Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 128, 12 May 1915 — Page 1

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STRICT ACCOUNTABILITY IS DEMANDED BY WILSON IN I). S. NOTE TO KAISER Wants to Avert War and Severance of Diplomatic Relations, but Issue Will Be Put Up Squarely to Germany for Answer Note Will Voice Indignation of American People Over Horror of Lusitania Tragedy Reverts to International Law Demanding that Suspected Vessels Be Searched and Passengers and Crew Be Given Opportunity to Leave Before Craft Is Destroyed Wants Submarine Warfare to Stop. CHIEF EXECUTIVE BELIEVES FIRMNESS DEMANDED

President Working on Note and Attitude of Government Will Be Known by American People Within 24 Hours. Diplomats Believe if United States Representatives in Germany Are Withdrawn and Count von Bernstorff Is Given Passport, It Will Be Difficult to Maintain Peace Between Two

Countries Cabinet Members with Three Exceptions Back Wilson in Contents of Communication to Germany.

WASHINGTON, May 12 President Wilson today is preparing the note to Germany buttressing his earlier "strict accountability" message. Within twenty-four hours the American people will know the position of the American government on the matter. The issue of peace or war may be decided in the cable which the President is to send to the German foreign office. There is every promise that the note will be firm in its insistance upon American rights. The best opinion in Washington today inclined to the belief that Germany will be given the alternative of a yes or no answer regarding the demands made in the note and that upon the reply which she makes hangs the issue of whether diplomatic relations will be severed. Should American representatives to

Germany be recalled and Count Von Bernstroff handed his passports it is recognized that it will be difficult to maintain peace between the two countries. Cabinet Backs Wilson. President Wilson, it is understood, is backed by his cabinet in the action he has taken, although Secretary Bryan, Secretary of Navy Daniels and Secretary of Labor Wilson, are not as strong in their support of it, it is believed, as some of the others. It is reported in Washington today that the president feels he has no course open to him than to send a note of the character he has outlined. He is as determined as ever to prevent war if possible and also the severance of diplomatic relations with Germany, but in his note he will put the issue Bquarely up to Germany. Attitude Unchanged. President Wilson's policy of firmness was unchanged, by the receipt of a note from Germany stating that the German government shall respect ibe flag of the American nation but does not intend to desist in attacks on enemy ships merely because they carry neutral passengers. The president's note will voice the indignation felt by the American people over the loss of more than a hundred citizens of the United States on the British liner Lusitania. The cases of the Lusitania, the Gulflight, the Cushing and the Falaba are to be joined together in presenting the case for the United States to Germany. What the president specifically wants, according to reliable reports is assurance from the Teutonic ruler that ships suspected of being n warlike trade shall be searched jind, if incriminating evidence be found, seized as prizes of war, but not sent to the bottom without warning, merely upon a presumption of guilt. It is also confidently stated that the president's note shall declare that the United States has not at any time recognized the right of Germany to cany on such a warfare as that directed against the Lusitania. WeatherForecast FOR INDIANA Fair tonight. Probably showers southeast portion. Thursday fair. Cooler north portion. For Richmond Fair tonight and Thursday. General Conditions The severe storm is central over the Gulf of Mexico and is causing heavv showers over Alabama. Georgia and Northern Florida and showers In several other parts teouth of the Ohio river. Rain also continues in the northwest. Mostly fair weather elsewhere. W. F. Moore. Weather Forecaster.

FORMER NEIGHBOR GREETS 0. G. REID SIMPLY AS "DAN"

Mrs. Bridget Dundon, Who Spoiled Great Financier as Boy With Cookies, Chats With Him. 'I suppose I should call you Mr. Reid, but I am not going to. I am going to call you Dan," said Mrs. Bridget Dundon, 500 North Fifteenth street, her eyes twinkling as she made a little " '." and shook the hand of Daniel G. Reid, one of America's foremost financiers but to her still the "little neighbor boy" she fed cookies to and helped to "mind" when his mother was busy with other duties. "I am not Mr. Reid to you, and you know it," promptly replied Mr. Reid. "In Richmond, my old friends call me Dan and that is what you always called me and what you are going to keep right on calling me." Then Mrs. Dundon and Mr. Reid sat side by side at the home of Dr. David Dougan, West Richmond, for a long time this morning and talked of his boyhood days. Mrs. Dundon was i very fond of the mischievious "neighboy boy," and he grew up to regard her as a sort of an assistant mother. She has followed his successful career in the business world with intense pride and when Mr. Reid arrived in Richmond yesterday, Mrs. Dundon announced that she wanted to see "Dan." When he learned of this he declared that she did not want to see him any more than he wanted to see her, so the Dougan automobile called at Mrs. Dundon's home this morning and she was whisked out to the home of Dr. Dougan to call on the man whom she had often been accused of 'spoiling." On her return home she told inquisitive friends of the fine visit she bad had with "Danny" and declared him to be the "finest boy in the whole world." Mr. and Mrs. Reid and party returned to New York today. GETS LIFE TERM TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 12. Life imprisonment was the jury's verdict, in the case of Frank Torricelli, who was found guilty of murdering a policeman at Linton, Ind., when he was caught robbing a house. The police of Linton and other cities in this part of the state also suspected Torricelli of having dynamited the homes of several Italians, who refused to comply with Black Hand demands.

PARSONS FUNERAL LARGELY ATTENDED The funeral of James Parsons took place at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon from the residence at 17 North 5th street and was attended by a large number of friends and relatives. Rev. Harman had charge of the services. The floral offerings were beautiful. Members of the G. A. R. post and the I. O. O. F. lodge conducted services at the home last evening and many friends called to pay their last respects. The honorary pall-bearers were George Wilson, W. W. Alexander, B. A. Bescher, Ed E. Miller, George Bishop and Charles Fry. The active pallbearers were William Rigsby and Charles Sinex from the I. O. O. F. lodge, Ralph Weller and J. F. Davenport from the G. A. R. post and Frank Carter and Herbert Ray from the fire department. Burial in Earlham cemetery.

KIDNAPS CHILD FROM HIS WIFE AT EATON, OHIO Police Search for Elmer Fleming, Charged With Abducting Son After Wife Refused to Return. Elmer Fleming, 1116 South A street, whose wife left him recently as a result of domestic troubles, going to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rule, Eaton, O., abducted his four year old son from the mother last night, while in Baton, escaping in an automobile driven by an unknown man before the distracted mother could notify the Eaton authorities. The whereabouts of Fleming and the child could not be ascertained today, but it is believed that he went to Anderson where some of his relatives reside. Fleming was formerly employed by the Adams Express company in this city but about a year ago he went west with his family. They made their home at Cheyenne, Wyo.,, but about two months ago he returned to Richmond with his wife and baby and they made their home at 1116 South A street. Return to Richmond. It is reported that there were many domestic disturbances in the Fleming household following their return from Cheyenne and that a few weeks ago Fleming tried to commit suicide by locking himself in the bathroom and turning on the gas. The police were summoned and Fleming's attempt on his life was thwarted. After that Mrs. Fleming took the baby and went to her parents' home in Eaton. It is stated that Fleming went to Eaton early last evening in an automobile and drove up in front of his father-in-law's home. He talked with his wife for some time trying to persuade her to return with him to Richmond. This she flatly refused to do. Then he asked her if he could not walk about with the baby a little while. She finally consented to this and, it is said, Fleming after walking a short distance with his son picked him up and jumped into the automo bile, which was driven rapidly out of the city. Mrs. Fleming came to Richmond last night and reported the kidnapping at police headquarters. Fleming did not return to Richmond, however, or at least the police were not able to locate him. VICIOUS DOG RIPS GASH IN UPPER LIP OF YOUNG CHILD Russell Alexander, aged 5, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Alexander, 231 South Third street, was attacked by a vicious dog on Main street in front of the Robinson factory, about noon today, and the animal ripped a gash a half inch long through the child's upper lip. Employes of the factory drove the dog into the office and kept it there until Officer Vogelsong arrived. He shot the dog as it stood in the office. A physician was summoned and the child received prompt medical treatment. There is a possibility that the animal was afflicted with rabies and it is quite probable that the dog's head will be sent to the state laboratory to determine whether it was afflicted with this disease. In the event that it was the little boy will be sent to the state Pasteur institute for treatment. LEAVES FOR LONDON. London, May 12. Haddon Chambers, the author, and W. Lestock, Brisish legal representative of the Frohman theatrical interests, left for Queenstown today to arrange for the removal ol Charles Frohman's body, to LiverpooL

CONSULS LEAVE BORDER TOWNS; CLOUDS LOWER Italian Government Takes Over Railroad Lines Leading to Frontier and Posts Sentries at Night.

WAR EXPECTED SOON Despite Concessions Made to Rome, Austria Prepares for Fighting Troops Guard Roads Citizens Flee. BY BRIXTON O. ALLAIRE. International News Service Staff Correspondent. ROME, Italy, May 12. A message by courier from Trent states that Crown Prince Rupprecht is expected there within a few days to take command of the Bavarian troops on the frontier, that the work of mining bridges is being rushed, that the railways have been turned over to the military establishment and that sentries are posted night and day on the top of every hill and mountain. Trent advices confirm the reports that Austria is convinced hostilities are imminent, saying: Suspends Navigation. "The Austrian government has suspended navigation in the Adriatic and ordered every Austrian steamer in Italian ports to return to their home harbor at once. "Trent is full of soldiers. Every road leading to the Italian border is heavily guarded. Many residents of the coast and frontier towns are proceeding to the interior." The Italian government is still withholding details as to the concessions made by Austria, but interventionist leaders declared today that the cabinet had determined to carry out its program, regardless of the fact that Austria had yielded. Today's cabinet meeting was awaited with great interest, but it was believed that no final action would be taken, as it was announced early in the day that King Victor Emmanuel would consult with several of the leading statesmen in the near future. OLD TRAILS SOCIETY PLANS MILTON TRIP TO BOOST HIGHWAY There will be an open meeting of the Wayne Township Old Trails Road association- at the Commercial club rooms this evening at eight o'clock. Matters of importance will be taken up. A report from the county organization committee, of which Lawrence Handley is chairman, will be taken up and arrangements made for attending the meeting at Milton Thursday night, Centerville Friday night, Williamsburg Saturday night, to be followed at an early date by an automobile excursion into the different townships to acquaint them with the purpose of the organization and assist in forming such an organization in each township. Clifford Price, chairman of the membership committee, will report. The matter of a ladies' auxiliary to this associatipn will also be considered. No citizen of the community can afford to shirk his responsibility in the matter of creating enthusiasm and planning for rebuilding the National road. There is a great deal of notoriety in the newspapers over the Lincoln Memorial Way and the Dixie Highway. Enthusiasm over the county is gratifying to the leaders and it will soon be unpopular for individuals to neglect their part in this enterprise. GAVE UP LIFESAVER LONDON. May 12. "Death is hard to bear but in may case It is made a little easier by the knowledge that my husband died a hero," declared Mrs. Blish Thompson of Indiana, a Lusitania survivor. Mrs. Thompson, who arrived in London today, declared that her husband could have saved himself, but that he took off his life saver to give it to a woman passenger who did not have any. WARN AMERICANS TO LEAVE BERLIN WASHINGTON, May 12. A report wholly unconfirmed from any official source was current today that Ambassador Gerard has been requested by the state department to notify Americans in Germany to return home as soon as possible. The report was that this step had not been taken as a forerunner of war but in order to protect citizens in event of an anti-American outbreak after the president's note Is delivered.

LISBON GETS SHOCK OF POLITICAL RIOTS

LISBON, May 12. The most serious political riots that have occurred since the Royalist attempt was made to replace Manuel upon the Portuguese throne, took place here today. Many persons were hurt, some of theiru fatally. Scores of arrests were made and a declaration of martial law is threatened. Four thousand Royalists took part in the hostile demonstration against the republican government. Former Premeir Costa addressed the mob and pleaded with the rioters to disperse without avail. The Royalists marched to the residence of Captain Couciero, one of their leaders, where the disorders broke out afresh. FRENCH ADMIT TRENCHES LOST AT VERMELLES Germans Retake Positions Shortly After Allies Take Lines While Teuton Artillery Assists Infantry. PARIS, May 12. Official admission that part of the trenches captured by the French at Vermelles had been retaken by the Germans on a furious counter assault was made today by the French war office. The German attacks were delivered last night within a few hours after the French had oc-j cupiea ine eartnworKS. The official communication shows that the great battle north of Arras still continues over ground which has seen much furious fighting since the war began. Vermelles , lie6 5 miles southeast of Bethune and about 11 miles north of Arras. It is on the Bethune-Arras highway and upon the railway line that runs through Douai and Bethune. It is not iar north of Carency where the French claimed to have the Ger mans nearly surrounded yesterday. The Germans have taken up strong al-l tillery positions in the Arras sphere of i operations. I At some points they massed an un-j expected mass of men and guns and 1 were able to assume the offensive after the battle had been launched by! the allies. An enormous number of cannon have been sent to this front ; from Germany and Belgium. KAISER VISITS VIENNA AMSTERDAM, May 12. Emperor William of Germany was responsible for the concessions made to Italy byAustria, according to advices received here from Berlin. These reports state that in a final effort to prevent Italy from joining the allies that the emperor hastened to Vienna and there held a long conference with Franz Joseph. LUSITANIA'S SINKING SCARES PASSENGERS ON CUNARD SAXONIA NEW YORK, May 12. Two hun dred and fifty-six passengers who had! been terrified by the sinking of the j Lusitania and the knowledge that they! themselves had a narrow escape from death arrived in port today on the Cunard liner Saxonia from Liverpool. The Saxonia passed the Lusitania thirty-six hours before the latter liner was torpedoes. William Livessy of Caldwell, N. J., declared that several passengers saw j periscopes while the Saxonia was passing through St. George's channel. ' One of the submarines was so near that the captain of the Cunarder or-' dered the passengers to put on life belts and the life boats were swung outward for immediate use. When word of the Lusitania was received by wireless, the officers of the Saxonia tried to keep it secret but it leaked out. DELEGATES ATTEND K. OF C. SESSIONS Al T. McTigue and Leo Zeyen are the delegates from the Richmond council, Knights of Columbus lodge, who are attending the annual state convention which adjourns tonight after a two-days' session held in Notre Dame in South Bend. J. Madison Walsh of Washington, Indiana, was chosen president. Earl S. Dickens of South Bend, was selected with Thomas McKee of Indianapolis, Edward Remmert of Fort Wayne, and M. W Lyons of Rushville, to attend the supreme convention in Seattle, Wash., on Aug 4 as delegates foni Indiana.

1 0,000 TROOPS BATTLE TO QUELL ANTI-GERMAN MOB SPIRIT IN LONDON Pitched Battles Being Fought Between Police and Rioters in All Sections of British Capital as Resentment Against German Residents Grows Over Lusitania Incident Kaiser's Subjects Concentrate in Houses and Fight with Angry Mobs Stores and Shops Sacked and Contents Thrown in Gutters and on Streets Demonstrations Spread Over Whole City and Soldiers Ordered to Disperse Gathering of Enraged Citizens. ASQUITH GALLS SPECIAL CABINET SESSION

Special Constabulary Called Out at Noon When Police Are Unable to Cope with Situation Women Join in Disturbances Many Injured by Police in Clearing Streets and Scores Arrested Stores Refuse to Sell Supplies to Teutons Lord Charles Beresford, Member of Parliament, Demands Arrest of All Persons of German Extraction, No Matter What Their Wealth or Station May Be Newspapers Stir Up Public Opinion. LONDON, May 12 Alarmed by the spread of anti-German rioting throughout London and England today, Premier Asquith this aiternoon called a special meeting of the cabinet to consider plans for dealing with the disturbances. The war office ordered 10,000 troops to various sections of the city. Martial law is imminent. The authorities fear that German homes will be burned tonight. Anti-German riots that were resumed this morning are growing in violence this afternoon. Pitched battles are being fought between the mobs and the police. Many have been injured and scores have been arrested. The special constabulary force organized for service if German airships raided London were called out at noon to protect former subjects of Germany. . German residents of the East India

GO FROM RICHMOND TO MAKE SEA TRIP ON WRECKED LINER Mr. and Mrs. David Loynd Visit Mrs. Mary Grimshaw

Local Relatives Believe er continued. The police here were nM- t- j reinforced by 600 special cousiables. Ihem Dead. Many Russian Jews flocki-J to the police stations asking for protection Leaving Richmond fifteen davs ago1 because they were mistaken for Ger- . . . . . ! mans. Turbulent scenes were enacted refusing to heed warnings of danger. at Smithsfield market. Every CerMr. and Mrs. David Loynd. who spent ; man there was driven from the neigha month visiting Mrs. Belle Thompson ! borhood. Several were stoned and

nnd Mrs Marv flrimshaw 134 South Fifteenth stre3t, are believed to have perished in tb.3 Lusitania disaster. Mrs. Grimshaw, who is Mrs. Loynd's j sister, and Mrs. Thompson, a close friend of the Loynds. have given up Relatives in Pennsylvania ca

bled tor lntorniation rega.aing ise ire. Russian residents called for poLoynds and received a reply saying; nce protection this atternoon because they had not been located. j the mob had mistaken several of The Loynds reside in a suburb of j them for Germans. By 3 o'clock the Liverpool. Mr. Loynd is a Presbyter- rioting had extended to North Lon-

ian minister and came to country aj short time ago to take a church in Pennsylvania, immediately taking out first naturalization papers. He gave up his church in March and cante to Richmond to visit while closing nego - tiations fcr tne purchase of a dry. goods store in Liverpool. The couple left here two weeks ago! on Tuesday, stopping two or three days in Pennsylvania to visit. They proceeded to New York where they took passage on the Lusitania. Attempts were made to prevent the Loynds from leaving here, but Mr. Loynd refused to heed warnings, declaring there was no danger of submarine attack on the Lusitania. He wrote for nassaee while in Richmond and had his tickets and staterooms reserved before leaving here. Mrs. Grimshaw has written relatives in England asking for information re - gardins her sister and brother-in-law. Members of the family believe Mr. Loynd's perfect assurance that noth - ing would happen to the Lusitania and in his confidence of reaching England safely, would prevent him from making preparations for safety even though otter passengers on the boat were impressed by the warnings and threats given out before the sailing. LANDS SURVIVORS. FREDERIKSHAVEN. Denmark. May 12. The Danish schooner Anna today landed survivors of the Swedish bark Elsa, which was torpedoed by a German submarine May 4.

Dock road, concentrated in two houses today and fortified themselves for defense. They were stormed by mobs, but the Germans succeeded in beating off their assailants. Refuse to Surrender. When the police arrived on the scene they called on the Germans to surrender, promising protection, but the Germans refused. Police reinforcements were called to gt them out. A dozen arrests were made after rioting in the east end. but ihi disord-

I nc: mjuitu. Sack German Shops. One man turned on his pursuers and drew a revolver. When the crowd wavered hf dasllAH tlirr.ncii r. c-nhn-av ; station and escaped. German shops were sacked and vans cariying meat to them were overturned and set on don. All the shops of German nature were looted. Mounted police were called out to disperse the mobs. Soldiers also were called to this section. In the ' meantime the water front was a scene of continued rioting. Sixty-four German shops near the docks were sacked. German jewelry idiops were ; smashed and their contents thrown into the gutters. Germans found hiding under beds were thrown out of windows. Several police and civilians were injured in this section. Women in Mobs. In this city mobs, some cf which were made up largely of women, of the militant suffragette type, attacked German shops and German citizens in the streets. In the east end the police ! v"ere jeered as "huns" v.h-u they attempted to rescue German citizens, j Three members of one mob were so badly beaten by the police they had to be taken to a hospital and fifteen i arrests were made In many stores the following signs have been put up: WE DON'T SELL TO CITIZENS OF THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES: GERMANY AUSTRIA AND TURKEY. British wholesale markati ore refusing to supply German shop keepers with meat, fish and other commodities. Lord Charles Beresford. a member t of parliament, la demanding: the ar' Continued On Page Eight.)