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VOL. XCIL, No. 285
Palladium. Est Hit. Consolidated
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RICHMOND, IND.,.THURSDAY EVENING, NOV. 30, 1922.
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DEVALERA TO
TRY TO LEAVE
FOR AMERICA
Rebel Chief Will Use
Ruse to Escape
(By Associated Press)
LONDON; Nov. 30. Eamonn de Va
lera, is reported to be attempting to
leave Ireland for America, says a des
patch from the Belfast correspondent
of the Evening News. The Republi
can leader is said to be hiding in the
Carllngsford mountains overlooking
Greenore. County Louth, from which
there is daily boat service to Holyhead.
It is understood, says the corres
pondent that a large force of rebels
have been concentrated in' Northern
county Louth and will shortly attack,
thus diverting the attention of the
Free State authorities and allowing
De Valera to slip out of Greenore.
(By United Press)
BELFAST. Nov. 30. Eamon DeVal-
era is hiding in Carlingford Mountains
waiting a chance to escape to America,
it was reported here today: Free State
troops are hunting him.
(By Associated Press)
DUBLIN, Nov. 30. The Free State
government is continuing its policy cf
carrying out the death sentence
against rebels captured bearing arms.
Three men were executed today, one
for the possession of a revolver, and
the others for carry bombs'.
(Ey United Press)
DUBLIN, . .ov. 30. Extensive rebel
plots for demolishing roads and
bridges and cutting wires have been
discovered bw Free State authorities
General Mulcahey at the meeting of
the Dall last night read captured docu
ments ordering, the rebels to speed up
and. intensify destruction.
The Republican pains called for whole
sale demolition of bridges, railways,
canals and highways, and the sever
ing of wires, for the purpose of isolat
ing Dublin. The campaign is to be
carried out during the next six weeks
Free State" troops also seized docu
ments showing the rebels planned to
kidnap 80 members of the dail and
hold them temporarily to prevent the
parliament functioning Dec. 6, when
the Free State's government will be
inaugurated officially.
20,000 PROHIBITION
CASES 110V PENDING
IN FEDERAL COURTS
(By United Press)
By PAUL R, MALLON
WASHINGTON. . Nov. 30. The ex
treme congestion of the prohibition
cases pending in the American courts,
enabling bootleggers to continue illi
cit operations indefinitely, will be
placed before congress, it was learned
today.
President Harding now expects to
present in his formal message open
ing the regular session next weel:
some of the startling facts on the
situation which have been furnished
him by the department of justice.
These facts, obtained by the United
Piess from the justice department,
are:
1. There are 20,066 prohibtion
Cases now pending in federal courts
of the country; with more piling up
all the time.
2. This is twice as many as at this
time last year.
3. Despite the order of Attorney-
General Daugherty to speed prosecu
tlons with all celerity, it appears prob
able that some change of system must
be found.
4. The latest figures compiled ac
curately are those of June 30, 1921,
when 16.713 criminal and 2,694 civil
prohibition suits were pending. These
compare with July 1, 1921, when 10,42
criminal and 2,074 civil suits were on
the dockets.
Cases Increasing Rapidly.
On the basis of these figures, author
ities of the department now estimate
that the number will reach 20,000 with
further increases every day.
With a continuance of this situation
in a few years, it will be practically
impossible to bring a bootlegger to
justice within a number of years and
perhaps a life time after he has been
arrested and released on bona.
Justice department olflcials are
cognizant of the fact that this situa
tlon has encouraged bootleggers to re
sume their operations Immediately aft
er they are arrested and released
Some cases have been reported where
a bootlegger bad been arrested as many
as three times and had not yet been
forced to trial for any of the charges.
Some bootleggers have been enabled
to continue their pending cases in
definitely, it is stated.
There is a possibility thr? this situa
tioa will result in some attempted leg
islation in this session of congress.
CGUZENS WILL RETAIN
- STREET RAILWAY JOB
' (By United Press)
DETROIT. Mich.. Nov. SO. Jame3
Cogens, who retired as mayor of De
troit ycstvi-dav following his appoint
ment to thJ United States yenate will
retain the general managership of the
Deuoit Municipal Street Railway sys
tem as Ion? as the street railway com
mission is agreeable, it was learned
heie today. The commission met last
night with acting mayor John C. Long
and af.cr the conference it, was an
nounced that all concerned would be
agreeable to Senator Couzens continu
ing to serve as active head of the rail
way. ......
Thanksgiving Day
Generally Observed
Throughout Indiana
(By Associated Press)
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 30. Thanks
giving day was generally - observed
throughout Indiana today. Services
were held in many of, the churches,
while stores, banks, business offices,
state, county and city governmental
buildings were closed.
The unfortunates of the state also
had cause for giving thanks. Thous
ands of baskets of food were distrib
uted to the cities' poor. The weather
was reported as ideal in almost every
part of Indiana.
NEWCASTLE, Ind.. Nov. 30. Four
hundred men and boys were served
with a Thanksgiving day dinner at the
Indiana village for epileptics near
here today. Everything served at the
dinner except the sugar and coffee,
was raised on the state property. Rel
atives of the patients were permitted
to visit. !- . .' "
KNIGHTSTOWN. Ind.. Nov. 30.
Special Thanksgiving day exercises
were held at the Indiana Soldiers and
Sailors orphans' home here today. A
brief religious program was given in
the morning, followed by dinner at
noon. The War Mothers and the Am
erican Legion gave a program in the
afternoon at the home.
GREEK KING IS HELD
PRISONER IN PALACE
DECLARES DISPATCH
BULLETIN
LONDON. Nov. 30. A Renter's dis
patch from Athens says that Generals
Papoulas. Dousmanis and Valerias
have been arrested.
General V. Dousmanis Is one of the
most prominent military figures in
Greece. He has served as chief of
the general staff and with the Greek
military mission at Constantinople
and last September was appointed
commander in chief of the army in a
last unsuccessful attempt to stem the
tide of the Turkish advance. A dis
patch from Athens on Sept. 30 said
that he was among the persons held
in prison for trial In connection with
the Greek disaster.-
(By United Press)
PARIS. Nov. 30. King George of
Greece is held prisoner in his palace
by the revolutionary authorities who
executed former Premier Gounaris
and other statesmen Tuesday, accord
Ing to a Belgrade dispatch to the Ma
tm today.
This dispatch states that the king
made every effort to prevent the
cution .of five former ministers and
the general who commanded the Greek
army when it was defeated by Musta
pha Kemal. His activities in their be
half roused the ire of the revolutionary
authorities. Their anger was increas
ed when, immediately after ' death
sentences were carried he requested
that he be permitted to leave Greece.
In reply to this the revolutionary com
mittee put a guard over him.
George, a son of King Constantine,
became king of Greece when his fath
er fled after the great Turkish victory.
Frince Andrew, brother of Constantine
is held in Athens and is expected to be
placed on trial shortly. .
PARIS, Nov. 30. Venizelos. former
Greek premier is quoted by a special
Lausanne correspondent of L'lnforma-
tlon as follows:
"I deplore the tragic events that have
taken place in Athens. However they
are essentially a matter of interior
policy; Should Lord Curzon publicly
stigmatize in my presence the acts of
Athens I should be under obligation
to leave Lausanne."
FARMERS IN FAVOR
OF LOCAL CONTROL
OF HIGHWAY FUNDS
Comment strongly favoring a sug
gestion that county authorities should
have more control of the expenditure
of road funds, than is the case at pres
ent, is voiced by the farmers of the
county.
"I think that counties should have
more to say about the expenditure of
road funds made up from taxes and
license fees collected within the coun
ty, said Charles Williamson, who
lives on the Liberty pike, south of
Richmond.
"If all money collected in a county
is spent there also, there is a possi
Miity of injustice, m giving some
counties with large cities, too large a
share while poorer counties, although
thev will have just as large a road
system, may not get enough, as for
instance, some of the southern Indiana
counties. But I think at least a part
of the money collected in a county
should be returned to it to spend
under local direction."
Pleas for more decentralization, and
a lessening of bureaucracy and admin
istrative expense were given by Henry
Bertsch and Lee Hartman, both of
Pershing, in their argument for spend
ing road taxes in the same territory
where collected.
Favors Local Control " f
"I am in favor of each community
doing all it can for itself by its own
agencies." 6aid Mr. Bertsch. "So far
as possible every community should
be self sufficient, vmt dependent on
outside agencies or state bureaus. ' I
am strongly in favor of more local
control of the spending of road tax
money and believe that if our money
were spent where we could watch it
there would be less vaste. Too smal'
a proportion of the money is actually
put on the roads under our present
system of passing it 'hrough so many
hands, because it takes too large a
share to pay salaries. We are over
governed and have too many- bureaus
and state officials now." -
"I am not only in favor of counties
managing the spending of their own
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Uncle Sam Is Thankful for
lLiijMJiS , ' ' .g yaCT'','i
EAR-BROUGHT 1,1 A M
BLESSINGS, WORK TELLS
UNION CONGREGATION
Thanks be to God who giveth us the
victory through our Lord. Jesus Christ
First Corinthians, Chapter 15:57.
"We have cause to be thankful for
the" great conference on limitation of
armaments, for the way in which pro
hibition ha3 weathered the attacks of
its enemies, the promise of ultimate
stabilization in international affairs,
improved industrial conditions, bounti
ful crops, and aside from material evi
dences of God's love and blessing vic
tory over sin and pessisism, declared
Rev. W. McClean Work, pastor of the
Reid Memorial Presbyterian church.
in his Thanksgiving sermon to an au
dience that crowded the First English
church to attend union Thanksgiving
services. Be it instinct or habit.
Thanksgiving, is almost a monopoly of
the religious world," said Rev. Work.
So much so. in fact, that it taKes its
place high among the list of Christian
graces and in the Christian's life
evolves quickly from the status of a
duty to the position of one of tne rar
est Of privileges.
Think of Arms Parley.
"PerhaDS the blessing that would
first come to the minds of most of us
is the great conference upon the limi
tation of armament which was con
cluded so gloriously during the pres
ent year. A meeting which, unless its
results be wantonly - dissipated, will
stand as the greatest step that has
been taken toward universal peace by
any nation or group of nations in the
history of the race. We are thankful
that the conference itself was opened
with prayer for devine guidance by a
Christian minister, that the United
States of America sat down to the con
ference table asking not one foot of
land or dollar of money but offering
to give up more than she required any
other nation to do.
"We should be thankful as well be
cause of the response given to the
proposals. Before the conference was
called the All-American pest known
as the jingo, was telling us that war
was inevitable with Japan or Irish
American friends were carefully fos
tering a spirit of hate toward Eng
land; France was being pictured to
us as a false friend. But since this
great conference even the Hearst
newspapers have been silent on these'
subjects.
Prohibition Survives
We have just passed. through a year
when every imaginable attack has
been launched against the prohibition
amendment and the Volstead act. The
enemies of prohibition have at no time
handicapped themselves by adhearing
to the truth in making their charges
and manufacturing their statistics.
They have amply demonstrated to any
who may have doubted that the liquor
traffic is to the devil and that its de
fenders are the very spawn of hell. We
have had a Etraw vote on the subject
conducted by a prominent magazine
and conducted with such undoubted J
discrimination and bias as to drag j
the cihee honored name of the publi-I
cation into mire. We have had propa- j
ganda ad nauseam and yet the net re-
suit at the recent election was an in-;,
crease of three in the dry contingent!
in the United States senate and a nom--l
inal loss in the bouse, the decisive de
feat of the beer and" wine bill in Ohio,
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Improved Industrial &)nditions and Signs of Prosperity
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Who Loafed at
Versatile and Gifted Crowd Stayed at Store-r-Arion Sextette
and Mastodon Minstrel
.Great Times
Paul W.-Jordan,- who rwrote in 'rem
iniscent mood last August about old
days -in Richmond, sent the following
communication from his home in Chi
cago; -; - ,' ' ;
. "A Thanksgiving Greeting to the
Old Timers, the boys who used to loaf
at Jordan's Chapel, Arion Sextette;
Mastodon Minstrel Show, -Thanks:
giving Eve and Evening. 1887; Ly
ceum Hall. 35 years ago." ; j
To the Editor:
In August I wrote an open letter to
the old timers of Richmond, feeling it
would take many of them back a few
years, "brighten up the corners where
they are," and cause many to think
of other days, long gone. ,
From the reports I have received
the letter must have interested the
readers. You will recall I wrote of
Richmond early settlers, my father's
old place of business, and the men
who gathered there daily. Jordan'
Chapel was their loafing place. ; All
except one or two are registered now;
only on the rosters of Earlham cem
etery. The length of my letter in Augus:
would not permit my saying much of
the younger fellows who also gathered
TAX BOARD DISLIKED :
SAYS STATE SENATOR
(By Associated Press) i
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 30 Declaring
that the state tax board is looked up
on with as much disfavor as the Ro
man tax gatherer was regarded by the
subjugated colonies of Rome, Charles
S. Batt, joint state senator from Terre
Haute today discussed his opinions on
various state problems.
He also condemned the highway and j
me puuuc service tuiuiuiooiuus ouu
school expenditures. t
' He said that the state tax law
should be rewritten to make it prac-
tically as it was before it was chang
ed bv the Goodrich administration and
the tax board put in the same place
with the same authority it originally
had. having matters of appeal on val
uation only.
Weather Forecast
For Indiana by the United States
Weather bureau Partly cloudy tonight
and Friday. Warmer tonight. Colder
Friday and Saturday. '
Temperatures Taken Yesterday at the
Pumping Station.
Maximum ..- ..'..45
Minimum ... 18
Today. v f
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Paid Circulation
Yesterday, was
12,171
Jordan's Chapel
Show Are Recalled
in Old Days.
at the store, chuma and cronies of my
brother Bert and myself.
' I stated in the letter above referred
to, that'in the event of favorable com
ment it would please me to come back
with , another letter, covering" the do
ings of the younger bunch. I have re
ceived a few letters, and several phone
calls here in Chicago, asking me to
write again, they all seemed to get
much pleasure from my, reminiscent
epistle of August 1. I was sure it
would interest the older people, my
old friends and acqualntainces, so it is
for my old companions these lines are
written. Several have joined the old
folks over in Earlham, but most of
them are living, semewhere. I wish it
were possible for all of them to read
this letter. It would make them young
again for a few moments at least. ?
' I doubt, if in all thi3 country; there
was ever. "a crowd of fellows so ver
satile and gifted, as the boys who loaf
ed at our store. -
1 ', ? Excelled In Games. ; '
It made no difference to them what
the game was, they excelled over all
sections-of the town. JJaseball, hunt-!
ing, fishing, skating, rowing, bob-sled-'
ding, dancing, guitar making and play
ing marble or shinny or mischief mak
ing, the Jordan gang had it all over'
anything in then 32 states.
When I browse, backwards, and
watch Harry Ernest or John Hutchison
play marbles, Jack Taggarf sing, Wal
ter (Dutch) Moore say something fun
ny, or my brother Bert, draw some of
his funny cartoons, there's no ques
tion in my mind, where the bet should
go. Then to hear Cal Lankert play,
the guitar and the gang sing. Oh- Boy,
certainly some gifted crowd of fellows.
My brother Bert was without ques
tion a wonder. He would have made
his mark as an artist or mechanic,
possessing more latent talent, I think,
than any boy I ever knew, and as a
comedian very few today could' touch
him'. Too bad he was called so early
in life. Even" in his crude way as a
boy his drawings were funnier than
Goldberg's are today, and when he
i tried, h:3thoughts were as deep as
! McCutcneon s; and as a singer, one
of the best bass voices you could find
in a lorg hunt. "
Bert Prime Mover '
Bert was the prime mover , in nearly
everything, and with Ernick Hutchie,
lw Wilson, Yank Youngflesh, John Co
mer, Walt Lacey and several others
kept a step ahead in everything -worth
while to boya, and many things not
worth so much, at least the older
people thought so.
This bunch, could
think out any problem, find good cab
bage patches, good gates to steal,
nice windows to break, in fact any
thing, and all of them could lie out
of it without blinking our eyes. Good
runners up were Ed Mendenhall, Ed
and . Charles Green, Billy Wilson and
Sam Meridith.
- It. used to be if anything out of the
ordirary occurred in town, common re
mark was, that's the work of that Jor
dan gang, and common remark nearly
always was correct.
Many of the capers 111 leave to your
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as He Carves His Turkey
LEGISLATIVE BRANCHES
OF GOVERNMENT REST
OVER THANKSGIVING
v - ' -
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. Congress,
with the house having passed the ship
ping bill and the senate still in the
quandaries of a Democratic filibuster
on the Dyer anti-lynching bill, had su
spended activities with other branches
of the federal government here today
over Thanksgiving day. At the White
House also President Harding had
planned to do only a little work during
the day and to spend the remainder
quietly after having dinner with Mrs.
Harding in her sick room, whose con
dition now permits her to spend part
of each day in an easy chair.
The house took an adjournment over
the holiday immediately after passing
the administration shipping bill yester
day by a vote of 208 to 184, with 69
Republicans joining the opposition and
four Democrats voting for the bilL The
senate fight over the bill which faces
threats to delay if not prevent its pas
sage there is expected to get under
way next week, the senate committee
getting the measure Monday and plan
ning to report it as passed by the
bouse. . " -.,.-.
Strike Out Amendment
By a last minute vote the house yes
terday struck out of the bill the amend
ment specifying that the subsidy
would , not apply to any voyage on
which a ship carried liquor, its elimin
ation being moved on the ground that
it -would tend to weaken rather than
strengthen existing Ijw.
There was no end of the Democratic
filibuster in sight wh?n the senate ad
journed -yesterday over Thanksgiving,
and the situation was declared by some
to point to its continuation until the
extra session adjourns sine die Sat
urday night Although the motion to
adjourn over today after a five-hour
session yesterday cani from Senator
Lodge, who as Republican leader had
presided over the Republican caucus
Tuesday, at which it was resolved to
hold the senate in session Thursday if
necessary to break the filibuster. This
wasoutside of any Intention on the
Republican 6ide to drop the fight in
behalf of the bill. And equally deter
mined last night were the Democrats
to continue the filibuster
MRS. HALL LAUNCHES
OWN INVESTIGATION
- CBy United Press) .
NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J., Nov. 30.
Mrs. Frances Noel Hall is starting
! an' investigation of her own to ascer
tain who murdered her husband and
Mrs. Eleanor Mills. -
Her attorneys said today she was
anxious to run down the slayers' and
that now, that the grand jury has
shelved the case, she will press the
investigation herself.
Mrs. Hall also is contemplating a
trip to Europe, it is reported.
Mrs. Jane Gibson, alleged eye-witness
of the crime, today denied the
charge of George Sipel, one of those
who - testified before the grand Jur
and who claimed she asked him to
fill the gaps in her story with false
i testimony.
CLEMCEAU
TAKES ROAD
ON MISSION
Lays Wreath on Tomb
of Lincoln
'- ' (By Associated PressT
CHICAGO, Nov. 30. Georges Clem-
enceau, France's wartime premier, pre
pared to take the road again today on
his self-imposed mission of winning
American support for France.
The next stop on his itinerary is
Springfield, 111., where he was sched
uled to lay a wreath on Lincoln's tomb
and deliver a brief eulogy this after
noon. He is due in St. Louis for his
next big speech tomorrow. The Tiger ;
rose early to board hla private car
which was attached to a 10 oclock
train. He did not ikse as early as
his customary 4 o'clock- Last night
he dissipated, staying up until 11. mak
ing his last public appearance at the
opera.
He disclosed for the first time in
America "mon tube" his top hat. He
had declared in New York he could not
wear it because his soft one felt and
looked better, but as he was dissipat
ing he decided to do It up brown.
Given Long Ovation.
Clemenceaa was given a long ova
tion when he entered The Potter Palm
er box at the end of the prologue to
"The Snow Maiden." A few minutes
the curtain, rising on the et for the
first act, disclosed Eduarrdo Cotreuil.
French basso, holding a big tri-color,
and Cyrena Van Gordon, draped in the
Stars and Stripes with the entire com
pany behind them. Cotreuil sang "The
Marseillaise" and von Gordon the Star
Spangled Banner.
When they had finished another long
wave of applause for the Tiger swept
the house and he rose and bowed again.
Then he settled down and became eo
interested in the opera that he stayed
until the end ot the third act, nearly
half past ten.
Before he went to bed he dictated a
Thanksgiving message to America, de
claring the reception he had received
and the interest with which his mes
sage had been heard gave him. much to
be thankful for.
TIGER. WILL DELIVER
TALK HERE SUNDAY
ON WORK OF QUAKERS
M. Georges Clemenceau, former pre
mier of France, who Is touring th-j
Uinited States on a speaking tour, will
deliver a five-minute talk on the work
of the Quakers in reconstruction work
in France, when his party arrives
in Richmond Sunday morning at 9:23
o'clock, accordins to advices receiveil
Thursday from Carl Ackerman, for
merly of Richmond, who Is represent
ing the press on the tour.
Dr. D. M. Edwards, president of
Earlham college, received the messag.
asking that preparations be made to
receive the great Frenchman. Accord
ingly, a committee of welcome was
organized which will be composed of
Timothy Nicholson, Mayor L. A. Hand
ley, Rudolph G. Leeds, William Dudlev
Foulke and Dr. D. M. Edwards. The
mayor and Mr. Foulke probably will
say a few words of welcome to the dis
tinguished guest of America Just prior
to hia address to the assembly of Rich
mond people. .
Arrangements are being made for
the welcome of the "Tiger" of France,
and It Is expected that a large body of
people will gather at the local Penn
sylvania station when the Clemenceau
train arrives. The brief address which
the great French war premier witt
make here will dwell on the work oC
the Friends In France in the after-war
reconstruction work.
Many Richmond college students
have participated in this work, and
since Richmond is the location of thsj
Friends central offices of the Five
Years meeting, and the home of a
large number of persons following the
Friends faith, the distinguished visitor
will be greeted by an exceptionally
large audience Sunday morning.;
The Clemenceau party was ' tri
Springfield, in., Thursday and; will
move on to St. Louis, where it will re
main over Friday. ,
TANKER EXPLODES;
2 MEN ARE KILLED
By Associated Press) "?
SOFIA. Nov. 30. The French
tanker City of Sparta from Batum for
Marseilles with a cargo of benzine,
caught fire and exploded in Bourga,
harbor today, killing two men and scr-
ioiLsiy injuring mree. l ne sunace or
the entire harbor was aflame as tli
benzine escaped from the vessel's
tanks. Many members of the crew
were slightly burned. The cargo wr.s
consigned to the Standard Oil com
pany. Bare h Is Happy After
Third Jury Disagrees
(By Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30. It wan a
happy Thanksgiving day for Arthur C
Burch, who was said to agree with
his chief counsel, Paul Scbenok, that
the disagreement last night in Bureh's
third trial for the murder of J. Bel
ton Kennedy was "the equivalent of an
acquittal. Burch laughed aloud when
Judge John W. Shenck polled the jury
iuu trui'ii ueciarea were was ausoiuie-
1 " m rw. .
came after more than 30 hours had
passed since the case had been given
to the jury and six" ballots had been
taken. The first was the same as the
last seven to five for acquittal the
jurors Eaid.
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