Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 151, 7 May 1915 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1915

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FORMER KENTUCKY GOVERNOR TOO BUSY TO TALK POLITICS AS HE BUYS NEW AUTOMOBILE

J. W. C. Beckham, United States senator-elect from Kentucky and twice governor of that state, was in the city today and purchased a Westcott fourcylinder, four-passenger car. which he drove to his home in Frankfort, Ky.. with his friend, Mr. Ike Parrish, as passenger. The automobile men had much better success with the city's distinguished visitor than the newspaper men who were detailed to interview him. The senator was entirely too much absorbed in the subject of automobiles to discuss such trifles as politics and public policy. Caret Not For Jipt. "What do I know about the effect the enforcement of the Japanese demands on China will have on this country? Not a thing, sir, not a thing. I am leaving that all to the state department," Senator Beckham remarked smiling broadly. , "You see I am here on a business and social visit, not here to talk politics and public policy. Richmond is a beautiful place and you certainly make a' mighty fine automobile here." . An effort to obtain some expression on the industrial situation was then made with similar lack of success. The senator side tracked the discussion to the subject of good roads. He said Kentucky was rivaling Indiana in pushing its highway improvement campaign. "Even in the mountain districts we

TRUSTEES PLAN LODGE ARMORY

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st. John's Commandery of St. Andrew's Church Will Initiate Class at Sunday Exercises.

now have some mighty fine roads," he said. f Some one happened to remark just before the senator climbed into his new automobile to have his picture taken that Oliver P. Morton was born near Richmond. This interested the senator at once. "Morton would be a very good name for this city," he suggested laconically. "There are so many Richmonds. Every state I believe has a town named Richmond. There would be an individuality in the name Morton, a deserving honor to a very distinguished man." Biography of Man. Senator Beckham entered public life as a page in the Kentucky legislature in 1881. From 1888 to 1891 he was principal of the Bardstown high school and the following year began to practice law, the same year being elected to the legislature in which he served for several terms. In 1898 he was elected speaker of the lower house of the legislature and in 1899 was nominated for lieutenant governor on the Democratic ticket. This election was contested but the legislature declared him elected. The follow iag year Governor Goebel was assassinated and Mr. Beckham became governor. The same year he was elected governor for the term expiring in 1903. He was re-elected in 1904 and served until 1907. Last August he was elected United States senator and will assume the duties of that offce next December.

prevents the local order from having the entire Dayton team of thirty-two men in uniform exemplify the work. The local commandery now has a membership of 72 men and of these 46 have uniforms. The campaign for new members will continue after the initiation next Sunday. A smoker and general discussion was held after the speeches last night. CHINA BACKS DOWN

In conjunction with the campaign to increase the membership and prepare a large class for initiatory exercises next Sunday, an open booster meeting was held at St. Andrews school last night under the auspices of the Indiana Grand Commandery, Knights of St. John's lodge. Approximately .one hundred and thirty persons were present last night 8nd heard the speeches of four high officers of the lddge who live in Dayton. These were John C. Shea, supreme council, who discussed the insurance feature of membership in the lodge, and Inspector General Schnabel,

Mr. Malone, president of the Dayton council, and Adjutant William Bade of the general staff. All of the speakers, including John ZMssler of this city, spoke in the interens of the lodge, pointing out the value of membership. May Erect Armory. As an inducement to the young men of the church and city to join the lodge, the trustees have practically consented to erect a building in the rear of St. Andrew's school, to be used as a gymnasium and armory. Plans for this building are in their infancy and particulars regarding the proposed construction are indefinite. As a result of the meeting last night ten more men will be added to the class which will take part in the initiation conducted at 1:30 o'clock next Sunday afternoon in the auditorium of the St. Andrew's school. Approximately fifty will be initiated into membership. About twelve or eighteen members of the Dayton team will conduct the initiation and a total of twenty-five members from the Dayton lodge will be present at the exercises. The expense, which is considerable.

PEKIN, May 7. Following conferences between the president and his advisers today strong belief was expressed that the Chinese government is prepared to concede most of the demands of Japan leaving the balance to arbitration. If this is true war has probably been averted.

SAYS WAR WON'T AFFECT BASEBALL

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Benjamin S. Minor.

! "If you have a good show, people will go to see it; if you give them good baseball, they will flock through1 the turnstiles, notwithstanding the war, 'hard times,' other distractions, and whatnot," says Benjamin S' Minor, lawyer-president of the Wash-. ington baseball club. .

More Babies by Vote

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"The crusade for equal suffrage is doubtless the cause for the drop in the birth rate" declares Mrs. Carrol Bockwith, wife of the noted artist. "But this Is only a temporary phase. I am convinced that when this country shall have equal suffrage for women there will follow a notable rise in the birth-rate. This will signify that women do not fear the world struggle for their children when they themselves have a hand in th moulding of the conditions outside the home, as they now have within home walls."

Belgian Girls as Mine Workers

Girls are employed in Belgium, or that part of it under German control, to mine coal for the Kaiser, according to stories of refugees and illustrated by photographs. The above picture was made at a mine near- Charlerio, and shows several young women "trammers," running the ore-laden cars from the south of the mine to the dump. It is alleged that every able-bodied Belgian man is either wounded, captured or with King Albert's army, and the Germans are forcing the girls to perform manual labor.

COMMANDER OF RUSS HOPES TO WIN BACK GROUND FROM TEUTONS

GIRL TO INTERPRET MUSIC IN" DANCES

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PETROORAD, May 7. With a great battle raging between the Carpathians and the Vistula where the Russians retired to position which had previously been fortified, the Germans have assumed the offensive at a number of pbints in Poland with the evident hope of preventing Grand Duke Nicholas from shifting reinforcements into western Gallcia. Some of the troops of the AustroGerman army, which was massed on the Dunajec rivier are at grip with the

Russians south of Jaslo, while others i were sent, to the northeast to attack

the strong Russian position on the heights commanding Tarnow on the northeast. The Austro-German forces south of Jaslo are engaged in a strategic movement of great importance for they are trying to cut off the Russians in the region of Lupkow and Dukla passes.

TORNADO IN GEORGIA BRINGS DEATH TO 37

ATLANTA, May 7. Thirty-seven lives were lost and between 75 and mn nersons were iniured in a series of

tornados that swept over northern Lou- j isana, Southern Mississippi and South- j era Tennessee and Kentucky last night j and early today. Much. live stock was killed. Property damage to the extent j of $1,000,000 was done and thousands j of acres of rich bottom land were over-1

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ROUND UP SUSPECTS TO LAND MURDERER OF CHICAGO SUBURB

LUSITANIA FLIES U. S. FLAG WHEN TORPEDOED BY WASP NEW YORK, May 7. As soon as news was received tie re that the Lusltania had been sunk, the Cunard offices were besieged by anxious friends. At the same time scores of Americans visited the United States embassy clamoring for news. At first the public was skeptical, believing it impossible for Germans to attack the big liner unawares. The Admiralty has been at unusual pains to guard the big liners in the belief that their services might be needed later as transports. Special precautions were taken to protect the steamer lanes. For seven days German submarines have been operating the waters along the south coast of Ireland. The British liners Centurian and Candidate were torpedied yesterday off Conningbed lighthouse, which is 87 miles northeast of Klnsdale head. . The Lusitiania was torpedoed without warning. The ship is reported to have been flying the United States flag when torpedoed. Jt had used the United States flag on two former occasions. At 2:35 p. m. a large steamship had arrived on the scene of the sink--ing and was rendering assistance. Patrols and other boats which responded to the distress call, took life boats in tow. Motor fishing boats are reported to have taken two of the life boats in two starting with them for Kinsdale harbor. The weather off the -islands is clear. One report circulated here this afternoon was that the Luistiania had been tor pedoed at 2 o'clock this morning but remained afloat, giving the passes gers time to disembark.

GERMANS ADD TO RUSS ROUT IN MOUNTAINS

BERLIN, May 7. A further gain

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east or vpres in est Flanders. It is announced in an official statement issued by the German war office today. Seven machine guns, a mine thrower, rifles and ammunition were, captured from the British. Attempts from the British to recapture Hill No. 60 were repulsed with heavy loss. French attacks at Steinbueck in the Osage mountains were repulsed. Fifteen hundred Russian prosoners were taken at Roscine. The Russians are reported to he retreating southeast of Calwarja and in the Carpathians. Credit for the military plan which resulted with the defeat of the Russians were given to Field Marshal Conrad Von Hoetzendorf in a semiofficial statement given out at Vienna today. Archduke Frederick. Archduke Carl Francis Joseph, heir to the Austrian throne and Von Hoetzendorf went to the front on a special train and witnessed the victory. The Austro-Ger-rr.an forces advanced along an extended front. The bombardment of the Austrc-Gtr-aans was of unprecedented fury.

START CHICAGO BOOM

CHICAGO. Mat 7, A new publicity bureau with its object the boosting oj Chicago as "Worlds greatest rammer restro." -was opened - today by the Chicago Association of Commerce. The bureau s work will extend over a 500 mile radius and its chief aim will be to induce middle west vacationists to come to Chicago. The bureau will open offices wiUiin the next few days under the oirection of Spearman Lews.

a newspaper man. In 1950 New York city wfl! hare 19.000,000 people and the United State 300,000.000. 75 per cent, of whom will live in cities and towns.

PLAY HOUSE BURNS.

TORONTO, May 7. The Princess theatre was destroyed by fire early today. The loss has not been learned, but $12,000 worth of scenery and theatrical effects were burned. BUYS CONVERTER. rhovloc V k'lfmann has installed a

V-l-il. . . . - -. " - rotary converter for charging storage batteries and electrics. D. B. JOHNSON.

The newest and tiniest of the juvenile interpreative dancers is Lillian Emerson, daughter of Mrs, N. D. Emerson of 150 West Twenty-fifth street, New York, who, though only seven years old. has riser, to such perfection that she is going to give a public matinee all by herself in a local theatre soon.. Moreover she is going to interpret though the are of the dance the musical works of the greatest composers.

CHICAGO, May 7 A general roundup of all possible suspects was ordered today by Police Chief Healy on account of the murder late yesterday of Mrs. Ella Coppersmith, wife of a wealthy broker, and her 2-year-old son, John L. Coppersmith, Jr. Three men have been arrested as answering the description of a man seen in the neighborhood of the Coppersmith home. Chief Healy ordered a squad of detectives to make a general clean-up in the hope of getting the right man. The police described the murder of the woman and her baby as the most fiendish in Chicago's history. Mrs. Coppersmith's head had been crushed with a hammer and her throat was cut with a. butcher knife. The baby was stabbed three times in the neck. An open purse lay on the floor, the piano in the front room of the apartment had been moved and all the rugs had been turned back as if in a hasty search for valuables. The handbag had contained between $50 and $(id, and several rings. One diamond ring was still there. "The crime was the work of some degenerate or desperate lunatic," said First Deputy Superintendent of Police Schuettler today. "I have never worked on a more fiendish, cruel murder tha nthis one." The murder of Mrs. Coppersmith was the eighth of a series of murders of women in their homes by supposed lunatics in Chicago within less than two vears.

8IRDMEN SHELL TURK'S CAPITAL

ATHENS. May 7.- Three aviators operating from the Russian Black Sea

fleet, flew over Constantinople, bom-; barding the city from the air. Ac-j cording to dispatches received here today great damage is believed to' have been done. Shells from Russian j warships against Turkish forst on the

Bosphorus fell within ten miles of the Turkish capital.

SALTS IF BACKACHY AND KIDNEYS HURT Drink lots of water and stop eating meat for a while if your Bladder troubles you.

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When you wake up with backache and dull misery in the kidney region it generally means you have been eating too much meat, says a well-known authority. Meat forms uric acid which overworks the kidneys in their effort to filter it from the Mood and they become sort of paralyzed and loggy. When your kidneys get sluggist and clog you must relieve them, like you relieve your bowels: removing all the body'6 urinous waste, else you have backache, sick headache, dizzy spells: your stomach sours tongue is coated, and when the weather Is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine is cloudy full of sediment, channels often get sore, water scalds and you are obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night. Either consult a good, reliable physician at once or get from your pharmacist about four ounces of Jad Salts; take a tablespoonful in a glass -jf water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize acids in the, urine so it no longer irritates, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad SaJts is a life saver for regular meat eaters. It is inexpensive, cannot injure, and makes a delightful, effervescent lithia-water drink. (Advertisement.)

WASHINGTON, May 7. Richard Ol- J ney of Massachusetts, secretary of state under Cleveland, was named today by Secretary of State Bryan as the American member of the commission to administer the peace treaty with France, and Charles R. Crane of Chicago, one of the two American members of the commission, "under the Russian treaty. The commission under the treaty will try to adjust all difficulty which may arise between the contesting nations.

A cubic foot of newly fallen snow weighs five and one-half pounds and has twelve times the bulk of an equal weight of rain water.

DESTROY TURK BRIDGE

Morgan Art is Sold

D. B. Johnson, state superintendent of the Indiana State Civic Union, will speak at the high school auditorium at the high school auditorium at 2:30 at 2:30 Sunday afternoon, May 9. He will discuss "Good Laws Passed, Others Needed and Law Enforcement." The purpose of the union is to educate the people to support beneficial legislation.

ODDITIES United States Lutherans are raising a fund of $10,000,00 for general church purposes.

Switzerland really has a navy, as is shown by the fact that she has just bought twenty-nine large motorboat.s, armed with quick-firing guns, to patrol Lake Constance.

A Springfield (Mo.) man took out homestead papers the other day on an eighty-acre tract of land 100 miles from that city. Before applying at the land office for the papers he walked the entire distance and back in order to visit the property. When he got hack he had just money enough to pay for the land and cover the necessary fees.

In response to the advertisement of the United States navy department for 1,500,000 teak decking logs, a Manila lumber firm has submitted an offer of 500,000 feet of ya'cal, a Philippine wood resembling teak, which is regarded as the equal of teak for construction purposes. This is the first time that such offers of Philippine woods have been madd to the navy.

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LONDON. May 7. The Turkish line of communication between Smrna and the Dardanelles over which the Turks were transporting troops, guns and supplies has been cut by the destruction of a railway bridge by a British aviator operating from Anglo-French fleet.

Fred B. Stanley, Republican national committeeman for Kansas, has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for congress from the district which Victor Murdock represented until recently.

Circus Day

In Mid-Summer MILLINERY A complete line of black and white hats in the new Sheperdess shapes at 98S Sl.OS- and $2.98 Genuine Panamas at factory prices Saturday only. A beautiful line of Feather Pom Pons, and Feather Wreaths at lowest prices. Three dozen new shapes for "Little Tots." HATS TRIMMED FREE Old Panamas reblocked and cleaned just like new. Mrs. C. A. Brehm 3& NORTH 8TH STREET

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Duveen Brothers have bought another important collection of the late J. P. Morgan art objects which were in two galleries of the Metropolitan Museum. Although the price was withheld It is believed to have been $3,000,000. The latest sale includes much eighteenth century furniture and sculptures and will be shipped to France at once for cleaning.

Go Via Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company To the T. P. A. State Convention, Indianapolis, May 13, 14, 15

Bring Your Friends and Come.

Especially interesting Program Each Day

THURSDAY, 13TH Special Races at Speedway. FRIDAY, 14TH Convention address by Governor Ralston, Mayor Bell. Charles A. Bookwalter and ethers. Industrial parade afternoon, annual baaquet at night. SATURDAY, 15TH Business tession.4 Special entertainment . for ladies 10 a. m., including tour of the city in automobiles with lady drivers, visiting various manufacturing plants and many other places of interest.