Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 148, 4 May 1915 — Page 1
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CLUB REFUSES TO ENTERTAIN BOOSTER BODY Half Dozen Members of the Commercial Organization Meet Delegation of Cleveland Trade Representatives
PARTY STRANDED Scanty Welcome Puts Visitors 6n Own Resources for Entertainment Several Request Guides. Seven pullman cars of Cleveland boosters with "business" written all over them, reached here at 10:35 o'clock today. A half dozen members of the Commercial club welcomed them and invited the boosters to the club rooms but as no program had been arranged, the men remained there for only a few minutes and then went through the city to find customers of the Cleveland firms they represent. Secretary Mason of the Jobbers and Manufacturers board of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce apologized for tailing to state definitely the time of the party's arrival. It was a surprise to the other members of the party who believed Richmond was fully in formed of the booster activities. Come for Business. "This is primarily a business trip said Secretary Havens of the Chamber of Commerce. "We have 115 business men in the party. We are not adverse to some entertainment and we are willing to conform entirely to the programs of the local commercial organizations on our route." , Mr. Hayns met Secretary Haas of the Commercial club in the club rooms later. "I am here with eighteen different kinds of apologies," he told the local secretary. "I would like to see the correspondence. Mr. Mason, the secretary of the board, probably did not want to take the responsibility of notifying you of definite plans, until he had had some expression from members of the party." Mr. Haas said the board of directors of the dub voted last night to make no plans until word came from the party. As a consequence the members of the party were thrown on their own resources. Several asked for guides to show them where business Institutions could be found. COUNCIL DROPS EFFORT TO FIX MINIMUM WAGE Investigating Committee Declares City Without Authority to Dictate Scale of Pay on Contracts. Contractors doing municipal work can pay what wages they want to and if the city officials think such wages are too low the contractors "should worry." Chairman Williams of the council committee appointed to investigate the charges that several out of town contractors employed by the City of Richmond had paid wages as low as fifteen cents an hour reported last night that the conclusion had been reached that "it was none of the city's business what wages were being paid, as the city has no authority to regulate wages. City Attorney Bond agreed with the committee that the city could not, under the provisions of the state law, establish a minimum wage for laborers entployed by contractors doing municipal work. "There was some time ago a state law which provided that minimum wage scales could be written into municipal contracts, but this law was declared unconstitutional by the state supreme court on a case which was filed in the Wayne circuit court by a local contractor," Mr. Bond said. "The Wayne circuit court ruled that the law was unconstitutional and an appeal was taken by the city to the supreme court, which sustained the ruling of the Wayne court. The city now has an ordinance based on this law, but it is absolutely invalid." "Do you mean to say that if a minimum wage provision was written into a municipal contract and accepted by the unsuccessful bidder with the knowledge of its presence in the contract, that such a contractor could not be compelled to comply with such a" provision?" Mayor Robbins asked. "Such a contract would be an invalid one and could not be enforced," replied Mr. Bond. . Councilman Russell agreed with the Continued On Page Twelve.
4,000,000 DRINKS . PASS THROUGH GUY 80,000 Gallons of Grape Juice Enroute to Texas Create Thirst.
A special C. & O. train of thirty-five freight cars containing 80,000 gallons of grape-juice, the largest single shipment on record, passed through Richmond at 5:30 o'clock last evening on its way from the factory of Armour & Co., at Westfield, New York to Fort Worth from which point it will be distributed over the state of Texas. The shipment represented a cost of $100,000 and the freight charges amount to $10,000. It was figured that four million drinks could be obtained from the consignment. There was 36,000 pounds of grape-juice to the carload. Messrs. Bronson and Smith of Armour & Co., and M. D. Maloney and H. F. Shaw, contracting freight agent and commercial agent respectively for the Chesapeake & Ohio were on the train. TAKE NEW CAR FROM BOCKOHFF SHEDJT HOME Thieves Drive Machine Valued at $2,500 From Garage While Family Slumbers Not Far Distant. NEIGHBOR AROUSED Police Trace Automobile to Westville, Ohio, and Send Descriptions to Authorities of Cities. Richmond police and detectives in a number of Ohio cities are searching for an eight-cylinder, seven-passenger automobile, 1915 model, owned by William P. Bockhoff, 36 South Nineteenth street, this city. The car was stolen from the garage in the rear of Mr. Bockhoff's home about 1 o'clock this morning, but the theft was not discovered until about 8:30 o'clock. Mr. Bockhoff is president of the National Automatic Tool company. The stolen machine is quite new and is valued at $2,500. "A neighbor heard the machine being taken from the garage about 1 o'clock this morning," Mr. Bockhoff stated, 'but she knew that the factory had been operating at nights and she thought that I was returning home and was putting the machine in the garage. For that reason she did not tell us at the time what she had heard. She said the men made 'considerable noise, opening the exhaust and racing the engine, but all the members of my family were sleeping soundly and did not hear it." Police Start Chase. As soon as it had been ascertained j that the car had been stolen the poi lice were notified. By reason of the fact that the tires on the car had a ' peculiar diamond-shaped tread, Chief ' Goodwin was able to trace it to West- ' ville, O. From there on no trail was : found, heavy trafic on the National j road east, of Westville having obliterat- ! ed the marks. Chief Goodwin thinks the thieves headed either for Spring- ; field, Columbus, Dayton, Hamilton or Cincinnati, and he sent descriptions of j the missing car to the police in those , cities. At Westville a resident inform- ! ed Chief Goodwin that he heard a car j pass through at a high rate of speed j early this morning, going east. I The car had an Indiana license. No. 55,048, was painted dark green, had a ; bumper bar, and on each side the inj itials "W. F. B." were painted in old English letters. WeatherForecast ! FOR INDIANA Cooler northeast and extreme south portion. Possibly j light frost in low portion; WednesI day fair. i Temperature Noon 50 1 Yesterday. Maximum 79 j Minimum 51 j FOR RICHMOND Fair tonight and Wednesday; continued cold tonight; probably frost in exposed places. I General Conditions The cold weather arrived on schedule time and is I moving southeastward. Snow was genj eral yesterday in Wyoming, Idaho. An i extreme low temperature for the seasj on was 6 degrees above zero at Flagstaff, Arizona. W. E. Moore, weather forecaster.
MEMBERS MAY GUT TEACHERS' TRAINING Whether the Bible Study institute which has been conducted at the high school building for five weeks will be continued next year is a question which the audience of tomorrow evening's meeting will be required to answer. The Rev. J. W'. Zerbe of Williamsburg, chairman of the teachers' training department of the Wayne County Sunday School association will deliver the address before the institute meeting Wednesday evening. The question of continuing the institute next year will be decided, after a full discussion of the problem, by the counting of votes turned in by member of the audience attending the meeting tomorrow night. DISASTER FACES RUSSIAN FORCES IN CARPATHIANS Berlin Claims Greatest Loss of Military History Threat ens Czar's Forces in Austria Hungary. BY FREDERICK WERNER International News Service Staff Correspondent. BERLIN, Via Amsterdam. May 4 Our victory in Western Galicia is more important than that of the Mazurian lakes, telegraphs a German correspondent now at Austrian headquarters. "On the Dunajec front the Russians are retreating in disorder with Austrian and German troops pursuing and breaking up every attempt to rally. i "Entire Russian divisions have been completely destroyed. The number of prisoners taken may exceed those captured by Field Marshal Von Hindenburg in East Prussia, but the chief importance of the victory lies in the fact that the Russian troops concentrated on the Carpathian front for the invasion of Hungary are now menaced from both west and east. Disaster Impends. "Unless these forces are extricated by abler generalship than the Russians have thus far shown they are threatened with the greatest disaster ever recorded in military history. At any rate, they will be compelled to retreat. The Austrians have avenged Przemysl." Berlin military experts asserted today that once more German strategy had led the Russians into a trap which was sprung only when necessary preparation had been made. This was complete when the forces cf Gen. Yen Mackensen had been transferred from the Bzura-Rawka front to the southeastern theatre. Celebrate Victory. The people of Berlin are celebrating the victory today. Von Mackensen has become overnight as great a popular hero as Von Hindenburg. It was Von Mackensen who led the Germans in their victories at Lodz and Lowicz and brought them almost within sight of Warsaw. Popular interest in the German ofContinued On Page Twelve.
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TEN SHIPS SENT DOWN IN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS BY GERMAN SEA WASPS
LONDON, May 4. The number of ships torpedoed by German submarines in the forty-eight hours between Saturday evening and Monday evening was increased to ten today when it became known that the British steamer, Minterne had been blown up off the Scilly Islands Monday. The German torpedo hit the Minterne, a vessel of 3,018 ton's on the WASPS ORDERED TO BULLY U. S. LONDON, May 4. The Financial News prints the following: "It is reported from a Dutch source that German submarines have been ordered to sink every American vessel, especially passenger liners, without regard for loss of American lives, in order to demonstrate the absolute impotence of the United States." RUSSIANS DENY COMPLETE ROUT PETROGRAD, May 4. Austro-Ger-man claims of a great victory in Western Galicia were denied by the Russian war office today. It was stated that the recent offensive undertaken by the Teutonic allies had made some gains necessitating a regrouping of the Russian forces but the latter had regained nearly all the lost ground. NEPHEW ACCOMPANIES ROOSEVELT TO COURT i SYRACUSE, May 4. When 'court ! opened today to continue the Barnes I $50,000 libel suit, Colonel Roosevelt was accompanied by frranKiin D. Roosevelt, his nephew, assistant secretary of the navy. Roosevelt was a Democratic candidate for United States senator in the deadlock when James A. O'Gormon was elected to succeed Chauncey M. Depew. Roosevelt was credited with being the choice of President Wilson. The appearance of the cabinet officer was a surprise. It. was believed he would testify to the alleged BarnesMurphy senate combination which resulted in the overthrow of Geehan. The summoning of Roosevelt was the result of Justice Andrew's change of ruling yesterday when he announced that Colonel Roosevelt could offer evidence to show that he acted without personal malice when he made his political statement last fall.
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starboard side and killed two firemen in the engine room. The rest of the crew with the captain escaped and were landed at Panzant today. The Minterne was a London steamer built in 1903. She was 330 feet long. The other ships sunk in the renewal of the submarine campaign include the Gulflight, the America, Baldwin, Lela, Ellida and the schooner Elsa. WILSON WAITS FULL REPORTS ON GULFLIGHT WASHINGTON, May 4 The United States has not yet forulated any policy regarding the attack on the American ship Gulflight, and will no do so until the facts have been established from every angle, President Wilson told callers today. The president stated, however that the case involving tne drowning of Leon C. Thresher when the British ship Fallaba was sunk by a German submarine, will be treated in conjunction with the Gulflight incident, and it is probable that all matters between the American and German government regarding the war zone decree will be grouped together. , The chief executive would make no further comment on the Gulflight matter. HOLD MEDAL CONTEST. ECOXOMV, Ind., May 4.- A silver medal contest will bp held Sunday afternoon at Martindale.
WILSON-BRYAN LEAGUE URGES J. A. RISK TO ASK FOR GUBERNATORIAL NOMINATION
INDIANAPOLIS, May 4. With the field wide open for aspirants for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1916, pressure today was brought to bear on James A. Risk of Lafayette, throught an open letter signed by Richard B. Kirby, president of the WilsonBryan League of Indiana, who claims to voice the sentiments of many "influential Democrats." In his letter Mr. Kirby declares that recent legislation providing for a tariff commission eliminates that question from the political issues of the next campaign, and concludes that the issuer will be "moral" ones. Mr. Kirby's letter indicates that one element of the Democratic party in Indiana is preparing to make a fight for a woman's suffrage plank in the next state platform, as well as a plank advocating a constitutional convention. Praises Progressive Stand. The letter praises tho . Lafayette
CLEVELAND ARSON GANG SETS FIRE TO 1 1 HOUSES IN THE INCENDIARY ZONE
Courtesy Cleveland Press. CLEVELAND, May 4. Fire wardens today were running down clues to discover the "arson gang" which they believe were responsible for eleven fires which broke out In the "incendiary fire zone" between Cedar and Woodland avenues and West Thirty-fifth street and East Sixtyfirst streets, last night. One hundred persons were driven into the streets. Many houses and barns were burned.
STREET GAR MEN VOTE ON COMPROMISE CLEVELAND, May 4. The Street Railway Men's Union tonight will vote on the compromise wage scale offered by President J. J. Stanley. The scale calls for a two-cent hour increase, making the wages of the first year men 2 cents an hour, and others 32 cents an hour.
GOAL STRIKE SETTLEMENT IS IMMINENT CLEVELAND. May 4. John M. Roan, representative of Governor Willis at the East Ohio Coal strike conference today denied the report that a break has come. He predicted an early end of the strike.
ATTEMPT TO MEET CASSIDY'S DEFICIT CLEVELAND, O., May 4. J. H. Cassidy, ousted federal receiver and former congressman, is still missing. Friends announce effort to raise funds ' to meet deficit in account without suc cess. HALLE URGES TRADE EXPOSITION BUILDING CLEVELAND, May 4.-8. P. Halle of Halle Bros, company, urged the merchants of this city today to help fi nance an exposition building for the j city. OHIO LAW REPEALED COLUMBUS, O., May 24 The state supreme court today declared unconstitutional the state law which provides a $100 fine and six months imprisonment for employers who discharge men because of membership In a union. AMES STORE OPENS ..CLEVELAND, May 4. Thousands crowded the new Ames -store which was thrown open today. GERMANS SHELL BIG LIGHTHOUSE COPENHAGEN. May 4. A German warship has shelled and set on fire the Lagskaer lighthouse on one of the Aland islands at th entrance to the Gulf of Bosnia according to a dispatch received today from Stockholm. A general German attack is expected on the coast of Finland in the northern part of the Gulf of Bosnia. WOMEN TAKE PART IN SIX-CITY TOUR About half of the 250 riders who participated in the recent six-city mo torcycle run from San Francisco. Cal.. were women. San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Watsonville and Salinas were represented in the tour, which ended at Hollister. where the riders celebrated with a barbicue and motorcycle contests. CONVENTION CALLED. ECONOMY, Ind., May 4. The township Sunday school convention will be held Sunday afternoon at the United Brethren church. ' statesman for his activity in favor of the Jones primary measure in the last general assembly, which triumphed in the face of what -Mr. Kirby characterizes as seemingly "hopeless odds at the outset." Mr. Kirby, in his letter, ls.:ida Mr. Risk as a "progressive Democrat," and expresses the belief that with him as a candidate and the above named planks clearly set forth in the next state platform, victory for the Democratic part' in Indiana will be assured. Up to the present time Mr. Risk has not indicated whether he will become a candidate, and Mr. Kirby urges him to give the matter "most earnest consideration." In some political quarters Mr. Kirby's letter was looked upon as an indication of a possible split in the Democratic party in Indiana over the woman suffrage and constitutional convention propositions.
$853,000 VALUE SET ON LAKE FRONT LAND
I CLEVELAND. ! made lake front May 4. The newland between East Ninth and East Seventy-first street was put on the tax duplicate today at a value of $853,000, fixed by the board of tax complaints. GRASSELLI INJURED CLEVELAND, May 4. E. R. Grasselli, treasurer of the Grasselli Chemical company, was cut and bruised last night when his auto skidded and turned turtle on Shake boulevard. $720,000 FOR SHIPS CLEVELAND, May 4. The Pioneer Steamship company today purchased from the Northern Lakes Steamship company the steamers Champlain, Ontario and St. Clair for about $750,000. SIGN FRANK PETITION CLEVELAND, May 4. More than 7,000 Clevelandera today through The Press urged the commutation of the death sentence of Leo M. Frank to life sentence. TESTIFY FOR CALHOUN CLEVELAND. May 4. M. B. Mead of the Barner-Mead Lumber company today in Criminal court testified he had known Harry Calhoun, the "mystery man," for years and would vouch for his character and honesty. Calhoun, member of the C. A. C. Is on trial charged with receiving thousands of dollars worth of stolen watches. L. P. Wilson of the Wilson Manufacturing company said Calhoun was in good standing at the club. CLOSE SUMMER SCHOOL j CLEVELAND, May 4. Owing to lack of funds the school board, despite j protests, today abolished the summer schools in the grade and high schools ; of the city, i OPPOSES EVANGELIST CLEVELAND, May 4 The Rev. D. F. Bragley today told the Chamber of Commerce that "Cleveland does not need a revival with Billy Sunday as leader." He described the language and antics of the famous evangelist as foolish. FAVORS CLEVELAND CLEVELAND, May 4. The federal reserve board at Washington today heard the protest of Pittsburg against Cleveland as a reserve city, but it Is said the officials are sure to keep the institution in the Sixth City. STUDY EASTERN TIME CLEVELAND. May 4 After studying the advantages of eastern time here, a delegation of Detroit aldermen and citizens announced it, would recommend its adoption. , LOOSES SIX HENS. ECONOMY, Ind.. May 4. David Jordan has lost six big hens. A sneak thief is suspected. .