Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 187, 11 June 1912 — Page 1

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t: E HICHMONB FAIXABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVII. NO. 187. RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING. JUNE 11, 1912. SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS.

HEW POLICE

E BEING URGED - Department Is Handicapped by Old Fashioned System of Providing Protection to the City. & NIGHT RESERVE FORCE IS FAVORED Officers Should Be Better Armed, Trained to Use Weapons and Reserve Rifles Be Furnished. .... The attempt to" rob the safe at the Office of the T. H., I. & E. traction company here early yesterday morning which was frustrated by Patrolman Ilebble, has reopened the agitation for the creation of a night police reserve at headquarters. Business men and others in discussing this matter today declared that while the personnel of the present force in the city could not be improved greatly, a modern system of police protection is badly needed. It is likely that this matter will be brought before council at its next meeting, which occurs Monday, June 18. Chief Gormon holds the same views on this matter jlr do many business men. Mr. Gormon says that one or two men at police headquarters all of the time ready at a moment's notice to jump Into an automobile or on motorCycles to answer emergency police calls would be a very material addition to the force. 8ome Other Needs. In addition to the reserve men, the agitation is also for the arming of officers with revolvers of 38 or 44 calibre instead of the 32 calibre "popguns" now used, frequent target practice so the men will know how to use their weapons and placing a reserve supply of rifles at, headquarters for emergency, use. - "Oar force here is one of the best regulated in the state," stated the police chief this morning. 'T have received communications from all sections of the state and from Ohio cities as well, asking for information in regard to our rules, regulations and our system here and a few police superintendents have visited Richmond for

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the express purpose of securing such ,safe at the interurban station - have Information. ben found. Photographs off the outfits But we need a night reserve carrled by the men are to sent to force, even though only one man is ; tne police of all the larger cities of .provided. One man on a motorcycle the country in the hope of securing inwould assist us greatly in cases such formation that will lead to the arrest as the occurrence Monday morning. I j of tne yeggmen. Each class of burghave talked this matter over with the j Iars carrieB distinguishing types of police board and with others, but this:tools and thp8 tool oan ecnora,,v ha

,-..l.J l .V. i: j ' vi tuuini nuuiu iuu raec iuc yuiice uepartment's expenses. Whenever I bring upsuch matters some one is certain to say that 'Gormon wants to increase his force.' I don't, bring such things up for the sole purpose of increasing the force but because they are required. I have made a study of conditions here and am continually i Studying them. "We have but four day men. One tnan is stationed at Eighth and Main gill day, two others- have the Main street beats while the fourth is stationed at the Pennsylvania depot. A I reserve man for day work would help considerably." Chief Gormon is also in favor of hav ing two Winchester rifles and two shot guns at police headquarters to be used in emergency cases. However, he is not .'particularly anxious about a tooetrlct rule about target practice for members of the force. "We have target practice," said Gorftnon "although I do not insist on a regular target practice because a patrolman is only supposed to injure his man and not kill him." Main street merchants are unanimous in statements about Richmond's police force being one of the best in the Btate but they also say that it is handicapped by conditions. One busijiess man declared that since Chief Gormon has made the police districts In the business sections of the city smaller that he has felt safer about Sight protection of his place of business. !A TURKISH ISLAND TAKEN BY ITALIANS (National News Association) ROME, June 11. The Italian war fleet in the Aegean sea is getting ready i to occupy Lemnos, one of the biggest j and most important islands in the ar- j cnepaiago, according w uispmcues from the Italian commander, received today. The Turkish garrison capitulated upon the arrival of the Italian fleet, the messages added. Lemnos lies about half way between Mont Athos and the coast of Asia Minor and ita area la about 17 square miles. Tne , population or the island is about 40,- ; 000. When you take your vacation let the Palladium follow you. Telephone your -vacation address to No. 2566.

Warlike Scenes Call Up Memories of 1808

Corporal's guard ready for duty, at top, and below, a view of part of Deer Point Camp, where more than two thousand U. S. Marines are now encamped, awaiting orders to intervene in the Cuban negro uprising. These photographs, which have just arrived from the U. S. Naval base, at Guantanamo, Cuba, where the marines are encamped, bring back memories of the Spanish-American War, when thousands of khaki clad American soldiers were rushed to the scene of the struggle. BURGLARS LEFT HO CLUESJOR POLICE Explosives Left by . Them, Enough to Blow Up Part of City Now in River. No clues to the identity of the trio Of burglars Who nearlv hrnl-e intn the . - - depended upon to shed some light on the men who use them. ' . The collars found in the grip, and some other clues which Police Chief Gormon is investigating may prove fruitful clues. The one shot man who was prob-! by the officer un-! aoly doubtedly stopped after running a ;

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short distance from the scene of the j foundation, but a solid bed of hard robbery, and bound up his wound, for I pan found several feet below the surno blood stains were found. Several face, will be used for the foundation, residents living near the scene of the ! As soon as the concrete dam is

attempted robbery and shooting, heard j the shots and heard one of the men cry out in pain. The police have asked ! the authorities of nearby cities to look ; !for the trl' one of thera supposed to be wounded. The "soup" or nitroglycerine found !

in the grip left by the men, was emp- i other devices will be arranged for and tied into the river yesterday by Officer j erected. The building of the dam and Vogelsong. The officer, with a pint of i subsequent filljng up of the lake is the liquid in his hands, gingerly wend- j the keystone of the entire enterprise, ed his way to the river and there al- as no work can go on until the outlowed the terrible explosive to f low j unes of the lake are defined. Part of into the river. Two trips were made the land is "to be laid off into buiidins

10 wmpiy m siun. in tne two Dotties were enough explosive to have blown the officer into small pieces and to have destroyed a city block. Tt is estimated that the explosives carried by the robbers and found by the police j would have blown up the court house. A bartender in a North Ninth street saloon stated today that a well dressed man of about thirty years came into his saloon last Monday carrying a suitcase similar to the one left by the burglars, and after getting a drink and talking with several of the men around the bar left, saying he was going to a hotel. This will be investigated as a clue. At least 1000 visitors to the police station have seen the kit of burglar tools on exhibition there. BEAUTIFUL DRUG FIEND IS SUICIDE (National News Association) SAN FRANCISCO, June 11. Mrs. h. H Sharpe, wife of Lieut. Sharpe, of the Medical corps of the army, sta-1 tioned at the Presidio, committed sui- i cide in her bedroom at the Keeley Institute, 2930 Sacramento street, where she had gone to be cured of the drug 1 habU. Mrs. Sharpe was only 22 years old, and was one of the most beautiful members of the army set. . Mrs. Sharpe is the daughter of a wealthy family of Colorado, and told her friends only a short time ago that she was heiress to a fortune of J 50.000 which she expected to receive this year. " ,

TESTS FOR NEW HAWKINS LAKE City Engineer and Assistants ' Place a Weir Across ' the River Today. Work on the new Richmond lake and park project is expected to start within a few weeks. City engineer Charles with two assistants this morning made a weir across the river at Seventeenth street. By this means they measured the amount of water which hourly passes down the river bed. These figures will be used in basing the strength heieht and lth of th ,1 . . , new aam, wmcn is to De piacea at tnis i . . , .. iU , , , . ipolnt to provide the lake ot forty iacres- Plans for the dam have -nearly i been completed. The dam will be about eighteen feet above ground, Holes dug into the ground at the dam site disclosed the absence of rock for a erected, the water will be allowed to back up to the north and east over the land now owned bv the company. As SOon as the high water mark is reach ed, the work of laying out the remainder of the ground will start, and the boat house, amusement features and .0ts E ON RAILS Was Found by the .Boston Police Today. (National News Association) BOSTON, June 11. Two sticks of dynamite were found on the car tracks on Commonwealth avenue, in the exclusive Aberdeen district today. A car passed over the sticks which did not explode. Eeach stick measured eight inches in length. Police officers believe an attempt was made to dyna- i mite a car In connection with the elevated strike.

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General William A. Bancroft. presi-!cent

dent of the Boston elevated, today declared his willingness to meet the-j state board of arbitration and conciliation and discuss the elevated strike. ! This declaration was made when Mayor Fitzgerald sought to arrange for a j conference between Gen Bancroft and j the employes of the road. General ! Banchoft said: "I cannot meet the men. I am willing, however, if the state board desires, to .meet the board and tell them our position. The strikers have repeatedly declared their willingness to refer their demands to. the state board. The refusal of the elevated to recognize their right to unionize, they declare, was the fundamental cause of the strike.

LOSS OP LIFE IN ALASKAJJT GREAT Volcanoes Eruptions, However Bring Great Hardships to the Natives.

(National News Association) SEWARD, Alaska, June 11. (Via tug from Kodiak) Although Kodiak and Woody Island villages are covered with one foot of ashes from the volcano Mt. Katmai, which is in eruption, no casualties are reported there. Several villages in range of Mt. Katmai and other volcanoes, which are in eruption, probably sustained loss of life. There is sufficient food at Kodiak to last two weeks and revenue cutter Manning is there to give any assistance necessary. The Manning is supplying the people with drinking water as the water supply has been poluted with dead fish and ashes. Governor Clark has been asked to send a fleet of revenue cutters to cruise through the islands in the volcano zone to give relief. DETECTIVE BORNS USESJEW DEVICE Invents "Telegrophone" to "Use in Getting Incriminating Evidence. (National News Association) LOS ANGELES, June 11. A new instrument, more deadly In its incriminating possibilities than the dictagraph, lias been put into practical use by Detective William J. Burns. It is called the "telegrophone" and in the opinion of Burns, who is now in Los Angele, the new invention will be a great reducer of crime, as well as an effective and unimpeachable witness against criminal agents. "The new instrument is a simple contrivance," said , Burns, "and possesses all the good points of the dictagraph. In addition Its phonographic possibilities make it of incalculable worth. It is based on a small box and the recording is done through hair wires connecting with two steel posts. It can be attached to a telephone and Will record th conversation. It is not njtVssary for the Instrument to be placed in a room or even near a person to get every statement he may make. It seems to hear through the walls, and just as well as the human ear." ARIZONA CARRIED EASILY BY CLARK (National News Association) PHOENIX. Ariz., June 11. Champ Clark carried Arizona by a score of more tnan 10 to l, according to an official canvass of votes cast fn the represidential primary. The returns for other candidates are classed as scattering. While Clark's vote runs Between 5.000 and 6,000 with one big county estimated, Wilson reiceived 3S6 votes. Bryan 40, with Harmon a shade ahead of Bryan. Reece M. Long, a prominent Phoenix attorney, received a majority of 500 for Democratic national committee man over Brady O'Neill of Phoenix. THE WEATHER STATE Showers neaday. tonight and WedLOCAL Fair tonight and Wednaa-

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TO DEDICATE

REMODELED

CHURCH SOON

Important Event in History of the East Main Street Friends Church to Be Observed" on Sunday. AUDITORIUM ONE OF LARGEST IN STATE Church Can Seat Two Thous and People. Entire Interior of Edifice Has Been Rearranged. An important event in the history of the Orthodox Society of Friends of this city, and an interesting one in the religious annals of the town, will be the dedication of the remodeled Indiana Yearly Meeting House, on East Main street, on Sunday afternoon, at half past two o'clock, although services under the auspices of the East Main Street Friends meeting will be held in the morning. The present building has been extensively remodeled within, the interior being now one of the most commodious and most effectively arranged church auditoriums in Richmond and one of the largest in the state since it will seat two thousand persons. The auditorium proper has been rearranged by throwing the east and west sides into one large apartment, doing away with the separating partition and cutting off thirty feet to the south for an assembly room for local use, and building the gallery about the three sides instead of leaving it in the rear alone, as formerly. Has New Atmosphere. The ceiling has been raftered tind painted, and, with the remodeling of the auditorium, makes the acoustics, formerly notoriously bad, almost perfect. The entire interior is made over in tones of tan, the walls, ceiling and floor harmonizing admirably and giving the meeting house an atmosphere hot heretofore possessed. The assembly room to the south, with a library on the east, is a well lighted and effectively decorated apartment, the library being smaller but suited to its purposes, there being an outside entrance on the south of the assembly roqm. An interesting " object in the foyer of the church is the corner date stone of the old Whitewater Yearly Meeting House lettered with its date and the name of the architect of the building, this being set into the wall, below which will appear a copper tablet, engraved in Cincinnati, with the date of the erection of the original structure north of the railroad, 1823, its architect, Samuel Fisher; with the date of the erection of the present building, 1878, and the latter's builders, Henry and M. C. Henley; and the date of the remodeled building, 1912. History of Building. The present building was put up in 1878, the plans being drawn in Cincinnati, the builders being Henry and M. C. Henley, of this city.Jthe latter's name, on a small brass plate, appearing on the balustrade of the west stairday leading to the galleries, which was constructed by Mr; Henley himself. There are four chandeliers, each having twenty-two 60 watt lights, making eighty-eight lights in addition to the -wall and gallery lights, the building having been entirely re-wired. One of the interesting furnishings of the foyer is the four benches taken from the old Whitewater Yearly Meeting house. The entire interior remodeling represents an expenditure of 19,000, which with the $2500 on the outside Including the new cement walks, and the roof, makes a total cost for the improvements of $11,500. This expense is borne by the Indiana Yearly Meeting and Whitewater Monthly Meeting, the latter sharing only in the expense of the interior, the $2500 on the outside being for repairs that would have had to have been made without, whether the interior was remodeled or not. The matter was in charge of a committee appointed from the Yearly Meeting, whose local representatives were Leander Woodward, Charles G. Carpenter and John H. Johnson, with Thomas Elleman representing the Whitewater Monthly Meeting. The dedication at half pact two o'clock on Sunday afternoon Is conducted under the auspices of Indiana Yearly Meeting, many of the Board of trustees to be present together witB the Yearly MeeUng committee appointed to look after the remodeling. Friends from different parts of the state will be in attendance, ReT. Ellyson R. Purdie; of Wilmington. Ohio, to make the address. TRUSTEES TO MEET "Beautifying School Premises" is the subject upon which W, S. Porterfield, trustee of the Boston township schools will talk at the regular monthly meeting of the township trustees, which will be held tomorrow at the office of County Superintendent Williams. The final arrangements for the annual picnic of the trustees will also be made at this meeting.

TEN MORE DELEGATES GIVEN TO PRESIDENT TUFT TODAY BY -COMMITTEE IN CHICAGO

REBELS ATTACKED At Guantanamo, Santiago, Is Informed Today. More Sea Soldiers Landed. (National News Association) SANTIAGO, Cuba, June 11. Cuban rebels have been decisively defeated by American marines and Republican troops in an attack on Guantanamo, according to reports received here today. The attack is said to have begun late last night and lasted until early today. The marines were commanded by Lieut. Col. Lucas and the government troops by Gen. Nachara. The attack followed a warning by General Ivonet, Vtxe rebel leader, that he Intended to destroy the entire town, including the U. S. naval station. The warning ' was unheeded at first but when the outposts reported that rebels were marching against the city Gen. Nachada called upon the American off cers for help and 300 American ma rines were immediately dispatched to aid in defense of the city. MORE MEN LANDED. SANTIAGO, Cuba, June 11. Over two hundred more United States marines were landed in Cuba today to protect property from raids of negro jnsurgents. Sixty-five sailors were landed from the Nashville at Navarl to guard the property of the Woodfred Iron company. One hundred and eighty marines were landed in the Guantanamo district. Of this number 100 were sent to San Luis. FRENCH NAVY MAY . BREAK UP STRIKE - fXational News Association) HAVRE, France, June 11. Sailors from the French navy may be pressed into service as strikebreakers to man ships which are held up here by the strike of seamen on the French liner France. The French warship St. Louis was scheduled to arrive here during the day and it was reported that she would immediately transfer enough men to the France to enable the latter ship to steam for New York. This report caused consternation In the ranks of the strikers. So violent did the idle seamen become that an extra heavy guard of gendarmes were sent to patrol the harbor and dock district. Only the vessels of the compagnie Normande, which ply between Havre, Honfleur, Troubille and Caen were able to run today, but there were indications that they would soon be forced to tie up. In all nearly 2,000 were out, as many freight handlers joined the sailors. M. Delille, secretary of the Sailors' Union, is here trying to bring about a general strike at every French port. CHICAGO WAITERS GO ON A STRIKE (National News Association) CHICAGO, June 11. Fifty waiters employed at the La Salle Hotel went out on strike while 450 members of the Northwestern Medical School sat dinnerless until others could be obtained to serve-in their places. While leading hotel men do not believe that this small strike is a forernnnr of a. srenral walVnnt ttt wait. ers, they are nevertheless making plans to cater to the guests In the event of the strike becoming a ggeneral one on the eve of the Republican convention. Just as the medical students started to dine a delegation ef waiters demanded of Manager Wolfe that they be paid 13.00 Instead of $2.00 for senrInr the banauetera. Thev were sum - marily refused. TWO CANINE CASES BEFORE THE COURT i Two test cases of the validity of the laws of the state regulating muzzling of dogs during a rabies epidemic will be made in police court tomorrow. Warrants have been placed In the hands of the prosecutor against, two dog owners who are charged with neglecting and refusing to muzzle their dogs in accordance with an order established by Dr. King some time ago for the entire county. If the full penalty provided by law la assessed the fine will be s.vere ones, ms for each day the orders of the health officer are not complied with, a separate fine is assessed. The fine is not over $25 for each offense. The warrants will be served this afternoon. One ot the alleged violators Uvea within the city and the other outside the city.

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THIS MAKES TOTAL OF 94 DONATED TO TAFT BY HENCHMEN

Committee Today Awards Ten Kentucky Delegates to Taft, Despite Affidavits Against Them. A DISGUSTED TAFT MAN GOES TO T. R. Alabama Delegate So Arv nounces Today. Roosevelt Leaders Held Important Conference Today. (National News Association) CHICAGO. June 11. The four delegates at large from Keueucky and the two from jhe first district, representing the Taft faction, were seated by the national committee this afternoon. The vote on the delegates at large was taken under protest, three committeemen not voting. A bale of affidavits had been filed by the Roosevelt men In the delegates at large case. The Roosevelt men on the committee wanted delay until these could be read. The Taft men refused and the vote was ordered. The ballot resulted 38 to 11 in favor of the Taft men. After disposing of the delegates at large and the delegates from the first district the contested delegates from second district were considered. These two delegates went .to Taft on roll call. 51 to 0. Governor Hadley of Missouri, who had taken his place in the national committee, holding the proxy of Sidney Bieber of the District of Columbia, did not vote, not having heard all of the case. Inasmuch as the fourth district contest is the same as the first and second districts the Roosevelt forces gave up hope and wanted to withdraw the contest Chairman Rosewater then ruled that this placed the Taft delegates from the fourth district on the temporary roll. This gives Taft ten delegates today, or a total of 94 since the hearings began. ROOSEVELT CONFERENCE. CHICAGO, June 11. A conference of Roosevelt leaders was held in the rooms of Senator Joseph M. Dixon today before the session of the national committee, Gifford Pinchot, former chief forester, James R. Garfield, a former Roosevelt cabinet officer, and a number of thers talked matters over with the senator. What plans were outlined none ot those present would Intimate, but the air of cheerfulness and confidence that was lacking last night after the defeat of the Indiana contestants had reappeared. "I am here to help nominate Col. Roosevelt. said Pinchot after, the conference had broken up.- "He will be nominated by a regular (Pinchot did not say the regular) convention and talk of a bolt Is utter rubbish. "There is not the slightest doubt that Colonel Roosevelt is now assured of a sufficient number of votes to nominate him on the first ballot. The steam roller tacUcs practiced by the national comittee in the Taft interests will result only in disgusting the country with machine politics and making impossible the recurrence of , any such episodes." Mr. Pinchot was asked if he would take any definite steps for smashing the steam roller. "If I had any such 1 8tP 'n mlfd 1 certainly would not reveal them in advance," he said. A TAFT MAN BOLTS. BIRMINGHAM. Ala June 11. C. D. Alverson. Republican delegate from the Seventh Alabama district, elected as a Taft delegate to the Chicago con vention, announced today that be has '. switched from Taft to Roosevelt. AIverson says he hss become so disgust ed with the steam roller proceedings of the national committee that he has decided to vote for Roosevelt. KENTUCKY CASE UP. CHICAGO. June 11. The Republican national committee resumed contest hearings this morning. The Kentucky cases were first taken up. The dispute over the delegates at large was first heard. The Taft delegates at large from Kentucky are Senator W. O. Bradley, (Continued on Page Star TODAY'S PAPER IS IN THE HANDS - of hundreds of readers who are careful students of . the Want Ads. YOU CAN FIND HERE A BIG -MARKET,

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