Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 186, 16 June 1914 — Page 1

RICHMOND) FALLABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXIX. NO. 186 RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1914 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS

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WIFE DYING AS RESULT OF CROSS WORDS Harry Blumenberg Shoots Spouse Then Bores Hole Through Own Temple With Rusty Gun. Tragedy Follows Upbraiding of Former Bar Tender for IjOss of Job Because of Heavy Drinking. The body of Harry F. Hlumenberg, aged U5. today reposes in a Main street morgue with a great gaping wound in the head, self-inflicted, while his wife, Mrs. Delia Hlumenberg, fifteen years his senior, is at Reid Memorial hospital, her left leg and arm paralyzed from a bullet he fired at her, which plowed its way from behind her left shoulder into her nec k, severing an artery, which caused an interior hemorrhage. Today she was reported to be in a critical condition, but with a flight chance for recovery. Hlumenberg shot his wife while standing be'lrind her. The tragedy happened at the Hlumenberg home, :U9 South Fourth street, About f. :::o o'clock yesterday afternoon. No one witnessed the double shooting, but neighbors say a lively doInestic row preceded it. Hlumenberg had been drinking heavily of late and Saturday was discharged as bartender at the Ed Muey saloon, South Sixth fctreet. .Neighbors say Mrs. Hlumenberg was preatly vexed because her husband lost his position and nagged with him constantly Sunday. Early Monday morning, it is said, the row began again and lasted until Hlumenberg left the house. When he returned about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, .Mrs. Hluinenherg was ironing in a back bed room, just off the kitchen, on the first floor. Neighbors Hear Shots. Mrs. George Crandall, who lives at Ei!l South Fourth street, says when Hlumenberg returned she heard both of them talking loudly, the woman apparently upbraiding him because he was out of employment and because he had not sought to obtain a position i-he had advised him to apply for. Hlumenberg sat in the door which opens from the bedroom into the back yard and. Mrs. Crandall says, she noticed him staring moodily into distance apparently heedless of what his wife was saying. At length he arose and entered the house. Then neighbors Fay they heard the woman ask some raiostion to which Hlumenberg replied that he had attempted to withdraw his card from the Rartenders' union, but this h;id been refused. He added that he was through tending bar and r anted some other kind of work. Then, witnesses say. they heard Mrs. Hlumenberg exclaim, "you are a worthless bum." In a few seconds two revolver shots rang out. followed by the woman's piercing shriek of "Help, help, help." Instantly the entire neighborhood was b roused. Police headquarters was notified but before the officers arrived, bringing with them Coroner Pierce, two men entered the house. They vcre iiluiost overcome by the dense smoke from the ironing board, set afire 1 y the electric iron, combined with the je k of blood and the pungent odor of burned powder. Revolver Tells Tale. When the ironing board had been rallied without and the smoke gradv.a'ly cleared from the room, they found it ji shambles. In one corner lay (Continued on Page Three.) "UNCLE JOE" HERE Oil JOURNEY EAST Former Speaker, in Talkative J Mood, Favors Ixrimer j Against Enemies. "Uncle Joe" Cannon, former speaker of the house of representatives, candidate for congressman at hit Illinois home, a former student at the, Friends Hoarding school and a speaker at the home-coming at Karlham college a year ago. takes the side of Lorimer in the Chicago bank and trust company failures. "Uncle Joe" passed through Richmond Sunday night on No. L'n on the Pennsylvania railroad. Gerald S. Fitgibbons, returning home from Joliet on the same tiain, rode from Indianapolis with Cannon who was evidently in a talkative mood and spent most of his time in the smoking compartment conversing with fellow passengers on the Chicago bank exposures and women suffrage. Combs with Hands. "I am not too old yet to comb my hair with my hands." Cannon remarked. He then turned to the two or three men who were sitting in the compartment and said. "You fellows are still so young 1 believe I have forKotten yon." According to Mr. Fitzgibbons, Cannon did all the talking as others could not reply to his expansive but casual remarks. "I take Lorimer's word against that of the whole gang that is after him." Cannon declared. "I knew him for six years intimately. He was clean politically and was honest in wjiat be did." When the veteran politician and speaker switched his remarks to women's suffrage he elicited some replies from Ftizgibbons and others in the compartment. He took the same attitude toward the question as he did at Earlham college at the annual home coming a year ago. "The women are good and we need them. They are our mothers. We will do anything we can for them, but I

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DEPENDENT'S CURE FIRST REAL WORK OF SOCIAL CENTER Whitewater Directors Propose to Prepare Clothing and Supplies for Distribution Next Winter. Preparation to care for dependent families during the coming winter is the chief work before the social center at Whitewater school. Plans were made yesterday afternoon for the installation of sewing machines in the building to be used in making, patching and mending clothes to be distributed when cold and want again make themselves felt. The workers hope that material for clothing and bed-coverings will be donated. In addition to the preparation of supplies tor the winter, women who have never learned to sew will receive instruction. As entertainments, lectures, musical programs and story-telling will be arranged. This will be made interesting to the children as well as to the parents and will be a regular feature of the daily program. No admittance lee of any kind will be charged at these afternoon entertainments. The workers believed instruction should also be recognized as one of the chief functions of the social center. Many women in the neighborhood are untrained in housekeeping. To give them advantages along these lines, club women who hae had experience in conducting class will teach domestic arts. To Organize Boys. Principal Ramsey believed it would be possible to organize the boys and girls of the community to do civic work. His plan was to form them into brigades to visit homes, to issue personal invitations to the Social Center activities. They probably could he pressed into service as sanitary inspectors to assist the city health department. The Aftermath. the Domestic Science dub. the Penny club, the Citizens' Union, the engineers' wives' organization, the Kiverdale Mother's league, the Associated Charities, the board of works and the school board have expressed willingness to lend assistance in making the movement successful. Any person, who is able to give his service, may make arrangements by telephoning a member of the executive committee. Tentative plans for the season were agreed on and an executive committee consisting of Supt. Giles. Principal I). I). Ramsey and H. L. Haywood was elected. Mr. Haywood was made director and will have charge of the afternoon work. See Playground Need. That the city is badly in need of public playgrounds was emphasized by Mayor Robbins and Alfred Bavis, who made short talks. "Since I have been police judge," said the mayor, "the necessity of more adequate playground facilities has been brought home to me. Young fellows come before me on various charge who would never have gotten ed oa Page Six)

ORDER OF 1, 0, 0, F, READYJOR FROLIC Committees Plan Music and Dancing to Entertain at Jackson Park.

Jackson park, west of Centerville, is in readiness for the big crowd of Odd Fellows and their families who, on Thursday, will picnic at the resort. Festivities are to begin early in the forenoon, the Teetor band of llagerstown to arrive at 9:30 o'clock. Wesley Cornell, of Cambridge City, will be in charge of the various games and contests for both children and grown-ups, and there is promise of much pleasure in this part of the program. There will be dancing in the pavilion during the afternoon and evening. The committee desires to call attention once more to the fact that the picnic is for all Odd Fellows, including members of the Encampment, subordinate lodges, Daughters of Uebekah and members of their respective families. The basket dinner promises to be a real feature. Richmond Odd Fellows may go to the park on regular interurban cars stopping at the park which leave this city at 8 and 10 o'clock in the morning and at 12 noon. The limited car leaving at 9:40 a. m., will stop at Jackson park, providing there are fifteen or more passengers. Cambridge City, Dublin, Milton, Hagerstown, Centerville and various other towns in the county will sep,!' big delegations. GOES TO Prof. J. D. Rea to Study Comparative Literature. John D. Rea, professor of classical and English literature at Earlham college, will leave tomorrow for Boston, vwJiere he will study during the summer. This fall he will pursue advanc ed work in Yale, where he took a master's degree. He will spend the year studying comparative literature. During his absence Prof. Haile will take his classes at Earlham college. Prof. Rea was recently granted a leave of absence for a year. SMITH TO SPEAK Rev. Smith, of Muneie, "will address the regular monthly meeting of the Citizens Union, at the Masonic hall, on South Sixth street, tonight. All are invited to attend. WEATHER FORECAST For Indiana Fair tonight and Wednesday, with rising temperature. TEMPERATURE. Noon 70 Yesterday Maximum 77

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n C s Daughter A RECENT PHOTOGRAUH. York, late Ambassador to England. seclusion for a period following the place among the prominent hostesses PAL LABOR BUREAU GIVES EMPLOYMENT TO LABOR SEEKERS Twenty-one Applicants Apply to One Farmer, Who Supplies Neighbors With Hands. Scores of men, anxious to work on farms in Wayne and adjacent counties, listed their names with the Palladium today, while one farmer who accepted one of the applicants, said twenty-ene workmen applied for work at his place. He found jobs for three of them with neighbors, merely by calling the farmers over the phone. Farmers and persons deriring to help harvest the bumper crops in Wayne county and surrounding Indiana and Ohio counties are asked to list their names with the Palladium bureau, which will bring together employer and employe. All you need to do is to apply to the Palladium office either personally of by telephone or letter. Cobb Favors Bureau. "Your plan of instituting an employment bureau for the farmers and the men who want work in th'e country is a good one," said County Agent Cobb today, "and the Palladium is in a better position to give this service than any other meditim in the county or district. . "There is no question about farmers finding it extremely difficult t.o find hands to harvest the bumper crops. Everywhere I go I find them discussing the scarcity of labor. In Jefferson township I found a man who was stopping tramps who went along the railroad line through his farm and asking them if they did not want to work in the harvest fields. Two Thousand Men Needed. "The estimate of the number of men needed in this and adjoining counties is conservative. In Wayne county alone there are between 2.r00 and ;i,000 farms, on each of which at least one hand will be needed during the next three month, and many of the larger farmers will need more." Cobb believes the Palladium's bureau will prove of great benefit both., to the farmers and to the large number of men who have been out of employment for some time, a condition which he said did not exist last year. Both men and farmers appeal to Cobb frequently to help them find work or laborers. POSTPONE CASE Because attorneys for the defendant were busy today, the blind tiger eas against Stella Tracey, colored, was not tried in police court this morning. The case will come before Mayor Robbins Thursday. Mrs. Tracey was released on bond yesterday after her arrest for operating a booze joint at 1322 North F street. John Brown, who purchased two bottles of beer for a quarter is

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USE OP REGULATION m oTRrrT r.Ro VII I U I IIUL I Will I J Law Specifying Entrance at Rear on Right Hand Side and Requiring Conductors Ready to Pass. An ordinance was introduced in council last evening and advanced to second reading, which if passed will eliminate Richmond's several topsyturvy street cars, to board which citified citizens run all about and finally discover the entrance to be in the front part, and which compels the street car company to have conductors on all of its cars. It has been the custom to operate cars through Fairview and along Richmond avenue and West Fifth street without conductors. The company has objected to placing conductors on these cars, saying the revenue from these lines did not justify such action, but expressed a willingness to place mirrors in the front of the cars so the motormen could see when passengers had safely boarded the cars or alighted from them. Council is of the opinion, however, that these mirrors would be impractical. The second section of the ordinance aims at the "topsy-turvy" cars. It provides that only cars where passengers can enter or depart at or near the rear end on the right hand side can be operated. Violation of this ordinance provides fines for both the company and the motormen operating them. Waidele Wants Conductors. Councilman Waidele said that there was no reason why conductors should not be placed on west side cars and that he placed no credence in the company's assertions that these lines were being operated at a loss. He said if such was the case it was high time that the company be placed in the hands of a receiver. The revised dairy inspection ordinance was introduced in council last night by the ordinance committee, but referred back when it was discovered that by an error of the stenographer the provision requiring the delivery of all milk, in quantities of a gallon or less, in bottles, had been left out. The other amendment provides for the standard sterilization of all milk bottles and vessels. Under suspension of the rules an ordinance was passed appropriating $3,300 for the payment of Freemont Clifford as a fee for collecting sequestered taxables. This matter has been in litigation over five years and recently the supreme court ruled in favor of Clifford. Councilman White said he had heard that at one time, several years ago, this claim could have been compromised for $500. Replenished Fund. "There goes a street improvement and two sewers," lamented Mayor Robbins after the passage of the ordinance. Extensive improvements have been made at the city building the last fewweeks and the miscellaneous public building fund has been exhausted, so council last night appropriated $500 to replenish that fund. The weed question came up for consideration last night and it was declared this nuisance was particularly bad in the west side. Councilman Waidele said the West Seventh Street park looked like a cow pasture and if the city could not keep its property properly cared for, it should not expect the citizens to give attention to their property. Clerk Hescher said the weeds along the west river bank were so bad that in self defense he would have to get out and cut them himself very shortly. CITY AND T COMPROMISE TUITION Howarth Pays $3,364.30 to Richmond for Children in Local Schools. It cost Wayne township $:j.:;64.50 this year because lo2 school pupils living outside the city of Richmond, attended the common or high school here. Abut 100 of the pupils are in high school. There was some dispute between the city and the township regarding the payment of some country pupils who attended high school here. Under the law. the township may give transfers to students from the country to attend city schools and must pay at the rate of $2 and $;! a month, according to the school they attended. A number attended high school without transfers from Trustee Howarth. He refused to pay for the tuition of six of them. The original tuition bill rendered the township by the city was $3,534.50. but the matter was compromised by deducting $170. The attendance of county children at city schools in this township is increasing annually at a steady rate. As the pupils are drawn from all schools in the township, little effect is noticed in the country schools. Many pupils attend country school to the seventh grade and then attend Garfield school here in preparations for high school. The proportion which attends high school is by far the largest. About twenty per cent of the pupils are drawn from the rural districts. THIEF TAKES CYCLE A motorcycle belonging to Carl Kemper, .131 South Fourth street, was stolen last night from the curb in front of Meyers' cigar store on Main street at 9 o'clock. Kemper notified the police shortly afterwards, but no trace could be found of the machine. The police have no clue as to the thief. The machine was a six horse power Excelsior,

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nm nam nnmr-rirn tMiunM nuut m DISPLAY HISTRIDHIC ABILITI IN AMAZONS Phoenix-Ionian Clubs Please Spectators With Clever Acting of Farce on Chase Outdoor Stage. The Earlham Commencement exercises will be held at Lindlcy hall, Earlham at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. Dr. Ira Remsen, for ten years president of Johns Hopkins university, will deliver the commencement address. This year's class is the largest class in the history of the college. Fifty-eight students will receive the Hatchelor's degree. Sir Arthur Pineros "Amazons," as presented by the Phoenix-Ionian societies of Earlham college Monday evening on the Chase outdoor stage, proved to be one of the most finished productions ever seen at Earlham. The play was witnessed by almost a thousand people, who assembled about the natural stage. While the play itself is of slight scope, it gives abundant opportunity for clever and distinctive acting. A good humored satire on an English mother who tries to transform hc-r daughters into sons, and the resulting complications when they fall in love, furnishes the plot basis of the play and results in one humorous situation after another. Perhaps no part was taken better than that of Galfred. Earl of Tweenwayes, which was taken by Janney Hutton, a Freshman at the college. The Earl is a puny, ailing son of an old family, whose chief glory is in the past. Hutton took the part of this weak, futile boastful fellow with the skill of a professional. The part of the Frenchman. Andre, Count de Grival. was also well taken by Alfred Hall. This amorous Frenchman is the co-suitor, with the Englishman, of onp of the daughters of the good English mother. Horsefield Acts Well. Walter R. Horsefield. another Freshman, a native of England, took the part of Harrington. Viscount Latterly, in a professional fashion. He represented an athletic, dare-devil sui'or to the third daughter of the good English mother. Ruth Slautterback was also well chosen in the part of Miriam. Marchioness of Castlejordan. the mother of the three girls, entangled in the love affair. Her daughters were represented ably by Marguerite Norton. Effie Rowen and Ora Jones. Vera Newsom took the part of '"Sergeant" Shuter in an excellent manner. Mark C. Mills, as Rev. Roeer Minehon, gave a strong interpretation of the austere preacher. The two societies are especially grateful to tne coaching of Miss Gladys Hassett. who was largely responsible for the success of the play. She also coached the play "A Ratehelor's Romance." which was given by the societies earlier in the term. Cast of Play. The following is the complete oast of characters: Galfred. Earl of T ween waves S. Janney Hutton Harrington. Viscount Eitterly Walter R Horsefield Andre. Count de Grival. . . .Alfred Ha'I Rev. Roger Minehon ... March C. Mills Fitton. a gamekeeper ... Howard Nixon Youatt, a servant Chester Hundy Orts, a poacher Garfield Cox Miriam. Marchioness of Castlejordan Ruth Slautterback I ler daughtersLady Noelir.o Helturbet Marguerite Norton Lady Wilhelmina Helturbet Ora Jones "Sergeant" Shuter .... Vera Newsoin PROGRESSIVES MEET Party to Hear Beveridge at Rushville. A large delegation of Wayne county Progressives, headed by County Chairman Price will leave at 5:50 o'clock Thursday morning for the organization meeting to be held at Rushville, returning early in the evening. Albert J. Beveridge and State Chairman Toner will speak on the question of ways and means of leading the party to victory this fall. Workers from over the district will attend the meeting. A man from each county will be called upon to outline the conditions existing there. FILE NO CHARGES AGAINST COLBERT No affidavits were filed against Willis Redd and Anderson Colbert, both colored, who had a quarrel with John Saunders Sunday night. It was found by the prosecuting attorney that Redd and Colbert had not committed assault and battery on Saunders but that the tilt had been verbal. The two men refused to leave Saunder's home on North F street. Saunders finally left to secure a revolver and when he returned, found them gone. He met them later in the evening at the home of a friend in Riverdale and they chased him up stairs, closing the incident for the time being. 4

boss JIM NAMES LYNCH TO MAKE CONGRESS RACE

G. O. P. Reactionary Machine Sacrifices Jurist on Plea of Old Age and Need of Youth. New Castle Courier Editor Says Convention Controlled by Machine-and Nomination a Mistake. By RAMSEY POUNDSTONE. CAMBRIDGE CITY. June 1 The ..l.i i . , . . . . , I uiu h aiMin macuine. uatierea ana j rusty from enforc ed idleness but patched and repaired especially for j the Sixth district Republican conven- ; tion by James Eli Watson, discredited j boss and master mechanic of the old j G. (). P. machine in Indiana, this afterI unnn nominuTert P I I vni.ti rf V.nif Castle, for congress over Judge L. V. Comstock, of Richmond. Watson, with political oil and scrap iron, was on the scene early. His master hand directed the naming of Lynch and the sidetracking of the Wayne county jurist. Watson domi nated the convention. He commanded ! the battle. There was no room for : other leaders, in fact, none made serious effort to oppose the former whip ' of the house under the Joe Cannon ; regime, and if he had, c hances were , that the smooth Italian hand of oily j Jim would have strangled the attempt. Machine Still Controls. Lynch was the man Watson wanted i ior congress, ana Lyncn was nomiI nated, proving that the old G. O. P. reactionary machine is still in control of I the district. j It was apparent after the arrival of I Watson in Cambridge City that Judge Comstock had no chance. Lynch was ' the Moses picked by the domineering ' boss of Rushville to lead the G. O. P. defeated band of hopefuls in the next ; congressional fight, and Lynch backed ' by the machine was selected. Wats-on j wanted to humiliate Wayne county, j against which he has an ancient grudge. He did it. i i Before the convention George El- ; liott. editor of the New Castle Courier, i a staunch Republican paper, had a long talk with Lynch, in which the latter upbraided Elliott for endorsing Comstock in his paper. Elliott gave The Palladium representative the t'ol- : lowing statement: "It will be a terrible mistake if : Lynch is nominated. This c onvention ' is controlled by the Watson machine " Events proved that th convention i was controlled by Boss Watson. Lynch Tries to Explain. Lynch asserted time and again that he did not make ihe statement given a Palladium representative a few day? j ago in which he said he would not I oppose ("nmstock s nomination and i that he had withdrawn from Ihe race i He called the political writer of The j Palladium a liar, but other New Castle ! men upheld the origira! statement 1 printed in The Palladium Th nomination of Lynch followed i after he bad been nominated by Bert j Evans, former Henry e-e.unty prosecutor, and the following sententious j speech by Charles K. Shiveley of Richniond when Wayne county was called j on the roll for nominations: j "I have been delegated to speak on behalf c;f t!:e only candidate Wan , county thought flip bad. Judge I). V. j Comstock has decided not tct have his ! name presented." As no cither county bad a name fo present. Lynch was nominated by adamation. Comstock Withdraws. Judge Comstock at the last minute, pursuant to his oft repeated declaration that he would not be a candidate if there were opposition to his name, decided not to have his name go Lefore the convention. Elmer Hassctt of Shelby county was permanent chairman and Walter H;ssert of Union county temporary c hairman, while Walter Montgomery of Shelby county was both temporary and permanent sec retary. At the joint senatorial convention of Wayne and Union counties. Walter Uossert was- nominated for the state senate race. Watson Wants Young Man. In his speech nominating Lynch, Evans said the Republicans of the district must nominate a young mat, filled with ti. O. P. enthusiasm, one w ho could make a house to house canvass, and filled with the ardor of youth carry the party's banner to victory. He intimated strongly that Judge Comstock was too old a man. Watson seemed pleased with the sentiments of Evans, and why should be not? Evans was his spokesman, evidently he uttered what the machine wanted him to say. Wayne county's delegates, whom Watson loves to belittle, had to hear the speech with as good grace as possible under the circumstances. Double-cross Apparent. j What was expected to be a Republi can narmony ana gei-iogecner meeting bad every indication of a lively political row, when the delegates assembled and charges of a double-cross we re hurled right and left. Wayn county's delegation, twentysix in number, came to Cambridge City with the expectation that its candidate. Judge I). W. Comstock. of Richmond, would be named by acclamation, as it was understood by the Wayne county Republicans, that the only prospective candidate, P. J. Lynch Continued oa -Pag Stx.

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