Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 36, 23 December 1914 — Page 1

EIC MOM) PAIXABIUM VOL. XXXX., NO. 36 Palladium and Sun-Telegram Consolidated, 1907 RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1914. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

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DRYS WILL TRY SECOND BILL IN NEXT CONGRESS

i Closeness of Vote on Hobson I Resolution Spurs Prohibi-; tion Workers to Further Agitation. j VOTE IS 197 TO 189! Party Lines Broken Down in Balloting, While Congressmen Explain Vote to Please Constituents. BY LEASED WIRE.l WASHINGTON, Dec. 2:!. The closeness of the vote on llobson's national prohibition amendment in the House ast night led his supporters today to Kay that they will try again with the next congress. All admitted that the defeat was expected not only by the advocates of the measure but by- its Fponsor, but the splendid support they liave received has given them encouragement to new effort. The whole Indiana delegation, including Kin I y Gray, Kixth district congressman, votetl against, the llobson resolution. The vote by which the amendment Whs defeated was 1 1 7 to ISO. Although this was a majority of the votes cast, the amendment failed of adoption because' a two-thirds vote is necessary for the adoption of all amendments to the constitution of the United States. Had the amendment been in the form of a bill or resolution proposing tiew legislation it would have passed, Us the prohibitionists had a majority Df eight votes on the decisive roll call. Drys to Press Fight. The fight, in the senate for a similar j Imicndment pending there may be; dropped for the present as a result of the house action, but prohibition lead-1 prs declare they are gaining ground I fcnd will not give up ihe struggle. j Of the 107 standing for the resolu-j )ion 114 were Democrats, OS were He-1 publicans, eleven were Progressives 6nd four were Independent Republi-j runs. The 'defeat of the resolution j rame after -j hours of spirited debate,1 fcith the leaders in the struggle wear-j Jed and the galleries thinned of their! Budience. Applause from those oppos-j ng the resolution followed the an-i riouncement of the defeating vote, but: Representative llobson was congratu-! lated warmly for his gallant fight. Party Lines Broken. j Party lines were broken down in the final vote. Democrats, Republicans and I progressives discarded temporarily all leadership and each member cast nTS vote in his own way. Mr. ! lobson reFisted successfully all efforts to amend his resolution in a material way. llej accepted only an amendment insert-; Jng the word "exportation" in the ear- j y part of the resolution to prevent the' importation as well as importation for' Fiile of intoxicants. The vote on the! tneasure was not reached until nearl y j morning. j The members poured forth explana-l tions of their action, cast their ballots; li rid then hurried forth on a Christmas: vacation which haw been robbed of j much of its cheer by fears of the poli-: tical consequences of this momentous day. Galleries Packed. If was a big day for the house and a Ft ill bigger day for Representative llobson of Alabama, author of the prohibition resolution and chief spokesman for the drys in the lower house (Continued on Page Ten.) PENNSY RAILWAY ASKS HALF CENT RAISEJN RATES Joins Eight Other Lines Operating in State in Plea to legislature for Increased Revenue. Nine Tndlnnn railroads, the Pennsylvania included, have announced to Governor K. listen that they will ask legislature in repeal the two-cent fare :iw and establish a paseui.er rate of two and one-half cents a mile. 1ocal officials of the Pennsylvania railroad (-aid they bae lie means of fleterminiiig the rewniie and operating cxpens. s from passenger traffic, lut it is reunited that the railroads receive no more from lares than its costs to run the trains. The railroad men who discussed the Htuation with Governor Ralston declared that while Indiana, Ohio, Michlean, Illinois and several other states have curtailed the revenue by cutting rates, the overhead expenses have in1 creased materially until the carrying of passengers is not remunerative. Means 25 Per Cent Raise. The repeal of the two-cent fare law ind the establishment of two and one-lialf-cent rates, means an increased cost of twenty-five per cent to all! points in the state and increases in: interstate travel for the distance' traveled over the lines in Indiana. j The C. and O. railroad Is not among those which have asked the change. Other railroads in this county asking! the increased rates are the Lake Erie! unci Western, His r'our and ('., ('. ami St. li. Railroads not operating in! Wayne county whieh asked the increase are the Wabash. '.. H. and 1)., t'., I. and I,., and Vaiulalia. The railroad men declared t he In-1 terstate commerce commission would1 ptaml back of them in it statement' that the passenger lines la Indiana; nre being operated without profit. I They say they will not bo able to ,keep the Indiana railroads improved 'with the modern appliances of the, rtlmes, unless they are able to secure! jthe increase. j

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Germans preparing meal enroute. Here is shown the "traveling kitchen" of a German regiment en route to the front, soup is being prepared, ready to serve the fighters, riding in the coaches ahead, at the first stop.

DIRECTORS SET BANK'S OPENING 2 MONTHS OFF Managers of New Financial Firm Oppose Starting Business in Temporary Location in January. GET ROMEY'S BLOCK CtarAnn AnnnnncM Hratifv j JOraan iIU10UnCeS lrailiying Sale of Stock at $110 to Raise Full Capitalization by March 4. ! Negotiations for the purchase of the j Romey building at Ninth and Main ! streets by the German-American Trust and Savings bank have been completed. j Directors announced today that the ! hank would not be able to start Jani uary 4 as had been announced, but the directors after reviewing the situation; i decided it would be a physical im-! possibility to start business In time to receive a share of the county de- ! posits. The bank will open for busi ness March 4. Whether Mr. Romey will release the building for the bank by March 4 is not known. The directors do not favor opening In temporary quarters. Since the date of opening has been postponed two months from the time originally set, every effort -will be made to have the institution placed permanently then. Mr. Romey is one of the directors of the bank. Ife also has negotiations for a new location. It is settled that he will erect a new building where his furniture business will be located. The negotiations for the old Jenkinson building between Ninth and Tenth on Main street, have not been closed. C. W. Jordan, one of the directors, said today that almost all the stock had been sold and the bank will open with its capital at the original figure, $100,000. The organization expense is provided for in a premium which was charged. The stock has been selling at $110 from the first share issued. "Considering that the stock must be purchased for cash, the directors have been surprised at. the results," Mr. Jordan said. "We have a number of applications which have come in unsolicited. These will be considered in the order they came to us. The bank will have $100,000 capital to start business on. CHILD TELLS SANTA TO AID POOR FIRST Girl in Letter Asks Few Presents for Herself This Year. Santa Claus, who has asked the Palladium to take charge of his mail until he arrives, has authorized the publication of the following letter received today: "Dear Santa, "I hope you are coming this year. If you are not, I wish you would let me know. So 1 should not hang my stocking. This is what I want, a gray sweater and a string of red beads. That is all I want because there are so many poor children and they would like to have some presents. "I hope there will he snow on the ground so you can come in your sled and your reindeers, and all your tojs for all the children. Please don't forget me. Are you coming to our school house the riav before Christmas. hope you are. "From Margery."

CHARITY CALLS ATTENTION TO CONTRIBUTION COUPONS

Bureau to Use Relief Fund for Indigent Poor in Richmond, Left in Straightened Circumstances by Loss of Work Due to Industrial Depression.

The charity coupon, which is published elsewhere in this issue, is a direct appeal to every citizen of Richmond able to contribute to charity work in our city. All are;, aware thatbusiness conditions are such at this time that many of our people need assistance. Many citizens have already contributed, but as yet the fund is not sufficient to care for the actual work of those in need. During this week of good will ask yourself this question: "Am I not able and willing to assist the work of charity in this city?" A good answer: "Yes." Cut out the coupon, fill out and j mail to George H. Eggemeyer, trea- j surer. The bureau will do the rest, j This is not an appeal to aid unfor-j tunate foreigners; it is in appeal to all I Richmond people who are in business j for themselves or who have good posi-1 " " I And there are hundreds of people in j

OFFICIAL GERMAN WAR STATEMENT

BY FREDERICK WERNER, Staff Correspondent The International News Service. BERLIN (Via Wireless), Dec. 23 An official statement from the German general staff, issued at the war office this afternoon, says that alt the attacks made by the British and French trocps in the western theatre of w?r have been repulsed, and that in the eastern theatre of war a battle on the Bzura and Rawka rivers continues. The statement follows: "Attacks in the region of Lombardzyde, also south of Bixschoote, were easily repulsed by us. At Richebourg and L'Avoue the English were again driven from their positions yesterday. Notwithstanding desperate counter attacks, we retained all the positions captured from the English between Richebourg and the Canal of La Eassee. "Since December 20 we have captured 750 British and colored soldiers, five machine guns and four mine throwers. "In the neighborhood of Camp Chalons the, enemy has shown greater activity. Four attacks north of Sillerie, southeast of Rheims, at Souain and at Perthes were partly repelled by us with heavy losses to the French. "The situation is unchanged in east and west Prussia. In Poland the battle for the Bzura and Rawka continues. The situation on the right bank of the Pilicia is unchanged. SCIENCE CHURCHES CARE FOR BELGIANS The Christian Science church has received notice that enough money has been collected in the country to take care of all followers of the church in Belgium and contributions will he received for general Belgium relief. The local Christian Science church gave more liberally than "any other organization, considering the memberj ship. The donations overaged more I 1 man $l.o() for each member. This is ! double the record made by any other organization, members say.

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dire need of aid in Richmond right now. Not for many years has there been such suffering in this city, nor have

jobs been so hard to secure. The ma-1 - jority.fthe idle men you see about,,--. . . . .. . . the streets every day are not loafing! 1. A. LOleitiail Vainly 1VX-

because they are too lazy to work; they have been forced to loaf, and prae. tically all of these men have two or more dependent upon them them for the necessities of life women and children. Are we who have not heard the wolfs snarl at our doors to ignore j such a condition of affairs and refuse (help to those who need it? Richmond people in the past have always promptly responded to the call of the distressed; Dayton and Hamilton people still tell of Richmond' whole-hearted assistance rendered to the flood victims in the spring of 1913. Today the call for aid from our own industrial depression victims sounds loudly in our ears, and we must not shirk our duty toward them. GOETHALS EXPLAINS REQUEST FOR SHIPS Arrives in New York From Panama to Go Before Congress. KEY YORK, Dec. 23. Colonel Goethals, governor of the Panama canal zone, arrived with Mrs. Goethals today from Cristobal on tha steamer Panama. Questioned as to his recent request for torpedo boat destroyers and the subsequent reports that foreign warships were violating the neutrality of the canal zone, he said: "The trouble about the British col liers was not so much a violation of ! neutralit y as it was neglect to submit ' j to the requirements of the quarantine' regulations." j Slides are still giving considerable' trouble to the canal authorities, Col-; onel Goethals said. ! While in Washington Colonel Goe-; thals will confer with the committee on appropriations concerning the $10,-j 000.000 needed to complete the term1; inals and coaling stations at the end of the canal. Colonel Goethals said that, the canal is already more than paying expenses. He smiled when the question of prohibition was submitted to him. "I had quite a fight against alcoholism among the employes," said he, "but I finally stamped it out by firing every man caught taking a drink." The Weather FOR INDIANA Fair tonight; increasing cloudiness; probably snowr flurries. Temperature. Noon 20 Yesterday Maximum 20 Minimum 11 I LocalIncreasing cloudiness tonight and Thursday, ' day. with some snow ThursGeneral Conditions Generally unsettled weather covers much of the United States, due to areas of low barometric pressure over the Great Lakes and portions of the country southwest of them. Very cold weather prevails over the southern part of Canada and some of the Uocky Mountain states. W. E. MOORE, Weather Forecaster,

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COUNTY JOB IS WITH AGENT'S DROPPED BIG BANG Old and New Trustees and Farmers in Meeting Decide Against Agricultural Expert. PURDUE MEN HERE plains Advantages But a Strong Sentiment Prevails Against Heller. There will be no county agent in ' Wayne county, the new board of education, which takes power January 1. decided today, at a small farmers' i ' meeting in which the outgoing and j new township trustees and other. board members made up the majority of attendance. New trustees said the farmers of j the county oppose the county agent in ' every township. This was generally understood before the report of the ' .board of education was made, and i Jesse Stevens, T. A. Coleman, head : of county agents of Indiana, and othI ers pointed out that county agent work is of greater scope than individ- ! ual work and can only begin to gain j headway after five years' work, j At the suggestion of H. F. Wissler i of Cambridge City, president of the board of education, who with Dr. M. F. Johnston of the Richmond board, and Charles Bond, trustee of Clay township, are the only hold-overs on the new board, a caucus was held to determine the attitude of the county board of education. Personnel of Board. The new board consists of P.. P. Wissler, Cambridge City; II. H. Peele. Centerville; Leo Champe, Dublin; William Starr, Hagerstown ; M. F. (Continued on page six.) JORDAN TO JOB WITH FOR BANK QUIT CLUB WORK Rumor Persistently Mentions Commercial Body's Secretary as Head of New Institution. It was learned today that Charles Jordan, secretary of the Cemmercial club, probably would sever his connection with the association at the beginning of the new year. It is ru mored that if Mr. Jordan is elected ' head of the recently organized Ger-! man-American Trust and Savings j bank, his resignation from the Com-, mercial club would follow Mr. Jor- i dan today denied the rumor, and : George Seidel, president of the Corn- j mercial club, said that the question of Mr. Jordan's resignation had never come up before the board. PORTUGAL JOINS EUROPEAN WAR LONDON, Dec. 23 A Press Agency dispatch from Lisbon says that the Portuguese Chamber of Deputies has voted to join England in the war against Germany,

ARMY WILL SERVE

DINNER FOR NEEDY Captain Jewell Says Only In valids Will Receive Christmas Baskets. Only persons who are unable to attend the Christmas dinner given at the Rhoda Temple by the Salvation Army will receive baskets this year, said Captain Jewell. The Army, however, is making arrangements to feed between four and five hundred persons at the big dinner Christmas day. This departure from the custom of previous years is due to the large number of baskets which will be distributed by the Klks and other organiza tions. Presents for children will be dis tributed in the afternoon. Women and children who will not have Christmas dinners in their homes are especially invited, said Captain Jewell, although no one will be turned away hungry. The captain has asked persons who have promised contributions for the dinner to make their gifts early. GRAY'S NEGATIVE VOTE TO CAUSE FUTURE DEFEAT Dry Leaders in City tO Make 4 Teem WVion ACllOn an ISSUe Y nen Representative Asks Elec tion. DISAPPOINTS HUBER Mrs. Rowena Randle Receives Non-Committal Letter Day Before House Ballots on Bill. That Finley Gray's vote against the Hobson bill in the house of representatives will be a stumbling block if he seeks re-election to bis seat from the Sixth district is the prediction of dry workers in Richmond today. While not condemning Mr. Gray for his vote they state that his action will be made one of the issues in Mr. Gray's campaign. S. E. Nicholson, editor of the American Friend, believes temperance sentiment is strong enough to defeat Mr. Gray, providing ho is successful in getting the nomination. "We feel as if we had been turned ; down." said Rev. Conrad Huber. j speaking for the Ministerial Association which addressed a letter to Mr. j Gray asking his favorable vote on the temperance measure. Letter Shows Attitude. "The fact that the association was unanimously in favor of sending the letter expressed our attitude and shows how we feel since Mr. Gray voted against the bill," he continued. "I am verv sorrv that Mr. Gray can- ; not see the light as we see it, as temi perance is undoubtedly better for the tuture welfare of the people of the United States. The Hobson bill was a : fair and satisfactory way of putting the question up to the people." i That the fight for prohibition would ! j go on with unabated vigor was the j Rev. Mr. Huber's belief. ! "Mr. Gray's vote on the Hobson bill will be one of the issues he will have to face in his next campaign if he is successful in meeting it in his own primary." said S. Edgar Nicholson. Nicholson Sees Defeat. With the exception of Wayne and Franklin counties. Mr. Nicholson said the Dry forces were in the majority in the Sixth district. This he believed would be sufficient to bring about Mr. Gray's defeat. A letter from Representative Gray received by Mrs. Rowena Randle yesterday Is non-committal in the extreme, according to Mrs. Randle. who has been leading the Women's Christian Temperance Unions in their appeal to the congressman to support the Hobson measure. As the result of his vote. Mr. Gray will have arrayed against him in his next race the increasing strength of the W. C. T. V. said Mrs. Randle. The showing made by the temperance forces pleased Mrs. Randle, who said it was a source of much encouragement to the dry workers. She predicted a different result when the cause of prohibition came before congress. the next ALLEGED SWINDLERS GIVE BOND OF $1000 Dayton Grand Jury to Examine Men Posing as Officials. ' Two men arrested in Dayton, sus pected of having swindled a number of Chinamen in this section of the country, including Lung Tung, an employe of a Richmond laundry, today waived examination on charges of ob taining money under false pretense and were bound over to the grand jury, each under $1,000 bond. The men gave their names as Earl Rhonemus and Darrell Patten. They are accused of having represented themselves as ' being officers of the l nit-d Slates immigration Set ice. ! Roth RlioneiiiU:i and fatten w-ie ; charged with obtaiuing $50 from John j yui, a Dayiou Chinaman, ufier tliit-al-' euing to dt-p(it li'in if lie it id not inert ; their demands. I'atu u is also liargil with having extorted $!.". from the i Richmond Chinaman, Lung Tung, lie waived examination on this charge. .loe Lee. alias Chan Quang Chung, nt whose chop suey house the alleged swindling of Chinamen occurred, is ! wanted on a charge of being an accomplicp of RhonemuB and Fatten, but

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CHECK FORGER

CAUGHT TRYING TO GET MONEY "Christmas Eve is Near and I Am Far Away From Home" Says Note Found on Man Arrested. HOME IS IN WICHITA Police Believe Young Man Tried Scheme in Other Indiana Cities and Bind Him Over. James Archer, said to be a member of a prominent Witcbita, Kan, family and formerly employed !n that city by the Santa Fe railroad, has confessed to attempting to pass a forged check for $25 on the Loehr & Klute clothing company, according to Prosecutor Reller. The police believe, from note books found on the young man. that he has been passing forged checks in Terre Haute, Indianapolis, Muncle, Fort Wayne, Peru and Logansport. Archer. I however, asserts that the first time ; he ever attempted to pass a forged check was in this city, the prosecutor states. He has been bound over to the circuit court. I The rherlr h twico attpmnfpri tn have the Loehr & Klute company accept was on the Farmers National bank of New Castle. Ind.. and the name of L. C. Boyd, a prominent NewCastle man, was signed, to the check. Mrs. Mary Husson who, with her husband, Peter liusson, operates a grocery store, played a prominent part la. i the apprehension of Archer. ! Book Contains Names. J Among Archer's effects were a Dunn I & Bradstreet rating look and an Injteresting note book hi which was written th names of prominent business men and firms in a number of Indiana ! cities. After some of these names Archer had written "o. k." On several pages names of business men were : written apparently in facsimile of their signatures, a method Archer aparently employed in perfecting a re- ; production of these signatures for the j purpose of forging c hecks. Mr. Boyd's i signature was written a number of ' times on one page of this note book and Archer also practiced much per-. fecting the signa re of J. C. Walker of Peru, W. E. Longley of Indianapolis, the state fire, marshal, . and Thomas Parker of Muneio On the last page. at. his . notebook (Continued on Pagp Three.) ALLIES PERSIST IN ATTACKS ON GERMAN LINES Rec?.T)ture Villages and Take Trenches in General Assaults to Break Through German Resistance. BULLETIN. NISH, Servia. Die 23. The following official statement was issued today: "A strong detachment of Austrian sailors re-attached our troops on the Danube, near Pravo. A vigorous counter attack was made and the enemy escaped." BY LEASED WIRE-1 PARIS, Dec. 23. The. allies ar maintaining their offensive with continued success, in both Belgium and France. The French have made pro-' gress on the coast of the North Sea and in the road running from Nieunort to Westende in Flanders. South of the frontier in France the Anglo-French forces have ra-captured j from the Germans the village of Givenchy-Lesh-La Bassee. A heavy fog is impeding operations around Arras. but on other points on the battle front sharp fighting has taken place, j Official Statement. The official statement issued here this afternoon follows: "In Kelgiiini we made slight progress between the sea and the road from Nieuport to Westende ysterday, as well as in the region of Stoen-; straate and Bixschoote. where we captured a woods, tome houses and a redoubt. ; j "To the east of llethune. we re- ' Captured, co-operating with the Rriti ish army, the village of (Jivenchy-Ijes-; La Rassee. which had been lost, j "In th region of Arras a thick fog j lessens activity, both on our part and 'on that of the enemy. To the east of Amiens, on the Aisne. :uid in Cham paene. there were artillery combats, in'th, region of I'erthes-les-Hurlus ve captured after a brisk cannonade and two assaults the last main line of ti,e trenches narticallv taken on Pecember 21. We gained more than S00 yards. In the last trench captured we took a section of rapid fire guns, both the weapons and the men manninrj them. A violent counter attack vaU repulsed." HOLIDAY NOTE. No paper will lie printed by The Palladium cm Christ mas day. This is in accord with the policy followed for years by the management... A holiday will he granted all employe of The Palladium.