Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 64, 25 January 1915 — Page 1

RICHMOND PAIIIUM VOL. XL., NO. 64. Palladium and .Sun-Telegram Consolidated. 1907 . RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1915. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

KING GEORGE PRAISES BRITISH VICTORY OVER WARSHIPS OF GERMANY

BLUECHER SUNK IN ENGAGEMENT ON NORTH SEA Naval Success Calms Fears of English Pertrubed Since Hartlepool Shelling and Aerial Raids. LONDON CELEBRATES Admiralty Denies Loss of Cruiser Claimed Sunk in Report Sent Out by Berlin Office. BY HERBERT TEMPLE, European Manager The International News Service. LONDON, Jan. 25. Kins George today sent to Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty a personal message of congratulation on the victory by his fleet over a German squadron of powerful cruiBers in the North Sea Sunday. The entire English nation is celebrating the triumph won by tho sailors of Britania In what the naval experts call "the most important naval battle of the war." This conflict, fought early Sunday morning north of the Friesian Islands, is believed to have prevented anotherbombardment of English coast towns. Tho British naval victory came at an opportune time to calm the fears aroused by the recent shelling of Hartlepool and Scarborough, and the Zeppelin raids over towns a little more than a hundred miles from London. Deny Berlin Claim. The statement issued in Berlin today saying that a British cruiser was j reported to have been sunk in the bat tie was declared by English naval officials to bo an attempt to minimize the victory of Sir David Beatty. The reported loss of the English cruiser was flatly denied and the admiralty re-affirmed its declaration that the English casualties had been few. While the Germans claim that all the vessels in their fleet except the Bluecher. returned to their harbor, British admiralty officials declare that two of the kaiser's cruisers were badly damaged by the. gunners of the Lion, Princess Royal, New Zealand, Indomitable and Tiker. This belief is continued as concerns one of the German cruisers at least, by a dispatch from Amsterdam. Cruiser Creeps Home. This message states that advices from Sehiermonnik-Ooog, a Dutch island in the North Sea, bring the news that a fonr-funneled Gorman cruiser, apparently badly damaged, was sighted there late yesterday cfternoon, saillug toward the east. The cruiser was steaming at slow speed and seemed to have been crippled. This vessel is believed here to have been one of those which participaten in sunnay mornings uaiue.

All the newspapers unite today in a.; Bridge at the Grace Methodist church plowins? tribute to Sir David Beatty ; sun(iay. Christians should not adopt and his sailors for defeating the Ger- the Jazy dea that they should receive man fleet c.ml sinking the Bluecher. blessincs as the world receives sunThry de lare the Germans' defeat was ; shine and rain without effort, they

a retnmiunn upon tuc uauj-Mneia Scai bcron.nh." Etuecher a Misfit. Tho Bluecher was the fifth armored cruiser that Germany has lost in the (Continued on Page Three.) S SLOGAN NEAR CLEN KARN Residents Greet Proposed Auto Transfer Line With Joy Whole Town Wants to Make First Trip. Overjoyed at the prospect of being able, to -reach Richmond by auto truck, tlie Glen Kara, Ohio, correspondent who described the terrors of travel in sr.d out of that town recently, sends the following: Hold the fort for we are coming If we can get there, and we have hopes, now, that wo will thanks to the efforts of The Palladium soon have some method of transportation. We certainly appreciate the interest taken in our behalf and believe thati we will be able to reciprocate in aj very substantial way before long. "This means more to us than the opening of the Panama Canal. Already we have planned ou- initial trip. We are all going, the halt, the lame and the blind. We won't take dinner, for we will buy that in Richmond. And oh you circus days! You don't know yet how we can turn out. You see Greenville is our county seat but it is a far as Richmond and no better way to get there, so where do you htink we spend our money? Why, we still bave it. We have seen a picture show, b polo' game (and wouldn't some of nr. who used to live in Richmond like to see Teddy play again), but why enumerate, our slogan is now 'On to Richmond.' '

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BERLIN ADMITS LOSS OF CRAFT

IN NAVAL FIGHT German Fleet Outnumbered by British Squadron in Engagement Lasting About Three Hours. FOES STOP BATTLE Action Fought Seventy Miles Northwest of Heligoland and Fleets Return to Their Stations. BY FREDERICK WERNER, Staff Correspondent of International News Service. BERLIN, (By Wireless), Jan. 25. The German Admiralty admitted in an official statement issued here today that the armored cruiser Bluecher had been sunk in a naval battle between the British' and German fleets In the North Sea, but also announced that a British cruiser was reported to have been sunk in the combat. The battle took place seventy nautical miles west of Heligoland. According to the official statement, the German fleet was outnumbered by tbe British squadron, but the latter discontinued the battle after three hours of fighting. All the German ships except the Bluecher returned to harbor. Admiralty Statement. The statement issued by the Admiralty was as follows: "On the occasion of an advance of the armored cruisers Seydlitz, Derffllnger, Moltke and Bluecher accom panied by four small cruisers and two torpedo boats flotillas into the North Sea they came into a battle Sunday morning with English fighting forces numbering five battle cruisers, several small cruisers and twenty-six torpedo boat destroyers. "After three hours fight our opponent discontinued the battle seventy nautical 'miles northwesest of Heligoland. "According to present reports, one battle cruiser has been sunk on the English side. Of our ships, the armored cruiser Bluecher was sunk. All the other German forces returned to ! harbor." REV. BRIDGE SCORES CHRISTIAN PARASITE Methodist Pastor Calls Members to Wait on Lord Willingly. Parasites of Christianity who are ! receivers only and are not active doers i were criticised by the Rev. U. S. A : should labor, achieve and endure hardships. One of the Christian's duties, said the Rev. Mr. Bridge, is to wait on the Lord by worshipping at stated intervals and by standing ever ready to answer his call and to carry out his orders. Only by this means can there be a continual renewal of strength which Is essential in spiritual as well as phys'cal life. The Christian is not at his best when shouting in some enthusiastic outburst, but when walking with calm dignity under fire of temptation. CARMEL BANK CLOSED. NOBLES VILLE, Ind., Jan. 25 The Citizens bank at Carmel, Ind., was closed today by order of the state auditor's office. This is the third financial institution closed In this county in less than a week.

Charity Loves All Sister of Mercy Does not Know President Poincare Decorating Her With Legion of Honor Insignia.

BY LAWRENCE ELSTON Staff Correspondent The International News Service. NANCY, France, Jan. 25. Others may interview Kings and presidents, but I will rejoice in being the first American to interview Sister Julia Snpnr Julie, who is more interesting than most celebrities. President Poin care and a distinguished party went to Gerbervillers a little town in the Vosges mountains, where she has spent her life, to decorate her with the insignia of the Legion of Honor. No town in Belgium is such a wreck as Gerbevillers, where she and four sisters remained amidst the shell and fire and conflagration, nursing both French and German wounded. In one of the dozen houses left intact I found her. Ignorant of President. "This is my working dress," explained Sister Julia. "I have too much work to do to put cn any uni-

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LITTLE CHILDREN mm 5 nvrr Richard Haeffner, two and a half years old, at top, and James, aged four, the two deserted kiddies who are now under the care of the Children's Society in New York. Below is George Frederick Haeffner, who has pleaded guilty to a charge of abandoning his four children. CHILD'S BRIGHT FACE GETS FATHER PLACE Florence, Daughter of Jobless Man, Smiles Way Into Policemen's Hearts. . The winsome smile of pretty, 7-year-old Florence Hawkins, who arrived ia the city Sunday from Fort Wayne with her father, who is penniless and in search of work, took police headquarters by storm, and as a result the father. Noah Hawkins, apparently a hard-working man in bad luck, has a temporary job today, w hile Florence is staying at the home of Patrolman Vogelsong, having a fine time. Today she went to school with Vogelsong's youngest daughter. Hawkins, who had been living in Missouri, has been traveling through Illinois and Indiana in search of a steady job, but without success. When he arrived here he said he would like to get to Burnsidcs. Ky., where he could leave his daughter with his sister. He eagerly accepted a job s-hoveling snow for the traction company, and the police took up a collection to help him out when little Miss Florence beamed upon them and told them how much she liked them. The police will receive at headquarters any contribution for Hawkins and the little girl. DEVIL SPENDS FREELY Rev. W. O. Stovall Analyzes Pay Roll. The drunkard, the thief, the gambler and every one that commits any sin of any kind, were all placed on the devil's payroll by Rev. W. O. Stovall, in his sermon last ivuht. on "The Devil's Pay Roll." The Rev. Mr. Stovall said that the devil never tried to economize but was always ready and anxious to hire new helpers. The recompense which the devil paid for service is apparently worldly pleasure, the pastor said, but this pay is only temporal, and the real wages of sin is death. "Christ is willing to assume all your obligations," said Rev. Stcvall, "and will help you break your associations with the devil." form, so I keep my decoration in a box in the bureau drawer. When Monsieur Poincare brought it to me, I could not believe such a little man j he reaHy heW tha(. hJgh office sister Julia laughed heartily at her mistake, tor sne is not a solemn perj son at all. Through all her ordeal, she kept cheerful and smilingly. "Another man," she went on "Monsieur Deschanel, came with Monsieur Poincare. He is president or something or ether in Paris." Sister Julia did not know that her other visitor was M. Paul Deschanel, president of the Chamber of Deputies, and a great statesman. If any one suggests that they will make a great ado about her when she goes to Paris, Sister Julia shakes her head and murmurs that it cannot be true. "I only did the Lord's work when it came to me to do. Why should Paris make an ado over that?"

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j Weather Forecast! FOR INDIANA Fair tonight and Tuesday. Colder tonight. Temperaturo Noon 21 Yesterday Maximum 17 above

Minimum 18 below LOCAL Fair tonight and Tuesday. Colder tonight. Temperature near ze ro or below. . GENERAL The snow storm of last 1 X .1 ,LI 1 T .. .... .1 .n xiigUl ami mis mui iijjjb iiaa passeu iu the eastern states and is followed Dy generally fair weather which promises to be of short duration since another storm is approaching from the western states. Sunday's cold wave breaks the record for the winter. Temperature at Earlham college reading 19 degrees below at 3 a. m. but it rose to 8 below by 7:30 o clock. W. E. MOORE, Weather Forecaster. SUNDAY'S SNOW ADDS TO WORRY OF STREET MEN Gangs Haul Tons of Snow From Huge Drifts Piled Along Main Street Car Lines. Richmond was snow bound again this morning, the street car company being the only business able to cope with the additional six inch fall last night. ' The snow is now from sixteen to eighteen inches deep where it has not drifted. The moving of the snow from streets and sidewalks has piled it up three to four feet deep in many places. The snow plows used by the street car companies as a result 01 tne restraining order granted by Judge Fox which prevents the city from enforcing its ordinance directed against the Company's methods of snow removal, have made the regular traffic ways on Main street impassible. Snow Hampers Traffic. This was the condition up to noon in the business district. The city removed tons of snow the car snow plows had thrown to the sides of the tracks. All traffic used the car tracks to get through the city. In the east and west parts of the city, the three to four feet of snow was unbroken during the day. The railroads were seriously hampered again last night hut as the snow did not drift the trains made their way through iu fair time. This afternoon the trains were running on schedule time. The interurbans also maintained their scheduled running time. The cold snap scheduled for Satur day night arrived and the temperature went down at an unusual rate. The official temperature registered at the pumping station was eighteen degrees below zero at 5 o'clock Sunday morn-1 ing but in Richmond thermometers did not go below five or six. Wind in the early part of the evening made business dull and the streets were almost deserted. The temperature rose as rapidly as it had fallen and at noon yesterday registered twenty degrees above zero. At noon today the temperature was seventeen degrees at the pumping station and with little wind, the atmosphere was pleasant. There were several snow slides from roofs of buildings but none were dangerous. ASKS FOR mvORCE AFTER 22 YEARS After twenty-two years of married life, Mrs. Clara K. Johnson filed suit in circuit court asking divorce from Edwin L. Johnson. Mrs. Johnson says her husband has failed to support her the last two years, and that he used violent and abusive language to her. Ollie Adams filed suit for divorce from Alva E. Adams, charging cruel treatment and failure to provide. THAW ASKS SANITY PROBE FROM COURT Surprises Jerome by Sudden Turn When Arraigned Before Judge. BY LEASED WIRE. NEW YORK, Jan. 25 Harry Kendall Thaw sprung his promised suri prise of William Travel s Jerome and j others representing New York state ! today when upon arraignment before ! Justice Vernon M. Davis in the crim inal branch of the supreme court on the charge of conspiracy, his attorney, John B. Stanchfield, demanded that the prisoner be sent to Bellevue hospital for examination as to his sanity Sends Thaw Back. The argument ended when Justice Davis sent Thaw back to the Tombs, and he announced that he would take the question under advisement for two or three days. Thaw appeared in court accompanied by his counsel. The reading of the indictment followed. Jerome asked that a date for trial be fixed and that Thaw be asked to plead. Stanchfield read a section of the law which provided that if any person is arraigned for trial and there is question of his sanity, the judge must commit him to Bellevue where his sanity will be determined. Jerome declared that there were only two ways to have Thaw declared sane; one was to have the Matteawan superintendent file a certificate of sanity; the other to have the court declare him sane on a habeas corpus proceeding. He asked that Thaw, be sent back to Matteawan pending his trial.

BOOST IN OCEAN FREIGHT RATES CITED BY SECRETARY ilfl'ADOO AS REASON FOR SHIP PURCHASE BILL

AERIAL BOMBS DESTROY ESSEN REPAIR SHEDS 400 Military Automobiles Wrecked When Allies' Aviators Drop Explosives on German Gun Town. RUSS LOSES ADVANCE Teuton Artillery Forces Czar's Army to Evacuate Two Positions Southeast of Gumbinnen. FBY LEASED WIRE.1 AMSTERDAM, Jan. 25. Accord ing to the Handelsblad, British aviators in a recent aerial" raid upon the city of Essen completely wrecked a repair shed containing four hundred German military automobiles. FRENCH STATEMENT. PARIS, Jan. 25. The German bridges across the Meuseat St. Mihiel have been completely destroyed by the French artillry. Official announcement to this effect was made in a statement issued by the war office this afternoon. This accomplishment by the French troops is one of the most important of the recent fighting on the Meuse, where the Germans have for several months been attempting to cross tha: stream in force and shatter the French line of defense between Verdun and Toui. Other minor successes of the French troops announced this afternoon include a victory in the fight for the trenches near Berry-au-Bac, destruction of German earthworks in Champagne and slight progress for the allies to the east of St. Georges, in Flanders. BERLIN, Jan. 25. An official statement issued by the war office this afternoon, admits that French troops have captured a trench, from the Germans southwest of Berry-au-Bac. but claims that all the French attacks at Hartmannsweilerkopf were repulsed yesterday by the German troops. Tt als claims some successes for the Germans in the eastern theatre of war. "In the eastern theatre artillery duels are continuing cn the front and east and north of Gumbinnen. Our ! fjre foroed tne pnemy to evacuate two positions southeast of Gumbinnen. Russian attacks northeast, of Gumbinnen were repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy. "In northern Poland th-re are no changes, and east of Pilicia nothing important has transpired." HORSE IN RUNAWAY KITS SECOND AUTO Apparently a big bay horse owned by Charles Kirkman has an aversion to automobiles. Recently it ran away and in a collision with a furniture company's truck, badly damaged the radiator. The horse was not injured, however. Saturday the same horse, hitched to a sleich, bolted and dashed into an automobile at the corner of Sixth and Main streets, striking the machine so violently as to turn it at right angles. The horse was knocked down, but was not injured.

LOCAL MEN TO RECEIVE WAKEFIELD BLOCK LEASE A. H. Brovn and H. L. Ashley Complete Negotiations for 99Year Lease on Building at Ninth and Main Streets To Erect Modern Business Block in Rear New Bank Considers Corner.

Negotiations for the leasing of the Wakefield business block, northeast; corner of Ninth and Main street, for a

period of mnety-nine years have s al-, f hospItnI Doar(1 of trustees. apmost been completed U was learned , an lnxeMgslilotl. today, and it is probable the lease w,ll q favorab,e to th dca, wh,ch be signed within a few days. dlcatcg that the hospit.u Doard A. H. Brown and H. L. Ashley stat- j formally ratify it. Miss Hanna Wakeed today that they were negotiating! fieid has been in Japan but is now enfor the property, one of the most valu-: route home. It is underst'ood that she able in the Main street business dis- i haR no objections to leasing the proptrict. S. E. Swayne, local representa-i erty.

tive of the two WaKeiieiu neirs, miss 1 :L i i i r v, , T finlX Vn-kiH -vf irhnm I vo in lull fnm 1 a Wane ."' " ... i!"'"?-u" would be successfully consummated. WThat the consideration ia to be has not been made public. Reverts to Hospital. The property was purchased by the late Dr. Wakefield when he was rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church, a number of years ago. He died in California about two years ago. In his will he provided that the net proceeds from the building should be shared by his two heirs during their life, time and at their death the property should revert to the Reid Memorial hospital

Sea Freight Schedule Increased Without Regard to Interests of American Trade" "Some Business Houses Closed as Result" "Cotton Rate Increased 1,100 Per Cent and Grain Jumps 900 Per Cent" Secretary McAdoo and Secretary Redfield Report to Senate.

GREED OF STEAMSHIP OWNERS DICTATE PRICES

Secretaries Plead for American Government Owned Marines and Claim Facts Warrant Enactment of Favorable Legislation United States Lacks Authority to Protect Business Houses Control and Regulation of Rates Beyond Federal Jurisdiction Protection Urged.

TBY LEASED WIRE-1 j WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. "Ocean freight rates have been arbitrarily increased to an unparalleled height without regard to the interests of American trade. "Some business plants have been shut down as a resultant of the exorbitant rates. "If common carriers of , land were to practice such discriminations against shinners. and such arbitrary methods, they would be. subjected to criminal prosecution." These counts are contained in a bitter indictment against tne ioreign ; steamship owers, filed witn tee senate today by Secretary of the Treas ury McAdoo and Secretary oi commerce Redfield. Plead for Ship Bill. ' The indictment makes a strong plea for the ship purchase bill .asserting; the facts as they have found them are , an unanswerable argument in favor of, an American government jucivuom marine. These critics declare that the j increase In the cotton rate of 1,100 per! cent on shipments to Bremen and of 900 per cent on grain show, in part, ; the methods of the steamship owners i in dealing with American exporters ; since the beginning of the European war. An Increase in the cotton rate, l.ii'Ui

per cent on shipments to Bremen of t gx4 per cent. 900 per cent on grain are held up asj From Norfolk to Liverpool, grain evidence of the manner in which these j frora j-7 to 2oo per cent; cotton 186 steamship owners have taken advan-: pcr cent tage of the war on exporters, and the From Norfolk to Rotterdam, cotton end is not yet in sight, according tO471 per cent; to Bremen on cotton the report, which- sayB: ! 1,100 per ent or from ?1.25 per bale "Ocean freight rates are still rising to $15 per hale, and are limited only by the greed of. From Galveston to Liverpool grain the steamship owners on the one hand 174 per cent; cotton 361 per cent and bv w hat the traffic can stand on ; the other j (Continued on Page Four)

BOARD FLOATS BONDS FOR GRAVEL HIGHWAY County Makes $19,000 Issue to Pay for South Twentythird. An ordinance authorizing the Issuance of f 19,000 in gravel road bonds to I pay for the South Twenty-third street improvement was passed ny me ooara of county commissioners. The bonds will be printed and advertised immediately and will be ofr . J f ,.- cnlr, rahrtiarv 1 nt t ll O rniirfr !,..,. 5 tyyo it of frt-P gravel road bonds now pending. This brings the indebtedness of the county to little less than $400,000 for gravel road bonds on improvements made under the three mile gravel road law. About ?300.000 worth of these bonds are for Wayne township and payable, by the township. A total of $115,000 has been added in the last year and a half. J Mr. Swayne said today that George aKfI1 "au "guinea ins appruiai j of leasing the property to Mr. Brown i u & P. Holds Lease The Wakefield block has a front-: j age of sixty-six feet and extends from The three business rooms fronting Main street are occupied by the Light, Heat &i Power company, L. E. Emmons tailor-1 ing company and the George H. Nolte carpet company. The power company

has a. six years lease on its quarters 'will accept the call of the First Preswhile the lease the carpet company i byierian church at Richmond. Ind., if

holds will not expire for three years. Emmons' lease has expired A separate building constitutes the rear of the Wakefield block. It is occupied by a barber shop, grain store Continued on Page Three.

"The government has no power to control or regulate ocean freight rates, it cannot under existing law protect our foreign trade against the extortionate and hurtful charges. These steamship owners can increase rates without notice and upon the instant and our business men are helpless. The 6teamship companies are their own masters and do as they please with the transportation of exports. As already shown, they are seriously checking our foreign trade and in

some cases, such as lumber and coal are stopping it altogether." jjje report today was supplemental to the statement made on December 26 last, and was made in response to the resolution passed December 18, calling for information regarding the ocean freight rate situation. Some of the striking increases hich were reported to the department or American business men and shippers are: From New York to Rotterdam on gra,n 900 ppr oent. on nour 50Q per cent; on cotton 700 per cent. From New York to Liverpool, the rates on the same commodities have increased from 300 to 500 per cent. From Baltimore to European ports i except uermani on grain 900 per cent: on flour 264 npr nf nn ttr, BECK CRITICISES ROAD CLEARANCE OVER TOWNSHIPS Postmaster Says Methods Used by Some Supervisors to Remove Snow Makes Travel Almost Impossible. Tho ire of Postmaster Beck and Superintendent of Mails Handley was brought down on the heads of the township road supervisors today for the negligent manner in which tho township roads have been cleared of snow. The postmaster Eaid today that the method usd by the supervisors has made it more difficult for tbe mall carriers to use the roads than if nothing hand been done. A snow plow the width of that used for sidewalks has been draged over many township loads, making the highest banks of s-r.nw where the wheels must run. An order was Issued to rural carriers this morning that patrons must clear the way to their mail boxes so that the cairiers can drive to them without demounting. Unless the snow ia I cleared away from the approach to the boxes, there will be no delivery in the future. Corrplain of Carriers. City carriers are also having their troubles and are being complained ! acainst to the poMmaster. Mr. Beck I said he has not found a just complaint ' among those received and In every ! case where he has a?ked an investiga- , tion. the complaining patrons immediately were quieted. The city carriers are required to finish their routes in eieht hours. Mr. Beck said and cannot give extra courtesies to the patrons at the beginning of the routes and sacrifice those at the ends. "We are going to fight to bave the county road superintendent law kept on the books and we're going to k"p it up if the governor arrests us for it." Mr. Beck said. "The year of this system has accomplished more in this county than other methods aceorai plished in the preceeding ten years." nHlinnil Trt miT lir RH RnH Til FRFF RFA . 3Y LEASED WIRE. CHICAGO, Jan. 23. It is underj stood that Rev. J. J. Rae of this city. 'the Presybtery of the church of uhicn he is now pastor In Chicago, will accept his resignation. Dr. Rae said the matter would be taken up here as soon as he receives by mail the formal call to the Richmond church.