Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 187, 20 July 1915 — Page 1
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EXECUTIVE LAYS DRAFT OF NOTE BEFORE CABINET Details of Note Kept Secret But Document Expected to Be Final Reply of This Country.
DEMANDS V RESULTS Wilson Will Not Argue Merits of British Blockade Nor Right of Retaliation by Submarines. WASHINGTON, July 20. President Wilson and his cabinet met today in one of the most important sessions in recent months to consider the German crisis. A preliminary draft of the third note of this government on the Lusitanla tragedy and Germany's submarine warfare was presented to the members. If the cabinet apprpves the rough draft ( of the note as planned at the conference yesterday between the president and Secretary of State Lan elng, it will be put into final shape at once and should be on its way to Berlin: by Saturday. In event of publication of the text, officials were requested by President Wilson not to discuss the note or its contents, and the white house dis couraged forecasts of the tenor of the reply to Germany's latest evasive answer., it being suggested that the note may be changed before it Is cabled to Berlin. Note to be Final. ' Beyond the fact that the American reply, of necessity, will reiterate the position formerly taken by this government and that the note has about it an air of finality, so far as further parley is concerned through diplomatic correspondence details, are lacking regarding the nature of the document adopted by the president and his preIt is understood that the note will be brief. The arguments in the reply which Germany sent in answer to the last communication from this government, will not be taken as an example. The president and his advisers are understood to defeire to discourage a continued wordy exchange of arguments. This government instep d wants a prompt recognition bpr Germany of the principles the United States has enunciated of the freedom of the seas. It has not become evident to the government officials how a continuance of the correspondence between the two nations can be of benefit at the present time. Germany's counter proposal have proved unacceptable to the United States, and the disposition of the kaiser's government to argue the merit and demerit of the British blockade and .the submarine campaign in retaliation is regarded as entirely apart from the issue raised with the United States by the sinking of the Lusitania. RUSS ASSERTS LINES INTACT PETROGRAD, July 20. Russian armies are now sustaining on all fronts the most terrific assaults that the Austro-German armies have yet launched. The Teutonic allies have bent the Russian lines at several places, but nowhere have they succeeded in piercing the Russian front, the war office asserted today. The masterly strategy of Grand Duke Nicholas is again evident. At no point is he risking a general battle against the Teutons with their superior equipment, but by orderly withdrawals at the threatened points is keeping his lines intact. The latest reports from the grand duke admit that the enemy has made the Baltic provinces, on the Vieprz river, in the Lublin district and on (the Bug river near the Poland-Galicia frontier. , REMINGTON COMPANY GRANTS SI INCREASE AND "LOCKS IN" MEN BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 20. The strike of the machinists in the Remington arms plant, scheduled to take place at noon today and postponed until 1 o'clock, failed to materialize at 1:30. Vice President Johnson of the Structural Iron Workers, announced at that time: 'The Remington company has locked our men in the factory. They have offered them a dollar a day increase and the men are 'in' that much. What can we do Jto get them out?" Orders were issued today to the naval militia stationed in Bridgeport to be ready to report for strike duty at the Remington Arms TJ. M. C. strike tone at fifteen strokes of the fire alarm system. Fifteen rounds of riot ammunition has been issued to each man.
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WALES GOAL STRIKE BROUGHT TO CLOSE CARDIFF. July 20. Minister of Munitions David Lloyd-George has affected a settlement in the South Wales coal fields that threw 250,000 men out of work and threatened to cripple the navy and the munitions plants supplying the army. Announcement was made this afternoon that the coal operators had accepted the terms agreed upon by Lloyd-George and the miners at a morning conference. Proposals of compromise were submitted to the leaders this forenoon by Lloyd-George, President Runciman of the board of trade, and President Henderson of the board of education, the last named being one of the most powerful labor leaders in the country. They will be presented at a special conference of the strike leaders tomorrow with a recommendation that the strike be called off at , midnight Wednesday. SUES POLICE CHIEF FOR IMPRISONMENT False imprisonment has been charged Against Chief of Police Harry Goodwin and George and Anna McKinley by Eva Sullivan in a suit to collect $500 damages, filed in the circuit court by her attorney, Cecil Clark, today. In her complaint she says that she was arrested and imprisoned for seven days on a false charge of provoke made by the McKinleys and later was held on a false charge of assault and battery. The arrests were made in August, 1912. During her imprisonment, she claims the defendants conspired together and issued a false charge of insanity against her. The inquest wa3 held in the court of Justice Harry Chessman and 'she was acquitted. She was humiliated, she says, in being paraded up and down before people in the court room many times, lost her position as a domestic and was compelled to hire an attorney at a cost of $300 to defend her. The case will be heard by Judge Fox during the next term of court. ARREST ANARCHIST LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 20. Edward Holt, a confessed anarchist, was held here today by the federal authorities, on his admission that he sent threatening letters to C. White Mortimer, British vice consul in Lbs Angeles. The specific charge on which Holt was arrested was setting fire to the contents of a letter box. He was caught in the act of dropping a kerosene soaked torch into a mail box.
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PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANIES LAX ONREPAIRING Council Decides to Enforce Ordinance Providing for Inspectors Watchng Repairs of Excavations. WILL ENFORCE LAW Inspectors Hired by Corporations Give - Poor Results, Councilman Argues at the Meeting Last Night. Council last night decided to enforce an ordinance passed a few weeks ago, which provides for the employment of inspectors to see that the public serl vice corporations place streets in good repair atter making excavations. The motion which was finally passed was introduced by Councilman Howells, who complained that a public utility was digging three holes in South Eleventh street, on which the city spent $500 for new macadam last year. It was recalled that employment of inspectors was authorized in an ordinance passed recently after the first measure introduced had been killed. Immediately on the passage of the law the corporations appeared before the board and asked that they be permitted to employ Inspectors themselves. They were granted "this privilege to violate the law,"., as City . Attorney Bond summed up the case. Still complaints are registered. Easy to Find Violators. Mr. Bond said the existing ordinance was sufficiently strong and only needed enforcement and that the city engineer's office kept a record of all excavations, so it should not be hard to place the responsibility. ' Councilmen Burdsall and Carter said the present system of having the inspectors employed by the corporations would not give the' desired results. All joined, however, in praising the work which Councilman White has done as inspector for the gas company. The city once, employed inspectors , at thirty-five cents on hour, whose salary was met by the corporations, and who produced results, said E. G. McMahan. After the system had been operative for a short time, the utilities were allowed to beg off. Councilman O'Neal, Steinbrink, Weishaupt and White opposed the resolution. Steinbrink gave as his reason tha the same action had been taken before and that it wouldn't do anygood to take it again, as nothing bad been done.
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-their cave dwellings is-sometimes GERMAN SUBMARINE OFF NOVA SCOTIA? PORTLAND, Me., July 20. Reports that British warships had sighted and fired, upon a - German submarine off the coast of Nova Scotia lart Wednesday, reached here by mail today, the writer stating that the Canadian censor had. forbidden the transmission of the news by telegraph. The letter, said that the engagement occurred near Halifax, 47 shots having been heard , after three British warships had been seen dashing along the coast at full speed. . $750,000,000 MORE FOR WAR FROM ENGLAND LONDON, July 20. Premier Asquith today asked parliament to vote $750,000,000 for war expenses. In presenting his motion in the house of commons, the premier revealed that the daily expenses In Great Britain are $41 r 220,685. ! The total vote of credit for the financial year to July 17 la over $1,504,550,000. In making his request for additional money, the - premier announced that the present vote would last to the end of August. Premier Asquith set forth the expenditures up to July 17 as follows: "Army and navy, 241,693,000 pounds; loans to dominions and allies, 43,915,658 pounds; food supplies and other purposes, 15,302,000 pounds. "The daily rate of expenditure is uncertain," continued the premier, "but its tendency i - to Increase about $3,000,000 daily. This may be increased." CARRANZiSTAS TAKE NACO SONORA CITY WASHINGTON, July 20. Naco Sonora was taken at noon yesterday by a force of 200 . Carranzistas, so Vice Consul Cochran at Nogales reported today. . Cochran stated that the Villistas comprising the garrison 'at Naco put up a defense, but were driven out. A dispatch from Consul Edwards at Jaurez, announced that General Villa is without communication : south of Zacatecas and that the last reports which -Villa received -from his flying column of cavalry in, the south was that it had taken Querearo," in the new war zone."
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JITNEY RULES DEMANDED BY CITYJOtlNCIL Weishauot and Walterman Claim Jitneys Pay No Rev enue to City as Does Street Car Company. WHITE FOR COMPANY Claims 1 Corporation Pays $49,000 in Wages, While Competition Does Little to Keep Money in City. What is council going to do with the jitney buses? . Council does not know, but did not find out that it did not know until after members had argued pro and con for nearly an hour. Then the ordinance committee was Instructed to take the different statements made by the councilmen and the mayor and use them as a basis for some sort of regulation. Jitney bus operators were declared by some councilmen to be irresponsible financially and were even charged with conducting "Joy rides" in their machines at night instead of operating their cars along their routes and according to announced schedules. How Robbins Feels. During the discussion the mayor recalled the fight between the city and the street car company over the snow ordinance last winter; pointed out that council was -without a law, to control the corporation next winter and then charged that some members of council were catering to the utility now by discrimination against the Jitneys. Councilman Walterman started the dispute when he recommended that the jitney proprietors carry insurance on their passengers, stop fifty feet from all corners, and carry no more passengers than the capacity of their cars. Councilman Russell said he bad heard that a colored woman had been refused passage in one of the buses, which he declared was against the law! Call Jitneys a Detriment. That the jitney bus is a detriment to the city is the opinion of Alphonse Weishaupt. He said the street car company paid taxes and helps improve the street, assuming certain obligations. He backed Walterman in his statement that the jitneys were used for joy rides at night. "Everybody knocks the street car company," said Councilman White. It pays $49,000 in wages, he said, which is spent in Richmond each year, while one of the jitney operators lives in Dayton and would spend his money there. White declared that the street car company has not taken a dollar out of Richmond in four years. Then the mayor took part in the discussion expressing his peevishness at the corporation over the snow ordinance and telling the councilmen that if they had held their peace and acted as if they wanted to cater to the street car company Richmond might have had improved service, but that they could not expect it after favoring the utility. Urges Delay. He recommended that council wait until after the public service com mission had decided whether it had the right to regulate the buses. Bond Bald he believed council would have the right to regulate the schedules and routes of the lines. The general sentiment, however, seemed to be that the jitneys should be placed under a bond, not too heavy to prevent operation, and should operate along given routes and on regular schedules. ORDUNA ATTACK TO BE PROBED WASHINGTON, July 20. Secretary of State Lansing today state that an official investigation of the submarine attack upon the steamer Orduna had been ordered. The inquiry will . be conducted by officials of the treasury department, and was ordered following the receipt of a letter at the state department from W. O. Thompson of Chicago, who was aboard the Orduna. Mr. Thompson's testimony related the shelling of the Orduna after the torpedo bad failed to hit the vessel. It 1b expected the inquiry will be in charge of Dudley Field Malone, collector of the port at New York, and will consist of taking affidavits of passengers, officers and crew of the ship. The state department, it was indicated, would require positive proof that the Orduna was attacked without warning before making it a base for representation to Germany.
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GERMAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS POSEN, (Via Berlin, and Amsterdam), July 20 Russia's main forces at Warsaw, Novo Georgievsk. Ivangorod and Lublin are reported to be evacuating these cities, leaving only sufficient . troops to protect the retreat to the second fortified line of defense. Field Marshal von Hindenburg's drive iff" the north threatens the principal Russian communications between Warsaw and Petrograd. The Germans are only thirty miles from Riga, while General von Mackensen is less than ten miles from Lublin. German officers assert that the Russian armies are being crushed by i, vise and expect their capture or destruction, thus preventing any further resistance. " v . . A statement from Vienna says Austrian troops have crossed the Bug river, northeast of Sokal, and have gained a foothold on the eastern bank of the stream, the war office announced today. The resistance of the reinforced Russian forces has been broken down and they are retreating, the official statement adds. - ' . Retreat Is General.
NAVY FIRES START IRE OF DANIELS WASHINGTON. July 20. The navy department today ordered an investigation into the mysterious fire aboard the battleship Oklahoma In, the Camden yards of the New York Shipbuilding company. ";.'-.--- ' " Secretary Daniels said" he had instructed Admiral Benson, chief of operation, to direct Capt. Kemmerline, inspector of construction for the Oklahoma for the department, to make a thorough inquiry into the canse of the fire. The fire aboard the battleship Oklahoma was the third to be discovered on a United States war vessel within little more than a week. It is believed all were of incendiary origin. On July 13, fire was discovered aboard the battleship New Jersey in the Charlestown navy yard at Boston. On July 11, the battleship Alabama suffered slight damage from fire at the League Island navy yard, Philadelphia. STEALS ICE MONEY TO QUENCH THIRST; GETS 80-DAY TERM Eighty days at the state penal farm for taking money and buying a bucket of beer for himself and three friends is the price which William, Bell, colored, must pay. Bell was arrested by Patrolman Vogelsong, charged with taking $1 from Kenneth Tittle, 15, son of William Tittle, 102 Northwest- Second street. Young Tittle who is employed as water boy at the asphalt plant near the Pennsylvania freight depot was sent to a north end meat market to purchase ice. The market refused to sell any of its supply. When Kenneth Tittle came from the building he met Bell, who worked at the asphalt plant previous to Friday. Bell asked the boy what he wanted. When he learned, he volunteered to go to a saloon and make the "purchase. He took the money and was not seen any more by the boy until found with three other colored men in the north end barn. On the witness stand Bell said the Tittle boy had instructed him to buy half a dozen bottles of beer. He could r.ot tell the prosecutor why he had taken the beer to the barn and drank it instead of returning it to the boy. Mayor Robbins fined . Bell $10 and costs and sixty days at the penal farm after telling him he did not believe a word he was saying. NEW BATTLE RAGES UPON ISONZO FRONT VIENNA, July 20. A fresh battel, between, the Italian invaders and the Austrians has developed upon the Isonzo front, particularly in the section of Gorizia, it is officially announced by the Austrian war office. , . Upon the Doberdo plateau the Italians reached the advanced trenches of the Austrians and a bloody hand-to-hand conflice followed. On the middle of the. Isonzo front a violent artillery duel has developed. It is admitted that the Austrians have evacuated some of their positions near Schluderback, near Monte Piano, where the Italians advanced in great force.
Communications o! Russians
RUSSIAN PRISONERS All along the line in Poland the Austro-German armies of Field Marshal von Mackensen, Field Marshal von Hindenburg and General von BueV, are forcIn ck the Russians in their great drive against Warsaw. An official statement issued by the German general staff early today reports that the Russians are falling " back at various points all the way from the Baltic to the Galician line, and announce the capture of 45.110 men. ' The towns of Tuckum and Schlock naye been captured by the Teutonic allies. The troops ( of General von tsuelow a army have occupied Windau. Between the Pissa and Skwa rivers the Russians were driven out of their fortified positions by the assaults of the Germanic forces. : - Fall Back on Narew. Between Ostrolenka and Novo Georgievsk the Russians have fallen back upon the Narew river, where another' fight is developing. In the southeastern theatre the SIlesian landwehr troops took the advanced Russian positions at ClepIIce" by storm. Only at one point, west of Krasno. has the Russian army attempted any serious resistance. The text of the official report follows: "Eastern Theatre Our troops have captured Tuckum and Schlock. Windau has been occupied by us. During the pursuit of the Russians our troops reached Hofzumberg. Between the Pissa and Skwa rivers the Russians have evacuated positions which had been repeatedly broken through by us and" have fallen back upon the Narew -river. Jhe army of General Gallwitx has advanced to the south and now Is. holding all the Narew river line. -Prisoners Increased. "Between Ostrolenka and Novo Georgievsk. where the Russians were unprotected by their positions and fortifications, they have already retired to the Narew. Our prisoners have been increased to 101 officers and 28.760 men of the rank and file. "In Poland, between the Vistula and the Pllica, the Russians have retired in an easterly direction. "Southeastern Theatre The enemy who, on Saturday .was defeated in the region noVtheast of Sienno by the army of General Von Woyrsch. attempted to check our pursuit when previously prepared positions were reached beyond -Ilnanka. The enemy's advanced post-, tions at Cieplice were taken by storm by our Sileslan landwehr. The same troops penetrated the main position on the, night of the same day. The enemy's line near Bassanow and Barm waw is beginning to falter, and a decision may soon be expected there. "Between the Vistula and the Bug the battle continued through the whole of "yesterday with undiminished violence with the forces of General Van Mackensen participating. , "The Russians have suffered a serious defeat. The troops under Field Marshal Von Arz made 12.650 prison-" era between July 16 and 18. Twentythree machine guns were taken. Ac- . cording to written orders found upon:' prisoners, the Russians were directed " to maintain their positions to the last man, and without any consideration for loss of life at all." Weather Forecast U. 8. Report Generally fair tonight' and Wednesday. Cooler extreme south portion tonight. , Yesterday. Temperature. Noon .... Maximum . Minimum 80; 65 For Richmond Partly cloudy to' night and Wednesday. Condition favorable for local showers. General .Conditions High barometric pressure north of the 40th parallel has temporarily ' broken the force of: the hot wave and the weather la clear ing. Frost in Wyoming yesterday. Today there was rain at noon in North;' em Wayne andRando!ph counties.