroads have ignored every de
cision of the labor board requiring
them to do anything they did not want
to do On the other hand the railroads
lost no time in any instance in putting
into effect every ruling of the board
favorable to them and against labor
The employees have lost confidence
III the integrity of the majority mem
bers of the labor board Their repre-
sentatives for years back have based
their claims for increased wages and
better conditions on the cost of living
and the earnings of the railroads The
labor board has ignored the matter OF
living costs and when the representa-
tives of employees appeared before il
to protest against the reduction Of
wages, loaded as they were with
facts bearing on the cost of living
they were required by the board tc
meet new argument advanced By
the railroads based on comparative
wages paid in other occupations
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-07-14
wa m n 50 Hs
THE EXCUSE FINDER

The Community Chest collection
drive is still on. The workers are still
a little shy on the amount set as
the goal, $4,000, but there is to be
no letting up until those in charge
give the word "over the top" Some
funny things and incidents develop
as the workers go along. Many eX-
cuses are heard from individuals for
not giving. More often the excuse
is that the one solicited is sore at
one particular institution to receive
aid from the Community Chest. There
are nine institutions on the list and
simply because a man is sore at or
has some fancied grievance against
one of them he does not give, thereby
turning down the other eight, which
he will admit are deserving of sup
port. How is that for consistency? -?
The whole truth of the matter is, when
you run onto a fellow of this kind
you are up against the professional
excuse hunter. The fellow who never
wants to give. The fellow who never
does anything himself but who is ever
ready to stand back and criticise the
actions of those who are at least try
ing to do something for the other fel-
low, though at times they may go at
things wrong and make mistakes. The
fellow who never does anything never
makes mistakes. If you don't want
to give, don't hunt up some lame ex-
cuse. Simply say you don't want tC
/ give. But how about it with your
inner self if you can afford to give
and don't? Do you feel just right
about it, and are you satisfied with
yourself? Search yourself, think il
over and see if you are You don't
have to give much-just a little
do it and ease your conscience. But
even though you don't give, don't
hide behind some little grievance as
an excuse to get by" That little
something inside won't let you ever
if you try
If you like your taxes as they are
Vote for Long. If you want then
lower-Vote for Sam c. Lands. (adv