Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 203, 13 July 1916 — Page 1
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TO IpVE BALTIMORE, July 13 When will the merchant submarine Deutschland leave this port for its dash to the other side? This was the main question discussed here today. There were indications that plans were afoot to rapidly , load up the Deutschland and slip her out speedily on her way back to Germany. The unloading was finished early v today. Count Von Bernstorff,the German embassador, will come here today to congratulate Captain Paul Koenig and to. inspect the Deutschland. Mayor Preston will give a dinner tonight to Paul Koenigand his officers. Oil 8upply Ordered. There were many indications today at the Deutschland'a pier that she i to make an early departure. Fresh orders have been given for nearly 300 barrels of oil. The crew of the Deutschland was not transferred last night to quarters aboard the' liner Neckar, which lies on the east side of the McLean pier. Another significant move transpired when the tug Thomas E. Timmons, REV. J. F; HILL flccEPTsmr TO REID CHURCH The Rev. J. F. Hill of Martin's Ferry, O., baa accepted the call to become pastor of Reld Memorial church. In a letter to B. B. Myrlck he states that he hopes to take up his work in this city on September 1. The call was extended to the Rev. Mr. H1U a week ago today. He also had another call from the Second Presbyterian church at Youngstown, O., which he declined. Although the call must be officially ratified by the Preebytery, and the Rev. Mr. Hill must be formally released by his congregation, there is no doubt that he will become the next pastor of Reid Memorial church.
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ALL ALONG LONDON, July 13.-Only heavy artillery duels were reported' on the Somme front in the official statement on operations issued by the war office at noon. There has been no material change in the positions over night. ' On both sides the big guns were kept in action all night HOT WAVE SHOWS NO SIGN OF BREAK WASHINGTON, July 13. Weather Forecaster Harry C. Frankenfield toent out lots of gloom over the country. He said the hot wave that has tasted for several days throughout the , eastern, central and western -portions of the United States has given no indi cation of ending. Even the south Is beginning to feel It now. The only hope of a change this week Is In the extreme northeast lake region, which Is to be a little cooler by this afternoon, he aid. MRS. MARY. KONTZ SUES FOR DIVORCE Mary E. Kontz filed suit for divoree, custody of children and alimony against Harley W. Kontz with the county clerk this morning. She charges the defendant with cruel and Inhuman treatment. Mrs. Kontz alleges that the husband has real estate valued at $10,000, beside personal property of considerable value. She leaves the amount of alimony to the discretion of the court. Mr. and Mrs. Kcntz were married February 15, 1902, and (according to the complaint were separated August 1$, 1915,
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ARfllfflCA which maintained the two week's vigil off the cape, was brought over from the Rhode ship yards where she had been docked for repairs. Ship's Size Revealed. The Deutschland showed some four feet additional out of the water than before the unloading commenced on Tuesday, and her draft was less than eleven feet when the last case of dye was discharged. The ships rise revealed that-the estimates of her size had been exaggerated and Instead of being more than 300 feet long and thirty feet wide her width is less than twenty-five feet and her length no more than 250 feet. CARR DISAPPOINTED; HE WANTED JUDGE TO IMPOSE DEATH "Well, I thought that that young fellow, Reller, was going to get a death sentence for me, but the old judge couldn't see it that way and now I am to' suffer worse than death all the remainder of my life," said Eli Carr when he was being taken to the jail this morning after his trial. "I wish the judge would have given me the other sentence a thousand times. But he can't be blamed, he did. what he thought was right and now his conscience is clear."-. VANTS VILSON TO INTERCEDE FOR CASEMENT WASHINGTON, July 13. Senator James A- O'Gormon of New York, today urged President Wilson to direcet Ambassador Page at London to lake steps toward preventing the execution of Sir Roger Casement by the British authorities. Senator O'Gormon later said the president had assured him that this government is doing all within its power to prevent the execution, and that it would take such steps as it could with propriety. SOUICIE LINE and both the German and British positions were under heavy shell fire. ' The English have strongly organized the ground gained from the Germans. WILSON AUTHORIZES AEROPLANE CORPS WASHINGTON, July 13. President Wilson this afternoon authorized Secretary of War Baker to proceed immediately to establish the aeroplane reserve corps of the army provided for in the Hay-Chamberlain army reorganization bill. The Aero club of America was this afternoon notified and asked to co-operate with the organization. FARMERS PAY $2.50 FOR HARVEST HANDS Harvest hands are being obtained by Wayne county farmers with the greatest difficulty, according to Walter Ratliff. From the western part of the county farmers are coming in automobiles and offering men $2.50 a day for work in the hay fields. The usual price for harvest hands in $2.00 a day. HEAT CLAIMS TEN DETROIT, July 13. Three adults and three children were added to the death list caused by the heat here in the last twenty-four hours, making a total of ten deaths in two days.
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OCCUPANTS LEAVE TENEMENT HOUSES IN PLAGUE SECTION
NEW YORK, July 13 City offiials today turned their attention to the quelling of the panic caused among residents of all parts of the city by the epidemic of infantile paralysis and the fear that the plague could not be controlled. The terror has already caused Immense loss to property owners. Entire blocks of tenements in which the disease has appeared, have been vacated.
VILLA DEFIES AMERICA; EXPECTS TO BE DICTATOR OF MEXICO -IN 30 DAYS
EL PASO, July 13." Within thirty days, I, Francisco Villa, will be dictator of Mexico with a victorious army at my back. "Don Venustiano Carranza, stripped of his power and deserted by his generals, will be deposed."
Boaat Sent to Cariital. This defiant boast of the Mexican bandit leader was transmitted today to his agents on the border. Through them it reached American officials, and was regarded of sufficient importance to be forwarded to Washington. It was a flat defiance Of the United States government. ,,. General Pershing's runMvepdi' tion was sent into Mexico - to "get Villa." Its work . was '. balked by. the attack of American soldiers at Parral. Now Villa proclaims his strength. . Villa Gains Strengths , , Whether Villa will be able to carry out his boast, no one can tell, but recent efforts of the Carranza government to cultivate the good will of the United States are regarded in border circles as evidence that the de facto government is not overly confident that it can carry out its pledge to deal with Villa and his bandits. Every report that has reached El HYPHENATES TOLD TO RESPECT NATION WASHINGTON, July 13. President Wilson today served notice to "hyphenates" and "new comers" that they must be loyal to the United States whether they are pleased with this country or not. He charged that political activity of any organization of naturalized Americans is "absolutely incompatible with the idea of loyalty." The president addressed the citizenship convention in session here, called by the bureau of naturalization of the department of labor to study best methods for teaching foreigners what is necessary to become a citizen of the United States. "We have been disturbed recently by certain symptoms which have shown themselves in our body politics," said President Wilson in referring to some naturalized Americans. "They have gone so far as to draw themselves apart and have been more loyal to their native country than to America." FIND MISSING UN R. E. Murdock, the superintendent of the local branch of the Public Savings Insurance company who disappeared, June 29, has been located some place in Ohio. The company is expecting a speedy adjustment of the trouble. HOT SPELL HURTS ONLY POTATO CROP Farmers of the vicinity are expecting a continued dry spell, local showers to the contrary notwithstanding. Potatoes alone are suffering from the lack of rain. Corn throughout the county is in splendid shaped HOT WAVE CONTINUES WITHOUT SIGN OF BREAK NEW YORK, July 13. With eight deaths . directly due to the heat, the hot wave continued today with no sign of a break. At 10 o'clock the thermometer registered 94 degrees and was still climbing. . WILL PROBE TAXATION. County Assessor, William Mathews announced today that since the Board of Reviews has finished its work, he will commence immediately investigating cases where it Is believed that people when assessed did not give in all their property.
RAIN MAY FORCE GEN. PERSHING TO SHORTEN-LINES FROM BORDER
WASHINGTON, July 13 General Pershing from his field headquarters in Mexico, today, In a dispatch to "the war department, indicated that he was doubtful whether he would be able longer to keep open hi lines of communication to the United States. He is making an investigation to see whether heavy rains will not force him to shorten his lines even more and draw the punitive expedition Paso and other points along the border during the past twenty-four hours indicated that Villa has been successful in all engagements with the Carranzista army since he began his latest activities. With the fear that he seems to be able o inaplrej Jn the hearts of the Mexican peon, he has gathered around him an army that is estimated today to number between five and eight thousand men. . At. late report Is -that tr-ee thousand Yaqui Indians from the Sonora district are on their way to join the outlaw forces. V LOCAL RAILROADERS GO TO INDIANAPOLIS Several Richmond members of the four railroad brotherhoods whose demands for an eight hour day have been presented to the railroads of the country and who are now taking a strike vote are planning to attend a big meeting in Indianapolis, Sunday afternoon, July 23. At this meeting in Indianapolis, the railroaders' side of the proposition will be presented.
WOODS JUDGE FOX USED IfJ SENTENCE UPON CARR
In addressing Eli S. Carr, murderer of two police officers, following the imposing of a sentence of life imprisonment, Judge Henry C. Fox of the Wayne circuit court said: Now, Mr. Carr, the statute upon which this indictment is based, reads as follows: "Whoever purposely and with premeditated malice or in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate a rape, arson, robbery or burglary, or by administering poison or causing the same to be administered, kills any human being, is guilty of murder in the first degree and on conviction shall suffer death or be imprisoned in the state prison during life." MEANS LIFE SENTENCE. I will say this. I don't know of any instance since I have been practicing law, about fifty years now, where a death penalty has been imposed upon a defendant upon a plea of guilty. I don't know of a single case, and in this case I don't feel at liberty to take the responsibility of saying this man shall be taken out and killed. He may deserve it. The offense certainly was outrageous and atrocious. But when I sentence you to the penitentiary for life it will mean what it says. You will be required to spend the balance cf your days in prison, be cause the warden of the penitentiary FOURTEEN LABOR MEN GUILTY IN CHICAGO CHICAGO, July 13. Fourteen of the seventeen defendants in the trial of labor leaders for conspiracy to exhort were found guilty by , a jury in Judge Scanlon's court here today. The other three were declared not guilty. Six men were given prison sentences of from one to three years. Others were fined from $500 to $2,000. G. O. P. HOLDS BACK CAMPAIGN OPENING Although the county organization work has been progressing nicely and quietly for some time, nothing big will be done towards the fall campaign of the Republicans in Wayne county until after Republican day at Chaiitauqua, August 30, County Chairman Lewis Bowman said tod-
United States KAISER PLANS BIG SHAKE-UP OF GENERALS ROME, July 13. At a council of war presided over by the Kaiser, it was decided to remove Arch-Duke Frederick and General von Pflanzer from their commands on the ground that they were responsible for the Teuton defeats in Galicia, says the Agenzia Nazionale. General von Planzer was in command of the Aus-tro-Hungarian troops that were so decisively defeated in Bukowina. BLOOD STAINED SUIT WORN BY ELI. CARR ON WAY TO PRISON Clad in the same clothes which he wore last Friday night when he murdered Officers Little and Stephenson; Eli S. Carr was taken to the state prison at Michigan City today, to begin his life sen- ; tence, v ,-- Sheriff Albert W. Steen accom- , . panied by Philip Roser, left. with ;-4ber prisoner. eoi-the fast C. 4 O, ; passenger train , at 10:24 o'clock this morning. Carr was given a pair of crutches and boarded the train with but little assistance. He was placed in the. smoking car unhandcuffed. The suit which Carr wore had not been cleaned and the stains of his own blood and that of Officer Little were plainly visible. The time of departure was kept secret, so only a few people had gathered at the station. However, when the sheriff arrived, the news quickly spread and people came running from every direction. This seemed to alarm the prisoner who looked with suspicion at the gathering crowd. and the Board of Pardons will be acquainted with your crime and all the facts of the case, with the recommendation that you be not paroled or pardoned which, I think, will settle the matter as far as you are concerned. CARR FORFEITS LIFE. I don't feel like I would take the responsibility, as I say, of taking your life, although I think you have forfeited it under the law by committing a crime that has shocked the community. You will, therefore, be imprisoned in the state prison during the period of your natural life. The sheriff is charged with the execution of the sentence. CHICAGO POPULATION GROWS TO 2,550,000 CHICAGO, July 13. Chicago now has a populartion of 2,550,000, according to figures submitted today by W. L. Bodine, superintendent of compulsor eyucation. The figures are an increase of 112,474 over 1914. FLAMES DAMAGE PLANT WHITING. Ind., July 13. Flames, originating from a bursting radiator, caused damage estimated at $250,000 to the Standard Oil plant here early today. Seven thousand, employes fought the fire.
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PARIS, July 13.-German forces operating east of the Meuse river have opened a direct bombardment of terrific power against Ft. Souville, one of the defensive works defending Verdun on the northeast.
CAM GETS LIFE TERM; RUSHED TO STATE PRISON AFTER QUIET HEARING ! A final chapter was written into the records of one of the most brutal crimes in the city's history when Eli S. Carr, aged 35, murderer of Police Officers George M. Little and Elmer Stephenson, appeared before Judge Henry C. Fox in Wayne circuit court early today and entered a plea of guilty to an affidavit charging him with murder in the first degree for the slaying of Officer Stephenson. Judge Fox, despite the earnest plea of Prosecutor Will W. Reller for the maximum penalty, death by electrocution, sentenced Carr to imprisonment for life. This had been anticipated because of Judge Fox's well known opposition to capital punishment.
GERMANS RESISTING AT KOVEL PETROGRAD, July 13. In their efforts to save Kovel the German are making a determined stand along the Stockhod river, where they have massed every available reserve. At numerous points big gun 'duels are raging across the stream. ... 'The Germans are fighting desperately to prevent the Russians from gaining a firm foothold n the western bank of the river and " have taken up strong positions. Enormous masses of guns, are concentrated at the river crossings. MOON'S EVENING OFF; LOVERS PLEASE NOTE Tomorrow will be moon's evening off. This was announced today by local astronomers. The eclipse will begin about 9:45 o'clock. At 10:50 the face of the beautiful Luna will be completely hidden and the shadow shall not have passed until twenty-seven minutes after midnight. Tomorrow evening the moon will rise at its scheduled time, 7:30 o'clock, and put up a good bluff that it is intending to spend the entire evening, but right now it has made every arrangement to sneak away for more than two hours. Of. course, it will be absolutely necessary that several porches be occupied until after midnight because it wouldn't do to go to bed without giving the moon a hearty welcome on her return. CROWDS FLOCK TO ORPET CASE WAUKEGAN. 111., July 13. Another sweltering, suffocating day was not sufficient to keep the crowds away from Lake county court where Will Orpet is on trial for the murder of Marion Lambert. Despite the "heat today the old-fashioned hitch-rack which runs about the courthouse was packed with rigs long before the trial was resumed. Apparently the Lake county yoemanry, who played such an important part in the early days of the trial, do not intend to be absent in the finale. STEAMER RAMOS LOST. KEY WEST, Fla., July 13. The steamer Ramos and its crew of fifteen men were given up for lost today when efforts to get into wirelees communication with the ship was made by other vessels and all failed to get any response. The official communique issued by the French war office today states that the Germans are bombarding not only Ft. Souville, but" also the French position in Chenois wood and Laufee works.
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not the slightest emotion, accepted the court's sentence without making any comment- No plea for mercy was made by either of the court's two pauper attorneys, Frank Strayer and Arthur Willsdorf, appointed by the court to represent the murderer. After Prosecutor Reller had read the affidavit charging Carr with the murder of Officer Stephenson, he asked the murderer if he was guilty or not guilty. "I guess I must be guilty," Canreplied slowly, the ghost of a smile playing about his colorless lips. "Everybody seems to think so, so I guess I am." Enters Plea of Guilty. "If the court pleases, the prisoner wants to enter a plea of guilty to the charge," remarked' Attorney Strayer. This was the only statement directed tcsthevouxt. by. either of -Carr's -two attorneys-' ' Carr hobbled Into the circuit court room on a pair of crutches in the custody of Sheriff Steen and Turnkey Morgan at 8:30 o'clock this morning. No more than twenty people, for the the most part court attaches, attorneys and reporters, were present, as the utmost precaution had been taken by the authorities to keep secret the time of Carr's arraignment. Apparently fear of mob violence had impelled the authorities to take such ac tion. Execution Was Deserved. In sentencing Carr the court frankly stated he did not "feel at liberty tc Continued On Page Twelve. ' DEATH OF OFFICERS COSTS CITY $5,918 UNDER STATE LAW The deaths of Police Officers Little and Stephenson will cost the city of Richmond $5,918. For a period of 300 weeks, about six years, each widow will receive, from the city approximately $9.53 a week. In addition each widow will receive $100 to defray funeral expenses. Last fall the question of the city protecting Itself under the terms-of the workmen's compensation lht through the taking out of a policy with some compensation insurance company was discussed. It was finally decided, almost unanimously, that the city should carry its own insurance, a small amount being paid into a compensation insurance fund annually. Councilman Handley vigorously opposed this plan. It was also recalled today that tie city government still persists in Refusing to carry fire insurance on the Municipal Electric plant and other city properties. LOCAL EAGLES INVITED TO DAYTON CEREMONY An invitation has been received by Wayne aerie drill team to attend the dedication of the new Eagles' home at Dayton, Q., July 29 and 30. If the invitation is accepted twenty-four men will attend as team members. Weather Forecast United States Report Unsettled tonight and Friday.. Probably local showers. Temperature. Noon SO Yesterday. : Maximum 83 Minimum 71
. Local Forecast Somewhat unsettled tonight and Friday. Conditions favorable for local thundcr-.howers. ; .-'.-General Conditions Partly cloudy weather continues over the Mississippi valley with r rain In scattered places. - Light " to moderate showers occurred uver Wayne and Union counties but mostly in. Union county, yesterday. The warm weather will prob-. ably continue for several days. W. E. MOORE, Weather Forecaster. . . . 9