Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 288, 20 October 1916 — Page 1

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SECRET SESSION HELD BY MAYOR AND BOARD, CLOSETED FOR 2 HOURS

Tor two hours, this morning, members of the board of public works. City Attorney Bond and Clarence Kleinknecht, superintendent of, the city olectrlc plant, held a conference In the mayor's office behind , closed doors. No definite information as to the questions discussed was obtainable. President Bavis of the board of public works stated that the ornamental lighting system for the central business district received consideration and that the delay on the part of the American-LaFrance company in motorizing four local fire companies was discussed. ' Next Friday the extension of time for the delivery of the motor chemical trucks will have expired and up to the present time not one of these wagons has been received. President Bavis said that the city would hold the company to Its contract The four chemical wagons were to be motorized one at a time and all were to be ready for FEDERAL AGENTS PLAN CAMPAIGN TO CUT H. C. L. WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. A serious effort to control the increasing high cost of living will be made following the election. It will Involve, it was learned today, the departments of Justice, labor, commerce and the federal trade commission. All the facts dealing with the alleged manipulation of prices by speculators will be prepared for congressional action should this prove necessary. The big question of an embargo on the export of food-stuffs will for the first time come in for serious conslderntion. f Wilson Has Power. Certain leaders of the master bakers organization of the country and wholesale grocers have argued for pjonths that President Wilson had the power to prohibit shipments of wheat. Sources close to the administration strenuously denied this. But, with flection out of the way the question will be seriously considered, and if it is determined that some such plan is necessary to prevent flour and other necessities of life going to panic prices it Is likely that congress, as responsive to the will of the people, will be urged io take action when it meets in December. The frank statement by Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald McKenna in the British parliament that his government is spending on every working day $10,000,000 In the 'United States simply emphasizes what already had been ascertained by the department of commerce, the enormous ex tent of this export trade. Prices Soar High. But the fact that more than one million dollars a day of this amount goes for food and clothing and other articles badly needed by the people as a whole, and the price of which Is already near Jy prohibitive, is jU6t being realized in official quarters. While the coming session of con gress will be a short one and must be devoted to"f propriate legislation orficials herLJlIeve that It will be poss ihle to get any needed legislation affecting the cost of living through pro viding the government departments can agree on the scope of such laws. AUTO CLUB PLANS TOUR OF RICHMOND FOR STATE D. A. R. One hundred and fifty delegates to the D. A. R. convention here next week will be given an automobile tour of the city Wednesday in 30 machines to be furnished by the Wayne County Automobile club. The machines will leave the First Presbyterian church at 4 o'clock and will run on paved streets only except throi-gh Glen Miller park. In the evening the delegates will be given a banquet at the Westcott hotel. The banquet will begin at 7 o'clock "and will be followed by speeches by D. A. R. officers and leaders. Tuesday noon Mrs. W. W. Gaar will entertain 24 officers and prominent memmers at a luncheou. FREEZING WEATHER COVERS COUNTRY INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 20. Indiana will be shivering under temperatures ranging from 25 to 28 degrees above zero, to night, the weather bureau predicts. The storm which has swept the West has reached Illionis and Indiana. Chicago reported a drop to 43 degrees this morning; Snow flurries were general over central Indiana. The official prediction of the weather bureau is for fair and colder to inig night. The weather says the change ill not aulta be a cold wave."

service by October 27. Three of these wagons have not yet been shipped to the American-LaFrance factory. When Mayor Robblns was asked what occurred at the executive session today he said that there was nothing Important discussed and that he had no statement to make at this time. Superintendent Kleinknecht bald that it was up to City Attorney Bond to make a statement if any statement was to be made. . City Attorney Bond had no statement to make.

EXAMINATION COSTS $1,792 IN COUNTY It will cost Wayne county about $1,792 to get its books checked up by the field examiners of the State Board of Accounts this year. This examination must be repeated each year. It is estimated that It will require at least four months for the two examiners, Spradling and Glidewell, to complete their examinations this year. The books of the county officials have been finished and the work on the city books is being drawn to a close. After this, the examiners go to each of the public corporations in the county and examine the books. SECOND PROTEST MADE AGAINST GAME DEVICES Emulating the action of the Whitewater Monthly meeting of Friends, tire monthly meeting of the South Eighth Street Friends church today lodged a vigorous protest against gambling devices in connection with the centennial celebration. The following expresses the attitude of the membership: At the regular monthly business meeting held Oct. 19, 1916 the members of the South Eighth Street Meetlug of Friends wished to go on record as heartily in accord with that portion of the Centennial celebration which is clean, moral and legal and of a quality which should benefit and uplift our citizens and their enterprises, but also wish it known that they are united in condemning all gambling devices connected with said celebration now or like celebrations In the future. . Miriam McDlvitt, Eliza W. Hlatt. Clerks. KORBLY RESERVES SEATS FOR DINNER; PLAN IS SURPRISE A second Democratic organization meeting will be held at the Westcott hotel Thursday night, according to the opinion of Democratic leaders here when they were Informed today that State Chairman Korbly had ordered a reservation of 90 plates at the Westcott hotel October 26. Korbly will bring special singers with him from Indianapolis to sing at the dinner, he wrote to the hotel. Nothing definite Is known of Korbly's plans here, according to two Democratic leaders, who expressed the belief that the 60 precinct committeemen here -would be called in with 30 other leaders for a conference and jubilation. The dinner will be served at 7 o'clock. VON FALKANHAYN WOUNDED IN LEG ROME, Oct. 20. General Von Falkanhayn, leader of the great AustroGerman offensive against Roumania, has been wounded in the leg and compelled to abandon his command, according to a dispatch today. OIL MAKES ADVANGE PITTSBURGH, Oct. 20. Climbing steadily today Pennsylvania oil reached $2.60 cents today when another 10 cents advance on Eastern crude was announced. .Other oils sharing the ten cent advance are Mercer (black), New Castle, Corning, Cabell and Sommer6et. HOLD SCHOOL CHAPEL Weekly chapel assembly at the high school this morning was taken up with discussion of the new organization of the School Athletic Association. The features of the new plan to be Inaugurated by the association this year, were outlined by Principal Pickell and Athletic Director Nohr. '

FIRST SNOW FALLS AT 9:31 O'CLOCK

Open season for snow, woolen clothing, colds, overshoes, quinine pills and coal dealers was formally dedicated this morning at 9:31:27 o'clock, when the first flock of snowflakes of the 1916-17 program of King Winter descended upon the rain-soaked, but still defiant decorations of Richmond's gala week. - "It snows," cried the school-boy of the Garfield Junior high school, but contrary to tradition of the old Second HOUSE IS ENGAGED FOR PLAGUE VICTIM A comfortable house on Roscoe street, Earlham Heights addition, has been secured by a Richmond lodge, as a home for the tubercular man who with his wife and six-month-old child have been living in a tent east of the city duringt the summer months. The man was moved to his new quarters today. He will live there un til a bed can be secured for him in the state hospital at Rockville. FOOD FAMINE HURTS POWER OF FIRST CHIEF WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. Food fam ine, whose extent has hitherto been concealed from outsiders by General Carranza now threatens to contribute to the early overthrow of the de facto government in the northern states of Mexico. Reports received here today disclose that thousands are without food in the states of Chihuahua, Coa huila.and Durango, where the necessl ties of life are held at prohibitive prices. In these states the Carranza peso has dropped to two cents with every prospect that it will shortly be absolutely without value. The day wages paid labor have a purchasing power of but4ronDufour..to six cents. Government agents meanwhile hold corn at $4 a bushel. This corn is paid for by the government and then taken over by military governors who corner the market and wax fat on the distress of the people. Corn lines are formed every even ing when women carrying tea-cups gather in long columns to take their turn In exchanging the few pennies they can muster for mere handsful of cam. Food riots take place nightly In Chihuahua. RUPE FRAMES BILL ON SPRINKLER CASE John L. Rupe, a Richmond attorney, stated today that he. would prepare some time between now and the first of the year a bill to be Introduced In the legislature next January making it unlawful for water works companies to make service charges for automatic sprinkler systems. Mr. Rupe has been engaged to draft such a bill by local manufacturing concerns who are now required to pay sprinkler charges under the provisions-. of the state commission's water rate order, which became optrative August 1, this year. FOUR FUGITIVES FROM SING SING CAUGHT IN HILLS OSSINING, N. Y., Oct. 20 William Tammany, one of the f six convicts who escaped in an auto truck from Sing Sing prison yesterday, was captured early today near the Rockefeller estate in the Pocantico Hills, it was reported there. He is the fourth to be taken back into custody. Of the others caught late yesterday, Forrest Curtis is in the prison hospital with a bullet wound in his abdomen, while Frank Lutz and Thomas Hyland are safely in cells. A strong squad of police and prison guards early today combed miles of territory around the prison for the other two. The delivery was one of the largest in the history of the prison. Each of the. six men who escaped were members of the Mutual Wellfare League, founded by ex-Warden Thomas M. Osborne. LAUDS HIGH SCHOOL Credit to Richmond high school and its efficient faculty is contained In the statement of entrance exam grades of first year students of. Earlham college. That students of the local high school scored far better marks, on an average basis, than students with secondary training in out-of-town schools is shown in the report of the grades of the freshmen, compiled by President R. L. Kelly and submitted to Principal Pickell of the Richmond high school as a compliment to R. H. S. and its students.

Reader poem, school did not dismiss to let the scene be continued as per story. Instead the youngster, who upset class work for about ftfteen minutes by his all too enthusiastic greeting of Mr. Winter, was sentenced to unpoetical servitude in the school lock-up. Richmond's first snow was as brief as it was early and more or less unwelcome. There was no sledding and the police reported no accidents due to little boys and snow balls.

MACHINE GUNS SET TO SWEEP ATHENS STREETS LONDON, Oct. 20. Machine guns have been mounted on the streets of Athens to sweep the approaches to the King's castle. A rapid fire gun stands upn the roof of the Greek parliament building. The streets bristle with bayonets. - It was indicated by a dispatch received today that British forces may be landed at Piraeus and Athens, if the French and Italian marines already on the scene are seriously menaced. Interpellations in parliament and editorial comment upon the Balkan situation reflect considerable anxiety here as to the outcome of the Greek situation. GREEK TROOPS HELP ENTENTE IN PATROL DUTY PARIS, Oct., 20 Greek soldiers are now co-operating with the French and Italian forces in Athens. A disTrateiftroni ''tKvGreekpitaloday' said that' Greeic cavalry is patrolling the streets. v . A body of Greek reservists was pa rading the Athens streets and shout ing "Long live the king" In front of the municipal theatre when it was charged by Green cavalrymen. The mob dispersed, but later another collected and began' shouting protests against the landing of allied troops. Again the mob was charged by the Greek cavalrymen and put to flight. Makes Definite Statement. Vice Admiral D'Artige Du Fournet, commander of the allied blue-jackets and marines in Athens and Piraeus, paid another visit to M. Heradjos, director of political affairs. The viceadmiral made this definite declaration: "We have not come into Athens to make war against the Greeks, We have come to establish and maintain order. We intend to do so, too." The Athens correspondent of the Petit Parisian telegraphs that the recent rioting is due to the work of agents of Baron von Schenk, the former head of the pro-German propaganda. He added that belief exists in Greece that if the Lambros cabinet is unable to maintain order it will retire. PRICE ADVANCE MADE DY COAL I ?f it.ii luc nisi l cai iuuu ul nmkci this morning came the news from the dealers that coal prices had put on a little aviation stunt all their own. Anthricite nut went up from $9 to $10, while other grades registered advances of from 25 to 75 cents on the ton. , Because of this unusually high price it was learned that many groups of the -unfortunate ultimate consumers had banded themselves together, buying direct from the mines by the carload, thus affecting a substantial saving. Although this practice has been followed some during past years, it premises to be more general this winter than ever before. FOX MAY CONDUCT SPECIAL SESSION . Judge Fox announced today that in case there is much urgent business before the circuit court during the time that the gas appeal case is being tried by Special Judge Gause, he may be compelled to hold court in the special court room at the same time. The two courts will not be held at the same time, however, unless it is absolutely necessary because of the ruling of the state board of accounts not allowing .the sheriff or the- clerk any extra pay to pay deputies to attend the second court. PUTS UP $3,000 BOND Raymond Kelly furnished a $3,000 bond today when he was appointed administrator of the estate of Mary Loftus by the circuit court today. The estate la valued at $1,400.

REMOVES HIS PURSE; TAKES OUT THE $26; RETURNS THE PURSE

A man, who refused to give his name but stated that he had been boarding at 409 Main street, reported to the police today that a negro woman had picked his pocket last night, taking $26. He said he talked with the woman for a while and after he left her be found his roll was missing. "She took my purse out of my pocket, removed all the money and then put the purse back in my pocket," the victim informed the police. CITY TO SELL OLD ELECTRIC POWER PLANT Mayor Robbins said today that it was the intention of the -city administration to call the attention of the Richmond Industrial Development com pany to the fact that the city desires to dispose of a plant which would make an ideal factory for some manufacturing concern employing not more than 100 men. This plant was formerly the property of the Richmond Light Heat & Power company and was used as a power house. "The city has no use for this plant now and we would like to dispose of it to some small manufacturing concern," Mayor Robbins said. "The city prefers to sell the property but if a ! satisfactory sale cannot be arranged. then the city would consider the leasing of the plant. It is located close to the city electric plant, which would be an advantage, it is a well constructed building and could be easily adapted for manufacturing purposes and it has a switching connection with the C. & O. railroad." COMSTOCK BACK -FROIMNGOCK Judge Comstock, Republican candidate for representative in congress, has returned from a trip through Hancock county where he found that his campaign was making very satisfactory progress. Two evening meetings in Hancock county were addressed by the Republican nominee, one at Fortville, Tuesday evening, and the other ht Greenfield, Wednesday evening. Large crowds attended each meeting. Judge Comstock went to Mooreland, Henry county, today, to address a meeting in that town tonight. Saturday and Sunday he will spend in Richmond and next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday he will campaign in Rush county. INVESTIGATE MINE THAT SUNK LINER LONDON, Oct. 20. An investigation was begun today to ascertain if it was a German mine or a derelict British mine that sank the Cunard liner Alaunia in the English Channel" yesterday. The four members of the crew who were reported missing have been given up as dead. The monetary loss is estimated at $10,000,000, a large portion of which falls upon American insurance companies. A number of the 243 passengers who were landed at Falmouth before the ship struck the mine, have sent cablegrams to the United States assuring friends and relatives of their safety. PROGRESSIVES FAIL TO CERTIFY TICKET The Progressive party has until Monday to certify its county ticket to be placed on the ballot for the November election. All the other parties have properly certified their county tickets. After Monday the ballots will be sent to the printer and there can be no changes made after this. JAMES KNOX IS DEAD James C. Knox, 83, died at his home in Spartansburg Monday night. Death was caused by cerebral hemorrhage. He leaves a widow, Catherine Knox, many relatives and friends to mourn his loss. . He was a war veteran and a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge. Funeral services were held Wednesday from the Christian church at 1:30 o'clock. Rev. W. R. Motley had charge. Interment was in the cemete.y here. VENUE WHEELER CASE On a change of venue, the case of W. L. Douglas Shoe company vs. Charles F. Wheeler was sent to Fayette county by Judge Fox in the Wayne circuit court today.

DELEGATION AND BAC1D CHEER INDIANAPOLIS MEN GUESTS AT CENTENNIAL

Winter sent its first sharp blasts Into Richmond to cut through a delegation of almost 150 business men who left the Westcott hotel at 11 o'clock to meet a delegation from Indianapolis. The cold winds only had the effect of adding to the vigor and enthusiasm. There were almost 300 in line, including band players, when the Indianapolis and Richmond delegations furnished the first official parade of the centennial. Ninety-eight members of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce left the two special cars which brought them over, at Fourth and Main streets. Delegation Has Walt The delegation to meet the visitors had a long wait before the cars arrived. They had marched to Fourth and Main streets headed by the Richmond Band. Most of them crowded into the courthouse corridors seeking shelter from the hard pellets of snow being driven eastward in a forceful manner by a stiff west breeze. Then it was learned that the Indianapolis cars were lost. "They passed Earlham some time ago," came a report from the car barns in West Richmond. Later the cars were reported safely past Hiser's station with 150 Richmond men shiveringly waiting for them to show their noses under the C. and O. bridge.

GERTSON MAKES FLIGHT TO OBSERVE CONDITIONS

Richmond may witness a battle royal between the elements and a fast climbing aeroplane late this afternoon whn Louis Gertson will make a. flight from his field on the New Paris pike and ascertain the possibility for an illuminated and bomb dropping flight tonight. Clouds were racing across the sky at unusual speed two hours before the time set for the afternoon flight today. It appeared that the west gale blowing evidently at more than 60 miles an hour, would speed the sky free from clouds and leave the night cold and clear. May Try Ninht Flight. "It will take me,. 15 minutes to get from the field to town in that wind," Gertson said. He expected the wind to die down somewhat later. The velocity also will decrease after 6 o'clock this evening, unless the wind should prove to be the edge of the Montana blizzard. "I will make the night flight tonight WAR REVIEW FOP. THE DAY Violent, fiehtiner was todav renort.ed ! on every front except the Italian. The long sustained oifensive of the Servians in Macedonia is apparently on the threshold of bringing them important results. The Servians that captured Brod have advanced along the Pcherna river toward Monastlr overcoming all resistance. A battle has been fought in which the Bulgars lost heavy and left prisoners and guns in the hands of the victors. In France the Germans have recaptured some of the positions they have lost to the British. Great artillery duels were in progress all night despite rainy, foggy weather. Berlin reported the destruction of three British "tanks" in the allies latest attacks. Furious Russian attacks some of them delivered in a now storm in the Carpathians have been repulsed on the eastern front by the Austro-German armies. Attacks are being delivered against the Germanic allies in Transyivania and Dobrudja. A dispatch says that General Von Falkanhayn, whose armies have been invading Roumania, has been -forced by a wound to relinquish his command. It is reported in Rome that the Aus-tro-Hungarians are making preparations for another tremendous offensive against the Italians. HITCHCOCK RETURNS CHICAGO, Oct. 20. Frank H. Hitchcock, general utility man for the Republican campaign committee, returned to headquarters today with the announcement that New York Is safely Republican. Weather Forecast For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Saturday except rain or snow northeast portion tonight Colder tonight with temperature below freezing. Colder Saturday north portion. West gales. Temperature Today Noon'... '. 3G - - ..,.,,,....:- Yesterday - - - - -- Maximum ; 59 Minimum 50

A car shot around the corner at First and Main streets and the delegation was called out of the court house for the third time. The band started Continued On Page five.

MACHINIST ATTEMPTS TO SEE PRESIDENT; CARRIES LONG KNIFE PITTSBURGH, Oct 20. After making three attempts to board President Wilson's automobile as it was returning to Union Station this afternoon, Richard Cullen, 22, a machinist, was arrested by secret service, men who frustrated his attempts to enter the president's machine. Questioned at police headquarters, where he is being held as a suspicious person, Cullen said he was dissatisfied with the president's foreign policy concerning the European war. A small bag Cullen was carrying contained a bottle of fluid the nature of which the police could not determine. City chemists will examine it The bag also contained a large knife. if the clouds are not too low," the aviator announced. He expressed a desire to remain as nearly over his field as- possible because it will be impossible to see when his bright lights are burning. The temperature probably will be about zero at the height he will fly. The cold will not bother him as much as the clouds and winds, he said. In yesterday afternoon's flight, Mr. Gertson surprised spectators by swooping down close to Richmond. His low altitude over the city was 900 feet. After which returning to the field in a wide circle, he entertained a big crowd which had collected there, by cutting sharp spiral turns and volplaning for some time before the final descent. Cuts ff His Engine. The engine was cut out before he finally volplaned to earth and it was started again when the plane gently touched the field. Mrs. Gertson was quickly lifted to the fusilage where she rode with her husband to the machine's parking place. It has been impossible this week totake pictures of Richmond, dark clouds hovering over the city every afternoon and keeping a greasy film of smoke above Richmond. Pictures will be taken Friday and Saturday afternoon if weather conditions Indicate that a photograph can be taken at the great speed at which the shutter must be operated from the swiftly moving plane. CORN BRINGS SI IN CHICAGO MART ON HIGH CABLES CHICAGO. Oct. 20. The dollar mark was touched by corn today when Number Two sold at that figure In the sample market here. This is the highest price reached since 1892 and was a feature of the cash grain strength which was predominant in the market today. Reports of rain all over the corn belt and conditions In the Argentine where the crop Is an apparent failure caused wildest scenes on the Board today. Corn was the leader in the upward movement Wet weather, the discovery that there was no cash grain to be had, and reports that the crops in Iowa Nebraska and other Western states were far below normal, set the pit to seizing and started a demand from all sources. Wheat which already has Jumped 19 cents in three weeks trailed along with a raise of 3 cents before noon, induced by a rush of buying and light offerings. Oats also were excited In sympathy with other grains and provision made sharp advances. : . Hog products were up. KING'S AIDE KILLED NEW YORK, Oct 20 CoL Carroll, J. Frangoudia, formerly aide de camp to King Constantine of Greece, was killed instantly early today when he stepped on a live wire which had been blown down in a storm. The colonel was a personal friend of the Greek monarch and is said to have come to. America on a special mission for sovereign. . ... jl