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XLI.—NO. 174.

RAWLEY WRS DEM. CONTEST FORCHARHAN

Expresses Hope, Afier Smoke of Battle Cleared Away, That Walsh Would Work With Him.

PLEADS FOR HARMONY AND URGES HIGH CLASS TICKET

Ratcliff's Motion to Defer Action, Which Was Beaten, Brought First Test of Strength of

Factions.

Although sharp clashes marked the determined fight of the Gossom and Riede forces at the organization meeting of the democrats, held yesterday in the Superior Court room, the election of a permanent county chairman, •a secretary and a treasurer brought about harmony in the ranks of the workers, and the court room rang with the enthusiasm of the committeemen as they took up the reins of the fight in Vigo county. Frank S. Rawley, who was supported by Mayor James M. Gossom. Chalmers Harnill, Earl Houck and City Judge Newton, was elected to handle the affairs of the county organization over Jeff Walsh by a vote of i!2 to 1G. Perry S. Douglas was elected secretary by acclamation and L. D. Scott was named treasurer vlve voice. Charles Riede, vice chairman of the county organization, tendered his resignation to the committeemen, but they declined it by an overwhelming vote.

Half an hour before the time scheduled for the meeting o'clock) the committeemen and party workers began to crowd the corridors of the court house. The worl.ers for Jeff Walsh and Frank Rawley were quick to learn from each delegate the attitude he was taking on the chairmanship and for a time the second floor corridor fairly hummed with activity.

Hamrick Presides.

Arthur Hamrick, former clerk of I'litnam'county, who was sent by State Chairman Korbly to take charge of the meeting, arrived shortly after I o'clock and called the meeting to order. At that time standing room was almost at a premium in the court room.

Tn taking charge of the meeting, Mr. Hamrick explained that he had come to Terre Haute by order of the state committee. He said he arrived Friday and had conferred with Vice Chairman Riede. Riede, he said, refused to issue the call for the meeting because of the failure of Korbly to inform him what committeemen who were holding political offices were not entitled to vote. "In all fairness to Mr. Riede," said Mr. Hamrick, "I am going to call upon iiim to explain his position." "This position was thrust upon me by the action of Donn INT. Roberts," said Mr. Riede. "I am a true blue democrat from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. Last week three members of the city administration visited me and asked me to call a meeting of the committeemen for Saturday. "They presented a petition signed by thirty-four of the committeemen. I told them I did not kndw the law on the seating of committeemen who were holding political position?,. I wanted t) have every committeeman given a square show and 1 refused to call the meeting on such short notice. I believe that we have no right to hold this meeting and believe the men who called this meeting are unfair to the democratic party."

Committeemen Seated.

The roll was then called and the following committeemen were given seats either in person or by proxy:

First Ward—Precinct C, Henry Gruessing I'recinct D, George Kendall by Bert Harris. .Second Ward—Precinct I!, John R. Harkness by Jack Rogers Precinct D, George Evelo.

Third Ward—Precinct A. Henry Weldele, declared vacant by chair I'recinct B, John Kaney Precinct C, Clarence Dorfmeyer.

Fourth Ward—Precinct A, Walter Gutlierie by Charles S. Batt Precinct 1J. Jack Flinn Precinct D, U. H. Hicks.

Fifth Ward—Precinct A. Frank B. Striley Precinct B," William M.«Killop Precinct C, Claude Patton by Harry Wallace Precinct D, James M. Gossom.

Sixth Ward—Precinct A, JackHines

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60Y SLAVS HIS SISTER1

WARREN, Ohio, Nov. 20.—Twelve-year-old Frank "^-9.zillo. shrieking in terroi4, was lo„feed in jail tonight, charged with killing--1"" ten-year-old sister Carmel, whil_ ^.aying school.

His clothing had been torn^ in a wild flight through the woods, .v posse found the boy exhausted, after a tn.-ee-hours search. Carmel refused to mind Frank, who was the "teacher." The boy got his father's revolver arid shot her through the head. She died instantly and the boy fled.

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U.'S. WEATHER. REPORT.

TEJIPEUATVltE RECORD. 6 a. 52 Noon 53 9 a. 3 a. 6 p. in 53 7 p. 51

LOCAL CONDITIO AS AT 7 A. SI- XOV. 2M, 15)13. Station pressure, 29.04: temperature, 51 highest temperature Saturday, 5G precipitation, 0 iireetion of wind, northwest velocity of wind, 12 miles per hour state of weather, cloudy relative humidity, uS per cent

FORECAST.

TERRE HAUTE—Sunday cloudy probably rain. INDIANA—Cloudy Sunday probably rain Monday, fair and cooler.

ILLINOIS—Fair Sunday and probably Monday somewhat colder Sunday.

OTHER LOCAL. RErOllTS. River stage, 3.4 feet.

RUIlf CONTEST IS CHIEF TOPIC

Everybody Wondering Who Will Be Lucky Girl to Be Declared the Winner.

FLOOD OF VOTES COMES IN DURING DAY SATURDAY

Miss Grace Byrne Leading, With Miss Mary Haley Second—Many Others Forging to Top of List.

Miss Grace Byrne is leading the "Who Will B© Ruth" contest, with 945 votes second is Miss Mary Haley, having 562 votes, and third place today is held by Margaret Eberts, with 466 votes. Others, according to their standing, are Helen Carroll 456 Bess Damer 39G Gertrude Golden, Ruth Lorton tll9 Bessie Damer 310 Wanda Mclntyre 274 Merle Snlvely 211 Anna Erne 210 Edith Arnold 200 Gertrude Gifr'el 133 Catherine Swope '91 Elizabeth Burt 164 Thelma Buchanan 159 Irene Frazier 155 Ruth Hammond li0 Ruth Kendall 104 Muriel Miles, Clinton 90 Thelma Chipron S5 Mary Har.ey ^3 Margaret O'Dowd, Brazil 67 Vivian Curtis, Clinton 62 Minnie Allen, Brazil 51 Mae Cochran 4 7 Mildred Grantham 4 6 Georgia Dal ton, Clinton 4 2 LaVern Stahl 42 Lois Grimes. Brazil it Helen Schmidt.

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Mary Halloran 41 Elizabeth Ready 37 Mary Decker, Brazil 37 Helen McKeever 37 Gertrude VanProyen 32 Helen Hawkins 30 Julia Draper T9 Bonnie Gehman 25 Elizabeth Duffy 28 Stella Syester 25 Mildred Grar.lham 24 Gertrude Ehrman 23 Helen McCulloch ^2 Bertha Bobbins 21 Helen Nehf 20 Emma Walker 19 .Marguerite Wall 19 Hazel Fogle 19 Anna Murphy 16 Bertha Leventhal 16 Irene Tomlinson 15 Emma Walker 14 Neil Shakely 14 Esther Bogart 13 Ruth Lowler

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Ruth Lane 13 Dorcuh.v Davis 12 Catherine Schick 11 Helen Dawson 11 May Boucher 10 Marv O'Connell 10 Olive House 10 Lois Mcchling Ruby Jones 3 Clara Lewis S Eva Lee 3 Evelyn Kerns 7 8 Helen Schwabel 7 Ruby Drake 7 Bessie Williams 7 Margaret Orroan 7 Irene Clans 7 Audrey Chunn 6 Frances Dwynr 6 Miss Ada Mclntyre 6 Edna Harrison 5 Helen Hawkins 5 Helen Gardner 5 Gladys Tindall 4 Clara Cullivan 4 Ruth Couchman 4 Lois Merling Helpn Watson Jl Mabel Reams 3 Ida Brockson lva G. Rupf 2

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TERRE HAUTE,

JULES SERVE SHARP NOTICE UPON GREECE

Demand Immediate Participation In War With Entente or Demobilization of Army.

SERB ARMY IN LAST DITCH FACING TOTAL EXTINCTION

Hemmed In on Practically All Sides By Enemies, With Possibility of Being Captured

In Body.

BULLETIN.

VIENNA, Nov. 20.—The last of the Sorb military forces were driven from old Serbia Friday, announced an official statement issued tonight. The capture of 2,000 more Serbs is reported.

MALTA, via London, Nov. 20.—Immediate Greek participation in the war on the side of the allies or demobilization of the Greek army, was demanded by the entente powers today.

BERLIN, Nov. 20.—Greece has defied the allies. Summoning the diplamatic corps Friday, the foreign minister gave notice that if any Serbs are driven into Greek territory they will be disarmed and interned immediately, the Frankfurter Zeltung says today. Greece must see that the war does not spread to her territory, the minister declared.

ATHENS, Nov. 20.—King Constantino received Lord Kitchener, the British minister, this afternoon and tney conferred for an hsur and a quarter. No statement was made.

The king, leaving the palace later, was enthusiastically .cheered by the people.

BERLIN, Nov. 20.—The Serbian army is fighting tonight for the last time. Doubtless there will still ,_bg guerrilla engagements. The Serbs are at the beginning of the end, however, so far as further organized resistance is concerned. What, will probably be the final encounter between the Austrians and Serbs opened today at the fo:t of Kopacnik Platina, southeast of Raska. The German armies are at Raska, which is thirty miles north and a little west of Kossovo, or the Plain of the Blackbirds, where the S«rb main army is encamped. On this field Serbia lost its liberty to the Turks centuries ago.

Austrikns Push Forward. The Austrian's were at Golija Platnia, thirty-five miles northwest of the Blackbird Plains, Friday, but pushing forward more rapidly than the Germans, and passing to the southwest of Raska, were first to encounter the Serb outpost.

The Germans and Bulgarians, however, had made unexpectedly rapid progress at the southern extremity of the Blackbird plain. They entered the Pristina basin from the northeastward, tonight's official reports stated. Pristina is twenty miles south and a trifle east of the plains.

Thus the Serbs are already at grips with the Austrians, north, and are about to be attacked by Bulgar-Ger-man forces south, and confront a solid body of Germans, Austrians and Bulgars to the eastward. To the west of them, twenty miles away. Is the Montenegrin border. The Berlin war offices believes them practically certain to be, not only defeated and sur-

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LINER [LODES 0 BOAT

ROME, Nov. 20.—Afte:- a hot chase by a submarine in the Mediterranean, the Italian liner Vernoa, a sister ship of the torpedoed Ancona, is understood tonight to have escaped destruction and to be on her way to New York. First news of the chase reached Madrid by wireless from the Verona herself, while the chase was still on. Subsequent advices, unofficial, but believed to be reliable, were that she gave the U-boat the slip in a fog off Minorca. The submarine was supposedly Austrian or German.

Who Will Be Ruth?

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MAX HAMBURG TAKEN BY POLICE OF FLINT

Fugitive Wanted In Connection With Plaza Hotel Robbery to Return Without Requisition.

Max Hamburg, 45 years old, one of the five men alleged to have raided the Plaza hotel pool room early In the morning of October 22, 1914, and escaped with about $1,435, was arrested in Flint, Mich., yesterday evening, according to a telegram received by the local police, and Detective Fred Armstrong left at 7:45 o'clock for Flint to return Hamburg.

The wire to the local police was from Chief of Police J. P. Cole, of the Flint department, and stated that Hamburg

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was under arrest there ajid would return to Terre Haute without requisition papers.

On October 21, 1914, Hamburg, with Henry Lane, William Miller, Dennis J. Murphy and George Bertsclie, all of them well known by the police departments in Chicago and other large cities, are charged with breaking into the Plaza hotel pool room between 4 and 5 o'clock in the morning, taking those in the place by surprise.

All of the men were masked and carried revolvers. They scooped up the money on the table, rifled the pockets of those said to have been engaged in a game, taking money and watches,

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Welcome for Liberty Bell

"To Proclaim Liberty to All the,Land

School children, patriotic societies and the mail carriers will form an escort and honorary guard for the bell at the station.

WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL SEASON OPENS JAN. 7

Long List of Notable Functions to Follow Return of President From Bridal Trip.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—President Wilson and his bride will open the winter social season at he White House Jan. 7, almost immediately they have returned from their honeymoon. It was announced tonight that festivities will begin with a Pan-American reception, a new feature. Conspicuous by its absence will be one of the most picturesque events of the customary annual social program, the diplomatic reception. There will be no New Year's reception, because at that time the president plans to be away from Washington on his bridal trip.

To meet the diplomatic difficulties arising out of the struggle abroad, the white house announced there will be two diplomatic dinners instead of one, a« in the past. At one of the dinners the ambassadors of the allied powers will be guests, while representatives of the central powers will be entertained at the other.

The cabinet dinner, Judicial reception, supreme court dinner, congressional reception, the speaker's dinner and the army and navy reception will be held as in the past, although the last event is on March 3, somewhat later than usual.

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I. VILLA HEMMED IN

DOUGLAS, Ariz., Nov. 20—Cut off from the water supply and penned in Cananea from all sides, Gen. Rodiduez's Villa force was believed tonight to be facing annihilation or surrender. General Villa himself was reported to be almost surrounded twenty-five miles north of Hermosillo, and his communications with Nogales in danger of being cut. All accounts agree that Carranza generals, Obregon and Calles, were fiercely pushing their campaign against Villa. General Calles, it was learned tonight, narrowly escaped death, a spent bullet hitting him over the heart, but only slightly bruising him. Villa claims to be holding his own in the fighting around Hermosillo.

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MHUHTV BK1/I. WHICH WILL 1JK O it (il EST 'I'HIS AKTKKTNOO*.

The famous Liberty bell, that relic of the early days of the republic, will arrive in Terre Hauio at 4:55 o'clock this afternoon and will be viewed by the people at the Union station for 30 minutes.

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COUNCIL STANDS PAT

Strikes Out Measure Intended to Furnish Board of Safety With Money for Current Expenses.

The city council last night in special session acted on appropriation ordinance No. 842, asking $792.50 for the police force account to pay the electric light bill the remainder of the year, purchase gasoline and oil for the automobiles and motorcycles of the police department, purchase stamps and incidentals, pay for repairs to the bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles, etc., and voted the ordinance stricken froii) the files. Those voting to strike the ordinance from the files were Councilmen Daugherty, Skean, Riede, Monninger, Cronln, Brannin, Hanley, Deasel and Ohm, Councilman Savoree of the First Ward, being absent from the meeting.

The meeting was called to order about 8:30 o'clock by President Harry Skean, with the nine councilmen in their seats. Following the reading of the call and return for the special meeting, City Clerk George Moorhead read the report of the finance and council claims committee—composed of

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ASSAILANTS ESCAPE AfTER SLASHING TWO

As a result of a fight with two unidentified negroes, shortly after midnight this morning, in front of the Forbeck saloon, at Eleventh street and Wabash avenue, Albert Combs, 30 years old, 1127 Eighth avenue, an employe of the American Car and Foundry company, and Cecil Underwood, 24 years old, 1024 South Tenth street, a car repairer for the Chicago, Terre Haute & Southeastern, were badly cut.

The two men said they had been in the saloon, and that when they oame out one of the negroes addressed them, claiming to be a cow puncher from Montana. Underwood said he also was from that state. In an argument which followed one of the negroes struck Underwood and the other started toward him. Underwood's wrist was cut almost half way through.

Combs went to the assistance of Underwood and received a gash across the left temple about three inches long and another cut across the right arm, just below the elbow. They were taken to poliae headquarters and their injuries dressed by Dr. Frisr"

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FAMOUS RELIC DUE TO ARRIVE AS SCHEDULED

Big Demonstration Expected This Afternoon When Liberty Bell Makes Brief Visit. „,,

LODGES AND CIVIC ORDERSARRANGE SPECIAL TRIBUTE

Thousands of School Children ®nd Citizens Await Opportunity to Get Close View of Unusual Visitor.'

The liberty bell will arrive in Terre Haute at 4:55 o'clock this afternoon on the Vandalia. It will be stationed on the south aide of the track between Eighth and Ninth streets. It will remain in Terre Haute thirty minutes.

School ohildren will line up on North Eighth street between Sycamore street and the railroad tracks. They will march north to the railroad, east across the review platform and south on Ninth street. Parents accompanying children should meet them on North Eighth street.

Adults will form in line north of the railroad and will march south on Eighth street to the railroad, east in line of review and then Nortf\ on Ninth street.

Terre Haute will give the liberty bell a royal welcome when it arrives here this afternoon.

Patriotic citizens, little"' School chil-| dren, members of fraternal and civiois to in tlje largest crowds ever gathered in the city at 4:55 o'clock this afternoon to greet the famous telic- when it passes through the city on its way from the. Panama-Pacific exposition to its, home in Philadelphia. The announcement that tt is the last trip of the WIS-•! toric relic from Independence hall, in:' Philadelphia, is expected to cause thousands to pay homage.1 In order to take care, in a systematic way, of the large crowds expected, an extra guard of policemen and firemen has been or-1 dered for service during.the half hour the bell is in the city.

Herbert Briggs, director of vocational education of the city schools, will be in charge of the ten thousand children who are expected to view the bell. These children will gather on North Eighth street between the Van-, dalia railroad and Sycamore street and will march across a specially erected platform to see the bell. Arrangements have been made so that the children can pass by the bell rapidly and in order.

All Precautions Taken.

Policemen, firemen And Boy Scouts will take care of keeping the big crowds in order. Owing to the age ot the bell, every precaution is taken to guard against any moves of persons who are desirous of doing something unusual to commemorate their acquaintance with the relic. The bell isv carried across the country on a specially constructed car, which is equipped with its own electric plant and it rests on the platform in such a manner as to avoid any shock from travel.

A squad of twenty-five policemen under Captain Smock, and a like number of firemen, with police powers, under Chief Bledsoe, will be stationed at advantageous points to regulate the traffic and protect the crowd. No traffic of any kind will be allowed on Eighth street between Sycamore and Spruce streets, and no machines will be allowed to park within that space. Pedestrians will not be allowed to approach the car on which the bell rides by a street but Eighth, on the north side of the tracks.

The liberty bell is considered, perhaps, the most precious of American historical relics. It was cast by Lester and Pack at Whitechapel, London, and bears the inscription: "By order of the assembly of the province of ^Pennsylvania for the state house in the city of Philadelphia, 1752. Proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all the inhabitants thereof."

While it was on trial in Philadelphia a crack was discovered and it was recast there three times by Pass and Stow and finally hung in the tower of the State house in June, 1753. It was this bell that proclaimed the adoption of the declaration of independence, July 4, 1776. Thereafter it was rung to celebrate victories and tolled at the death of revolutionary heroes.

While being tolled in memory of Chief Justice Marshall, in 1835, it was again cracked. The crack spread and it was forever silenced February 22, 1843. It has been exhibited at several fairs and expositions during the last half century.

The bell is forty-eight inches in diameter at the tip and the thickness of the sound bow is three and three-quar-ter inches. It weighs 2,080 pounds.

A call for all letter carriers to meet at the postofflce this afternoon to march in review of the bell was issued yesterday. The letter carriers will meet at 4:15 o'clock. Other organizations have sent calls to their members to pay homage to the belL

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