Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 48, 6 January 1916 — Page 1

t BICI home EDITION EDmon VOL. XLI., NO. 4&- SSTum' RICHMOND, IND THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1916. SINGLE COPY. 2 CENTS

BE VI JV JV tS2a Goodrich Here to Boost Gubernatorial Nomination

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EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM

Board of Works Orders Specifications Drawn for Paving Eighteen Blocks and Considers Temporary Loan of $10,000 to Cover Motorization of Fire DepartmentOther Items in Propaganda Include Purchase of L H. & P. Plant, New Unit for City Property Plans for Loans Would Bring Total Bonded Indebtedness to Within $9,000 of Legal Limit but City Hopes to Pay off at Close of Year Approximately $135,000.

, A program for permanent streets and sewers to be provided thin year, the city's share of the cost for the same being approximately $50,000, was submitted to the board of public works today by City Engineer Charles. The board, however, decided it would be unwise at this time to consider such a comprehensive program, deciding: to authorize the engineer to prepare plans and specifications for only six permanent street improvement projects and one sewer system. The city's share of the approximate cost of this curtailed program is $20,598. Late this afternoon the board will .

hold another meeting and reach some definite decision regarding the complete motorization of the lire department. Undoubtedly the board will approve such a project and ask council to authorize a temporary loan or bond issue to finance 'it. Fire Chief Miller estimates that It will Tequire $10,000 to motorize the-four horse-drawn chemical wagons now used. Tomorrow morning the board will meet and discuss the advisability of adopting a policy which will provide that no more ' macadam streets shall be constructed without some binding material, preferably tarvia. ' Such a ".- poHcy will, , mean ; a; greater cost for constructing such : streets, but the board Jiops. la jdevise , -some . plan. . whereby benefited property owners Ccntlnued On Page Ten. SENATORS ACTION AGAINST U-BOAT WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. Action which will "satisfy" all patriotic Americans in disposing of the critical situation arising from the loss of American lives through the sinking of the liner Persia was promised by President Wilson today. Ho told Sen sors Overman and Simmons of North Carolina, both personal friends of iiobert N. McNeely the useful consul who went down with the liner that as soon as all the facts are available he will act decisively. . There will be no delay he stated and if it Is developed that a submarine was responsible the action will be of a drastic character. The president later conferred with Senator Stone, chairman of the senate foreign affairs ummittee, and urged him to prevent any further public ulscussion of international relations in open sessions. union 6, 0, P. MEETS Union county Republicans are going to have a love feast at Liberty on Tuesday evening, January 11, and it is expected that quite a delegation of Wayne county Republicans will be in attendance. There will be a small army of G. O. P. candidates for state and district office in attendance. A banquet is to be served in the Liberty Coliseum.

DOMESTIC SCIENCE ASSOCIATION EXPLAINS WHY MRS. LINTON WAS ASKED TO RESIGN HER WORK JAN. 1

Annual election of officers of the Domestic Science association featured the annual meeting yesterday afternoon of the members at the Day Nursery. Following are the officers elected: President, Mrs. A. W. Roach; first vice president. Miss Margfet Starr: second vice president, Mrs. Walter Bates; recording secretary, Mrs. Ray Hoi ton; corresponding secretary, Miss Mary Stubbs; treasurer. Mrs. Ha-ry Dalbey. About forty members were present . . The report of the nurses committee relative to the dismissal of Mrs. Lintot was approved with other departmental reports. Miss Stearns Speaks. Misi Lutie Stearnb of Milwaukee, a member of the board of directors of phe National Federation, of Women,

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BIRD WILL SUPPORT ROOSEVELT OR HUGHES CAtA&UiS SUN&. &AO Charles Sumner Bird, Progressive candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 1912 and 1913, will support either Roosevelt or Hughes for the presidency, according to an open let ter which he sent to George W. Per kins, chairman of the Executive com mlttee of the Progressive National committee. In his letter Mr. Bird says: "There are two men, and two only, who have a ghost of a chance to defeat President Wilson next November Justice Hughes and Col. Roosevelt. Either would be acceptable to the great majority of Progressives; either would be satisfactory to the rank and file of the Republican party." TURKS SHELL CRUISER. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 6. (Via Berlin and Amsterdam) An allied cruiser off Sedd-El-Bahr was twice struck by Turkish shells during a bombardment, the war office announced today. The statement adds that allied batteries at Sedd-El-Bahr were silenced and trenches destroyed. spoke on "The American Home" before members of the association last night in the auditorium of the high school. A small attendance was present . ' ' "' ; Regarding . the dismissal . of , Mrs. Linton, the nurses' committee makes the following report: Upon Mrs. Linton's return, January 25, 1915, after her illness, she informed the nurses' committee that she would not care to keep her position longer than one year, and the committee therefore, employed Miss " uller (who came with the best of recommendations), expecting that she would be able to take charge when Mrs. Linton left. ; The relations between the two nurses -became very - unpleasant and the work suffered in consequence, and " Continued On Page Seven.

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BOYD TOSSES HAT IN RECORDER'S RING 'Robert E. Boyd, a well known resident of this city, today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the office of county recorder. Boyd has been - a life long and very active Republican and has never before sought public office.

B. 0. P. ORGAN IN HENRY OPPOSES PATRICK LYNCH: FAVORS JUDGE C0L1ST0CK

Republican party leaders in Richmond were jubilant today over the ruling of the supreme court ou the state primary election law. Predictions were being made by them that as a result of this action three times as many votes would be cast at the Republican county primary next March as were cast at the general elections in 1914. The Suprene Court pronounced its decision on two sections of the primary law, the validity of which had been, questioned in suits , Ottt -waa Sec18,: tit provides ror a. ree rrora all candidates for public office. The second was Sec. 10. regarded by many as an absolute bar to Progressives wlio desired to return to , the Republican party. Sec. 13 was held to be invalid, the court thus sustaining the Floyd Circuit Court, which ruled in lavor of LIFE MEMBERSHIP IN EAGLES' LODGE GIVEN TO SOWERS In recognition of five years service in conducting the funeral services of deceased lodge members, the Eagles' lodge last evening presented Walter Sowers with a lifetime membership In the lodge. The presentation speech was made by Frank Strayer. Mr. Sowers has presided over practically every funeral in the lodge for that length of time, and is the most efficient officer the lodge has ever had for this work. Past Worthy President Charles Potter was presented with a diamond charm containing the insig nia of the order. The following officers were install ed last evening: Past. worthy" presi dent, Charles E. Potter; worthy presi dent,. Charles Ashenfelter; worthy vice president, Frank Quigley; worthy chaplain, Louis Essenmaker; Inside guard, Charles Doner; outside guard, F. H. Nicholson; worthy conductor, August Yedding; treasurer, Henry Schroeder; secretary, August Johanning; trustees, Horace Fornshell, Charles Ewbank and W. R. Bloom; physicians, Drs. J. J. Grosvenor and S. G. Smelser. PLACE PHYSICIAN ON U. S. CABINET DR. DAVIS ARGUES Advocacy of the appointment of a physician as a member of the cabinet of the president of the United States as a direct means to Improve immigra tion conditions, was made by Dr. T Henry Davis, former member of the state board of health in a paper entitled, "The Nation's Peril and the Doctor," which he read before the monthly meeting of the Wayne County Medical society In the Commercical club rooms, yesterday afternoon. The physician pointed to the startling Increase of degeneracy in the United States and showed the necessity of improving Immigration conditions. As a direct means to 'overcome some of the shortcoming of the eugenic laws and the present situation relative to the receiving of immigrants in the United States he favored the appointment of a physician as a member of the chief executive official family. . Dr. Davis paper was considered of such Importance by the society that following out the suggestions of the members, the article has been sent to the medical journal In which it will be published. CHARGES ABANDONMENT Abandonment is the charge preferred in the complaint of Cora Coffman against William Coffman filed in circuit court this morning. Mrs. Coffman has been employed in the city as a nurse and alleges that her husband deserted her several months ago.

$4,495.37 BALANCE IN JACKSON TOWNSHIP SHOWN BY TRUSTEE

Amos Ehle, trustee of Jackson township, in his report to the county auditor, shows t'aat the receipts for 1915 were $4,495.37 in excess of the disbursements during the same period. This balance on hand is one of the lr rest reported by Jackson township in several years. The total receipts from taxes of various sources were $14,253.48, with expenditures of $9,75S.11. Last year there was a balance of $3,305.10 in the township fund. The expenditures were itemized as follows: Township fund, $1,089.01; road fund, $1,595.26; special school fund, $1,370.83; tuition fund, $3,614.00; dog fund, $244.38; library fund, $1,844.63. Charles D. Kelso, a Democrat who sought to prove that section unconstitutional. Sec. 10 was interpreted to mean that only a Republican may challenge a voter who seeks to participate in a Republican primary and that representatives of other parties have no right to interfere if the Republican party men are satisfied of the voter's good faith. Supporters of Judge D. V. Comstock of . Richmond, a candidate against P. J. Lynch, of flew Castle, for the Republican congressional nomination, were in a particularly happy frame of mind v over the ,supreme court's . de cision. TTu-ougnout .the district' it is admitted that whatever -congressional Candidate carries Wayne county by a large majority wins the nomination. Continued On Page Seven." . FREDERICK BROHMAN SUMMONED TO BEYOND Frederick Brohman, aged 84 years, died at 10:30. o'clock this morning at his home in Spring Grove from senility. Mr. Brohman was one of the German pioneers of Indiana and settled in Richmond fifty-five years ago an! took up farming which he was interested in up until the time of his death. He is survived by a wife and three sons. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran church and was greatly Interested in the work the church was doing. Notice of the funeral will be made later. Friends will please omit flowers. WAYNE LOSES $6,854 ON APPORTIONMENT OF SCHOOL MONIES An example of "all goin' out and nothin' comin' in" Is the way County Auditor Bowman expresses the condi tion of the semi-annual apportionment of state school funds as made by the state auditor in accordance with the report of Superintendent of Public In struction Greathouse. Wayne county paid $28,558.43 into the state fund and received as her apportionment, $21,706.79. The discrepancy resulted from the fact that more money was received in taxation than is returned to the county in accordance with the apportionment of $2.03 per pupil. Many of the smaller counties in the state, which are in a poor financial condition, will receive more money than they paid into the state school fund so that Wayne county can at least have the satisfaction of knowing that a poor county is helped. Marion county is by far the largest loser in the apportionment having placed $198,901 into the fund and receiving only $132,350. This year the total amount of the state school tax collected for the semi-annual apportionment was $1,361,136. DENNIS COLLECTS $94 Before tonight $100 at least- will have been subscribed toward the fund of $1,000 to pay expenses of a county nurse, It Is believed by David Dennis, who has been conducting the canvass. Subscriptions for $94 had been received at noon today after a quiet, private canvass. The Anti-Tuberculosis society will meet at 4 o'clock this afternoon to hear Mr. Dennis tell of the results of the efforts which have thus far been made. :

PROMINENT DEMOCRAT REFUSES OVERTURE TO OPPOSE FINLY GRAY

Efforts put forth by leading Wayne county Democrats to induce John M. Lontz, of this city, president of the P.; & N. Lawn Mower company, to enter the contest against Finiy H. Gray for the Democratic congressional nomination, have met with failure. Benjamin T. Hill, secretary of the F. & N. company, at noon today announced that Mr. Lontz definitely bad decided , not to seek the nomination "for personal reasons." About thirty Wayne county Democratic leaders met with Mr. Lontz last night and urged him to enter the race. They told him that there was an insistent demand by Democrats not only In Wayne county, but . throughout the district for, him to announce his candidacy. At the close of. the meeting Mr. Lontz said he would make known his decision by noon today. Following the meeting last night the party leaders who had waited upon Mr. Lontz anticipated . that he would enter the contest against Representative Gray, and his refusal today to take such action keenly disappointed them. Democratic politicians in Wayne county are convinced that if Mr. Gray is re-nominated for congress next march he will be overwhelmingly de

Goodrich Visits Wayne In Interest of Candidacy

If V5 JAMES P. RODENBERG CALLED BY ANGEL OF DEATH Henry August Herman Rodenberg, aged 85 years, died at bis home 81 Liberty avenue yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock from senility. Mr. Rodenberg was born in Kneehausen, Minden, Prussia, on Nov. 17, 1830, and emigrated to this country in 1850. He first settled in Cincinnati, where he remained for two years, when he came to Richmond, where he lived until the time of his death. At first he engaged in the plastering business but in 1856 he moved south of town and engaged in farming. During the same year he married Miss Mary Engel Tuecke and from this union - ten children were born, one daughter and three sons are living and the others have passed away. Mr. Rodenberg was one of the oldest German residents of the city and was a devoted member of St John's Lutheran church. ' Arrangements for the funeral have not been made Jjut will be announced later. Friends are requested to omit flowers. 8TUDENTS PREPARE : COPY FOR CYNOSURE Students of the high school are preparing material for the next Issue of the Cynosure, the school periolical, which will be published on Jan. 27. Arrangements are also being made for the publication of the Pierian, the school annual, which makes . Its - ap pearance on May 28.

feated at the polls in November. They assert that , the voters are tired of Gray and are completely . dissatisfied

with the policies he has pursued in congress,' principally confined to exacting, loot from the pork barrel and endeavoring to restore the "spoils" system at the expense of the federal civil service. Wayne count x Democrats regarded Mr. Lontz as the strongest candidate their party could offer this year, and this view was shared by many party leaders throughout the district. It Is said that. Mr. Lontz would have been able to defeat Representative Gray at the primary election without the least difficulty. The few Gray supporters In Wayne county, it is said, heaved sighs of relief this ' afternoon when It became known that Mr. Lontz would not enter the contest. Several weeks ago when the Lontz boom was first launched he announced that he would not enter the contest, but since then great pressure has been brought to bear upon him to reconsider this decision. It is rumored that opposition on the part of his family finally decided Mr. Lontz to stand pat on his original decision. K GOODRICH. MRS. SPEKENHIER SUES AUTO FIRM Mrs. Harriet Spekenhier, who was injured when an automobile driven by William Kinder, of Centerville, ran Into her, Oct 19, 1915, filed suit for $10,000 against Kinder. Morris Jones and Earl Spangler, proprietors of the Central Auto Agency and Adolpb Gets an employ j of the garage. She alleges that her injuries, which con sisted of cuts and bruises about the head and shoulders, are permanent. The accident occurred at Tenth and Main streets while Kinder was learning to drive a new automobile. - The car had just been purchased of the auto, agents and . Adolph Getz ..was showing the buyer how to drive his machine. ' Kinder became confused with : the brakes and levers on the car as be had been used to driving an other automobile, and when he . at tempted to slow down at the corner to allow Mrs. Spekenhier to cross the street, he accidentally speeded his car One of the wheels of the auto mobile passed over Mrs. Spekenhiers body. It was thought tor a tew days that she would not recover from her Injuries.

GOODRICH GETS PROMISE OF SUPPORT HERE G. O. P., Progressives and Independent Voters Meet

Republican Candidate for Gubernatorial Nomination. TOURING WHOLE STATE Pleased With Supreme Court Decision Enabling Bull Moose to Take Part in Republican Primaries. James P. Goodrich, of Winchester Wayne county's favorite entry in the contest for the Republican guberna torial nomination, spent yesterday afternoon and evening In Richmond and waa very cordially received by a number of Republican workers. Progressives and men who frankly refer to themselves as "independent voters." In the evening Mr. Goodrich was the guest of honor at an informal smoker, arranged In his honor, at the Commer clal club rooms. "I feel certain that I will be elected the Republican gubernatorial nominee at the primary, March 7. Mr. Goodrich remarked to some friends. "It would be an absolute cinch for me, however, if every county supported my candidacy like Wayne does. Satisfied at Decision. Mr. Goodrich was very much Inter ested in the announcement made yesContinued On Pags Five. STATE TO PAY MILITIA; NOT UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. Jan. 6. The state and not the nation should pay the national guard for any service it renders in the opinion of Secretary of War Garrison in opening the fight for the administration preparedness policy before the bouse military affairs committee. The war secretary made it plain that he was not too favorably inclined toward making the guard a serious factor in the preparedness plan. In a very lengthy statement the secretary reviewed the arguments already made in his annual report showing why he believed the administration's army plan should be enacted Into law. Although many members of the committee are on record as favoring federal pay for militia and Chairman Hays in his preliminary draft of. an army bill has included such a provis ion, Mr. Garrison frankly stated that he always felt that any pay for home training should come from the states themselves. STEAMER SINKS; 14 LOSE LIVES PARKERSBURO. W. Va.. Jan. t. Fourteen passengers and members of the crew of the steamer Kanawha. which sank ten miles below here last eight, were missing at daybread this morning, nearly twelve hours after the the Pittsburg-Charles packet struck a pier at Dam No. 19. Forty-six persons, including most of the steamer's crew, had been picked up along the river shores or rescued In a row boat by Harold Wright watchman at the dam. Wright is tbe shining hero of the worst accident in the history of the river. He alone is cred ited with saving a score of lives, make one trip after another to the sinking boat Weather Forecast United States Report Fair tonight. Colder northeast portion. Friday fair and warmer. Local Forecast Partly cloudy and continued cold tonight and Friday. General Condition The Canadian cold wave has spread south and eastward and Is now crossing the entire United States north of the fortieth parallel and east of the Rocky mountains. Thirty degrees below zero at Battle Ford. Canada, and twenty-two degrees below sero at Bismarck, North Dakota. Storm Is developing la the west and will reach here Saturday or Sunday. -', .w. wvrwt westoer jrorecasxacv