Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 217, 24 August 1915 — Page 10

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THE RICHCCED PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1915

OLD VETERANS GIVE SIGNALS USED IN WAR

Grand Army Encampment to Review Flag Signals and Torch Beacons Used 50

Years Ago.

GERMAN DIVISION WITH PRISONERS HOLDS OFF 2 RUSSIAN ARMY CORPS

50,000 WILL MARCH Wilson Will Review Men Who Fought to Preserve the Union During Southern Rebellion.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. President Wilson and members of his cabinet will review the 50,000 G. A. R. veterans who will march down historic Pennsylvania, avenue next September when the fiftieth anniversary of the Grand Review is held in the national capital. The president was in his office in the White House one sultry afternoon last July when the names of several prominent Washingtonians were announced. When the visitors were seated in the president's office, they explained they were representatives of the Citizens' committee of Washington formed to arrange the entertainment for the Forty-ninth encampment and Fiftieth anniversary of the Grand Review of the G. A. R. at the national capital the week beginning September 27. The spokesmen told the president that bis help was needed because it might be the last great gathering of th evetrans who saved the nation in the days of '61. President Agrees. President Wilson's answer was brief, but it was decidedly to the point. He told the committee he was ready to give them his full co-operation, and

agreed to review the veterans. ; Acting under order from Secretary! of War Garrison and Major General Wood, UnitRfl r'atra regulars will i

give exhibition drills during the wesk of the encampment rt Fort Myer, Va., a short distance from the national capita), on the grounds adjacent. A special featuro of these drills will be exhibitions by the United States medical corps. A feature of the military demonstrations during the week will be a wigwag signal contest between experts of the signal corps of the Civil war and of the United States army. Lieutpnant George C. Round, who flashed the last signals before the fall of Richmond, will wig-wag a message from the dome of the capitol to a comrade stationed on the roof of the treasury building, a mile distant. Show Old Methods. The old method of transmitting signals by torches will also be shown by the veterans, while the up-to-date methods of field telephony and wireless telegraphy will be demonstrated by experts of the regular army. Many of the old forts which surrounded Washington in the days of the Civil war have been put in readiness for tho signal contests and at night the city will be girdled by the flashes of the signal torches in the hands of the men who defended the capital years ago.

By Kurt Aram of the Berlin Lokalan- . . zeiger. ; AT THE EASTERN GERMAN FRONT, Aug. 24 Between Rzgow and Chojny, southeast of Lodz, in Poland, there is a barren hill which formerly was nameless and had not even been numbered on the maps, like other heights. Now it Is called the "Hill of Graves," and it well deserves this name. Thousands of small craters caused

by the explosions of shells surround the small mountain and great chunks are torn out of its sides. The flattened top looks like an immense lower jaw from which all the teeth have been pulled. The appearance of the hill is almost ghastly and on reaching the ragged summit one stops in awe. Endless rows of graves cover the broad plateau. The hill is the largest graveyard which I have seen In all my travels. With several other war correspondents I visited this scene of wonderful German heroism and awful carnage. Our guide was a major of the general staff, a typical officer, polite and courteous, but without any trace of sentimentality. Standing on the edge of the plateau he explained the gigantic battles' that raged for many days on the plain from which the hill rises. Fight Way Out. On this plain two German divisions

battled with two full Russian army corps. The divisions had been cut off and they were compelled not only to fight their' way out, but also to drag along 18,000 prisoners . and 64 guns

captured from the enemy. The fire of the Russian artillery was terribly effective and Immense infantry forces of the enemy pressed in from all sides. Fighting day and night against greatly superior numbers one of the German divisions " with the Russian prisoners gained the hill and quickly fortified It. ; . " Again and again the Russians tried to storm the height, while their artillery incessantly rained shells of all sizes on it, but the Germans repelled all attacks. For five days they held the hill till relief came and the Russian line was broken a few miles further south. Then the enemy began to retreat along the whole front. The gallant division had not lost one of the prisoners and at once started in pursuit of the fleeing enemy, but the victory was won at an awfuj cost. Thousands of dead covered the slopes and the top of the hill. Here the heroes have found their last resting place and their comrades planted hundreds of trees around and between their graves. Later a monument will be erected in the forest that is to cover the hill.

COOK REPORTS ' 81,609 AUTOS GOT LICENSES Secretary's Big Gain in Fees Derived by State Brown County Pays $182; Re-

$2064.

CATCH PROMINENT MEN IN LIQUOR DEN

ST. JOSEPH. Mich., Aug. 24. Fifteen men, including some prominent in political and business life in Berrien county, were caught in a raid by Sheriff Franz and Prosecuting Attorney O'Hara as violators of the prohibition law today. Stanley D. Guy, merchant, of Coloma, and twice Democratic candidate for sheriff; Joseph Lottridge of Waterllet, former liquor dealer and prominent in Republican politics, and proprietors of ten summer hotels on Paw Paw lake, were taken into custody. The authorities declare that hundreds of gallons of whisky were being "bootlegged" in the county each week.

BABYLON IS ILL

Roy Babylon in charge of Thistlethwaite's drug store at Chautauqua was taken slightly ill yesterday morning but was improved today. He remained at the tent where he has sleeping quarters.

FISH JUMPS INTO BOAT.

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 24. Along with the semi-annual apportionment of the county road fund, disbursed by Secretary of State Homer L. Cook from money received through the registration of motor vehicles for the""six months ending June 30, the expense of this branch of Secretary Cook's office is of more than passing interest. For the same period in 1914 there were registered 54,990 motor vehicles.

In 1915 there were 81,609. The number of plates purchased in 1914 was 66,009. In 1915 there were 85,000. This accounts for the difference in the total. The postage this year covers the difference in number of licenses, and increase from 1914 when there were 54,990, and 1915 when there were 81,609 in six months. Many of these plates go by parcel post with the licenses. Fees Exceed $381,875. The license fees received for the first six months of 1914 were $381,875.10. For 1915 there was paid in $538,293.07. The increase in receipts is $156,417.97. . The net. amount for 1915 distribution to the counties for road purposes is $500,327.79. The law governing the apportionment of this special fund has taken into consideration the keeping up of good roads all over the state. To this end the number of miles of road in any county goes largely into the calculation of the proposition of the fund which shall be given in that particular county. To illustrate, Marion county in this six months paid into this road fund $58,524. In the apportionment Marion county draws out only $22,642.26. The other $35,881.74 goes to other counties for road purposes. Brown county, for instance, paid only $182 into the fund and drew out $2,064.37. Crawford pays in $281 and draws $2,219.23. To keep up the roads in Brown and Crawford counties benefits

Marion and all other counties. To keep up the roads of all the counties benefits the whole state, just as the keepeing up of the state roads benefits the nation hence the federal department which builds roads.

SINKS RUSS WARSHIP

BERLIN, Aug. 24. The admiralty today announced that a submarine had torpedoed and sunk a Russian auxiliary warship at the entrance to the Gulf of Finland.

FEED BY WHISTLE.

ROCKPORT, Ind., Aug. 24. Noting that several hogs, which bought recently, rushed for the feed trough when the 12 or 6 o'clock whistles blew, Thomas Langdon made inquiries. He learned that they had formerly been kept near a mill and that one of the mill employes had fed them regularly when the whistle blew to cease work.

PROOF SHOWS U-BOAT SUNK LINER ARABIC

Americans on Board Saw "Wake of Torpedo" as it Approached Vessel Stage Set For Action.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. Overwhelming proof that the Arabic was sunk by a torpedo launched from a submarine is in possession of the state department. All Americans interviewed by Consul Frost in Queenstown emphasized in their affidavits that they saw the "wake of the torpedo." This evidence is so clear, officials say, that President Wilson will be compelled to reject any defense set up by Germany which charges the loss of the liner to a floating mine. Although the administration is waiting for all the facts, the stage has been set for prompt action so soon as the evidence is complete. Ambassador Gerard will be recalled by cable if the sinking of the Arabic be decided to have been the "deliberately unfriendly act." At the same time, passports will be sent to Ambassador von Bernstorff and the state department will make arrangements for a safe conduct for him to Germany. Germany alone can prevent this action. Her disavowal or a complete explanation would save the situation. She will be given opportunity to do so, just how long a time and in what manner being known at present only to President Wilson and Secretary Lansing. The president has decided against any discussion of the situation at this time with the cabinet. The regular meeting scheduled for today was called off, the explanation being that only a few of the members are in th city. All, however, are keeping in constant touch with their departments and could reach here within a very short time.

SiSTERS END LIFE IN GRIM POVERTY

WASHINGTON. Aug. 24. Penniless, hungry and without friends, Mary and Maude E. Burrows, sisters, took

the "easiest way out" of their troubles.

Their bodies were found by the police

early today in their little home here.

Clasped in each other's arms, they

turned on the gas and lay down to await death. The bed on which they lay. was al

most the last bit of furniture in the

house, the rest having been sacrificed

to stave off starvation. A note addressed to the police stated that sick

ness and poverty had led to the double suicide. "There is little left for us to live for," it read. "We want to be buried by the side of our relatives In Rock Creek Park."

TRAWLER TORPEDOED

LONDON. Aug. 24. Three more lives were lost today when the Hull trawler Commander Boyle was sunk by a German submarine. Nine members of the trawler's crew were saved, but three were lost., s

Belgian women are embroidering the flour sacks sent from America containing the food which saved them from starvation. They will send the embroidered sacks back tot America as souvenirs.

REFUSE CITY WORK TILL SLAYERS HANG

ATLANTA, Aug. 24. The city of Atlanta has received a letter from Harry L. Bond & Co., of. Boston, answering a request for bids to furnish caulking yarns and tools, stating that "we do not care to quote prices on caulking and we do not wish to further solicit any of the business of Atlanta until Georgia has taken action looking to the punishment of those men who murdered Leo M. Frank." City purchasing agent W. E. Chambers' has answered the letter stating that "we are sure that following receipt of your letter Georgia will apprehend and punish the parties."

VILLA FORGES VICTORS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. The Villa agency here today Issued a statement claiming that the Constitutionalist forces routed a Carranzista army after a hard battle near Monterey. The claim was made on advices from the Villa consul at Loredo, Tex. The Carranzistas are declared to have lost heavily in dead and wounded and to have fled in disorder.

BOAT8 RACE AT CHICAGO.

. .CHICAGO, 111., Aug. 24. Twenty of the fastest motor boats in the world are being tuned up for the first of the American championship races, which begin here Saturday and last until Sept. 4, inclusive. All are American except the brilliant Peter Pan III. of the Royal Canadian Tacht Club of Toronto.

DECORATED FOR BRAVERY.

MUNICH, Aug. 24. Rosina (Marie Holzmann) of Kempton, who has been at the western front as a nurse since the beginning of the war, has been decorated with the iron cross and the Bavarian military cross. In one of the battles near St. Mihiel she carried seven wounded soldiers from the firing line. She also saved an officer who was fast bleeding to death and was struck by a bullet herself.

AUTOS RUIN CHURCHES.

COLUMBUS, Ind., Aug. 24. Declaring that people now spend their time In riding about when they should spend it in Sunday worship, the Rev. W. H.

Book claims automobiles are detrimental to the welfare of the church. He

asserts that a pastor of his acquaint

ance who owns an automobile, cuts his sermons short in order that he may go out for a spin.

BELIEVE KEW ORDER OF CHICAGO SCHOOL GLOW AT EXECUTIVE

CHICAGO, Aug. 24. Public school teachers of Chicago, members of the Teachers Federation, today prepared to resist the ruling of the rules committee of --the board of education that no public school teacher shall be a member of the federation. There was even talk of a general strike in case the board approves the ruling. The federation is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and the statements of the leaders today were statements of labor leaders. The rules Committee was denounced and the resolution abolishing the federation was called a blow at fundamental rights. In some quarters it was, stated that the action of the committee was an effort -to oust Mrs. Ella Flagg Young from her position as superintendent A projece for draining and reclaiming 1.000,000 acres of land in Egypt, work on which has been begun, is one of the greatest and most expensive of the kind ever attempted.

ROAD MEN TO MEET.

MARION, Ind., Aug. 24. A meeting of the governors of the Hoosler Dixie Highway association will be held tomorrow at Warsaw, for the purpose of passing on a color design for marking the road as well as the transaction of other important business. It is expected that final approval of the highway will be given'.

One of the interesting things In the U. S. Grant post. No. 327, G. A. R., post room, of Brooklyn, is the altar, presented by William Berry. It is a glass case, in the center of which are the stumps of two trees taken from the battlefield of Chickamauga, and in each of these stumps there is imbedded a large, unexploded shell.

Hitting the Spot "We advertise In newspapers because they hit the spot we want to reach," says a large manufacturer of chewing gum. His particular spot was a large consumer demand that would center at the counters of retailers and call for his product by name. His sales have multiplied over and over again and his brand is an intimate household word. What newspapcAdTertising has done for this Xufacturer it will do for any other manufacturer with a good product. It will not only "hit the spot" of consumer demand but It will also directly influence dealers in favor of that product Write to the Bureau of Advertising, American Newspaper Publishers Association, 806 World Building. New York, for their booklet "The Newspapers.

ENDS HIS LIFE

BLOOMINGTON, 111., Aug. 24. Despondent over the recent death of his wife. Oliver Tilbury, a wealthy manufacturer of drain tile at Towanda, committed suicide by hanging. He was SO years old.

PREPARE FOR RAIN

BEDFORD. Ind.. Aug. 24. A threepound bass grew tired of Cecil Mur

ray's efforts to catch him with a trol-! ing spoon, and, rather than disappoint j the fisherman, jumped into the boat. Murray added the bass to his string.

With the mobilization of clouds this morning, campers at Chautauqua prepared again to meet General Rain with the same tactics employed last week. These consisted to a large part, in a retirement to the sleeping wings of the tents and a hovering around the little oil stove to keep warm.

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AUGUST Furniture Sale

Truly an unusual event Do not wait Three weeks of this Great August Sale is gone. AtikQf f QAtf flEI? Just think of it? Our entire stock at lV0 IU VET Real, honest Bonafide Reductions on Furniture, Refrigerators, Gas Stoves, Summer Furniture, Rugs, Linoleums, Draperies, Lace Cnrtains, Sewing Machines, Go-Carts Everything is included.

EXTRA SPECIAL &L RUGS ijj&sL $1.00

$2.00 Values

OAK ROCKERS

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Combination Book Cases

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Buffets

$57 F. O. Buffet $45.60 $55 F. O. Buffet $44.00 $48 Oak Buffet . .$38.40 $35 Oak Buffet . .$28.00 $27.50 Oak Buffet $22.00 $22 Oak Buffet .:. .$17.60

Rugs At Real Sale Prices

$40.00 9x12 Rugs $32.00 $35.00 9x12 Rugs $28.00 $30.00 9x12 Rugs $24.00 $22.50 9x12 Rugs $18.00 $19.00 9x12 Rugs $15.20 $12.00 9x12 Rugs $9.60

Dining Chairs

$2.40 $3.60 $4.80 $7.75

$3.00 F. 0

Chair

$4.50 F. 0. Chair . . . $6.00 F. O. Chair . . .

$9.75 Mahogany Chair.

Others from 70c up

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