Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 112, 28 March 1916 — Page 13

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1916

IIOIV SLACKERS TRY TO DODGE ! ARMY SERVICE

LONDON, March 28. The clause In the compulsion bill granting exemptIon from army service to persons who have conscientious objection to fighting, and for certain other reasons, is causing a lot of amusement. The applicants for exemption appear before a military tribunal, the proceedings Of which are open, and are not handled with gloves, for the army needs men and there is no leniency toward suspected cowards. "I am certain my mother would die if I were sent to the front," said a young clerk, when applying to the Fulham Tribunal for exemption. "What would happen to your mother if the Germans came here?" he was asked. "Oh, that is not likely to happen." "What is to prevent it?" "The men over there, I suppose." "Yes, that's it the other chaps." (Laughter.) The application was refused. At Exeter a retail dairyman and shopkeeper, in claiming exemption, said if he saw a German violating his wife or sister, or butchering his mother, he would not think it his duty to interfere. The application was refused. An applicant for exemption in Pembrokeshire said he would have objections against helping and tending the wounded if he thought it would make them fit again for combatant service. lie was allowed to join a non-combatant corps. A conscientious objector at .Maid

stone said he could not kiU his fellow man. If he did he would'be miserable for the remainder of his life. He was exempted from combatant service. At Mansfield a younj Quaker who for the last ten months ha3 been working as chauffeur for the British Red Cross Society in France said if he were exempted he should return to France and continue his work. He objected to non-combatant service in the army. His exemption was granted.

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LOOK FOR SUCCESSOR TO PASTOR MOTLEY

The Central Christian church board will meet next week to consider the selecton of a successor to Rev. W. R. Motley who resigned as pastor and will go to Spartansburg, Ind. , Until a successor is chosen there will be no evening services at the church. Next Sunday, however, Sunday school services and communion services will be held in the morning.

MOOSE FRATERNITY INITIATES CANDIDATES

With the initiation of twenty-six more candidates by the Loyal Order of Moose lodge'last night a total of nearly 100 new members has been secured in the membership campaign being conducted by that order. Added interest was given last night's ritualistic work by the presence of M. M. Mahoney, deputy supreme organizer and William Anderson, deputy supreme dictator. These officers gave brief talks on the. "Good of the Order." . A large number of members attended the meeting.

BOWMAN POSTPONES NAMING COMMITTEES

LEAVE FOR KENTUCKY.

Dr. E. R. Churchell and Dr. F. I. Harold left today for Louisville, Ky to attend clinics. They expect to be gone the remainder of the week;

WHITE QUITS JOB.

Frank White, manager of the Fairview Reserve semi-pro baseball club, has resigned and is afriliated with the team no longer, it has been announced. No reason is given for the withdrawal Just who will succeed White has not been determined.

JUNIOR CLUB MEETS.

The Junior Commercial club of the high school will hold it, last meeting of the year in the library at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Benjamin Null, instructor of English in the high school is head of the organization.

PLAY EUCHRE SERIES

Another euchre contest will be played between members of St. Joseph's Benevolent society and the Y. M. I., with the close of the Lenten services on Easter. This decision was reached at the regular meeting of the former organization last night in the lyceum. The Y. M. I. won the first contest.

CONTRACTS AWARDED FOR STREET WORK

SNYDER CASE SET.

SKIDDING TEST CAR RAMS TWO MOTORS

Vern Chapman, driving a Westcott test car yesterday lost control of the machine when it skidded in the street car tracks at Eleventh and Main streets, and general havoc resulted. The skidding test car side-swiped the French Benzole Clopnins company's motor delivery wu,. -i, damaging it slightly, rammed a bicycle ridden by a boy named Gray, living at 131 South Eighth street, burling him a distance of ten feet onto a sidewalk, then collided violently with a motor merchants' delivery wagon, driven by Vern Reid. The Reld machine's radiator was crushed in. the engine damaged and the car generally broken up. The Gray boy was stunned by his violent impact with the sidewalk, but escaped with only a few scratches. The test car was only slightly damaged. The rear wheel of the bicycie was broken and the seat torn off.

REV. MOTLEY ACCEPTS SPARTANSBURG CHARGE

Announcement was made today by the Rev. W. R. Motley that he had accepted a call from the Christian church at Spartansburg, Ind. As the Spartansburg church is anxious for the new pastor to take charge of the services at once, he has been released by the board of the Central Christian church, and will occupy the new pulpit Sunday. Rev. Mr. Motley came to Richmond from New Castle.

CREW OF EMPRESS LANDS IN HOLLAND

LONDON, March 28. The British steamer Empress of Midland has been sunk. A dispatch from the Hook of Holland states that the crew of twenty-three men was landed there today. The vessel rilrpiaeed 2.221 tons, and was built in 1H07. The crew of the Empress of Midland, which is believed to have been to-

pedoed. was picked up by the Har

wich steamer Cromer.

According to the maritime register,

the vessel sailed from New York on January 5 for Cardiff. No reports as

to its movements have since been re ceived.

L. S. Bowman, president of the Commercial club, announced today that the committees of the club will not be appointed until next Monday. The committee chairmen have been selected by the president, but no announcement will be made until the personnel of all the committees has been decided on.

SERVE AS PALLBEARERS

Mayor Will Robbins, Harry Goodwin. Ed Miller, Ott Kemper, Eugene Hunt and Linus Meredith were pall bearers at the funeral of Oscar Mashmeyer held from the home South Sixth, street, this afternoon. The funeral was private. County and city officials visited the home in a body last evening.

Although the case of the First National bank of Connersville, against Ora Snyder was dismissed, according to the records in the clerk's office, the attorneys made application in circuit court this morning to have the record set aside and the case set for trial. Judge Fox approved the motion and the case will be tried Thursday. The suit is on a promissory note, demanding $750.

PAYS $42.99 ON INHERITANCE.

The final report on the value of the estate of the late David B. Johnston was filed in circuit court today. Mrs. Ellen Johnston, the only beneficiary, will be required to pay $42.99 as inheritance tax on the estate, which was valued at $14,299.29.

U. S, BLUNTLY ASKS GERMANY ABOUT TORPEDOING STEAMERS

WASHINGTON. March 28. The direct question whether it was a German ubmarine which sank the English man and attacked the Channel liner Sussex. This was decided on at today's cabinet meeting. Secretary Lansing explained that while the evidence so far obtained was of fragmentary character, it indicated that the survivors of the Sussex saw the wake of a torpedo just before the explosion shattered the vessel. Because of, this

fact the cabinet decided that it would.

PART OF MUNCIE READY TO SECEDE

MUNCIE, March 28. County Auditor Frank Williams today refused to turn over the ballots in the recent local option election for a recount by three wet and three dry attorneys, as ordered by the county commissioners. He claimed the commissioners have no right to order a recount or take any action until the April term convenes. Muncie voted wet by 79 majority, and the drys are contesting. Drys continue to circulate remonstrances in practically every ward. If the remonstrance in the business district succeeds in eliminating saloons in the south side, which is strongly wet, south side wets claim that part of the city will seceded and form a new city called South Muncie, in order to get

k revenue.

SUFFRAGE TABLED BY THIS CONGRESS

REVIVE LOCAL LINE TOWARD SOUTHWEST

INDIANAPOLIS, March 2S. The revlval of the money market may mean the realization of the proposed Columbus, Greensburg and Richmond interurban, incorporated ten years ago, say men interested in the proposition today. The road would cost $3,000,000 and because of the scarcity of money at the time the company was incorporated the plan had to be abandoned. The road will run from Columbus to Richmond through Greensburg and Connersville. According to John S. Shafer, a civil engineer interested in the project both Indianapolis and Philadelphia bond houses are ready to get behind the move. August M. Kuhn of Indianapolis, is president of the road.

HOLD UP RESORT

NEW YORK. March 28. Six masked men held up thirty men in an alleged gambling house on West 113th street early today and secured money and jewelry estimated at $5,500. Displaying revolvers, three robbers guarded the victims, while the founh secured the loot. Two confederates waited outside in an automobile in which the hold-up men escaped.

WASHINGTON. March 2S Woman's suffrage and nation wide prohibition were set aside for the present session of congress by the House judi-r-larv committee t.odav. Thfi committee

after a stormy executive session voted

to postpone indefinitely consideration nt the resolution TirnvirHr.s oonstiu-

tional amendment for woman suffrage and prohibition. SENATOR TAGGART MEETS PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, March 28. Senator Taggart of Indiana, called at the White House and paid his respects to President Wilson. The new senator was accompanied

by his colleague Senator Kern and Aquiila Jones of Indianapolis. While both the president and Sena

tor Taggart have been "big men" in their party for years today was the

first time they had really come to

gether. They have been on opposite sides of the Democratic fence.

be a proper question to propound to Berlin as to whether Germany accepted the responsibility. Already the state department and the white house have indicated that if a submarine was responsible there could be no doubt of its nationality.

BRITISH PRESS ST. ELOI GAIN

BERLIN, March 28. German and British troops are now engaged in hand-to-hand fighting near St. Eloi, on the Flanders front, each striving to secure possession of the crater formed by the explosions by which the English blew up the German position at the opening of their offensive there. The battle has also extended to the lines adjacent to the-point where the British launched their attack. The official report issue this afternoon states there have been no new developments at Verdun. In the eastern theatre German troops have withstood all the Russian attacks, though the latter were helped by reinforcements. The Russians have suffered heavy losses.

FUNSTON DECLINES TO MAKE COMMENT

SAN ANTONIO, March 2S. Major General Funston today refused to comment on the dispatches from El Paso stating that Gen.- Carranza had refused to let American troops use railways in Mexico. But it was intimated at his headquarters that the Mexican situation had been rendered much more serious. The present truck service is already overburdened and it will become more inadequate the further Gen. Pershing's force proceed south

ward. Many trains of provisions had j

been sent to El Paso in anticipation of a favorable response from Carranza. Gen. Funston refused to discuss in any way the possibility that the railroads be seized as has been urged on the border.

PURSUE CATTLE THIEVES.

SUSSEX DEATH LIST

SHRINKS TO FIFTY

LONDON, March 28. Revision of

the lists of passengers, crew and sur

vivors of the channel liner Sussex in

dicate that the death list may not be

over fifty, according to a statement

issued today by the London, Brighton

and South Coast railway, owneis of the

6hip. Official lists compiled in London and Paris on Monday placed the num

ber of missing at ninety-seven, of whom

some have later turned up in Bou

logne, France, and other coast towns.

Being in the war zone where tele

graphic communication was difficult an? under the control of military authorities, their rescue could not be reported at once.

EL PASO, March 2S. Dord received here today that Carranza troops were considering sending an expedition Into the United States near Presidio, Texas, to capture cattle thieves that were pursued to the border two days ago by General Rojas.

First permanent street improvement contracts' of the year were awarded today by the board of public works. A, contract for the paving of North Fifth street, from A street to D street, with concrete was awarded to Harding, Slattery and Buchanan, a firm which did all the concrete paving work

last year, on a bid of $1.48 a square yard. The lowest bid for bricking these three squares was $1.S2 per square yard. A contract for the paving of South Ninth street, from Main to A streets with asphalt was awarded to the Andrews Asphalt company of Hamilton, O., the same firm which put down the North A street paving last year. The bid was $LS8 per square yard, the same as the lowest ibd on brick. The board specified brick paving for Fifth street but the majority of the resident property owners petitioned for concrete. Asphalt was specified by the board for South Ninth street and six of the nine resident property owners petitioned for such paving.

TEBBETTS RETURNS FROM CANAL TRIP

The Rev. Charles E. Tebbetts has returned from Panama, where he attended the Latin-American missionary conference as a representative of the Society of Friends. Rev. Tebbetts Is a member of the American board of foreign missions. The Panama' convention was held for the purpose of deciding ways and means of bettering conditions of missions in Mexico, Cuba and LatinAmerican countries, and extending the scope of the work. . Rev. Tebbetts has been absent for several months, having visited the mission in Cuba, Jamaica and other countries. He was accompanied by his wife and daughter, Miss Edith Tebbetts. The latter will visit in Philadelphia before returning to Richmond.

In making up the numbers for their lotteries the Italians always leave out thirteen.

65 NEW MEMBERS ATTEND LAST NIGHT OF REVIVAL SERIES

A fellowship meeting last night, attended by approximately 350 persons, closed the three weeks' services which have been conducted at the First Christian church by Evangelist Roy Brown. Included in those present were sixtyfive new members of the church to whom the evangelist gave instructions. He pointed out to them the opportunity they have of working out their salvation, the need of faithfully attending to the duties of church membership and working diligently for the salvation of others. A short sermon on "The Future Life," by the evangelist was delivered following a cornet solo, "The Holy City," by Leigh ton Brown, his eon.

Other special music consisted of a solo by Ralph Little and numbers by the- ladies' quartet. The evangelist and his family -will go to Birmingham, Ala., from Richmond.

BIG RIVERS: NO WATER

EL PASO, Tex., March 28. A negro sergeant, an old campaigner in the Twenty-fourth Infantry, now in that region, speaking to a Casas Grandes rancher, thus described Mexico: "I have been in nearly every land. But in this part of Mexioo there are more rivers and less water, more cows and less milk and further to look and less to iee.than any. country I have ever known,"

BOMBARD TURK BASE

LONDON, March 28. The advance Turkish base Bir-El-Hassan, 100 miles east of the Suez canal, was attacked by British airmen on Mrch 24 and forty bombs were dropped, said a Re'uter dispatch from Suez today. The camp was badly damaged and one of the aviators descended to within 20 feet of the ground, put to flight a force of Torks with his machine guns. FAMILY INCREASED BY QUADRUPLETS.

MEDIA, Pa., March 28. William Pasco, a teamster, applied for a raise in pay from his employers, giving as his reason the birth of quadruplets at his home. Three girls and a boy were born during the night and all are doing well. Twin boys were born to Mrs. Pasco eighteen months ago. Unions at Tulsa, Okla., will build a

labor temple.

LECTURER DESCRIBES WESTERN MICHIGAN

The lecture given at the Commercial club rooms last evening by a representative of the Western Michigan Improvement company, was attended by over thirty persons. This district in Michigan, which Is noted for growing apples, was described through the use of the stereopticon. The audience was composed largely of farmers.

AUTO SHOW ROOM SHORN OF BEAUTY

The last decorations at the automo

bile show were torn down today and ready to be shipped to Cincinnati by the Albert Beck & Sons, decorators. The last traces of the show disappeared today and the large building stands ready for another exhibit t The movement to purchase the "building from the M. Rumely company to be held for the purpose of public shows, has been gaining support since the close of the successful automobile show. The Commercial club, which is now negotiating in the purchase of all the local buildings of the Rumely company will probably figure in the deal. George Seidel. who suggested the plan of buying the building for show purposes, said today that he believed the building could be bought for $5,000 and that it would be a good investment He reiterated his offer to be one of twenty-five men to buy the building if it is found possible to do so at a reasonable figure.

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WOMEN'S SPRING SUITS at $10.00, at $12.60, at $15.00, at $20.00, at $25.00. Distinctive fashions at moderate pricGS COATS IN WONDERFUL VARIETY and a notable assortment from which to choose at $5.00, at $6.50, at $7.50, at $10, at $12.50, at $15, to $25.

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HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR A Sale of Silks Without an Equal

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18c Kindergarten Suitings, plain colors Kn and stripes, per yard 15c Chambra Ginghams, plain colors and "I Ap stripes, per yard XUU

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