Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 310, 15 November 1916 — Page 1

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Former Hungarian Premier Says Both Sides Show Inclination to Make Slight Concessions. 1 SPEAKS IN GERMANY ON WAR SITUATION Teutons Do Not Think President Wilson Fair But Will ' Accept His Offers of Peace.

BERLIN, Nov. 15. (Via London) The opening of peace negotiation may perhaps be expected with fair prospects of success In the course of the coming winter, according to Count Albert Apponyi, veteran Hungarian Leader and former Hungarian premier. Count Apponyi, who Is visiting Germany to deliver two addresses on Hungarian history, expressed his views in an interview given to a correspondent of The Associated Press in which he discussed the general European situation. "We cannot expect," he said, "to see peace negotiations opened within the next few weeks while the Roumanian campaign is still undecided. However I regard our chances for success there as excellent and once Roumania is crushed I think both sides will be willing to consider the question of peace. Roumania was the entente's . last card and Is proving a losing one. We are massing a big army against the Roumanians and I think that the end will come shortly. , ".Or course our progress on the Transylvanian front Is a bit slow, X owing to the' great difficulties of the country, and - particularly -to -the deficiency In rearward communication. These communications are far poorer than in the west or even In Qallcia and Russia. However, the entry of Roumania Into the war has in many respects been really advantageous to us." To illustrate what he regards as the Improving chances for peace negotiations Count Apponyi referred to recent speeches of statesmen in the opposing camps. "Not Lloyd George of course," he Interjected, parenthetically, but such as Lord Gray and Chancellor Von Bethmann-Hollweg, for examples." He suggested a comparison between the utterances of these leaders a year ago and at present. "Then," he said, "their respective standpoints were as far apart as the poles, but now, although these are still wide differences between them, they have most appreciably drawn nearer. The references to crushing Germany have been eliminated from the British prenouncements, and the Continued On Page Two. SEND MESSENGERS WITH APPLE CARS

SPOKANE, Wash., Not. 15. Because of a car shortage the shippers In the Yakima Valley have started eastward 150 oars of apples in box cars, each car being equipped with a heater and a messenger In charge. The shippers, it was said today, believe they can deliver their fruit to the eastern markets in salable condition despite the unusually cold weather. STILL AWAITING OFFICIAL RETURNS CHARLESTON, W. Va., Nov. 15. No official election returns have yet ecu received at the office of the secretary of state, but it is expected tho vote of the smaller counties will be completed and recorded by tonight rpiHlunp: nore some nme tomorrow. Changes already are reported from the jnofficlal count, and contesting candidates are watching them carefully with a view to calculating the ultimate result. OBTAIN DRILL HALL Fermi&Ion has been given Boy Scouts, Troop 2, to use the old Light, Heat nnd Power electric light plant building as a drill hall during the winter months. Weather Forecast For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Thursday. Continued cold. Temperature Today Noon 22 Yesterday Maximum ." 30 . Minimum 13 - For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair and continued cold tonight. Thursday fair. General Conditions The cold wave remains unbroken east of the Mississippi but temperatures are rising in the West. Heavy frosts occurred yesterday in the Southern States and in California. .

"DEATH SQUARE" CLAIMS SEVENTH IN LAST MONTH John Daugherty, 72, Dies in Home on Ill-Fated Street' . . at New Paris. k . ,

NEW PARIS, Ohio,- Nov. 15. A block in North Washington street here has been christened "Death Square? by citizens of New Paris. Yesterday afternoon the seventh death since September ... 6 . occurred in the single square. .It was that of John Daugherty, 72 years old. Three of the deaths were In next-door houses. Mr. Daugherty was a life long resident of the community. -He was born in Darke county near the Preble county line and in his youth received the title of an expert thresher. In the Civil war he went through the dangers of General Thomas' provision train, to which he was attached. Mrs. Daugherty survives . her . husband. The surviving children are a son, Elmer, of Richmond, a daughter, Mrs. William Hapner of Chester and another daughter who lives at East German town, Ind. There are many grandchildren. Funeral services "will be held Friday afternoon at' 1:30 o'clock at the Christian church. Rev. Sylvanus Bookwalter will , preside. Burial wil be in Spring Lawn cemetery. ; ' HEW YORK CENTRAL FILES TEST CASE ON ADAMSON LAW NEW YORK. Nov. 15. The New York Central today filed suit in the Federal district court to test the constitutionality of the Adamson eighthour law. The suit is directed against the three Federal district attorneys of New York state and chairmen of each of the Four Brotherhoods in the state. The road's principal contention isr That the Adamson law "is in no sense a regulation of commerce but a temporary and arbitrary Increase In wages, for the Brotherhood men." ' It is said -as soon as an answer to the suit is filed an injunction against the operation of the law will be asked. . GREEK ASSEMBLY ADJOURNS SINE DIE ATHENS, Nov. 13, (via London,) Nov. 15. The chamber of deputies assembled this morning, in accordance with the constitution. The premier read the royal decree convoking the assembly and adjournment was then taken sine die. SHORTAGE OF CARS CUTS PRODUCTION SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 15. The car shortage in the Pacific northwest has reached a point where it is restricting production of all forest products, according to the weekly trade report of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, made public today. At 124 mills the balance of unshipped orders for transcontinental rail delivery has reached 10,428 carloads, not including unshipped orders for bhlngles, sash, doors and other factory materials.

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5,000 CASES TO BE FILED IN NEW FIGHT ON HOUR LAW

Railroad' Managers Debate 1 Best -Method to Prevent, Enforcement of Adam-; son Measure. NEWLAND'S BOARD STARTS HEARINGS Brotherhoods Look to President and Attorney General to Fight Their Case for Them. NEW YORK, Nov. 15. Railway managers . comprising the National Conference committee, continued today consideration . of whether wholesale legal action to defeat the Adamson eight-hour law will be taken or whether a limited series of injunctions will be filed. The consensus of opinion was said to favor the former . course, which would result in approximately 5,000 actions covering the entire railroad territory of the United States. Whichever method is selected the cases are expected to be in the courts within ten days. Hearings Begin Soon In view of the fact that the Newlands committee is to hold public hearings on the railroad situation generally beginning next .Monday, there was an indication that definite action would be postponed until-the conclusion of these hearings. Two developments stood out prominently today in the new situation, arising from the ; forthcoming application of the Adamson law: First The announcement that the managers of the roads would probably apply for injunctions against the law in every federal court district in the United States with a separate suit in behalf of every one of -the 200 railroads in every district ' which , they enter. Should this step be taken and the litigation . involved run , the ordinary course of legal procedure the eight-hour law; will be from six months to two years behind time in going into effect, even if found constitutional, it was declared. Second That brotherhoods of trainmen announced that they will make an appeal to President Wilson to give them on January 1, next, the eighthour day, which they say was promised them at Washington last summer when the strike order was recalled. The brotherhoods, It was announced will not contest the suits to be instituted by the roads and will not appear by counsel in court to argue for the constitutionality of the eight-hour law. They contend that the duty logically evolves on the attorney-general and will look to the judicial branch of the government to fight their battle. HUGHES IN LEAD BY 1,004 VOTES ST. PAUL, Nov. 15. With practically all precincts in Minnesota unofficially, reported, Mr. Hughes' plurality over President Wilson stood today at 1,004. Both Democrats and Republicans are watching with interest the unofficial tabulation at the capitol today. ; , .

WINDOWS ; NOT FOR FLIES . i ' A near physical debate over the rjuestion as to whether electric fans-in display windows were for the benefit of the flies or the stock ' displayed was terminated when the proprietor of. a Main street store explained that the fans kept the window panes from becoming frosted. Many merchants have adopted the system. ' i v - ' RUSSIA MAKES STRONG PROTEST OVER POLAND PETROGRAD,- Nov. 15. Russian troops on the river Narayuvka in the region of the heights to the east of Lip Nicadolna and Galicia yesterday assumed the offensive and forced the Tenton troops from the positions which they had occupied on both sides of the road leading to the village of Slaventin, according to the Russian official statement today. SAYS AMERICA FAILS TO GRASP BLACKLIST NOTE LONDON, Nov.' 15. The Times commenting on viscount Grey's note to the United States in regard to the British blacklist says: . . "The reason of this convincing document must satisfy the government and people of the United States that they have misunderstood the measure against which they, thought it right to protest Their note declared that these measures were inconsistent with the rights of neutrals. Viscount Grey joins issue upon this contention and proves that they, do not impair neutral rights as the atatute is a piece of purely municipal legislation; We have too high an opinion of American sense of justice and. law to 'suppose that our right,legal and moral, to adopt these measures can seriously be disputed once their true character is understood.'' SWEDISH STEAMER SENT TO BOTTOM LONDON, Nov. 15. The sinking of the Swedish ' steamship Astrid, formerly the pleasure steamer Saga, by a German submarine, is reported in a Reuter dispatch from Stockholm. The Astrid was on her way from Stockholm to Raumo, Finland. Her crew was saved. Lloyds reports the sinking of the Danish steamship Ragnar, 2423 tons, and the British steamship, Polpeden. VOTE IN IDAHO EXCEEDS BALLOTS BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 15. All of the county prosecuting attorneys of Idaho today began an investigation into alleged frauds at last week's elections. Attorney General J.' H. Peters in a letter called their attention to the large vote polled and to the general abuse of the swearing in of voters on election day. In several counties it has already been ascertained the total of votes cast exceeds the number of ballots actually used. . France"

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Bowman, County Auditor, Calls Commissioners in Session to Read Harrington Report. PAPER'S CONTENTS WITHHELD TODAY Belief of Those Well-Informed is That Report Favors Erecting of Level Span, at Onct. Official report of J. L. Harrington, Kansas City bridge expert, s on the Richmond bridge situation was received today by Lewis Bowman, county auditor. Mr. Bowman immediately called for a special session of the county commissioners Saturday when the report will be opened and made public. All interested are Invited to be present in the commissioners' room at 10 o'clock. H is not known whether the report favors a level or slanting Main street bridge. A letter from Mr. Harrington explains that the finding is based upon the attitude of the general offices of the C. & O. railroad toward a change of grade in the tracks at Main street. Construct Level Bridge. For a level bridge to be constructed, it would be necessary for the grade to be altered at a cost of some hundreds of thousands of dollars. There has been much talk, however, to the effect that' the railroad is not satisfied . with its present grade and that. It is considering changing' its tracks to the west side of the river. It is the general opinion that the C. A O. railroad has refused to alter its grade unless the city or county agrees to stand for the costs. H. C. Starr, Indiana representative of the raHroad, notified the commissioners some time ago that the company would change the grade of its tracks if the city or county paid for such changes but otherwise it would maintain them as they are. In case the national officials backed up Mr. Starr's statements to the board, Mr. Harrington has no doubt recommended a slanting bridge. Can't Stand Expense. Neither the city or county could stand jthe added expense which would be connected with changing the railroad tracks. But if by some method, Harrington has been able to dispose of the perContinued On Page Eleven. RICHMOND ALMOST GOT GOVERNMENT AVIATION STATION Who can produce for Richmond a placid body of water 600 yards wide, connecting directly with a body of water about three miles or more in length?' This is how far Richmond missed getting a government aviation station. Secretary Haas of ' the Commercial club received a letter today from Capt. T. D. Milling, Signal Corps, U. S. War Department, giving specifications necessary for the establishment of an aviation experiment and training station here. "If we can furnish the water, we can furnish the rest of it," said Secretary Haas today. ; The water being lacking, there is no possibility of Richmond getting the station and her citizens becoming accustomed to half a dozen wheeling aeroplanes darting through the air on practice spins. , . Morton lake is too small to meet the requirements of the signal corps for hydro-aeroplane work, Mr. Haas said. The field, three miles long and a mile wide, is available for government purchase at several places within the stipulated four miles from a railroad. Mr. Haas wrote to the department Friday and received the reply in this morning's mail. MINING INDUSTRY INCREASES 7 FOLD CHICAGO, Nov. 15. The mining industry in the - United States is the greatest in the world and has increased its output seven fold since 1880, but is the most wasteful and there has been too little regard for the health and safety of the men who labor in the mines, Van H. Manning, director of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, told the American Mining Congress today. DIES AT CHURCH SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 15. William Borough died on the steps of the . First Brethren church as he was entering the church to attend evening services. He died before a physician, who was summoned, could aid him.

SUFFRAGE LEADER ONCE DIVORCED IS BRIDE AGAIN

i 1 n ' 1 ! Sat r x H ! - ' lfcS CRYSTAI FUMrfERi r Friends of Miss Crystal Eastman, who even before she divorced Wallace J. Benedict, an insurance man, last winter, insisted upon retaining her maiden name, were greatly surprised to learn that she again has become a bride, how being married to Walter Fuller, although she still calls herself Crystal Eastman. NOTED WOMAN TO MAKE TALK FOR JU. T. U. Timothy Nicholson and Local Ministers to Take Part in Temperance Meeting Tonight. East Main street church will be packed to its capacity tonight, 'when Mrs. Mary Harris Armor, the noted woman orator from Georgia delivers an address on temperance, under the auspices of the W. C. T. U. Timothy Nicholson, one of Indiana's best-known temperance workers, will preside. The invocation will be pronounced by the Rev. J. S. Hill, pastor of the Reid Memorial Presbyterian church. Vocal numbers will be given by Mrs. F. W. Krueger., The benediction will be pronounced by the Rev. L. E. Murray, pastor of the First Christian church. EARLY MARRIAGES END IN FAILURE SAYS JUDGE FOX The number of divorce suits brought in the Wayne circuit court varies proportionately to the number of people under twenty-one years who are granted marriage licenses. This opinion was expressed by Judge Fox today. "It is seldom that I have a couple come before me for divorce, when both parties concerned, were over twenty-four years of age when married," said the judge, who has been on the bench some twenty years. "Marriages of six'teen and seventeen year old people very often prove unsuccessful, but. not always. "Another common cause of divorce is people getting married who are not able to do so." FIRST DELEGATES REACH CAPITOL INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 15. The first delegates to the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention, which opens here Friday, arrived in Indianapolis today for a two days' session of the official and executive boards of the organization. The two boards meet under the chairmanship of Miss Anna Gordon, the National President. The meetings were closed to the public, the work being simply preparatory to the opening of the convention. The boards will make their reports to the convention, which must approve any action the board recommends. NAME COMMISSION FOR SOCIETY HOME TOPEKA, Kas Nov. 15. A commission to formulate plans for a home for aged and invalid members and orphan children of . the Knights and Ladies of - Security, a fraternal organization, was announced here today, by President J. M. Kirkpatrick. The last national convention in Toledo, Ohio, authorized erection of a home to cost $500,000. The commission includes Arthur W. Fulton, Chicago, general attorney of the order, Louis L. Emmerson, of Illinois, and Arthur Capper, governor of Kansas. METEOR SHOWER TO ILLUMINE SKY

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FAMINE FACES EVERY PLANT IN THE CITY AND ASYLUM

Factories Plead With Rait roads for Loan of Supplies to Last for Next Few Days. DEALERS DECLARE STOCK ALMOST GONE Dr. S. E Smith With Fuel Ahead for One Day May . Confiscate Amount Needed 1 Richmond is In the grip of the worst coal famine if! its history. Practically every manufacturing concern is confronted with a coal shortage problem. Two factories have, been urging the Pennsylvania railroad company to loan coal supplies to them, requests the railroad cannot comply with because it has its own coal shortage problem. Stock Almost Exhausted. Richmond coal dealers are putting forth every effort to increase their supplies and are predicting that their stocks will be exhausted within a few days If the present weather continues and the normal movement of coal i not promptly resumed. Dr. S. E. Sirjith, superintendent of the Eastern Indiana Insane hospital, announced this noon that he had only one day's supply of coal for the institution and that if several cars are consigned to the hospital, which have been in. transit several days, did not arrive by tomorrow morning ha would request the railroad companies entering Richmond to confiscate a supply large enough to meet the hospital's demands untij arrival of the cars' consigned to the institution. Officials Made Dental. Officials of the Richmond division of the Pennsylvania lines entered a vigorous.denial today to a report that there was a large supply of coal In cars standing on sidings in the east yards. These officials stated that yesterday not a car of coal arrived in the Richmond yards. This presented a serious question to the railroad officials as the railroad uses about ten cars of coal a day in Richmond. There was enough coal in the railroad's large dock to meet the company's needs until 8 o'clock last night. Fortunately a few cars of coal were secured from Bradford, O, early last evening. The company was confronted with a similar situation today. At noon it was announced that there was only enough coal on hand to meet the railroad's need until this evening. . The railroad company cannot resort to confiscation of privately owned coal because there has practically been nc movement of commercial coal through Continued On Page Nine. WILLIAM SAINT DIES AT HOME William Saint. 88 years old. a native of Wayne county and one of the early Republicans, died at his home on a Henry county farm, Monday, according to advices received here today. Mr. Saint had been an invalid for two years. Eighteen months ago his wife died. Mrs. Hettie Kennard of Omaha, is the only surviving child. In 1852 Mr. Saint, when a resident of Wayne county, attended the national convention of the Free Soil party as a delegate, the convention being held in Pittsburgh. In 1856 Mr. Saint assisted in the organization of the Republican party and was an activve supporter of Abraham Lincoln in the campaign of 1860. Mr. Saint moved with his family to Henry county while a young man and resided there until his death. He was born in Wayne county November 29, 1828. His parents moved to Wayne county from North Carolina in 1816, settling near East Germantown. In 1849 be was married to a Wayne county woman, Mary A. Elliott. . In 1853 he was married to his second wife, Mary A. Johnson of Spiceland. MARRIED BESIDE CASKET EATON, Ind.. . Nov. 15. Carrying out the last wish of her father. Miss Vashti Wilburn was married to Ray Carmlchaei beside the body of her father. Just before the funeral services began. Her father asked her to hasten her wedding date as he lay. fatally ill, but he died before the wedding could be consummated. HAS SMALL CHANGE VINCENNES, Ind., Nov. 15. Dennis O'Brien was arrested here charged with robbing the orphans' contribution box in St Mary's Catholic church in Davies county. O'Brien bad $3.12 in small change when arrested..