Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 186, 19 July 1915 — Page 1

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PEACE ADVOCATES ASK TERMINATION OF TOH; U. S. TO STAY fiUTRAL Large Mass Meeting at Glen Miller Hears War Denounced as Shame of Civilization and Passes Resolutions Seeking . ....,.. ........ j Permanent Congress of Neutral Nations. WANT RIGHTS OF ALL NEUTRALS PROTECTED

Advocates of Peace Petition President

Below It the eet of reeolutions to be forwarded to President Wllaon Tuesday afternoon, probably: "Whereas, The circumstances attending modern warfare' demand new limitations of the rights of belligerents In order to safeguard the rights , of neutrals and "Whereas. The rights of neutrals cannot now be secured by military measures owing to the violation of those rights by both sides. "Be It resolved that the government of the United States call a Congress of the neutral nations of the Western Hemisphere, thus creating a unit of powerful influence to promote the following purposes: "1. To make such interpretation of international law as will define In the light of modern warfare, the rights and duties of neutrals. "2. To continue as a permanent Congress for the sake of promoting the mutual Interests of such nations in times of peace as well as times of war. ' j.-. "3. To discuss those vital problems of international relations connected with securing the future permanent peace of the world and to devise a definite, constructive program. "4. Such Congress to serve as a nucleus for a federation of all nations as may from time to time see fit to join. "That copies of these resolutions be sent to President Woodrow Wilson, Senators John , Kern and Benjamin Shively and Representative Finly H. Gray. '

Peace everlasting In the new eraas the outcome of the present European conflict and the unswerving neutrality of the United States, were dis- ' cussed and urged by representative Richmond speaker la axttiaporaneons , speeches delivered - before a- mass peace meetng held on the Chautauqua grounds cf . Glen Miller park Sunday afternoon ,. ' , "...a Many people heard the speeches and

- i unanimously endorsed the , provisions of the set of resolutions drawn up by a committee, petitioning for a permanent Congress of the neutral nations to be called immediately for a conference by the Congress of this coun- ' try. . Purpose of Congress. It is desired that this proposed congress of the nations of the Western hemisphere decide upon such interpretation of International law as will effectually guarantee the rights of neutral nations; that it permanently provide for the interests of these nations after the close of the war and that it serve as a nucleus for such federation of all nations as may later join. ' A copy of these resolutions, drawn in view of the violations of the rights of neutral nations by practically all of the countries involved in the war because the protection of these rights cannot be obtained by military measures, will be forwarded to President Wilson, Senator John Kern and Senator Benjamin F. Shively of Indiana and Congressman Finly H. Gray. Personnel of Committee. The resolutions were drawn up by a committee consisting of Timothy Nicholson, Hans Koll, Vincent Nicholson, Rev. Conrad Huber and Pettis Reid which was appointed by Edgar Iliff, who presided as chairman of the meeting. No set program was followed at the meeting. The speakers who were called from the audience by Mr. Iliff were the following persons: Timothy Nicholson, Rev. Murray S. Kenworthy, Alfred Bavis, Pettis A. Reid, Rev. Mur-j ray, Lee Summerson, Rev. Conrad Huber, Vincent Nicholson, Rev. W. R. Motley, Miss Kate Slnelser and Mr. Iliff. It was the . tenor of their remarks j that war between Germany and the United States was avoidable nothwithstanding the present 6trained diplomatic situation and that peace was ' wanted by the people of both nations almost at any cost. There was no need of war on America's part with any nation on earth, it was thought. Protest Against War. All the speakers protested against the European embroglio. emphasized its lack of necessity, deplored its carnage and suffering and pointed out its possible and probable effects upon future generations. The meeting opened with invocation by Rev. Conrad Huber, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church which was followed by the singing of "America" by the hundreds of people composing the audience. The European war was described as an epidemic, both contagious and infectious by Chairman Edgar Iliff. He said that the peace resolutions would be of no avail that resolutions on health passed in the midst of a cholera or plague epidemic of the United States were drawn into the maelstrom. Mr. Iliff said in part: "This is a peace meeting and therefore neutral as between the great nations now at war. Its purpose, as I understand it, is to protest against war, that' great scourge of ancient times, of modern times, of all time. Every sane man and woman abhors j war. And yet as far back as we can go we find wars and rumors of war. "In the last fifteen years we have i Continued On Page Seven.

welsh miners odddratehn COAtOTE Whole Industry Tied.Up and Government May. Have to Take Over Mines to Obtain Fuel. ,

BULLETIN. . CARDIFF, July 19-lt Is learned from a semi-official source that the government hat submitted modified proposals to the striking Welsh coal miners, which are believed to be acceptable. Minister of Munitions D. L. George is expected here tonigtit from London. LONDON, Jiily 19. There was a full meeting of the cabinet in Downing street today at which Walter Runciman, president of the government board of trade, reported the result of his conference with representatives of the striking Welsh coal miners. The importance of the strike overshadows even the military operations in France, because unless it is ended soon there will be no fuel for the British navy and for the factories that are turning out necessary war supplies. England can not look to France for help because the French coal mines are in the territory held by the Germans. An official statement relative to the strike was expected in parliament late in the day. The strike appeared no nearer settlement than ever, although there had been rumors of a compromise. The meeting of President Runciman of the board of trade and the mine owners .scheduled to take place this afternoon, was postponed, and this was regarded as a gloomy omen. According to the London Star the authorities admit that unless the government takes over the Welsh coal fields and works the mines under martial law, a settlement is Indefinite. The normal output of the mines is about 100,000 tons a day., Many Welsh steel and tinplate mills have been compelled to shut down. Railroads are feeling the fuel shortage, and the movement of troops and supplies is thus hindered. Weather Forecast U. S. Report Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Cooler south portion tonight. . Temperature. Noon 79 Yesterday. Maximum ....................... 89 Minimum ...... .". ................ 61 For Richmond Mostly fair and cool tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy. General Conditions The storm of evening was due to an area of low barometric pressure that rapidly Crossed the lakes and central states. A cool wave covers, the northwest and will bring relief from the heat. Another storm from the west will reach here within the next 48 hours. W. E. Moore Weather Forecaster.

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MAY PARK OARS ALONG NORTH A TO CLEAR MAIN Works Board Considers Bavis' Plan to Declare New Asphalt Street . Boulevard, Limiting Traffic. Steps to relieve the congestion of traffic on Main street, were proposed today by Alfred Bavis, president of the board of public works. Mr. Bavis advocated an ordinance which Would designate the kind of traffic which should use .North A street, thereby converting the street into a boulevard. He also suggested that the measure permit the parking of automobiles on the boulevard, while prohibiting parking on Main street. Other members of the board, declared property owners would object. City Attorney Bond said, however, that he believed the city could designate parking places in any part of the city. Charles Marlatt, board member, opposed making the street a boulevard, declaring that the street-would stand up under any traffio that could pass over brick streets. He and John McMinn both admitted the necessity of taking immediate action to keep" so many machines from standing along Main street curbs. Mr. Bavis declared the streets particularly dangerous on Saturday nights, when only a narrow passageway is left for the movement of traffic. He said a run by the fire department at any time might mean the loss of life to persons on the street. This he pointed out would make the city liable for damages. As council is also wrestling with the traffic problem the board suspended discussion without making any recommendations. GUARD GRAVEL PIT TO AVERT WRECKS The dangerous condition of the North Nineteenth street concrete drive near Slick's gravel pit was called to the attention of the board of public works today. Along . the side of the pit the concrete has broken and has sunk several inches. As the side of the road is not protected by a railing there is danger that automobilists may. plunge down the embankment into the pit twenty-five feet below. The board will probably act : on the recommendation of the city engineer to erect a railing along the edge of the pit and to mark the place with red lights at night until the railing is complete. ' . .

A 1 "Nobody Home" NEW WHEAT IS SOFT About 2,800 bushels of new wheat have been received at the Champion Roller mills. The new grain grades No. 2, but is said to be green and soft on acount of the continued damp and cloudy weather, which has prevented it from curing properly. The price on No. 2 wheat is $1. Among the farmers who have delivered grain are Charles , Wilson, George Tharp, Carl Hodgln. Frank Jay, John Purviance and Louis Hampton. ENGLAND TO PAY ARMS STRIKERS HIGHERJVAGES Rumored at Springfield Morgan to Order Owners to Grant Increased Wages, England Paying Cost. SPRINGFIELD. Mass., July 19. Instructions from the British government to prevent industrial disturbances in American factories, manufacturing war munitions for the allies, have been received by J. P. Morgan & Co., according to information received today by Daniel R. Donovan, chairman of the labor forward movement of Springfield. 1 " Mr. Donovan's information is that D. A. Thomas, agent for the British government, has transmitted his government's orders to the Morgan firm. Mr. Thomas has the placing of all orders for Great Britain and her allies. Mr. Donovan received his information in a letter from a woman said to be in a position to know what transpires in the Morgan offices. The instructions given by Thomas to Morgan, it is said, are not to resist the demands of labor in any of the factories which have received war orders through the Morgan house. If the story is (rue Thomas undoubtedly has orders to transmit bis Instructions to every American agent for war .orders. This would explain his appearance in Bridgeport, where the , Remington company is located. According to the .story : Thomas has been instructed by his government that Great Britain will pay the additional costs in granting the demands of machinists and the manufacturers will not lose a penny's profit. INCREASE IN LUMBER RATES ON ROADS WASHINGTON, July 19. The ' Interstate Commerce Commission today refused to grant a general increase in freight rates on lumber between various points in Mississippi and Ohio river valleys and ordered cancelled new tariffs of the B. & O.-and other railroads proposing the advances. The increases were declared unreasonable.

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WILSON WORKS ON ANSWER TO GERMAN NOTE i President and Secretary Lansing Confer Upon Contents of Document to Answer Kaiser's Note. ' BY THEODORE TILLER. WASHINGTON, July IS. President Wilson's return here today set the stage for official conferences on the reply to the German note and the drafting of an answer that is expected to acquaint Germany finally with this government's unalterable attitude on the kaiser's submarine warfare. Within an hour after the president's return Secretary of State Lansing was in conference with him. He brought from the state department the memorandum which he had prepared on the German crisis. Secretary Lansing would not dis cuss the effect the Orduna incident would have upon the reply to Germany. He stated that he had no re port other than the newspaper ac count of the affair It is believed that the American reply will not encourage further parley with , Germany, which government already has sent two evasive communications. The Washington note, it is understood, will intimate broadly, if it does not say outright, what may be the consequences of further sacrifice of American lives throught Germany's submarine activities. The case of the Orduna will stiffen the reply of the United States if official reports bear out the unofficial statements that this Cunard liner was attacked without warning by a submarine and the lives of more than a score of Americans aboard her jeopardized. . - TURKISH GUNS SINK BOATS OF INVADERS CONSTINOPLE, July 19. It Is officially reported that during the fighting last Wednesday a number of boats belonging to the Anglo-French fleet were sunk by Turkish guns. Heavy firing is in progress near Avi Burnu. Near Sedd El Bahr there have been violent night attacks. The Turks are bombarding the allies camp near Sedd El Bahr dally. .The Turkish government is removing Armenians throughout Turkey, where it is considered they are in danger. Twelve thousand Greek women and children have been ordered to leave Aivalint, it is reported, despite protests of the Greek government.

5.000,098 LM GRAPPLE IP GIGfltJTie STRUGGLE FOR FORTS OF WARSAW Germany's Troops Led by Three Brilliant Generals Try to Crush Russia in Fierce Battles Raging Over

Whole Eastern Front.

GRAND DUKE'S ARMY BERLIN, July 19. The supreme effort of Germany and Austria to crush Russia now Is in full swing with the Teutonic allies meeting with brilliant success at every turn. Confident predictions were made here today that Warsaw will be In German hands by the middle of August. The Teutonic armies in Poland are led by three of the most brilliant soldiers in the empire General von Buelow, Field Marshal von Hindenburg and Field Marshal von Mackensen. r The army of General von Buelow is driving toward Riga In order to cut the lines of communication, leading into Warsaw from the north. In northern Poland the troops of Field Marshal von Hindenburg are advancing while the Russians are falling back toward the Narew river. In southern Poland the forces of Field Marshal von Mackensen are within a few miles of the LublinScholm railway and already dominate it with their artillery. 5 MILLON MEN FIGHT. PETROGRAD, July 19. Five million men are believed to be engaged in the gigantic battle which is raging in Poland and Galicia with Warsaw the objective of the Teutonic hosts. Never in the world's history has there been a conflict in which so many men and SUBMARINE WRECKS CRUISER GARIBALDI Italian Armored Vessel Goes Down Fifteen Minutes After Attack. VIENNA ( July 19. The Italian armored cruiser, Giuseppe Garibaldi was torpedoed and sunk in the Adriatic sea this morning by' an Austrian submarine, it Is officially announced by the Austrian admiralty. The Giuseppe Garibaldi was attacked south of Ragusa and sank within fifteen minutes after being struck. The Giuseppe Garibaldi was a vessel of 7,234 tons, and normally carried a complement of 550 men. The cruiser was equipped with Krupp armor, and was capable of twenty knots. Her keel was laid down in 1898, and she was completed in 1899. Ragusa, south of which point the warship was sunk, is a fortified seaport of Austra-Hungary, in Dalmatia, on a peninsular, thirty miles from Cattaro. From the position of the attack it Is-evident that the Giuseppe Garibaldi was one of the ships in the Italian squadron which has been patroling the Dalmationa coast, bombarding Austrian position from time to time. FRANK RECOVERING FROM STAB WOUND MADE BY CONVICT ATLANTA. Ga., July 19. That the optimistic reports given out by some of the physicians attending Leo M. Frank are not entirely justified was shown by a long distance conversation at 10:45 this morning with Dr. H. A. Moses of Macon, who visited Frank this morning. While Dr. Moses stated he did not believe Frank's condition was in any way critical, his injuries may yet prove fatal. The wound shows some swelling, due to the hot weather, and there is danger of infection from that source. Frank's temperature also shows an increase, having gone to 102 degrees. The Georgia prison commission and other authorities today began a thorough probe into all phases of the attack on the famous prisoner. William Creen, who stabbed Frank, still maintains that he alone is responsible for the attack, and the prison authorities have been unable to shake his story. THAW GOES TO MOTHER PHILADELPHIA, July 19. A free man for almost seventy-two hours, without taking a drink, and without doing anything especially spectacular, except to try to run away from his newspaper escort at Market street station last night, Harry K. Thaw, with apparently no definite plan except to divorce Evelyn Nesblt Thaw, today left Philadelphia for Pittsburg. He was going to his boyhood home, where" the mother who for nine years has fought valiantly,' shoulder to shoulder . with her favorite son for his - freedom, eagerly awaited him.

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big guns were engaged. In the sector of southern Poland alone there are approximately 3.000,00 men at grips over a batUe field one hundred miles long. Regroup Russians. The great struggle of the Germans is to reach the Lublln-Cholm railroad but . Grand Duke Nicholas has regrouped his Russian forces with such skill that the Germans are hard put. The Russians are assisted by the topography of the country, the battlefield lying amid swamps and thick stretches of thick undergrowth. ; There are three great German armies which are tempting to drive against the Polish capital. These are commanded by General von Buelow, whose lorces lie upon the Windau river; sField Marshal von Hindenburg, whose legions re battling around Przasnysz and Field Marshal von Mackensen. who Is moving against the Lublln-Cholm railway. These are regarded as three of the most brilliant soldiers in Germany and their presence in the eastern theatre of war shows the determination of Germany to throw her best resources against the Russians. Field Marshal von Mackensen has vast armies lined up for . the battle between the Vistula and Bug rivers. PURTELLE HELD FOR ISSUE OF S3;goo checks Leslie Cole, Chicago Attorney, Says He Cashed Worthless Paper for ExTraction Promoter. Worthless checks aggregating $3.600 In all, given by Eugene Purtella to Attorney ieslie E. Cole, of Park Ridge, m., put the erstwhile promoter of the Richmond & Hamilton traction line behind the bars of the Cook county Jail in Chicago. Cole was the "angel" putting up the money for Purtelle when he was trying to put through a traction line from this city to Hamilton. Purtelle was locked up on the charge of operating a confidence game. Mr. Cole charged that he cashed checks to the extent of $3,500 for Purtelle, and afterward found they were worthless. Electric Road Promoter. Purtelle's meteoric career as a paper interurban line promoter was first exposed in Richmond by the Palladium. Purtelle resented the charges, but waa unable to disprove the printed state ments. Purtelle was arrested last April la Chicago on a charge of defrauding the Hotel Sherman, but prosecution waa dropped when he paid the amount due. On June 1 he was arrested on a charge of passing a bogus check on E. A. Miller, who has offices in the Insurance Exchange building, Chicago. He was held to the grand jury and indicted on this charge. The case la still pending. Last July Purtelle, who has offices in Chicago, was promoting an electric line to . run between Richmond and Hamilton. According to Charles Daly, attorney for Cole, Purtelle elected himself president of the company, and interested Cole in the project. Mr. Cole says Purtelle gave him one share of stock and made him treasurer. Purtelle then went to Hamilton and sent back glowing accounts of how he was progressing in the work of obtaining right of way grants and endorsements , of various chambers of commerce. Then, according to Cole, he wrote back for expense money, and sent checks for the amounts sent him. Cole alleges Purtelle gave him in all checks for $3,500, which were returned by the banks when he tried to cash them. . - List of Venture. Purtelle's bonds were fixed at $5,000. He accused Cole of having had him locked up on Saturday afternoon in order that he would have to spend Sunday in jail. He also made other charges against Attorney Cole, which ' the latter branded as falsehoods. Purtelle has a long list of meteoric business adventures to hi credit from 1902, when. he was Milwaukee manager for "Red Letter" Sullivan, operators of a string of bucket shops from coast, until his arrest In June. At another time he exploited the Northwestern Indiana Traction company, a $5,000,000 paper interurban line. He ran up an $8,000 labor bin. and - sncceaBfiillv defeniiml a ' ani brought by a hote'lkeeper at Dyer tor ouu, wnicn ne cuumea to be due for boarding a party of surveyors. :