Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 169, 27 May 1914 — Page 1

BICHMQM) FAIXABIUSi AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXIX. NO. 169 RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 27, 1914 SINGLE COPY 2 CENT

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ENVOYS DOUBT HUERTA'S EXIT FROM MEXICO

Delegates Play Diplomatic Game in Junket to Garden Party on Canadian Soil as Guests. Rebels Reject Overture of United States for General Armistice in Mexico, Says Judge Lamar. BULLETIN. TORONTO, Ont., May 27. Representations of the United States to the Constitutionalists Tor a general armistice in Mexico has been rejected. On the way to Toronto from Niagara Falls, Justice Lamar, one of the American peace delegates, confided to Minister Naon, one of the mediators, that President Wilson had failed in his efforts to have General Carranza, first chief of the Constitutionalists, and General Villa to consent to an armistice. BY LAWRENCE TODD, Special Staff Correspondent of the International News Service. NIAGARA FALLS, Ont., May 27. Junketing across the province of Ontario in a special car to attend a garden party in Toronto, at which the Duke of Connaught, the governor general of Canada, and his daughter, Princess Patricia, are to be guests, the South American mediators and the American and Mexican peace delegates played steadily at their game of diplomacy today. Without the formality that marked their "conversations" in madiation headquarters in the Clifton hotel, the conferees again took up the following questions: 1. The time when Huerta should abdicate. 2. The right of Huerta to run for the presidency at the next election. 3. The right of the Constitutionalists to dictate the terms of the next election. 4. The treatment of the agricultural question. It Is expected that the points upon which the Americans and Mexicans have reached an agreement will be put into writing tomorrow. Reports from Vera Cruz that General Huerta was in flight from the capital were read with intense interest by all concerned. According to the general belief the abdication of Huerta would render the present conference useless as it would leave the way clear for the Constitutionalists to seize Mexico City and with it the central government of the republic. RABASA DENIES REPORT. TORONTO, Ont., May 27. "I have heard nothing of it, and I do not believe it," was the comment made here this afternoon by Senor Rabasa, one of the Mexican peace delegates to the mediation conference, when told of reports current, in Vera Cruz and Washington that General Huerta had fled from Mexico City. Both Senor Rodriguez a.nl Senor Elguero. the other two Mexican representatives vere equally doubtful of the report, paving they believed "it could not be true." EXPECT CARRANZA LETTER. WASHINGTON. May 27. A letter defining the Carranza attitude is expected hrfre by Saturday, according to judge Douglas. I'ntil this letter has been received, Carranza's position in regard to the various points taken up et Niagara Falls will not be known. Judge Douglas stated that General Carranza is not seeking to become a party to mediation because, as his present status indicates, he has nothing to mediate. HANDLEY SUGGESTS PACKAGEHAMPERS Postoffice Employe Believes Use Would Add to Parcel Post Efficiency. Citizens of Richmond and Wayne iounty farmers are not doing much marketing by parcel post. Since the new plan of sending butter, eggs, vegetables and other farm and garden products has been introduced, very little -ffcct has been felt here, acording to t-Uiperintemlent of Mails Hundley. Country butter, fresh from the churn: spring chickens that never saw cold storage; unwitled vegetables, fresh home-cured meats and other things are being sent in other communities through parcel post in large Quantities, according to reports, but the Richmond office handles few of these products. Parcel post extension is being planned by the senate, and Mr. Handley has been sending weekly reports to Senator Rristow, chairman of the Joint committee on general parcel post. A comprehensive supply of information will be collected by the committee with which to start its extension work Mr. Handley's suggestion to the committee is the use of hampers for carrying and transporting parcel post matter. Express companies use strong boxes for packing numbers of small packages sent to one point. "Wo must come to this sooner or later," Mr. Handley said. "It will save Us time and expense, and it a system R hich will prevent breakage to a large (xtent. The method of using regular tnail sacks does not appeal to me as being practical for parcel post business."

y DROP DEAD AS CITIES SIZZLE IN TERRIFIC HEAT Besides Causing Many Deaths Unusual Warmth Bakes Seeds in Soil and Causes Farmers Worry. Unless rain comes soon, seeds will dry in the baked farm land and buds will wither away on fruits and berries. Farmers are worried over the crop prospects. Wheat, corn and other crops are endangered from the sweltering drought which has been prevailing not only over Wayne county but over the entire country. Young clover and corn are the crops suffering the most from the heat and absence of moisture. The ground is so heavily crusted that the scoots cannot break through and those which are just showing above the surface cannot make progress. Many farmers are taking light rollers and rolling their corn fields. This breaks the crust enough to permit the plants to come up at the same time, will not damage them. j There is usually a drought at this time of each year and many of the ' older farmers believe it will do no ! great damage to the crops as they j say that at this time of the year, rain cannot be long forth-coming. Although no heat prostrations have j been reported in the city, excessive heat probably will effect some of the ; physically weak people unless there', is relief. The discomforture of the , sweltering afternoons is the chief ef-1 feet upon residents of the city who do i not have the farm lands to consider. HEAT KILLS FOUR. PHILADELPHIA, May 27 This city today is experiencing the hottest j day of the year, the thermometer registering 91 degrees at 11 o'clock. There have been four deaths from the heat since yesterday. BREAKS RECORDS. NEW YORK. May 27. With two over-night deaths New York awoke today to find the city overwhelmed by a heat wave that promised to eclipse all records for this time of year. CAUSES ONE DEATH. BOSTON, May 27. Boston is today first heat wave of 1914, which so fan has caused on death and a score of prostrations. HEAT IS EXTREME. BALTIMORE, Md., May 27. This city today is suffering from the extreme heat of the first hot wave of the year. Many prostrations have been reported. AWFUL HARD TIME HITS DAN CUPID . . Cupid has spring fever or at least he is laying down on his job and It is time for some one to start to worry. Whether he is saving his victims until later or has failed to make many catches this month, cannot be told until later, but since the last day of April, he has succeeded only in making twenty-four hearts beat as twelve. Last May was an average month and thirty licenses were issued from the first to the twentyeighth. In a similar length of time this May, but twelve couples have secured licenses of the county clerk. This is the poorest month in the marriage market since the Civil war. The marriage licenses issued by. County Clerk Matthews average no less than one a day each month and the average years sees more than 400 licenses Issued. CONFER ON RATES Manufacturers of the city using electric current for power will meet with the Comercial club committee, board of works, city attorney and superintendents of the city light plant and the Light, Heat and Pwwer company to discuss the rates charged under the new schedule for current. The meeting will take place tomorrow af- '. ternoon at 1:30 o'c lock in the Com mercial club rooms. Pope and

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Above is shown an interior view of the consistory chamber at the Vatican in Rome, where the Pope presided at the consistory, Monday, when thirteen bishops were honored with the title of Cardinal. The insert is of Pope Pius X, the present head of the Roman Catholic church.

MARINE OFFICER HERO OF VERA CRUZ

Colonel Pmedley Butler, commanding the marine landing forces at Vera Cruz, whose many feats of daring are sources of interesting stories told by the wounded Jackies who were brought from Vera Cruz to the hospital at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the hospital ship, Solace. Butler, according to one story, made valuable topographical maps of the country that stretches between Vera Cruz and .Mexico City by tramping every foot of the way disguised as a Chinese coolie. HUERTA RESIGNS? BRYANCHUCKLES Vera Cruz Newspaper Asserts Dictator Left Mexico City During Last Night. By WM. NELSON TAFT. Staff Correspondent of the Interna tional News Service at the White House. WASHINGTON, May 27. Skepticism today prevailed in official circles over the report that General Huerta is in flight from Mexico City and has sought refuge in Puerto Mexico. No official confirmation of the reports has been received and both the White House and the state depart ment are inclined to doubt them. It is generally believed that General Huerta has made on of his character istic "disappearances" in his favorite haunts of Mexico City and that he will reappear in a short time. "I have not received any official confirmation that Huerta has left Mexico City," said Secretary of State Bryan, and the twinkle in the secretary's eye gave the interviewer the impression that Bryan only wished that official confirmation could be had from Mexico City that this was a true report. Upon the elimination of Huerta depends the attitude of the United States towards Mexico. PRINTS HUERTA'S RESIGNATION. Vera Cruz Newspaper Claims Dictator Has Gone. VERA CRUZ, May 27. EI Presente, a Spanish newspaper, prints the following statement toda-: "General Victoriano Huerta has resigned. He left Mexico City during the night, passing through Cordoba. It was his intention to go as far as Santa Lucretia on the Isthmus railway and there await word to proceed." Y" MAKES RATE Beginnig June 1 the regular rate of for the thre summer months will go into effect. This gives members right to all privileges of the association, and the $3 may be applied on a year's membership if desired at the expiration of the summer term.

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CLEM TO SUCCEED INSPECTOR FLOOK City Will Provide Graduate Veterinarian With Laboratory for Tests, Also Forbids Dairy Practice. Dr. Lou Clem, who graduated as a veterinarian from an Indianapolis school last March, and who has since been practicing his profession in this city, has been appointed city dairy inspector by Mayor Robbins on the recommendation of the board of health. He asumes his official duties the first of next week. Dr. Clem succeeds Charles Flook as dairy inspector. Flook was not appointed inspector the first of the year when the Robbins administration came into power, but was continued in office with the understanding that he might be removed after council had either pased or rejected the pure milk ordinance. Dr. Clem is not only a competent veterinarian, but is also capable of performing laboratory work. He has agreed to make all analyses the board of health will require to be made, providing he is furnished with a laboratory to perform such work. To Provide Laboratory. Such a laboratory can be provided at an expense of about three hundred dollars, and Mayor Robbins stated today that he will ask council to make an appropriation for such purpose. With a city laboratory the board of health will no longer be required to have the state perform such work for it, which arrangement has never been a satisfactory one. Dr. Clem is also able to care for all horses owned by the city. He is not permitted to engage in private practice with any dairyman. Dr. Clem is a young man and formerly resided in Lynn, Ind. Dr. J. H. K,insey, president of the board of health, said today that the board had not been satisfied with Mr. Flook's services as a dairy inspector. He charged him with being on entirely too friendly relations with the dairymen, pointing out that the dairymen have always been enthusiastic in their endorsement of Flook. Dr. Kinsey also asserted his belief that Flook cooperated with the dairymen in their campaign to defeat the milk inspection ordinance, and he accused the retiring inspector of having indifferently enforced some of the provisions of the existing dairy ordinance. As an instance of this he cited the statement made by one dairyman at a recent councilmanic hearing, that he never used ice in his delivery wagon to keep his milk at the temperature provided in the ordinance. Dr. Kinsey also said that it was known to the board that Flook had been in the habit of calling up some dairymen to inform them of his intention to inspect their dairies. GOLDFINGER GIVES CLERKS HOLIDAY The first bit of humanity for the store clerks of Richmond to relieve the discomfort of staying indoors six j days a week and on their feet most of j the time during the sweltering sumi mer weather, has been started by Henry Goldfinger. owner of the Palais Royal. Mr. Goldfinger announced today that he would close his store one afternoon each week during the months of July and August and give his clerks a chance to relax. L,ast year a number of men clerks asked owners of two or three of Richmond's biggest stores to give one afternoon a year for a clerks' picnic, which was to have been held in Jackson's park. The plan fell through. It is' probable that other stores will follow the example of the Palais Royal. None of the store owners has been questioned regarding the movement, but clerk's believe the start given by Mr. Goldfinger will be the means of inducing other merchants to do likewise. Mr. Goldfinger will close either on Wednesday or Thursday, afternoon each week during the two hottest months. The clerks' union probably will take the matter of making the movement general, under consideration at the next meeting and it is not impossible that Richmond will follow the lead of big eastern cities in closing up all business for an afternoon a week.

For Speedway Race Results Watch Palladium Bulletins With its full leased wire service, The Palladium will give its patrons and concerns receiving its bulletins full details on the Speedway races at Indianapolis next Saturday. The International News Service has sent its special sport and feature writers to Indianapolis, and readers of The Palladium are assured of a comprehensive review of America's classic auto speed races, written by the best newspaper writers of the country. With a leased wire in its office, connecting it directly with the Speedway, no time will be lost in the transmission of news, and spectacular brushes between racers and accidents that may happen will be flashed into The Palladium office without a fraction of delay. If you are downtown on Memorial Day, watch the Palladium bulletin boards in front of the cigar stores, in the motion picture houses, confectioneries and drug stores. You will be given details of the race a few minutes after they happen. There will be no long delay, but the news will be hot off the wire and up to the minute. For the latest new, read The Palladium.

SPEEDWAY CLOSES AFTER ELIMINATION CAR TRIALS TODAY Track Will Be Scrubbed and Tested for Big Speed Grind of Autos Memorial Day at Indianapolis. BY LEASED WIRE INDIAN'APOUS. May 27. Charles Kennerdale, of New York, chairman of the contest board American Automobile association, today announced that the foreign drivers entered in the 500 mile race on Memorial day, will be recognized. They will not be compelled to take out A. A. A. licenses. Fred W. Jenkins, manager of the Elgin road races, arrived in Indianapolis today. He said he had signed eight drivers to compete in the next road race on the Elgin course. George Brown, of Milwaukee, promotor of the Vanderbilt cup and grand prix races at Milwaukee In 1912, arrived today. All drivers and mechanicians and officials of the 500 mile race will meet at the Claypool hotel at 8 p. m. Thursday. Boillot, the French driver, in a Peugot car, today made the fastest lap thus far negotiated when he covered the two and one-half miles of brick paved track in 1:30:13. a speed of approximately 100 miles an hour. Boillot fulfilled his threat to eclipse the record of Goux, which created a sensation yesterday. After the final speed trials today the Speedway will be closed and no cars will be allowed on the course until time for the start of the 500 mile race on Memorial day. The track will be given a through scrubbing and every inch of the oval two and' one-half miles of brick pavement will be inspected for a possible defect. That new records will be hung up by thia year's race was indicated by the track records hung up in yesterday's trials, when Jules Goux in a Peugot, winner of last year's classic, made the two and one-half miles in one minute, thirty-one and seventy one-hundredths seconds. DICTATOR POISES TO FLEE MEXIC IN SPECIAL T Armored Cars and Pullmans Under Steam to Carry "Important Passengers' From Mexico City. BY THOMAS P. COATE, Special Staff Correspondent of the In ternational News Service. VERA CRUZ, May 27. Although reports were persistently circulated here today that General Huerta has fled from Mexico City to Puerto Mexico, to take passage on the German steamship Ypiranga, they lack official confirmation, but are generally believed as they are borne out by a number of circumstances which ' indicate that Huerta has finally abdicated after a stormy and brief tenure in the National palace. Two special trains, one armed and armored and the other made up of Pullman palace cars, were made up at Cordoba yesterday and held up the main track awaiting "important passengers" from Mexico City. Fit Car for Huerta. One private care, fitted up in palatial style, was attached to the second train. The car, it was said, was prepared for General Huerta and the members of his family. The Ypiranga, which steamed for Puerto Mexico, accompanied by the German cruiser Dresden, is expected back at Vera Cruz Saturday. Before she sailed her commander received word from a GermaR -government official that "important passengers" would watt at Puerta to take passage th JAnar.

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WITHOUT PULMOTOR PHYSICIANS UNABLE TO SAVEJOY'S LIFE Attempts to Resuscitate Young Meyers After 18

Minute Dash to Reid Hos-1 pital Proved Futile. Because there is no pulmotor at the Reid hospital, an instrument used to resuscitate drowning persons or those who have been overcome by gaB and smoke, the cost of which Is only $125, j Charles Meyers, the 8-year-old son of Jerry Meyers, a well known cattle buyer of Hageretown. died at the hospital shortly after his arrival there, at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The child, almost dead, was brought in an automobile from Hagerstown, where he had fallen in a fire cistern at 11 o'clock in the morning. The car was driven by Charles Teetor at breakneck speed, 18 miles in 23 minutes. Before it was decided to bring the child to the Reid hospital Hagerstown physicians had worked with him for over two hours in a desperate effort to save his life. A Richmond physician resorted to heroic measures to save the child. Oxygen was administered but with out success and then a powerful stimulant was injected, but with no better result. Falls in Cistern. Yesterday morning Ch'-Ies Meyers hitched his sled to a delivery wagon ! and was having a fine time being hauled about town. Finally one sled runner pushed off the cap of a fire hydrant and the boy, losing his balance by the jolt, toppled over backward and plunged, head foremost, into the deep water of the cistern. In : ninety-nine cases out of one hundred a similar accident could have been avoided by clutching the edges of the cistern, or by a leg or an arm thrown out to break the fall. When Charlie fell he shrieked with terror and the driver at once summoned help from a nearby factory. The boy could not swim and after he had been in the water for seven minutes his body came- to the surface for a third time and was seized by a man who. held by his ankles, had been lowered into the well. It was thought at first that the child was dead but signs of life were soon detected and physicians worked with him for some time, finally decided to bring him to Richmond as a last resort to save his life. Richmond physicians have for some time been urging the purchase of a pulmotor. Local physicians also hope the officers of the Morton Park and Lake company will provide a pulmotor at that place to be used on any persons rescued from drowning. The device is small and can be easily carried about in a suit case. It can empty the lungs of water almost instantly. TO DEFERJELECTIOli Presbyterians Take Time in Selecting Pastor. The special committee of the board of trustees of the First Presbyterian church will not hasten to get a new pastor to fill the place vacated by the Rev. T. J. Graham, but will wait until the unanimous choice of the church officials is reached. John M. Ccate, chairman of the special committee said today that no action has been taken on any pastor, and none will be taken soon. Because of the approach of extremely hot weather, it is believed by the committee that it is advisable to wait some time before selecting a minister. None of the speakers at the Sunday church services has been considered in the light of a trial preacher, and their names have not been taken up as possible pastors of the church. The committee has had little difficulty filling the pulpit from Sunday to Sunday. GIRL STRANGER TO STEP-FATHER No closer than a stranger to her mother's second husband, can Emma Moore, step-daughter of Marquis D. Beeson, be regarded, according to the ruling handed down by the state board of accounts for Wayne county. Beeson left his step-daughter S3.240 In a will, and in paying the income tax, she was forced to pay five per cent of the legacy, which with the discount. mounted to f 149.15.

SOCIAL CENTER TO MOULD LIFE FOR RIVERDALE

Club Women Evolve Plan to Teach Children How to Become Good Mothers and Fathers. Giles and Pickell Confer With Women Relative to Summer School Work at Whitewater. Even house cleaning may be taught at Whitewater school this summer in the social center plan of members ot the Federation of Clubs, especially the Aftermath and the Domestic Science association. From the progress that was made already this year, it is believed the carrying out of these plans will make a new community of Riverdale. What would have been considered impossible in Richmond a few years ago, is now assuming the form of a reality and the school board is anxious to have the plans carried out. What is taught there during the summer months, will be very little of dry book learning and more of practical education to make better, physically and mentally, the boys and girls of the community, or of the entire city as school children will be invited to at tend from other parts of Richmond, and to prepare them for better housewives, mothers, better providers and better fathers later in life. The plan of this school as outlined by Mrs. Ben Rush, who was chairman of the Aftermath committee working in Riverdale during the wintr, has met the approval of all social workers who know the community. Program for Day. School would start at 7:30 o'clcok in the morning and regular class work would be given in all grades up to the sixth until noon. After noon, the real social work would be carried on. There would be a story hour in which good books would be read and explained by experienced persons. There would be play ground work and along with thiB, teaching of physiology. Dr. Bramcamp, school examiner, recommends shower baths with a towel supply and instructions as to bodily cleanliness. It is said that in many homes there are no facilities for bathing and all conditions are such as not to promote bodily cleanliness. This idea will be pushed by the Federated club committee which will he appointed in a few days. The visiting nurse adds as a suggestion, that a nurse should be secured to examine the children and trace back to the homes, diseases and sickness. Many have skin diseases caused by home conditions or uncleanliness. Through the influence of the Aftermath last winter the children were well supplied with clothing and during the summer, instead of supplying ready made clothes, the children will be given material and will be taught to make their own clothing. For the "little mothers." who are forced to stay home and care for smaller children, some provision will be made. A nursery which will be in charge of Miss Mary Jay, will take care of children from three to five years old, who are unable to take part in the school or social work. Better Housing Conditions. Better housing conditions will be one of the alms of th work. It is found after visiting many of the homes, that the parents do not know how to keep the house clean. A thorough course in nousecleaning will be given those who will take it. "There is no doubt of the success of the school," Mrs. Rush said. Unlike other communities, the children are glad to be in Echool and instead of waiting impatiently until the closing bell, they cannot be made to return to their homes if some work can be found at school which interests them. J. T. Giles. F. G. Pickell and others who have had experience in social center work in the schools are acting as advisors in the conferences which, have been held regarding the plan. Miss Sarah Hill, of the school board, is much in favor and the board will bear the expense of carrying on the social oenter idea. Mrs. H. L. Monarch, Miss Edna Johnson, Mrs. Rush and others are the club women who are taking active parts in the investigations on which the plans are being based. CORONER FINDS SUICIDE VERDICT The story of the hanging of Nathaniel Davis McClure, of Boston township, 84 years old, on May 12, is told in a coroner's verdict filed today in which Mr. McClure is ascribed to suicidal intent. McClure had been ill and wished death would come to him. members of his family say. On May 12. about 10 o'clock. Letitia McClure his wife, said in her testimony, he went into the barn. She saw no more of him until 12:30 when she went to the barn to see wby he had not come in for dinner. She found his lifeless body hanging to the stairs leading to the loft. A verdict was also returned on the death of Charles F. Keim. of Easthaven. Keim was a patient there and died from a form of acute insanity. r I WEATHER FORECAST FOR INDIANA Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday; probably showers and thunder-storms. Temperature. I Noon S9 j Yesterday. Maximum 91 Minimum . ... ...... ..... . ... ... . .... ie