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THIS COUNTRY AT THE MERCY OF A POWERFUL NATION General Hodges Declared Saturday that Japan CouW with Ease, Land an Army on Pacific Coast. WAR WOULD BE LONG AND A BITTER ONE But the General Believes the " United States Would Finally Be Victorious Tells of Conditions. (American Newif Service) Chicago, Doc. 17. General Charles L. Hodges, commander of he deparwent of the great lakes. In an interView today declared that Japan could land an army on our Pacific coast with ease ft any time because of the weakness of the United Ptnen nrmy at. present, as pointed out ly Secre tary of War Dickinson, who recoia mended Immediate steps be taken to correct this weakness. He also declared we would finally bo victorious after a long hard fight. "I don't believe that Japan Is look ing for war," declared Gen. Hodges The general knows something about the Japanese as he saw considerable service In the Philippines and had some opportunities of studying army nd navy. "Of course an Invasion of the Pa clfic coast Is entirely practicable," he continued. "The Pacific coast Is not Adequately defended. There Is 2.000 miles of shore line along our western coasts and an enemy would have lit tie trouble In landing an array. First Point of Attack. "The Tacllo coast, too, would be the first point that Japan would at tack In case of war. In my mind it would be poor strategy for Japan to attack the Philippines or Hawaii first, and Japan Is not making any mistakes In time of war. "Our coast defense has never been anything to boast of and the points where the Japanese , would select as available for landing purposes are not fortified strongly enough to put up any defense. The Japanese would un doubtedly take possession of the great mountain passes. "It would take us weeks, however, to get any sort of an army together, Our army numbers about 80.000 men and It' Is scattered all over the country In little posts and other places. "The national guard Is not available for Immediate use, although I believe that a great many of Its regiments could soon be made Into good fighting units. It would take some time, but ultimately we would triumph and would crush any foe that tried to 'Invade and conquer our country." HAS GOODPROSPECTS Farmers Interested in Approaching Corn School. The corn school which will be held In this city In February now Is assuming aspects of being the biggest venture of Its kind ever attempted in the county. The Young Men's Business Club, under the auspices of which the event will be held, has received most encouraging reports from those who have tickets. Farmers are quick to appreciate the value of the Instruction to be given by Purdue university faculty members. All It requires is for the ticket seller to make known Ms mission and state the purpose of the affair. Many women are purchasing tickets for the domestic science course. At the January meeting of the club reports from all of the committees will be made. SUGAR TRUST MEN GIVEN SENTENCES (American News Service New York, Dec. 17. Charles G. Ih-cw and Charles H. VVardwell. former government weighers, who were convicted of taking bribes In the sugar under olghing frauds last September, wero today sentenced to ten months' each In the penitentiary on W&ckwells Island. Judge Martin granted a stay for sixty days so that the convicted men may appeal. Palladium's Total Daily Average Circulation (Except Saturday) Including Complimentary Lists, for Week Ending Dec. 17, 1910. 69560 City Circulation V tbowtng net paid, news stands and regular complimentary list does not include sample copies. 5,615

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Andrew CaiTrgie, the veteran Ironmaster and some of the trustees who wi'.l have charsre of his $10,000,00 ) fund. From left to right, upper r vw. am Grorg; W. Perkins, of New York, financier a:ul philanthropist. Andrew Carnegie, the donor fW the fund; Klihn Root, United States Senator, Ex-Secretary of State, and Kx-Secretary or War. I!c()w a Nicholas Murray H itler, (on left). President Columbia university and Joseph II. Choate, lawyer, and Kx-Ambsissador to Great I'.riUhi This immense fund is in 5 percent first mortgages bonds and will yield $.100,000 a year. The trustees named by Mr. Carnegie will not merely preach that war is barbarous and useIchb, members say, but will strive by scientific reseanch to find and eradicate the causes of International strife. Twenty-seven trustees are named and the board has chosen Senator Root as its chairman. President Taft has accepted tho office of Honorary President.

TO DEATH THREE BROTHERS FIGHT Agree the Survivor Shall Have the Wife of One, but All Were Killed. (American News Service) Ileflin, Ala., Dec. 17. Locked in a small room, three brothers fought to their death last night over a woman at Hopewell, Cleburne county. The sheriff arrived at Hopewell today and broke open the door. Lying In a heap on the floor were the three men, Richard, Alfred and Whack Benefleld. The trouble arose over the wife of Richard llcnefield to whom the other brothers were paying attention. The brothers finally agreed to fight it out among themselves, the survivor to have the woman for his wife. The men fought with long bladed knives and when the door was broken down this morning the place looked like a butcher's shambles. The floor was sodden with blood and all three men were slashed a score of times. A knife was found sticking in one of the bodies. The faces were so badly cut that distinction between them was difficult. The battle had been continued after the men were too weak to stand apparently. The woman over whom the quarrel took place declared she knew of the bargain and had agreed to stand by it. TASK T00 LARGE Will Announce Corn School Grades on Monday. Owing to the fact the undertaking was a larger one than anticipated it was Impossible to compile on Saturday tho total grades of the members of the Wayne County Boys' Corn to the Purdue university short course. The grades of the members will be announced Monday unless something unexpected arises. There will be fifty boys from Wayne county who will be sent to Purdue university and all expenses paid for a week to attend the institution's short course in corn culture. The matriculation will take place at the university on January 9 and the school closes on January 14. The subjects taken up will be fully covered in this time and will be In charge of competent Instructors, most of whom are faculty members. There are a hundred and sixteen members in the club but. only ninety-five contested for scholarships. All will receive books on agriculture covering the subject in a theoretical manner. Representatives of the club from each of the fifteen townships in the county will be sent to Purdue. The basis of representation is on the township plan and not on the county plan, in other words a boy living ia Wayne township is not a contestant against a member living in any other township, but only agninst members living in his township.

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Trustees of the fa LLOYD-GEORGE TO BE IIEXTJPREM1ER Reported, King George Favors His Appointment" to Avert Great Crisis. (American News Service) London, Dec. 17. That a political compromise among the party leaders which will result In elevating David Lloyd-George, chancellor of the exchequer, to the position of premier of Great Britain, the position now held by II. 11. Asquith, is under way, became known today. King George is understood to have suggested it to avert a national crisis. The conservative press declares that concessions must be made by both Unionists and Liberals If a crisis, more grave than any which has yet menaced England's political institutions Is to bo averted. That affairs will so shape themselves that LloydGeorge will capture the premiership is the current report. The Unionists are quarreling among themselves over A. J. Balfour's promise of the referendum. Mr. Balfour has no intention of being forced out of his leadership of the conservatives and will fight strenuously to have his promise carried out. Many Parties Now. There Is much to be said in favor of his program, he himself asserts. The former premier explains that, when he first went into parliament, there were only two great parties the Unionists and the Liberals but now the field is taken tip with small parties and now the main alignment is so split that these smaller parties can block or swing legislation at will. He points out thaT the Irish Nationalists with their mere 71 members had the balance of power in the last parliament and will hold it again in the new. The legislation, thus hampered lie points out, the people themselves must decide the grave questions. King George is giving politics more attention than ever and he has temporarily laid aside all work upon, the coronation proceedings to devote his entire attention t o the political situation. The King will urge Premier Asquith to make a more comprehensive effort to adjust constitutional questions. Despite the charges against LloydGecrge by his enemies his ability is generally admitted. Tho worst claim against him is that, while decrying riches and aristocracy, he has not re fused to visit noblemen and enjoy J t'.ielr hospitality and that he is veil-! to-do himself. TWO FREIGHT CARS WRECK A PASSENGER

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j Bedouins was In progress today alSaratoga, N. Y.. Dec. 17. One man (though the Turks have recaptured was perhaps fatally injured and a doz- j Kerak and are driving back the tribesen others hurt tpday when two loaded men with heavy losses. The terrible freight cars on the Hudson Valley trol- j atrocities inflicted upon Turkish solley line which were being hauled by idlers by the tribal forces before the an electric motor engine, broke their j castle of Kerak has lent a fierce conrcouplings on a steep grade near Sehuy- jage to the Turkish soldiery who seek lerville and collided with a passenger ! to avenge their dead and tortured trolley car. The most seriously ! comradeswounded is Dr. Daniel H. Martin of! More than 1,0M) tribesmen have

Glenn Falls, formerly of New York. been killed, according to advices reCity who sustained Internal injuries, j ceived today from Damascus and George Godson of Glenn Falls was Rl-jHuaran. -The last official word was

so injured and the trull?y car was buiiicJ.

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Peace Fund LUCK BREAKS HARD FOR TJM AGNATE Girl He Would Wed Is De1 tained at the Ellis Island" by U. S. Officials. V (American News Service) New York, Dec. 17. Herman A. Ring, a Chicago mine owner, has unsuccessfully tried to get the release of two pretty English girls detained on Ellis Island, and he declared this afternoon that the action of the immigration authorities was an outrage. The girls. Lillian Mayes and Rose May, both of Mont Lake, Sussex, England, came over on the Mauretania, on which Ring was also a passenger. When they arrived here they were detained as they had no funds and admitted that Ring had paid their passage. "The whole truth of the matter is," said Ring today, "that I want to marry one of the girls. But I haven't asked her yet and I don't propose to do so under such unromantic conditions. I am a rich man. Everybody in Chicago knows me. I am head of a company that is building a $250,000 irrigation ditch in Alaska and I pride myself that my character is above reproach. Good as Sunshine. "I. was in England on a business trip and met these girls there. They are as good as sunshine, and I respect them both as much as I do my mothers and sisters. I have known them six months and they came over here as my guests and with the con sent of their parents. "It never occurred to me that we had such laws in this country. The girls are frightened to death and are so disgusted with what they had to put up with on Ellis Island that they want to go back now. As they are my guests I, of course, will stand all the expenses, but I wish they would wait until I can appeal to Washington." It was learned that Ring had given both the girl3 enough money to pay their return passage and it was also learned that both probably will return to England on the Mauretania when she sails tonight. NO MERCY IS SHOWN To .Bedouin Tribesmen the Turks. by American Xw Service) Constantinople, Dec. 17. Fighting in the vrtayet of Syria between Turk i

i that the Bedouins ucrc bc-'ng pursued) "as bad!;- H-irrK-d ;i.ot Vie breast jovtr the desert by the soldiers. 'and boiy thai she riay die.

CHRISTMAS WILL BE OBSERVED

A ROYAL MANNER In the County and State Institutions in Wayne the Inmates Will Partake of the Holiday Cheer. A CHRISTMAS TREE AT REID HOSPITAL At Easthaven There Will Be a Week of Festivities for the Inmates Good Dinner at the Jail. Christmas will bo observed by the county and state charitable and penal institutions during the week before, anu ice week alter Chr.stmas. in a; manner which will bring as much of the happy Christmas spirit as possl-

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fined in these institutions. The entertainment for the inmates of tho various institutions will consist of dances, banquets, Christmas trees, moving picture shows and many other forms of amusement. It has always been customary in Wayne county for the jails, hospitals and as: l;ims to observe the day as extensively as possible. Tho only Institution which will not have a celebra tion is the Wayne county jail. Sheriff

Meredith holds that the jail is so pop- against them. In this awful number ular at present there is no jisr ad.mii?;the niany thousands sent to Siberia or

any other popular features. Th prisoners will merely be given a regular Sunday dinner. For ten days during the Christmas

holidays the Eastern Indiana Hospital tbortties during the revolution, for the Insane will celebrate for the! These courts martial, says Koroamusement of the inmates. Th pXJlenko. are still in power and "active-

act program has not yet been arrang- i ea cy superintendent Smith, but there will be several dances, three moving picture shows, a play and minstrel show. There will be a number of other social functions. The inmatps will be permitted to engage in social affairs and to attend the shows and other entertainments. ' At Reid Hospital. There will be a dinner and probably a Christmas tree at the Reid Memorial nospital. The program for the hos-j pltal celebration has not yet been, com pleted. It is in the hands of the La dies' Aid society of the hospital. It is customary for the members of the society, members of the Board of Trustees, and all the city physicians and their wives, to attend the services in the hospital. A beneficial entertain ment is expected. At the Home for the Friendless there will be a Christmas tree exercise and giving of presents to the twenty inmates who now live at the home. It is intended to make Christmas as cheery a day as possible. The entertainment, which will include reci tations and music, will take place on the Friday before Christmas. The entertainment is in charge of the Board of Managers. On Christmas day there will be a turkey dinner. Just what will be the Christmas entertainment at the Poor Farm has not yet been decided, but there will be a celebration either Christmas eve or on Christmas night. A big turkey dinner will feature Christmas day in the eyes of the forty-seven inmates. Christmas entertainments at the Poor Farm have always been greatly enjoyed. "The fatted calf," of Bible history, will become a reality at the Wernle Lutheran Orphans Home at its Christmas dinner, for the trustees have decided that a caif shall be given the children instead of the conventional turkey and chicken. There will be an entertainment Christmas eve at the Home, when many of the orphans will engage in the program of 'ecitaUons and music. ,thbeWcvc6e.s REBELS WJ BATTLE Report of Defeat of Mexican Army True. (American Kews Service) Washington. Dec. 17. United States Ambassador Wilson reported to the state department from Mexico City today that the revolution Is spreading in Northern Mexico and that the recent report that Guerrero, Chichuahua. had been captured by Mexican troops was erroneous. Revolutionists stui have control of Guerrero, according to Mr. Wilson's dispatch. Senor de la Barra, the Mexican Ambassador to the United States, today confirmed the dispatches that Mexican troops had been defeated In a severe engagement with rebels in La Junta, Chihuahua. BURNED TRYING TO SEND SANTA A NOTE Evansville, Ind-, Dec. 17. While trying to send a cote to Santa Claua through the chimney the clothe3 of the three-year-old daughter of Mrs. Mabel Johnson caught fire from a stove and

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RUSSIAN EDUCATOR Profe8Sor viadimin Korolenko of st. Petersburg, Russia, who Bays that 80 per cent of the unfortunates, men women, who have been condemn ed by the Russian courts martial since the last revolution, died innocently. Thi3 statement is obtained from a copy of a St. Petersburg paper which was smuggled into Vienna and saved from the general confiscation of the edition which printed Professor Korolenko's terrible arraignment of the Russian courts martial. Korolenko affirms that the Russian courts martial have recently hanged three housand men and women, and of these six hundred were not guilty ;of any of the political crimes charged other prisons and penal colonies are not included. Neither are included the ictims shot by various "punitive expeditions," sent out by military au,y rnurderous." The newspapers that printed the above information were confiscated and the editors thrown into jail. THUbS ATTACKED ROBERT ALBEIH Local Butcher Badly Injured in Encounter with Cincinnati Highwaymen. Thugs on a mission of robbery. It is understood on Wednesday evening attacked Robert Albeitz, formerly of Cincinnati, now conducting a meat shop on South Fifth and A streets. Injuring him painfully and necessitating his removal to a hospital In that city. Albeitz is now at his home over his place of no business but no information could be secured as to bis condition. He had on his person at the time of the attack it Is said a large sum of money and some jewelry, including a diamond pin and gold watch. The highwaymen were unsuccessful in securing any loot. Albeitz arranged for a business trip to the Queen City on Wednesday and arrived there on the midnight train. On his way to the home of a relative, he stoppad in a place to get a lunch, and noticed there were a number of men in the place. After he left and was near Third and Broadway, which is very dark and deserted at that hour of the night, he was set upon by four thugs. Attacked from behind, he was almost knocked unconscious by bottles

filled with water. He yelled for belpItriv,,n tn -,- Mftltm .lphn.

and fought back until police arrived. It is understood that he choked one L- . "I uis usLe. i (j oi tu i uuiiius were placed under arrest; the other two escaped. When arraigned in the Cincinnati police court on Thursday afternoon, the two were fined heavily and sentenced to sixty days in the jail. So serious were Albeitz's injuries that he was sent to a hospital. He was able to return to his home here a day or two later and went immediately to his bed, it is said. His head is dressed with bandages and he Etill suffers considerable pain, it is understood. Hi3 hands are badly swollen. When inquiry, was made in regard to the matter on Saturday evening the reporter was told by the clerk that he did not want to talk to "editors" about the matter and also said a few other things including a threat to prosecute if the story was pu'ulisbed. - STORM ON ENGLISH COAST HAS ABATED American News Service) London, Dec. 17. The storms which have been battering the English coasts for six days, abated today although the disastrous floods, which have done vast damage to crops and property, still conUnae.- Mariners declare that the loss of life along the "aft has be;n light despite great diiiiase to ssiiiall craft and sea walls.

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SANTA CLAUS IS HAVING QUITE A mm II it High Cost of Living, Tariff Reforms and Other Rc-V forms Temporarily Forgotten by People. GOTHAM HAS MONEY TO BURN ON GIFTS Santa Is Nothing if Not Up-to-date This Year Wonderful Toys for Children Are Great Feature, (American News Service) New York, Dec. U.Th high cot of living, the urgent necessity for tar iff reform, trust investigations, labor troubles and even the memorable landslide at the last election are temporarily dismissed from the minds of the people. Christmas shopping, with, its thousand and one perplexities, worries, surprises and disappointments fills the minds of rich and poor to the ex clusion of almost evervthlnsr else. . The cost of living may be high, but the people seein to have money enough left to buy Christmas presents and not for many years has the holiday trade been brisker than this year. AM the Christmas shopper needs ia money;. opportunity to spend it In any way he may choose Is offered most temptingly everywhere. Never were the displays of the shops more beautiful, tempting and distracting than this year and shoppers find It extremely difficult to resist the lure of the many desirable and temptingly beautiful thiugs displayed In the shop windows and on the counters. It Is not an uncommon thing for a shopper to start with the intention to purchase certain things marked down on , his or her shopping list and to come home with an empty purse without having purchased any of the articles mentioned on the list, simply because there were so many other things more alluring to the taste of the buyer. All Are Delighted. .Those who have been in the habit of making the rounds of the shops about Christmas time year after year, are delighted with this year's displays. To them, who had follewed the manifold changes in the character of holiday goods, corresponding with the gradual evolution of wealth and refinement In this country, this year's magnificent display does not come as a surprise. They had ' watched ; the gradual evolution from cheap and crude toys to marvels of mechanical perfection, from equally cheap and gaudy tinsel to useful and ornamental articles of unquestionable artistic merit Less careful and systematic observers, however, who make the rounds of the shops at this time, will be greatly surprised at the wonderful changes in the character of holiday goods compared with the displays of five or ten years ago. Santa CClaus Is nothing it not up-to-date. Modernism crops and bulges out everywhere it Is the most striking feature of this year's holiday market. Nowhere Is this tendency more apparent than in the toy displays. Tin soldiers, mlnature circuses, drums horns and other noise-producing instruments of torture and the hundreds of other; rather primative toys which used to delight the hearts of boys ten or more years ago, are no longer conspicuous in the shop windows. They are still In the market and may be purchased, principally at the smaller shops, but they have outlived their, attractiveness and have been relagated to the more obscure shelves and corners. In the windows the latest and most up-to-date goods are displayed. The place of honor is other' tan reflecting the' modern accomplishmentg of man la the conquering of the air. There are small models of every known make of aeroplanes, Bleroits, Wrights, Curtis and other American - and foreign models, dirigibles a la Zeppelin, down to common ? county-fair baloons with parachute jumpers attached. Many of the models are quite large and the higher priced ones capable of taking flights of considerable length and height. The most expensive models of monoplanes and biplanes derive the power for their propellers from twisted rubber bands, while the cheaper models have steal springs and clockworks. These instructive toys, particularly the larger ones, are In every respect, excepting the 'motive power, exact reproductions of the machines used by the aviators. They can only be operated with safety in the open air, as they reach an altitude of from fifty to on hundred feet, and can cover a distance of 100 to 200 feet. They range in price from $1.50 to $75. Some Models Fly. The smaller and cheaper models also fly, but only when suspended from the ceiling, in which case they circle around through the air like real flying 'machines. In the same category be(ConUnned on Page Six.) THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Partly cloudy; warmer in the east a "A north portions on Sunday.

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