Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 300, 29 November 1915 — Page 1

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HOME EDITION EDmon r"1 vi Palladium and Sun-Talearam VOL XL., NO. 300 Con-olMaUd lt7 RICHMOND, IN P., MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1915. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

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Central Powers Conquer Servia ifi Fifty Qiie Days

CANADA COMMANDEERS VAST WHEAT SUPPLY

$1.04 IS PRICE ELEVATOR MEN WILURECEIVE 20,000,000 Bushels Taken to Supply Allied Nations When Dardanelles Campaign Ends in Failure. SPECULATORS ARE HIT Seizures May Extend to Grains Held by Farmers in Western Provinces and Elsewhere. OTTAWA, Ont., Nov. 29. Five nations England, France, Italy, Mont?negro and Serbia will share the vast wheat supplies commandeered by the Canadian government. Owners of the grain, some of whom are Americans, will receive a fair price for the wheat, but Canadian speculators who had hoped to reap handsome profits through the failure of the Dardanelles and the inability of Russia to move its crops, will be dealt a severe blow. Estimates of the grain commandeered varied today from $10,796,000 to $19,660,000. Steps have already been taken to prevent a panic in the Canadian wheat exchanges. Trading in wheat futures was forbl Iden at Winnipeg today, but it wJJJ be resumed later it Is thought. Canadian speculators have expected to reap fortunes in the wheat markets. don that the Dardanelles campaign would be abandoned, they began buying wheat. AMERICAN8 3UFFER. WINNIPEG. Man., Nov. 29. All bids for wheat standing today . were suspended by order of Chairman McGtll of the Canadian grain commission, following the action of the government in seizing all high grade wheat in elevators between Fort William on Lake Superior and the Atlantic coast. The order, which was issued under the special war act, seized about 20,000,000 bushels of wheat, much of which is the property of American grain dealers. It was not known here whether the seizure would extend to the grains held by farmers in western provinces and in elevators west of Fort William. The government's action was a se-" vere blow to speculators who had" inured on reaping large war profits on Canada's monster wheat crop. The closing price on Saturday, $1.04, will be paid by the government for the wheat it seized. MILITIA WILL STOP NEW ORLEANS GAMES NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 29. The Washington artillery of New Orleans and a company of the state militia were assembling this morning to enforce Governor Hall's order to stop gambling here. Gen. McNeese will be in command of the troops and will personally take over the affairs of New Orleans which comprises most of the parish if military law is declared. GovHall declared Jefferson parish has been lawless for many years and it must stop.

MEREDITH JUMPS If RING TO RUN AGAINST SHERIFF

With the announcement Saturday of Sheriff Al Steen that he would be a candidate for the Republican nomination of sheriff for a third term, Linus Meredith of this city, who has served two terms as sheriff, announced that his hat was also in the ring and that he had already begun to make a vigorous campaign for the G. O. P. nomination for that office. "If the old rule limiting a man to two terms in public office is to be no longer observed, then I am going after a third term in the sheriff's office" Meredith said. "Two Richmond men are now going after a third term in that office by entering the Republican nominating contest, so I will get into the fight myself and make it a threesome." Follow Steen'a Entrance. . Meredith stated further that he had given no consideration to actively reentering politics agahi until Sheriff iSteen announced his candidacy. He r.aiH up to the time this announce-,

FARMERS DISCUSS RURAL CREDIT'S BILL CHICAGO, Nov. 29. About a thousand leading agriculturists, representing one million organized American farmers, arrived in this city today for the third annual national conference on marketing and farm credits and the National Council of Farmers' Cooperative association. The first meeting of the four-day session will take place in the Hotel Sherman tonight. Sir Horace Plunkett, former minister of the department of agriculture of Ireland, will tell the delegates how the land-tillers of Erin emancipated themselves from the oppression of absentee landlordism. It is hoped that this conference will result in the drafting of a rural credits bill and a model state statute permitting the organization of co-operative farmers' societies, which have proved very beneficial in Wisconsin and California.

JUMP IN WHEAT SETS EXCHANGE INTOJURMOIL Canadian Government Commandeers Wheat in Elevators and Action Forces Up -Prices Here. """v Saturday's close, on account of the action of the Canadian government in commandeering all the wheat in elevators between Fort Williams on Lake Superior, and the Atlantic coast. The sharp advance in wheat prices caused a bulge in corn of cents and an advance of M to cents in oats. Pandemonium reigned in the wheat pit as soon as the opening gong was sounded. Traders wildly shouted their bids and first trades were made at a wide range of prices. The pit was In the worst sort of turmoil. Bids on wheat for December delivery ranged from $1.05 to $1.06 at the outset In a few seconds the price broke to $1.04 and then as quickly rallied to $1.05. Wheat for May delivery which had closed on Saturday at $1.06 sold at the opening today at $1.08 down to $1.07. The wide range of prices showed that the traders were bidding blindly. No one knew what effect the action of the Canadian government was going to have. The whole pit was "up in the air.' Fifteen minutes after the opening, prices for December wheat were close to $1.054 and for May $1.07. The early buying was mostly by dealers who had been caught short. Many local dealers, who believed the action of the Canadian government was a bearish factor, sold freely at the ad vance prices ODD FELLOWS ELECT Whitewater Lodge I. O. O. F., met Friday night and elected the following officers: W. B. North, Grand Noble; Samuel Gephart, Vice Grand; L. A. Handley, Secretary; E. D. Neff, Treasurer; and J. E. Caseley, trustee. Andrew Surrit was initiated. raent was made by Steen he had not solicited one man to support his candidacy. There are nine entries in the contest for the G. O. P. nomination for sheriff and this fight promises to be one of the most spectacular and bitterly contested witnessed in Wayne county in many years. Friends of Oscar Mashmeyer, who has served as deputy under two sheriffs, Steen and Meredith, were today denying the assertion credited to Sheriff Steen, that Mashmeyer had agreed with him not to seek the nomination next year, when he was appointed deputy sheriff. They say that there was absolutely no understanding between the two men, and that Mashmeyer in entering this contest is violating no pledge. They declared that Steen was prompted to appoint Mashmeyer as his deputy with the hope that in so doing he would eliminate him as a competitor when Steen entered the race for a thrid term.

MAXIMILIAN HARDEN OUTSPOKEN ON WAR

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Maximilian Harden, whose writings probably attract more attention than those of any other journalist in Germany, continues to speak frankly without incurring the open displeasure of the authorities. He is now engaged in telling the people that they have still a long way to go before their proud adversaries will consent to an ignoble peace. WILLIAMS DIES; KNAPP RETURNS TO COUNTY JAIL Judge Comstock Calls Special Grand Jury Session to Probe Tragedy Connected With Raid. The grand jury has been called by Special Judge Comstock for Dec. 9, to investigate the killing of William N. Williams, 22, living a mile and a half south of Economy, by Arch Knapp of Hagerstown, confined at the county jail. The shooting occurred four weeks ago prior to a raid, on WtoU!? at Hagerstown. Knapp had been released from the er, and James, his5 brother, appeared witn a Dona of $2,000, approved, by uscar Mashmeyer. deputy sheriff. At taches of the sheriff's office did not know that Williams had died. Knapp was being held for an attempt to com mit murder. His bond had been fixed by the court. In company with his father and brother, Knapp was returning to Hag erstown when ten minutes after they bad left the city word came to Prosecutor Reller that Williams had died. The sheriff was instructed to arrest Knapp immediately and return him to the jail pending an Investigation by the grand jury. Joshua Allen, his attorney, was informed of the death of Williams, and telephoned immediately to Ed Allen, a blackmith of Greensfork, asking him to inform the Knapps as they passed through town that the young man must return to Richmond immediately. Allen told Arch Knapp that Williams had died and without resisting he returned with his father and brother and gave himself up to Deputy Morgan at the county jail. Members of his family called on him at the county jail yesterday but he refuted to talk concerning the case. He has employed Henry U. Johnson to defend him in case the grand jury returns an Indictment. MRS. SCHAIBLE SUED BY MATE AT CLEVELAND The brief romance of Mrs. Juliet Grace Schaible, 221 South Fourteenth street, a daughter of C. B. Beck, postmaster of this city, has terminated in the divorce courts at Cleveland, O. A press dispatch stated today that Kirk C. Schaible, a prominent Cleveland man, had just brought suit for divorce In the insolvency court in that city. In the complaint it was set forth that he married the Richmond postmaster's daughter in Cleveland, June 5, this year, and that six weeks later, July 17, they separated. In his complaint Schaible charges his wife with gross neglect of duty. It is understood that Mrs. Schaible is now residing with her parents. Schaible has been secretary of the Technical league and the Sixth City League of Cleveland, both being business organizations, and has also been assistant secretary of the Cleveland Amateur Baseball league. He is an attorney and an enthusiastic sportsman. GREEK NOTE IS READY LONDON, Nov. 29. Reuter's correspondents at Athens telegraphed today that the Greek reply to the last Entente note was handed to the allies' ministers Sunday. . . VETERANS WILL ELECT. Andrew P. Benton Camp,' Sons of Veteran, will meet Monday night to elect officers for the ensuing year.

SCHOOLS BUY MORE GROUND FOHDDITION Negotiate for 100 Feet More Space North of Garfield Building on South Twelfth Street.

Two more houses and lots to the north of the three lots already purchased by the Richmond board of education to permit of the proposed $100,000 addition to Garfield school on South Twelfth street, will be bought by the board in the near future, according to Superintendent J. T. Giles. Negotiations are under way with the owners of the properties, Mrs. W. N. Trueblood of National road west, who owns a double house occupied by Leroy Schattel and family and Mrs. Margaret Sharkitt and Mrs. Griffith of Centerville, who owns a single house next to the Trueblood property. The buying of the 100 additional feet frontage will make a total of 200 feet frontage, will give room for a grass plot and lawn in front of the new building. The front of the new addition will be on a line with that of Garfield school. All the lots have a depth of 165 feet. Rough plans of the new building drawn up to permit the members of the board to gain some idea of the approximate size of the bond issue to be made to defray the expense of construction, proved that the building to house the expected 1,000 children would have to be built on the edge of the sidewalk unless additional ' space was bought. Whether the new building will be wholly fireproof or semi-fireproof remains to be decided by the board. The former arrangement Involves a greater cost. ARMY REFUGE IN MONTINEGRO LONDON, Nov. 29. After a fifty-one day campaign by the Germans, AustroHungarians and Bulgarians, Serbia has been crushed. Of the 34.000 square miles making up King Peter's kingdom, less than 4,000 square miles remain in the possession of the Serbs and Anglo-French troops. The greater part of the Serb soldiers who were not killed or captured have fled into Montenegro where they have joined the Montenegrins. Advices received today indicated that the attempts of the Anglo-French troops to save Monastlr have failed. Rome reports that Monastlr was evacuated on Saturday by the Entente troops and occupied yesterday by the Bulgars. French military experts believe that the Anglo-French expeditionary forces in Serbia will soon be subjected to fierce attacks from combined AustroGerman and Bulgarian troops. This Impression gained from the Berlin announcement of the conclusion of the campaign in western Servia, is also strengthened by a dispatch from Athens, which states that the allies are being strengthened as fast as possible at the battle front and in Macedonia. HOURS FOR DRINKING DISPLEASE BRITONS LONDON, Nov. 29 The government order limiting the hours during which Britons may obtain liquor went into effect today and was rigidly enforced. It proved decidedly unpopular, especially in the working districts, where hundreds of men, accustomed to gettine their "moraine nin" before taking up the tasks were turned away from J the saloons in disappointment. By the provisions of the order liquor may now be lawfully obtained only between noon and 2:30 p. m., and between 6:30 and 9:00, a total of 5 hours. MINOR GETS LIQUOR: POLICE HOLD GOUSKI Walter Gouski, an employe of the C. & O. railroad, has been arrested on a charge of giving intoxicating liquor to two minors, Charles Goodlin, aged 14, and Fred Elstro, aged 15. He will probably be given a hearing in city court tomorrow morning. The police are informed that the two boys went to a C. & O. camp car Thanksgiving and were given ten glasses of beer and two glasses of whiskey by Gouski. Both boys be came very intoxicated, it is said, one of them sleeping in the car until Thanksgiving evening. '

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"CHEROKEE STRIP" RETURNS TO NATION'S SENATE CHAMBER

Many Gome-Backs . Enter Congress

Washington is looking forward with-interest to the return of

several come-backs in the house ing of the Sixty-fourth Congress.

Among the prominent men who have broken back into the legislative body after an absence, are "Uncle Joe" Cannon and Nicholas IngwcirthKy j&tt1&'??'' - - "Uncle Joe' for fhirty-eight years a member of concrress and

for eight years the speaker of that body,-naturally heads the list of "come-backs." He -was defeated in 1912, but was elected-last

Longworth also went down to defeat in the landslide of 1912, a ....... '

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SENATOR KERN ELECTED AS MAJORITY LEADER

WASHINGTON, D. C. Nov. 29. After re-electing Senator Kern of Indiana, as majority leader the convention of Democratic senators which met today adjourned until Wednesday. Senator Pittman of Nevada, was elected as secretary of the conference. The conference did not take up the proposed fight for a colture rule. It was said that it probably would be ho first husinena before the confer ence on Wednesday. There was no J opposition to Senator Kern's re-election as floor leader. . . Radical members, headed by Senator Owen, want the senate rules so amended that unlimited debate will be shut off for all time. But there are many who hold opposite views. SCHOOL MOVIES MADE AVAILABLE FOR USE HERE MATINEE TODAY. High School Auditorium A Six-Reel Feature Picturization With All Star Cast -Stupendous, Gripping, Thrilling Admission Free. At last It's here. Movies in the schools. The above gives an idea of the wording of the bill which will serve as announcements if High school authorities take advantage of the suggestion tendered today by the Extension department of Indiana university. Principal Pickell has the offer under consideration but is not prepared at present definitely to state whether local students will feast their eyes upon the heroic actions of the movie heroines and heroes or not. . The Extension department through j its correspondent states that arrange-! ments have been made with the Bureau of Economics in New York City for a number of motion pictures to be distributed to schools in this section of the country. Only geographical, commercial, industrial and vocational including health and civic improvement topics wilt be shown in the pictures. The film w111.be in circulation during the remainder; of the school term. A projection apparatus must be borrowed or purchaeed before the pictures couid be displayed in the local school.

of representatives at the meet last year. They declare the possibilities of fl.1libustering served the democracy when in the minority and that it would be foolish to surrender such a weapon for a minor advantage at this time. It was the opinion that while some method of control of debate would finally be agreed there would be no absolute colture. On the house side, the ways and means committee conferred on the committees, that body now having the right, of selection formerly lodged In the speaker. It was agreed that there would be no changes in the chairmanships although because of defeat of many of the leading Democrats radical changes in personnel were necessary. WANTED BY POLICE AFTER ELOPEMENT John Baker, said to reside at 820 North Fifteenth street, probably will be charged with a violation of the Mann "white slave" act if apprehended in Richmond with a young Cincinnati girl, with whom he is said to have eloped. Saturday night Chief Goodwin received a telegram from M. E. McChristle, probation officer at Cincinnati, asking him to search for Baker. The chief make an investigation but was not able to locate him. Neither was he in the city today. "John Baker, 820 North Fifteenth street, Richmond, transported Clara Williams, aged 15, from here to Richmond, Friday evening," read the telegram from Cincinnati. "He promised to marry her. Her mother about dead from the shock." Weather Forecast United States ReportFair tonight and Tuesday. Colder tonight in north portion. Temperature Noon 34 Yesterday Maximum 57 Minimum 26 For Richmond- Snow this afternoon or tonight Tuesday partly cloudy. . General Conditions Two small storms in the southwest coming together Sunday developed" Into one of great proportions whicVas it. moved northeast caused rain and snow. The barometer is still low which means unsettled weather with probably snow tonight

56 DEMOCRATS ENCROACH ON MINORITY SIDE

Perkins, Root, Thornton and Stephenson of Old Timers Missed When Upper House Opens Next Week. LODGE RETAINS SEAT Underwood of Alabama, Expected to Be One of the Democratic Leaders Party Battles. in WASHINGTON. Nov. 29. Thf "Cherokee Strip" returns to the senate chamber with the opening of the new session of congress. The strip is that part of the minority side of the chamber occupied by majority members crowded out of their natural territory. There are 96 members in the senate, and not more than 53 desks can be placed on either side of the central isle without serious crowding. When either party grows to more than 5o in number. Its excess must be accommodated on the minority side of the house.' ThU year the Democrats hare 56 members In the senate, to 40 who are Republican. Three Democrats have been assigned to the Strip. In accordant -with immemorial enstota, the three aire chosen from among the new senators, and their Beats are placed at the extreme corner of the chamber, so that the minority shall have the advantage of position. Paul O. Hustlng of Wisconsin, a Democrat who received the vote of LaFollette Republicans in the election last year, has taken the desk at the extreme corner on the Republican side. In front of him will be seated Robert F. Broussard of Louisiana, a hightariff Democrat who made a notable fight in the house against the reduction of the duty on sugar. At Hustlng's left will sit Ed. S. Johnson of South Dakota, who succeeds Coe I. Crawford, progressive Republican. Both Hustlng and Johnson are counted "progressive." and Broussard a, "conservative" in the Democratic list Changes in Senate. There are other changes in the senate, no less significant than the arrival of Democratic "Cherokees." Senator Perkins of California is gone from his accustomed place on the Republican side, after more than a score of years of service there - Elihu Root is gone. ' Theodore Burton of Ohio, champion of flllibusters and terror of "pork-barrel" legislators, has retired. California has sent James D. Phelan. an original Wilson Democrat and four times mayor of San Francisco, to replace the aged Forty-niner, while former Rep. James Wadsworth. Jr., and Warren G. Harding respectively will answer to roll call in place of Root and Burton. Husting replaces Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin the last of the lumber kings from that 6tate to sit in the upper house. Stephenson's flowing grey locks, his Incessant chewing of oldfashioned American plug tobacco, and his withdrawal from any activity beyond voting on rollcalls, marked one of the picturesque personalities that will be missed. Underwood In Senate. So on the Democratic side there will be mlEsed a staunch old-fashioned Democrat in the person of John R. Thornton of Louisiana, to whose toga Representative Broussard has succeeded. Of the men Just entering the upper house none will compare in immediate influence with Oscar Underwood of Alabama. The leader of his party In the house for the past four years. Underwood still retains a remarkable degree of influence in that body. It is expected that the administration will find him quite as effective during his daily visits to the house lobby as during the hours when be occupies his seat in the senate chamber, indeed. Presidential possibilities on the Republican side are scatered over four rows, from Sherman of Illinois and LaFollette of Wisconsin in the end seats of the front row to Weeks of Massachusetts in the middle of the group near the cloakroom door. Borah of Idaho and Smith of Michigan are In the third row, while Cummins of Iowa and Lodge of Massachusetts are in the second. Holds Historic Seat. Lodge by the way, retains the desk once used by Daniel Webster, and so great Is his attachment to the. historical tradition that he proposed la the last congress - that desks be marked with small sliver plates,! telling ' the names of men who had used" them. Next to Lodge. In the seat formerly V (Continued On Paoa !. '

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