Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 274, 28 September 1914 — Page 1
BIG PAIXABIUM VOL. XXXIX. NO:274SS!t1&VRICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1914. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS
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SILENCE GUNS T Kaiser's Artillery Fire Stops Action of FYench Forts t Along Meuse South of Strong Fortification. TEUTONS ADVANCE Paris Silent on Results of Engagements Along Right and Left Wings After 16 Days' Fight. BY FREDERICK WERNER, Staff Correspondent for International Newt Service. BERLIN, via Amsterdam, Sept. 28. Part of the French forts along the Meuse south of Verdun have been Silenced by the German artillery, some ground has been gained by the Germans at the center of the battle line in France and heavy fighting continues on both -wings, according to a Statement issued here today. "The offensive movement of our troops continues, -without severe check," it says. "Heavy losses have been inflicted upon the enemy by our bayonet charge, and they have had to bring up their reserves to strengthen their lines. Silence Verdun Guns. "On the eastern end of the battle line our artillery has silenced part of the forts on the Verdun-Toul line and toe have succeeded in crossing the Meuse. The passage is being sharply resisted. "In the center we continue to gain ground, despite the enemy's heavy artillery fire, which is now being better aimed. "We have held all the ground we gained, though the enemy has received large reinforcements and is making counter-attacks. These, however, have been repulsed." FRENCH NON-COM MITAL. PARIS, Sept. 28. Desperate attacks knade by the Germans between the river Aisne and Argonne forest have been repulsed by the allies, according to an official announcement issued this afternoon. The statement, briefer than usual, follows: - . "There is nothing new in the general situation. Relative calm prevails on part of the front. At certain points, particularly between the Aisne and the Argonne, the enemy continuously attempts new and violent attacks, which have been repulsed." This statement was regarded as the least satisfactory from a news standpoint that has yet been issued. It made absolutely no mention of the situation on the right and left wings where the heaviest fighting of the sixteen days battle has been in progress. It was frankly admitted at headquarters here today that though the decisive phase of the conflict had been reached the allies had been surprised by the continual attacks of the Germans and it was impossible to predict when the struggle would end. CUT RAIL CONNECTION. OSTEND, Sept. 28. Unconfirmed reports received here today state that the city of Mons, headquarters of General Boehne commander of the German army sent to assist General von Kluck, is burning and that the railroad bridge on the main line between Brussels and Mons at Bierk has been blown up, cutting railroad communclatlon between the German forces at Brussels and Mons. 284 MEMBERSHIPS EXPIRE AT Y. M. C. A. Two hundred and eighty four memberships in the Y. M. C. A. will expire October 4. Officers are planning b short membership campaign in connection with the state Y. M. C. A. inter-city campaign, which will take place October 15 to 17. An extra effort will.be made to renew all the old memberships, and secure a large number of new members. It was announced today that all money taken in after October 1 for old or new members would count in the state membership contest.
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4,000 PERSONS ATTEND YEARLY MEETING SUNDAY
More than 4,000 persons attended the services of Indiana Yearly Meeting Sunday. That the Friends are a prosperous people, as was said by liishop Oldham, of the Methodist church in his address Friday, was ehown by the parking of automobiles yesterday, motor-cars of all classes lining the curb for a block on Fifteenth end Sixteenth streets. Many parties ate lunch on the grounds, picnic fashion, on account of the ideal weather conditions and hundreds were served in the church dining room. George Fee, the city policeman who has for twelve years, been assigned to the Yearly Meeting grounds on Sunday, stated that the toest of order prevailed and that there JR ere no unusual incidents reported. Out-door Meeting. . The meetings on the grounds were largely attended the speaker's stands being surrounded George Kitterel, of Vest Elkton, O., a southerner, and an evangelist of drrWing power was the feature speaker in the out-door sessions. An innovation was made at the Knorning sessions,' no one being permitted to leave the auditorium during the progress of the services, thus doing
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A remarkable photograph of the U-9, the German submarine which sank thre'e British cruisers Tuesday, taken from another warship as it was weathering a storm off Heligoland during maneuvers on December 1, 1913. The photograph was taken in the vicinity which is believed to have been the scene of the sinking of the British ships. The U-9 has demonstrated for the first time the weakness of modern battleships; they are like floating soap boxes before the deadly attacks of the tiny torpedo-shooting submarines. The German submarine U-9 is one of the series of eight such craft which were built on a single model in the period 1907-10. It is of 187 tons' displacement, equipped with Diesel motive power, 300 horse power. The length of the boat is 138 feet. She operates two torpedo tubes and requires a complement of eleven men to operate her. The submarines of the class of the U-9 are designed to be able to venture 1,000 miles without putting into port or receiving supplies from other boats.
PARTY ESCAPES SERIOUS INJURY IN AUTO WRECK Ernest Bode in Hospital After Car Plunges Backward Over Embankment at Glen Park. BRAKES FAIL TO HOLD Ernest Bode, 901 South Eighth street, is in the hospital and Miss Irma Roecher is suffering from a severe nervous shock as the result of an automobile accident In which the lives of four persons were endangered at Glen Miller park. In the machine were George Heidle and his mother, Mrs. John Heidle, and Miss Voheit who came here yesterday from Piqua. With them were Mr. Bode and Miss Roecher, employes of a knitting mill here. The engine of the automobile stopped at the top of a steep hill west of the iron spring in the rear of the' park. Before the occupants of the machine realized what had happened, it had rolled downward, crashing over an iron pole and a tree and then rolling over three times. Miss Voheit was the only one who realized the danger. She was in the back seat but jumped before the machine gained speed. The others believed Mr. Heidle who was driving could stop the machine with the brakes, but these failed when applied. Thrown from Car. The machine rolled down a depth of thirty feet, fifteen feet of which was a bluff. Mrs. Heidle and Miss (Continued on Page Seven.) away with the confusion of past years. "A long time ago," said a leading Friend, "20,000 people would come in on Yearly Meeting Sunday, but as many of the excursionists were of an undesirable class, the Yearly Meeting requested the Pennsylvania railroad to stop running these excursions and they did so. We used to have the sessions north of the railroad, and in the course of time,' came over here where we erected this building. Old Building Stands. "In order to make this change, direful things were predicted if we stayed in the old building. It was said to be so rickety that it would fall about our ears. "One man said he could take his cane and poke a hole through a gable. "But," smiled the speaker, "it is still standing, evidently in as good condition as ever, and evidently the man never poked the hole in the gable, as the gable is still there. The building has been used by a well known business .concern of the city as a ware room for twenty-five years. "This goes to show the substantial way in which buildings were put up then and, also, that Friends received a bad scare without cause."
COL. ROOSEVELT SPEAKS
BEFORE MONSTER CROWD
Attendance of Progressives at Indianapolis Meeting Staggers Political Opponents Wayne ' County Delegation Present Hall. Filled to Overflowing in 10 Minutes Former President Asks Support for A. J. Beveridge's Candidacy for United States Senator.
About two hundred Wayne county Progressives who attended the monster Roosevelt rally at Indianapolis Saturday night, returned to their homes Sunday confident of a sweeping Progressive victory in Indiana next November. The Wayne county, delegation had a prominent part in the immense parade which preceded the meeting, but some of them were not lucky enough to get seats in Tomlinson hall, which was filled to overflowing long before the time for the opening of the meeting. The only glimpse some of the Wayne county delegation had of the ex-president was at the overflow meeting he addressed in front of the big hall. Parade Forms Early. Long before 7 o'clock Progressives representing all sections of Indiana and many counties began to form in line at New York and Meridian streets. The congestion of enthusiastic marchers seriously handicapped the handling of traffic. The parade was to have started at 7:30 o'clock, but so large JAPANESE CONTINUE TSING-TAO ATTACKS BY LEASED WIRE. TOKIO, Sept. 28. (3 P. M.) Fighting at Tsing-Tao between the German defenders and the allied Anglo-Japanese forces has continued for more than forty hours, according to latest reports received at the admiralty today. It is officially announced that three German warships bombarded the right wing of the Japanese army attacking Tsing Tao until a Japanese aeroplane flew over them and forced them to divert their fires. The Germans have been hemmed In within five miles of Tsing Tao, according to the official statement. The Weather
FOR INDIANA Fair tonight and Tuesday. Not much change in temperature. TEMPERATURE Noon 72 Maximum 71 Yesterday. Minimum 38 W. E. MOORE'S FORECAST. LOCAL Fair tonight and Tuesday. Moderate temperature. GENERAL CONDITIONS Fair wether prevails over the United States except for rain in the far northwest. A storm is forming over the far west and will probably bring showers about the middle of this week. 'i
Sank 3 Cruisers With Big Loss of Life
was the crowd of Progressives that the committee in charge of the event found difficulty in organizing the line of march. Colonel Roosevelt and Mr. Beveridge remained at the Claypool hotel until word was received that the lines were formed. Starting hastily from their rooms they expected to be at the head of the marching column in a few minutes, but a large crowd in the parlors of the hotel stopped their progress. The colonel entertained the crowds with expressions of "dee-lighted" before he could penetrate to enter his automobile. When he appeared on the street he was given a hilarious ovation and many cries of "Beveridge" were heard. Following Colonel Roosevelt's speech, which lasted fifty minutes, Mr. Beveridge, Will Ade, candidate for congress in the Tenth district; Oswald (Continued on Last Page.) BELGIAN MOVEMENT BY LEASED WIRE. ANTWERP, Sept. 28. Despite the tremendous strain upon their troops in France, the Germans continue to press northward in Belgium with the evident intention of attacking the forts around Antwerp at the earliest opportunity. The German artillery is against bombarding the Belgian works at Malines. A Belgian detachment, which left the Antwerp garrison on Sunday, encountered a heavy force of German cavalry less than five miles from this city. There has been severe fighting near Termonde, where the Invaders flung large masses of men against the Belgian center. From all indications the fighting which has been a number of days in progress is the preliminary stage of a decisive battle which is expected soon. The village of Audeghem has been practically destroyed by German artillery fire. The village is less than 20 miles southwest of Antwerp. MEN ON MARKET DONATE LEFT-OVERS After Mrs. H. L. Monarch and Market Master McKinley explained the social center work at Whitewater" to market men Saturday night, the farmers on market donated the produce which they had left to the charity project,. It was taken to Whitewater school, where . Rlverdale mothers are canning and preserving it for winter to bs glvsa away.
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4,000 PERSONS ATTEND CHURCH
ON RALLY DAY
Central Christian Bible School Takes First Place for Largest Attendance in County-wide Contest. HAAS ISSUES REPORT Over four thousand persons attended the rally day services in the Sunday-schools of the Richmond churches yesterday. Fifteen schools observed the day with special services. Owing to the interference of other meetings the day was observed by St. Paul's Lutheran church the week before, and the Second English Lutheran church will hold rally day next Sunday. The four Friends' churches did not take part because of the Indiana Yearly meeting. In the First Baptist Sunday school a number of classes were promoted. The address was given by Miss Nellie Morgan of Cheyenne, Wyo., a former member of the church and now a missionary among the Indians on one of the western reservations. At the First English Lutheran school a class was promoted from the primary department. Rivalry Keen. Rivalry between the schools was intense, each striving to make the best showing, as it was conceded that the school in the city with the largest attendance would lead the county. Officers of the County Sunday School Federation made special inducements to stir up competition for the largest attendance. Reports from the classes in rural districts and in surrounding towns have not reached E. M. Haas, to whom all attendances were to be reported. But general information indicates a number of records were broken, and the county attendance will do much toward bringing the total near the twenty thousand mark, which was the goal set for rally day. In the city the Central Christian Bible school led its nearest rival, the First English Lutheran Sunday school, by thirty-three. The Central Christian church recently defeated the FirrS Christian church at Marlon in an at-
(Continued on Last Page.) 'MORE DAYS. - . rail IREtllSniAliljDH' OCT. 5
KELLY ATTACKS GERMS FOR MILITARISM GAUSS BIG CONFLICT IfJ EUWE
EARIHAM NEEDS FULLY GIVEN TO YEARLY MEETING President Kelly Credits High Standard to Many Rich Gifts of Morris and Francis White. LAUDS T. NICHOLSON $1,000,000 in Endowment Needed to Maintain College on Present Status, Friends Are Informed. Dr. Robert L. Kelly, president of Earlham college and clerk of Indiana Yearly Meeting, supplemented the statistical report of that institution made Saturday afternoon at the sessions of the Yearly Meeting, which extended comment on the life and work of the college. Dr. Kelly paid a high tribute to Timothy Nicholson, retiring from almost a half century of service as trustee of Earlham college. "His resignation is a great loss to the entire management," said President Kelly. Timothy Nicholson, at this time, stated that the heirs of the late Morris M. White, of Cincinnati, who had so generously endowed the college before his death, borrowed the money for the bequest left Earlham in Mr. White's will, in order that the college might have this sum before the beginning of last year, since other funds of the college had been promised were conditioned upon the receipt of the White bequest. As the estate had not been administered on entirely, the heirs took this way of securing to the college the added sum. an act characterised as most generous by Timothy Nicholson and son concurred in by the Yearly Meeting. "If it had not been for the contributions of Morris and Francis White," (Continued on Page Nine.) CARRANZA WILLING TO QUIT POSITION AS MEXICAN HEAD Conciliatory Attitude of Villa's Opponent Presages Speedy End of Revolution of Rebel General. EL PASO, Tex., Sept. 28. Reports from General Carranza said today that the selection of Fernando Iglesias Calderon by General Villa as the provisional president of Mexico would prove acceptable to their chief and that peace would be effected without any big battle. They admitted, however, that guerrilla warfare would be likely to continue for some time, as Carranza's troops in some sections of the country would refuse to accept any man whom Villa had selected. CARRANZA TO RETIRE. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 28. General Venustiano Carranza has authorized the International News Service to state if the leaders in the revolt that resulted in the overthrow of General Huerta can bring peace to Mexico he is willing to withdraw, providing General Villa will do the same. A deputation bearing this proposal is on its way north today to sound out Villa. As Villa has repeatedly declared he would under no circumstances accept the presidency of Mexico, Carranza's act is expected to go a long way toward bringing about peace. General Obregon, General Lucio Blanco and General Pablo Gonzales have agreed to follow the example of General Carranza. "If I am the menace to Mexico that General Villa seems to think," said General Carranza, "I am perfectly willing to withdraw." TROOPS TO STAY. Washington, Sept. 28. "There is absolutely no change in the previously announced plan of bringing the troops home from Vera Cruz," said Secretary of War Garrison today in commenting upon the report that the government did not intend to evacuate Vera Cruz on account of the Villa revolt. "No move will be made to take the troops out of Vera Cruz for at least a week," Secretary Garrison added. "The exact date of evacuation probably will be decided at tomorrow's cabinet meeting." FRIEND PREACHES AT REID CHURCH The pulpits of eighteen of the city churches were supplied with ministers from Indiana Yearly Meeting Sunday. Rev. J. Edgar Williams, pastor of the Friends' church in Carthage, Ind., was greeted by a large audience in Reid Memorial church in the morning and preached on the subject of the individual responsibility of the church member to God and the church organization with which he was affiliated, and the breaking away from the subtunc forms of religion for. Its sup-
EARLHALI'S HEAD BLAMES TEUTONS FOR WAR SPIRIT J. J. Mills Points Out Elements Making for Successful Church Work Ainag Early Christians.
PROF. RUSSELL SPEAKS Believes Present European War Presses Fresh Piercing Crown of Thorns Upon Christ's Brow. Robert L. Kelly, president of Earlham college and clerk of Indiana Yearly meeting, brought the session of this body to a close Sunday night with a brilliant address on "The Outlook for Friends," in which he took the most optimistic view of the future of the society if it based its activities on the principles which governed the society's foundation. Incidentally Dr. Kelly scored the German nation for inaugurating that militarism which had ended in the present International catastrophe in Europe. The features of the yearly meeting Sunday were this address and the sermons of Dr. Joseph J. Mills of California, former president of Earlham and secretary of the live years meeting, and Elbert Russell of the Earlham college faculty, regarded as two of the most eloquent and brilliant pulpit speakers in this countryTheme of Dr. Mill. Dr. Mills took for his theme the condition of the ideal church in any age or any land as illustrated by that church in Thessolinica, to which St. Paul referred when he said. "Your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope." "This chureh, to which these words of St, PtnlMe addressed." said Dr. was a standardized church, an efficiency church, a model church, and the elements that made it what it was were their work of faith, their labor of love and their steadfastness of hope. 1 ' v Use of Publicity. "We hear a good deal nowaday about publicity methods, and these are all right and should be employed. But the church must have these other elements or it will fall in its purpose and its destiny. These elements gripped that country. It was a church that had a pull on the community. If that church had been closed up, the community would have felt its loss. It had an enormous sphere of influence." The speaker stated that the tremendous influence of this church to which Paul referred was the quality of Its faith. "It was a very simple faith. It had three articles Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. I believe in orthodoxy. I think it makes (Continued on Last Page.) RUBER TRANSFERS REGARD TO KAISER AFTER BITTERNESS "At the beginning of the war I felt very bitter toward the kaiser for bringing about this terrible slaughter, but since receiving a letter from my brother in Germany in which he declares this to be a war of the German people. I have transferred my sympathies," said the Rev. Conrad Huber before the Ministerial association today. The Rev. Mr. Huber has two nephews who belong to the army. "Jealousy is the main cause of the present European war," Mr. Huber explained." He spoke on the conditions governing the strife between the warring nations. He characterized the lack of judgment on the part of all the nations involved, as the most predominant feature of the opening of the war. Ultimatum Was Fair. The speaker took the stand that the Austrian ultimatum to Servia was fair and reasonable with the exception of the demand that the Austrian police should be allowed to be present at the court of inquiry. ' "No territory should have the privilege of declaring war on any other country." said the Rev. Mr. Huber. "but in case any country desired to purchase new territory an appraising court should be appointed to regulate the transaction." In the business session of the association it was decided to hold the meetings every second and fourth Monday of each month in the room at the Y. M. C. A., formerly occupied by the boys' work secretary. Rev. E. O. Howard was appointed to serve on the re ligiouB committee of the Y. M. C. A., to take the place of the Rev. -8. R, Lyons, who is unable to act on account of illness. , EXAMINE SCHOOL BOOKS ' Examiners Crowe and Stout of the state board of. accounts are making th annual examination of the books and records of the school board of the eeuaty. They will lm tt JOT 4&0U.1