Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 171, 29 May 1914 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1914

GERMAN VETERANS WILL PAY TRIBUTE TO DEADSOLDIERS Armed Militaerverein, Thirty Strong, Will March to the Graves at Lutherania Cemetery for Silent Prayer.

Honor will be paid to dead members of the German army buried at Lutherania cemetery by the Militaerverein of this city tomorrow when its members march to the burial ground, and after the command, "Hut ab zum Gebet," each will offer a Bllent player. This is the first time in the history of the Germans of Richmond that members of the Militaereverein, thirty stroii, under the command of William 11. Duning, Sr., with Ernest Nungesser as lieutenant, carrying rifles sent them by Emperor William, will proceed to the cemetery to do military honor to the dead. Next year, so the society announced today, it will participate with the local post of the G. A. R. in commemorating the sentiments of the day. . Three members of the Militaerverein are buried in Lutherania Fred Blickwedel, Harry Vilmor, and Fred Fredeman. Former members of the German arjny will meet at the old South Side hose house, South Sixth and E street, at 2 o'clock. Twelve members have been detailed as saluting squad, and in lieu of firing a volley, which is prohibited by the cemetery association, will pull the triggers of the rifles upon the command of Captain Duning at each of the three graves. The final resting places of their departed comrades will be decorated with flowers. Tomorrow the members of the Militaeverein for the first time will wear the field gray army hats which they recently obtained. Price's Ice cream tested the highest In the city in the recent state test. SYMPHONY BODY ELECTS DIRECTORS Looking toward a year of unusual activity the Richmond Symphony orchestra met last night and elected the board of directors for next year. Officers were named as follows: Directors, Lee B. Nusbaum, Walter Runge, E. B. Knollenberg and F. K. Hicks; librarians, Clifford Piehe and L. C. King. The prospects for a full membership and an extensive program of work beginning early in the fall were discussed and considered encouraging. SEVEN INDUS ABOARD EMPRESS BY LEASED WIRE MONTREAL, May 29. Seven Indiana men and women had booked passage on the Empress of Ireland,; which sank in the Gulf of St. Lawrence early today after a collision with the collier Storstad. They wpre: ALEXANDER N. MATIER, Indianfl rmli s GEORGE C. RICHARDS, Terre ! Haute. MRS. GEORGE RICHARDS, Terre Haute. MRS. CHARLES J. GRAY, Terre Haute, wife of Mr. Richard's nephew. MARY GRAY, six years old, her daughter. MISS BESSIE BAWD EN, Hillsboro. MISS FLORENCE BAWDEN, Hillsboro. . How many of them were lost or how many were saved was not reported. CAR STRIKESWOMAH "Doc's" Machine Injures Mrs. Ashinger. Mrs. O. G. Ashinger, 9, South Sixteenth street, was painfully but not seriously Injured when an automobile being rapidly driven by Dr. W. W. Zimmerman, ex-mayor, ran into her as she was standing at the side of a huckster's wagon in front of her home this morning. Dr. Zimmerman turned off of Main street at South Sixteenth and to avoid colliding with another automobile ran his machine too close to the huckster's wagon, striking Mrs. Ashington and pinning her against the wagon. She was carried into her home. She was badly bruised but had no bones broken. NEW YORK STOCKS BY LEASED WIRE1 NEW YORK, May 29 Price movements were toward a lower level at the opening of the stock market today. Canadian Pacific, which sold minus the dividend of 2V&, opened at 195 against 19sa.i at the close last night. 1'nion Pacific began a higher at 15SVn. then declined fractionally but after a little while had recovered. St. Paul lost tfc selling at lOOMi in the initial trading, but at the end of thirty minutes had increased its loss. B. & ). opened at 01s,. for a loss of Amalgamated copper was also lower, beginnig at 72lg for a loss of 4. COUNTY OFFICIALS TAKE VACATION County officials and their deputies will take a vacation tomorrow and no offices will be open for business. Court adjourned today until Monday. County Superintendent Williams will conduct the monthly teachers' examination at the high school, but it is believed few will use the holiday for taking the tests. County Agent Cobb will be in his office for a short time in the morning. DISGUISES AS MOURNERS CHICAGO, May 29. Members of a black garbed funeral party which solemnly followed a hearse through the aristocratic forest park section proved to be deputy sheriffs who swooped down upon a saloon where it was alleged gambling was being permitted.

LOVE TRIBUTE PROCLAIMS

Union soldiers living and dead have an abiding place in the hearts of their country. As the years come and go the nation's love for them grows stronger. Of their services to their country there is appreciation, but for them no adequate compensation. They achieved mightily. They interpreted for ages the language of our flag. They ascribed to it loftier sentiments and flung it higher in the heavens, that other nations might catch its spirit and follow it. It Is well, therefore that their countrymen meet annually to honor the memory of those who are dead and to honor In person those who are living, because of the priceless victories they won for humanity through measureless sacrifice. Now, therefore, I, Samuel Ralston, Governor of Indiana, in obedience to law, in keeping with the custom at once beautiful and sublime, and in honor of the Union Soldiers of the Civil war, do designate Saturday, May 30, A. D. 1914, as MEMORIAL DAY and I ask the people of Indiana to suspend all business so far as practicable, and regarding it as a memorial day, to unue in appropriate demonstrations and exercises out of respect and love for these brave men. As we march to the various cemeteries, -where rest the remains of those who have passed on may we remember that "The whole is a sepulchre of illustrious men," and as we mark with the flag and strew with flowers the graves of those who are dead and cheer and honor With song and praise those who are living, may there come to us the proper inspiration for the discharge of our citizenly duties. On this day we may with propriety pay tribute to all soldiers who have defended our nation's flag. We will recognize the services of our patriotic soldiers of the Spanish-American war and manifest our gratitude for the lives of the heroic boys who recently met their death at Vera CrujJ. ' j And1, let us hope that the strained relations now existing between our country bnd Mexico may soon be removed and. friendship restored through the methods of peace, without the sacrifice of another American boy and in' keeping .with the principles of juBtice and righteousness to the honor and glory of the American nation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Indiana, at the Capitol in the City of Indianapolis, this 19th day of May, A. D., 1914. ! Samuel M. Ralston, Governor.

PETITIONERS PROPOSE TO BOCK PRESS CLUB WITH NEWSPAPER WRITERS' BODY

Star chamber session of the mediation committee fr m the Earli.am Press cut. and petitioners desir.ng ihe dissolution of the present organisation in favor of a more democratic club, are being held each day, but no agrement has been reached. Early this week President Kelly ln-lu a meeting with three members of the Press club, Howard McMinn, B.n Johnson and the petitioners, John Cox, Cyrus Lancaster and Howard Semler. At that time it was suggested by the Earlharn executive committee that the committee reach some conclusion, and if that is impossible then the faculty committee on student affairs would intervene. This meeting was slated as public, but when asked for news of the session, newspaper men were informed that there was none. Yesterday afternoon the work of the committee reached a point where the propositions staled by the petitioners received a majority report and the matter will be up to the Press club for final vote. Just how the Press club will consider the matter is rot definitely known, but it is rumored about the college that the progress of the reform is stalled, at least temporarily. It is generally conceded that the Press club will, as a whole, vote against the proposed constitution as written by the petitioners. ASKS LOWER RATES Committee to Demand Insurance Hearing. Action will be taken at a meeting of the insurance committee of the Commercial club next week to have a hearing by the state insurance bureau on the rates in force in Richmond and an effort will be made to have a twelve per cent decrease go into effect January 1, 1915. The committee has collected all its material for presentation to the bureau. It is able to prove that all requirements listed in 1909 when the Sellers' bureau was asked for an investigation, have been carried out, including the new fire main, additional equipmen, better arrangement of wiring in the city and many other features, which are considered in making fire rates. ASK WAG0N CHANGE Merchants Complain of P. O. Equipment. Indignation over the messenger wagon operating between the post office and the Pennsylvania depot, has been expressed by K street merchants and as a result. Postmaster Haas will endeavor to have the screened wagon service adopted here with a term contract for four years. The present messenger wagon is a crude affair painted red with dingy yellow lettering. The horse is old and decrepit. It runs merely as the postmaster sees fit to retain and can be dismissed on thirty days notice. The screened wagon service is up-to-date as used in big cities and optional in cities of this size. The wagons, horse and harness are of uniform size and kind and the wagons must be kept well painted. The sides are heavy screened and the mail sacks are locked in the wagon after leaving either the post office or the depot. ASK RYAN PARDON BY LEASED WIRE1 WASHINGTON, May 29 A petition signed by more than a million unionists, asking President Wilson to pardon Frank M. Ryan and his associates in the Indianapolis dynamite conspiracy cases will be presented to the chief executive on Monday. Representative Sabath, of Illinois, will present the petition. KILL POLICE CHIEF? BY LEASED WIRE JACKSON, Miss., May 29. Chief of Police Luther Humphreys was found dead in the street here early today. A woman said to be an inmate of the restricted district was arrested. According to the police the woman threatened Humphreys' life after 6he had been arrested & month ago.

DUE DEAD STATE'S HEAD

Should the Press club vote against the adoption of the proposed changes, it is expected that the petitioners will make application for the establishment of a Newspaper Writers' club, which will be an organization composed of young men and women interested in newspaper work. At present the Earlharn Press is published by the Press club, but the plans for the Newspaper Writers' club include no publication, at least for the present. Some of the changes suggested by the petitioners is to choose membership by competitive examinations held twice a year. A special faculty committee of two members meetinw with the editor-in-chief will compose the board for the choosing of members. Innovations to this method have been offered supplanting the faculty members by addition to the board a Richmond newspaper man selected by the faculty. This would place the try-outs on a substantial basis with a newspaper man as one of the examination committee. The apparent laying on the shelf of the work of the petitioners is meeting with some opposition, especially with the signers, who think that at this time the matter is practically put away in salt, and that no change will be made in the Press club system of choosing members. STREET MAKES GOOD Richmond Man Heads Large Music Store. SIOUX CITY, Iowa, May 29. The crew of - carpenters and decorators which has been busy the past two weeks remodeling and redecrating the music department of Davidson's has completed its work, and Mr. Arthur S. Street, manager of the department, formerly of Richmond, Ind., is taking justifiable pride in showing his friends and the patrons of the store the remodeled and enlarged department of which he has charge. While the "opening," if it may be so called, is strictly informal, it is attracting unusual attention, and both the store and Mr. Street are recipents of warm praise. This department, as it now stands, is the largest between Chicago and the Pacific coast devoted exclusively to the display and sale of musical instruments. He brought to the store the experience of several years as a manager of similar departments in the east, as well as a technical knowledge of the piano business from the factory standpoint. Added to this, he has the push and stick-to-it-iveness that wins. WILL FORCE SALES House Passes Far-Reaching Bill. f BY LEASED WIRE1 WASHINGTON, May 29. By a vote of 68 to 28 the house today adopted a far-reaching amendment to the Clay ton antt-trust bill which would prohibit j various industries from refusing to I sell their products to any responsible (applicant for purchase. Section three I of the bill as written, nrohlhita mines from refusing arbitrarily to sell, but on motion of Representative Farris of Oklahoma, the section was broadened to include refiner ies, reduction works, oil and gas wefls and hydro-electric concerns. The section as rewritten requires all of these industries to "sell such products to any responsible firm or corporation who applies to purchase such products for use, consumption or re-sale within the United States or territory thereof." SUSPENDS KOMMERS. CHICAGO, May 29. President Gilmore of the Federal league today suspended outfielder Fred Kommers of the St. Louis Feds indefinitely for attacking Umpire Manassau during a game in Baltimore yesterday. TO ERECT HOME A building permit was today issued to Paul Comstock to construct a brick and stone residence in Reeves ton at a

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HEAL BROTHERS BUY NOBLESVILLE PAPER Merge Ledger With Enterprise in $25,000 Corporation C. S. Neal Formerly of Richmond.

BY LEASED WIRE NOBLESVILLE, Ind., May 29. The Daily Enterprise and Daily Ledger, both Republican newspapers will be consolidated on Monday June 1, according to an announcement published by both papers today. The merged paper will be known as the Noblesville Ledger-Enterprise. The incorporators of the $25,000 corporation which will control the publication is composed of president E. E. Neal, secretary Charles S. Neal, treasurer Wrill H. Craig. The Neal brothers have been publishing the Enterprise for three years. Mr. Craig has been editor and publisher of the Ledger for 18 years. He will retire from active connection with the paper. Vern Wickers for twenty years city editor of the Ledger will be retained in that position. Charles S. Neal was formerly city editor bf The Palladium, and prior to that held the same position on the old Sun-Telegram. He was a member of the Richmond city council and is widely known as an enterprising and successful newspaper man. STORSTAD MAKES WAY INTO PORT fBY LEASED WIRE HALIFAX, N. S., May 29. The dominion coal company's steamer Storstad, which rammed and sank the steamer Empress of Ireland, reported by wireless to the Sydney station this afternoon that she is making her way slowly to port. She will be able to reach Quebec under her own steam, the master reported. She has on board a number of the Empress of Ireland's survivors who were picked up from the water. The government steamer, Lady Evelyn, is keeping close to the collier. SWAP WAR YARNS AT G, JU SOCIAL Veterans Tell Experiences as Guests at First Methodist Church Campfire. An enjoyable evening was spent by war veterans of the G. A. R. last night at the annual campfire held in the First M. E. church when twenty-five comrades of the Sol Meredith post, representatives of the W. R. C, the Ladies of the G. A. It., the G. A. R. auxiliary and church members who were invited to attend, heard war adventures exchanged. B. Earle Parker, pastor of the church, gave a short address of welcome. He turned the meeting over to the veterans. The speakers were Judge Comstock, I. B. Arnold and Allen Grave. An excellent musical program was rendered. The speeches consisted chiefly of stories of the camp life of the "boys in blue" when they responded to Indiana's call for her share of the Northern soldiers and went into the South, ranged through the plantations, crossed rivers, camped under good or poor conditions and fought to save the union. CARRAffZA DEMANDS NG FOR REBELS BY LEASED WIRE DURANGO, Mt-x., May 21). General Carranza, first chief of the Constitutionalists, today made public the following dispatch which he has sent to Raphael Zubaran, his agent in Washington: "Six days ago the A. B. C. conference began to treat the international confline between the United States and Mexico, occasioned by the arrest of several American sailors by soldiers of General Hue.rta at Tampico. To solve this conflice you offered to the government of the United States, to Huerta and me your good offices, inviting us to appoint delegates who would represent the general headquarters of the Constitutionalist army, which is under my orders. "I answered that in principle I would acept your good offices, and afterward, in a separate message I stated the points which would be dealt with in the peace conference. Awaiting an answer to that dispatch, I have not yet named delegates. "I am surprise that you have continued to treat for a solution of the conflict between the. United States and the Constitutionalist army, which is under my orders and which represents the majority of the people and the larger armed force of the republic. For this reason I state to you that I believe the conflict between the United States and Mexico will not be solved in future conferences unless in these conferences there is represented the general headquarters of the Constitutionalist army." SEEK LOST VESSEL TBY LEASED WIRE1 CHARLESTON, S. C, May 29. A tug was dispatched from here today to search for the steamer F. J. Luckenbach of New York, which is believed to have been sunk in a gale off the coast with a loss of twenty-nine lives. The Luckenbach was en route from Tampa, Fla., to New York, when she ran into a gale. She is a week overdue in New York. The revenue cutter left Beaufort, S. C, on the same errand. Wireless stations all along the Atlantic coast are signaling in an attempt to get a trace of the Luckenbach or some of her crew. The missing ship did not j. carry any wireless eauipment.

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UNNECESSARY BURDEN ON B, 1 0. ROAD

BY LEA6ED WIRE WASHINGTON, May 29. That J. P. Morgan and Company agreed to take over $7,400,000 of the stock of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad was the statement of Daniel Willard, president of the B. & O. before the interstate commerce commission today. The commission is inquiring if the assumption by the Baltimore and Ohio of heavy obligations of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton has anything to do with the former railroad's petition for a 5 per cent increase in freight rates. Louis D. Brandels, attorney for the commission, is trying to show that through financial manipulation unnecessary burdens have been placed upon the Baltimore and Ohio and that the railroad should not be granted the freight rate increase because it has been unfortunate in investments and financial connections with other roads. Brandels brought out the fact that no one seemed to want the C. H. & D. and that J. P. Morgan and company secured control of the C. H. & D. in 1909 and later it is alleged unloaded that road and its debts on the Erie railroad, Edward H. Harriman's pet line. Shortly thereafter Mr. Harrimon returned from Italy and declared that he did not want the C. H. & D. and returned it to Morgan. Morgan looked around, the railroad world and spied the Baltimore and Ohio. He concluded, according to the story that the B. and O. ought to provide a home for the C. H. & D. so he unloaded the orphaned line on that system. The B. and O. took $24,000,000 of C. H. & D. bonds. WRECKED LINER SETS PROM OUEBEC BY LEASED WIRE MONTREAL, Quebec, May 29. The Empress of Ireland was a twin screw steamer of 8,208 tons burden. She was 518 feet long and equipped with modern apparatus, not only for wireless work, but for submarine signaling. The liner was built in 1906 and three years later set a record on a run from Quebec to Liverpool. The steamer was one of the most popular vessels in the service of the Canadian-Pacific railway and always carried a large number of passengers. She has plied for several years between St. Johns and Quebec and Liverpool. Lieutenant Kendall, of the Royal navy, who commanded the Empress of Ireland, has had few accidents in his career. He is regarded as one of the most capable commanders in the Canadian-Pacific service. The collier Storstad, commanded by TERRE HAUTEANS AMONG RESCUED BULLETIN. CHICAGO, May 29. Clem J. Richards, of this city received word this afternoon of the safety of his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Richards; his cousin, Mrs. Charles Gray and the latter's daughter, Mary, six years old, all of Terre Haute, Ind., who were among the passengers on the Empress of Ireland. EMPRESS WRECK STIRS LAURIER BULLETIN. OTTAWA, Ont., May 29. Minister of Marine Hazen cabled the English board of trade today that 337 persons had been saved from the .Empress of Ireland. The disaster was made the cause of a 6harp exchange in the House of Commons today when Sir Wilfred Laurier, former premier, held the government responsible because it had neglected the St. Lawrence route. This charge was indignantly denied by Premier Borden. $12,400 FOR BULL. SHELBY VILLE, Ky., May 29. What was today declared to have been a record price for a Hereford bull in America, was pain when T. H. Taylor of Frankfort, purchased Beau Perfection from W. H. Curtice for $12,400. One and

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The story was brought 'out before the commission to show that this was an artificial burden which should not be accounted among the legitimate drags, upon the B. and O.. making a five per cent increase in freight rates. Among the ballast which weighted down the C. H. & D. appeared an Item of 110,000 shares of the Pere Marquette railroad, a Michigan line, which the C. H. & D. purchased at $125 a share. The aggregate sum paid was $13,750,000. Later the C. II. & D. sold these shares to J. P. Morgan and company, receiving an aggregate of $2,.30,000. This loss to the C. H, & D. of $12,220,000 weakened It. The C. H. & D. and the Pere Marquette both went into the hands of a receiver in 1905. Judson Harmon, former Democratic governor of Ohio, was receiver for both lines. In spite of this receivership the C. H. & D. found it advisable to make the large stock purchases. It was intimated by Mr. Brandeis that at the sacrifice of the . H. & D. the. Pere Marquett was put on its feet These were the things Attorney Brandeis brought out to show that the B. & O. which now shoulders all of these financial troubles is not to blame for any embarrassment which it asks the commission to relieve by the rate increase. Willard did not altogether agree with Brandeis' conclusions. While the story developed from his admissions that the above statements were correct, he declared that the increase in cost or operating expenses really was to blame for the hard times of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton. He also blamed much on the Ohio floods. RECORD ON TO LIVERPOOL IN 1 Captain Anderson, is of 3,561 tons. She was built for the coal trade, plying between Sydney, Quebec and Montreal. The Empress of Ireland left Montreal yesterday afternoon at 4:30 under command of Lieutenant Kendall for Liverpool, England, carrying about 1,200 persons. The vessel proceeded up the St. Lawrence river at slow speed after leaving Montreal, as the weather was thick from both fog and the smoke of forest fires'. The liner stopped at Rimouski to take on mail. Among those on board the stricken liner were many prominent persons. Cabled messages from London said that brokers expected the influence of the disaster to be reflected on the stock exchange if it proved true that influential financiers who were passengers on the ship were drowned. POLICE GRISTt Mrs. Laura Miller this Ziornlng pleaded guilty to assault ana battery on Mrs. Hattie Skillens and Was fined $1 and costs. No explanatipn as to the cause of the assault was made. Six drunks. Including Dr. Albert G. Coiner, of Kendallvllle, Ind., and two traveling men, were each fined $1 and costs. Closed Decoration Day

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FOR AVIATION CORPS House Takes Steps to Provide Crafts and Men for Army. BY LEA8ED WIRE WASHINGTON, May 29 The fir&t comprehensive step toward build'.ns up an aviation corps in the army of the United States has been taken by the House of Representatives. That body recently passed a bill, which received little attention at the time, providing for the creation of an "aviation service" of sixty officers and two hundred and sixty enlisted men, "all of whom ehall be exclusively engaged oa duties pertaining to said aviation section, and shall be addition to the officers and enlisted men now alloted by law to the Signal Corps, the commissioned and enlisted strength of w hich are hereby increased accordingly. Chairman Hay, of the military affairs committee, put the bill througa late one afternoon whe nthe attendance upon the house floor was small. There was practically no debate, as a'.l factions in the house appeared in fa r of the legislation, nor was the significance of the action exploited at the time. Legislative leaders are practically assured of favorable action in th : senate and at the white house as the bill has the endorsement of the war department. The passage of the measure undoubtedly was expedited by the seriousn of the Mexican situation. The use of ihe aeroplane for scouting purposes in wl IIU1CO nan w n n l ai v iand there was then driven home the fact that the United States is behind practically all other nations in its expenditures for aircraft. While oth r big nations have been spending millions for air fleets this country has grudgingly spent thousands only. 8 was pointed out in the report of thmilitary affairs committee which brought the Hay bill into the house. "The committee is thoroughly convinced that it would be most unwise to continue the parsimonious policy which the government has pursued with regard tomilitary aviation, and it is intended to appropriate $300,000 in the army bill, as against $125,000 last year, for the purchase and upkeep of aeroplanes and this, together with the personnel provided in the Li'.I here presented will enable our army to make experiments necessary to a thorough knowledge of the art to train the number of men who may be needed for service in time of emengency. The cost of the bill will be $25S.02 for the first year; $269,044 for the second and third years and $279,944 60 for the fourth year, which latter figures will show the highest sum which this bill will cost the government at any time in the future." GIFT OF HOUSE Mr. and Mrs. John Dougan have presentd the board of trustees of the First Presbyterian church a parsonage for the use of the next pastor and his family upon his selection. The property that comes into the possession of the church through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Dougan. is the nine room dwelling at 218 North Thirteenth street. The estimated value of the property is approximately $3,600. Open Friday Evening 2 L STREET UBT

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