Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 75, 6 February 1915 — Page 1

i VOL. XL., NO. 75

Palladium and Sun-Tlearam ' Consolidated. 1907 RICHMOND, IND , SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6,1915. SINGLE COPY. 2 CENTS

RUSSIANS MASS TO WITHSTAND GERMAN DRIVE 250,000 Soldiers and Heavy Artillery in Terrific Battle Fight to Decide Polish Campaign.

STRUGGLE TO END Von Mackemen Leads Teuton Army Selected to Smash Czar's Center in Warsaw Move. ' BY LEASED WIRE. PETROGRAD, Feb. 6. More than a quarter of a million picked troops and more than one thousand heavy guns are engaged in a terrific battle In the region of the Bzura and Rawka rivers In Poland- and upon the outcome of this conflict hangs the fate of the present campaign for the mastery of Western Poland. General von ?.Iackenzen, one of the most brilliant commanders in the German army, was selected by Fiald Marshal von Hlndeburg to smash the Russian center and open up the way for the drive which the Germans are trying to make against Warsaw. With one hundred thousand picked Infantry- . men and six hundred big guns under hiB immediate command. General von Mackenzen has locked with the Russians in a death grip or which ferocity there has been no equal since the outbreak of the war. Field Marshal von Hlndeburg planned to cause a withdrawal of the new Russian forces from their advanced positions in East Prussia and also to lessen the Russian pressure against the Austro-German forces in western Galicia by striking a decisive blow at the Russian center west of Warsaw. If the Germans fall in their present assault against the Russians, the battle line will undoubtedly be pushed westward to the border of East Prussia. FRENCH STATEMENT. PARIS, Feb. 6 The official report issued this afternoon by the French war office, covering the operations in the western theatre of war on Friday was very brief and mentioned only artillery duels. French artillery set fire - to a German wagon train east of the :vrgonne district and ; other French guns destroyed a German observa- ' tlon : balloon north of Sommepy. There were no Infantry engagements. AUSTRIAN STATEMENT. VIENNA. Via Berlin, Feb. 6 (By wireless) The Austrian war office announced today that the Russian attacks against the Austro-German army in the Carpathians have broken down with heavy losses. The following statement was given out: "In Poland and western Galicia the situation is unchanged. The renewed Russian attacks in the Carpathians have broken down with .heavy losses to the enemy. Our attacks in the forest regions continue. We have taken four thousand more prisoners." COMMISSIONERS ADD 15 MILES OF ROADS County commissioners annexed fifteen miles of township road to the county road system today and turned down about thirty miles because of lack of gravel. ThiB was passed over the head of Commissioner Cheesman who wanted to wait until the close of legislature, declaring he stands for increased county roads only if placed under the county highway superintendent and governed by the present laws. The roads taken in follow: Wayne township. Grimes road, mile: Clay township. Cloud road, 1 mile; Boston township, Fouts road. 4 miles, Raper's cross road. 1 mile; SmithHeld road, 1 mile; Abington and Center township line road, 1 miles; Abington township, Smelser road, mile; Center township. Commons road, 3 miles; Washington and Center townships, Washington road, IVa miles. Because all townships pay equally for the support of the county roads and the county roads are unequally divided, a list was held up pending action of the township trustees in bringing the roads up to the specifications required by law. The Williamsburg-New Castle road, three miles long in Green township and the Macy road, four miles long in Perry and Dalton townships, were the only ones cast out altogether. POLICE PROBE STORY OF FOUNDRY QUARREL Police ore investigating a report this afternoon that Ed Devers, a nonunion molder employed at the Reliance foundry, was knocked unconscious with a blow from a shovel wielded by a union patternmaker, whose name is not known. Striking molder union pickets assert they saw Devers carried out of the factory, placed in an automobile and hurried to a physician's office. They say that Devers entered the patternmaker's room and was ordered out; that words ensued and Devers seized a club, whereupon he was knocked out with a blow on the head, delivered with a shovel. Factory officials when questioned this afternoon absolutely denied that there had been any trouble in the factory.

WOULD EXTRADITE

WERNER VAN HORN The application filed with Secretary of State Bryan by British Ambassador Spring-Rice in which he aska for the extradition of Werner Van Horn, has been referred to Solicitor Cole Johnson of the state department. No reply will .be made until a report has been received from the commission appointed, by the -department of Justice to make a preliminary examination. Van Horn, who Is believed to be a German reserve officer, is accus ed of attempting to blow up the Cana dian side of the railway bridge between St. Croix, New Brunswick, and Vancebora, Me., for the purpose of hia dering transportation, of war supplies to Halifax for shipment to England. WIRELESS DISCLOSES PLOT TO DYNAMITE STEAMER CHAMPAGNE Thracia, With $5,000,000 Car go, Adrift, and Steamer. London Founders Off Pensen, England.' BY LEASED WIRE.) PARIS. Feb. 6 A plot to blow up the French liner Champagne in midAtlantic with dynamite bombs was frustrated by a wireless warning to the captain of the ship, according to a dispatoh in the Paris Journal today. A German passenger wsb arrested and five high power dynamite bombs were found concealed in his baggage. LUSITANI A IN PORT. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 6 The Cunard Liner Lusitania which was reported in the United States to have been sunk by a German submarine, arrived here today and landed her passengers. The Lusitania was upon the Atlantic when the .Germans launched their submarine warfare against British mercantile shipping and fears were felt for her safety. LONDON FOUNDERS. ! THE LIZARD, Eng., Feb. 6 A raj diogram from the steamship Poland j states ' that the British steamer London foundered off Pen sen, England, ; last night. One member of the crew was picked up. It is believed that the ship was either torpedoed by a German submarine or else struck a mine. NORTH SEA STORM. ABERDEEN, Scotland, Feb. 6 A score of narenns ari hlifvprt tn have been drowned in shipwrecks caused Dy a gaie wmch is sweeping the North Sea. A salvage boat from Hull turned turtle off the coast. A trawler and a I small steamer were driven ashore. I DOUBT CAMPANIA WRECK. j WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 6 The navy department and all othpr trnv. ! eminent sources today were without advices to confirm the rumor that the ; liner Campania had been sunk by Ger mans. THRACIA ADRIFT. LONDON. Feb. 6 The Cunard steamship company's steamer Thracia is drifting helplessly In the North Sea with a broken propeller. News of the steamer's mishap was received by wireless today. The Thracia carries a $5,000,000 cargo. SET STILLWELL SUIT Mary Stillwell, charged with practicing medicine without a license, will not be tried Monday. The case will come before the court February 22. Mrs. Stillwell has had her case in the hands of attorneys, and she will plead not guilty to the charge. Her attorneys said she would fight against conviction, although there is no jail sentence connected with a finding of guilty. SHIPS EGGS BACK Marketmaster McKinley yesterday afternoon shipped to State" Food and Drug Commissioner Barnard the seven crates of eggs received here from an Indianapolis concern and consigned to the Eastern Indiana Insane hospital. He does not know what disposition Barnard will make of the case.

W . -Muff ? A

GERMANY NOT TO SEIZE SHIPS FLYING FLAG OF UNITED STATES Count Von Bernstorff Interprets Communication of German Admiralty Neutral Vessels Not to Be Molested Blockade Directed Only Against Shipping of Allies.

BY LEASED WIRE. j WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador today declared It as absurd to describe the German proclamation as "A paper blockade." Germany does not intend to seize or molest United States ships laden with foodstuffs for the civilian population of any country, the Ambassador says, and the does not even intend to close the English channel to neutral commerce. The statement reads: "The German Ambassador has not received instructions regarding the decision of the German admiralty, but according to the text of the decision the following seems clear: "There is nothing new In the communication made on February 4. by the German admiralty with respect to the attitude of the German imperial navy toward ships of the enemy or toward neutral commerce. It is absurd to describe as the proclamation of a paper blockade of the British Isles. The communication is simply a statement of what has been since the beginning of the war the attitude of navies of all the belligerent powers toward ships of the enemy. Closes North Sea. "A few months ago the English admiralty proclaimed the closing of the North Sea, the waters of which are essentially neutral. German does not profess to close even the English WOMAN MAKES PLEAS TO SAVE MEN OF GENIUS Declaring that the talented men of the nation are prone to drink, Mrs. Edith Smith Davis told a large audience at the First M. E. church last night that it is the duty of the United States to learn the truth concerning alcoholic drinks and conserve the lives of those of artistic temperament. Several excellent musical numbers were given fcy Mrs. F. W. Krueger and Mrs.- Ray Longnecker. J. T. Giles presided and gave a short interesting talk while introducing Mrs. Davis. : - Mm-Dvis spoke vofc.Jie scientific experiments which have been made on animals treated with alcohol, and the tests which have bfen made with men who drink alcoholic beverages. The results, she said, has proved that the nation should protect drinkers by removing the cause of their downfall. Her subject was "Conservation of Life." "This earth is a meeting place between truth and the human mind," Mrs. Davis said. "The truth concerning the nature of effects of alcohol had to be put into clear tangible form by scientists before the people could be taught the dangerous nature of alcoholic liquors. "Men of genius with artistic temperament are peculiarly prone to use liquors. A nation needs to conserve the lives of its men of genius more than its forests of pine and cedar." WOMEN SELL VOTES BY LEASED WIRE. LOUISVILLE. Ky., Feb. 6. ' Votes for women" in Kentucky cost one dollar each, while "votes for men" cost $2 and $3. This was brought out at the trial of the 1,124 alleged vote sellers In Pike county, Kentucky, when it was testified that women who are permitted to vote in school elections in Kentucky, sold their votes for $1 each. OPEN SMALL ZONE TO NEUTRAL SKIPS BY LEASED WIRE.l WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. The official text of the German admiralty warning to neutral shipping was received at the state department from Ambassador Gerard at Berlin. It corresponds to the dispatches already received from Berlin, giving the text of the proclamation with the important news that a zone thirty miles off the Holland coast is declared open to' neutral ships, whereas the first report erroneously stated that this zone was closed. In' other words, the waters directly around Great Britain and Ireland comprise the prohibited areas. The warning is now being closely studied by state department officials and an official statement upon it is expected Monday. THUGS GET $12,000; TIE BANK OFFICERS BY LEASED WIRE.l BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 6. Two men who afterwards made their escape, entered the bank of Lima, Livington county, New York, shortly after noon today, bound and gagged the cashier, John Gray, and Assistant Cashier Cole and then robbed the safe of between $11,000 and $12,000. Cole's father went to the bank to see why his son had not come home to luncheon and found the two men bound and gagged. They said they were attacked by two men and after they were bound one of the men went outside of the bank and kept watch while the other committed the robbery.

Channel to neutral commerce and she does not intend to molest or seize United States vessels laden with food stuffs for the civilian population of enemy countries; it is to be hoped that Great Britain will not make neceasary a reconsideration of this attitude by seizing United StateB ships like the Wilhelmina. "Germany does, however, announce to the world that it proposes to continue to destroy ships belonging to the enemy, and it adds the notification to neutral powers, that on account of the fact that British ships are employing neutral flags, according to secret instructions no wknown to have been lscsued by the British government, bona fide neutral vessels may actually be In danger. Merely a Reminder. "Although according to well understood and universally accepted usages of warfare naval vessels are perfectly Justified in destroying merchantmen of the enemy, the German government now sees fit to Issue simply a general reminder to that effect, stating the actual radius of operations of the German submarines. The warning may also be taken as in the nature of an answer to the offer of a prize of $500 made in England for the first British merchant ship that should succeed in ramming and sinking a German submarine, an offer calculated to revive the long abandoned practice of privateers."

FARMERS NAME DRULEY TO RUN NEXT INSTITUTE BOSTON, Ind., Feb. 6 Work of the farmers institute which is in session here today will be carried on next year under the leadership of Clarence Druley, president, Samuel H. Gobies, secretary, and William F. Miller, treasurer. An executive committee will be appointed by the .newly elected president at the close of the sessions today. Prizes amounting to $20 for the best exhibits of corn and domestic science work were awarded at the morning session by James Kline of Howe. Ind., and by Miss Leila Gaddls or Purdue university, but the names of the winners were not made public until the close of the afternoon session. -Women Serve Luncheon. A veal loaf luncheon was served by the women of the Boston cemetery association at the close of the morning meeting. About 175 persons heard the lectures and partook of the dinner. This record attendance was almost double the estimated attendance of 100 at the first days sessions. Failure of the speakers to arrive on the south bound train delayed the meeting until they could make the trip from Richmond in a motor car. James Kline used charts and tables to illustrate his talk on soil and the grains produced. "Planning Meals," was made so interesting by Miss Gaddis that all the men who formed little more than fifty per cent of the audience thoroughly enjoyed her lecture. Mr. Kline's lecture this afternoon dealt with cattle, while Miss Gaddis discussed the "Sensible Woman." ELECTIONS FRAUD BILL IS ADVANCED BY LEASED WIRE. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 6. Representative Cleary's bill to prevent fraud at elections was reported favorably to the house today, the committee on elections voting unanimously in favor of the bill. Cleary Is a Republican, but he is assured Democratic support for this measure. It provites that all ballot be preserved, and that all blue pencils be destroyed immediately after the balloting is finished. There was no session of the senate today. SWEEPING ORDERS END STOCK TRADE BY LEASED WIRE. WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 6. The Department of Agriculture today placed the stock yards in Chicago, Indianapolis, Louisville, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Jersey City, Pittsburg, and Columbus, Ohio, under quarantine following the discovery of cases of hoof and mouth disease in all those points. It was later announced by the department that the stock yards in Baltimore had been added to those closed for disinfection. It was explained by department officials that all the stock yards in Chicago will be closed until the new order because of the diseased animals in some parts of the yards would be hastened as much as possible, but every precaution would be taken to prevent the spread of the disease and no yard would be re-opened until it had been disinfected thoroughly and all the diseased cattle slaughtered. TO DISCUSS MORALS "The Morals of Current Literature" will be the subject of the address and discussion at the Ministerial Association Monday morning at the Y. M. C. A. Rev. y. O. Stovall, pastor of the First Baptist church, will be the speaker.

HOUSE OWNERS PROTEST ON A STREET PAVING Twenty-one of Twenty-four Resident Property Holders Ask Substitution of Macadam Road.

RECALL OLD PROMISE Officials Promised Better Highway When Putting in Cement Curbs and Gutters Five Years Ago. Twenty-one of the twenty-four resident property owners, the only class of property owners who have the right to remonstrate, have filed formal protest with the city clerk against the resolution adopted by the board recently for the paving of North A street, from Fifth street to Sixteenth street. The remonstrators assert that the proposed improvement would work an unusual hardship on them. They point to the fact that the majority of properties on North A street have frontages on streets running north and south, and for that reason they would be assessed on the average of from 165 to 180 feet instead of the usual forty or fifty feet Asks Macadam Road. a substantial macadam roadway, the entire cost of which the city would have to assume. Is the Improvement the remonstrators ask for. In their remonstrance they assert that this street has not been macadamized for 21 years but notwithstanding this fact the street remained in good condition until just a few years ago. They assert that four or five years ago when cement curbs and gutters were placed on North A street the city officials promised to macadamize the street, and they ask that this promise be fulfilled this year. They say that, if the street is well macadamized it will remain in good condition for a number of years because the street is not subjected to heavy traffic. The remonstrators also assert that If the street is not paved they are willing to be assessed for cement sidewalks. North A street property owners are the only ones who have filed remonstance against the city's program for the permanent Improvement of nearly all the macadam streets in the central business district. It was anticipated that North - Sixteenth street property owners would-enter a vigorous protest against -the- -proposed paving of that street, but so -far as -can be ascertained no remonstrance has yet been circulated among the property owners on that street. Property owners on South Ninth street, from Main to South A are, as a whole, well satisfied with the proposal to improve that part of the street. PREMIER MOTOR CAR IN RECEIVER'S HANDS BY LEASED WIRE. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 6. Harold Smith, president of the Premier Motor Manufacturing company, filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the federal court here today. His liabilities were given as $142,319.54 and his assets $122,584.06. Most of hia debts were on notes held by corporations that furnished materials for the building of Premier automobiles. Of his assets $121,000 is stock in the Premier company. TAX SALE ATTRACTS The annual tax sale Monday at the court house will be well attended, according to County Treasurer Charnness, who says he has received many inquiries since the sale was announced. Many of the delinquent owners have payed their taxes since the lists were published. They will be given until the hour of the sale. There are a number of good pieces of property on the list, and local attorneys and real estate men have been tracing the descriptions in order to make purchases. RECEIVES JUDGMENT. The Aurora Cooperage company was given judgment on default for $55.50 against James Brown when Brown failed to appear in circuit, court to answer the suit to collect the account. GERMANY EXPLAINS BLOCKADE DECREE BY LEASED WIRE. BERLIN, (By Wireless) Feb. 6. It was to protest the "life interest" of the German people that the British waters were proclaimed in a state of blockade, It was officially announced today by the admiralty. The following memorandum was given out: "British war measures continue in violation of the international law, the object being maintenance of the vital Interests of the British and the destruction of German economic life and starvation of our people. The neutral powers have contented themselves wfth vain protests against Britain's illegal measures and, therefore Germany is obliged to protect energetically her life interests by blockading British waters. A fortnight's delay has been given to allow merchant shipping to make arrangements.

JAPS LAY CLAIM TO NORWEGIAN VESSEL Seize Ship Destined for San Francisco With Oriental Goods Cargo. BY LEASED WIRE. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6. The big Norwegian freighter Christiana Bars, under command of Captain Hllle. was seized today by Japanese warships two hundred miles off the Japanese coast, according to a wireless dispatch received here today. The seizure was the result of alleged irregularities in the ship's papers. The Christiana sailed from Shanghai January 27 for San Francisco by way of Japanese ports, with a capacity cargo of Oriental merchandise, consigned to the Robbert Dollar company of this city.

FLEMING TO AID RECEIVER MOUNT IN RUMELY CASE Former State Senator Will Pass on Company's Resources for Eastern Capi talists, Who May Invest. It was officially announced today that Stephen B. Fleming, who recently resigned as senator from Allen county, will go to La Porte within ten days to co-operate with Receiver Mount in his management of the Rumely Interests. Mr. Fleming is credited with being the representative of eastern financial interests who are credited with a willingness to extend additional financial aid to the Rumely corporation. Mr. Fleming passed through Richmond Thursday enroute to Indianapolis from New York. He was on the same train with William Jennings Bryan but did not know it until he reached Indianapolis. Mr. Fleming states he will pass on the securities and resources of the Rumely concern and upon his report will depend whether a number of New York business men invest about $6,000,000 in the corporation and put it in the front rank of one of the country's largest industries. "My work will be almost the same as if I had been appointed a co-receiver for the Rumely company," , Mr. Fleming explained. . EXPLOSION IN MINE KILLS SIX MINERS BY LEASED WIRE.l CHARLESTON, W. Va., Feb. 6. Six men lost their liveB in a mine explosion today in Falrmount, Farette county. There were 168 men In the mine, 148 of whom escaped. Four of those caught by the blast were found alive. LOWER HOUSE HOLDS SATURDAY SESSION Judkins Sends Up Bill to Regulate Moving Picture Concerns. f BY LEASED WIRE. INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. 6. Seventynine members of the lower house today attended the first Saturday session of the present assembly. Routine business was rushed to conclusion and the house adjourned to meet at 10 o'clock Monday morning. Representative Judkins. Progressive, presented a bill to create a moving picture commission, to pass on all films shown in the state, license moving picture concerns at the rate of $2 per film and $1 for the duplication of a licensed film. The bill would fix the salary of the chairman of the commission at $2,500 a year and the other two commissioners at $2,000. A fund of $20,000 is called for to equip a plant to conduct tests of films. POST OFFICE GETS REQUESTS FOR JOBS Federal Employment Bureau Attains Popularity Almost Immediately. The government employment bureau of which the postoffice here is a branch, has already become popular, although only announced Thursday. Yesterday six persons made application for work to Postmaster Beck. The names were sent to Chicago. A number of application blanks were called for today. As yet there have been no applications for help. The employers are divided into two classes by the government, one being farmers and the other employers of general labor. The applicants for work expressed themselves as willing to go any place in the country to get jobs. Several said they would like to work on farms. All but one were young men, who said they have been unable to find employment around Richmond. SUES TO FORECLOSE. Suit was filed in circuit court by George H.' Miller to foreclose a chattel mortgage on George Graef of Dec. 23, 113 for $135.

MAYOR MAY-ASK HIGHER SALARIED' HEALTH OFFICER Believes Pay Should Enable Official to Devote Entire Time to Safe-Guarding the City.

WORKS BOARD LARGE Robbins and Bavis Suggest Change to Save $1,200 for Additional Health Bureau Funds. Mayor Robbins and PrMmt of the board of public works, are to ua oenaior Aicuonana and Representative Judkins. it la unrioT-Ktrwt tn make an effort to amend the bill pendins m me legislature requiring county health officers to devote their entire time to the duties of their offices so that it will also require health officers in the all the larger cities of the state to do likewise. Health officers in cities the size of Richmond now receive such small remuneration for their services that they are compelled to maintain their private practice to support themselves. Dr. S. G. Smelser, local health officer, receives a salary of only $500 a year and can give only a small part of hia time to his official duties, although the department at which he is at the head. Is Intrusted with the safe-guarding of the public health and supervision of municipal sanitation. Wants Salaries Raised. "In cities the size of Richmond and larger secretaries of municipal health boards have as much responsibilities as presidents of boards of public works, but the state stm stubbornly refuses to recognize this fact," Mayor Robbins asserts. "I think supervision of the public health and sanitation is Important enough to require health officers to devote their entire time to this work, and that the salaries provided for such offices should be sufficiently large to attract the best type of men to aspire to them." Persons who have Interested themselves In the effort to improve the system for supervision of public health and sanitation in cities are generally of the opinion that city health officers In third class cities, in which class Richmond Is included, should receive a salary not less than $1,800 a year nor more than $2,500. and be required to devote their entire time to their official work. 8a ve on Works Beard. There ia general dissatisfaction with the cities and towns law which requires three appointive members to constitute the board of public works in third clasB cities. It has been pointed out that the practical method for organizing a board of public works would be the appointment of only two members, the third member' of this body to be either the city clerk, engineer or controller, who would receive no additional compensation. By the elimination of one appointive board member the city would save $1,200 per annum, which could be applied to the salary of the city health officer. It has also been suggested that the city health officer could also be an employe of the school city, acting as medical examiner and receiving from the school city not less than $500 a year. "There isn't a minute of the day a health officer could not find something to do." Mr. Bavis says. -He has to see that the quarantine rules are properly enforced, he has to supervise the inspection of milk and meats, he has to see that the garbage is properly collated and disposed of and that the various laws and ordinances pertaining to the safe-guarding of the public health are propertly enforced. There are quite a few other things he could do. It is foolish to expect, however, under existing conditions, that the health officer can devote as mucn time to his office as is necessary." THE LITTLE PAPER ON NEWS STANDS The second issue of The Little Paper appeared today and will be handled by Walter C. Murray in connection with hia news agency. The paper will be found at all new stands, and can be secured from the boys who carry papers on Sunday morning over Mr. Murray's routes. LODGE GIVES WORK. Dr. A. J. Whallon was given first degree work in Whitewater lodge of Odd Fellows last night. j Weather Forecast

FOR INDIANA Cloudy and colder tonight. Probably snow flurries extreme north portion. Sunday fair. TemperatureNoon 29 Yesterday. Maximum 43 Minimum 34 LOCAL CONDITION'S Continued unsettled this afternoon and tonight. Few snow flurries. Colder tonight. Sunday tair. GENERAL CONDITIONS Center of storm that has influenced local weather conditions during the past 35 hours is now over Lake Huron moving northeast and will effect the entire eastern portion of the United States. High barometric pressure and fair weather is . approaching from the Rocky mountains and will cause clearing, weather abont Sunday night. Another storm ia moving Into the United States from the Pacific ocean and mill probably reach this section in a few days. W. E. MOORE, Forecaster.