Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 249, 5 September 1916 — Page 1

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NO CHANGE OF FIGHTING BUT GUARD IS TRAINED, SAYS LIEUT. JOHNSON

First Lieutenant Fred B. Johnson . if the commissary department, Ind! ina brigade, National Guard, was in Richmond yesterday visiting his moth er, Mrs. B. B. Johnson, East Maid street, and his sister, Miss Edna. He Is on a leave of absence and will return to the border the last of the week. Mr. Johnson's home is in In dianapolis. "I have not the least idea when the National Guard regiments on duty on the border will be sent back to their home stations," Lieutenant Johnson said. "I know this: there is not one chance in a thousand of the United States becoming involved in a war with Mexico. It seems almost ridiculous that we should get into trouble with those quiet, docile little brown people. Nation Derives Benefit. "People up in this country do not have the faintest conception of the benefit the nation is obtaining from the mobilization of the guard in Texts, and they will never comprehend how poorly prepared the guard was for active service when the mobilization order came. The marksmanship was horrible, many of the troops unequipped, discipline a joke and the CONFEREES SAIL FROM NEW YORK TO HOLD SESSION NEW YORK. Sept. 5. The Ameri:an and Mexican commissioners seeking to settle the disputed points which lave arisen in the relations between Ihe two governments, sailed from here loday on the naval yacht Mayflower for New London, Conn., the scene of their deliberations. Henry Fletcher American ambassador to Mexico, and Elisio Arrendondo, Mexican ambassa ior designate, accompanied the com -niacin Ttnth aHH return in Wash In ?. " :on " when the series of conferences segin. The general program for the dellb rations outlined by a member of the American party as planned now will take up the following subjects in this order: Discussion of the withdrawal of the Pershing expedition from Mexican soil. Discussion of means for effecting a satisfactory agreement for protection of the border. The suggested formation of a joint claim commission with the power of a court. Collateral issues will be taken up in connection with these subjects. COUNTY ORDERS ESTIMATES FOR BRIDGE REPAIRS Estimates for repairing old and historic wooden bridges by experts in that line were ordered by the county commissioners yesterday. Deputy Surveyor Horton informed commissioners that several of the structures were unsafe and would last only a few years unless repaired. The two structures between Lynn and Fountain City are in especial need of being remodeled. "These bridges were built in 1861 and are considered as among the most valuable Institutions of the county," Commissioner Seaney said. "People would not stand for them being destroyed or replaced by modern structures even though they are narrow for the rapid traffic of the present day." Most of these bridges, are the centers of historic traditions and in several instances they have given birth to a series of ghost stories which have been handed down from generation to generation. The repair work on the bridges will consist of making crowns in the middle of the structures. The two sides will lead up to about a half foot raise in the center. This will give them more strength. The timber ior the most part in these bridges is in the best of condition. The piers will also have to' be repaired. When these piers are extensively repaired they will be enlarged so that in case the commissioners some time later decide to widen them they will have everything ready to do so. KING GIVES MEDAL TO DARING AIRMAN LONDON, Sept. 5 Lieutenant Hugh L. Robinson of the Royal Flying corps, who brought down the Zeppelin which the Germans lost Monday morning during their attack over the southeastern part of England, was awarded lthe Victoria cross today by King George

men so soft as to be almost useless for

field service. Since the guard has been in Texas they have been taught the art of shooting, they have ' been toughened, and today they are real soldiers. In a short time the guard will be as fine a body of troops as the regular army boasts of, and the nation will have a splendid second line of military defense trained soldiers to call to the colors in any future emergency, instead of a mob of undisciplined, jellysoft men.' YOUNG SOCIALISTS SELECT RICHMOND FOR 1917 SESSION LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 5. At the final session of the convention of Young People's Socialist League of Indiana today, Richmond was selected over Indianapolis and Kokomo as the 1917 convention city. The following officers were elected: President, Charles R. Rogers, Indianapolis; secretary-treasurer, John W. Carter, Indianapolis; state" organizer, Jacob Wilner, Lafayette, Nicholas Dicesare of South Bend presided as chairman of the convention. At the closing session resolutions were adopted declaring the European war was caused by the greed of groups of financial exploiters and the preparedness program carried on in Europe. The resolutions also opposed compulsory military service. The report of the secretary showed the league had increased 20 per cent In membership since the convention was held last year in Kokomo. Among the leaders in committee work were Fred W. Renz, Jr., and Morris Hackman of Indianapolis, V. T. Ballinger of Richmond, and Norrls K. Friedman and John Cobb of Kokomo.

GOUNTY TO FIX TAXES AT LMT YEAR'S RATE

From all indications at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon tax levies for Wayne county for 1917 will be the same as last year or 51.9 cents per hundred dollars. This has been recommended by the commissioners and up until this time all recommendations from the commissioners have been accepted with minor changes by the councilmen in their annual session today. The general county levy asked for is 34.9 cents; the free turnpike levy 12 cents. This is three cents higher than last. This added three cents will be taken from the court house bond sinking fund of 7 cents which is ESCAPED PRISONER REMINDS MARSHAL TO LOCK UP JAIL Frank Miller, town marshal of New Paris, O., has confided to Richmond friends that it is humiliating enough to have a prisoner break jail, but insult is added to injury when the fugitive, Sam Pierson, insists on calling him up on the telephone each evening to remind him to be "sure and lock up the jail tonight." After Pierson gives the town marshal this advice he laughs merrily and hangs up the receiver, and Miller can't find where Pierson goes to use the telephone. Pierson and "Bantam" Lambert were arrested after throwing pop bottle boxes out of a restaurant and stretch ing a roll of wire fence across the street. In the lock-up Pierson found a yardstick. Outside the jail door was a poker. Running an arm through a barred window Pierson used the stick so effectively that he was soon able to grasp the poker. An interested citizen watched the prisoner's activities. After securing the ppker the citizen started to give the alarm. "Walt a minute," Pierson called to him. The citizen halted. "Stand right there and I'll show you how to break out of jail," continued Pierson. The citizen followed Instructions, and witnessed Pierson break the lock with the poker and walk out of the lock-up in company with Lambert. About this time Miller arrived on the scene and gave chase to the jailbreakers, but they lost him in the mazes of a cornfield. MOOSE RECEIVE CLASS One hundred candidates will be initiated into the Moose lodge Monday night. Before the work is given a parade will be held. In this parade the Moose band will make its first appearance in new uniforms. The class of candidates will carry a banner: which is thirty by sixty feet in dimen-

HUGHES TRAILS PRESIDENT INTO KENTUCKY CITY LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 5. Almost on the heels of President Wilson, Charles E. Hughes arrived here today for a short stay before pushing on to Lexington, where he will deliver an address. A crowd of several hundred met him at the station. Hughes will leave Lexington late this afternoon and after a brief stop at Cincinnati will go tovAlbany, N. Y., whence he will go to Boston and New York Harbor, Me., to wind up this trip in the Pine state. Thursday. Friday and Saturday will be spent in Maine, where he has strong hopes for an early Republican victory. It was a new Hughes that came to Kentucky today. Spurred on by a hostile audience in Nashville, last night and smarting under what he considered unfair treatment by the labor unions there, he cut loose a speech which put him on record as squarely oppgsed to the method which President Wilson adopted to settle the railroad dispute. The managers who are handling this campaign are elated. They said today that the governor is getting into hio 1908 stride, when he carried New York and that from now on there will be zip to his campaign.

HUGHES IRRITATED OVER TREATMENT BY TENNESSEEANS LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 5. Charles E. Hughes left Nashville yesterday very much disgruntled, and it is proDable that there will soon' be a shake-up in the campaign management. Governor Hughes reached Louisville anticipating that some arrangements had been made for his reception, and he expected to deliver a speech in Lexington, where he was to speak to day. But there were no arrangements made so far, although it is expected he will speak this afternoon. no longer needed. The other four cents of this court house bond sinking fund will be used to replenish the general fund.' Raise Sheriff's Funds. Practically all the appropriations granted this morning were the same as last year. A few, however, were reduced. Although Sheriff Steen only Continued on Page Eight RUSSIAN FORCE MEETS BULGARS PETROGRAD, Sept 8. The first clash between Russian and Bulgarian troops on . Roumanian soil took place on Monday and resulted in a success for the Russians, the war office announced today. Russian forces fighting In the Carpathians have captured more heights from their Austro-Hungarian defenders. L LINES REFUSE EMPLOYEE-DEMAND NEW YORK, Sept. 5. The Interborough company today rejected the demands of the Traction Employes' union. The union leaders announced that a strike on all elevated and subway lines of the city would be called. CHAUTAUQUA MOVES TO QUARTERS AT "Y" Chautauqua headquarters were moved today from the grounds at Glen Miller to the Y. M. C. A., where they will be kept open for a few days until the transaction of business is completed. Work of taking down tents and fences and tearing up floors is under way. Most of the campers were moved out by last evening. The goods of a few remained to be taken away this morning. By tonight almost all of the small tents will be packed, ready for shipment. It will be at least ten days, however, before the work of clearing the grounds will be completed. Weather Forecast For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Probably local thun der showers tonight and Wednesday. Temperature Today Noon 85 Yesterday Maximum ..... 84 Minimum, 48

ASK FUND OF FOR MAIN

Appropriations to be included in the county budget which were passed on this morning by the county council amounted to $52,805.15. If the remainder of the appropriations asked by the county commissioners are granted the total amount of appropriations on which the county tax levy will be based for next year will be $162,597.15. Besides this resolutions will be presented to the county council in the afternoon session asking for the appropriation of $185,000 for the erection of a South G street bridge and $180,000 for a Main street bridge. Of this amount $86,296.71 is in the South TACTICS OF FOULKE GIVEN AS REASONS FOR HOSPITAL DELAY "Before the Anti-Tuberculosis society can secure my vote for a county tuberculosis hospital, It will have to get a new president," Commissioner William Seaney informed Dr. A. L. Bramcamp yesterday when he asked the board as to the best course for that society to pursue in order to obtain a hospital. Commissioner Cheesman joined in with Mr. Seaney and said that the tactics used by the president of the society were entirely uncalled for and that they would never work with him. Work for Whole County. "We had decided in favor of a tuber culosis hospital and had made public our decision before the attacks were made on Seaney and me," said Mr. Cheesman. "But because we did not decide to ask for a $25,000 appropriation immediately we were attacked by William Dudley Foulke. "He would have accomplished much more if he had come personally before us and told us what was on his mind than by doing the way he did in writ ing open letters ridiculing us and de nouncing us on the Chautauqua plat form. We are working for the whole of Wayne county and will do only what we think best for all the citizens," Mr. Cheesman said. SI50.000 CHURCH BURNS IN STORM CHICAGO, Sept. 5 A terrific rainstorm which by a sixty-mile gale broke over Chicago early today causing great property damage. The Congregational church in Oak Park was struck by lightning and destroyed with a loss of $150,000. A $14,000 pipe organ was among the effects burned. GIVE WILSON RIGHT TO RESIST BOYCOTT WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. The president is empowered "to employ such part of the land and naval forces of the United States as may be necessary" to retaliate against foreign black listing and boycotting an an amendment voted into the emergency revenue bill by the Senate today. FRIENDS WILL SELL OLD MEETING HOUSE Because the Friends meeting house north of Centerville has been aban doned and is no longer used for wor ship the trustees of the Indiana yearly meeting have offered the building and three-quarters of an acre of land on which it stands, for sale. The meeting was formerly affiliated with the Cen terville quarterly meeting. The church was built nearly thirty years ago, and was occupied by the Friends until several years ago, when it was abandoned, nearly all the mem bers . of the meeting having moved away. The furniture has been removed and stored at Centerville. It probably will be used by the Centerville meeting in improvements which it is planning to make on the meeting house. ASKS WHY AUDITOR RECEIVES LESS PAY Lee ' Nusbaum, president of the county council, asked this morning why discrimination was made in instances of salaries paid to various county officials. For instance the county treasurer gets $5,000 a year while the auditor who has more work to perform only gets $3,900. Mr. Bowman explained that salaries are set by the state. A few years ago the treasurer's associatioa of the state obtained an increase in the salary of the Wayne county treasurer but for many years back there has been no change made inHhe salary of the auditor.

$100,000 STREET SPAN

Side Bridge fund. It is asked that the remainder be raised by twentyyear bonds, paying four and one-half percent interest. WIDEN ROADWAYS ON COUNTY'S SPANS FOR MOTOR TRAVEL To meet conditions which have come with the motor age, hereafter all bridges on the main thoroughfares in Wayne county wIH be made with eigh teen-foot roadways. This was agreed upon by the county commissioners yesterday, upon recommendations of Deputy Surveyor Horton. This is the second Increase in width which has come within the last few years. A few years ago all bridges were made with fourteen-foot roadways. ' Then the regulation width was made sixteen. It will only be a short, time," declared Horton, "until all roads will be made eighteen feet wide. "The only objection which can be offered to the old wooden bridges in this county is their narrowness. In a few years their widths will have to be increased," he said. WILSON PLANS SHORT HOLIDAY BEFORE TOURS ABOARD PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL. HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Sept 5 President Wilson is speeding back to Washington today, prepared to at once wind up his end of matters looking to the adjournment of congress by tomorrow night He expects to confer with Senator Kern and other administration leaders immediately on his It Is the president's plan to finish all urgent business by Thursday in order that he may leave Thursday night for Atlantic City, where he will address the American Woman Suffrage association convention there on Friday evening. From Atlantic City he expects to motor to Shadow Lawn on Saturday for a short rest. The president let it be known today that he has no definite plans for the period from now until election. He has a tentative speaking engagement at St Louis on Sept. 20, which he probably will keep. His intimate friends, particularly Dr. Carey T. Grayson, his physician, are advising him to take a long rest after the return from St. Louis. Crowds turned out at almost every station to greet the Wilsons on their return, but there were no stops. WOMEN TURN AGAINST STAND WILSON TAKES ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 5 Suffrage leaders assembling here today for the great convention that begins tomorrow, predicted the "votes for women" cohorts would play an enormous part in the coming presidential election. They declare they would not uphold President Wilson unless he declared himself in favor of nationwide suffrage. President Wilson will be among the speakers who will address the conven tion. Herbert Parsons, Republican na tional committeeman from New York, and Raymond Robbins, the Progressive leader, will also speak. FRENCH CAPTURE TOWN OF CHILLY ON SOMME LINE BERLIN, Sept. 5. The capture of Chilly on the Somme front by the French was admitted by the German war office today. In the Balkan theatre the Bulgarians have captured the Roumanian town of Dovritch, the official statement says. The town is in Dobruja, twenty miles inside the Roumanian line. It is on the railway running into Roumania from Bulgaria. FORCE GERMAN WOMEN TO WORK IN FIELD8 BERNE, Sept. 5. A decree promulgated in the principality of Lippe threatens all women who refuse to work in the fields as harvesters with punishment. Those who are wives of soldiers at the front are drawing separation allowances, which will be deprived of them. In the event of being inaccessible to any financial forfeit of this kind the women shirkers will be imprisoned. An almost identical decree has been promulgated in the duch of Altenburg.

GERMAN DEFENSES FALL ALONG 1 ,000 YARD FRONT BEFORE BRITISH PLUNGE

LONDON, Sept 5. British troops on the Somme front have resumed their advance despite stormy weather, pushing forward- fifteen hundred yards east of Guillmont it is announced in the official statement issued today. The British have gained a foothold in Leuz woods. At Salsmont farm where the British advance ended on Sunday the British forces have pressed home another powerful assault, capturing the whole ATLANTIC NAVY OF 55 WARSHIPS PLAYS AT WAR NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 5. Fifty-five United States warships are gathering off Virginia Cape for the most elaborate maneuvers and target practice ever started by the American navy. Two divisions of the Atlantic fleet left Hampton Roads today after coaling and taking on ammunition. The new battleships Pennsylvania and Oklahoma were scheduled to open target practice this afternoon against the hulk of the old battleship San Marcos of Tangiers sound.

AVIATOR TO FLY HERE; MARKS WILL MAKE CITY LOOK LIKE 6ARDEN SPOT

Business men who will assist in conducting the fall festival and centennial celebration will meet Friday night, at a place which was not announced today, for a luncheon. At this time' the committee which has thus far had charge of all preliminary preparations will report and other committees to assist with the work will be appointed. The arrangements for the festival and centennial will be largely in the hands of J. A. Darnaby, manager for H. B. Marks with whom the local promoters have entered into a contract for staging the celebration. Will Bring Aviator. Among the features which Mr. Marks proposes to bring here will be Louis Gertson, aviator who is now appearing at the state fair. Mr. Marks directs the bookings of this birdman and consequently will secure his services for the local festival at a minimum rate. A decorating firm in which Mr. Marks Is interested will provide the decorations. As has already been announced Marks will provide $1,000 for the GERMANS LAUNCH COUNTER DRIVE PARIS, Sept. 5. In a driving rainstorm and amidst thundergusts of ar tillery fire the Germans launched an effort to win back some of the ground lost to the allies in the battles that developed on Monday, but all the as saults were repulsed, the French war office announced today. HOUSE MARKING TIME WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. While the Senate struggled in the final throes of passing the administration revenue bill today the House marked time. The delay in consideration of the ravenue bill in the Senate ed Congressional leaders to despair of a "getaway" before Thursday. Despite the early decisions to close the session at 6 o'clock tomorrow. Majority Leader Kitchen of the House conferred with Senators Martin and Simmons but was able only to obtain the assurance that the revenue bill would be passed before the Senate adjourned for the day. YOU DID NOT HAVE TO PAY CENT TAX In an argument between Count Attorney Hoelscher and Wilfred Jessup today, it was brought out that the south side bridge . sinking fund was something peculiar to Wayne county and that it probably would have been possible for taxpayers to have refused to pay the one cent sinking fund levy. Since it is raised, however, it is strictly legal, but it is doubtful whether it would necessarily have to be used , for the South G street bridge. It is really a part of the general fund and could be used for anything which the commissioners and councilmen agreed upon. ,

system of German defenses over a front of 1,000 yards. Since Sunday 1,000 German prisoners have been taken.

EARLY ANSWER DEMANDED OF GREAT BRITAIN WASHINGTON, Sept 5. Pressure has been renewed on the administration to force an early reply from Great Britain on the mails and boycott protests. Continuous promises of immediate action have been disregarded and all of the information reaching the state department indicates that the boycott is being made almost ironclad, while the mails delay shows very little improvement Now that the president has the threatened railroad strike off hia hands, he is expected to press for speedy action by Great Britain and France. Since the initial boycott proContinued On Page Eight. Initial fund, while the Commercial club will raise a similar amount The additional $4,000 required for the festival expenses will be secured from the sale of booth space. Club Gets Half of Receipts. Fifty percent of the receipts will go to the Commercial club, which will divide this with Marks. The commitContinued on Page Two ECONOMY MAY LOSE PETITION FOR ROAD Petition for cementing parts of Market, Main and Poplar streets in Economy under the three-mile-road law will be defeated in case the fortyseven people who have withdrawn their names from the petition by Saturday morning pay their part of the $115.37 expenses which have been caused by the petition up to date. The improvements would only have covered a distance of about one-half mile. The people who withdrew their names from the petition declared that they signed it during the busy harvest season, when they had not time to consider it carefully. Now they are of the opinion that the improvements would be a mistake, representatives informed the county commissioners today. CALL SECRET SESSION ATHENS, Sept. 5. An extraordinary secret session of the Greek cabinet was called late Monday afternoon by Premier Zaimis and lasted nearly all night. Reports are in general circulation that a declaration of war against Bulgaria was presented by the premier and approved by his colleagues. MEXICAN LINE CUT EL PASO. Tex., Sept. 5. The Mexi can Central railroad, connecting Chihuahua City with the border, was cut during the night at a point near Villa Ahumada, 120 miles south of the border. Villa followers are blamed for the destruction. Carranza railway au thorities in Juarez have not learned the full extent of the damage. MORE MAIL IS SEIZED BERLIN, Sept. 6. The Danish postmaster general states that the British, contrary to their promise, have confiscated the mails on the Danish steamers Zeres and Bonia of the Copenhagen-Iceland trade, says a dispatch today. A British correspondent has been expelled from Denmark on the ground that he was a spy. JAM COSTS $10,000,000 LONDON, Sept. 5. From April 1, 1915 to March 31, 1916, the British government spent $10,000,000 on jam. for the army.