Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 288, 14 October 1914 — Page 1

RICHMWJ) PAIXABXUM VOL. XXXIX. NO. 28&0dArtnfoT-Teleram RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1914. SINGLE COPY. 2 CENTS

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ALLIES GAIN

ON LEFT PARIS CLAIMS French Report Indicates Allies Extending Operations from France into Belgium to Check Germans. Berlin Celebrates Fall of Antwerp by Raising of Flags, But No Demonstration Follows. BY LEASED WIRE. PARIS, Oct. 14. That the flanking taovement of the allies' left wing la knaking marked gains ia Indicated by bin official statement Issued here this after noon'. It states that the Belgian town of Ypres, which Is 27 miles northwest of Lille, and 33 miles from Ostend, has been occupied by British and French troops. This announcement, which is the first official statement that has mentioned English troops as operating in this section, shows that the allies' left wing has extended its range of work from France into Belgian. Text of Statement. The official statement follows: "On our left wing as far as the Oise Operations are pursuing their normal course. "At the center the progress of our armies in the region of Barry Au-Bac Is confined. "On our right wing there is nothing kiew. "In the Belgian theatre of war, in the region of Ghent, some engagements took place on the nights of October 12 and 13, and during the day of October 13 some Anglo-Franch troops occupied Ypres." BERLIN CELEBRATES. BERLIN, Oct. 14 (By Wireless Via Bayville, N. Y.) The news of Antwerp's fall news of joy to all Germans i was received here last evening. Though no extras were issued, It was generally circulated before night, and the streets filled with people. Flags were raised everywhere, but there was no demonstration otherwise. The feeling seemed to be of calm satisfaction over the great achievement. It is generally believed now that the Germans will soon be able to force the French lines. It is Bald that King Albert intends to surrender Antwerp to avoid useless bloodshed, but was prevented by the British leading the defense. Before the garrison left the British, it is stated, destroyed thirty-two German merchant steamers and twenty-two German Rhine vessels lying in the Antwerp harbor. The news of the fall of Antwerp is said to have been telephoned to the empress by the kaiser in person. (This would tend to refute reports that the kaiser is on the Russian frontier.) KELLY TO COMMENT ON BRIDGE QUESTION The largest petition ever presented the county commissioners will be officially turned over to them tonight and placed on file tomorrow. It is the petition of three thousand persons, almost all from Richmond and Wayne county, asking that the commissioners fix the location of the south side bridge at E street. President Kelly of Earlham will be the principal speaker at the meeting tonight. The meeting will begin at 7:30 in the circuit court room. Because of weather conditions, plans for entertainment after the program will not pe carried out. N. C. Heironimus and several other west side residents will also appear on the platform as speaker. William H. Kelley, who is attorney for the bridge petitioners, will act as chairman.

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Wrecked German Supply Train

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Many reports have come from the front of German supply trains ambushed and destroyed in the rush from Paris, following the battle of the Marne. This photo, taken in the forest of VillersGotteret, shows what is left of a German motor convoy after it had been ambushed by a patrol of French dragoons. 'v; " d

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ON EATON TRIP Democratic Admirers Will Swarm to Station to Induce Bryan to Make Short Address. When Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan arrives in Richmond at 5:55 o'clock this evening from Greenville, O., his private car .will be rapidly transferred to another train to take him to Eaton, O., where he speaks tonight. It is not probable that Mr. Bryan will deliver a rear platform address at the local station because of the brief time he will remain in this city. But the Commoner will be greeted by a big crowd, which may prevail upon him to make a few remarks. A big delegation of Wayne county j Democrats will go to Eaton tonight to ' hear Mr. Bryan.' J Another distinguished Democrat i Governor Samuel Ralston is to visit Richmond next week, Saturday, October 24, when he will speak in the evening at the Coliseum, urging the continuance of the Democraic party in power and answering the critics of his administration. THIEF SELLS HORSE FOR USJM EUROPE Police Believe John Turner's Animal on Way to Battle Lines. The valuable 3-year-old mare owned by John Turner, living north of Richmond, which was stolen from a hitchrack on South Sixth street Saturday I night, probably is now en route from Cincinnati to Canada for military purposes in Europe. The first report from the cards of inquiry sent out by the local police came in last evening from Liberty, announcing that a horse and rig answering the description of the stolen outfit was driven through Liberty about 2 o'clock Sunday morning. Following this report another came from a Boston township man, who reported that a horse and rig answering the description of the stolen property had been seen driving south Saturday night and that a mile south of Smithfield it collided with a northbound rig, smashing it badly and rendering the driver unconscious. American horses suitable for cavalry service are being purchased as fast as they can be obtained for shipment to Canada. This abnormal demand for good horses has induced horse thieves to redouble their activities. CRASH DAMAGES CAR Dr. Bond's Auto Hits McGuire's Machine. Automobiles driven by Dr. C. S. Bond and Elwood McGuire collided last night in front of the postoffce, smashing the front of Dr. Bond's car but hardly scratching Mr. McGuire's machine. Mr. McGuire was driving down Ninth street and turned in at the cement driveway on the postoffice property. Dr. Bond was only a few feet away and had no warning that Mr. McGuire would turn. He was unable to stop or turn out and the collision resulted. FIRE TRUCK BREAKS In responding to a telephone fire alarm sent in from 217 East Main street this morning the right drive chain of the automobile truck broke and it required nearly an hour to make the repairs. The blaze was in a closet and did very little damage.

Give Women Suffrage

In Justice to Nation Cries Elbert Russell

ELBERT Russell's Itinerary. Tonight Fountain City. Thursday Night Whitewater. Friday Night Economy. Saturday Night Hagerstown. Williamsburg was invaded by the Progressive automobile squadron last night. For an hour and a half an audience of over 300 listened eagerly to the enunciation of progressive principles by Professor Elbert Russell, candidate for congress. Prof. Russell made a plea for a Pro,rv njjaertinir'thls Dartv U I'M m - a . . . . .. Tit was the only one willing to giveineballot to three disfranchised classes of citizens in the United States, so called "blanket men," negroes in the South, and the women. He said there are five hundred thousand Americans known as "blanket men." This class embraces itinerant lumbermen, fruit pickers, harvest hands and salesmen, whose business takes them away from their homes most of the time. He said these men should have a right to vote. It was pointed out that several of the states have adopted the Progressive policy of absent registration and absent voting. There are ten million negroes who are deprived of the protection of the ballot in the South. They are deprived of this constitutional right by both the old parties. Prof. Russell said the Progressive party must take the ballot to these people. "The third class to whom we must INDICT REYNOLDS FOR WIFE'S DEATH Indictments for first degree murder have been returned by a Fayette county grand jury against Ivy Reynolds, until October a mail clerk in the Connersville postoffice. Reynolds is well known here and the announcement last March that he was under suspicion for the sudden death of his wife in February, caused surprise among his friends. Reynolds created suspicion by going to Morenci, Mich., and marrying Miss Dora Gerber within ten days after the burial ot nis tirst wife.

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RUSSELL. I give the ballot are the women," he continued. "There are two million working women in the United States who have no voice in making laws governing the conditions under which they work. It is not safe to deprive these women of the right to vote. It has been demonstrated that when the women take active part in strikes they are more dangerous than the men. The women must be given the ballot and the Progressive party Is ready to give it to them." The initiative, referendum and releal! ,;.were. advocated asvtfee. only . I r - -.i m .1 method of-plaofng Jhe control of the government directly in the hands of the people. In this way the unfinished task of making the government by and for the people would be completed, he argued. A plea was made for gov ernment regulation of corporations in stead of the old method of competition William A. Bond, candidate for judge, gave a short address before Prof. Russell spoke in which he made a strong plea for the party. He said he was a Progressive because it was the only party willing, to go down and lift humanity from the piti'into which it had fallen because of complex con ditions. In closing he said: "I will never be found In a party that has lost its interest in the people." This was the second of six meetings to be held in. Wayne county this week by Prof. Russell. He has been greeted by large and interested crowds everywhere. CHARGE FUND'S USE TO WHIP BEVERIDGE Progressive Speakers Say G. O. P. Spent $25,000 in Indianapolis in 1910. INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 14. Charges that the Republican party, beaded by Joseph B. Kealing, brought $25,000 to Indianapolis to give to the Democrats to defeat Albert J. Beveridge in 1910, and that Mayor Bell, before, his nomination last spring, worked as a lobbyist in the legislature to defeat the workmen's compensation bill were given attention by Progressive speakers at a meeting at Thirteenth street and Senate avenue last night. The speakers were Arthur B. Jones, W. S. Henry, nominee for the legislature, and Walter L. Carey, nominee for judge of the Marion circuit court. Henry referred to the alleged expenditure or $25,000 by the Democrats, which he said was raised by Joseph B. Kealing in the East. He declared that Kealing met Thomas Taggart and other Democrats at the Denison hotel and gave the money to them to defeat Beveridge, because Beveridge had made a fight in the Senate against the American Tobacco company and against the corporations employing children. JONES USES AUTO FOR ROAD WORK County Road Superintendent Jones was furnished with an automobile truck today by the Rodenfeld garage tor demonstration purposes. With the truck, fifteen prisoners from the county jail were taken to the roads around Greensfork instead of six, the number taken in a wagon. The truck was used today for the regular work which Mr. Jones expects to get from a truck when the county purchases one. He found it satisfactory and even above his expectations. JOHN LIND SICK BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Oct. 14. John Lind, who was President Wilson's special envoy to Mexico in the day of Huerta, is in a sanitarium here. It was announced today that he is not seriously sick, but is under, the care of physicians, while resting.

BEVERIDGE ROUSES WAVE OF LOYALTY ON NORTHERN TRIP

Enthusiasm for Progressive Senatorial Nominee Stops Business in Howard and Grant Counties. MARION, Ind., Oct. 14. Business was all but suspended in five towns in Howard and Grant counties yesterday because of the wave of enthusiasm that greeted Albert J. Beveridge, Progressive nominee for United States senator. Mr. Beveridge completed an unusual day's campaign here tonight before a large and responsive audience in Marion's beautiful Civic hall. Once again, after having broken all records for successful campaigning in Madison county Monday, new records for attendance at political meetings were established yesterday. The enthusiasm could not have been greater if a presidential campaign was in progress. So great has been the devotion for the Progressive cause shown on several occasions today that Mr. Beveridge has been touched deeply by the faithfulness of the voters to the principles of political and social justice. The day's tour was started from Elwood, and Hobbs, a small town in Howard county, was the first stop. A cold, drizzling rain had been falling for an hour when the Beveridge party arrived in Hobbs. Mr. Beveridge had predicted that there would be no meeting on account of the weather, but was surprised beyond expression upon arriving there to see a large crowd of men standing by the roadside in the rain, awaiting his arrival. The number of elderly men in this party impressed the Progressive senatorial nominee deeply. As the machine drew near, an old soldier who had lost an arm on the battle field, ran down the road, carrying a huge baas drum that he had been beating. RESIDENTS COMPLY WITH RULE TO GET PORCH MAIL BOXES Response to Postal Order for Expediting Delivery Most General South of Main Across River. , The order, to .have letter boxes or slots at the front door of ever house receiving mail made more of an impression on the citizens of Richmond than employes of the post office expected. Since the announcement a month ago that the order would be effective in sixty days and failure to comply then would mean a curtailment of deliveries, the post office has had several hundred calls .over the telephone and an unestimated number of personal complaints, chiefly to carriers. Many refuse to accept the statement that the post office did not make the order or even ask for it, but that it is a national ruling made by the department at Washington after long investigations of the extra distance each carrier must walk and the inconvenience to which he is put by unsystematic delivery. In some parts of the city, especially West Richmond, the citizens are complying with the order. In other towns there is little inclination to install boxes or slots until the last day of the period. Main street and the southern part of West Richmond has the best record. In this district, out of 352 houses, 334 have complied with the rule. North of Main street to Richmond avenue in West Richmond is a close second. On this route 424 out of 466 houses are now fitted. In Riverdale from Twelfth street east, only 169 out of 486 houses comply. In the east end north of Main from Fifteenth to Eighteenth streets 391 out of 457 houses have boxes or slots. East of this to Glen Miller park, 441 out of 475 houses have complied with the order. Many irate women refuse to permit the postman to "track up the front porch" and so will place boxes at the front step. GERMANS NAME GUNS FOR WOMAN According to a report from Copenhagen, the German forces have named their big guns "Busy Berthas," in honor of Frau Bertha Krupp von Bohlen. The great gunworks at Essen are owned by Frau von Bohlen, the young woman having inherited them from her father.

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FIRE PREVENTION EXPERTS FIND 142 BUILDINGS FREE FROM DANGEROUS HAZARDS

TREASURER'S OFFICE SOUGHT BY BOWER John Bower of Benton county. Progressive candidate for state treasurer, i sa most successful farmer. He is a man of unusual efficiency and learning. He is not only a success as a scientific farmer and as a business man, but he has made himself an authority on modern agriculture. Formerly he was a Democrat. John Bower was born in Chicago in 1860. He came of German parentage. He was reared in poverty and could not speak the English language until he was thirteen years old. At twelve years of age, Mr. Bower came to Newton county, Indiana. After three winters schooling he took up his life's work. At this time he owns two thousand acres of Benton county land. His country home is a model of modern convenience and comfort. KELLY LEADS BODY TO ORGANIZE HEADS OF U, S, COLLEGE President Robert L. Kelly, of Earlham college, who is chairman of a special committee appointed last July at a meeting of the National Educational association at St. Paul, has made the appointment of a committee of nine college presidents of the middle west to draft a constitution for the re-organization of an Association of American College President. This movement was launched by the Council of Church Board of Education in the United States, whose executive committees with numerous college presidents were called. The committee appointed by the head of Earlham college is composed of: Presidents R. L. Kelly, Earlham college; John H. T. Main, Grinnell college, la.; T. H. McMlchael, Monmouth college, 111.; H. D. Hoover, Carthage, 111.; T. W. Hinitt, Central college, Ky.; Rush Rhees, Rochester university. N. Y.; R. W. Cooper, Upper Iowa university; H. M. Bell, Drake university, la., and George C. Fellow, James Millikan university, 111. The committee is to have its initial meeting at the LaSalle hotel in Chicago, Friday, Oct. 16. It is expected that this organization will co-ordinate with the present organization of American University Presidents. COLLECTS FOR COAL; TREATS FRIENDS Thomas Macinerney of Cambridge City, is in the county jail charged with embezzlement as the result of his being a "good fellow" with his employer's money. Macinerney drives a coal wagon for T. J. Connell of Cambridge City. He delivered - coal in East Germantown, collecting $17.50. When he returned to Cambridge City, his friends helped him spend the money in Cambridge City saloons. He was unable to replace it. ST. JOHN'S SENDS MEN TO SYNOD The western district of the joint Lutheran synod opened its annual convention at Marysville, . Ohio, today. St. John's church is represented by its pastor who will present a paper on the "High Priestly Office of Christ." and by Fred Hackman, delegate, and the Rev. Mr. Gahre. formerly superintendent of the Wernle Orphans' home. The local party left for Marysville today. FOR INDIANA Partly cloudy tonight. Slightly cooler in north portion. Thursday fair. Slightly waro.er. TEMPERATURE Noon .' 60 Yesterday. Maximum 69 Minimum 60 W. E. MOORE'S FORECAST. LOCAL, Unsettled tonight. Thursday fair, somewhat warmer. GENERAL CONDITIONS The storm over the central states yesterday expanded and caused rain over the Ohio valley. It is moving slowly northeastward and has temporarily broken the force of the cool wave which has been threatening for the past 36 houra,

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The Weather

GOOD CONDITION BRINGS PRAISES FOR CJTTS CLUB Unusual Showing: is Due, Speakers Say to Efforts of Commercial Body for Lower Insurance.

INSPECT 273 ROOMS George Seidel Urges Citizens to Remedy Defects and Make Richmond Fire Proof City. About fifty percent of the 273 business houses of the city, inspected by the Indiana Fire Prevention bureau, are without defects. This was the report of John W. Noble, secretary of the association, at the meeting in the of prevention held under the auspices ot the Commercial club and visiting experts last evening in the auditorium of the high school building. Criticisms and suggestions given by the association would be used to forward the Commercial club's efforts for lower Insurance rates, putting Richmond in Class 2, said George Seidel, president. Progress in Richmond, due to the efforts of the Commercial club, was praised by L. H. Stubbs of St. Joseph, Mo., and C. D. Lasher, president of the prevention association. Ralph E. Richman secretary to Fire Marshal Longley, outlined the state's program to cut down the enormous waste due to fire losses. Find Conditions Good. "While we were much pleased with conditions we found in Richmond, there are many criticisms we have to offer," said John W. Noble. In all we inspected 273 buildings." he continued. "We found 142 of these to be without defects from the standpoint of fire prevention. Faulty methods In the remaining 131 buildings were mainly upkeeping or housekeeping defects. "There were 46 cases of rubbish that It would cost nothings to remove, 44 open sidewalk gratings, where a cigar or lighted match might cause a costly fire, 28 rubber tube gas connections, 34 defective in heating apparatus. 38 wiring defects, 5 swinging gas brackets, five dangerous gasoline storage plants, and three instances of ashes in wooden boxes." Wants Fireless City. "The Commercial club has been fighting for over five years to get conditions in Richmond that would mako it possible to be rated as a Class 2 city, which would reduce our insurance I rates 15 per cent." said President Seidel. "We have met all the requirei ments but two, and with the assist- : ance of the present city administration j we hope to get an aerial fire truck, j and have an ordinance passed compelj ing all overhead wiring to be removed j from the business district. Then Richi mond will rank with Indianapolis and Terre Haute, the only cities in Indiana that rate as Class 2 at present. "With the help of the city administration we hope to be able to accomplish this, and to this end we ask the ! co-operation of every citizen to make Richmond the "fireproof city" as well as the "panic-proof city." Stubbs Makes Hit. The talk of L. H. Stubbs, formerly of West Elkton, O., now of St. Joseph. Mo., proved to be the hit of the evening. Mr. Stubbs is a representative of the bureau of publicity and education of the National Fire Prevention Bureau. "Richmond. Ind., was once the greatest town in all the world to me," said, Mr. Stubbs. "Never will .1 forget my joy years ago, when my father told me ; he was going to take me to Richmond ; one day. Richmond, Ind., the town where they made steam engines, roller skates, candy and butter crackers. It seemed like Heaven to me then, and it is mighty good to be back here today." Mr. Stubbs lauded Richmond for the progress she has made and praised the streets, factories, the Commercial club and the schools. "When you get down to a No. 2 fire protection class, Richmond will be the ! best and safest place to live in IndiI ana." he said. "Build vour homes and ' stores so that they will be fire tight from the inside and fireproof from the outside. This will save lives, property and dollars and cents." Robbins Gives Welcome. Mayor Robbins welcomed the delegates to the city, and said. "We know the results of your investigations will be a benefit to Richmond." C. D. Lasher, president of the bureau, said, "The results in Richmond will depend on individual effort. You can forestall fire by not allowing places for it to catch. The work of your Commercial club is most commendable, and the city is certainly under obligation to It." "The United States of Destruction." is a title we have earned, said Ralph E. Richman. He outlined the duties of the state fire marshal as follows: The prevention of fires, the enforcement of laws pertaining to the storage sale and use of combustibles and explosives, the installation and maintenance of automatic or other fire alarm systems and fire extinguishing equipment, suppression of arson and the investigation of the causes, origin and circumstances ot fires. A short musical program was given by Miss Marjorie Beck, Dale Owens and Philip Gates. Upon retaining to Indianapolis members of the bureau will report in wrlt(Continued on Page Two-1

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