Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 153, 2 May 1912 — Page 1

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VOL. XXXVII. NO. 153. . RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1913. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS.

$2,000 MORE DEMANDED Of

THIS COUNTY

Btate Auditor O'Brien Says

Wayne County Did Not Send Enouch When Last

Request Was Made.

'ALBERTSON STATES HE OBEYED ORDERS

Paris "Auto Bandits and Motor Car They Used

Complied with Terms of Demand for Money on June Settlement as He Interpreted the Order.

With the assertion that Wayne county should have sent at least $2,000 more to the state treasurer when the call was made for advance payment on the June settlement of taxes re- , cently, W. H. O'Brien, state auditor and secretary of the state finance board, in a letter to Treasurer Albertaon, of Wayne county, today practically demanded that this amount he forwarded at once without unnccessarv rielnv. That the state cofVrs

are at the lowest point in several years, despite the assertion of the state officials that "alWs well," is the belief of local county authorities. Whether Treasurer LAlbertson will comply with the state auditor's demand at once is not known. Mr. Al-

bertson stated today that he had obey- . ed the order of the finance board, as he viewed it, when, on April 15, he forwarded $10,000 to the state treasurer. : i O'Brien Makes Threat. In his letter to Treasurer Albertson, Mr. O'Brien cited the section of an act passed by the recent legislature, which threatens the county treasurers with ; the penalty of having suit ! instituted upon the bond of the treaak uVera failing' to comply with the order of the finance board and ten percent damages upon the amount of the money subject to such order and costs may be recovered from the defaulting county official. When the call was issued. April 13, Treasurer Albertson, as well as most county treasurers throughout the state, , understood the call to mean twenty1 five per cent of the money on hand in

stead of twenty-five per cent of the total" amount of the June settlement.

The Wayne county treasurer contends that he does not know and will

not know the exact amount of the June settlement until time to make

' the settlement. ,

One county official declared today

ithat the Democratic state administra

tion is now In an embarrassing posi-

tlon and unless the treasurers or tne

.several counties come to the rescue

ithe administration will be literally

, swamped with bills payable.

DRAMA LEAGUE HERE

Organized to Stimulate In

terest in Good Drama.

(A branch of the Drama League of ,America, a national organisation for the purpose of stimulating interest in the higher forms of dramatic art, was

organised here last evening in the lec

ture room of the Morrlssion-Reeves

library.

The object of the league Is, in brief,

to encourage managers and producers ln the presentation of good plays by

tan attendance on these plays through

t the activities of the organisation in j informing and instructing the public

i as to their theatric and artistic status

Professor Baker, of Harvard uni--versity. is a leading member of the

'Drama league and many other wel

known persons in both lay and pro-

1 fessional life are active in its manage-

i ment and propaganda.

A temporary organisation was effected last evening with Miss Edna

Johnson as president and B. W. Kelly,

..of the high school faculty, as secre

tary-treasurer, A publicity and memt bershlp committee were appointed and It is expected to take up the matter of

a permanent organization at once.

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TAFT FORGES

Disappointed by the Result in Massachusetts They Turn Their Attention to Maryland Now.

CAMPAIGN IS LEFT SOARING SKY-HIGH

The Draw in the Bay State Leaves the Situation the Same as It Was Before the Primary.

rtuu, x ,. urou.wulf. Dana OT aesperaaoes wno, during the last five months, perpetrated eight

murueiB, uguu ,u J natties. witn toe police, and their victims, and. robbed over $250,000 from Parisian automobllists. The lowekhotograph is of Bonnot, known as the "Demon Chauffeur" leader of the' gang, who was shot to death by I police last Sunday. In the upper row at the left .is Garner, Bonnofa chief lieutenant, who was captured day after his chief was shot. Besides Barnier is Diendonne, another member of the band recently captyrebeiow Garnier is Caroney, whom the police arreBted after a desperate battle, the latter part of March. . "

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SEEKS A LOCATION

Castle Auto Lamp Co., Ames-

bury, Mass., Officials Are in the City. 1

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Two representatives of the Castle

Lamp company of Amsbury, Mass., F. j

E. Castle, president, and . Henry . J. Quinn, general manager, are in this

city today Inspecting the factory build

ing formerly .occupied by . the Rich

mond Manufacturing ; company,' with a view of purchasing it and locating the big lamp concern here. The Cas

tle Lamp company supplies auto lamps to nearly all the large motor car concerns in the country and is a flourishing concern employing between three hundred and four hundred men.)

Mr. Castle and Mr. Quinn were tak

en to the old Richmond Manufacturing company factory this forenoon by Sec

retary Jordan of the Commercial club and . General - Manager Ashley of the Westcott Automobile company and it

appeared to be satisfactory to them.

VThe company's twenty year lease on

the factory it now -has in Amesbury expires soon and the officers of the concern desire to locate in the middle

west, which is the center of the automobile manufacturing industry.J If the

concern was brought here it would expect no bonus. All its officers desire is a suitable location and they believe Richmond would - be an ideal , place, because of its central location, its good railroad facilities and excellent labor conditions.

WARSHIMS

SUNK TODAY

atlonal News Association) coTANTINOPLE, May . 2. The

Italiavttle8hip Umberto was blown upon f white covering the. landing of ItatroopB off 2urtn today. The warship damaged below the water-

line an Bunk Tne fate of heT c'ew ?' men was not stated in the report, 6t lB believed that all were

WOMAN PICKPOCKET

FINALLY CAPTURED

(National Xews Association) WASHINGTON, May 2. Claiming that only 123 delegates are necessary to clinch the nomination for Mr. Taft the administration forces settled down

today to a grim fight to overcome the Roosevelt supporters. They declared that the necessary delegates would be gained without difficulty, but there was an undertone of disappointment

over the Massachusetts result.

The action of Col. Roosevelt in re

leasing the delegates at-large in the Bay State, was praised on all sides,

but the politicians said the delegates

would probably vote for Roosevelt anyway.

Maryland now becomes the battle

ground for the Republican factions.

That state will decide its course next week. As the fight goes on the belief

that a dark horse will win the nomination grows. ABtute politicians declared that Taft, after securing enough delegates to assure his nomination

will withdraw from the race. However

when asked the basis .for this utterance they were stumped.

It is believed .that the result in Mas

sachusetts will only increase the bit

terness of the fight and make it cer

tain that there will be unparalelled scenes at the national convention la . j- - tt -. . - Chicago. Unquestionably,' politicians say, if Massachusetts had gone for Roosevelt nothing could have stopped

the Roosevelt bandwagon which strated in Illinois. If the state had gone

for Taft the progress of the bandwagon .would have been effectually check

ed. By splitting even the Bay state has

left .the campaign up in the air 'and has made it necessary for the already bitter fight to deepen in intensity and violence.

News Nuggets

(National News Association) NEW YORK. May 2. Because his friends called him -cat" William Katx has asked the city court to give him the name of William Firestone.

NEW YORK. May 2. Carl, the head waiter at the Columbia university commons, has been dismissed. The students who dine there say they will go on strike unless Carl is reinstated.

SPARTANSBURG. S. C. May 2. The Methodists here have built a church in one day. It is papered, painted, carpeted throughout.

BOSTON, May 2. The license commfssion here has issued orders to a number of cafes and hotel that they cannot sell liquor to men on Sunday if they are accompanied by women.

NEW YORK, May 2. Owners of moving vans here say that May 1, as moving day is getting to be a thing of the past.

ATLANTIC CITY. May 2. The mosquitos of Atlantic county are going to be scientifically examined by a commission of -six men established by Justice Kalisch of the supreme court. They aim to end the pest.

WINSTED, Con., May 2 Mrs. Anna Lane of Fallsvillage, has has been arrested here for bigamy. On April 22, she was married to George Lane, her fourth husband.

L She says when her former husband

deserted her and went west she thought that left her free to marry again.

PUTS BLAME FOR TRAGEDY

GAPTAIH

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Senator Smith' Says if Capt. Smith Had Used Requisite Caution, Titanic Would Now Be Afloat.

TELLS OF CENSURE GIVEN J. B. ISMAY

Smith Says He Told Steamship Magnate When He Begged to Go Home, His Place Was at Capital.

SCHOOL CHILDREN

HAD

MAY

CONCERT

Delia Cluxton, Colored, Arrested After Robbing J. Behnen of $600.

lost.

MINE TRAGEDY.

CONSTINOPLE. May 2. The pilot boat ylndar -.truck a mine in the Darda today and ? was sunk with of )even mn. One man was sa . . . : The sinkiif pIIot boatf whlcn is the secongtpjj f thfi klnd within a we, a resnlt of the war mines, will p,y regult In tne Dar. danelles bein obstructions and thrown oj, trafflc wlthout further delay., i

It was reportoday that th Tur. kish cabinet li to reopen the strait at thent rst of the other powers. . . , Mf tha 50ps are bottled op by the closing be strait and numerous complain Deen made by shipping company rtbeii. various governments. -, , . . . ,

THE WEATHER

, STATE Fair In the north. Slightly cooler in north portion tonight (tnd Friday.

LOCAL Shower tonight. Friday continued warm.

HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY. Forecast for Richmond and vicinity: Showers tonight and Friday.

Maximum temperature 77 at noon

' Tuesday. Minimum temperature 600 at 10 a. m. Thursday. Temperature at 11:30, 77. Barometer, 30.00.

Direction -and velocity of wind S. W.

a miles an hour.

RICHMOND TEAM TO DEBATE ANDERSON

The high school debating team, con

sisting-of Harry Wooley, Bertha Walterman, Howard Messick, with Lester

Turner as alternate, will leave this city tomorrow for Anderson where tomorrow night . they will debate with the team from the ' Anderson high school. iThe subject will be, "Resolved, That the recall is practicable in cities and towns of Indiana." The Richmond team will uphold the negative side of the debate. The local debaters have been working on their arguments for over a "month and. are

confident of winning from the Ander

son trio. But one session will be held

here tomorrow, the school disbanding for the day at noon in order that all

who desire to do so, may accompany

the Richmond team to Anderson

A GOOD ROS BILL

Was Passed be Lower

House This enoori ; - i 4 j,;f. -. (National New. iJaU1. . WASHINGTON, MalTb. ohark.

leford amendment to tt flice, appropriation bill provid-or federai aid for good roads was th-

house this afternoon byote of j0

tO 86. ; ' ' , ' The Barnhardt ameni reqaip. in newspapers to publiC names of owners and stockholOjj being 240 to 58. The house today unaniAy Toted to appropriate $2,000 each owe of the three United a mail clerks who perished while nty on the steamship Titanta. ' ...... ... L . .1 - " t:

The old game of pushing and shoving the victim around and then "lifting his roll" was played last night on John Behnen, white, '800 Southwest Eighth street by Mrs. Delia Cluxton, a negress living on North Eleventh street. Behnen was' relieved of his pocket book containing $280 and a check for $290. After he discovered hia loss he notified the police and Officer

Menke caught the girl a short time later an dthe money, minus $5 was restored to "Behnen. Mrs. Cluxton was placed on trial in police court this morning on the charge of grand larceny. She admitted her guilt but asked for leniency, ' saying "she would never do It again." Prosecutor , Ladd however, - asked that she be bound over to circuit court and Mayor: Zimmerman so ordered, fixing her bond at $500. The bond will probably be, raised. - - Behnen was walking down North F street between Eleventh and Twelfth streets abolut ten thirty o'clock with William Jones, a colored man, to visit the. home of a prospective employer. Both the men are carpenters. Near an alley a bunch of negro girls stopped the men and began pushing and shoving them around. Behnen had his pocketbook in his hip pocket, into which a hand was stealthily placed and withdrawn ' without Behnen's knowledge. When he discovered his loss he called for help, and being able to give a good description of the woman. Officer Menke with Officer Bundy located the woman' at Eleventh and North J. streets about 11 o'clock. In court this morning she was asked if she stole the pocket book. She Bald "I. gave it back to him. I am sor

ry. This is the first time I ever did anything like this. If youH let me go this time 111 promise never to do It again. The mayor refused to let her go and bound her over to circuit "court. Two other times In the past two

months reports hare come to police

headquarters that this girl, who was formerly Delia Webster, had "lifted" money from men. One of the men lost

$200 and the other wu trimmed for

M0.

ARE LOYAL TO T. R. BOSTON, May 2. The eight delegates at large, elected in the Massachusetts preferential primary and pledged to vote for Theodore Roosevelt, will vote according to their personal inclinations when convention time comes around, according to today's developments in the tangled political situation in the Bay state. Col. Roosevelt has released the "big eight," after learning the result of the

preference vote. But Charles 8. Baxter, who led the Roosevelt slate, declared, "I have always been a Roose

velt man and I still am," and it is believed the attitude of the other delegates will be the same as that of Box-

ter.

The Taft forces, however, are not

satisfied with the situation. They have announced they will demand a recount of the state vote for delegates-at-Iarge and - if this recount still shows a Roosevelt lead, will attempt to prevent the seating of the Roosevelt delegates at the convention.

NEW YORK. May 2. In a state of almost complete collapse J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the International Mercantile Marine, Balled for England today on the White Star liner Adriatic. He made, the following statement to the newspaper reporter: "I am quite satisfied with the way the senatorial , investigation was conducted. I am quite willing to give every possible bit of Information which I possess regarding the Titanic disaster, both here and In England. I expect to be called during the Investigation in London." On the same ship salted Officers Ughtoller, Plttman. Lowe and Boxhall and thirty members of the Titanic's crew.

UNDERWOOD WINNER. Atlanta, Ga., May- 2. Complete but

unofficial returns give Underwood 8.-

577 plurality in the presidential primary yesterday, over . Wood row Wilson. The Alabama man carried 75 per

cent of the states 146 counties. Wilson

carried the . larger counties, winning Fulton, the Atlanta district by 2,563. The farmer vote was all for Underwood. ,

PUBLISH RECITAL PROGRAM FRIDAY

On account of lack of space In today's edition the Palladium was unable to publish the program for the recital to be given Friday evening at. the High school auditorium by Miss Elisabeth Hasemeier and her pupils.' The program will be published In Friday's edition.. . - ,

Interesting Event Was Held at the Hibberd School Wednesday. : The Thirteenth May concert of the Hibberd school given yesterday afternoon in the. high school auditorium was largely, attended and successful affair and one of the best: concerts ever given by', any of .the schools.; t - The program,- published 1a full in the Palladium,''' was carried out and

Included songs, choruses and - quartette - numbers by members of the

Music Study club with a violin solo by Miss Cornelia Shaw, and two numbers from the high school orchestra.

It was not the excellence of the concert alone 'that was' significant although the very high grade .of musical efficiency" shown by. the pupils would have been the concert's Justification for having been given.

But its significance was greater

than this.

It was an evidence of the democracy of this country's educational methods and the value of the latter's aesthetic

results. German, - American, Irish, Negro stood side by side and responded to the chorus master's baton and the piano accompanist. It was a local example of the "melting-pot" from which issue American citizens. Fine Musical Training. And in the careful musical training given in the public schools, under the incomparable direction of Mr. Earhart, lies the hope of the future musical culture of the community. The children are being trained to an appreciation of the technical Bide of musical art and also to be able to apply this knowledge with their own voices. . The phrasing, the pianissimo and fortissimo effects achieved, were astonishing .considering the youth of the performers, this being distince even with the klndergartners. The German songs were presented with charming musical and linguistic effect, and the three songs by the

boys' chorus were delightful. The "Woodland Song" by ' Harvey Worthington Loomis, by the fifth and sixth grade pupils was worth. In presentation, of a place on a more ambitious program, being sung with admirable eclat. ... . . The quartet made up of. Mrs. Charles Igelman. Mrs. Will Earhart, Mrs. Charles Marvel and Mrs. -Fred' Bartel

never, sang .in. better, form, their, num

bers eliciting great applause.

Miss Cornelia Shaw, one of the vio

linists of the Richmond Symphony or

chestra was greeted with enthusiasm upon her appearance and played an excerpt from Massenet's "Thais" with

appreciation if its musical and dra

matic appeal.

Miss Ruth Pelts . accompanied the

quartet' and Miss Runge the pupil's

choruses.

The whole affair was enjoyable from every point of view, not-only to

the pupils, teachers and their par

ents and friends bat to the general

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(National News Association) NEW YORK. May 2. "We have got

the goods.

This was the emphatic declaration made here today by Senator William Alden Smith, chairman of the U. 8. senate committee investigating the Titanic disaster. Senator , Smith came here from Washington to make a personal investigation of various angles of the inquiry. ."The evidence we have brought out." said Senator Smith, "has shown conclusively that Captain Smith of the Titanic received ample warning of the dangerous ice conditions that surrounded him on the night of the dieaster. Had be used requisite caution, he would have done as the commander of the steamer California did, stepped, or at least slowed down his engines, and so have saved his vessel and the hundreds of Jives intrusted . to his care." Senator Smith eaid today that J. Bruce Ismay tried frantically to get -away from New York and dodge the investigation. , In proof of this declaration he referred to a letter written to him by. Ismay. begging that he

be permitted -to go to England. - To., this letter Senator Smith replied:

"Why, man, there Ir no place on

earth for you. No place in your home, or any place on the globe to which yon could go and find peace until this mat- 1

ter has been cleared up. Your- place is here for -the present and I refuse to permit yon to go.

MOREL IS NOT IN SALOON BUSINESS ' In the Tuesday edition' of the Palladium it was incorrectly announced that Albert E. Morel ' had purchased an interest in the saloon of George Brucker. Mr. Morel says he does not intend to engage in the saloon business. He recently retired from the auto garage firm of Morel and Bricker. He has not decided what buaineM be will engage in. .

STREET CLEANING . . .

' PROGRESSING FAST Street ' Commissioner Dorcas Genn

announced this morning that his cleaning force had finished .work on the streets and Improved alleys of all the territory west of the river, and east of the river from Main street north to the railroad and from the river to the Glen park. The men will e pat to work sooth of Main street tomorrow.

ENGLISH INQUIRY. LONDON, May 2. Prepared for the most drastic investigation -of Its kind in the history of England, the court of inquiry appointed by the British government to probe the Titanic disaster, began its inquiry in the London Scottish drill . hall, Westminster, today. Lord Mersey, who has "gained deep knowledge of maritime affairs through 'bis connection with the admiralty const, presided. - ' The court has almost unlimited power and, in addition to trying to fix the actual responsibility for the disaster, is to consider-bow far the regulations of the British board of trade mere responsible for the loss of more than 150 persons. English marine laws may be completely overhauled as a result. The investigation will be more thorough than that conducted by the United States senate.

RIVER THREATENS CAIRO ONCE MORE (National Kevi AsocUtlon s CAIRO, m.. May 2. The river here reached a stage of 4 .2 feet today and at noon was still rising. The water was seven feet deep over the drainage district. All farmers throughout tha low sections have moved their families and stock to high ground. Sunday. May ' 5th, will be observed by every church in Cairo as a day of thanksgiving for the escape of the city from the recent flood.

SMITH GIVEN FOUR BRIDGE CONTRACTS

Isaac E. Smith was awarded the contracts for four bridges, let yesterday afternoon by the board of county commissioners. Smith's bids on . each bridge were lower than all others. The Crowe bridge. t miles north of Greensfork, win be buDt at a cost of 1325; the Endsley bridge, south of Richmond, on the Liberty pike, for $619; the Ttmberlake bridge. 1 miles north of Boston for $329. and the Townsend bridge, two miles southeast of. Greensfork, 1325.

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