Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 238, 17 September 1915 — Page 1

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VOL. XL. NO; 238 fSttSSjnJtT' Tel RICHMOND. IND. FRIDAY EVENING; SEPTEMBER 17,4915. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS Members of Cabinet

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mobity will resign IF ENFORCED SERVICE FOR ENGLISHMEN FAILS

, LONDON, Sept 17. A political sensation of the first magnitude was caused here today by the publication in the Dally News of an alleged plot on a part of the minority of the cabinet to force conscription upon Great Britain during the present session of parliament. If the coterie of ministers favoring conscription fail In their fight the cabinet will be disrupted, the Daily News says. . The leaders In the conscription

PACKERS AND COTTON GROWERS TO COMBINE TO FORCE U.S. ACTION

BY JOHN EDWIN DIXON. WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. A combination of meat packers, the southern cotton growers and the Importing ln- ! terests of the United States to force ' action by the administration designed 1 to secure the freedom of American exI ports and imports will be formed in the near future. The sweeping deci- . sion of the British prize court, confiscating to the crown $15,000,000 of American owned meat products will be the compelling factor. Already the representatives of the southern cotton (growers, who have an organisation here, are preparing to take advantage of , the situation. They plan to call a conference to meet in 'this city very shortly to. map out 1 the work to be carried on. . It Is" expected, however, that they will be able to accomplish ' much before congress meets in De- ' cember. Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, leader of the cotton forces, .'made U plain today that he does not believe that very much can be accomplished through diplomacy. The sen- . ator believes that England's action in interfering with meat shipments to neutral countries, coupled with the GORDON UNABLE ' TO SEND CARS INTO FAIRVIEW Regrets Inability to Provide Service But Contractor's Power Prevents Use of Sheridan Street Line. The plan proposed by residents of Falrview for the improvement of the 'street car. service, which has been suspended in that section of the city on account of the improvements on Sheridan street, is impossible, according to Superintendent Alexander Gordon of the Street Car company. "The Street Car company would like to run carp to Fairview as well as the people in Fairview want us to," said Mr. Gordon today.- "The plan they propose could not possibly be adopted for the reason that it would interfere with the work on the street improvement." The plan was tq run the first two cars in the morning on the regular schedule before the men go to work on the street. The service would then have to be discontinued while the men were working, but cars would start running again at 6 o'clock in the evening and continue regular service all evening and on Sundays. "This plan would interfere with the concrete work," said Mr. Gordon. "In addition to the inadvisability of running cars over new concrete work, there is a legal point Involved. The contractor, according to law, has full control over the street until the improvement is completed. The vibration that would result from running cars over the new concrete would certainly damage the work." He said that even after the work Is completed the city engineer has informed the company that ten days are required before. the. cars can be run. SANT ANNA GETS TO AZORES PORT LONDON. Sept. 17. A Lloyd's dispatch from St. Michael, Azores, announces the arrival of the Fabre liner Sanf Anna, on which fire broke out while bound from New York to Naples. The message states that, though the flames on the liner had been extinguished, her passengers were transferred to the Italian steamer Ancona.

group are Minister of Munitions Lloyd George; A. Bonar Law, secretary of state for colonies; Winston Churchill, chancellor for the duchey of Lancaster, and former lord of the admiralty; Lord Curzon, lord of the privy seal, and Sir Edward Carson, the attorney general. These leaders in the pro-conscription group have pledged themselves to resign from the government if their fight fails, according to the Daily News.

open general charge of fraud against Americans by Senator Samuel Evans, who presided over the prize court, will solidify sentiment in congress to such an extent that an embargo resolution can be carried unless England and her allies make sweeping concessions. It was stated today that there is nothing that the state department can do in the meat confiscation cases until the packers have exhausted all of their legal remedies under the English laws. It is expected that this latest action of the British courts will be made a part tf the - protest - not to Great Britain that has been prepared, but has been held up until the German negotiations, reached a , stage where the president and his secretary of state could give their uninterrupted atten tion to the question." Officials today predicted as a result of the British action in confiscating the meat cargoes, the president would be forced to expedite the British protest regardless of the general German situation. The pressure is expected to be irresistible with the influence of the packers now added to that already exerted by the cotton men and importers. 240 DIE FROM HUNGER MEXICO CITY, Sept. 17. During the period from August 1 to September 10, 240 persons died of starvation here. It is feared that the death rate will increase as the American Red Cross has been compelled to abandon its relief work for lack of funds. SPY IS EXECUTED LONDON, Sept. 17. Another German spy was executed in the tower of London today. The official announcement of the prisoner's death did not give his name.

FOREIGN RANKERS ABLE TO GET ONLY HALF BILLION

NEW YORK, Sept. 17. A stingy $500,000,000 instead of a big round billion will be the maximum loan that American bankers will be able to mass for the credit of Great Britain and France according to the gossip in well-informed Wall street circles today. One prominent financier declared that the $500,000,000 will be easily subscribed and expressed belief that the Anglo-French commissioners had never really hoped of getting all they asked for. Half a dozen other financiers In touch .with the loan movement agreed that half a billion ultimately would be the sum realized. There also was a SLIDES SHOW WORK OF A. S. M. OUTPUT For the purpose of making stereopticon slides for the benefit of its agents the American Seeding Machine company is taking photographs of the new machinery which is to be placed on the market this fall. The photographs are being taken with the machinery in operation on the Webb farm on the New . Paris pike. The lantern slides will be sent to the agents throughout the country. A large number of agents have been viewing the demonstrations at the Webb farm, which have been conducted during the last f ew days

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JT&SSA4VS StOrW WTAt&?an.M4AS4VS On account of the military importance of nearly all kinds of old metal, the Russians before they evacuated Warsaw, ransacked the city for metal of every description. Old boilers, church bells, lead pipes and even metal roofings were ripped out and taken away, to prevent capture by the Germans.

WASHINGTON FLOODED WITH PROTESTS OVER BIG LOAN TO ALLIES

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. Shrinkage of the eMtpoTl&ftltj loan now ; being negotiated in ' New York from one billion dollars to half that1 sum 'seemed .materially sin . have cleared (he 'sftuatlon today. . Administration officials welcomed the suggestion that, while the credit secured will likely be three-quarters of a billion, the piain load openly to be assimilated will only be five hundred millions. The banking firms closely associated with J. P. Morgan & Co., it was pointed out, easily can care for that amount. As a result it is likely that the flood of protests which have been reaching the white house and the state department will be lessened. These protests are being filed away. It has been made very plain that there is no desire to take any action on them even though some of them are couched in inflammatory language. In the case of German sympathizers who write their banks threatening trouble WRECK KILLS NINETY LAREDO, Tex., Sept. 17. Ninety women, men and children, were killed a few miles out of Saltillo, Mexico, Wednesday, when a Carranza military train plunged down a deep canyon. Spreading rails caused the disaster. The bodies were piled in stacks for burial in trenches. The train was carrying troops to Monterey. unanimity of opinion that the vast sum asked at the outset was merely for the purpose of establishing an advantageous position and that counter propositions were expected by the foreign financiers. There was a renewal of reports today that the pro-German bankers of New York might eventually be induced to participate in the loan. Significance was attached to a visit by Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Com pany to James J. Hill, railroad builder although both men asserted that the call was to extend birthday congratulations. Mr. Hill was subsequently credited with saying that the AngloFrench would obtain the billion. Weather Forecast For Indiana Fair tonight and urday. SatTemperature Noon 79 Yesterday Maximum ............ ..........t 84 Minimum 63 For Richmond Cloudy tonight and Saturday. Conditions favorable for local showers. General Conditions -Last night's showers were general over the north and central portions of Indiana. . Barometric pressures practically stationery over the United States, which will prevent . any radical . change ' in the weather .during;-the next thirty-six hours. "

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should they participate in the proposed loan,: the postoff ice department holds that unless the threats are written on postal cards they do, not make the writer liable to prosecution. Threats in sealed letters are simply expressions of opinion, 'Officials declared. r The federal board probably will formally . reply to the. protest filed by United State Senator J. Hamilton Lewis of Chicago. The position to be taken, which will have the endorsement of President Wilson and Secretary Lansing, will be that the loan is a credit arrangemtnt and as such is entirely within the law. Leading Germans here say that there will be no official protest filed by any of the Teutonic allies. They take the position that persons subscribing to the loan do so at their own risk, and that it will be found that it can only be disposed of at a material reduction from par even if it does carry a high rate of interest. x BRITAIN NEEDS BILLION MORE FOR VM FUND LONDON, Sept. 17. Great Britain's appropriation for the war, already totaling $6,310,000,000 will be further Increased before parliament adjourns. Premier Asquith will propose another vote of credit, probably for $1,500,000,000. . The $1,250,000,000 credit voted by commons this week is sufficient to carry on the war only till the third week of November. CORONER ONLY SAW BELL TALK TO BUD GIBSON Another State Witness Says He Saw Nothing Wrong at Polls in Last Indianapolis Election. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 17. County Coroner Poole and Roams Campbell, colored, were the first two witnesses to testify for the state in the election conspiracy trial of Mayor Bell today. The coroner said he saw Mayor Bell talk with Bud Gibson near the polling place in the Eighth precinct of the Third ward. He said Bell placed, his hand on Gibson's shoulder, but , saw nothing pass between them. He said their conversation was in the open and a dozen persons were in - the immediate vicinity. Poole did not see anything wrong , at the polls except that Gibson warned certain men they would not get to vote and Ed Boeder, another worker, took voters down an alley after they had voted. Campbell, the colored witness, swore he was driven away from the registration . place - by - a policeman - who hit him over the Iheadt , . ... .

in Warsaw

BOARD PROVIDES FUNDS TO PAINT DORAN IRONWORK City Also Orders New Roof for Span Across Fork of Whitewtter River :j at Bridge Avenue. " .. , . WILLT TRANSFER CASBf Engineer Charles Kills Petition of Fairview Residents for Early Morning and Evening Service. The board of public works today decided to make some changes in the municipal bankroll and provide much needed repairs for two bridges. The Doran bridge will be painted and a new floor provided. A new roof will be provided for the old covered bridge which spans the west fork of the Whitewater river at Bridge avenue. These improvements are all to be made this fall. The board decided that about $2,500 could be raked and scraped together by a re-transfer of funds to meet the expenses of these bridge improvements, although admitting that this amount may not be quite enough. Large Surplus Left. There is an unexpended surplus of about $4,000 In the funds appropriated for the construction of a crematory and the purchase of a road roller. The crematory was erected at much less cost than was anticipated and no road roller was purchased. Air of this $4,000 is not available for bridge improvements, however, as over $1,500 in excess of the appropria tion for the street department payroll has been expended and this deficit will have to be met from the surpluses of other funds; also it is quite possible that this deficit will be in creased before the end of. the year as the board is planning a considerable amount of street improvement work this fall. It is believed that $3,000 will be sufficient to meet the expenses of all the contemplated bridge improvements. It will cost approximately $1,000 for a new floor for the Doran bridge and about $1,500 more to paint that structure. It will probably cost Continued On Page Six. SERVIA DENIES HOSTILE ARMY ON FRONTIER PARIS. Sept. 17. A denial of reports that Austria and Germany have massed a big army on the Danube for the crushing of Servia was made here today by M. Pasitch, the Servian minister. . "The Servian army, now fully munitioned, is ready to make the strongest possible defense of the mountainous regions of the country." said Premier Pasitch. "Representatives of French aviators who are serving in the Ser vian - army report that there are no Austro-German troops massed on the Danube, Germany would. have to put an army, of 450,000 men in 'the field to invade us; - - -

15 MILLION

WORTH OF FORFEITED PACKERS WILL APPEAL LONDON. Sept. 17 All American packers whose products valued at millions of dollars, were yesterday declared by the British prize court forfeited to the crown, gave notice of appeal from the decision today. It Is expected that the final legal steps will be expedited and that final judgment will be banded down aa soon as possible. The British press expressed confidence that the decision of the prise court will be upheld in the final judgment and that the findings of Sir Samuel T. Evans, president of the court, will, be completely indorsed. The Times asserts that the decision was necessary as a contrary Judgment would have practically nullified the order in council declaring a blockade of Germany. The same newspaper says that the prize court's head was strongly influenced by the decisions of the American courts during the Civil War, being guided -in large measure by the decisions of Chief Justice Charles Chase and his colleagues with reference to British cargoes seized as contraband.

ENGLAND IGNORES PEACE PROPOSALS OF VATICAN

ROME. -Sept: 17- Lord Robert Cadi's declaration in the British parliament that Germany had not made 'any peace proposals and, that - no -peaee proposis uld be imagined at this proposals could be Imagined at this the allies caused a tremendous sensation here in view of the great effort being made by the Vatican to end the war. Lord Robert Cecil Is under secretary to the British foreign office. Cardinal Gasquet of England, one of the most influential members of the Holy See, called upon Pope Bene THUG PICKS POCKET OF VISITING FARMER Prom the police standpoint the circus which visited Richmond yesterday was "clean cut.". If any crooks have been following it they gave Richmond a wide steer. Only two cases of consequence were reported to the police yesterday. Two men entered the home of Dale Bowers. 428 South Twelfth street, and secured a purse containing $1.50 and two valuable diamond rings before their presence waa detected by Mr. Bowers. He charged the Intruders and they fled, throwing the rings at him as they sprinted out of the house. They kept the purse, however. Samson Hartman, a farmer, reported that he had his pocket picked on an interurban car after he had boarded it at Hiser's station, west of Richmond. The thief secured a purse containing $14. Hartman did not discover his loss until after he had left the car at Richmond. GERMAN WEDGE FORCES OPENING IN RUSS LINES BERLIN, via Wireless, Sept. 17. Field Marshal Von Hindenberg has driven a wedge between Dvinsk and Vilna. German troops have crossed the Petrograd-Warsaw railroad and captured the town of Wldsy, eighteen miles east of the railroad. In addition . to announcing that Widsy has been taken today's report from the general staff states that other forces of Von Hindenberg with the troops of Leopold of Bavaria have crossed Schtschara river, a confluent of the Neimen, just to the westward of which runs the main line from Vilna to Rovno. In the western theatre the general staff also reports success, stating that a trench section held by the French In Champaign has been captured. FIRE ON ORDUNA TRYING TO ESCAPE AMSTERDAM. Sept. 17 A dispatch from Berlin states that the German foreign office today handed to Ambassador Gerard a note which asserted that the attack of a submarine on the liner Orduna waa made only be cause that ateamer was trylnx to esicape.

DOLLARS

U. S. TO EflbtflB POLLOW U. . ADVICE. WASHINGTON. Sept IT. The British prize court today ordered thi confiscation of the fifteen dol lars worth of American meat pro ducts, chiefly because the Americas packers declined to accept the Brit ish construction of law that placed the burden of proof on the shipper In stead of the government, according tc a dispatch from Consul General Skinner at London to the State depart ment today. Because of this Information the ad ministration has decided to expedits as soon as possible the general pro test against their order to their consuls growing oat of the alleged blockade of German ports and the neutral countries territorially adjacent to Germany. It was learned that In so doing the packers simply followed th suggestion of the United States. - ' The attitude of this government Is that the law as It existed prior to August 1. 1914. Is the only law that can be applied to anything affecting neutrals In the present war. As enn undated by President Wilson himself some months ago: . "We cannot consent to any changes on the game while it is going on." dict . aad it . jraa generallr supposed that the visit was connected In some way with the Pope'a efforts to bring about peace. y ; . - It has be raaoreTt leeece efforts, .of the Vatican were making satisfactory progress. ' The statement of Lord Cecil, however, waa a Oat indication that the Vatican's peace efforts have been useless, so far as Eng land has been concerned. It was recently made plain by government organs in Germany that the Kaiser's government would consider any reasonable peace proposals that the Vatican might put forth. COURT STAGES USUAL COMEDY AFTER CIRCUS The usual "day after the circus program waa rendered at city court this morning. Hancil Coulter. South C street, attended the afternoon performance, got Illuminated and returned home to quarrel with his mother-in-law. Policeman Hanning heard the mother-in-law yell that Coulter was trying to behead his nine days old baby and entered the house. Hanning smoothed the domestic seas in the Coulter household twice that evening but early this morning a fresh row started and he took the young man into custody. Coulter's elder brother was sitting astride his prostrate form when Hanning made his third call Coulter drew $5 and costs. Quarrel Over Fare. Nelson St. Clair. Fred Blair and Tom McGulre, circus employes, got Into a taxlcab at the circus grounds under the Impression that the vehicle was a lowly Jitney bus. A row over the fare ensued and the driver hauled his passengers to the jaiL There McGulre started to beat np Jesse Beals. a cripple with both legs off above the knees, who had been pinched for begging. While McGulre . was engaged in this pastime railroad detective Bums arrived with Jim Williams and Don Brown, two circus men, arrested on a charge of having stolen a suitcase from James Falls of Fountain City. Burnt came to the cripple's rescue and' subdued McGulre with a blow that propelled him the entire length of the JaiL Beats, the legless beggar, was released today on his promise to get out of town in twenty minutes. As he had no money there were some who doubted his ability to exit at such speed but the court took his word for It. Williams and Brown - pleaded not guilty and their case will be given a hearing In the morning. St. Clair, Blair, and McGulre each drew $1 and costs." CONCERNS GRANT S-HOUR DAY. WILMINGTON. Del, Sept, 17. The eight-hour day, promised to the fifty thousand employees of the Dupont Powder Company In all the various plants of the concern, are now working on the eight-Lour basis. The wages remain the same as for the tenhour day. The new schedule was pvt. into effect in some of, tho plants lsa month, and Sa now:& fare!! Tats potieavfcettrriei. .

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