Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 297, 24 October 1914 — Page 1

PAUL VOL. XXXX. NO. 297 SSSfflff, JCiW RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1914. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

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GRAY HURRIES OVFR COUNTY ON CAMPAIGN

Democratic Candidate for Re-election Speaks to Attentive Audiences on Whirl Through Western Towns. LAUDS PRES. WILSON Representative Pledges to Support Administration in Policies If Voters Return Him to Congress. Tbe trail of the congressional candidate la now well blazed and traveled. Elbert Russell, tbe Progressive candidate, was the pioneer, then P. J. Lynch, the Republican nominee followed In his footsteps and today Rep. Finly H. Gray, Democratic candidate, traversed it in a highpowered automobile. Rep. Gray arrived in Richmond early this morning from Washington and by 7:30 o'clock was on the trail of the much sought after man behind the ballot, to explain to him just what he had been doing in congress and why jthe should be continued on the job. Mr. Gray was received by fair sized (crowds in Centerville, East Germantown, Milton, Cambridge City, Hagerstown and Greensfork, and they all beard his addresses with interested attention but they were not in the least demonstrative. Arriving at Cambridge City Mr. Gray informed the newspaper men who accompanied him that he believed Wayne county was the most ultra Progressive place in the universe, but he was highly pleased with the considerate attention he received from the voters. Defends Administration. In his several addresses Mr. Gray defended the Wilson administration, had little or nothing to say about state Issues and advocated a satisfactory primary law, predicting such a statute would be enacted if a Democratic legislature was elected, although the last Democratic legislature killed the only real primary bill that was introduced. Mr. Gray first mentioned this matter at Milton, the home of Earl -Crawford, former Democratic legislator who went over to the Progressives principally because the Taggart machine opposed a state wide primary law-and. other, progressive leg;, lslation. Mr. Qray only has seven days before election to conduct his campaign and he will try to get over the district in that time, so he will conclude his tour of Wayne county with an address at the coliseum tonight, preceding the speech of Governor Ralston. Mr. Gray was disappointed over not meeting District Chairman Chambers at Cambridge City this morning to receive his report on conditions in the district, but he expressed his confidence that he would be re-elected by a substantial plurality. Avoids Civil Service. One topic avoided by Rep. Gray in his addresses through the county today, his vote for the measure destined to remove the thousands of postal employes from the protection of the civil service. In substance Mr. Gray said at his various meetings this morning: "You are btag appealed to to support the policies of President Wilson. With the assistance of congress President Wilson has been able to accomplish real progressive legislation, and there are many other reforms yet to be accomplished. In this work he must receive the patriotic support of the American people, and I stand pledged to his support. "Much sport was made of the President's policy of watchful waiting but It has saved us thousands of lives and (Continued on Page Six.) Belgian

PURTELLE ASKS PEOPLE TO GIVE MORE SUBSIDIES In Final Effort to Get $100,000 Nov. 3, Promoter Extends Traction Operations Northward.

PROMISE UNION LINE Paid Agents Get Petition in New Garden Township and Secure Signers in Whitewater Vicinity. In a final effort to win votes for his etn a: . . I. : . I - - 1 IT' luu.uuu uaciiuu tmusiuy m ivajuc township, Eugene Purtelle has extended his operations northward. Purtelle and his paid agent, John Fitzgibbons have told the voters of northern Wayne township that they will not be left out of his traction schemes if they will vote for his $100 000 subsidy, but that he will build a Richmond-Union City line through Whitewater. The promoter has asked the citizens of Franklin township for $12,000 and the citizens of New Garden township for $20,000 with which he tells them he will cause to be constructed the long-sought northern line. Gives Same Terms. A petition was filed late yesterday by thirty-eight residents of New Garden township, asking that an election be held to vote the $20,000 Purtelle wants, to the traction company. The terms are the same as in other petitions, the conditions being that Purtelle is to give the equivalent of the subsidy in traction company stock and that he have his rolling stock in operation before the tax is placed on the duplicate. The Franklin township petition has not been filed. It contained only twenty-seven names yesterday. John Fitzgibbons has the petition and is circulating it among the residents of the township. The citizens of the two townships have been given to understand that Purtelle will build a straight line to Union Cijty passing through Whitewater and that he will work in Randolph county and towards Portland to connect with a proposed traction line In course of construction there. Promise Many Branches. At Whitewater, the promoters tell the citizens, a branch will go across to .QunJlngity tjje seat of New Garden township and possiDl extend still further across the northern part of the county. The commissioners will not act on the New Garden petition immediately, but will delay until the Franklin town ship petition is filed and act on them together. It is too late now for either township to vote on the subsidies at the November election as twenty days must elapse between the time of filing the petition and the calling of the election. This brings the total subsidies asked for by Purtelle up to $357,000. In addition to this, he has private subsidies which bring his gift money up to a half million dollars if he is successful on November 3. Among those who signed the New Garden township petition are Windsor Wiggs, Ora Pitts, H. R. Gifford, Bart Johnson, J. C. Fulgham, John F. Cranor, Claude Keever, E. C Harris and thirty others. TO ENTERTAIN CLASS Next Saturday night Physical Director Roach of the Y. M. C. A., will have a Halloween party for all the gym classes. He requests that the men and boys come in gym suits and promises lots vf fun. The evening will be devoted 'o a general big time. The festivities will begin promptly at 8 o'clock.

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COURT CALLS JURY-TO PROBE MURDER CASE

Action for Immediate Investigation Follows When Reller Gathers Evidence on Walker's Death. CALL STOPS CRITICS Brown's Friends Opposed Confinement in Jail Until After Election Without Grand Jury Session. A grand jury will meet Monday morning to investigate the Morris Walker murder case. This announcement was made .today after a conference between Judge Fox Prosecuting Attorney Reller in which Reller informed the judge that there need be no delay as the evidence in the case is ready to be presented to the jury. The venire is the regular October court team grand jury venire. On it are D. O. Clevenger, Washington township; Oliver B. Bond, Clay township; Ross Stevens, Abington township; Mack Lamb, Dalton township; Earl S. Pike and Albert B. Steen, Wayne township. Delay Causes Criticism. The prior announcement that the grand jury would not meet until after the election is said to have caused considerable criticism. At the time the tentative date was set, there was some doubt as to whether the evidence would be ready for presentation to' the investigating body sooner. Unlike many other murder cases, the killing of Morris Walker will present an open story. This story and the conditions which entered into the shooting up to the time Joseph Brown killed Walker are generally well known throughout the county now. It is said that Brown's friends are eager to testify as to his previous character and reputation. A conversation which is said to have taken place a few weeks ago is repeated by railroaders to confirm their belief that Brown was innocent of murderous intentions until he was attacked by Walker. Comments on Case. "If I ever ' found a man with my wife, I ' would Jnst pc1rBpnu1eavr them together," Brown is reported to have said at one time when the subject arose in a group of railroaders. Railroaders say he disagreed with those who thought a shooting should follow such a discovery. Brown is confident that the grand jury will be able to draw the truth from Mrs. Brown regarding the attack by Walker. Mrs. Brown still sticks to her story that she was first conscious of the presence of the two men in the room when she heard the revolver shot. There is some speculation as to whether the grand jury will probe into the alleged previous relations of Mrs. Brown with Walker and other men. It i3 said this question will tenter into the motive of Brown sitting in the dark in the front room of his home, waiting for his wife to return. Court attaches declare that the grand jury will complete the investigation by Tuesday night and possibly return their report by that time. TO DEDICATE HALL GREENSFORK, Ind., Oct. 24 The Knights of Pythias and the Odd Fellows of Greensfork, will dedicate their new hall, October 29. After the dedication ceremonies, an oyster supper will be served. The ceremonies will be open to the public.

600,000 TROOPS REINFORCE ARMY ON BELGIAN SOIL Kaiser Bolsters Fighting Strength to Force Decisive Action on Allies Along the Whole Battle Front.

GAINS NEAR LILLE Teutons Drive Wedge Toward Lens and Threaten to Cut Off Troops Forming Extreme Left Wing. BY FREDERICK WERNER, Staff Correspondent International News Service. BERLIN, via Amsterdam, Oct. 24 Six hundred thousand fresh troops have reinforced the German armies along the Franco-Belgian front. The International News Service is informed that it is the intention of the German general staff to force the conflict there to a conclusion as quickly as possible and that all available forces are being brought into action to break the allies' lines. It was announced early today that the German forces had made gains in the fighting between Lille and Arras and that they had driven a wedge toward Lens and LaBasse (respectively 16 and 13 miles southwest of Lille) that threatens to cut off the troops forming the extreme left wing of the allies. "The battle between Nieuport and Dixmude," the statement continues, "is still raging violently. Our artillery has been brought into action and is shelling the enemy heavily. The allied troops have made a number of bayonet charges, but the German lines have been maintained at all important points. "Zeppelin airships are co-operating with our troops and are proving invaluable in giving the location of the enemy. "Our troops further east are drawing more closely around Verdun. The fighting there is most severe. The Germans engaged the enemy in hand-to-hand combats as we advance. The sorties made by the French troops in their attempts to check our advance have been repulsed with heavy losses." ST. ANDREW'S GIRLS Pt Afl - AH HI VERS AR Y Students of School Rehearse Program Honoring Fifty Years of Existence. Fifty years ago, two Sisters of St. Francis came to Richmond. They took charge of the girls and younger children of members of St. Andrew's church, establishing the St. Andrew's school. In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the coming of the sisters, the school children of St. Andrew's will give a school entertainment Tuesday evening, the day of the anniversary. Operattas, playlets and musical features will be conducted entirely by school children. The children of St. Andrew's were first taught by lay teachers, usually men who conducted small classes wherever they could organize them. On October 27, 1864 two sisters were sent to the church to take charge of the education of the young. There are now eight sisters of St. Francis who live in a home on Sixth street which connects with the school building on Fifth street. The principal of the school is Joseph M. Richter. He is training ,u --''K 'en for the anniversary celebration Ghent

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Teutons Persist in Trying to Smash Anglo-French Line to Take Powerful French Fortress. METZ STILL IS SAFE Soggy Ground in Belgium Prevents Rapid Troop Movements Along Extreme End of Left Wing. BY FRANKLIN P. MERRICK, Staff Correspondent of the International News Service. PARIS, Oct. 24. Emperor William's German troops are still on the offen sive in the northern sphere of fighting, I with reinforcements being used as reserves for the first line veterans. Reports from the north indicate that the hardest fighting in Belgium is in progress in the triangle roughly bounded by Nieuport, Dixmude and Roulers. These French, British and Belgians are feeling the pressure of superior numbers, but the nature of the ground over which the hostilities are ranging prevents skilful maneuvers and quick shifts of heavy bodies of troops. On the La Bassee-Armentiers line fighting has been of the most severe character. The villages of Freling and Quesnoy, northwest of Lille, have been raked by artillery fire, and Freling is reported to be in flames. Make Night Attacks. Fierce attacks and counter attacks are being made along the line extending from Albert to a point north of Arras. The Germans made a series of desperate night attacks in an effort to break through the allies' line in the direction of Doullens. It would seem that the Germans have not yet given up the hope of smashing the AngloFrench line in this region in order to cut off the allies' forces operating north of Arras in France, and along the Yser river in Belgian. Verdun is the center of a furious struggle on the eastern line. The French are striving vigorously to dislodge the Germans at Camp des Romaines on the Meuse, at which point the invaders have succeeded in getting a number of heavy Austrian siege The French movement against Metz seems to have been checked. There has been little change in the relative positions of the armies which are battling along the Meuse, notwithstanding the violence of the assault. The Germans have been making fierce efforts to get Verdun, because of the ring of forts at which point guard the only feasible roadway over the Meuse along which a big army could move. These assaults have been stoutly met by the French army, which has succeeded in getting between Metz and the Verdun-Toul line. MUTINY BREAKS ON RED CROSS OUT SHIP SAILING FOR EUROPE BY LEASED WIRE. NEW YORK, Oct. 24. Finishing what was intended to be a mission of peace, the American relief ship Red Cross arrived here today from Europe with a lurid account of riots, mutiny and attempted murder. The Red Cross started from New York on September 13, bearing doctors, nurses and medical supplies for the European war zone. Upon her arrival here today, she bore 159 passengers and a young Dutch woman who had secretly boarded the ship as a stoway Just before it left Rotterdam. Juft after leaving this port on her trip eastward a fight broke out between the white and negro factions of the crew. On the second day out it was found that the German members of tho crew, who had been discharged before the ship left this port, had wrecked the sanitary arrangements, the refrigerating plant and had plugged up the bilge pipes. On September 25, twenty-five negro seamen mutinied. On October 4th, J. Torrez, a mess boy ran amuck with a long knife and tried to kill every one in sight. The same day J. Larkin, an oiler, assaulted the chef with a monkeywrench, inflicting painful, but not serious wounds. On October 11, Emil Kovarik, chief master at arms, was assaulted by two sailors, R. Coffey and Z. Jackson, who tried to strangle him. It took more than an hour to subdue them. The Red Cross was held up a number of times on her way from Rotterdam by British and French warships. The Weather FOR INDIANA Local rain and cooler tonight. Sunday fair and cooler. Temperature. Noon 69 Yesterday. Maximum 69 Minimum 49 W. E. MOORE'S FORECAST. LOCAL Unsettled with rain tonight or Sunday, followed by cold wave. GENERAL CONDITIONS The high barometric pressure which prevails over the Great Lakes has retarded the most of the rain storm which is centered over Texas. The cool wave northwest is moving rapidly and will couse cooler weather la the next thirfln knars, j X '

PAT LYNCH ENDS CAMPAIGH WEEK WITH TALK HERE G. O. P. Candidate Shows Little Affect After Speaking in Towns and Shops of Wayne County.

ATTACKS THE WAR TAX Says Measure Would Have Been Unnecessary With Republican Party's Protective Tariff in Force. P. J. Lynch, Republican candidate for congressman, finished a week of hard campaigning in Wayne county with two meetings last night, one in Boston and one in Richmond, and with an afternoon meeting in Hagerstown. He will spend three more days in this county next week, opening next Monday night at Hagerstown, which date was arranged for him yesterday. If Lynch is tired from the effects of his four months of strenuous campaigning, he fails to show it, and his voice was in excellent condition last night. At Boston he talked to over fifty voters, and made an appeal especially to farmers for their support, saying the Democratic tariff policy was absolutely ruinous to them. Speaks to Colored Men. In Richmond he addressed a meeting of colored voters at the court house. There were one : hundred in the crowd assembled there, thirty-five being white people. There were also several women. To the colored voters Mr. Lynch appealed for loyal support, saying the Republican party had always been their loyal friend, having been instrumental in releasing their fathers from bondage. To his Boston audience Lynch said that under the last year and a half of Democratic administration in Indiana taxes in Wayne county had increased $32,000. He said the present state administration had been extremely extravagant, and he mentioned the fact that It cost to maintain the last legis(Continued on Page Six.) SAYS BRITISH GOLD WILL WIN WAR Lloyd George. Chancellor of the English Exchequer, who declared his belief that finance will play a big part in the winning of the present war for Great Britain. "The first consideration," he said, "must be to win. We must husband our resources. We must relieve distress, but we must not spend a penny on work that is not absolutely essential. In my judgment the last few hundred millions may win this war. The first hundred millions our enemy can stand as well as we can but the last few hundred millions they cannot."

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PRIZE FOR LOCAL ART

Bundy and Girardin Receive Honorable Mention in Mary T. R. Foulke Contest Will H. Stevens of Vevay Gets Award of $50 for Best Canvas by Indiana Artist

First prize of $25 offered by Mary T. R. Foulke for the best painting by a Richmond artist was awarded to Mrs. Maud Kaufman Eggemeyer last ( nigm on a picture entitled summer. "Morning Landscape" by Will H. Stevens of Vevay, won the first prize of $50 for Indiana artists. The judging committee was composed of Law ton Parker, Chicago; James Hopkins, Cincinnati; R. A. Holland, St. Louis. First honorable mention in the Indiana conteBt was given to Olive Rush of Indianapolis, on her painting "On the Balcony." She was a former Earlham student and a pupil of J. E. Bundy. Second honorable mention was given the painting called "Summer," by Martinus Anderson of Indianapolis. In the Indiana contest, J. E. Bundy was given first honorable mention on his "Wane of Winter" and "A Georgia Landscape." by Frank J- Qirarain re ceived the seoont hesMnble

GERMANS GAIN ADVANTAGE ON FRENCH SOIL

Kaiser's Army Progresses North of Dixmude and Around Labosse, French War Statement Admits. ATTACK BY NIGHT Paris Claims Advance in Woevre Region and the Checking of Day and Night Assaults. BY LEASED WIRE. PARIS. Oct. 24. Admission that the German troops In Belgium are making progress north of Dixmude and around Labassee in France is made In the official French statement issued here this afternoon, but says that the allies have made progress about Langmarck (southeast of Dixmude) and between Arminteres and Lille. The official news as to the French success of Kieuport indicates that the allies have succeeded thus far in checking the Germans in their advance down the coast from Ostend. At numerous other points on the long battle front, the Germans have made night and day attacks but they have been repulsed, the statement says. The official communique follows In full: "On our left wins the battle continues. The enemy has progressed north of Dixmude and around Labassee. We have advanced very appreciably to the east of Nieuport, in the region of Langemark and in the region between Armentieres and Lille. These are fluctuations inevitable on the line of battle. "On the rest of the front numerous German attacks, both by night and by day, have been repulsed. At many points we have advanced slightly. In the Woevre region our advance has continued in the direction of Boise De Mortmare, south of Thlaucourt, in the Bois Le Pretre and north of Pont-A-Mousson." 25 PERSONS DIE AS CLOUDBURST HITS TEXAS CITY Property Loss Goes Into Million Dollars When Creek Overflows Banks in City Limits. SAN ANTONIO. Tex.. Oct. 24. Twenty-five persons were drowned In the city proper and fully as many in adjacent territory, three hundred houses washed away, and a property loss of half a million dollars are the results of a cloudburst in this city last night. The principal damage was done by Alazan creek, which has its head in the city limits. Sufficient rain fell in less than an hour to put the stream over the Commerce street bridge, the highest structure of its kind in the city. Residents along its banks did not have sufficient warning to get away from danger, and entire families in several instances were drowned. In the home of Mrs. Katrina Liebe. she, her mother-in-law and six children met death. This morning several houses were high and dry on the vavious concrete bridges. In one of these houses Jacob Limburger, wife and three children rode to safety. When rescued they were calmly preparing breakfast on an oil stove. $8 MINIMUM WAGE TO BE PAID WOMEN ST. PAUL. Minn., Oct 24. Eight dollars a week has been set by the Minnesota state minimum wage commission as the smallest wage a woman may be paid. In certain conditions a higher wage is fixed. Lawton Parker, who Is counted one of the foremost American painters, praised the local art association very highly for its work and was greatly pleased with the gallery. He purchased the prize winning picture by Stevens for his own collection. At the business meeting of the Art Association following the reception, the following officers were elected: Mrs. Paul Comstock. president; J. T. Giles, first vice president; - William Dudley Foulke. second vice president; Frank G. Pickell. secretary; Demas Coe, treasurer. The board of directors elected consists of Mrs. Howard Dill, Sarah Hill, J. E. Bundy and Mrs. Ed Cates. An amendment to the constitution of the association was approved and voted upon favorably, to hold the annual election of officers on the first Tuesday In March. The officers Just elected will serve until a year from next March,