Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 133, 16 April 1915 — Page 1

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TO TAKE PRETTY THINGS AFTER VISITS TO STORE Mrs. Fairy Neher, Employe of Grand Leader Who Received $5 Weekly Wage, Implicates Ben Pomeranz, Floorwalker, Who She Alleges Gave Her Crepe de Chine Dress After She Met Him at Business House Night of April 1 2. GIRL GETS $25 FINE AND TERM IN JAIL Mayor Releases Pomeranz on $300 Bond When He Pleads Not Guilty to Larceny Charge Girl Describes Futile Effort to Live and Dress on Meager Stipend and Tells of Aid Received from Three Attentive Men.

Mr. Fafry Neher, 26, a pretty girl of the decidedly blonde type, a daughter of a New Carlisle (Ohio) minister, the Rev. Harrle C. Funderberg, pleaded guilty this morning to a charge of petit larceny and was fined $25 and costs and sentenced to serve a term of thirty days in the woman's jail. . Upon the completion of her sentence she has promised to make her home with her parents, who are heartbroken over their daughter's disgrace. Mrs. Neher has been employed as a clerk at the Grand Leader department store, this city, for the last nine week, her wages being $5 a week. During that time she stole various articles of wearing apparel of a total value of $218. Ben Pomeranz, a floor walker at the- '

:rand Leader, was also arraigned ini city court this morning on a charge of oetit larceny, the young woman having implicated him in connection with oome of ber thefts. Pomeranz entered a plea of not guilty, and was released on a bond of $300. wired here by bis father, A. .Pomeranz, South Bend, Ind. The story told to the police by Mrs. Neher, whose husband, Louis M. Neher deserted her three weeks ago, according to her statement, is the old one of a young woman coming to a city from a small country town, trying to exist on less tl in living wages following domestic troubles and of falling in with bad companions. She frankly confessed to Patrolman Vogelsong, who arrested her, that recently she had been guilty of immoral conduct, but Bhe excused her misconduct by saying that the two or three men who had been attentive to her aided her in her struggle for existence. Finally Relates Story. The police were not satisfied with the first statement made by the young woman yesterday, after her arrest, that no one had assisted her in her larcenous operations at the Grand Leader. She had said that all the articles she had taken had been carried out of the store in her stockings. As some of the stolen goods were dresses the police doubted this assertion. After she had been closely questioned for a second time yesterday afternoon, the girl finally remarked, "Well, I might as well tell the whole truth." It was then that she Implicated young Pomeranz in some of her thefts. Particularly she charged that on the night of April 12, after she had gone to the store with him, he had given her a crepe de chine dress, the property of the Grand Leader, of a value of f 10.50. For this alleged offense both Mrs. NeIver and Pomeranz were arraigned before Mayor Robbins this morning. Told to "Help Herself." Mrs. Neher further asserted that as soon as she began to work for the de partment store Pomeranz became persistent in his attentions to her. Not until quite recently, ghe stated, did she encourage his advances. Then she informed the police, she went with him to the store several evenings, after business had closed, and each time before leaving he had told her to "help herself." to some article of the stock. She said she also started to keep company with two other men who had been attentive to her. "A girl can not live on the wages I received," she remarked to a newspaper man this morning before being taken to the woman's jail. "I paid $2 a week for my room. That le': me $3 for my board, my clothing, my amusements and other incidentals, and you know it costs practically $3 a week for your board, if you do not want to go around half-starved all the time." Yesterday the young woman confessed that she was passionately fond of pretty clothing, and said she wanted to dress as nicely as her girl friends. Mr. Neher's father returned home yesterday afternoon. Before leaving he said he was -satisfied to let the- law take its course in regard to his daughter. "Perhaps her punishment will do her some good and impressed upon her the error of her ways," the New Carlisle minister added. He informed prosecutor Reller that he would gladly take his daughter home with him to live as soon as her term in jail had expired. He had believed that his daughter was living happily with her husband In Richmond. When he learned that she was no longer living with her h -..abend and that she had "gone bad" he was almost crushed.

CHURCH ERACES A. C. UNDERHILL FROM REGISTER

A. C. Underbill,, who is under an ap pealed sentence to the county jail for assault, has withdrawn from the Sec ond Presbyterian church at the request of the session, it was learned today. Mr. Underhill has been a member of the church for eighteen years. He joined under Stanley Hughes shortly after the church was organized. In that time he has been before the session twice prior to this week. Mr. Underhill was asked to withdraw and thus avoid the publicity which would be caused by a church trial. After learning of the futility of swinging members of the congregation and session in his favor, he signed a statement asking that his name be erased from the church roll. The statement will be read in church Sunday. Mr. Underhill was called before the session in March, 1913 when he was taken into police court for an assault on a cripple, but on his promise of good conduct, he was permitted to remain in the church. He has never held an office In the church during his membership. JITNEY BUS OPENS MAIN STREET LINE Richmond is to have a jitney bus. G. M. Marx, 28 South Twelfth street, who recently came here from Dayton, Called UDOn PrOSPClltnr Rellor tnrinv and asi.ed him If he could operate such a pudiic conveyance, explaining that the car which he Intended to use had L1 - t .a i an umo license, me prosecutor gave him permission to operate the bus for I a week, telling him that if at the exj piratlon of that time he wanted to con tinue m the business it would be necessary for him to secure an Indiana license. Street railway companies in other cities where the jitney busses have made their appearance have declared uncompromising war against them. Just what attitude the local street railway company will take is not known, the attorney for the company stating that he has never received instructions on this point. It is possible the company my claim that the operation of this bus is a violation of its franchise rights. "I intend to operate my machine along the principal streets charging a fare of five cents, " Marx said today. "I think my principal route will be along Main street from Glen Miller park to Earlham college, and another route may be from the corner of Eighth and Main streets to Reid Hospital." BLAZING TIES CALL COMPANIES Blazing railroad ties near the Eighteenth street crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad and. a grass fire on the river lank at the corner of South Fifth and E streets kept two fire companies busy for some time last night. This morning companies were called by a roof blaze at the home of John Szabad, 516 North Sixteenth street. The fire wa extinguished with small loss.

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SULTAN OF EGYPT MARK FOR ASSASSIN SULTAW OF The newly appointed Sultan of Egypt has narrowly escaped with his life after the first attempt made to assassinate him. , The young repre sentative of the British- government in northern Africa i popular but has am -enemies among the faction who supported the former ruler The shots were fired at the Sultan, but both went wide of the mark. MAY BRING LIBERTY BELL THROUGH CITY ON WAY TO FRISCO Any efforts which will be made by Indianapolis, Columbus, St. Louis or other commercial organizations to bring the Liberty Bell rrom Philadelphia to San Francisco through St. Louis will receive the hearty co-operation of the Richmond Commercial club, Secretary Haas said today when he heard that the Philadelphia city council had voted to permit the bell to make the trip. "There are a number of other routes over which, the bell has never been sent, and I would not be surprised if the authorities decided to send it by the southern route," Mr. Haas said. "I will write letters to find out who will direct the shipping. If Indianapolis and other cities will assist, we will try to have the bell brought through Kicnmond. ' The Liberty Bell was brought through Richmond in 1904, making the trip to the St. Louis exposition. It was mount ed on a flat car, which was switched in the Pennsylvania trainshed while hundreds of citizens had their first view of the historical relic. Schools dismissed so that children could see the' bell on what was then said to be its last trip from Philadelphia. VETERAN FIREMAN PASSES FROM LIFE Rufus A. Newman, 72 years old, after an Illness of pneumonia, died at five o'clock this morning at his resi dence, 69 Fort Wayne avenue. Mr. Newman was connected with the Rich mond fire department for thirty-seven years. He was a veteran of the Civil war, having served in Co. A Sixtyninth Indiana Infantry and was a member of Sol Meredith Post, G. A. R. and Whitewater lodge I. O. O. F. Mr. Newman became a member of the Richmond fire department September 10, 1873, about which time the department was permanently established and its members placed on salary. He resigned January 1, 1912, after hav ing served the city faithfully for over 38 years, the longest record of service of any city employe In the history of the city. Following his. resignation, city council voted gold medals to him and three other veteran members of the fire . department who had turhed in ' their resignations, Dave ' Miller, George Wilson and ex-chief James Parsons.-"-"-.-" - --- . He Is survived by his wife, Mary Newman, a daughter May, a son Frank, and two grandchildren. ' Funeral from residence, 2; 30 o'clock Monday afternoon. Burial Earlham cemetery.- Friends are requested , to call on Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon and evening.- -

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TRUSTEES BACK KELLY; REPLY DENIES CHARGES ELBERT RUSSELL illA

Board Asserts Earlham Refuses to Retain Faculty Members

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out Regard to Sectarian Considerations.

FACULTY O0HTB0LS

President and Secretary of Trustees Issue Statement Saying

"Board Is Conversant with Policies of Administration, Everything Having Been Worked Out Step by Step in

Close Consultation."

An answer to some of the most significant charges made by Prof. Elbert Russell against the administration of Earlham college, wa made public today by the board of trustees of the college. As a summary of the denial made to the chargee, the trustees state that: Earlham never has had unrestricted student government. The trustees do not employ teachers who are unsympathetic with zhe teaching of the Friends. The trustee do not feel justified in sacrificing educational efficiency for sectarian reason. Earlham college 1 a denominational school and non-sectarian. The board of trustees are conversant with the policies of the adminis

tration. The following Is the statement as ls--sued by the committee from the board of trustees: Earlham college does not now have and never has bad unrestricted student government. All disciplinary mat ters,;are under the-aupervislonsof the faculty which works throujih a committee on student affairs. In all Im portant cases the faculty committee makes the decisions. ' The student council works on the basis of prevention, and in cases of violations of dormitory regulations makes' investigations and recommendations to the faculty committee. The faculty committee frequently modifies the recommendations of the student council In making their final decision. The splendid co-operation between students and faculty brought about by this system of partial student government Is considered invaluable by the administration. No system of government is perfect but after several years trial Earlham college is not now ready to go back to the old system of complete faculty rule. "Earlham college does not retain members of the faculty who are known to be unsympathetic with the teachings of the Friends church. It is no unusual thing for a faculty member to leave because of this very fact. In Continued On Page Nine. EX-SENATOR ALDRIGH GALLED TO BEYOND IN NEW YORK HOME NEW YORK, April 16. Ex-Senator Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island, died suddenly at his home hero today at the age of 74 years. He had been in failing health for several years and had taken several ocean voyages in the hope of regaining his health. These attempts failed, but it was supposed when he returned from his last trip that he had been considerably benefit ed thereby. Mr. Aldrich had passed most of his time in New York after retiring from the senate. Aldrich during his long term in the service of the nation was identified with many important politi cal issues, chief of which was the tariff and monetary reforms. He was first elected to congress in 1879. In 1881 he was elected to the United States senate. He was re-elected in 1886, 1892, 1898 and 1905. When his term expired In 1911, Mr. Aldrich declined another nomination in order to devote all his time to the affairs of the monetary commission. The senator was the father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Weather Forecast WEATHER REPORT... ... FOR INDIANA Partly cloudy tonight ....and Saturday . . Temperature. Noon 64 Yesterday. Maximum ....62 Minimum 30 For Richmond Partly cloudy ' tonight and Saturday. - . .GENERAL CONDITIONS The showers of this morning were due to a small storm over the lakes. The weather is now above freezing over nearly all the" United , States with . summer temperatures east, of the Mississippi except over, the. lakes, Another storm is developing in the far wast.

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with Teachings of Friends' ACTIOHS OF STUDENTS IRATE PAPA SENDS FOR ELOPING PAIR TO RETURN HOME All's well that ends well. Two days ago Rex Haviland of Geneva, Ind., eloped with his sweet heart, Mildred Pontius, and the wrath of Homer Pontius over being made a father-in-law without his consent knew no bounds. .Rex and Mildred were married in Covington, Ky., then came to Richmond. In the meantime Mr. Pontius was beseeching the Covington and Cincinnati police to arrest the elopers, but they arrived In Richmond before the police of those two cities could mar their honeymoon. Arriving here yesterday Mr. and Mrs. Haviland registered at the Ar lington hotel. The police were inform ed and this morning the irate Mr. Pontius was notified of their presence. "Arrest Haviland. I don't want him, but send my daughter home," was the command that sizzled over the wires "Can't do that. They are married," saia sergeant McNally. Later Mr. Pontius called up police Headquarters. This time he spoke kindly. "Say, Mr. Officer," he said, "tell both or those kids to come back home, Tell 'em I forgive 'em. Tell 'em to come right away." When this was told the newly weds, young Haviland winked at his pretty bride. The police are convinced that the elopers knew from the first that all they had to do was to wait patient ly and the "fatted calf would be forth coming. SAYS DRUG IN BOOZE CAUSED LOSS OF $50 Otto Lauck Arrested in Cin cinnati Mourns Loss of Money. Otto Lauck, of this city, was found at Front street and Central avenue. Cincinnati, early Thursday morning, apparently in a dazed condition. Several hours later he told the police that he bad been the victim of robbers, who took $50 and a gold watch from him. He said that he took a drink with a stranger and he remembers nothing more. He does not know were he took the drink or where he was robbed. He says be was drugged. SHOWS GRADES UNFAIR Principal Pickell of the Richmond high school will deliver an address in Bloomington tomorrow before the second conference of school teachers hearing a series of Instructions on educational measures, conducted under the auspldes of the Indiana state colleges. Mr. Pickell will discuss the distribution of teachers' marks on students' work, showing the lack of uniformity in marking and grading, the reliability of the teacher and the need of considering a plan to standardize this part of the school work.

WOMAN SENATOR SAYS

SILENCE IS SECRET v 1 'V -its V V frij A "Hold thy tongue" Is the secret of political success, saye Mrs. Helen Ring Robinson, who ended two years service as state senator. "It took me nearly two years to learn to keep still." she said. "At first I liked to make speeches, but I didn't talk much In the ses sion just closed." BOWMAN SEEKS NOMINATION AS STATE AUDITOR Formally Accepts Offer of Booster Club to Make Race for Office on Republican Ticket. FRIENDS ARE4 ACTIVE Wayne County Auditor Prominent as Authority on Tax Questions, Prepares for 1916 Campaign. County Auditor Bowman today ac cepted the offer of the newly organiz ed Bowman Booster committee to use his name as a candidate for the office of state auditor in 1916. R. B. Inman of Indianapolis, former ly editor of the Middletown News. Is chairman of the committee; Walter Bossart of Liberty, candidate for Joint representative at the last general election, is vice chairman, and Alonzo Gardner, of Gardner, Jessup & White, attorneys, is secretary. "I gues the campaign is now on," "I guess the campaign is now on." Mr. Bowman said. "I accepted the Mr. Bowman today. "I accepted the offer of the committee and authorized the members to use my name as candidate for state auditor." Ranks as Authority. Mr. Bowman has been regarded as authority on questions relating to the office of auditor and to taxation questions, and la known over the state by his work with the Indiana Tax association. Mr. Bowman serving his first term as auditor of the county. It will expire January 1, 1916, when he will begin a second term to which he was elected last November. At the time he takes office on his second term, he probably will be in the thick of the fight for the state office. Office Open in 1916. Under the new Jones direct primary act. the state offices, other than gov ernor, come under the head of the only political conventions which the law provides for. Instead of nominating the state candidates by direct primary, as all other township, county, congres sional and national officers, delegates will be elected to political conventions to take place in Indianapolis, where the state nominees will be picked. The office is held at present by Dale J. Crittenberger, whose term expires November 24, 1916, a short time after the election. B. R. Inman, who has been in Rich mond on business' with the GermanAmerican Trust and Savings company, declared the movement for Mr. Bow man's candidacy is not only of local significance. "Persons who know of Mr. Bowman, without exception, declare he Is the best county auditor In Indiana," Mr. Inman said. "He has made studies of Indiana's taxation laws, which resulted in the agitation for tax reform before the last legislature. As a result of the work he did on taxation, a little organization or committee was formed in the Commercial club here in 1913, and in February. 1914, .this .resulted in the organization of the Indiana Tax association,' of which he was elected vice president.- As a "result of the dlacrepencies he found in the laws and the changes ' he suggested, hi . name became known in that connection, and later people naturally found out more about him. Since then the word haa gone around that Lew Bowman is the man for state auditor. -' Boom 8tarted Recently. "The idea that this has been a movement for some time is a mistaken one. I know perronally that it is of Continued On Page Two.

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AIRSHIPS DROP BOMBS ON KENT IN LATEST COUP Send Missiles Down on Two Towns Within 28 and 36 Miles of the British Capital

CITIZENS IN TERROR 7,000 Constables Report for Duty to Thwart Long Expected Attack of Teuton Airmen. LONDON. April 16. The Star prints a report that a German aeroplane of the Taube type has been brought down near East Church. Reports that German aeroplanes were bombarding towns in Kent reached here this afternoon and were promptly printed by the evening papers. The Echo printed a statement that the aeroplanes were dropping bombs upon Sittingbourne and Faversham. Sittingbourne Is 28 mile southeast of here and Haversham is about 36 miles from the capital. Both are a few miles from the British naval base at Chatham. These reports caused considerable alarm. The ordering of extraordinary precautions indicate that the authorities fear a Zeppelin raid on London tonight. The special board of 7,000 constables organized when the war begun was Instructed to report at Scotland Yard. It was apparently the belief of the authorities that the long threatened attack of Zeppelin against the British capital was imminent The raid of Thursday night and this morning were regarded in official circles a a reconnoitering expedition. Zeppelin Reaches Home. A dispatch from Amsterdam say three Zeppelin airships passed Plieland island at 8 a. m. flying eastward. They are believed to be the airships that nearly. reached London early in the day. Zeppelin airship raided England early today, dropping 100 bomba upon half a dozen towns. HOLD PROMOTER FOR ORGANIZING FAKE COMPANY Henry Scheid Faces Charge of Stealing Equipment Which He Sold to Batavia Concern. Henry J. Scheid, who Is alleged to ' be a business promoter of the Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford type, was arrested in this city last evening upon i the request of the authorities at I Batavia, O., near Cincinnati. He la I charged with grand larceny. ' Over the long distance telephone this afternoon the prosecuting attorney of Clermont county, Ohio, charged Scheid with having sold his patent rights to a wood crushing device and the machinery and equipment of his factory at Batavia to people living in that town, and then packing the ma chinery and other equipment and ship ping it to a point near Indianapolis, where, the Ohio official said. Scheid has been attempting to organize another company and sell to it the articles he is alleged to have smuggled out of Batavia. Scheid Gets Attorney. The Clermont ' county prosecutor said that be did not believe Scbeid had as yet been successful in disposing of the aleged property a second time but bad been fairly successful in interesting people in his project for locating a factory near Indianapolis. Scheid was very indignant when he . was arrested and professed great astonishment, saying that he was ab solutely innocent of any wrong doing. He has refused to return to Batavia unless requisition papers are Issued. When he was taken to police beadquarters he secured Attorney J. L. Rupe to look after his interests. Mr. -Rupe told Chief Goodwin that he had no right to arrest Scheid without a warrant but the chief contended that the telegraphic request for Scheid's arrest was sufficient. The chief also refused Mr. Rupe's request that his client be permitted to send the night at " a hotel ' under guard of a police officer. The Clermont county sheriff has gone - to ' Indianapolis to secure a requisition tor Scheid and will probably arrive here this evening or tomorrow morning. GARFIELD PUPILS TRAIN FOR MEET Preparations for the Garfield Track meet. May 16 are progressing nicely and much enthusiasm is being shown among the boys-trying out. : The meet will be in the nature of a doable meet.. two divisions being made, one to include all boys under 14 years of age and known as the Juniors, while those 14 years of age will be known as ability la their workouts, namely Morris, Schepman, Abrama and Arnold,