Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 317, 17 November 1914 — Page 1

FA BMJM 'OL. XXXIX. NO. 317. &SVSAiS'vnm - RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1914. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS COUNCIL ALLOWS LOAN OF $3,000 TO CREATE JOBS Acts Favorably on Mayor's Schedule of Proposed Improvements to Aid City's Unemployed.

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GERMANS REPEL FRENCH ATTACK ABOUTVERDUN Berlin Strategists Say Operations Halted in Flanders by Fierce Storm of Snow and Sleet. REMARKABLE PICTURE SHOWS SINKING OF THE BRITISH DREADNOUGHT AUDACIOUS Here is the most remarkable picture which has yet been published on the European war. It shows the sinking of the British dreadnought, H. M. S. Audacious, off the coast of Ireland. The photo was taken from the deck of the Trans-Atlantic liner Olympic, one of whose white lifeboats is seen in the foreground, bringing rescued sailors from the sinking ship to the liner.. Two torpedo boats are standing by. This remarkable photograph and the news of the sinking of the Audacious reached New York almost simultaneously on Saturday, November 24. The port deck of the stricken vessel is partly awash and the crew can be seen gathered on the starboard side. The picture was secured at great expense by the International News Service and is fully protected by copyright in the United States. Any infringement will be prosecuted.

KAISER EXCHANGES CORDIAL GREETINGS WITH TIMS RULER Germans Formally Deny Report of Refusing American Aid to Relieve Suffering of Belgian People. BY FREDERICK WERNER, Staff Correspondent of International

SEASON SETS LIMIT

Weather Prevents Extensive Program of Street Work Fund Will Give 100 Men Some Relief. City council, at its meeting last evening decided to authorize the board of public works to secure a temporary loan of $3,000 so that extra city work can be provided for the unemployed. Figuring that one-third of this money, $1,000, will be used for the purchase of necessary materials there will be $2,000 left to be paid out for wages. If the wages paid average $1.50 per day this will be sufficient to give employment to 100 men for thirteen and one-third days. Secretary Melpolder of the Central Charity Bureau, estimates that there are eleven hundred men out of employment. Councilman O'Neal and Burdsall wanted to have council authorize a larger loan, although the list of possible work the city could provide at this time, submitted by Mayor Robbins, totaled only $3,000. It was their idea to provide the board with $2,000 or ?3,00j0 more to be used at its discretion in the event work not anticipated now developed later. O'Neal In introducing a resolution that it was the desire of council that the board negotiate a loan first specified the amount of the loan at $5,000 but several councilmen interrupted by exclaiming, "make it $3,000," which he finally did and the resolution was adopted. The board will at once begin work on the contemplated improvements, meeting the expenses out of the money now in the general fund. At the next council meeting an ordinance will be passed providing for the temporary loan. For some reason not explained this ordinance was not ready (Continued on Last Page.) . ELKS TO DISTRIBUTE CHRISTMAS BASKETS Lodge Will Revise Christmas Cheer List With John Melpolder's Aid. Carrying out their old custom, Rich mond Elks will distribute 200 good cheer baskets throughout Richmond ; on Christmas morning. i The committee having charge of ! the Christmas Cheer baskets, headed, by Dr. Anderson, chairman, will revise ; the list of persons who receive Christmas cheer baskets with the aid of John Melpolder, secretary of the Central Charity bureau. Mr. Melpolder approved of the annual custom of the Klks, he said, and will co-operate with them in any way possible. The Elks will distribute as many baskets this year as there is a demand for. Each basket will be filled with every article of food which goes with a Christmas dinner. The Elks who volunteer to distribute the Christmas cheer baskets will start early Christmas morning taking the baskets in automobiles to the homes which in many cases could not otherwise expect a sumptuous Christinas dinner. BIG PLANT RE-OPENS KOKOMO, Ind., Nov. 17 The Kokorno Steel and Wire company, an independent steel plant, will opon with a full force of y.OOO men next Monday.

FLOODS AND STORMS CHECK TROOP MOVES

French Officer Praises Heroic Valor of German Soldiers and Unflinching Courage of Officers in Holding Positions or Leading Attacks Kaiser's Lieutenant Tells Superior He Would Storm Hell If Ordered So to Do.

BY FRANKLIN P. MERRICK, Staff Correspondent the International News Service. PARIS, Nov. 17. Although violent fighting between the allies and the Germans is still going on In West Flanders, troop movements have been completely checked by the floods and Storms which have turned the hightrays into swamps. The inclement weather has brought out a new phase of courage among the French, British, Belgians and Germans. There are bearing without complaint the conditions which are causing terrible suffering. Some of the Germans have' been fighting in trenches half filled with Ice cold water since Monday morning. The British have distinguished themselves by charging across an inundated district south of DIxmude, where the soldiers had to wade water tip to their waists. Praises Germans. A French officer, who has just returned from Northern France, declares that the gallantry of the German soldiers fighting on the Nieuport-pixmude-Ypres-Armentieres line will

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CRACOW AFIRE FROM SHELLS OF RUSS GUNS Panic Stricken Citizens Flee and London Reports Fall of Gallician Stronghold Believed Imminent. BY LEASED WIRE. LONDON, Nor. 17 Attention of th war experts was centered upon Cracow, the Galacian stronghold of Austria today. Dispatches were received from two sources stating that the city was burning as the result of Russian shell fire. The storms and floods on the French and Belgian line are expected to result in a cessation of the hand-to-hand fighting there for several days, and therefore the situation in the eastern war theatre is of greater interest. A" Rome dispatch' to- ttreStar says? "A Trieste correspondent states that the Russians invested Cracow two days ago. The northern portion of the city is burning. The panic-stricken inhabitant have fled. The fall of the city is considered Imminent." The Venice correspondent of the Giornale d'ltalia sends the following dispatch to his paper in Rome: "Private Germans announce that Cracow is afame. Only the military remain there. The Russians are attacking the city from the northeast, and the investment will soon be complete. One hundred thousand Austrian soldiers are shut up in Cracow." There was heavy fighting around Ypres again on Monday, the Germans continuing their efforts to drive back the solid wedge which is pushed into their lines there. The German casualties in West Flanders since last Friday morning are estimated at one hundred thousand men, most of them falling in the vigorous assaults against the allies at Ypres. 10 MEET GERMANS BY LEASED WIRE. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 17 Reports received from German sources say that the Russian Baltic Sea squadron has sailed from its base at Zelingfors and intends to engage the German squadron in the Baltic. go down as one of the bright spots in the dark conflict. "I am proud to fight against such enemies," declared this officer. "The Germans flinch from nothing. There is a story among a batch of German prisoners taken in the fighting around Dixmude about a German lieutenant who was called before his superior officer. The latter asked the lieutenant if he would undertake an attack against a strong British position north of Ypres. " 'General, replied the lieutenant, 'I would attempt to storm h 1 if you gave the order to do it.' " That story may not be true, but it shows the Prussian fighting spirit. The German artillery in certain positions south of the Yser has been worked under tremendous difficulties. At one place several German guns were cut off by the flood caused by the destruction of dikes. The German artillerymen continued to work their guns until the rising water crept above the muzzles and they were compelled to make their way to safety the best way they could. Probably all of them were drowned.

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PALLADIUM OBTAINS TRIBUNE WAR REELS

Authentic Pictures of Great War, Made by Official Sanction of Belgian Government, to Be Shown in Richmond to Help Give Christmas Joy to Poor Children of This City Belgian Relief Fund Gets Royalty Pictures Taken Within Fifty Feet of Battle Front 20,000 Persons See Films in Chicago Last Sunday Richmond Charity to Receive Surplus. On December 9 and 10, afternoon and evening, Richmond and Wayne county people will have the first opportunity of getting a realistic glimpse of the great war which has been raging through stricken Belgium. This wonderful spectacle is to be presented in this city through the efforts of The Palladium, which has just entered into a contract with the Chicago Tribune to present its remarkable moving picture film of war scenes, the only official film depicting war incidents in unhappy Belgium which has been brought to this

country and presented-for the first time4rr-Chicage-4a&k Sunday J

when it was witnessed by over 20,000 people. The film is in four reels. The performances will be at the Murray theatre. This wonderful picture story of war in all its red horror was obtained by Edwin F. Weigle, staff photographer of the Tribune, after Joseph Medill Patterson, owner of the Tribune, contracted with the Belgian government to donate 50 per cent of the profits obtained from the film in the United States to the Belgian war victims. Under this contract the Tribune holds the exclusive right to take moving pictures on Belgian soil. Views From Actual Battle Line. The scenes depicted are unusually distinct and the story they tell is more thrilling than anything yet contributed to the literature of the world. Some views were taken only fifty feet away from the scenes of actual fighting. The Palladium pays the Tribune $150 for the privilege of exhibiting the war pictures in this city. Under the arrangement it has with the Tribune half of this sum goes to the Belgian relief fund. All the proceeds over and above the expenses of producing the performances in this city The Palladium is to place in a special fund to bring Christmas joy to the poor children of this city, so that Yuletide happiness will be assured every Richmond youngster. The expenses The Palladium will incur in this undertaking, besides the $150 royalty fee, are : Opera house, $40 a day, salaries of attendants and cost of music, to be furnished by the Runge orchestra. Among the scenes shown in the four reels are the burning of Antwerp, the battle of Alost, the destruction of Termonde, the battle of Aerschot, the flooding of the Loire country and the battle of Malines. These films are the only official war views ever displayed in this country and no one in this community should fail to take advantage of the unusual opportunity The Palladium is affording them to witness what war actually is.

HIGH PRICE OF HOGS EXPECTED TO DROP AS RECEIPTS GROW 2,000 Hogs, 3,000 Cattle and 20,000 Sheep Received at Chicago Yards. BY LEASED WIRE. CHICAGO, Nov. 17 The advance of 40 to 50 cents in hogs and nearly one dollar in cattle which marked the reopening of the Union Stock Yards Monday, after the nine days' quarantine, appeared likely today to soon pass. While hogs were steady in today's early market, cattle were weak. The second days' run was about the average for Tuesday, which is always light. About 20,000 hogs, 3,000 cattle and 20,000 sheep were received. Every animal was inspected by government men who broke the seals on the cars. No case of foot and mouth disease was found. Illinois stock men are clamoring for release from quarantine, despite the discovery of new cases of foot and mouth disease in Kendall, McHenry and Kankakee counties. The Milwaukee yards are being cleaned and disinfected by government inspectors.

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wwyww.mmwuw.jaM I i HI n I l ill GERMAN CRUISER RISKS BLOCKADE LONDON, Nov. 17. A report was1 current in marine underwriter circles . today that a speedy German cruiser is trying to run the British blockade and escape from the North Sea to join the commerce raiders in outside waters. This was based upon dispatches from Chiistiania reporting that the German auxiliary cruiser Berlin had been sighted off Trondhjem, Norway. SECTION TO MEET. Section Number One of the Ladies' and Pastors' Union will meet Wednesj day afternoon with Mrs. E. E. Steven son at ner nome, iuu iortn seventeenth street. The Weather FOR INDIANA Fair and continued cold tonight. Wednesday fair. W. E. MOORE'S FORECAST. LOCAL C O N D I T I ONS Fair tonight, Wednesday fair with rising temperature. GENERAL CONDITIO NS The crest of the cold wave now covers the southern states. Temperature of two to four below zero was registered in Wyoming and Montana.

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POLICE POWERS OVERRULE CITY ON WAGE ISSUE Eversman, President of the Board Reports Increase for Patrolmen Despite Adverse Action by Councilmen. Although the special committee appointed by council to investigate the question of increasing the salaries of the members of the police and fire departments submitted a report last night advising against such action at this time, President Eversman of the board of metropolitan police commissioners submitted a report to council formally announcing that the board had increased the pay of each patrolman and sergeant 5 a month and the chief $10 a month. As the board is supreme in its control of the police department, the order cannot be revoked by council and it will have to make an appropriation to provide for this salary Increase, which becomes "effective January 1. All council could do to show its opposition to a salary boost for the police was to approve its special committee's report (a sad blow for the firemen) and move to place the report of the police board on the table. The police board's action was not discussed. Committee Changes Idea. Two weeks ago the special committee brought in an ordinance providing for a $5 a month increase for all firemen except the chief. This ordinance was referred back to the committee (Continued on Page Three.) SELECT SUBSTITUTE FOR VISITING NURSE Directors Calls Meeting to Fill Place During Miss Benner's Illness. Directors of the Domestic Science association will meet tomorrow night to discuss the temporary retaining of an experienced visiting nurse to take the place of Miss Florence Benner in her illness. Miss Benner is in good condition at the hospital but it is probable that she will be unable to work for several months. After recuperating from typhoid fever, it will be necessary for her to rest for some time before taking up the strenuous duties in which she has been engaged since last January. A nurse is taking Miss Benner's place until an experienced visiting nurse can be secured. Because of the difficulty in employing a visiting nurse to fill the qualifications demanded, it may be some time before the new nurse is selected. Miss Benner will be expected to assume her duties whenever she elects. ULRICH ASKS $5,000 Zachariah Ulrich of Hagerstown who is said to have been permanently injured when he was struck by a street car in front of the Pennsylvania depot ftfey 2, has entered suit in circuit court demanding $5,000 damages from the T. H. I. and E. traction company. Ulrich says the motorman was running his car at an excessive speed for the well traveled Btreet and that he sounded no warning before coming across Tenth street. Noises in the station and from other vehicles prevented him from hearing the approach of the car, he says. UNDERHILL'S AUTO STRIKES BUGGY CENTERVILLE, Ind., Nov. 17. Mrs. Liddie Farrell of Richmond, was a guest of Angus Hood and family Friday. On Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Hood and mother and son, Lewis, visited relatives at Webster. When returning home their rig was struck by an automobile driven by Mr. Alfred Underhill on the Main street bridge Richmond, and the rig badly damaged, hut no one hurt.

News Service. BERLIN. Via Amsterdam, Nov. 17. -A dispatch from Constantinople says

that cordial greetings have been exchanged between Emperor William and the Sultan of Turkey. It says. "After receiving the Ottoman princes the kaiser sent a telegram to the sultan expressing full confidence in the ultimate victory of the German, Austrian and Turkish armies which are now united to fight for the common aim of justice, freedom and right. "The sultan replied, expressing the highest admiration for the great exploits of the German army and navy, and added: 'With much pleasure I inform your majesty that my brave army has completely defeated the Russian army after a sanguinary fight, and I am full of confidence that with the help of the Almighty this victory will soon be followed by greater victories for our three united armies on three continents and on all seas.' " The German government today issued formal denial of reports publish ed in the foreign press that Germany ! had refused American aid for Belgium. "On the contrary," it states, "this government is highly pleased with the plans that have been made by citizens of the United States to help the Belgians."." Ambassador von Bernstorff has been i instructed as to the attitude of Ger- j many in reference to the American efforts. AUSTRIAN SUCCESSES. VIENNA, Via Berlin and Amster-j aam, ivov. n. ine Austrian war orfice today announced the capture of Valjevo and Chrenovac, two important Servian towns. The following statement was issued: "In the southern war theatre our victorious troops did not allow the enemy to occupy the trenches previously prepared. Near Valjevo, where an engagement occurred, the enemy was thrown back and some prisoners taken. The AustrianB have reached the Kolubara river and occupied Valjevo Obrenovac." WORK ON CANVASS FOR CHARITY FUNDS Directors Delay Final Plans for Campaign Until Session Wednesday. Final plans for the financial campaign of the central charity bureau will not be passed on by the board of directors until tomorrow afternoon at a meeting called for 5 o'clock. The members of the board have taken up various plans for campaigns as presented by Secretary Melpolder and with other plans which have been tried in Richmond, will formulate or adopt a plan for Thursday's work. Most of the campaign work in the districts into which the city has been divided will be done by members of the women's clubs which are associated with the central bureau. It is believed that from seventy-five to 125 women will be available for canvassing unless the weather is unfavorable Thursday. CAR HITS TRACTION Richmond city car No. 333 crashed into an interurban car in front of the interurban station yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock. None of the passengers on the cars were injured. The front end of the city car was smashed in, putting it out of commission.

LAMONT ADDS TO PUZZLE; CITES MISTAKEN IDENTITY

Arraigned Before Commissioner Freeman, Fake Inspector Disclaims Previous Visit to City and Tells of Another Man With Whom He Traveled on Long Debauch Asserts Federal Authorities Want Counterpart Who, He Alleges, Left With Roll

The dizzy career of an individual variously known as "V. J. Lemont. "W. J. Lamont" and "W. J. Skinner," who, posing as a federal stock inspect or investigating the foot and mouth disease epidemic, had the police of j three Indiana cities, Indianapolis,! Richmond and Muncie, and the United States authorities running about in circles trying to locate him, identify ! him and discover what his "graft' might be, if any, is now languishing , behind the bars of the county jail at : Indianapolis, bitterly asserting that I the wrong man has been arrested. He is held by the federal authorities to answer a charge of ' having impersonated a United States officer with the Intention of commlting a fraud. In turn this mysterious individual asserts that he has been the dupe of the man he has been mistaken for. He was arraigned before United States Commissioner P. J. Freeman in this city yesterday - afternoon after having been brought' here from Muncie, where be was arrested Saturday

SUCCESSFUL IN EAST

Russian Army Near Soldau Driven Southward While Vistula Separates Armies of Czar. BY FREDERICK WERNER. Staff Correspondent of the Intsiw national News Service. BERLIN (By Wireless) Nov. 17. The following official statement from the general staff from the Germany army was isBued here today: "Yesterday was quiet in the west ern theatre of war. South of Verdun, and northeast of Circey the French, made several unsuccessful attacks. Operations in the eastern theatre haveprogressed favorably." Whether the latest German victories in the east have stopped the Russian advance cannot be foretold as yet but undoubtedly they have resulted in giving the Germans an excellent strategic position and at the same time increased the difficulties of the enemy's situation. Russian Predicament. It is stated here that the Russians near Soldau were driven toward a line near Flock and that the army defeated by General Von Hlndenburg at Wloclawek has forced southward beyond Kutno instead of back upon the line of their advance. The military experts point out that the Vistula is thus between the two Russian forces and is likely to prove a great barrier in case of further Russian defeats. In itself, the latest German victory must not be overestimated, the experts say, until it is known whether it has forced the Russians to retreat or even compelled them to stand still. Their loss, including prisoners, doubtless exceeded a whole corps (40,000 men) unofficial reports declare.' but it must be remembered that the Russians are operating in great force. Austrians in Field. Reports from Vienna that actions took place at different points along the front in Galicla indicate that the Austro-German armies there have taken up the positions to which they were assigned and-are , ready to resume the offensive. The capture of Valjevo and Chrenovacin Servla removes another obstacle to an Austrian advance on Belgrade. Constantinople reports a Turkish attack on the English also and declares that one thousand British were killed. The situation In the west is almost wholly overlooked by the military experts today as a result of the victories in the east, and the lull in the fighting in Flanders owing to the bad weather. $1,000,000 SHIP FAILS TO REPORT BY LEASED WIRE. LONDON. Nov. 17. Fears are felt for the safety of the British steamer La Correntina, which has not been heard from 6ince she left Buenos Ayres for Liverpool on October 5, carrying a cargo of meat worth $1,000.000. Although the liner was armed for defense, it is feared that she has fallen in with a German warship and has been either sunk or taken as a prize. STORM SWEEPS ENGLAND. BY LEASED WIRE. DEAL, England. Nov. 17. A severe storm is raging over the Downs and off the mouth of the Thames. Several small beats, which were in distress. v.ere helped by life-savers during the night. night. He was arraigned under the name of William Lamont. Now that the hue and cry which followed in the wake of his pursuit has subsided and the authorities have had the opportunity to investigate into the case a little more deeply the conclusion has about been reached that this man is really Webster Skinner living at Bloomington, 111., that he is not an escaped inmate of an Ohio insane asylum, as the Muncie police reported they had been "reliably informed," and that he is the champion liar and practical joker cf the soverign states of Indiana and Illinois. An indignant Uncle Sam may. however, turn the joke on him. In his frenzied, noisy, 'publicitycourting dash through Hooslerdom, Skinner or Lamont, whatever his name really is, perpetrated no crime indicating moral turpicuae, so, ine authorities have about concluded, and if be has .been guilty of anything it

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