Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 192, 23 June 1914 — Page 1

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RICHMOND FAIXAJDIUM: JJL AND SUN-TELEGRAM

VOL. XXXIX. NO. 192

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BOARD INCREASES TOWNSHIP LEVIES TO SHIELD COUNTY Reviewers Fix Per Cent of Raise in Four Districts, Which They Will Announce Tomorrow. The board of review took up today In executive session, final passage on the proposed increases of personal property in eight townships. The board has definitely decided on the per cent of increase to be made on assessments in Abington, Boston, Clay end Dalton townships but the results "Will not be announced until tomorrow. Hearings of assessors from Abington. Boston, Clay and Dalton townships but the results will not be announced until tomorrow. Hearings of assessors from Abington, Boston, Clay, Dalton, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson and Perry townships were completed yesterday afternoon and this morning. The reasons assigned for the unusual losses in these townships is the number of removals of farmers to other townships, the number of public sales of personal property held before March 1 of this year and the new plan of deducting twenty-five per cent from the assessments which are made on the full cash value of property. The decreases of the townships under consideration in per cent are: Show Marked Decrease. Abington, four per cent; Boston, eleven per cent; Clay, thirty-two per cent; Dalton, seventeen per cent; x ranklin, six per cent; Jackson, twenty per cent ; Jefferson nineteen per cent; Perry township, eleven per cent; Cambridge City, thirteen per cent; Dublin, thirty-one per cent; East Germantown, eleven per cent; Hagcrstown, twenty-three per cent; Mount Auburn, thirty-seven per cent; Spring Grove, eighteen per cent; Whitewater, twenty-five per cent; Greenfork, thirty-one per cent. Other townships show small losses ranging to six per cent, while the loss In the city of Richmond is three pr cent. Twenty-five per cent of the townships and corporations showed Blight gains. They are: Center township, six per cent; Washington township, seven per cent; Webster township fifteen per cent; Boston corporation, sixteen per cent; Centerville corporation, twelve per cent; Fountain City corporation. per cent; Milton corporation, three per cent. Although all assessors who appeared before the board were, sincere in their belief that the assessing had not been their fault, but that the loss was genuine, the members of the board will raise the assessments substantially. Unless this is done, a county raise by the state of no less than six per cent on personal property will be the result. To Avert Raise. It is to avert the general county raise that the board is taking the action. The state will see that its revenue is obtained from each county even if the action of increasing every township and corporation in the county as a unit for the increase, is necessary. This would be a great injustice on the townships anil towns which showt d a gain, as the action of the county board of revied will be a Blight injustice to a few who made correct returns to the assessor as to the value of their property. The loss on personal property in the whole country is six per cent from last year. The personal property in the county in 1013 was $7.523.ii2i and this year $7.n"7,0M; including Richmond which was 1 0".t;i (l last year and $3.0i7.2'H this year. The county loss of .f 4t5ti,ri4o includes a city loss for Kiehmond of more than SfS,40j. All corporations doing business in the county and all banks show an increase over last year. The board will bring the personal property up to the fiverage if possible. When banks, corporations and addition real estate improvements are added, it will In the end show a big gain. The personal property will be treated regardless of this however. Richmond's loss of $98,000 is more than made up by the added assessment of the Light, Heat and Bower company and in a few days when the Rich-J mo nil City Wafer company is assessed, i there will be another big gain. Other corporations are showing up favorably and the assessment on a whole, will be much greater than last year.

I WEATHER FORECAST FOR INDIANA Generally fair tonight and Wednesday; continued warm. TEMPERATURE. Noon 83 Yesterday Maximum 87 V i elm am 69

DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN SUCCESSORJO COBB Prospective County Agent at Flat Rock Sniffs Derisively at $2,000 Offer.

Wayne county will not obtain an agricultural agent by July 1, and no arrangements have been made by County Superintendent Williams and his trustees to secure a new agent. The only prospect the board had was Maurice Douglas, of Flat Rock, Ind., who scoffed at the $2,000 offered here ; and said he had an income of $6,000 a year from other phases of work he is carrying on. Mr. Williams said the board would ; not be in a position to make any state- j ments regarding what has been done. 1 He admitted, however, that there is no . prospect of obtaining a successor to A. D. Cobb whose contract expires a . week from today, and that the county: will be without an agent for an in-; definite period. i The salary limit will be $2,000 for the next agent as it was for Cobb, and j practically the same requirements will j be exacted, such as the use of an automobile for transportation. The! county agent's office equipment con-1 sists of a desk and bookcase without! books, the remainder being the personal property of the agent. Mr. Williams intimated that the j board had tried to obtain an agent) but could not at $2,000 a year. There was some talk of taking the $500 the farmers subscribed to get Cobb and j which Cobb left untouched, and adding ; it to the $2,000 to increase the salary, j This idea probably will be dropped so j me county superintendent admitted because the money would last only for the first year. FIX THE ADMISSIONS FOR HOWARD BENEFIT Committee Decides to Issue Tickets for Any Free Will Offerings. Arrangements for the Wesley How ard benefit concert, June 30, were j completed last night. The plan will ! be much the same as last year, except that no cnvolopes will be used for the offerings. Tickets will be issued at the door to ail attendants, and every ticket must represent a free-will of fering. In other words, every patron ! will pay his own price for a ticket, j upon which there is no limit, either larue or small. No reservations will be made. The ticket will entitle the holder to sit in any part of the Coliseum. The program, which will be published later, will be made up from numbers by the Symphony and High school orchestras combined, Wesley Howard and Miss Mary Kaufman, soloist. Mr. Howard made wonderful progress in the Boston Conservatory, which is attested by the free scholarship he won and letters full of enthusiastic praise of his ability by his Boston teachers, said.E. M. Haas of the publicity committee. 'The public will have an opportunity to note his progress and at the same time give substantial assistance for further study by the gifted young man. "When the Commercial club, the Symphony orchestra, the High School and all our best musicians of the city take active interest in his development, if certainly pays tribute of a high order to this young genius. The public will no doubt come forth in large numbers to the concert next Tuesday." M'KEE BOY ARRIVES Child's Long Journey to the Coast Ends.

Before this time five-year-old Walter McKee has completed his transcontinental trip and is safe with his friends in his new home near Los Angeles. He was due to arrive at his destination at 7 o'clock yesterday. The last word received from him Is a card from the porter. The postal was mailed at Springer, New Mexico, at 4 o'clock June 20, and is as follows : "Walter well and happy, slept through the night without waking. We took him out for breakfast. All on board interested in the little fellow and will see him through safely. Porter,"

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WARRING FACTIONS TO PARLEY ABOUT MEXICO'S FUTURE Naon's Plan Permits Rebel and Federal Delegates to Discuss Crisis While Mediators Recess. NIAGARA FALLS, Ont, June 23. Official mediation negotiations have ended, for the present at least. The envoys of Argentine, Brazil and Chile are ready to give way to simple negotiations of surrender by the Huerta government to the Constitutionalists. The plan of Minister Naon for settlement of the Mexican problem, as laid before the mediators and the American and Mexican delegates under strict pledge of secrecy, appears to allow the two factions in Mexico to settle their own differences by direct parleys. These negotiations are to be held in Niagara Falls, the mediation conference taking a recess, while the Federals and Constitutionalists are so engaged. This abdication of the official conference which has been made necessary by the refusal of General Carranza to declare an armistice and to consent to the discussion by outsiders of either the provisional government or any other internal problem of the republic. Since the United States has refused to promise to compel the rebels to lay down their arms in case of an agreement here upon a plan of pacification in Mexico, the mediators have thrown up their hands and agreed that the two warring camps must make their own terms. REBELS TAKE GUZMAN. SAN DIEGO, Cal., June 23. The city of Guzman, an important railroad center of Jalisco, has been captured by the Constitutionalists, according to a wireless dispatch received here today. The capture of this city will prevent Huerta's escape from Mexico City to the Pacific coast. VILLA IN COMMAND. CAN IT AS, Mex., June 23. General Villa established his headquarters here today and immediately summoned in conference Generals Benevides, Herrera and Urbina, who are in command of the main division in Zacatecas. Desultory fighting between the Federals and Constitutionalists is still going on north of Zacatecas, but the main assault has been delayed until Villa can throw his entire army against the city. ASKS CLUBS' HELP FOR S0CIAL CENTER Miss Johnson Calls Mass Meeting of Federation for Thursday. To organize for social center work in Riverdale and to plan means of increasing the attendance of women at the social center meetings in Whitewater school, Miss Edna Johnson, chairman of the city federation of clubs has called a mass meeting of women to be held Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the high school auditorium. The meeting will be to place the work in the experimental school on a more systematic basis. Women will be asked to volunteer to assist. Another problem will be that of inducing Riverdale women to attend the meetings. At the meeting Thursday afternoon, Mr. Giles, superintendent of city schools and probably the most experienced person in the city in social center work, will be present as will Charles Jordan and H. L. Haywood, supervisor of the afternoon work at the school. It is said there has been prevalent an idea that the social center is charity work and that the persons who take part are not as refined or educated as women in other parts of the city. According o in the movement, this Is a serious rn's'nke wnicn is nijunag piUo. of the work. The Mothers' league members and members of an organization composed Of engineers' wives will be Invited to attend the organization meeting Thursday afternoon. This will not be restricted to club women. All interested women are invited to attend. The daily attendance at the school, In no way compulsory, is 210. The winter attendance Is less than 300. At the yesterday afternoon session, seventy-five children remained to hear Mrs. J. T.. Giles review history stories, -

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Remove Needle After 53 Years ECONOMY, Ind., June 23. After shifting about in her flesh for fiftythree years and causing suffering which baffled physicians, a needle was removed from above Mrs. Enos Veal's knee. Recently the needle worked near the surface, and was finally removed by using a pair of tweezers. Various physicians to whom Mrs. Veal went for relief, treated her for muscular rheumatism. But not until a small wound appeared above the knee and the needle was removed did any one know the real cause of her suffering. The needle was in perfect condition except for the point which was broken in the process of removal. FIGHT PROMOTERS RENT COLISEUM TO STAGE FIRST SCRAP Manager Changes Scene of Exhibition to Center of City and Assures Fans Fight Is Sure Go. Eddie Benson, who is promoting the fistic card to be staged at the Coliseum, Saturday night, July 4, today announced that the principals had come to terms and that the scrap would be staged in the Coliseum. Three bouts will be offered, the principal one a ten round go between Kid Clark, the Columbus CO.) pug, and Jim Oakley, a Cincinnati exponent of the fistic game. The fight will be held at the Coliseum, Mr. Benson asserting today that Clem Gaar, member of the board of control of the Richmond Athletic association, had rented the place for the staging of the contest. Asked if fight fans could rest assured that the fight actually would take place, Benson emphatically declared it would, unless Mr. Gaar went back on his word. He said the stockholders of the Richmond Athletic club, which owns the Coliseum, know that he rented the hall to hold a fight exhibition. Two local boys will figure in the prelims. Ray Jeffries, one of the fastest lights that ever donned the mitts in Richmond, will try conclusions with Battling (Else) Barnes, of Springfield, and Kid Carpenter, another Quaker product, will stage a .little argument with Frankie Lane, a youngster of considerable experience in the ring. At first it was intended to hold the bouts at Athletic park, but on account of the uncertainty of the weather and poor accommodations for lighting. Benson decided to use the Coliseum for the bouts. The Coliseum is centrally located and according to Benson, an ideal place to hold a prize fight. CHARLESJETRO DIES Jefferson Assessor Answers Summons. HAGERSTOWN, Ind., June 23. Mr. Charles Petro, aged 72, died this morning at 6 o'clock from cancer. The deceased was township assessor. He was a prominent Mason and member of the Methodist church. The widow and five children, Frank Petro, county farm superintendent; George Petro, of Joplin, Mo.; Oscar Petro, Mrs. George Ulrich and Mrs. Gilbert Gladswell, of Indianapolis, survive. The funeral I probably will be held Thursday after noon. RACE DRIVER WEDS MILLIONAIRE GIRL INDIANAPOLIS, June 23. Miss Louise McGowen, daughter of the late Hugh McGowan, millionaire traction magnate, at noon today became the bride of Spencer Wishart, millionaire automobile race driver of New York. Miss McGowan is known in New York and she has spent considerable time abroad. Wishart is prominent all over the United States on account of the showing he has made in automobile race events. Only a few intimate friends attended the ceremony.

JUNE 23, 1914

TWO ENTER RACE FOR HIGH OFFICE IN P, D, K. Candidates for National Places in Fraternity Arrive and Begin Lining Up Delegation Votes. The van of delegates to the Phi Delta Kappa convention, which opens here tomorrow, arrived today and were well pleased with the outlook for a highly successful convention. Several were candidates for national office for which there will be some stiff contesting. Main street windows have already taken on convention appearance and tomorrow a number of merchants will decorate the store fronts with flags and with the fraternity colors, red and black. All halls which will be used by the fraternity men in their meetings, dances and banquets, have been decorated with the colors and are already prepared for the big event. Politics will occupy a big part in the convention stage. A number of chapters are ardent in their support of rival candidates and expect to work in their interests as soon as they -arrive. Dayton fraternity members will concentrate on pulling the convention to that city. The Greater Dayton association and the Dayton Bicycle club have sent their appeal and have volunteered to assist the chapter in every way to bring the convention in 1915 to the Gem City. Candidates Begin Work. John Gauchat, of Indianapolis, nntional president, will open headquarters at the Westcott hotel tonight. All national officers will maintain headquarters there, starting tomorrow morning, until the close of the session. Although Gauchat is a favorite with Chi chapter of Richmond and many other chapters, he did not announce his name for re-election. Dr. J. W. Thompson, of Garrett, and Ralph W. Ewry, of Portland, are the strongest candidates announced. Garrett will support their man strongly and today telegraphed for a band for the parade Thursday night. For national vice president, P. C. Durk. of Montpelier, O., and Paul Seiberling, of Marion, will be candidates. Ed Fox, of Indianapolis, will also run for the office. Candidates for national master of ceremonies are Charles Sherman, of Rushville, who lost by a small margin last year, and Jaqk Davison, of Winchester. The only candidate so far announced for auditor is Herbert Sattler, of Iafayette. Charles O. Ellis, of Celina, O.. and P. W. Eby, of Fort Wayne, have sent advance announcements of their candidacy for the office of secretary-treasurer. For sergeant at arms, Leon Louiso, of Chicago, is the only candidate announced. The candidates for inner and outer guards, respectively, are Robert Shank, of Dayton, and Fred Wolf, of Elwood. Delegates to the convention will have important matters to consider, among which is the adoption of a new form of constitution. The constitution has been under revision for some time and is now ready for presentation. Included in this is a newplan of caring for insignia, and paraphernalia. The national officers will purchase new paraphernalia and will issue it to the various chapter. The paraphernalia of each chapter will exactly correspond. This plan probably will be accepted. Probably some objection will be made to the action of college fraternities in barring after 191 S any candidates for entrance who have belonged to high school fraternities. While the fraternity is not a high school fraternity, it may send delegates to the na- j tionai council ot iraternities to express disapproval of the ruling of the college frat men. CLUB HEAD BETTER Mrs. Pennybacker Able to Make Talk. MISHAWAKA, Ind.. June 23. Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, who suffered a nervous breakdown while visiting at the home of Mrs. E. G. Eberhart, was Improved today. Physicians announced that she would be able to deliver an address this afternoon at the convention of the Thirteenth District of the State Federation of Women's Clubs, but invitations to a big tea which was to have been held in her honor have been withdrawn and the reception arranged for her by the Midhawaka Women's Club has been abandoned.

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FreeiMi Exposes Wafisdnnf idD5im BEGS HIM TO BOOST GOMSTOGIC Discredited Boss Sticks to Lynch Candidacy at Cambridge City Convention Despite Appeal of Wayne G.O.P. Leaders

Wayne county Republican leaders are today sarcastically commenting on the statement of James E. Watson, published Monday in the Indianapolis Star, that he had retired from public life and has been taking no part In political affairs. They openly charge him with having dictated the nomination of P. J. Lynch, of New Castle, for congressman, which they frankly assert has defeated all their hopes of restoring Wayne county to the Republican column, because their county ticket must enter the field tainted with WatsonIsm, which in Wayne county stands for all that is worst in boss rule. To refute Mr. Watson's assertion that he has retired from active politics, proof was offered by Wayne county Republican leaders today to support their charges that he dominated the Republican congressional convention at Cambridge City last week. Freeman's Story. Perry J. Freeman, a Richmond attorney, for years an influential Republican leader in Wayne county, today told of an interesting conference he had with Mr. Watson before tne district convention convened. Mr. Freeman said he retired to a hotel room with the ex-congressman and urged the nomination of Judge j D. W. Comstock. of Richmond, setting j forth the fact that the former appel- i late jurist was a man who could com-! mand the support of voters of all po- j litical parties in Wayne county, and ! that if a Republican congressman from the Sixth district was to be elected, it was essential that there be a Republican victory in Wayne county. Mr. Freeman also informed Mr. Watson that Mr. Lynch had announced previ-! ously that he was willing to retire as j a canaiaaie in lavor ui juubo uwstock. Watson Keeps Silent. "Mr. Watson did very little talking during this conference," said Mr. Freeman, "but he told me that while he 'was out of politics' and 'had nothing to do with the convention,' he was anxious to have the right kind of a man nominated for congressman, and that he thought Mr. Lynch was the best man for the place, because he was young and active and would be able to make as aggressive a campaign as the Democratic candidate, Finly Gray." Mr. Watson made no comment when Mr. Freeman vigorously informed him that while he might have excellent personal reasons for supporting a Hen ry county candidate against a Wayne county candidate, it was now time for ail party leaders to forget their prejudices and make every sacrifice for the good of the party, for whose disruption they had been responsible. Constock for Senate. Mr. Freeman asserts that Mr. Watson informed him that he had favored Judge Comstock as the Republican candidate for United States senator, but when he had suggested the name of the Richmond man to the state committee he was informed that Hugh j Th. Miller had been urged to accept j this nomination and had agreed to do so. Edward Hollern, superintendent of parks in Richmond, under the former Reoublican administration, also told today of his interview with Mr. Wat-j son in Cambridge City last week, w hen Hollern urged Mr. Watson not to oppose the candidacy of Judg Comstock. He said Watson told him to beat Finly Gray a candidate who could employ the same tactics as Gray was necessary. Then he said Judge Comstock was too old to wage such a campaign, but Lynch had the ability to do so. Matthews Sends "S. O. S." Hollern also said that he had heard County Clerk George Matthews urge the nomination of Judge Comstock when talking with Watson, and had heard Matthews say, "Jim. come to our rescue." Hollern says that Watson again made the statement that Judge Comstock was too old and that a "man of his age is never elected to congress." Hollern also says he was present when Mr. Lynch made his announcement that he would withdrawbis candidacy in favor of Judge Comstock. Hollern says he told Watson that he had heard he was in Cambridge

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Photo by Dalbey. City lobbying for Lynch, to which Watson merely replied that he always attended a Republican convention. "But I heard you were in Cambridge last night working for Lynch," Hollern persisted. "Oh, I always try to be on hand the night before a convention," answered Watson. Hollern says he concluded his interview with Watson by telling him that if Lynch was nominated The Palladium would have excellent reason to charge that the convention had been dominated by Watson. Watson had nothing to say about this. Watson's Night Work. A final refutation of the Watson assertion that he no longer plays a part in he management of the Republican party is the testimony of a prominent Richmond attorney, who for the present does not desire to have his name made public, that the night before the Cambridge City convention Watson called him up by long distance telephone and asked him if he did not intend to attend the meeting held there that night. The local attorney said he had made no plans to go to Cambridge City that night, and asked the purpose of the meeting. Watson replied that some of the district leaders had gotten together to "talk things over a little." The local man before concluding the telephone conversation gave Watson a piece of his mind in well-seasoned language and concluded by saying that he had not been aware that the district convention was to be a night meeting rather than a daylight meeting. Lynch to Come. Mr. Lynch is expected in Richmond tomorrow for the purpose of making some effort toward mending his almost demolished political fences In Wayne county, but a chilly reception is in store for him. Party leaders are frank to say, when not speaking tor publication, that Mr. Lynch can look for only perfunctory support from ' the Republican organization in Wayne county. He may be asked to resign as district chairman, which offioe for the first time in the history of the Republican party in the Sixth district has been used by an incumbent, with opposition, as a stepping stone to the congressional nomination. It was announced a few days ago that Lynch had been contemplating retaining the district chairmanship. His Heart Beats on Wrong Side ECONOMY. Ind.. June 23 Art Denny, 35, is the only man in this part of Indiana whose heart beats off the seconds of each hour on the right side of his body. Mr. Denny.who is hale and hearty is not at all inconvenienced by the unusual location of his heart and bids fair from his general appearance, of keeping that heart going at a normal rate of speed a half century more. Mr. and Mrs. Ora Farmer gave a big Sunday dinner at their home in honor of the following: Mr. and Mrs. WIU Farmer of Union City, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Anderson and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Denney and daughter, and Mrs. Martha Farmer. LOSE LEFT EYE J. II. Harper, of Cambridge City, may lose his left eye as the resut of Injuries received when a limited Lake Shore electric car split a switch near Sanducky, Ohio, yesterday. Mr. Harper was cut and bruised about the face. TALK. WORRY, DRUNK. NEW YORK. June 23. Mr. and Mrs. William Long, deaf mutes, arraigned for intoxication, told the court in sign language that they had become so exhausted from talking to janitors while flat hunting that their had to drink.

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