Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 115, 26 March 1915 — Page 1

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WOU TAKES $50 AT HOUSE OF FRIENDLESS

Mrs. May Durydea Refuses to Return From Columbus, O., Without Requisition Papers Filed. TOOK RIG IN FALL Dayton Police Captured Female Horse Thief Who Drove Animal Belonging to William Marsh. Mrs. May Durydea, the only woman ever arrested in Wayne county - for horse stealing, has failed to take ad vantage of the leniency shown her by Judge Fox and Prosecutor Reller, who had hoped to accomplish her reformatlon by dismissing the charge of grand larceny which had been prefered against her. Last night Mrs. Durydea, alias May Webster, with her child departed for Columbus, O., taking along, about $50 belonging to Mrs. Aurelia Thomas, matron of the Home for Friendless Women, who had been her best friend, giving her employment at the Home and aiding her in many ways to better her condition. Takes Hidden $50. Some time yesterday afternoon or last evening the Durydea woman went to Mrs. Thomas' room and opening a trunk secured about f 50 Mrs. Thomas had placed there. About 6:30 in the evening Mrs. Durydea told Mrs. Thomas that she was going to take her child up town and attend picture shows. About 9:30 Mrs. Thomas discovered that her money had been taken from the trunk and she at once suspected Mrs. Durydea, who had not yet returned to the Home. The police were notified and they finally ascertained that a woman answering Mrs. Durydea's description and accompanied by a child had purchased tickets at the Pennsylvania station for Columbus, " O. The Columbus police were at once notified and upon her arrival in that city was taken Into custody. Refuses to Return. Today the Durydea woman refused to return to Richmond without requisition papers being served upon her. Prosecutor Reller at once made arrangements to secure ia requisition, which Sheriff Steen will serve 00 her at Columbus as soon as possible. ' Last fall while employed as a housekeeper by William M. Marsh, a farmer living near the cfty," Mrs-TWrydee, or May Webster as she was then known, took a horse and buggy belonging to him and with her child took French leave. Mrs. Durydea . and the stolen outfit were located near Dayton, O., and she was returned to this city. It was the opinion of Judge Fox and Prosecutor Reller that the woman, if given a little encouragement, would reform so the charge against her was withdrawn. ALLIES RENEW BELCHING FIRE ON TURK FORTS Dardanelles Fortifications Return Shots in Greal Duel 26,000 French to Attack Smyrna. BY HERBERT TEMPLE, European Manager of International News 8ervlce. LONDON. March 26. Another great duel between the Anglo-French fleet and the Turkish forts on the Darda nelles has opened, says dispatches reselved here from Athens today. The gale which for several days prevented operations by the main forces of the allies has completely ceased and it is believed that the supreme effort to smash the Turkish fortifications at the Narrows of the Darda nelles is In full swing. A Tenedos dispatch sent via Paris brings a report that 26,000 French troops have been landed on the coast of Asia Minor to attack Smyrna from the land side. These troops are believed to be part of the expedition commanded by General d'Amade. The latest attack upon the Dardanelles is said to have opened at 5 a'clock yesterday afternoon. One of the dispatches from Athens states that two battleships entered the Straits at that hour and bombarded Fort Kil-Ed-Bahr until darkness fell, then withdrawing and returning to the attack sarly today with several other warships. 0 The fire of the warships met an anergetic response from the forts and from the Krupp guns mounted on Erenkoi heights. The warships which entered the litraits yesterday were accompanied by 1)0 mine sweepers. There remained in :he Dardanelles during the night. REPAIR OLD BRIDGE One of the oldest and strongest 1 bridges in Wayne county will be repaired with a new roof and otherwise repaired by Highway Superintendent I'ones, he said today. It is the old National road bridge 'fist of Germantown. The bridge has een standing since the civil war and Is today better than many of the Inodern ones. A ten-ton road roller las crossed It repeatedly without fear if accident, wfeile It is forced to go Ground some of (he newer bridges. I

Russian Colonel of Army Tasting Food Served to Men

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A curious old custom In the Russian army and navy Is that the officer of the day must taste and test the food served to the soldiers and sailors at every mess. The photograph shows a colonel of commissary In the Russian army tasting of the mid-day meal served to the troops before Przemysl.

PENNY ANNOUNCES SECTION WORKERS President Penny of the Merchants' Section has announced his committees for tue coming year. The advisory committee, corresponding to an executive committee will be composed of Fred Kennedy, Edgar F. Hiatt, Philip Birck, O. P. Nusbaum, M. J. Quigley, J. F. Hasemeier, Lon Kennedy'. The committee on rating and collection will consist of J. F. Hasemeier, C. W. Jordan and H. Goldfinger. The sanction committee is a secret body. The ; entertainment committee :- will consist of. Charles Igelman, Howard Schneider and William Rlndt. The date for the April meeting has not been fixed. Y, Tl I, BOOSTS RICHMOND FOR NEXT MEETING Local Council Will Invite . Supreme Convention of Fraternity to Assemble in City in 1916. A special car will take local members of the Y. M. I. to Indianapolis to connect with a special Y. M. I. train to Louisville in August, where . the Oonzaga council will try to swing the 1916 supreme convention to Richmond, it was decided at the Y. M. I. meeting. The organization also revised plans for the minstrels and there will ; be fifty in the circle and twenty-five additional chorus members on the stags in addition to the quartets and acts in the olio. A resolution was passed thanking advertisers in the Y. M. I. program and voting to patronize the advertisers. A record will be kept for six months following the minstrel to ascertain if the advertisers derived benefits from the advertisements. The program will be a big feature. It now contains twenty pages, including the cover page, and is practically ready for the printers. It will not be printed, however, until it is decided whether two more pages will be added for Y. M. I. history. ' The Ladies' Auxiliary took the same action on the program Tuesday night. Joseph Walterman and F. B. Taube were elected delegates to the supreme convention. It is expected that between fifty and . seventy-five local members will make the Louisville trip. The convention includes all Y. M. I. councils east of the Mississippi river. The official : delegates number about 250 and the other members in attendunce usually number twice that many. In order to make the prospects better and to advertise Richmond as a convention city, a Richmond reception room will be opened in ' the convention center of Louisville and all delegations will be asked to make use of the room. i 1 Weather Forecast FOR INDIANA Fair tonight. Colder west and south portion. Saturday fair; continued cold. TemperatureNoon 31 Yesterday. Maximum ... Minimum ... .....47 36 FOR RICHMOND Fair and , con tinued cold tonight and Saturday. De cidedly below freezing tonight. GENERAL CONDITIONS The Canadian cold wave moves rapidly southeastward and is one of great size. It now effects the entire United States except the far west. Zero weather in the northern states. A storm of great size covers the Rocky mountain, plateau and will probably reach this sec tion in a few days. W. E.- Moore, Weather Forecaster..

GILES PLACES ESTIMATE OF $10 FOR EACH DAY AS APPROXIMATE VALUE OF WORK IN HIGH SCHOOL

Education Is worth an average of $10 a day after graduation. This fact is shown on a circular posted on the high school bulletin board by Superintendent Giles. " ' The circular ' is headed, . "For the Consideration of Our Friends, the Boys," and shows that the average yearly income of an educated man is $1,000 a year, and that of an uneducated man is only $450 a year. In forty years the earnings of the, former would be $40,000, and of the latter $18,000, or a different of $22,000. To obtain an education in - high school requires rtwelv- years" of ; nine' months' each, or 2.160 days; $22,000 divided by 2,160, is equal to $10, which can be GERMAN CRAFT SINKS DELMIRA LONDON, March 26. Within four hours after admiralty officials had declared Germany's ' submarine losses would result in an abandonment of the underwater warfare on English shipping, news reached here today of the destruction of another British ship in th 3 British channel. The latest victim was the British steamer Delmira, a vessel of 2,211 tons. She was torpedoed and sunk in the English channel yesterday afternoon. All the members of the crew were saved and landed at Portsmouth today. They had . no complaint, to make as to the treatment given them by the Germans. .The sailors of the . Delmira were given fifteen minutes to leave their vessel.- They took to their boats and these were towed by the submarine until another ship was sighted. This latter was too near Portsmouth for the Germans to attack. The sailors rowed to the vessel and were taken into Portsmouth today. CLUB WILL ADVISE ON PENSION PLANS Commercial - Body, Studies Objections to arid Merits of New Law. . The advisability of adopting a teacher'spension system for Richmond and Wayne county will be studied by the education committee of the Commercial club in the next few weeks and the investigation probably will result in recommendations to . the school board and county board of education. . The teachers' pension bill as it was presented to legislature did not meet the entire approval of local parties. The objections will be thrashed out and if they are overcome by the good points, the committee will recommend that the school boards of the county and city take a vote on the adoption of the system. It will have to go to the teachers for a majority vote before adoption and after that it will be optional with; the individual teachers. MRS. BARTEL SINGS AT LENTEN WORSHIP At the First English Lutheran church tonight, the special Lenten service , will be addressed by the pastor, the Rev. E. G. Howard, on the subject, : "Odor of Ointment or the Pervading Beauty of Self-Sacrificing Service." Mrs. F. J. Bartel will also sing and an offering will be received for the needy of the. congregation and community. The service is open to all-

taken as the approximate value of each day's schooling. The advantage of staying in school until 18 years old is shown in a table showing the weekly wage of the boy who leaves school at 14, and the boy who stays through high school, and graduates at the age of 18. The ta ble follows: Leaves at 14. Age. Leaves at IS $ 4.00... ......... 14 In school $ 5.00 ....16 In school $ 7.00 .....18 ........ ...$10.00 f 9.00 ............ 20 ' . . . ... $15.00 $11.00 ..22 ..... $20.00 $12.00 . . ... ....... 24 $24.00 $13.00. .......... .25 ...... . .$30.00 ' IVt?an- be -Been from tBlsthat-tbe- in creased value of the annual income at (Continued on Page Seven) TROOPS BATTLE FOR FOUR DAYS BERLIN, March 26. The battle of Hartmanns Weilerkopf which has now been going on for four days is still un decided. The French have made many attempts to capture this German po sition but have thus far been unsuc cessful. The general staff report states that fighting is still going on. French troops have also renewed their attacks on the heights of the Meuse but have been repulsed. In the eastern theatre of war the Russians are attempting to force their way to Augustowo on the narrow strip of land between the lakes in that region but their attacks have- been repulsed. COUNTY TO CONSIDER TRUCK FOR HIGHWAY . A meeting of the . county commis sioners to consider the purchase of an automobile truck for county road work has been called for Saturday morning. The question was dropped last Saturday when the two members in fa vor were unable to swing the third member and cause a solid vote in fa vor of the purchase. It is expected that plane for the flooring af the bridge between Milton and Cambridge City will be adopted and negotiations will again be opened with the . traction company to pay its share of the improvement. CITY RENEWS FIGHT FOR LOW INSURANCE In an effort to force the state insurance bureau to act in Richmond"! favor - in giving the promised ; lower rating, the newly appointed Insurance committee, of the Commercial club. headed by George Eggemeyer, chair man of last year's committee, is preparing a complete - statement of the activities in Richmond in the past several years for better insurance rates. It has been estimated that several hundred thousand dollars have been spent since the insurance bureau made certain recommendations in 1908. The bureau has since amended its requirements and made more severe demands, which the local committee re gards partly as an attempt ' to delay the promised action. FIND MORE DEAD MUNCIE, Ind., March 26. Three more charred bodies, making a total of six, were taken from' the Delaware county Infirmary ruins by workmen thie morning.. It is expected that at least four more will be found in the debrlh

GLUD PREPARES YEAR'S ACTIVITY IN COmiTTEES Good, Rosda Advocates Start Plans for General Fourth of July Celebration All Over Country.

HAAS OUTLINES WORK Branches of Commercial Body Resume Constructive Work After Annual Reorganization. Legislation effecting, the plant of local civic Improvement organizations In efforts to secure cluster lights tor Main street will be taken up for study by . the -Commercial club public improvements committee next week. It Is understood the lights must be installed by the board of works If a majority of the resident property owners petition for them. Secretary Haas said. The cost, according to the local interpretation of the law, would be assessed at the rate of fifty per cent of installation costs to the property owners and fifty per cent to the city and a like plan for maintenance. Takes Up Harold Plan. The. good roads committee expects in the near future to take up the plans advocated by Dr. I. S. Harold for a county good roads organization to take up the plans advocated byJDr. I. S. Harold for a county good roads or ganization to bring together good roads advocates of the county In a general Fourth of July celebration. . In this plan is also Included a plan to make the organization a national affair by counties touching national old trails from the east coast to the west. Secretary Haas will call the public health committee together soon to take up plans for fly swatting this spring. A campaign will be started early in April to kill all flies and prevent the rapid multiplication later. The committee will also co-operate with the county tuberculosis hospital committee. Start May Cleaning. May yard cleaning plans advanced by the Aftermath will be taken up by the public welfare committee as soon as, it organizes. JThis Committee will assist in carrying out the cleaning day proposition and in working out the summer garden .Plane. . . Th nuhlioltv omtnitti nt th 1iiV bas not organized but will have boosters' trips in charge later. The committee will take up the work of pre paring for the entertainment of the state conference of Charities and Cor rection October 30 and 31 and November 1 and 2. Since the' merchants have shown no desire to have a fall festival this year, the committee probably will devote its efforts entirely to planning for the Richmond centennial in 1916. MUSIC TO FEATURE BAPTIST EXERCISE Rev. W. O. Stovall Plans Home-Coming on Third Anniversary of Service. Home coming day will be celebrated Sunday at the First Baptist church, the anniversary of the third year of Rev. W. O. Stovall as pastor. Rev. Mr. Stovall has been ill this week and is uncertain whether he will preach. Arrangements probably will be made tomorrow. A large attendance Is expected as the Sunday meeting proceeds a two week's revival. Special music will be furnished un der the direction of A. D. Cobb, choir leader. Committees are arranging other special features of the meeting. Monday night, the meeting will be lead JJy Rev. Milo S. Hinkle of the East Main Street Friends church. Tuesday, Rev. W. R. Motley of the Central Christian church, will conduct the services. Rev. I. C. Overman, revivalist, will arrive here Wednesday to take charge of the remainder of the series. He will hold nightly meetings uptil the series 1b completed, closing April 11. DROPS 14 BOMBS PETROGRAD, March 26. A Ger man Zeppelin attacked the Lomza fortification on the Narew river yes terday, the war office announced to day. Fourteen bombs were dropped from the dirigible. Wine civilians were wounded. . CITY PLANT TO USE UNION STATIONARY The Labor Herald has the following to say on Light plant stationery: "The article relating to the use of scab envelopes by the Municipal Light plant, appearing in last week's issue of the Labor Herald, has had its desired effect. Superintendent Kleinknecht claimed ignorance on his part relative to the fairness of the firm manufacturing the envelopes, and said that he bad always been in favor of unionism, and would discontinue the use of these envelopes as soon as those that he had on hand were used, up, and they would only last a few days. He also said that he wanted to apologize to the printers of - the city, and hereafter there would be no stationery used by his department that did not bear the union tebeL"

CLASS TARES EXAM

The catechumens of the First English Lutheran church were examined Itat night by the Rev. B. O. Howard. Twelve of the class took the examination, while two were kept away by sickness. An oral examination was given, covering tbe work of the last two years, and the pupils gars satisfactory answers to all questions. Many relatives and friends of the candidates attended the examination, which lasted about an hour. IRONS GRAPPLE TO SAVE GREW OFF HONOLULU Rescue fleet Works Frantic ally in Hope of Saving Twenty-five Men Aboard Submarine F-4. U. S. FEARS LOSS Boat's Performance During Trials Leads Rescuers to Hope for Recovery of Sail ore Alive. HONOLULU. March 26. Hope that the American submarine F-4. which sank off Honolulu yesterday might be brought to the surface and her crew of twenty-five men saved from death was revived early today when the gov ernment tug Navajo reported that it bad hooked the submarine with its grappling irons. The other ships in the little fleet trying to save the sub marine, hastened to assist in pulling the F-4 to the surface. " The work last night was carried on under the glare of searchlights. Twice during the night the grappling irons touched the F-4, which lay 720 .feet below the surface, but each time they slipped off from her Iron shell with out catching In the large iron rings imbedded in the hull for that purpose. Fear First Loss. When it became apparenta that ef forts to flush the submarine had been unsuccessful fears were entertained for the safety of the crew, and it was (Continued on Page Seven.) - BAVIS DIRECTS CITY RATE CASE At a meeting of the members of the committee appointed by Mayor Robbins to conduct the city's case in the electric rate-making proceedings before the Indiana Public Utilities commission, held at the city building last night, Alfred Bavis, president of the board of public works, was elected chairman and Charles W. Jordan was elected secretary. The other members are Pettis A. Reid, William Fahlsing, W. K. Bradbury and Lawrence Handley, with Mr. McMinn and Mr. Marlatt of the board serving as ex-officio members. "Besides organizing the committee instructed Superintendent Kleinknecht of the municipal plant to sumbit to the committee all . necessary data so the committee can proceed intelligently in preparing the city's case," Chairman Bavis said today. "A tentative program of action was outlined but it would be manifestly unfair to the plant If the committee made public what lines it intended to proceed along." CLERKS JOIN UNION IN LARGE NUMBERS The membership campaign of the Retail Clerks' association which was inaugurated last Wednesday, is proving very successful.' and many new members have joined the organization. Four teams are at work, and each team has been successful in securing members. The city has been divided into districts, and all retail clerks will be solicited. To make the campaign more interesting, a special, dispensation has been secured, allowing the local to reduce the initiation fee for a period of thirty days. The initiation fee with the first month's dues will be $1.40 for women, and 1.60 for men. At the close of the membership campaign, a banquet and dance will be held for all clerks in town, whether they belong to the association or not. H. J Conway of Lafayette, Ind., who is president of the National Association of" Retail Clerks, will make the address of the evening. TAKES FLAT BULLET FROM GULLY'S THIGH Removal of the bullet imbedded in Patrolman Cully's leg when he. was fired on by Nathan Hilling, wife murderer and suicide, required almost an hour. The ball was flattened and imbedded in the muscle of Mr. Cully's thigh making it almost Impossible for the -probing physicians to locate it Eight stitches were required to close the wound. Mr. Cully who is at Reid Memorial hospital spent a restless night following the operation yesterday afternoon. Mr. Cully was wounded when he entered a barn in West Richmond searching for the fugitive murderer.

OTOR FAVORS FUND TO PUSH CITY BIRTHDAY

Robbins Will Reconuaesd Appropriation to Defray Expenses of Centennial for Richmond. WANTS COMMISSION Committees May Go to Work ' at Once Arranging Details of Elaborate Program for 1916. Mayor Robbins announced today that at council meeting Monday, April 5, he would recommend to that body to place itself on record as being favorable to a plan to hare the centennial anniversary of the founding of Richmond appropriately observed next year, under the auspices of the city government. 1 He said he would suggest to council that it give him the authority to appoint an executive committee of representative citizens, both men and women, and city officials, this committee having authority to make arrangements for the celebration of the important event, and to appoint various sub-committees to work out detailed features of the celebration. Should Observe Day. "Richmond is the best city of its size in the United States and its one hundredth birthday should not pass by without some fitting observance of the event," Mayor Robbins said. "It will not be difficult to plan and carry out a very satisfactory celebration program at no great expense, and such a celebration would be a splendid advertisement for Richmond. I am sure all of our citizens will enthusiastically endorse the contemplated celebration and I know they will do anything in their power to make it a complete success.; Mayor Robbins said that Inasmuch as the proposed celebration is completely civic in its nature it should be carried out under the auspices of the city government, under the direction of an official centennial commission. To further emphasize the official character of the proposed event the mayor also favors incorporating into the 1916 budget, which -will -be made out next September, an appropriation of a few hundred dollars as the nucleus of the centennial fund, the remainder to be raised by popular subscription in the same manner as Fan Festival funds have been subscribed in the past ' He thinks the celebration should extend over a period of one week, some time during the summer or fall of 1916. - "Wants Action at Once. "I think the centennial commission should be appointed as soon as possible," the mayor said, "so that the members can begin work on the preliminary arrangements without loss of time and having all these details disposed of by the first of next year. "That will give the commission and Its sub-committees plenty of time to carry out the plans formulated this year." Superintendent Giles of the city schools has given the proposed centennial celebration his hearty indorsement and has assured the co-operation of the school authorities in the work. Various civic organizations, lodges and women's clubs are also lining up back of the project. CLUB INTERESTS MEN IN TRACTION BRANCH New York Capital May Extend Line to Richmond From North. There is a strong feeling among members of the committee on electric railroads that Rlchmand may be entered from the north by a traction Un, plans for which will be started not later than June. The committee has been named for only a short time but C. W. Jordan, chairman, is at work on some information which he handled a year ago as secretary of the Commercial club. This Is regarding the sale of the Fort Wayne, Springfield and Decatur Traction lines at auction, including the gradings for a spur to Portland. It is understood New York capital will buy the line in May and is already negotiating for the construction of the Portland line and is figuring on pushing down to Union City and other points. The club worked on the matter a year ago but the receiver's sale was delayed and action was stopped locally. Other details of the new plan are kept secret until further correspond-' ence is had with the New York traction capitalists. Another committee which wiii start activities at once is the new industries committee. In the next few days. Secretary Haas will turn over to Chairman Leeds ten factory propositions which the club will Investigate with the idea of bringing the new in dustrles to this city. HEARS ARGUMENTS IN WOLFORD CASE Arguments in the suit of Charles '' Wolford against the T. H., I. and E. Traction company were beard by the -jury in circuit court today after evidence was taken for three days. Each side was given two hours. . The jury is expected to receive the ease between 5 and 6 o'clock this afternoon. The amount of damage atM la

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