Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 320, 20 November 1914 — Page 1

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VOL. XXXIX. NO. 320. Palladium and Sun-Telegram Consolidated. 1907 RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER-20, 1914. SINGLE COPY. 2 CENTS

ASYLUM TO EAT 800 POUNDS OF MEATTHURSDAY Superintendent Orders 55 Gallons of Oysters, 500 Pies and 2 Barrels Cranberries for Day.

HOMES PLAN DINNERS Public and Private Institutions Arrange to Give Patients Real Taste of Thanksgiving. Turkey, 800 pounds. Oysters, 55 gallons. Apples, 10 bushels. Mince pies, 450 to 500. Cranberries, 2 barrels. ThiB is not an order for supplies for the allied armies. It represents one Thanksgiving meal which will be cooked in a kitchen in Richmond'. The average housewife can not grasp the magnitude of such a repast which represents the "specials" Dr. S. E. Smith, superintendent of Easthaven, ordered today to supply the noon meal next Thursday for bis institution. The supplies, including those which the institution has in its commissary department regularly, will feed one thousand persons. A corps of efficient cooks will convert the above supplies into a Thanksgiving dinner euch as only farmers are credited with having. Smith Plans Program. The patients at Kasthaven will enJoy a pleasant Thanksgiving day. There will be two dances, moving pictures, entertainments and services. Dr. Smith has planned a program which will make t lie last Thursday in November a real holiday. Wednesday evening the first dance will be held. On Thursday morning there will bo religious services. After the Thanksgiving dinner there will be entertainment, including motion pictures. The regular employes' dance will be held Thanksgiving night. Other institutions in the city have planned special menus and special entertainments and services for the day. The children at Wernle Orphans' J Ionic will hold an entertainment of songs and recitations appropriate to Thanksgiving on Wednesday night. Thursday morning they will attend services at St. John's Lutheran church. A complete Thanksgiving dinner will le served at noon. At the Margaret Smith Home for Aged Women a special dinner will be Served and. .services will be held. Petroto Serve Dinner. Superintendent Petro of the county Infirmary is planning to make Thanksgiving a special occasion for the inmates of the institution, lie will have u complete Thanksgiving dinner at noon, services in the morning and entertainment in the afternoon. Chicken will be served at. the Home for the Friendless instead of the trailitioTial turkey, but the meal will have all the other exiras necessary to a Thanksgiving dinner. An entertainment will be given on Wednesday. In almost every home in Richmond the good cheer of Thanksgiving day will prevail. Many families may have special reasons to be thankful should the special work planned by the city, vounty and private institutions and persons materialize by next Thursday. Schools and churches mark Thanksphing day next to Christmas. In the school, from the primary grades where crude pictures of gobblers are sketched, to the high school grades where (Continued on Page Eight.)

Christmas Gifts For Children in Bloody War Zone of Europe

Part of the cargo of Christmas presents which the people of the United States are sending to children in th war-strickeu area of Europe, are being marked preparatory to loading on the U. S. S. Collier Jason at the Bush terminal docks In Brooklyn. The Jason, which has been designated by Secretary Daniels to convey the cargo to Europe. The collection of presents was made through the efforts of more than two hundred newspapers throughout th United States.

FARMERS ADOPT MEANS TO HALT STOCK PLAGOE

Aroused by Danger of Foot and Mouth Disease Wayne County Men Form Protective Association to Stop Hunting and to Clean Up Farms for Week Beginning November 23.

Following the lecture by Chester G. j Starr on the foot and mouth disease yesterday, about one hundred and twenty-five farmers took immediate action to prevent the spread of the disease to Wayne county, by organizaing the Wayne County Farmers' Protective association, with Harry B. Maey, of Dalton township as chairman. The farmers were impressed with the danger of allowing the disease to get started, and many expressed surprise at the various means by which the virus could be spread, as outlined by Mr. Starr, who said that unless the plague was stamped out before It became native to the state, it would cost Indiana from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 annually. Professor David W. Dennis of Earlham college, in a short talk urged the importance ot taking action to quarantine the county, and proposed that resolutions be adopted by the farmers present. Reads Quarantine Law. Dr. F. W. Krueger, county health officer, read the state quarantine laws, which would have to be in force if the county adopted an official quarantine. These laws provided that there could ! be no intercourse between farms, and that no livestock could be driven on public highways, and all traffic across the county borders would be stopped. This action was considered too stringent by the farmers and it was agreed that a personally conducted quarantine by the farmers would be sufficient. Resolutions were adopted asking the co-operation of county officials and corporations handling livestock to assist the farmers in preventing the disease. The resolutions included the prohibiting of hunting, and the setting aside of the week of Nov. 215 as clean up week on Wayne county farms. Copies of the resolutions with a statement of the character and danger

GERMANS DEFEAT RUSS, TURKS REPORT VICTORY

BY FREDERICK WERNER, Staff Correspondent of International News Service. BERLIN, Via Amsterdam, Nov. 20. Strong Russian forces that reached the region oT'Sotdau in their recent advance from Mlawa into East Prussia, have been driven back sixty miles : to the River Bug, it was announced here today, and the German troops in their pursuit are approaching the fortress of Novo Georgiviska, northwest of Warsaw. ! Though a battle is in progress along jthe entire line in Russian-Poland, the chief fighting is believed to be along the Dzura river southeast of Kutno i and west of Lowiecz. The latter town j is an importajit junction point and its capture by the Germans would give them two routes by which to advance against Warsaw. i German military experts pointed I out today that the Russian troops south of the Vistula would have to light out their own salvation in view of the fact that the forces north of the Vistula had been forced back to the Bug river, and with constant pressure being brought upon them would be unable to send reinforcements to the I southern army. General von Hendenberg, who ad

of the foot and mouth disease will be printed on posters and posted on the farms and cross roads of the county. Farmers Oppose Hunting. Hunters will be severely dealt with

by farmers who find them on their premises without permits, and will be turned over to the sheriff for prosecution. Considerable merriment was occasioned by a farmer who said the county commissioners had refused to prohibit hunting because they thought the rabbits would spread the disease faster than the hunters. He said, "On my farm ' there are a lot more hunters than rabbits." Harry Macy, president of the Wayne County Better Farming association, was appointed chairman with power to appoint three farmers in each township to put up the posters, and to report any infringement of the state or federal laws. Next week will be "clean up week," and farmers all over the county will be urged to shoot rats, pigeons, buzzards and crows, and stray dogs, which not only carry the germs of the foot and mouth disease, but are active agencies in spreading hog cholera. Mr. Starr suggested that this was an excellent time to start an active campaign against hog cholera, while farmers were aroused. Hits State Line Men. Several farmers who live near the state line were present and stated that the interstate quarantine between Indiana and Ohio was working a great hardship on them. Some of them have cattle just across the line, and with pasture gone, and the hauling of hay or grain across the line prohibited, conditions are really serious. Mr. Starr said that by producing an affidavit that the feed had been harvested before Aug. 1 and stored away from (Continued on Page Three.) ministered the severe defeat to the Russian forces early in the war, is also given high credit for the strategic policy that brought the Russians out. from their strong defensive positions behind the Vistula into. a country tn which they are handicapped by the slowness of their troops, and the Germans have an enormous advantage forces. Defeat of the Russians in three different engagements with Turkish troops is announced in an official dispatch from Constantinople. It says: "In the battle near Koprikoi we captured five machine guns. After a twodays fight against the Russians on the line of Azeb, Zagek and Khoole, the strongly fortified heights near Azeb was taken. Turkish troops advancing on Batoum defeated the Russians and occupied the positions at Zavotoder-Koura, capturing a standard, one officer, one hundred prisoners and four machine ; guns, besides quantities of provisions, j "The Turks advancing on Azerbaija , defeated the Russians near Salinas. The Russians lost two officers and one hundred men." In France and Belgium the Germans are holding their own against the Anglo-French attacks.

FOR BELGIAN RELIEF

OFFICIAL COMMITTEE STATESJDIRECTIONS Commercial Club Committee Takes Over Handling of Money and Supplies to Aid Refugees. The official Belgian relief committee, which will systematically handle the collection and forwardng of food stuffs and money for the stricken war refugees, completed its organization last evening and outlined the method whereby Wayne county will add to the relief fund. Under the auspices of the Commercial club, which was asked by a number of churches and individuals to handle the gathering of the relief fund, the following committee took up the problem: Adam H. Bartel, Henry Siekman, Will Robbins and Charles Jordan. This committee, which is acting in an official capacity, representative of the whole county, and not in an Individual effort, has organized Wayne county, and has set aside one week, November 30 to December 5, to col lect the fund and supplies. Method of Handling. Letters of instructions will be mailed to representatives in all the towns of the county telling them what material to gather and how to forward it to Richmond, whence it will be sent direct to the seaboard, there to be put aboard a ship and sent to Belgium. Letters from the Belgian Relief Society in the East and from the Belgian ambassador at Washington, are expected to give the local official committee suggestions as to the supplies wanted. It is certain that flour and corn meal will be acceptable. Representatives in the county towns will be instructed to pack all shipments weighing more than fifty pounds. A list of the contents of the box is to be sent to Richmond, as well as the names of the donors. This is asked in order that the local committee will not be compelled to re-pack the supplies here. Supplies under fifty pounds in weight are to be forwarded to 15 North Eighth street, the room formerly occupied by the Chinese laundry. The committee will forward the supplies from this room. Where to Send Money. The official committee announces that monetary gifts are to be spent to the local banks and newspapers. The money will be used for the purchase of Richmond made goods that the refugees can use and for foodstuffs. Ministers have been asked to cooperate and a letter will be sent the congregations asking their support. There will be no begging and soliciting, as the committee believes charity begins at home, and onry free will offerings are to be received. The representatives of the committees in the towns are: Abington, William Smoker; Boston, Frank Jenkinson; Centerville, Thomas Ahl; Greensfork, D. C. Moore; Dalton, Clate Taylor; Whitewater, T. S. Pyle; Bethel, Lafayette W'hite; Williamsburg, William Lewis; Jacksonburg, William Wilson; Cambridge City, Frank Mosbaugh; East Germantown, Park Gipe; Dublin, George Murray; Hagerstown, John Teetor; Fountain City, W. A. Clements; Perry, Walter Swallow; Milton, Frank Jones; Webster, W. A. Haisley; Chester, Bert Carmen; Cox's Mills, John Coblentz. AS WHOLE COUNTRY SHIVERS IN BLAST The lowest temperature of the winter was recorded by the government thermometer at the water works pumping station when the mercury dropped to 9 degrees above zero. This was two degrees colder than yesterday when the minimum registered was 11 degrees above zero. The first wintry blasts of the season swept all parts of Indiana early today. The official registration at Indianapolis was 8 degrees above zero. Evansville, down in the southern part, reported the first snow of the season with a temperature of 10 above. All other cities reported extreme cold weather. In the northern section traffic was badly delayed by snow, particularly in the region of South Bend, where six inches of the "beautiful" covered the ground on the level places. South Shivers. The Sunny South, from the Ohio nearly to the Gulf of Mexico, shivered in the coldest November weather ever recorded. In Atlanta the temperature reached 14 degrees above zero this morning, flurries of snow occurring during the night. Heavy ice formed in many places. Severe frost were reported further south. At Jacksonville, Fla., the temperature reached the freezing point. W'hile the cold was severe in the orange belt south of Jacksonville, it is not thought that any serious damage was done to citrus bearing trees. At Louisville the thermometer officially recorded 10 above, the coldest for November in that city since 1872. At New Orleans the temperature was only two degrees above the freezing point, thermometers recording a fall of 30 degrees in the past 24 hours. The far southwest also sent in reports of freezing weather and sudden drops in temperatures. KENNEDY PERFORMS FOR FARM CLUB Fred Kennedy made a hit as an entertainer at the Columbian Farmers' meeting last night. This was the first time since the organization of the club that a meeting has been entirely devoted to entertainment. The change in program was a pleasant surprise to members.

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Prince Ernest of Cumberland, Duke of Brunswick, who was shot In Battle, and his bride, Princess Victoria Louise. Unofficial reports received state that Duke Ernst of Brunswick has been seriously wounded in fighting in the Argonne forest, France, and that his wife has been called to his bedside. Duke Ernst of Brunswick is the son-in-law of Kaiser Wflhelm. He married Princess Victoria Louise, the kaiser's only daughter, in 1913. At the wedding King George and Queen Mary of England were guests, as also were the czar and crarina of Russia.

SISTER TO MAN WHO LED EMDEN LIVES JEAR CITY Mrs. William Sleeth Recognizes Newspaper Picture of German Cruiser's Captain as Half Brother. Mrs. William Sleeth, living on the Liberty pike, a short distance south of Richmond, is a proud and happy woman. She lias discovered that the greatest naval hero the world war has so far produced, Captain Carl Von Muller of the German cruiser Einden, which until it was sunk in an unequal battle with a more powerful English warship two weeks ago earned for itself tlie title the "scourge of the seas," is her half brother, whom she has not seen nor heard from since he was a boy sixteen years of age. That the commander of this German cruiser, whose exploits were only rivaled by those of the Confederate commerce destroyer Alabama, was her ! half brother was discovered by Mrs. Sleeth when she saw his photograph in The Palladium, published a few days ago and which she describes as a remarkable likeness of him. Von Muller is Prisoner. Captain Von Muller was one of the few survivors of the Emden after it fought is gallant and losing battle with the English battleship Sydney off the coast of India. He is to be taken to Australia as a prisoner of war and the Australians are preparing to greet him with honors due to a gallant foe. "I last saw my half brother. Captain Von Muller, a son by my father's second wife, thirty years ago when he was about sixteen years old," said Mrs. Sleeth today. "As a boy he was of an adventurous disposition and played incessantly with boats. Our home was in Wiesbaden. We children always told him he would some day be a great sailor and he would gravely tell us he expected to be. "Then I came to America and have never seen nor heard directly from j him since. My sisters in Germany have written that they heard from him very infrequently, but sailors are rovers you know. I believe that Carl, before entering the German navy served on an English merchant steamer served under the flag which he nearly drove off the Indian and China seas the three months following the outbreak of the war. I am very proud of him." The German nation is also proud of Captain Von Muller and for his remarkable exploits he will probably receive the iron cross from the Kaiser. CLUB TO APPEAR A concert will be given by the Purdue University Glee Club at the High School auditorium. Friday, Nov. 27. Lee Dykeman. engineer at the Wayne Works, a graduate of the University, was largely instrumental in bringing the club her for this date

German Kaiser tie in Argonne

M'CONAHA MAPS OUT HIS COURSE IN NEXTJENATE Progressive Senato r - E 1 e c t From Wayne County Plans To Push Party Bills in the Legislature. Senator-elect Walter McConaha of this city, who will represent Wayne and Union counties in the next legislature, and who was the only Progressive elected to the state senate this year, has under consideration the introduction of several bills which will comply with some of the most important legislative demands written into the Progressive state platform. Mr. McConaha realizes that the endorsement of the Progressive platforn by the voters of Wayne and Union counties was responsible for his selection to represent them in the senate, and incidentally, he is in thorough sympathy wiih the Progressive legislative program. McConaha Outlines Work. It was learned today that Mr. McConaha is considering the introduction of the following measures shortly after the legislature begins its work in January Direct primaries for the nomination of all elective officers, including president and vice president of the United States, and of all officials of party organizations to be held by all parties on the same day, which day shall be reg- ( Continued on Page Six)

Wc r Films to beShown by Palladium

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Make Harry Lauder Dream of Son The war films which The Palladium will show here next month for the benefit of local charity are creating intense excitement in Chicago. The Tribune has the following to say of their effect on Harry Lauder: "Harry Lauder, the Scotch comedy star, crossed the little private alleyway from the Auditorium to the Studebaker yesterday and watched the war pictures. His only son, a boy of 20, is a soldier in the British army somewhere along the battle front. " 'The pictures,' he said, 'are amazing in view of modern warfare. They show us the actual embers of Belgium still smoldering. " 'The films are the result of a pfece of enterprise as modern as the modern way of fighting. To have gone to the inside crater of this seething volcano of slaughter and destruction for the benefit of revealing to all mankind in unerring and unimaginative photography what occurred is a gift to humanity, a contribution to history a credit to journalism. " 'I cannot remember anything, personal or impersonal, that affected me more deeply. I saw a million pictures beyond the ones upon the curtain. For every dead I saw the suffering living; for every living, refugee T saw his dead. And my heart went out to little Belgium and its peaceful, lovable peasants, caught and torn between two engines of blood soaked destruction.' "

ROBBERS LEAVE EXPLOSIVE GAPS IN BOSTON SAFE

Intruders Lock Post Office Door and Make Escape When a Nitroglycerine Charge Fails to Explode. WOMAN MAKES FIND Mrs. Farnsworth, Postmistress, Discovers Attempted Burglary at Opening Hour -U. S. Operatives on Case. Burglars left two unexploded charges of nitroglycerine in the safe door at the Boston postoffice but locked the office door after them when their attempt to blow the vault failed. Mrs. Bertha Farnsworth, postmistress, discovered the evidences of the burglars' visit when she opened the office this morning. Starting to build. a nre, Mrs. rarnswortn discovered that the safe had been- "fixed" and that fuses had burned down to the caps which were set to explode the nitroglycerine charges. The caps failed to discharge. Clarence Parks, former postmaster, reported the robbery to the Richmond office and the postoffice department was immediately notified. Government operatives from the Cincinniati headquarters were sent out on the case. Explosive Plentiful. There was enough of the explosive at the bottom and top of the safe to blow the door and give entrance. Only a small amount of money was in the safe. Never more than $15o is kept there. The only clue left by the safe blowers is an old style lantern. It is believed that a trace can be found of the burglars through this clue. Boston citizens believe the men were experienced burglars. They did not touch some stamps and a few pennies which were in the cash drawer but made for the money. How the burglars gained entrance to the building is a mystery. The entrance is guarded by a night lock besides the ordinary fastening. No windows were opened and the entrance was evidently effected through the door. Citizens believe the burglars had only the caps which were left in the charge of nitroglycerine. When their failed to explode, ironically locked the door again and departed on a C. & O. train which they could catch, within a short walk of the post office. HUNT FOR DESERTERS Army Agent and Police Search District. If there are army deserters in Richmond, they are either not receiving mail or are living under assumed names. This was the conclusion of a traveling agent of the war department who is making a trip through this district trying to locate deserters who gave addresses in this territory. Seven or eight who have deserted in the past three months gave Richmond as their homes or the home of their next friends. The army agent left today after he was unsuccessful in loading any of the reverters on his list. The police and sheriff are also agents of the government in detecting deserters. The Weather FOR INDIANA Fair. Not so cold tonight and Saturday. TEMPERATURE. Noon 22 Yesterday. Maximum 37 Minimum 11 W. E. MOORE'S FORECAST. LOCAL CONDITIONS Some cloudiness but mostly fair and not so cold tonight ?nd Saturday GENERAL CONDITIONS Cold weather still continues over mot of the United States east of the Rocky mountains, but much warmer in the northwest, with temperatures above freezing in Montana. Stormy weather exists from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts. Snow fell last night as far south as Chattanooga, Tenn.