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LOCAL DOCTORS FIGHT USE OF TWILIGHT SLEEP

CLAIM METHOD HURTS MOTHER OR HER CHILD Paper of Dr. J. C. Blossom on New Theory Adversely Criticised by County Medical Society. EXPERIMENT IS TRIED Physician Says Treatment in Child Birth Cases Used With Varied Success in "Richmond. In countless magazine and newspaper articles , In recent months, it has been proclaimed that the terror and agony of child birth have at last been eliminated by the so-called "Twilight Sleep" treatment for women at confinement. . But when Dr. J. C. Blossom of this city, read a paper at a meeting of the Wayne County Medical society last Wednesday, it was learned today, indorsing this treatment, he provoked a storm of criticism of "Twilight Sleep." Every physician who entered into the discussion of Dr. Blossom's paper declared that the administration of the treatment in question, a combination of two drugs, scopalamine and morphine, was fraught with danger to both mother and the child, particularly the latter. Believes in Nature. One physician declared, it is , under stood, that nature had provided best for the delivery of children and that the administration of drugs to the mother handicapped nature .in this function. It was generally agreed by the phy sicians who criticised Dr. Blossom's paper, if the scopalamine-morphine treatment were administered in a quantity sufficient to free the mother of all suffering, the effect upon the child was certain to be disastrous. Administration of the drug In less quantity, it was contended, failed to afford, the mother thL.dfiSlred relief.. "The mother, when the 'twilight sleep' treatment Is administered, is supposed to remain in complete control of all her faculties, but, at the same time, is relieved of all pain," said one physician today, who attended the Medical society meeting. Child Gets Morphine. "Under this treatment, the woman attains such a condition only after the administration of a considerable quan tity of the drug, the morphine of which, as a natural result, is assimilated by the child. "If the child is not born dead its respiratory center is sure to be affected. In other words, the child, if not still born, comes into the world nearly asphyxiated. I attribute what success has been attained with the twilight sleep treatment in the Urge institutions where it has been practiced, is due almost altogether to an expert method of producing artificial respiration in the child, something the ordinary practitioner is ignorant of." Tries Method. It is stated that Dr. Blossom in the paper he read before the medical society announced he had been administering the twilight sleep treatment In child birth cases with varied success. He said that in some instances the mother was not relieved from suffering, in other cases the agony was somewhat mitigated, and that in other instances the treatment had not produced satisfactory results. On the whole, he intimated that he favored the administration of this treatment, physicians who attended the meeting state. Dr. Blossom is a former president of the medical society. STEEL WORK FALLS; 1 KILLED, MANY HURT TOLEDO, April 10. One man was killed, two others were probably fatally injured and several other seriously injured when seven, stories of steel construction work collapsed at the Overland automobile factory here today. All the ambulances were called. The injured are all in hospitals. It is feared the list of dead may reach five or six. as some of those crushed are in a dying condition. No cause for the collapse is known. Weather Forecast) FOR INDIANA Rain this afternoon. Partly cloudy and cooler tonight. Sunday probably rain. Yesterday. Maximum 1 78 Minimum 46 For Richmond Unsettled and cold--er tonight. Sunday cloudy and rain. GENERAL. CONDITIONS The center of a general storm for the past tventy-four hours is crossing the great lakes attended with high winds and rains reaching cloudburst proportions in some places. Another storm . is central over the southwestern states and as it moves northeast weather will will be unsettled with rain. W. E. MOORE. Weather Forecaster.

BOOST IN RATE OF INTERURBAN TO BE PROBED County Commissioners in . May to Test Power of Public Utility Commission to Increase Rates.

DOUBTS AUTHORITY Claim Franchise in Wayne Prevents Road From Add ing to Rates Despite Ruling of State. A test case against the Terre Haute. Indianapolis & Eastern Traction company probably will ' be instituted by the county commissioners in May. to ascertain the power of the public utilities commission to make a ruling con trary to the provisions of the f ran chise granted the interurban company by this county. The ruling in. question is the increase in rates granted all interurban companies in Indiana to two cents a mile, effective May 1. This ruling will permit .'the interurban companies to charge higher rates to every, point in Wayne county west of Richmond. The county commissioners learned today from Attorney Hoelscher that the traction company is now charging the maximum rate allowed in its franchise. . The section relative to rates in the franchise granted at a special session May. 24, 1900, reads as follows: "The rate of fare to be charged on said railway not to exceed 2 cents per mile for one passenger for one continuous trip. Provided that the said grantees, their successors and assigns shall not be required to accept any fare less than five cents for one continuous trip. Provided further, that at the expiration of two years from the time said railway. J Qoraplfte4 and running its cars regularly, the said grantees, their successors and assigns, shall not charge more than on and two-thirds cents per mHe.-for each pas senger for one continuous trip, the minimum fare to be charge to be five cents." Reduce Rates In 1903. In 1903 the rates were reduced to one and two-thirds cents a mile, as the franchise provided, and have remained the same since. About six years ago, an attempt was made to add five cents to limited interurban fares, and a test case at that time resulted in the franchise being upheld. The commissioners on the car May 1, who will tender the conductor the regular far to Centerville, which is now ten cents. Centerville being six miles, the traction company under the new two-cent ruling, would make the fare twelve cents, commissioners said. Added Cost. Employes of the traction company said the new schedule of rates when put in force can not increase the fare to the farthest point in the county more than six cents in excess of the rate stipulated in the franchise. It will not be a question entirely of the charges if the case is brought to a test, but will Involve the extent of the authority of the public utilities commission and the legislature. The traction company is basing its action on the action of the utilities commission, which has its authority in the public utilities act of 1913, and more specifically in a law passed by the 1915 legislature giving it power to grant the two cent fare to interurban companies. Believe Board Wrong. As nothing is said in the public utilities commission ruling relative to counties where franchises stipulate rates, it is believed by the county commissioners that the courts will uphold them in demanding that the terms of the franchise be followed out. The rulings were general and in few counties were the rates stipulated in the franchise. After investigating today, the commissioners said that Henry will have no recourse, and probably no other counties on the lines of the traction company will be a position to fight the increase. If the contemplated case is brought to court, the ruling will be applicable only to Wayne county, and another point will be involved. This is whether the traction company can charge two cents a mile in Wayne county for continuous trips outside the county. COMMERCIAL CLUB AFTER JOHN BARRETT John Barrett, director of the PanAmerican Union may be a speaker in Richmond April 21 or 22 under the auspices of the Commercial club if the education committee decides favorable. Mr. Barrett was secured by Indiana university to speak before history students April 19 on questions relating to the unification of interests of North and South America but he refused to company for a single engagement. He will go to LaFayette April 20 and will be able to come to this city the fol lowing day. The education committee will meet tonight or Monday to. decide on bringing him to this city. He is said to be an authority on international business relations.

WOMAN FEIGNS LOSS OF MIND, DOCTORS CLAIM Gives Name and Address in West Virginia But Refuses to Tell About Family Connections.

NURSES MYSTIFIED Talks on Trivial Matters but Declines Discussion of Causes Leading to Predicament. In . refusing to reveal any further information concerning herself except her name which she gave as Mrs. Delia Harman and address as twelve miles in the country from New Martinsville. West Virginia, the woman who was taken from the Union station to the Reid Memorial hospital Wednesday morning in an apparently unconscious state of mind, deepens the mystery surrounding her case. All efforts on the part of Dr. Charles Marvel, attending physician, failed to enugnten hyn as to the cause of her conduct. Dr. Marvel and the nurses of the hospital who have her in charge and who have been trying rp persuade her to talk about herself, are mystified by her silence because an examination showed that she was in good health save for a tendency to oe nysterical. Breaks Her Silence. Dr. Marvel was convinced when he first called to aid her that she was not unconscious as she led the conductor and passengers of the train which brought her here from Columbus, to believe. Some hours elapsed before she broke the silence which she maintained at the hospital and then she made known only her wants for food. She does not hesitate to con verse with the physicians and nurses on unimportant subjects but has no information to volunteer regarding her predicament. The supposition is that she was attempting to get to Oklahomo where she has a brother living but her purse contained only a small amount of change. An inquiry sent to the brother brought a telegram in response saying that he would leave for Richmond, arriving, hr tomtitta ftusdar. Hs is expected to - clear up whatever mystery there is about bis sister. . Mrs. Harman is between thirty and thirty-five years old: a; -brunette- andr was dressed in plain and inexpensive Clothes. There is nothing in her appearance to suggest that she was other than an ordinary woman. MOOSE HONOR DEAD MEMBERS WITH SERVICES Charles Jordan to Deliver Address of Eulogy Over Lives and Deeds of Sixteen Members. The fifth annual memorial services of Wayne lodge, No. 167, Loyal Order of Moose, will be held in the auditorium of the high school building Sunday afternoon. Sixteen members of the lodge have died during the last five years, and the services will be held as a tribute to their memory. . They are Frank McClure, George Forkner, C. E. Wiley, Charles Sterrett, Joseph M. Jackson, Franklin Moore, Michael J. O'Neal, Charles L. Ladd, Fred W. Stafhorst, Dan P. Marble, Michael Nocton, Charles A. Sehi. Morton J. Stoops, W. A. Clark and John Carr. The program follows: Prelude Prof. Wood's orchestra. Opening Services Officers of Wayne lodge. Duet Miss Mabel Steinkamp, Mrs. Warren Lacey. Miss Mary Porter, accompanist. Invocation Rev. J. L. Hutchens. Solo Hugh .Foss. Miss Hageman, accompanist. Memorial Remarks C. W. Jordan. Selection Orchestra. Address Hon. Joseph B. Kelly. Duet Miss Mabel Steinkamp, Mrs. Warren Lacey. Benediction Rev. Hutchens. Postlude Orchestra. Officers of the lodge who will participate in the exercises are: Past dictators Charles Jordan, John H. Taylor, Alphons Weishaupt, John Darnell, Charles E. Potter and Alphons Kutter. Jaoob C. Rife, past dictator; Orla McLear, dictator; William B. Watson, vice dictator; Joseph A. Maddix, prelate; W. Howard Brooks, secretary; Albert E. Morel, treasurer; Charles F. Hunt, sergeant at arms; Jerry Jordan, inner guard; Alva E. Adams, outer guard. Lodge physicians. Dr. W. W. Zimmerman, Dr. E. H. Mendenhall and Dr. S. G. Smelser. Trustees Benjamin S. Price, Nathan P. White and H. L. Dickinson. POLICEMAN KILLS BANDIT IN CHICAGO CHICAGO. April 10. Policeman John L. Sullivan early today shot and killed a holdup man after a pistol duel. The bandit had just attempted to rob Anthony Sarmas, a restaurant cashier. In the pocket of the dead man was found a membership card of the Structural Iron Workers union, bearing the name of R. S. Rapp.

THE " , Sea 55 Beach hospital, at , V Rockaway beach : for . chlldren suffering from non-pulmonary tuberculosis ' is practically completed at a coat of $257,000, and It was "Smiling J" Marion's magnetic countenance, shown , In newspapers, magazines and circulars all over the : country that helped to raise most of the money. The same picture of "Smiling Joe" shown above was sent all over the country from coast to coast, and contributions speedily poured In. The bright, engaging, smiling face of the baby strapped to a board seemed to charm funds from the pockets of subscribers.

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FOR 6 MONTHS Roach Receives Permission to Take Leaders Corps to Dayton GymBoard Plans Financial Appeal. Recommendations of the physical committee of the board of directors of the Y. !. C. A. made last night included suggestions for next year's classes and authorized sending members of the Leader Group to Dayton tonight. The board voted to pay the expenses of the Leaders to Dayton where they will attend the senior gymnasium class. Physical Director A. M. Roach will accompany the corps. Senior gymnasium classes will be held on Tuesday and Saturday nights next year instead of on Tuesday and Friday nights. Employed officers were given permission to attend the meeting of employed association workers which will be held at Muncie next week. The following summer membership rates were decided on from May 15 to October 15: Seniors $4.50. Intermediate $3.25, Junior $2.25. No rates will be given for the Junior Preps and Social memberships. The board of directors, trustees and members of the finance committee will meet next Friday night at 5 o'clock, and again on Tuesday evening, April 20, to make final plans for the financial campaign which will be conducted on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, April 21, 22, 23. FIRE DESTROYS TOBACCO HOUSE LIVERPOOL, April 10. The Stanley Dock Tobacco warehouse, the biggest in the world, was swept by fire today. There Were sixty thousand casks of tobacco in the building when the fire broke out The flames spread rapidly, carried by a high wind, and a number of ships anchored nearby had to be moved out of the danger zone.

SURGEON GOFER COMES TO MAKE TUBERCULOSIS SURVEY OF WAYNE

Assistant Surgeon General Cofer of the United States Public Health Service will arrive in Richmond Monday to begin a tuberculosis survey of Wayne county. He makes the visit in response to a request from the public health committee of the Antituberculosis society. Dr. Cofer will be accompanied by Dr. Hurty,. secretary of the state board of health with whom he is staying in Indianapolis and several assistants who will make an investigation of , tuberculosis conditions in Wayne county. The investigation will be fol

VON CARLEZON DISOWNED BY FATHER; I WILL SHARE IN $100,000 PATRIMONY

FRENCH ABATE ATTACKS ON GERMAN LINE Heavy Losses Between Meuse and Moselle Rivers Inflict ed by Germans Cause Rest. DEFEAT BELGIANS Teutons Take Positions and Capture Allied Prisoners in Battle in West Flanders Region. BERLIN, April 10. Fighting be tween the Meuse and Moselle rivers continue with great violence. Between the Orne river and the heights of the Meuse French forces were defeated by teh Germans. Near Fllerey, ana at some other points in the Woevre region French attacks are less vigorous than formerly on account of the heavy losses inflicted by the Germans. The foregoing information was contained in an official statement of the war office. It continues: "Between the Orne river and the heights of the Meuse a severe defeat was administered to the French. All French attacks were repulsed on Combres heights, also north of St. Mihiel and on the Ailly-Apremont front as well as near Fliery, where In sonsequence of the heavy losses the attacks against our position have become less violent. Attacks of the enemy near Priestwald have been delivered but repulsed. In West Flanders we captured five Belgian officers, two hundred privates, two French officers, one hundred privates and several machine guns. Russian attacks east of Kalvaria were all repulsed with loss to the enemy. The situation on tne oaiance of the eastern front is without change.." The government has made representations to the United States through the American embassy asking that an investigation be made of the dishonor able treatment being accoraea uerman prisoners taken from submarines. FRENCH MASS AHMY. PARIS. April 10. The largest French army that has yet been concentrated at any given point on the battle front is massed in the Argonne forest and the Wovere district, where, despite extremely heavy loses, tne French are driving against the German Dositions in repeated assaults. There onslaughts, which are being carried out under the personal direction of General Joffre. are an effort to cut off the German forces at St. Mihiel. The capture of Eparges, about ten miles southeast of Verdum, by French forces is the hardest blow yet struck at the St. Mihiel-Metz line of communication. The German losses in the last two days are estimated at three thousand men. The spring "offense movement" of the allies is at last under way. DRILLS BUILT HERE FILL WAR ORDERS Firm Supplied by National Automatic Gets Million Dollar Contract. Richmond-made machines are turning out horseshoes for the Allies in the European war day and night. The machines are the product of the National Automatic Tool company, The Automatic Tool company is turn ine them out rapidly as possible to supply the demand of the Phoenix Horseshoe company of Joliet, 111., which has a million dollar contract to fill. The. Joliet company started work on its contract six weeks ago and doubled its shift to turn out horseshoes. The machines are being driven day and night and the tear of constant use is wearing out many parts. As rapidly as it can turn these extra parts out, the local tool company is sending them to the horseshoe company in Illinois. DENIES PEACE MOVE. ROME, April 10. The Observatore Romano, official organ of the Vatican, denies that Austria has asked the good offices of the Holy See to obtain proposals from Russia. lowed by recommendations designed to reduce the cause of the disease and prevent further spread where it is now prevalent. The public will be afforded the opportunity to meet Dr. Cofer at an informal reception to be held at 8 o'clock Monday night in the high school art gallery. It is hoped that a number of citizens outside of the members of various clubs, will avail themselves of the' opportunity to know Dr. Cofer and by their presence endorse and encourage the movement to stamp out tuberculosis In Wayne county.

Son of Swedish Nobleman Maimed by Accidental Shot Frca

Gun in Father's Hands and

Rights of Eldest Son, Escapes From University to United States and Works as Landscape Gardener Comes; to Richmond and Hears of Death of Father.

DISSIPATES $25,000

Father Stops Allowance and Von Carlezon Drops Correspondence With Home Hears From Native Land Ltst Christmas for First Time in Ten Years Dreads Returning to Native Land Fearing Social Ostracism for Wife Has

No Pangs of Regret at Chances of Advancement Pawed By.

A life with tragic beginning war stretches northward from the conflict. If this happens,

Twelfth street, a landscape gardener, will have reason to become

more bitter towards life. Mr. von Carlezon received his father, Freiheier George L.

the Swedish army, retired, whose death evidently took place in March or April, 1914. George von Carlezon, Jr., of this city, now fifty-two years old, is the eldest of three sons, but will share the estate with his brothers.

LODGE CONFERS WORK IN CLASS OF 65 PERSONS Knights of Columbus Announce List of Candidates for Eighth Initiation of Richmond Chapter. NOTED MEN COMING Teams From Cincinnati, Fort Wayne and Richmond Will Exemplify Three Degrees of Fraternity. The Eighth initiation of the Rich mond council No. 580, Knights of Columbus, will attract to Richmond tomorrow members of the fraternity from many cities, when degrees will be conferred upon a class of sixty-five candidates. Degree teams from Cincinnati, Fort Wayne and Richmond will participate in the exemplification of the work which will be given at the Odd Fellows hall in the afternoon. Visiting women will be entertained by Richmond women with a reception. Automobiles will be provided to take them on sight-seeing excursions over the city. Noted Men Come. Many men prominent in official circles of the lodge will speak during the day. Among them are: P. J. Lynch. New Castle; Pichard P. Crane. Cincinnati; William Buckeridge, New Castle; Charles Niezer. Fort Wayne; L. P. McTigue and John O'Hara of Indianapolis. Joseph Traub and Miss Madge Landers, both of Muncie. will present a musical number at the banquet In the K. of P. hall Sunday evening. The class of candidates is composed of the following: Richmond Edward G. Balling. Walter J. Boyce. William Brennan. John F. Burke. Elmer J. Carroll, Walter G. Cronin, Dr. Fred L. Darrow, William Ellis, John Ellis. Jr., Robert F. Fitzgibbons. James N. Fitzgibbons. Charles T. Gallagher. Russell W. Gustin. Edward J. Hart, James L. Kinsella, Frank J. Kahle. Henry M. Knauber, Frank Klemann. Frank Lichtenfels, Frank McCoy, Cecil Maibacb, Bernard Massman, Jerome J. Maley, Raymond Manier. Everett Mitchell. Michael Nocton. Raymond Noland. A. P. Otten. Joseph B. Pardieck. John Pender, Lawrence H. Pfeiffer. Joseph P. Quigley. Martin J. Regan. Martin A. Ryan, Robert J. Ryan, Francis X. Stenger, Clarence Zeyen, Raymond C. Zwissler. New Castle Robert E. Boykin. Francis M. Deery, James F. Gallagher, William Gray, August Harder, Frank A. Harder, Ray Hellmar, Stephen Hige, James A. Hiedelberg. John Hilderbrand, Mike Kline, Henry Kerrigan, John Lennon. Roland McGrady, William Morgan, Frank Schelsky, Edward F. Theis, T. J. Witt, William Wallace, Nicholas A. Weisse, Joseph Weltz. Muncie Henry Barnes, Osborn Grundy, Eugene Murphy, Bernard O'Donnell, John Richard Parker, Charles Sheridan. DISTRIBUTES $250,000 INDIANAPOLIS, April 10. With the running of the next 500-mile race the Indianapolis motor speedway will have distributed $250,000 among the various entrants who have competed in its events since the beginning of the institution. In 1909 and 1910, the first two years of the track's existence, over $25,000 was distributed in prize money for minor events. In 1911, the first 500-mile race was held for $25,000: In 1912 the purse was raised to $50,000, where it has remained ever since.

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IN RIOTOUS LIVIIIG may have a happy ending unless Germany and draws Sweden into George L. von Carlezon, 18 North

word December 24, of the death of von Carlezon, overste lieutenant in

The most tragic part of Mr. von Carlezon's life happened when he was eight or nine years old. His father was entertaining a party of Sweden's highest noblemen on his country es tate a few miles from Stockholm. -Shot by Own Father. One morning the party started out on a fox hunt and the eldest son. George, was left at home with his tu tor. Imbued with the desire for the chase, he succeeded in getting away from the house into the rough fox country surrounding it. "I was digging under a big rock for a ground hog," Mr. von Carlezon said. "I was down close to the ground when the party of fox hunters spied me. From that distance, they could not tell that it was not game they were looking at and I was shot by my own daddy." Mr. von Carlezon explained that the people of this country cannot under stand what grief could happen from such an accident If a deformity re sulted. Destined for Ministry. "I am from a family of fighters. Our ambition was to be high in the Swedish army. The shot from my fath er's gun left my left side slightly crooked and although it was hardly noticeable, I learned that I would never be able to join the army and fulfill the ambitions of myself and of my parents. "My family wanted me to become a minister, but I concluded that I would spend my life on the estate working. I went to the university at Upsala and in addition to my other studies. I took up nursery work and forestry. I had studied the English language and could speak It fluently with the ac cent used In England. : "With my family continuing In their efforts to have me in the ministry, which is no mean position in Sweden. I decided to leave. By stealth I left the university, secured a ticket to New York and reached there in May, 18SL Ordered Back Home. "I was then nearing my nineteenth birthday. I wrote to my parents and informed them that I had come to New lore, in a snort time I received a ticket and money and a firm demand from my father that I return to nly home at once. I was too self-willed and stubborn to give up my plans and I found a job In green house work. "Every month I received a draft from home. I continued to work and earn a little money that way and developed some Inclinations which, later worked evil for me. I never drank. If I had I probably would have gone to the penitentiary. "In 1SS3 my father placed $25,000 on deposit in a bank for me to start business on. since they saw it was useless to continue their persuasions.1' I 'blew' the money In In seven months under circumstances I do not like to talk about now. Allowance Stopped. "After that my monthly allowances stopped and I struck out for myself at the age or twenty-one. I was never made for manual labor, according to traditions of my family, but I liked the nursery work and continued with it. "I am fifty-two years old and I have been away from Sweden too long now to feel the pangs of regret at leaving what I could have had. but in my youth I often threw myself dvwn and cried like a baby. But I was too stub(Continued on Page Two.) GALLERY VISITORS VOTE ON CANVAS Much interest is being shown by patrons of local artists who have paint ings in the "Made-in-Richmond" exhibit at the high school gallery, in the awarding of the prize for the most popular painting. - A ballot box has been placed in the gallery, and each visitor is requested to cast a vote for the painting which in his or her estimation is the best" to the exhibition. The painting receiv ing the largest number of votes will be given the first prize. .:. Officials of the Art association any that while this will not mean that the best painting from a technical stand point will be chosen, it will undoubt edly show which painting is the most popular with the people who attend the exhibit. i -

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