Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 73, 4 February 1915 — Page 1

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'A 3. PAIXAMIJM I ' VOL. XL.. NO. 73. Palladium and 8un-Tleram Consolidated. ltOT RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVENING, ?EBRUARYf4, 1915.' SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

GERMANS TAKE FRENCH LINES NEAR MASSIGES Teutons Hold Main Works in Champaigne Region Despite Continued Counter Attacks of Allies.

TAKE MANY CANNONS In Belgium Kaiser Concentrates Heavy Troop Bodies for Renewal of Campaign "Against Dunkirk. BULLETIN. WlfiHIMftmM c.u a a oassaaor Gerrard at Berlin today notified the state department that the German government has issued a decree warning all neutral countries that It would be dangerous for shipping to ply the waters to the north and West of France. BY FRANKLIN P. MERRICK, Staff Correspondent of International News Service. PARIS, Feb. 4. In a new attempt to hack their way to the coast, the Germans are attacking the allies along a 20-mile front in the region of Lens and Bethune. but an official statement issued here this afternoon declares that the assault of the Kaiser's troops have been repelled by the heavy fire of the French artillery. The statement from the war office also claims success for the French in the Champaigne district, but admits that some , of the French trenches north of Massiges have been wrecked by German mines, compelling the construction of new field works. In the Vosges region there have been encounters between Ski patrols. In Alsace, French troopn have made some progress northwest of Hartmannsweiler Kopf. The weather has turned warm In Alsace and a thaw has begun there. BERLIN STATEMENT. BERLIN, (By Wireless), Feb. 4. Tfee capture of the main French position north and northwest of Massiges, In the Champaigne region, is 'announced in an official report from 'the German general staff Issued here this afternoon. It states that three successive French trenches were captured by the German troops yesterday along a front of more than a mile and that these have been held despite the continued counter attacks of the Frencn soldiers. The report claims that in the fighting around Massiges the Germans captur- . . MBetk -off ieeT,-w-60t8Oldlers '- and .eighteen guns, together with a lar quantity of war material. The general staff's report denies the' Russian claim of successes in the Carpathians and asserts that the AustroHungarian and Germans forces have made a series of gains in the mountainous country. ENGLAND SENDS TROOPS. LONDON, Feb. 4. Within the past three days the British war office has sent about 47,000 fresh British troops across the channel to meet a new offensive movement which ahe Germans are expected to make all along the line in West Flanders and northern France. General Joffre, commander in chief of the allied armies, and Field Marshal Sir John French, commander of the British Expeditionary forces, learned through spies and the allied aerial services that the Germans have been massing men and artillery along the northern front for about ten days. SUES FOR ICE BILL Suit for the collection of an ice bill was entered in circuit court today by Lee Pitman of Cambridge City. The complaint Is against Oliver C. Rowe, owner of the Pure Ice Cream company of Cambridge City. Pitman Bays he furnished Rowe with coupons and books in the summer of 1913 with which Rowe secured the ice for his operations. The balance owing, according to Pitman is $180.36. With interest and attorney's fees, Pitman claims $250.

LABOR HERALD PRESENTS VIEWS OF UNIONS ON RICHMOND FIELD Organized Labor to Put First Number of Paper in Circulation Tomorrow Recites History of Typographical Union and Status of Union Work Here Advocates Peace Between Capital and Labor.

Bright and newsy in appearance is the first number of the Richmond Labor Herald which will be distributed by the Central Labor Council tomorrow. Printed in newspaper form the paper contains stories and editorials bearing on labor conditions in the country and city. The committee on publication is composed of L. C. Harrison, Charles Kirk and -E. C. Diechman. Members of the council who have contributed signed articles to the first issue are, William Snyder, recording secretary of the I. M. James O'Brien, president Typographical union, and C. W. Genn. secretary Typographical union. Peace between employer and employe has marked the history of the

CLUB WILL CONSIDER TEACHERS' PENSIONS School Board and Instructors Object to Measures Proposed in House. A meeting' of the educational committee of the Commercial club to discuss the teachers' pension bill will be held tomorrow at 1:30 o'clock. The committee probably will take a stand for a kind of teachers pension bill which will cause the teacher to pay most of the money received later in pensions. Members object to the bills in legislature, and the school bard members also object to some phases of it. The idea of the committee is to deduct from each teacher's salary a small amount each month. In a year or two this would amount to little, but at the end of fifteen or twenty years with compound interest, the fund would be large enough so that the state funds would not be depleted each year in filling out pensions, as they would be under the bill now before the legislature. The committee will take up other legislation regarding schools. DEFEAT OF BILL CAUSES DELAYS IN LIGHT PLANS Legislature Fails to Pass Measure Allowing City to Assess Benefits Against Abutting Property.

City officials admitted today that the defeat in the state senate yesterday of a bill which permitted cities to assess benefited properties fifty per cent of the cost of installing street lighting systems left the ornamental lighting system situation in Richmond very much "up in the air." President Bavis of the board of public works expressed the belief, however, that some satisfactory method could be determined on for installing this system in the Main street and north end business districts. Just how this question would be solved he did not explain. Urges Extreme Caution. City Attorney Bond said that the existing laws pertaining to street lighting were very Indefinite and if ornamental lights were to be Installed the city would have to proceed very cautiously. Mr. Bavis explained some of the difficulties other cities have encountered in installing ornamental lighting systems by assessing part of the cost against. benefited properties. - "In Anderson," be said, "an ornamental system was put in under the same plan as was contemplated here. Now property owners have taken the matter to the courts as an appeal against paying assessments. Their principal contention is that a law which permits a city to install street lighting systems in an arbitrary manner, denying the affected property owners the right of petition and remonstrance, is unconstitutional. Court Makes Ruling. "In Fort Wayne the court has ruled that street lighting systems can be installed under the law the Anderson property owners are attacking, but has held that the city must assume the expense of constructing the conduits, which is the most expensive part of ornamental lighting system. The Fort Wayne court has held that conduits are a part of the distributing system of the electrical plant and are charged to it as an asset, to be included as an item of plant valuation, which is the basis of rate making. "If the city of Richmond had to pay the cost of conduits for its proposed ornamental lighting system a very heavy burden would be imposed upon the municipal plant." STEAMER WRECKED OFF CAPE HATTERAS FBY LEASED WIRE. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. The wreck on Diamonds Shoals off Cape Hatteras was identified definitely today as that of the steamer Idler. The keeper of the coast guard station at Cape Hatteras telegraphed headquarters here that a pair of blankets marked "Idler" had washed ashore. Typographical union, comments Mr. O'Brien in his review of the organization's inception and its activity. The Typographical union was organized in Richmond September 14, 1891 with the following charter members: W. G. Welborne, Henry Nobbe, John E. Folkerth, Fred H. Feldman, J. B. Maag, Sam Thurston, D. P. Darst, M. Ritchie, Nettie Young, Fannie Elstro. Alvln J. Hunt and Louis V. Armstrong. Of these men M. O'Brien says, "They had the knack of inoculating the 'cub' with the proper spirit and it always took. Since the organization of the union the scale of wages has raised from $9 to $12 to $17 to $20. The hours have (Continued on Page Eight)

MEASURE FOR DEPENDS

Secretary of State Refuses to Discuss Attitude on Bill When Interviewed in Richmond. FAVORS SHIP BILL Knows Nothing of Prospect of Important Measure Passing Senate Where Filibuster Delays Speedy Passage. In the opinion of many the fate of the state-wide primary bill now pending In the legislature depends upon the attitude Secretary of State Bryan assumes towar.d this measure in his speech before the Indiana general assembly tomorrow. The Taggart machine is known to be bitterly opposed to the bill, in fact, Mr, Taggart predicted yesterday that not more than eight Democrats in the senate would vote for it, but President Wilson and Mr. Bryan have been friendly In the past to such legislation. ' HOWBVPT Mr Ttrvnn tnAav absolutely refused to discuss whether ue woma urge we inaiana legislature to place a state-wide primary law on the statute books. Silent on Address. "I do not care to outline in advance what I shall say in my address before the legislature tomorrow," Mr. Bryan remarked brusquely to newspaper men when he passed through Richmond this morning enroute to Indianapolis. "What are the prospects of the federal ship purchase bill passing the senate?" he was asked. "I am heartily in favor of this bill and I hope the senate will pass it," he replied. "But I have no more information as to the prospects of its passage than the average newspaper reader. "I believe in the ship purchase bill not only because it provides for an existing emergency but because it meets a permanent need in establishing of new trade routes for American commerce." Bryan's Program. Mr. Bryan will be heard at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the first of eight speeches he is scheduled to deliver in Indianapolis on his two days stay. The first address will be before the students at Shortridge high school. At 6

DEMOCRATS PLAN STEP TO PASS SHIP PURCHASE BILL IN SENATE

BY LEASED WIRE. -WASHINGTON; Febt.A filibuster by the administration forces to , prevent a roll call, which would defeat the ship purchase bill, was decided upon upon at a conference of administration Democrats in the senate today. Senator Kern of Indiana, the majority leader, announced that there would be no call today of the opposition to send the bill back to committee. Other Democrats stated that they would talk against time until enough senators arrived to pass the bill. Meanwhile urgent messages were sent to Senator Newlands of Nevada, who 1b in California, and to Senator Smith of South Carolina, who is at the bedside of his wife, to return immediately to the capital. The fillibuster is planned to continue until they return, SUES STORE CLERK FOR LIGHT SAUSAGE Charles Berkmeyer Charges Tray Sold by Moss Fell Short in Weight. Emmet Moss, clerk for the Brandenberg grocery, 2115 North E street, was arrested today on a complaint filed by Charles Berkmeyer, 416 North Eighteenth street, that although he had purchased a pound of pan sausage Moss only delivered to him sausage weighing three-quarters of a pound, including the wooden tray and wrapping. Believing his purchase was underweight, Berkmeyer notified Marketmaster McKinley, who found that the sausage was a quarter of a pound shy of its alleged represented weight. "I don't know whether to give that fellow a punch in the nose or prosecute him," exclaimed the irate Berkmeyer. McKinley persuaded him to seek redress in city court. The case will be heard tomorrow morning. McKinley stated today that he Is still awaiting instructions from State Food and Drug Inspector Barnard as to the disposition of the spoiled cold storage egges consigned to the Eastern Indiana Hospital and shipped from Indianapolis. TEACHERS TO FROLIC Members of the high school faculty will hold several social gatherings during the school term. These will take the place of the regular conferences; The first of these gatherings, a Valentine party, will be held Mondayafternoon at 4 o'clock in the school dining room. The affair will be Informal. Light refreshments will be served. A committee consisting of Miss Anna L. Finfrock, Miss Clara Comstock and B. W. Kelley will have charge of the arrangements.

A STATE WIDE PRIMARY OfJ SPEECH OF SEC. BRYAM

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8ECRETARY o'clock this evening ; he will : be , the guest of the Democratic Editorial Association at a banquet to be held at the Denison hotel. There will be 400 guests, Including the wives of many of the editors. A meeting for the general public will be held at the German House, beginning at 8:30 o'clock this evening. It is expected that Mr. Bryan will speak in defense of the Wilson administration both at the editors' meeting and at the public meeting to follow. Mr. Bryan is to speak five times tomorrow, beginning-at 9 o'clock,' when he will participate in the Founders' day exercises at Butler College. He is to be at the Manual Training high when the vote .: in;, the. senate will stand 48 to 48, and ; the deciding vote will be cast by Vice President Marshall. ' Senator Lewis of Illinois, who was 111, returned today,' which added one vote to the administration forces. Senator Fall of New Mexico, a Republican, also returned, and Minority Leader Gallinger said Senator Penrose would be back before -the end of the day. With these two Republican senators in their seats, Smith and Newlands were left unpaired,' and the vote stood 48 to 46 against the administration. . The composition of this vote is 40 Republicans, 7 Democrats and Potndexter, Prograssive, opposing the administration, and 44 Democrats and 2 Republicans, La Follette and Norris, uphold the president. - GILES TO INTRODUCE TEMPERANCE -TALKER Committee Arranges for W. C. T. U. Leader to Address Big Mass Meeting. The complete program for the' mass meeting in the " First M. - E.: church : tomorrow night, under the directions of the W. C. T. U. of Wayne county, at which Mrs. Edith Smith Davis will deliver her address -on scientific '.temperance investigation and v instruction has been announce by; the committee. The program follows: - - Gates' orchestra. . Solo, Mrs. F. W. Krueger; Roland Nusbaum, accompanist.' ' jC Scripture reading, Mrs. L. H. Bunyan. Prayer, Rev. H. B. Harman. Duet, Mrs. F. W. Krueger and Mrs. Ray Longnecker. v Introduction of speakers. Prof. J. T. Giles. Address, Mrs. Edith Smith. Davis. Benediction, Elbert Russell. Mrs. Davis is expected to reach Richmond at 6 o'clock this evening to tbe guests of Mrs. S. E. Nicholson. . Her activities will begin in - the morning when she addresses Garfield school and Earlham college students. In the afternoon is the reception at the home of Elbert Russell, and at night the mass meeting. - She finishes here Saturday afternoon with an address to the school teachers of the county in the high school auditorium. ASKS PAY FOR SHOES A suit against the Curme-Feltman Shoa company of Richmond, Indianapolis tnd Muncie will be. tried in superior court at Indianapolis tomorrow. The suit was brought by the J. P. Smith Shoe company of Chicago demanding $4,000 for shoes sold .the local company two years ago. The shipmen was late and Feltman claims he lost money by reason of the delay. He also declared in an answer to the com plaint of the Chicago manufacturer that the shoes were of poor quality.

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school at 10:15 o'clock tomorrow morn ing, at 11 o'clock he is scheduled to address the General Assembly and at 1 o'clock he and Governor Ralston will take lunch with Mrs. -John W. Kern and a few friends. Will Speak at Y. M. C. A. The Y. M. C. A. is making prepara tions to receive the secretary of state at 3:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, Fifteen hundred boys will be accom modated in the auditorium. Interest in the banauet of the Transportation club to be held at the Claypool hotel at 6 o'clock tomorrow evening centers in the address Mr. Bryan is to deliver on the subject of "The Railroads' Re lation to the Business World. BILL PROVIDES QUARANTINE OF WHITE PLAGUE Measure Gains Support of Dr. J. N. Hurty and Physicians Law Would Require Reg istration. What is believed to be one of the most important bills introduced this season, and one which will receive widespread support from medical men, was a measure presented by Representative Newman T. Miller of Kokomo, providing for the registration and quarantining of tuberculosis patients. This bill would place tuberculosis in the same class with other contagious diseases, such as smallpox, diphtheria and scarlet fever. , Would Abolish Boards. Pnhlic health exDerts in Indiana for manv vears have been urging the quar antine of tuberculosis as the only ef fective means of preventing tne spreaa of the disease. The Miller bill would nmvMo that, tuberculosis patients would be kept in quarantine until the attending physician and neaitn auinorities decided that it is wise to suspend the order. Dr. J. N. Hurty, according to Representative Miller, has ndorsed the bill. TO NAME DEBATERS The final tryout for the team to represent the Richmond high school in an interscholastic debate with the Wabash high school, will be held in the chapel tomorrow morning. Three memalternate will be select ed. The debate will be held in Rich mond, March 19. TO WORK AS USUAL. Pupils of the Richmond schools will not be given a holiday on Lincoln's birthday, and no plans for observing the day have been made. Weather Forecast For Indiana Rain and warmer tonight; Friday cloudy; colder in the extreme west portion. TemperatureNoon 31 Yesterday. Maximum 29 Minimum 25 Local Rain tonight or Friday; warmer tonight; colder Friday afternoon or. night. Brisk southeast winds shifting to high southwest winds Friday. General Conditions The Western storm has crossed the Rocky mountains and now has a diameter of over two thousand miles. Its center is moving toward the Great Lakes and is causing warmer weather throughout the Mississippi valley, but the temperature will fall after it has passed. ; W. E. MOORE, Forecaster.

HOUR TO INTRODUCE NEW DANCE STEPS Plans Calisthenic Drill for Gymnastic Festival at Coliseum, May 8. The gymnastic festival given by the children of the Richmond schools, under the direction of Physical Director Robert Nohr. will be held in the Coliseum, Saturday, May 8. It was originally Intended to hold the May Festival out of doors this year, 'and have all the children take part in the exercises, but satisfactry seating arrangements could not' be made at either the ball park or at Reid Field. Mr. Nohr said today that about 900 children would take part. The program will include many new drills. Calisthenic exercises perfected by Mr. Nohr and set to broken time will be given. The movements in this drill are very graceful and the time period between each change is suffi

cient to allow of exact precision in perfecting It. The girls of the third and fourth grades will present a ser ies of folk dances. This demonstration is Intended to show the scope of the gymnastic training that is given in the Richmond schools. CHARITY HELPS 6 PER CENT OF PEOPLEJN CITY Melpolder Terms Figures Shown in Report as "Sledge Hammer Blow" to Private Giving as Practical. Out of every sixteen persons in Richmond, one is receiving charity. "A sledge hammer blow to Rich mond," declared Secretary Melpolder of the charity bureau today after he had completed a report showing the amount of money spent for charity relief. "This is an Indication of what private giving does," he said. "The poor of. Richmond are spoiled. They don t know how to take care of them selves. With all this charity, there is no need for a soup house In Richmond. It is my personal oinion that nobody ever goes hungry here. They may miss a meal occasionally but that Is all. Aid Given Equals $1,600. "I estimated that $1,000 was spent in January for relief but when I completed my report, it shows $1,600.13 for pure relief, exclusive of the cost of administering. The money was spent on groceries, fuel, clothing, shoes and meals." The report shows that the township trustee's office gave out $920.25 in relief. The Central Charity bureau through its affiliated organizations gave out $524.58. Of this amount, $422.35 came from the Associated Charities, $92.43 from the Penny club, $5.80 from the Tuesday Aftermath and $4 from the Domestic Science. In addition all of these organizations are doing other charitable or social service work which costs considerable money which was not counted under the head of groceries, fuel, clothing, shoes and meals. The school indigent fund paid out $115 and the police department spent $40.30 for feeding transients. Records Prevent Duplication. The money was spent on six and one-fourth per cent of the population of Richmond. There were no duplications as any attempts at duplication turns up automatically in the system of record keeping. According to the last report of the state board of charities and correction, Richmond made the poorest showing in the state by furnishing relief to one out of every twenty-five residents, Mr. Melpolder said. "I was startled when I discovered this condition but the January report is a sledge hammer blow," he declared. He has prepared a table showing the proportionate amount of relief larger cities would be giving on the same ratio with Richmond. In Indianapolis the relief for the month of January would have been $16,000; in Chicago, $160,000; in New York, $320,000. In each case, he said, the reports show that the figures are far out of proportion to the amount actually spent in those cities.

STATE WIDE PROHIBITION BILL WOULD MAKE INDIANA DRY, IN 1916

Measure Believed to Be Anti-Saloon League Offering Proposes Fine and Jail Sentence for Selling, Making or Giving Away Intoxicants Prohibits Liquor Advertisements.

BY LEASED WIRE. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 4. State-wide prohibition is demanded in a bill introduced in the legislature today by Representative Wright of Randolph county. The measure, it is understood, is an offering of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League. It would make Indiana dry on January 1, 1916. The measure proposed a fine of from $100 to $500 to which might be added 30 days to six months in jail for manufacturing, giving away, or selling intoxicating liquors in Indiana. The theory of the bill is to make all saloons nuisances. There is a secetlon to prohibit soliciting orders for liquor, another section would prohibit the advertisement of intoxicating drinks and Section 13 forbids the transportation of liquor into the state to be used in violation of law.

CONCERT GAINS LARGE CROWD TO HELP POOR Coliseum Packed to Greet Musicians of City Appearing to Swell Receipts for Charity Fund.

PROGRAM PLEASES Organizations and Soloists Greatly Applauded for Presentation of High Class Musical Numbers. A great civic demonstration was the charity concert last evening when 2.500 citizens crowded into the Coliseum and applauded members of he various musical . organizations which contributed their services toward adding funds for the mantenance of the unfortunates of the city. The interest in the concert waa widespread and that the concert had been well advertised was shown by the fact that about five hundred persons bought tickets at the door, the box office receipts being $118.50, thus bringing the total receipts so far reported up to $459.75, which will no doubt be swelled to over $500 when the proceeds from the sale of the 2,000 tickets put out among the school children are reported. Previous to the box office sale $377.50 had been collected through sales made under the auspices of the Music Association of the Commercial club. Popular Program. The program was not arranged so much to display the musical achievements of the various organizations which took part, but more to make an agreeable evening's entertainment for a mixed audience, and that this was a success was shown by the applause and repeated encores which followed, each group of numbers. Even at that, however, the musical accomplishment of the performers was evident, and some of the best numbers, artistically, were given the most overwhelming reception. The performance of the Maennerchor, under the direction of Will DunIng, Jr., can call for nothing but the heartiest commendation, this, one of the oldest musical organizations of the city, and whose history has been commented on at length recently by the local press, showing musical proficiency of a high order, especially when it is considered that many of its mem bers are not trained singers. Wessel Sings Solo. Mr. Duning had his organization in fine musical control and their ensemble effects were smooth and harmonious. Their most ambitious number, "Die Almacht," by Schubert-Liszt, was finely interpreted, the solo part being taken by Joseph Wessel, one of the city's best-known tenors, long a members of St. Andrew's choir. The program was opened by the Richmond High School orchestra, under the direction of Ralph C. Sloane, supervisor of music in the public schools, with one of Mr. Sloan's compositions, "Salute Richmond," a spirited march, played with much vivacity and eliciting great applause both for the composer and the players. Last night was the first time this composition has been heard by the general public, although it has been presented in the high school auditorium. In the orchestra's second number, "Maritana," by Wallace, a new number and also played for the first time in public, were displayed the musicianly qualities of the orchestra as a body and its individual members, the trumpet solo by Claire Reid being notable for its clearness of tone and interpretative value. Mr. Reid's instrument was also heard in a duo with the orchestra's basses, the viola, bassoons and 'celloes, one of the most effective portions of the composition. Philip Gates, one of the city's bestknown young musicians, and an accomplished player of the French horn, was one of the sucesses of the evening with his horn solo, to which the orches(Continuea on Page Eight.) FIRE BURNS DESK A fire starting back of a desk In the cigar store of Edmundson & Dennis, 825 North E street, at 11 o'clock last night, burned a counter and tbe desk considerably before it was extinguished. The loss is estimated to be $50. A physician issuing an Improper prescription, under the provisions of the Wright bill, would be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Druggists carrying a stock of drugs, exclusive of liquors, valued at more than $1,000, would be permitted to dispense liquor for medicinal purposes only, providing the druggists obtained a permit to handle intoxicating drinks from the circuit Judge. Prescriptions on which liquor is sold, the bill provides, must be filed with the clerk of the circuit court. Governor Ralston appeared before the house today and in a special message to that body explained the antilobby bill which he signed this morning. The governor expressed himself as satisfied that the measure was constitutional

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