Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 28, 14 December 1914 — Page 1

BICHMONB LABIUM VOI VYVY MO OQ Palladium and Sun-Telegram WL,. AAA A., ISKJ. Consolidated. 1907 RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1914. SINGLE COPY. 2 CENTS

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GERMAN FORTS ON ALSACE LINE G0AL0FALLIES French Move in Direction of Strongholds of Metz, Strassburg and Muelhausen.

12 MILES FROM METZ Anglo-French Generals Hope to Force Retreat of Center by Massing Against Ends of Line. BY FRANKLIN P. MERRICK, Staff Correspondent for International News Service. PARIS, Dec. 14. Beginning with rigorous demonstrations the French holding the allies right wing has issumed the offensive all along the One and progress is being made in the fiirection of the three principal German strongholds on the Alsatian-Lorraine front, namely Metz, Strassburg ind Muelhausen. Evacuation of St. Mihiel by the GerDians is imminent as a result of the progress of the French in the forest Of LaPretre, where they are menacing tho invaders line of communication With Metz. The French are within twelve miles Df the outer forts at Metz, twenty miles from the fortress at Moulsheim, which is one of the works in the outer ring defending Straussburg, and are within eight miles of the fortifications defending Muelhaussen on the west Bide. Furious Fighting. "Fighting is becoming more furious all along the line and in West Flanders the battle rages incessantly. "The offensive of the French and British is being pursued on both ends of the 300 miles battle line with more Vigor than it is in the center. General Joffre and Field Marshal Sir John French believing that they can compel . the retreat of the German center by exerting more and more pressure on both flanks of the German triangle. "According to official dispatches from the front all efforts of the Germans to regain lost ground in front of Ypres, in the Argonne, on the heights of the Meuse, and in Alsace have been repulsed with heavy losses. Battle to Gain Road. "Around Clrrey, east of the Meurthe valley, the French have extended their lines and the fighting in this region, especially near Senons, have been very hot with the St. Die-Luneville road as the prize. The French now claim to hold both upper and lower Aspach, west of Muelhausen. The French forces south of Thann are only eight miles from the new fortifications which the Germans built around the western side of Muelhausen after the French were driven out. in the early stages of the war. Northwest of Pont-A-Mousson, between Itezonville and Beaumont there have been fierce artillery duels. The French have massed fresh detatchments there, reckoning that the Germans had weakened their lines by pending troops into Belgium and J'oland. MERCURY FALLS TO TWO ABOVE AS SNOW STOPS Cold Wave Sweeps Country in Wake of Two-Day Fall of Snow Zero at Indianapolis. With the temperature at 2 degrees above zero, Richmond shivered in real winter weather tins morning and admitted the approach of Christmas. The cold wave followed snow which fell all day Saturday and Sunday. Drops Below Zero. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 14. The first below zero weather of the season arrived in Indianapolis today. At 8 o'clock the mercury stood one below zero. DAKOTA HOLDS RECORD. CHICAGO, Dec. It Below zero weather was recorded in a dozen western and central west states this morning. The real winter weather of the year purshed down from Manitoba wnd a blizzard raged over some sections of the smith, Devils Lake, N. I), with a temperature of IS degree below eeio. FOOT OF SNOW FALLS. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Dec. 14. More lhan a foot of snow fell on the level and huge drifts pi led up in the hollows, yesterday. WAVE GRIPS SOUTH. BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Dec. 14. Freezing temperatures with snow flurries prevailed over the Gulf section today, in the first full grown blizzard of the winter. SNOW STOPS TRAFFIC. NEW YORK, Dee. 14. Up state railway lines are partially crippled as a result of a blizzard last, swept the northern part of New York during the night. COLD HITS CLEVELAND. CLEVELAND, ().. Dec. 1(5. Snow which began falling yesterday enveloped the city in a blizzard last night and inaugurated Cleveland's first real winter ueathiT. The temperature fell to J7 degrees. PAGE TWO.

EAGLES GET SANTA TO HELP AT TREE

Committee Invites Poor Children and Arranges for Giant Evergreen. A letter from Santa Claus was read at the meeting of the Eagles' Christmas entertainment committee yesterday, saying that he would be present Christmas afternoon to assume charge of the Christmas entertainment which the Eagles are giving for the poor children of the city. An invitation haa been extended to every child who can have no Christmas cheer at home to come to the Eagles' hall Christmas afternoon. There will be toys of all sorts, dolls that shut their eyes, and say "papa" and "mamma," candy, oranges and pop corn enough to feed a small army. Santa Claus will hand out the gifts and the children can rest assured that he will not forget anyone, members of the lodge say. Several letters have been received by the committee from children who wish to be remembered. One little girl showed that the real Christmas spirit had touched her heart, when she wrote: "I don't need anything much for myself, but there is a family of children living close to me that won't have any Christmas if you don't take care of them, and do so much want them to have something." The committee made arrangements yesterday to purchase the big tree this week and begin decorating it as soon as it is put in place. STEVENS TO START TWENTIETH TERM AS SOCIETY HEAD Horticultural Body Elects Officers and Considers Merging Club With Columbian Farmers' Association. For the twentieth time the Wayne County Horticultural society, which is starting on its sixtieth year of activity, elected Jesse Stevens president. Other officers who were selected at the annual meeting Saturday afternoon at the court house were: Mrs. Minnie Wright, secretary; Walter Ratliff, vice president; T. Evans Kenworthy, treasurer. The executive committee is composed: of the following members Jesse Stevens, Thomas Jessup, Thomas Elleman, William Macy, Mrs. Dickinson, Anna Carrington, Minnie W 'ht, Eliza Stevens and Essie Burgets. VOSSLER REPORTS FIVE INCHES SNOW DURING LAST WEEK Last week's average minimum temperature of two degrees below freezing, reported today by the co-operative government weather observer, Walter Vossler, was within three degrees of the average maximum, making what many declared was a week of ideal winter weather. The highest temperature was 40, with 23 as the lowest. There was a little more than five inches of snow all week. On Sunday and Monday of last week, the finish of the rain of the week before, was brought about by a drop in temperature. On Tuesday when it began snowing, the high and low temperatures were 34 and 30. On no day was the range of temperature greater than six degrees. The high average was 33, and the low average was 30 for the week. It was warm enough to keep the snow soft. The snow melted was equal to about a half-inch of rainfall, but this did no good in filling wells. The temperature for each day last week follows: High. Low. Sunday 40 37 .Monday 40 34 Tuesday 34 30 Wednesday 21 27 Thursday 28 26 Friday 29 23 Saturday 23 23 On Tuesday the snowfall was 4.2 inches. On Wednesday .3 inch fell, and on Thursday there wasc .6 ip. About one-tenth of an inch fell on Friday and Saturday. It was cloudy all week until Saturday, when the sun shown for a short time. SUES ON ESTATE John Wolfe filed a claim in circuit court against the estate of Isaac Huck, who committed suicide last year at Centerville, asking an allowance of $3.j3 for money he loaned Houck and for farming implements he gave him. NOTE SUBSCRIBERS Installation of new presses and stereotyping equipment in the new Palladium building, will cause the paper to be late for several evenings. The mechanical department is handling the unusually heavy Christmas business handicapped by the fact that the stereotyping equipment and the press are stil at the old plant. FOR INDIANA Fair tonight and Tuesday; not so cold Tuesday. MOORE'S FORECAST. LOCAL CONDITIONS Fair tonight. Temperature about zero or below; Tuesday fair. GENERAL CONDITIONS The Rocky mountain storm which caused Sunday's snow is moving rapidly southward toward the Carolinas. It probably will cause freezing weather in Northern Florida,

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TURKISH WARSHIP SENT TO GRAVE BY SUBMARINE British Underwater Craft Slips Through Dardanelles and Torpedoes Battleship Behind Mine Field.

600 MEN ON BOARD Forts Open Fire But Daring Destroyer Escapes Bombardment and Regains International Fleet. BY HERBERT TEMPLE, European Manage The International News Service. LONDON, Dec. 14. The British submarine B-ll, attached to the International war fleet, which has been bombarding the Turkish forts at the western entrance of the Dardanelles, has forced a passage of that waterway by diving beneath the mine fields with which it is lined, and torpedoed the Turkish battleship Messudieh. I The Messudieh, which carried a ' crew of six hundred men, was sinking ' rapidly by the stern when the daring i submarine withdrew. News of this bold sea raid, the first submarine attack of importance that has been made since the war began, was announced by the admiralty throught the government press bureau today. Avoids Sea Mines. The B-ll, which is commanded by Commander Holbrook of the royal navy, was compelled to feel her way among the strong and treacherous currents of the narrow' Dardanelles and to dive beneath five rows of mines. At the point where the raid was made the Dardanelles is lined with powerful forts equipped with numerous batteries of heavy guns. The Messudieh, which is believed to have had German naval officers on board, had been detailed to guard the mine field, and was lying in what the Turks thought was perfect security, behind the mines and beneath the protecting gunms of the forts. As soon as the torpedo was fired, and Commander Holbrook saw that it had struck its mark, the under-water craft began a retreat at full speed for the open water, but not before the guns in the forts set up a violent cannonade. Messudieh Old Ship. The official statement issued here says : "Although pursued with gun fire and torpedo boat destroyers, the B-ll was able to return to the fleet in safety. She-had been submerged for nine hours. When last seen the Messudieh was sinking rapidly by the stern." The Messudieh was a 17-knot ironclad of the old type, having been built in 1874. In 1903 she was remodeled, however, in the Genoa shipyards, and up-to-date alterations made. She was 315 feet long, 59 feet wide and registered 10,000 tons. Her armament consisted of two 9-inch guns, twelve 6inch guns, fourteen 2-inch guns, ten 6-pounders and two 3-pounders. The B-ll was built in 190(5 and has been attached to the British naval depot at aMlta., She is 135 feet long, 13 feet wide and displaces 313 tons under water. She registers a speed of 13 knots, carries two torpedo tubes and has a crew of fifteen men. The commander of the B-ll, Commander Norman D. Holbrpok, has been elevated from a lieutenancy since the war began. He has commanded the B-ll since December 30, 1913. DRESDEN STILL FREE DODGES BIG FLEET BY LEASED WIRE. BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 14. A wireless message received here reporting the German cruiser Dresden had arrived at Punta Arenas in the strait of Magellan also brought the information that the warship, which had fled to Santa Cruz, after the engagement of Falkland Islands had steamed 250 miles down the Argentina coast, keeping well within the neutral three mile limit. In order to escape being dismantled and interned until the end of the war the Dresden would have been compelled to leave Santa Cruz immediately after her arrival. Since the report "was received of the arrival of the Dresden at Punta Arenas belief has sprung up here that the man-of-war which was reported aground off Port Galliegor yesterday may have been the Prinz Eitel-Fried-erich. GFRMANS IN DENIAL OF RUSS VICTORIES BERLIN, Dec. 14. (By Wireless) "Light French attacks on part of our positions in the Meuse and V'osges regions have been easily repulsed," says an official report from headquarters issued here at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The official report adds: "There is nothing of importance from either the Prussia or southern Poland in the eastern war theatre. In northern Poland our operations are taking their normal course." The report declares that the official announcement of successes by Russians southwest of Cracow on Dec. 11 and by French troops on Dec. 12 against the German batteries at Vailly are "inventions." HUGGINS TO STICK BY LEASED WIRE) ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 14 Miller James Huggins, manager of the St. Louis Nationals, has signed a contract to continue in that capacity during the 1915 and 1916 seasons.

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EATON WOMAN, 93, HELPS. GET SPREAD Mrs. Christian Wesco, Pioneer of Eaton Town, Celebrates Anniversary. EATON, O., Dec. 14. Celebrating her ninety-third birthday anniversary, Mrs. Christena Wesco, among the oldest residents of Eaton and Preble county entertained a number of relatives Sunday at her home on East Main street. Despite her many long years, Mrs. Wesco is not seriously handicapped and assisted in preparing the big spread enjoyed. She enjoys remarkable health and appears no older, now than she did twenty years ago. Save for her defective hearing, she has maintained all her faculties. When the woman with her husband, the late Reuben Wesco, came to Eaton they erected in the timber the house in which she now resides. This dates back about a half century. During the years that have followed she has noted the buildof the city and the progress made along all other lines, and she now admits that she can hardly believe that so many years have passed. She bids fair to round out a full century. She is the mother of five children. They are: Jonathan Wesco, with whom she resides; Marion J. Wesco, near Eaton; Mrs. Barbara Sample, wife of Dr. T. Sample, of Eaton; Clara White, wife of Dr. O. F. White, of Dayton, and Mrs. Maria Waters, also residing in Dayton.

QUAKERS FORCE WAR ON NAMES USED JOR LABEL Nicholson Asks Congressmen If They Care to See Name of Their Church on a Wine List. BILLS MEET FAVOR Richmond Man Believes Congress Will Protect Religious Creeds From Use as Trade Marks. "Would you object if you looked on the reverse side of a wine list and saw: "Methodist Martinis "Catholic Cocktails "Presbyterian Scotch Whisky." This is the argument S. Edgar Nicholson, editor of the American Friend and chairman of the Friends' Lecisla tive and Temperance board, used with the house and senate patents eommit- , tee and the house judiciary committee ot congress last Friday and Saturday, when he was given a hearing on the two Quaker bills which have been introduced into congress. Mr. Nicholson said today that he believes the members of the two committees are friendly to the two bills. One of them relates to the use of religious denominational names and terms by which religious denominations are commonly known, forbidding the copyrighting of either for commercial purposes. The other bill prevents interstate shipping of goods bearing religious denomination names or nicknames. "The name of Quakers has been secured through suffering and hrudship and has received its reputation from the strict honesty of the members of the church," Mr. Nicholson told the congressmen. "If you members of other denominations saw advertised intoxicating liquors bearing the name of the church to which you belong, you would recommend the passage of a bill in ten minutes, prohibiting such usage. "The honesty of the Quakers is being commercialized for private gain." PREDICTS SEA WRECKS AS SURVEYS CEASE WILLIAM C. REDFIELD. It is expected that congress will take action on the report presented by Secretary of Commerce Redfield to the Maritime Exchange on the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Lighthouse Service, Steamboat Inspectoon and the Bureau of Navigation, conducted by the Federal department of which he is heard. Describing the equipment of the Coast Survey as antiquated and the other branches as undermanned, Redfield predicted a succession of marine disasters as a result for the broken down system, since it refuses to appropriate money enough to maintain the service at the proper standard.

ECONOMY HITS DEPARTMENTS IN HOUSE BILL Measure Includes Rider Reducing Mileage of Congressmen From 20 Cents to 5 Cents.

SALARIES REDUCED Postoffice and Pension Bureau Feel Effect of New Saving Policy of the Law Givers. TBY LEASED WIRE. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. The ad ministration's "economy policy" is maintained in the legislative and judicial appropriation bill reported to the house today by the appropriation committee. The estimates were cut consistently all down the line. J Although the bill carries $2,281,000 for an agricultural census, an item not ! in last year's measure, the total reported today is not greatly above that of last session. Including the allowance for the census, the bill carries 38,744,733.50, a cut of approximately $1,982,000 in the estimates submitted. The amount appropriated last year was $37,625,789. The committee also economized a bit at its own expense. It inserted a legislative rider providing that hereafter member of congress shall receive, only five cents per mile going to and returning from the sessions. The present allowance is twenty cents per mile each way. A big fight will be waged over this recommendation. The senate last year debated the efforts of the house to cut the allowance to five cents. Reductions in the force of the pension office and the postoffice department are the principal salary saving items in the bill. Mr. Burleson informed the committee that, there had been a reduction of the department and that the bill carries for the fiscal year fewer salaries. A reduction of 93 places was made in tha pension office. CINCINNATI ROBBER TALKS TO POLICE; FLEES FROM CITY Joseph-Draper, Wanted for Bank Burglary and Assault, Converses With Patrolman. "Joseph Draper, wanted in Cincinnati on a charge of having robbed a bank and beaten a young woman bookkeeper almost to death, is not in Richmond now." said Chief Goodwin today, "so if he commits suicide today, as he threatened to do in a letter to his wife which was intercepted by the Cincinnati police, it will not be in this city." Chief Goodwin said that Draper was in Richmond Wednesday and Thursday last week and one police officer talked with him. At that time, however, the description and photograph of Draper sent out by the Cincinnati authorities had not been received at local police headquarters. After the receipt of this information the police at once made a search for Draper but he had left town. Chief Goodwin says that since Draper has been in Richmond his wife has received a letter from him mailed in a Kentucky town. Weil-Known in City. Draper was well-known by local employes of the C. & O. railroad having at one time been an engineer on that road, coming through Richmond every day and spending much of his time here. Shortly after the robbery of the Winton Place Savings bank at Cincinnati, Dec. ::, Draper was sen in Richmond and a railroad man reported the fact to the police at that time. A wrong description of Draper was furnished, however, so Draper escaped arrest. When the description of Draper sent out by the Cincinnati police was received last Friday Patrolman Vogelsong immediately recognized him as a man with whom he had been ta-lking the day before. In a dispatch from Cincinnati today it was stated that Draper in a letter to his wife which the police intercepted announced his intention of cheating the law by taking his own life Monday, so that Mrs. Draper could realize on an insurance policy he carried. The policy he carries expires today and Draper stated that he hoped to end his life in such a way as to make it appear that his death was accidental. Draper robbed the Cincinnati bank at noon when the only employe on duty was Miss Gertrude Balz. He struck her over the head three or four times with an iron bar and then fled with $233 he took out of the counter. Miss Balz is near death at the Cincinnati city hospital. CAPTURES RED FOX Hagerstown Hunter Makes Fine Catch. HAGERSTOWN, Ind., Dec. 14 Elmer McGrew, living three miles east of Hagerstown, was exhibiting on i the streets Saturday morning one of! the largest and finest Red Fox pelts j that had been seen nere for many years. He had killed it near Milton Friday and intends to have it made into a fur neck piece for his wife. Mr. McGrew is an experienced hunter, this being the ninth fox he has captured in the last eight years. MONDAY, DEC. 14, 1914.

500,000 GERMANS ON WARSAW DASH Heavy Snow Storms Fail to Deter Drive on Polish Capital. BY FRANCIS LAVELLE MURRAY, Staff Correspondent The International News Service. PETROGRAD, Dec. 14. Through great snowdrifts in the region west of Warsaw, the Germans are hurling 500,000 men upon the Russian line in the greatest attempt that has ever been made to open the way to the capital of Poland. They are making night and day attacks, but all have ' been repulsed, the Army Messenger states, and the Russians have maintained their positions without change. In the Mlawa region, where , the Russians are making a drive toward the Thorn-Soldau front, the Germans have been forced to retire at several points, from ten to twenty-five miles before dashing raids of the czar's cavalry. The Army Messenger states that as a result of the retirement of the enemy in the Mlawa region, and the repulses they have suffered on the Glowno How line, Warsaw is once more free from danger, though at one time the evacuation of the city was considered. In analyzing the situation the Army Messenger says today: "The Germans are meeting with enormous difficulties in their continued attacks west of Warsaw. We continue to hold Lowicz, around which fighting has centered for a week. The Germans there have attacked night and day, only to be driven back by our artillery fire."

NEED COUNTY RACK FOR TIEING HORSES NEAR COURT HOUSE Anderson Asks Commissioners for Accommodations for Farmers Who Trade in Richmond. A return to the old trading days when the farmer, who did not know what a self-propelled carriage was, drove his team to town on Saturday only and sometimes only every three or four Saturdays, hitched his horses on the court house square and did his purchasing and social visiting in the stores and taverns surrounding the county building, is the idea of Albert Anderson, county commissioner from the eastern district. The court house has always been the center of the" city houses before city buildings were thought of. as things necessary for the administration of city government. AH the eminent men could be found at the court house and all the good fellows in the taverns or inns close by the court house. Like Court House. When Centerville's court house was taken from her by force, all exempt the buildings themselves, the location of the new7 court house at the corner of Fourth and Main streets was regarded as central. Then the business center began its eastward march and by the time the present half million dollar structure was erected and dedicated to the citizens of the county, the banks and most important stores were several squares away. Commissioner Anderson says that the country people have a different feeling towards the court house than residents of a city. The country people are attached to no municipality and are chiefly affected by affairs administered from the county building. But when the new court house was erected, one thing was neglected hitching racks. Proposes Hitch Racks. Mr. Anderson suggested Saturday at the commissioners' meeting that the farmers be given some accommodations, lie did not present any detailed plan of making the c ourt house again a drawing card for the farmers, but as a starter, he said he would build hitching racks along the Third street side. The automobile and interurban have cut down the number of horse drawn vehicles which cner the city for trading and social purposes on Saturdays but there are still sufficient to make a county hitch rack look popular. He also suggested that the half square from Main street to the Fourth street entrance be left for an automobile parking place but later extended this to include the entire square on Fourth street. The commissioners have not taken up the idea as yet for action, but probably will do so at a later meeting. A room on the third floor of the court house may be set aside for a farmers meeting room. EARLHAM CHAMPS MEET PENNY'S FIVE Promise to Give Hoover' Bond's First Real Battle of Season. The Hoover-Bond basket ball team will go up against the champion freshman team on the Earlham gym floor. The freshies line-up will include such men as Morrisch, the husky center on the football team, Herbie Logan, who played on the varsity team last fall, Meeks and Slater. All of these boys are' expected to make the varsity tquad and at least two of them are expected to land regular positions. So far Penny's team has had rather easy sailing with the teams across the river. They will have to go "some" to get away with the game tonight. The H.-B.'s will use their regular line-up. They play the curtain raiser at the Coliseum Friday night with the fast Dai ton Standards.

CHOIR OF GIRLS TO SING CAROLS AT XMAS TREE Mrs. Christman Rehearses Chorus for Municipal Exercises in Coliseum Next Sunday Evening.

SANTA HEADS PARADE Canvassing Committee Will Make Systematic Visits to Business Houses Early Wednesday Morning. Mrs. George Christman, who has charge of training a chorus of little girls between the ages of eight and twelve years to sing at the Municipal Christmas Tree exercises next Sunday evening, requests that any little girl who desires to be a member of this chorus meet at the Commercial club rooms at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, when a Christmas carol will be rehearsed. She wants a large number of little misses who are willing to help in this way to bring Christmas joy to their less fortunate school and playmates. Nearly one hundred interested and enthusiastic men and women met Sunday afternoon at the Commercial tint rooms and perfected plans for the Municipal Christmas Tree celebration, tc be held at the Coliseum next Sunday evening for the benefit of the ity' poor children. They are assured the happiest Christmas in all their young and none too happy lives. Wednesday morning at S:4." o'clock the forty or fifty members of tho soliciting committee, of which I-ouis S. Bowman is chairman, will meet at the Commercial club and at ! o'clock they will start out on a two hours canvass of the business sections to secure money, candy, fruits, nuts, cookies and toys. At 11 o'clock they will all assemble at the city building. McNally Takes Money. What money has been collected will be turned over to Sergeant McNally; those who promise to contribute money later in the week will also send their contributions to Sergeant McNally. What candy, toys, etc., is promised to the solicitors should be sent to the city building as soon as possible, in no event later than Thursday, because it must all be placed in sacks preparatory for distribution. A special committee will visit the factories and every lodge in the city is represented on the committee. Miss Edna Johnson of the Federation of Women's clubs, was appointed to the committee and instructed to name her own assistants to secure the co-operation of the various women's organizations in this worthy movement. Santa Will Parade. The program committee, of which Charles W. Jordan is chairman, pnnouneed after its meeting that the exercises would be brief but impressive and befitting the occasion. Previous to the opening of the celebration Santa Claus will have a triumphant parade along Main street. The Richmond City band, which has donated in services without charge, will furnish the music, some minister will open the program with prayer. Mayor Robbins will make a brief address, a Christmas carol will be sung by a chorus of little girls, and two bovs will recite Christinas selections. Then the goodies" will be distributed. The decoration committee will arrange the stage in a most attractive manner, featured by a Christmas tree twenty feet high and illuminated with rive hundred various colored electric lights. Santa to Use Chimney. Back of the trees will be a big fire place and a chimney and the committee confidently experts that Santa Claus will enter the building through the big chimney. The building is to be beautifully decorated. The gift distribution committee, of which Mrs. H. 1. Monarch is chnlrman, arranged to distribute many of the toys some time after the eeh bration at homes where they will be most welcomed. This committee has a largo list of children who will get no Christmas playthings unless arrangement are made to send toys contributed to the committee to their homes. Any people who bve good second h?nd toys can send them to the city building at any time and they will bo most welcome. CHRISTIANS MAKE GREENVILLE TRIP The Central Christians will figure in a big entertainment Wednesday night when they go to Greeuille for return game of basketball. As part of the evening's events the Boston college girls, wito are touring the country, will play the Greenville city team. The Boston girls have lost but two games. A dance will follow: The Centrals will line up as follows: Brown, g; Von Pein, g: Kennedy, c; Wilcoxen, f ; Hale, f. Three substitutes will make the trip. KNIGHT TO PRISON Obed Knight, blind tiger operator and chicken thief, was taken to Michigan City penitentiary today to strrt a sentence of one to eight years for petit larceny. Clarence Blair was arrested today by Sheriff Bayer charged with wire desertion. He will be arraigned this week; his wife acting as tho proceutine witness.