Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 310, 10 December 1915 — Page 9

rtiB KlUttMOND PALLADIUM AND' SUN-TELEGRAM, -FRIDAY, DEC: 10, 1915

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VICE'S HEAVY TOLL

SUBJECT OF SPEECH BY CLIFFORD ROE

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Reward for Lad Stolen A Year Ago

CLIFFORD G. ROE. Clifford G. Roe of Chicago, first pub

lic prosecutor Jn America to wage unceasing warfare against the white, slave traffic, and one of the most

forceful lecturers on commercialized

vice, is expected to draw a large crowd of men Sunday afternoon to the Gennett theatre, where he will speak on "The Price of Vice," in one of the series of Sunday theatre meeting under the auspices of the Y. M. M. A. Roe was appointed three times by President Wilson and congress as

the United States delegate to the meeting of the International Purity Congress, wa3 assistant state's attorney and leader in Chicago's vice crusade,

and attorney for John D. Rockefeller, Jr., during the New York Investiga

tion. He has held other sinnlar positions.

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MANY SIGN PETITION

FOR PREPAREDNESS

Several hundred citizebn of Rich

mond have signed the resolutions

wjlch will be sent to the congressmen irnrt senators asking for support of President Wilson's program for a

larger army and navy. The resolu

tions were adopted at the mass meeting in the Commercial club rooms last Monday evening. The petitions have been placed in the Commercial

club rooms and the banks and every

citizen Interested In the movement is

asked to sign the petition.

THREE PICTXJJZCS of m-CJ2.TJ4LLEN x.

'''',' Much like the famous Charley Ross, pretty four year old Robert Allen Striker, son of Mrs. W. C. Richter of Brooklyn, just a year ago disappeared from St. Petersburg, Fla., where his mother and stepfather had taken him on a visit to. his uncle and aunt. In the twelve months since then Mr. Richter has never ceased to follow up every clew to the boy's fate. He believes the child was kidnapped. Today he renewed his offer of $500 reward for th e boy, no questions asked. ' .

128 HOMES ENTERED BY VISITING NURSE

Through the advance of the ocean!

ou its shores, Great Britain loBes each j

year an area equal to that of Gibraltar.

Demonstration of methods she -employs in visiting the homes of people In Richmond was made by Mrs. Florence Linton, visiting nurse of the Day Nursery, before fifty members of the Domestic Science association in the auditorium of the high school building yesterday afternoon. The following report covering the activities 6f the nurses during November was read: Mrs. Linton Home visits, 12S; social service, 39; total, 167. New cases, 17; dismissed, 9; deaths, 1; cases -retained from previous months, 141;

cases retained, 148. Received formervices, $5.00, and received for clothing, $2.00. Report of. Day Nursery Number of children cared for, 63 ; different . children cared for, 12; families represented, 9; average per day, 4; money received from parents, $4.50. Mrs. Laura Pille, matron.

CAMPBELL WILL SUCCEED CHARLES AS MEETING CLERK

L. B. Campbell was appointed successor to Arthur M. Charles as clerk of the East Main Street Friends church at the session held last night. Miss Hazel Dennis was selected as librarian. The regular monthly meeting of that church will be held next Thursday, convening at 9:30 oclock fn the jnoring,' $ &..,v

NEW ITALIAN LINER REPORTED DESTROYED

NEW YORK, Dec. 10. A report was current in shipping circles this afternoon that the new Italian line Dante Alighieri, 9,700 tons, had been sunk in the Mediterranean by a submarine. The Dante, which sailed for Genoa, was built this year for the Trans-Atlantic Steamship line. After being put in commission she was requisitioned by the Italian government.

A farm in England is devoted exclusively to raising buterflies, of which upward of thirty thousand are Bold each year.

GREAT BRITAIN ATTACKED BY SENATOR SMITH

WASHINGTON, . Dec. - 10. "The

United States must notify Great Britain that it will omit no Word or' act to enforce Its rights on the high seas." k Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia thus assailed Great Britain in congress in a sensational speech. The -senator spoke in support of. his resolution to have the senate committee on foreign relations probe the situation and then to recommend to congress the best way of proceeding to check the illegal treatment of ships and cargoes. He made it plain that since the protests of the state department have brought no relief that it waVtip to congress. He intimated that one of the best ways would be an embargo on foodstuffs.

FORMER DETECTIVE

: HELD FOR PLOTTING

SOCIALISTS PLEASED

BERLIN, via Amsterdam, Dec. 10. At a meeting of the socialistic democratic party today which was attended by a majority of the members, resolutions were adopted declaring that Chancellor von Bethmaun-Hollweg's answer to the interpellation of Dr. Scheidemann was satisfactory, as it showed the German government has no desire to annex territory.

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Pittsburg reports a 50 per cent, decrease in the number of money orders sent to Europe.

This picture of Charles G. Crowley, the former San Francisco private detective, alleged to be the head of the band of bomb plotters, said to be waging a campaign against the allies' munitions ships leaving Pacific ports. wa made immediately after his, arrest n San Francisco.

SITE FOR XfJAS THE STILL UilCZCIEID . -:v. ; ! location of the municipal Christina

tree promises to be, a perplexing question for coundlmen and other city officials to solve when they meet Monday evening. ' It Is 'generally agreed

that the exercises will nave to be held

out of doors. Even the Coliseum is not large enough to accommodate the crowds which attend such events. .. It is desired to locate the tree on Main , street rlthin the' shopping district or very close to Main street, and it is planned to hot up the tree on Monday preceding Christmas. So far it has been suggested that the tree should be placed on the roof of the First National bank; on North Eighth street, either on the lawn of the Elks' club or' on the vacant lot at the rear of. the Dickinson Trust building, or on North Tenth 'street opposite the Westcott hotel.

Consumption is most common between the" ages of twenty-five and thirty.

840,000 DUSI1ES of wheat Dunn UP

ERIE. Pa.. Dec. 10. Two sections of the combination elevators ot the Anchor Line company were destroyed by Hre early this morning. - About 840.000 bushels of wheat, said to hnv been intended for the allies, was destroyed. The total loss runs over a million dollars. There is considerable suspicion regarding the origin of the fire and the federal authorities undoubtedly will be called upon to assist with the Investigation.

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