Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 69, 30 January 1915 — Page 1

PAIXABIUM VOL. XL., NO. 69. Palladium and Sun-Telegram ConaolMated. 107 RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1915. SINGLE COPY, Z CENTS

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TEUTONS FALL BACK IN NEW RUSSIAN DRIVE Pillkallen Taken by New Army of Czar Marching on Tilsit From North and South.

GERMANS IN RETREAT Koenigsberg New Objective of 250,000 Men in New Division Hurled on Prussia by Duke Nicholas. BY LEASED WIRE. PETROGRAD, Jan. 30. The northern column of the new Russian army of Invasion In East Prussia, which is marching on Tilsit, is meeting with but feeble resistance from the Germans, It is officially announced. Only 300 of the six thousand Inhabitants of Fillkallen remained when the Russians entered the town. The following statement was Issued by the general staff: "The Russian occupation of Pilkallen was preceded by a day'B shelling of the place, during which the garrlBon sustained heavy losses. Out of a population of 6,000 or 7,000 only 300 women and children and old men remained In Pillkallen when the Ruslans entered. The Germans have strong defenses northward in the Masurian lake region, but further northward to Tilsit the Germans are comparatively weak. The Russians are still pushing on Tilsit from both the north and the south. The German attack on the left flank of our southern column completely failed." Praise Duke Nicholas. The feat of Grand Duke Nicholas of putting a fresh army of 250,000 troops in the field without weakening the Russian forces that are facing the Austro-German armies in Poland, Galicia and Bukowina is regarded an important development in the campaign. With Pillkallen, in East Prussia, In the hands of the Russian column on the Gumbinnen front, the invaders are pressing forward in the direction of Koenigsberg. The German forces at Tilsit in East Prussia are also reported to be falling back. In the region of Borjlmow, in Poland, the attacks of Field Marshal von Hindenburg's troops against the Kussian center have all been repulsed. Although the Russian forces fighting .".craiist the Austrians in the region of e?kid pass, in the Carpathians, were r elled to give some ground, an at-rr'-t of the Austrians to shell the usslans out of their earthworks on th ir original line has ended in failure. Fighting In the region of Dukla pass, in the Carpathians, is in progress without decisive results. KINFECKED MAN PUMMELS WIFE V OVER REVENUES Charles Thompson Alleges Mate Searches Pockets and Charges Him with Paying Other Women Attentions. Charles V. Thompson, 68, living at 1021 North I street, after hia arrest today on a charge of assault and battery on his wife, two years his senior, Informed Chief of Police Goodwin that he was a henpecked husband, and it was necessary for him to assert his rights at times with his fists. Thompson is a man of substantial means, owning several pieces of property. Thompson says that his wife not only takes charge of all his wages and the income from his property, leaving him little or nothing to spend, but of late has been accusing him of trifling with the affections of other women. "Honest, chief, that woman hasn't let me enjoy a good night's rest in two weeks with her scoldings," remarked Thompson quite plaintively. Wife Searches Pockets. He also asserted that she had acquired the habit of going through hia pockets all the time, taking possession of what money she finds in them. He says she placed all his money in a bank, where she has an account. Thompson said the attack he made on his wife was the climax of her accusations that he kept company with other women and a dispute over domestic finances. The row started In the house and was concluded in a snow bank in front of the house. An agitated neighbor telephoned to police headquarters that Thompson was "killing his wife." When the police machine arrived Chief Goodwin and Patrol Driver VVenger found Thompson holding his wife in a snow drift and giving her a sound pummeling. She indignantly demanded the arrest of her husband, but at police headquarters they are wagering that she would appear before Monday with a plea for the release of her spouse, as she did once before when he was arrested for attacking her. Thompson when arrested had just a penny in his purse, which, he say3, is conclusive proof that he does not handle the family revenue. As fat as being a gay heart-breaker is concerned, he says, "no chance." His wifa demands too much of his time and attentions.

Hero of Naval Fight and Flagship

Vice Admiral David Beatty, British naval officer, and his ship, which took such a prominent part in the battle between his squadron and a fleet of four German cruisers and a number of smaller vessels, during which the German battle cruiser was sunk, with the greater, part of her crew of 855 men.

REPUBLICANS START FILIBUSTER AGAINST SHIP PURCHASE BILL

Senator Smoot Speaks 11 Hours and 35 Minutes, Yielding' Floor to Senator Sutherland, While Democrats Keep Body in Session to Force Vote on Measure G. 0. P. Forces Lined Up for Endurance Test.

BY. LEASED WIRE. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. Democrats and Republicans in the senate today were engaged in a test of endurance. The fate of the ship purchase bill rested on the outcome of this struggle. At noon today the senate had been In session continuously for twenty-five hours and there was no sign of weakening on' either side. Determined' to forcer aTTote orr the measures at the earliest moment, the Democratic leaders kept the senate in session throughout the night and assert they will not permit a recess un.il a vote on the bill has been taken. Sutherland Speaks. Senator Smoot, of Utah, spoke for eleven hours and thirty-five minutes, taking the floor at 9:50 o'clock last night, and hold'ng it until 9:2o o clock this morning, when he yielded to his colleague, Senator Sutherland of Utah, who, fortified with a good night's sleep, was prepared to hola the fort throughout the day. Other Republicans were on hand to take his place. Just before concluding Senator Smoot demanded that a quorum be called. Senator Hollis of New Hampshire, In the chair, ruled the call not in order, as no business had been transacted since the last call. Smoot protested and Senator Bryan of Florida arose, ready to ask for a vote. The Utah member yielded to Senator Sutherland, who, fortified by a night's sleep and a desk covered with law CHIEF WARNS PEOPLE TO CLEAN SIDEWALKS Fall Confines Fred Miller at Hospital With Sprained Back. Because of the number of people who have been injured the last few days from falls on the ice Chief Goodwin was prompted today to warn property owners again to take every precaution to keep sidewalks free from ice. Fred Miller Is confined at Reld hospital suffering from a very badly sprained back. He fell near the city building and for a time It was thought his injury was of a very serious nature. Frank Strayer, an attorney, fell on North Sixth street and fractured an arm. Late last night a man was carried Into a physician's office on South Ninth street His head had been badly cut by a fall on the ice. His name was not ascertained. FRIENDS ASK HELP TO CLEAR MISSION The Home Mission Committees of the Friends' churches in the city have started a subscription to raise the debt of $375.00 on the North Fourteenth Street Mission, preparatory to assuming control of the Mission. Other churches are being asked to assist in this effort in harmony with a resolution of the Ministerial Association pledging "the work moral and financial support, as it is a cause worthy of such support." The pastors have been asked . to speak of the work of the Mission tomorrow morning at the church services and to advise their members to usiat in liquidating this debt.

books was prepared for an all day speech. Soon after Senator Sutherland started, the presiding officer reversed his decision on Smoot's call for a quorum. Fifty senators were mustered, more than a quorum. Among the first to arrive was Senator Burton of Ohio, who has been resting since his long filibuster speech of. last week and Is

prepared to again enter the endurance contest.-Senator Sutherl&Tid thwTros ceeded. Senator Smoot is one of the twelve apostles of the Morman church. He is a preacher and has been a missionary in foreign lands. There is a rule of the senate in such circumstances that if a senator stops talking to permit any interruption except for a pertinent question, he must yield the floor. Senator Smoot permitted no such eventuality, but talked on and on. Democrats on Watch. The floor dwindling as time passed until it number only about ten, five Republican senators and five Democrats. The Democrats stood watch in relays, members coming out refreshed by their forty winks in the cloak rooms to relieve their compatriots. But the Republicans were too few and the independence of their holding the floor was too grave to permit of such tactics. Practically the same group remained on the floor throughout the night virgil. SWAYNE REPRESENTS CLUB AT CONFERENCE James Carr and W. D. Foulke May Not Attend National Session. S. E. Swayne, former president of the Commercial club, is in Washington where he will represent the local organization as a councillor to meet with men from all parts of the country and prepare policies, topics of discussion and other matters for the convention of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States which opens Tuesday. James M. Carr and William Dudley Foulke, the two delegates whom President Seidel appointed to act with Mr. Swayne, may not attend the convention because of other duties in Richmond, and in this event Mr. Swayne will also act as delegate at the four days' meeting. The business affairs of the nation, the effect of the European war on foreign trade and home Industry and other national and international problems are on the program for the first day's discussion. President Wilson will speak to the convention on Wednesday and on Thursday Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and Senator Burton of Ohio, are on the program. SETS STILLWELL CASE The trial of Mrs. Mary Stillwell, who Is charged with practicing medicine without a license will be held In cir cuit court February 8.' What stand Mrs. Stillwell will take regarding the charge is unknown, but it is said the state has a serious case against her. One of her patients out of whose case the charge originated, Mrs. Charles Morrow, 825 North Tenth street is under the care of a local physician and a Cincinnati cancer specialist who are trying to cure the woman of the effects Mrs. Stillwell's medicine Is alleged to have had on the cancer.

REID'S FRIENDS QUIT CONTROL BOARD OF ROCK ISLAND ROAD

BY LEASED WIRE. ' NEW YORK, Jan. 3? -The exodus from the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific directorate, led by Daniel G. Reid, continues.. Robert Walker of New York and John J. Mitchell and Edward S. Moore of Chicago, it was announced today would not seek re-election, when their terms expire in March. The resignation of Reid and the other three was foreshadowed in the formation of a special proxy committee consisting of Edward W, -Sheldon, president of the United States Truat company of New York ; William " Woodward, president of the .Hanover National bank. New fYorttrCharlesTihWes, president oTthe Central Trust company, Chicago, and J. Horace Harding of Charles D. Banney & C, New York. This committee is friendly to both the Reid-Moore interests and the Phelps-Dodge faction. Mr. Reid's friends said today that his resignation was in no way connected with the interstate. commerce commission inquiry. JUDKINS WILL VOTE AGAINST ROAD BILL Representative James K. Judkins stands with the Commercial club and citizens of Richmond on the road legislation question, he informed C. W. Jordan by letter today. "I am in accord with the Commercial club in regard to road legislation," the letter said, "but I am unable to see bill to lower railroad rates. The chiropractor bill has been amended in committees and has not been printed yet." The reference to the railroad legislation probably arose from a mistaken idea Mr. Judkins had, as he was informed that the club wanted the maximum rate increased on the condition that the public service commission fix passenger rates. LITTLE SNOW FLAKES WORRY ALFRED BAVIS Every time President Bavis of the board of public works sees a snowflake his countenance assumes an expression of extreme anguish. During the month now closed the collection and removal of snow has cost the city the tidy sum of $1,485.21, of which amount . $1,205.80 has been paid out the last two weeks. The last half of. the. month over twenty teams have been employed most of the time removing snow. In 1913 the city only had to spend $108.4 for the removal of snow. Weather Forecast FOR INDIANA Snow or rain tonight and Sunday, ' Warmer tonight. Warmer Sunday north portion. Temperature Noon 23 Yesterday Minimum 14 degrees below zero Maximum 18 LOCAL. CONDITIONS Unsettled and warmer tonight and Sunday. Snow or tain. GENERAL CONDITIONS The cold weather continues over, the Lake region and the St. Lawrence valley and elsewhere the temperature is rising due to a great area of low barometric pressure now covering the entire west portion of the United States. High winds and heavy rains cover California, Arizona and New Mexico. Snow and rain between the Mississipi river and the Rocky mountains Is moving eastward. . Unsettled, weather will be expected for the next 48 hours. . W. E. MOORE, Forecostef t

LOCKER LOOTER FALLS FOR TRAP PLANNEDAT "Y" Dayton Detective Watches Everett Koenigkramer Operate with Masterkey Boy Confesses to Other Raids.

Through the efforts of Detective Bowman of a Dayton agency the mys tery attached to the looting of lockerB at the Richmond Y. M. C. A. has at last been solved. Last night the thief, Everett Koenigkramer, 19, of .200 North Twentysecond street, walked squarely into a trap which had been set by the de tective. Through small holes in a partition wall Bowman saw the young man enter the locker room, peer about cautiously to assure himself that he was not being observed, and then by using a master key open several lockers After Koenigkramer had looted to his heart's content, securing $8.20, a knife and a fountain pen, Bowman stepped out upon him and told him he was under arrest. Admits Other Thefts, The young man accepted the situa tion calmly and after he had been removed to police headquarters frankly confessed that he had four times raid ed lockers at the Y. M. C. A.. Chief Goodwin said today. Koenigkramar was removed to the county jail. Chief Goodwin said that Koenig kramer estimated that in his various looting expiditions he had stolen almost $25 and had taken quite a few articles, such as knives and fountain pens from clothing left In the lockers. "I don't know what made me steal the things," the youth told Chief Goodwin. ' He said he had stolen the master key to the lockers from Physical Director Roach. It is probable that a charge of petit larceny will be placed against him. John F. Koenigkramer, father of the young man, was at police headquarters this morning and said he would make an effort to have his son released on bond. He expressed the hope that Judge Fox would suspend sentence on the boy to give him an opportunity to reform. Recently every large public event at the Y. M. C. A. has been the signal for a raid on the locker room. Richmond and Anderson high school basketball teams played there last, night and it was correctly surmised that the thief would take advantage of this event to do some .looting.. U. LEADER GOMES FOR LECTURES Mrs. Edith Davis . Will Address Mass Meetings at the Methodist Church. Arrangements have been made by the ladies of the various Women's Christian Temperance Unions of Wayne county to have Mrs. Edith Davis of Hartford, Wis., in the city next Friday and Saturday, February 5 and 6. Mrs. Davis is superintendent of the scientific temperance instruction department of the National and World W. C. T. U., and is one of the finest and most talented and cultured women orators in America. She will address a popular mass meeting at the First M. E. church on Friday evening, the 5th, to which the public of Richmond is invited. She is expecting to address the County Teachers' association on Saturday, and will speak at Earlham chapel on Friday morning and also at some of the schools of the city. A public reception will be given in her honor on Friday afternoon. Watch the papers for the announcements. This is the first time that a world's officer of the W. C. T. U. has been in Richmond and the women are anticipating a Iprge attendance at her lecture on Friday evening. DISCHARGED STEWARD CUTS PAUL RIEBERT Harvey Howard Cuts Man Who Attempts to Eject Him From Westcott. Paul Relbert, white, a steward em ployed at the Westcott hotel was cut and very painfully injured by Harvey Howard, colored, last night. Howard had been discharged by the hotel management and Reibert was instructed to eject him if he ever came into the kitchen again. When he appeared last night Reibert tried to put him out, whereupon Howard pulled a knife and cut a gash eight inches long and very deep in Reibert's leg. Nine stitches were required to close the wound. The physician says the blade only missed severing a large artery by a fraction of an inch. Had it been cut Reibert would have bled to death before medical aid could have been summoned. Howard fled after the cutting but was arrested this morning at the home ofa friend In the north end. FLAMES FATAL TO 7-YEAR-OLD BOY fBY LEASED WIRE.l NEW YORK. Jan. 30. A seven-year-old boy was killed and ten persons were injured in a fire of mysterious origin which gutted a three story frame building in Brooklyn, early today. Three hundred persons, scantily clad, were driven to the streets, most of them by way of fire escanaa.

988,960 Dead in Teuton List of War Heroes

BY LEA8ED WIRE. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 30. Prussian casualties In the war up to January 21 had reached the enormous total of 988,960, according to figures published by the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant. . . ' It says that these figures are taken from 141 lists of Prussian losses, and continues: "This total comprises killed, wounded and missing, the wounded numbering 615,059. Of these about forty per cent have already returned to the front. , . i - -i "To the total of 988,960 will have to be added 140 Bavarian. 96 Saxon,' 99 Wuerttembergian and 14 naval casualty lists to show the complete losses of the Teutonic armies." FIGHT IN DUNES EXACTS HEAVY FRENCH LOSSES 300 Morrocans and Algerians Left on Field in Coast Fight North of Nieuport After Engagement. BY FREDERICK WERNER Staff Correspondent of the International News 8ervlce. BERLIN, Via Wireless, Jan. 30. Gains south of the La Bassee canal and In the western part of the Argonne district are claimed for the Germans in an official statement. Heavy losses were inflicted upon ti e French and their allies In the fighting among the sand dunes on the North sea coast In the region of Nieuport, on Thursday. The official statement follows: "The French losses in the fights north of Nieuport on Thursday were heavy. More than 300 Morrocans and Algerians lie dead among the dunes. South of the La Bassee canal, the Germans last night took two more trenche from the French. In the western part of the Argonne district the German attack on Friday brought a gain of considerable ground. We captured 12 officersT31 privates and also took 12 machlnCL guns and iq small -oH guns. The enemy's losses were heavy, between 400 and 600 bodies being left on the battlefield. "The Hundred and Fifty-fifth French regiment seems to have been annihilated. The German losses were comparatively light" FRENCH STATEMENT. PARIS, Jan. 30. Fighting along the battle front on Friday was mostly confined to artillery duels, according to an official statement issued by the war office this afternoon. Near Gulnchy. in the vicinity of La Bassee, however, three German battalions were driven back with heavy loss. While aatacking the British near Flirey in the Woevre regions, the Germans blew up some of their own trenches while attempting to destroy some of those held by the French. NATIONAL ROAD FILM INTERESTS SOCIETIES The "See America First" films which will be shown at the Palace Monday afternoon and night, will be attended by members of women's clubs who took interest in the movement to make the National road part of the ocean-to-ocean highway for the historical and geographical value of the pictures as well as the interest created by the local settings. The pictures show what an automobile tourist would see if he passed from Washington to San Francisco along the old trails, of which the. National road is a part. The directors of the Commercial club paid $100 on recommendation of the good roads committe toe have Richmond included in the films. M. B. Faidley of the Faidley Motion Picture company, who made the cross-country trip, said that he will retain a strip of film which shows concrete road building in Richmond, as this is the only point along the National road where concrete road construction was going on.

FLEMING'S RESIGNATION STANDS IRREVOCABLE SAYS URN

BY LEASED WIRE. INDIANAPOLIS, Ja. 30. That j Senator Stephen B. Fleming cannot re-1 consider his resignation was the unofficial opinion today rendered by Attorney General Mllburn, who used as a basis two decisions of the Supreme Court. One of these involved a senator who resigned in 1888 and subsequently requested reconsideration. The other was the case of a county sheriff in 1873. Those close to the administration expressed belief today that the Governor may defer his action on Flem ing's regisnation until the end of the ' present session, thus allowing Fleming to exercise all privileges of a senator who being entitled to a vote on any measure. In the absence of any official inform mation the belief prevailed in state

NEW COLTPAMY TO TAKE OVER RUr.lELYSllOPS Indianapolis Lawyer Acting - For Stockholder, Negotiates for Purchase of GaarScott Equipment.

FOR RE-ORGANIZATION Frank Land Sees Possibility for kenewal ' of Business . Under Proposed New Management of Plant. An effort is being made by, on f the M. Rumely stockholders, through William L. Taylor, an Indianapolis attorney. It is reported, to arrange to take over the Gaar-Scott factories from : Finly Mount, receiver of the Rumely company, and if this is possible, a" re-organization of the old GaarScott company is planned. Mr. Taylor was in Richmond Thursday. The man he came to see left Richmond at the same time Mr. Taylor left Chicago and they passed on the road. Mr. Taylor left immediately after discovering this." This plan is of such recent origin that none of the local Rumely stockholders and former Gaar-Scott owners . had been officially informed of it. Recently there have been many rumors . that a re-organization of the GaarScott company would be brought about but these are said to have emanated from suggestions to that effect Start Old Line Again. Howard Campbell, who retired from the Gaar-Scott company shortly before it was sold to the M. Rumely corporation, said today there would be no difficulty in manufacturing the old GaarScott line again, as the Rumely company does not hold patents on any of the Gaar-Scott models. The difficulty in accomplishing this, the local men say, would be to arrange to take over the Gaar-Scott factories here. The receiver, Finly Mount, of Indianapolis, is trying to reorganize the company to start business again. John L. Rupe, former attorney for the Gaar-Scott company, said when informed of the visit of Taylor to Richmond, that the receiver of the Rumely holdings was quoted as saying the company would be re-organized to do business in the Leporte . and " Battle Creek plants. Plant Is Valuable. "Unless this policy is carried out, I doubt that the clients of Mr. Taylor could make arrangements to get the factories here," Mr. Rupe said. "The plant is too valuable and there is too much money tied up in it. If sold the plant would bring almost nothing, but it is valuable to the company for business purposes. "If a re-organization of the Gaar- . Scott company could be effected it would be a God-send to Richmond. The worst thing that ever happened to this town was the sale of the company to the Rumely company. "I doubt whether the Gaar-Scott company could be organized with the same stockholders. The client of Mr. Taylor probably is an outside man who knows that the Gaar-Scott reputation is a valuable asset." Land Sees Possibility. Frank Land of the Gaar-Scott and Rumely companies, said he believed the re-organization of the old company or organization of a new Gaar-Scott company is possible if arrangements " can be made with the receiver of the Rumely plant to get the factories here. The matter had not been broached to officials of the Second National bank, according to W. C. Seeker, S. W. Garr and D. N. Elmer. "This has been rumored several times, but I have heard nothing of the new plan," was the expression of each of them. S. S. Stratton, Jr., who was mentioned as the possible client of the Indianapolis attorney, has not been in Richmond since January 13, they said. C. P. Holton is in Chicago and Indianapolis on business concerning the receivership of the M. Rumelv company. He will return here next week. LYONS GROWS WEAK Reports from Indianapolis last night indicate that Dr. S. R. Lyons is slowly growing weaker. No hope is entertained for his recovery, and his death may come at any time. house circles today that Govern oi Ralston, will not accept the resignation of Senator Stephen B. Fleming, of Fort Wayne, and that the latter will still be considered the state senator from Allen and Adams counties. Mr. Fleming left for New York City, late yesterday after giving ont a brief statement in which he declared there "had been no quarrel between himself and the governor, and stating that he recognized that the Democratic party was bigger than . the Individual and that he had chosen to step aside' after realizing for some time that many of his party's policies and his own personal views have differed radically." When asked if bis statement meant that he was no longer a Democrat, Senator Fleming said with a laugh: "Oh no; some of yon fellows have been around here so long, you doat -want to aea thina,