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SERBS GAIN THE CREDIT FOR CAPTURE OF MONASTIR

Fall of Hill 1212 and Advance on Hill 1378 Contributed Largely to Ultimate Success. CITY TO BECOME BASE FOR ALLIES Experts Expect Flanking Movement to Be Made Against Bulgar Forces Near Cerna. LONDON, Nov. 20. The Serbians are given the lion's share of honor by the morning papers in discussing the fall of Monastir. The capture of hill 1212 by the Serbians and their rapid advance to hill 1378, threatening the Bulgarian's only avenue of retreat along the Prilep road, is considered the main factor in forcing the hasty evacuation of the city. Military opinion insists that the allies must now advance toward Prilep, using Monastir as a base, and from there to Negotin on the Vardar. From the latter town they claim that the Bulgarian positions east of the Cerna could be out flanked and the frontier passes opened to the allied forces which are now engaged northwest of Salonlki. The fall of Monastir is considered as clearly showing the superiority of the allies over the German-Bulgar forces in view of the formidable defenses which had been created around the city. ; . .; 4 - PERSIMMONS LURE MAIlTOWEAIiiiMBf FALLS THIRTY FEET CENTER VILLE, Ind., Nov. 20. Internal injuries which may .perhaps prove fatal are believed to have been received by Cloy d (Dick) Stinson, 37, when he fell from a tree yesterday while gathering persimmons. Mr. Stinson in company with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Oeardorff and friends from Ohio, went to the Henry Snyder farm where Mr. Stinson climbed into the tree. When he was about thirty feet from the ground a limb broke letting him fall. His fall was broken slightly by branches of a small tree. When Mr. Deardorff and other members of the party reached Stinson's side they believed him dead. They worked with him some time before they discovered signs of life. Mr. Stinson was removed to his home here where he was able to speak a few words this morning. The attending physician believes Stinson received serious Internal injuries the extent of which has not been determined. GERMANY ORDERS RESIDENCES RE-BUILT AMSTERDAM via London. Nov. 20. According to the Tclegraaf the Germans have ordered the owners o! houses which were wrecked in Dinant, Belgium, in August 1914, to rebuild as rapidly as possible. If they are unwilling to re-erect their houses they muBt remove the wreckage and make the site into a garden. The town of Dinant, the Telegraaf says, has been ordered to re-build the belfry of the church toward which the Germans offer a subsidy of six hundred pounds from the Belgium budget. The town has protested against the order. MANAGERS OF CITIES SEE NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK, Nov. 20. Officials of forty-two cities which have displaced mayors for city managers and who are here on their way to Springfield, Mass., to attend the annual meeting of the City Managers' Association, inspected local munition activities today. They were shown a routine drill of a Are company, the fire department's repair shop, the incinerator plant, the Brooklyn navy yard and listened to an address by Mayor Mitchel. Tonight the city managers will be the guests of the City Club at dinner. QUARTET APPEARS NEXT MILTON, Ind., Nov. 20. The Georgia Jubilee Quartette, will be the next number of the entertainment course under the auspices of the Boosters club, at the Boosters hall Tuesday evening, November 28. MARKLEY IS APPOINTED John Markley was appointed commissioner to sell property involved in the partition suit of Virgil D. Fulton et. al. vs. Elwood Fulton et. al., by Jud?4 Fox in circuit court today.

MOVES FOR FOOD DICTATOR IN ENGLAND

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JfcT HON VAtTEfc RUKCUlAK All of the newspapers highly praise the plans of Walter Runciman, president of the Board of Trade, London, who, In a speech in the House of Commons, announced , that England soon will have a food controller. Mr. Runciman's speech Is taken to indicate that the government looks forward to prolonged' hostilities. With the appointment of a food dictator, England will have followed the action of German, which some time ago took steps to conserve all foodstuffs and other necessities. FACTORY PROSPECTS COME BEFORE CLUB "More new factory propositions will be reported on tonight at a meeting of Commercial , club directors. -. Sec retary Haas said today nothing new is ready tiibt Miiiotory employing &,uuu;worKmenwwcn has been in communication with the Richmond Industrial ''Development company. However, he . said, every proposition of merit will, share in discussion. ." .: Another plan of . importance to be brought up will be one for advertising Richmond in trade journals and on billboards along railroads. The advertisements, if they meet with the approval of the directors, will center around the $100,000 factory fund and will exploit Richmond as a city of homes and a manufacturing center. HEARS ARGUMENTS IN HAMMOND CASE Argument of the petition to dismiss the suit of the State vs. Homer Hammond, former president of the board of public works, will be heard by Judge Fox in the circuit court tomorrow. - Lack of jurisdiction is the basis on which the petition is filed. Hammond who was' found guilty by a jury of failure to support' his wife, has lived in Ripley county.-for a year and six months. Judge Pox did not pronounce sentence upon Hammond because he wanted to hear the-arguments on the petition first. - r - TELEPHONE OPERATORS STRIKE AT, TOLEDO; f - RELIEF IS SOUGHT TOLEDO, O., Nov. 20. Toledo business inehTasf. night appealed to Mayor Charles M. Milroy, requesting him to demand arbitration of the differences which resulted in the strike of more than one hundred switchboard operators of the Ohio State Telephone company. 4 Business men complain that the service , which the company union gins is inadequate ana narmiui to their business. . It is expected that Mayor Milroy .will call officials of the company and ' union together today and seek to settle the strike. FAIL TO MAKE-UP 80 OBTAIN DIVORCE After he had 'given them a week to make up," : Judge Fox granted Edith Moss a divorce from Joseph Moss in circuit court today. A week ago, the judge heard all evidence in the suit concerning the young couple. Mrs. Moss was granted custody of the only child and Mr. Moss was instructed to" pay $2 a week for its support. ;(,',; MUSIC BY WAGNER ENDS OPERA IN RIOT ROME, via Paris Nov. 20. An attempt to introduce some of Wagner's music into- a concert conducted by Tuscanini resulted in an uproar last night which- brought the performance to a premature conclusion. The orchestra had commenced the funeral march from Gotterdammerung when there Were . loud shouts of ."it Is for the victims of Padua." A storm of implications against Wagner and Germany came from all parts of the great auditorium and the concert had to be abandoned. -

"Old Jim

Responds to Alarm . The only former employe of the City of Richmond who has been retired on pension, to live a life of ease until the end of his days, is again, temporarily, i mv nonrica for the municipality. This pensioner is "Old Jim,", a fire 4.Mrmafit hnrao how about twenty years old. Two years ago it was de cided that "Old Jim" soouiu ue ycusioned, bo his name was stricken off oroH-ira Hat and he was sent to Glen Miller park, there to do Just enough light work to keep mm in proper trim. Then a fw davs ago. the big team of greys at the No. 3 fire department station was sold as a step incidental to the complete motorization oi me fire department . Tam Taknn To Farm The purchaser, A. D. Gayle, president of the First Nauonai dhhb, m mo toom tn Ma farm so "Old Jim" IU1D . and another ex-fire department horse were called into service to nam me No, 3 wagon until the arrival of the new motor wagon. : When "Old Jim", entered the station he sniffed about with evident delight and was as skittish as a colt. Fortyfive minutes after he had taken his place In his stall and had "bummed" a chew of tobacco from his driver, Jack Coyle, there was a fire alarm. Like a bolt of lightning "Old Jim' and his running mate dashed from their ntniis and took their olaces under the harness. "Old Jim" had forgotten none o the tricks of the trade m nis two vpars of easy life at Glen Park and when "Old Jim" and his other veteran mate got into their stride the astonished Mr. Coyle was fearful for a time that he would be pulled off his During the last years of his active service "Old Jim" hauled the fire chiefs wagon. FOULKE TO ATTEND NATIONAL SESSIONS OF FIVE SOCIETIES .William .Dudley 'JFouIke, founder of tTe Indiana civil service reform association and former civil service commissioner, will attend the annual session of the National Civil Service Reform league in New Haven, Cons., December 5. --'V.Mr. Foulke is now in the east. He left Richmond 10 days ago to attend five meetings - of national . Grganizations, one of them the League to Enfore Peace, in which he took a promi nent part. This week the National Municipal League, of which" Mr. Foulke was president several terms, holds Its meeting. 5- He will attend and probably will speak. " - ? The national civil service reform organization will center, its fight this year around a reform which has been Mr Foulke's chief topic of investiga tion recently, with the appointment of foreign ambassadors. It is for legislation to have first, second and third class postmasters placed under civil service, taking them -from the "polit ical plum" column of congress. Fourth class postmasters are already under civil service. Mr. Foulke may return to Richmond for one or two days within the next week, Mrs. Foulke said today. FINDS RARE FOWL ON ENGINE PILOT Through courtesy of employes of the Pennsylvania railroad, Walter Ratlif f has been able to add a rare bird to his large collection, a King-rail. The bird was found wedged between Iron bars of a pilot on the engine of a fast passenger train. As this train started from St. Louis during the night,, it is thought the engine struck the fowl while it was migrating south, following the course of the Mississippi river. The bird is sixteen inches in heighth. TRUSTEES CONSIDER PENDING LEGISLATION Wayne county trustees will decide upon what legislation they will support when the legislature meets this winter, at their regular monthly business meeting in the county superintendent's office, December 1. A careful investigation is being made by the trustees of a suitable amendment for the school-hack law. It is the general belief that the annual expense of hauling children to and from school is too great. Weather Forecast For Indiana 'by the United States Weather Bureau Partly overcast tonight and Tuesday. Colder Tuesday and in north portion tonight " ; ; Temperature Today, Noon 53 Yesterday r Maximum 5? Minimum ........................ 27 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy and somewhat unsettled tonight and Tuesday. Colder Tuesday. I General Conditions The barometric pressure is high over the south and west and low over the north and east These conditions will cause unsettled weather during the nxt 24 hours. Low-1

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HERE ARE MEANS 1 TO WASTE TIME NEW YORK, Nov. 20v "Keeping up a front" 4 "Opportunities to waste time." "Desire for pleasure." "Lonesomeness." . "Young women." A company of eminent social diagnosticians gathered at St Andrews Methodist Episcopal church last night decided that these were the sources of greatest temptation to young men and women in New York.

"DEATH SQUARE" CLAIMS EIGHTH VICTIM TODAY NEW ; PARIS, Ohio, Nov. 20. "Death Square" on North Washington street here recorded its eighth death in, the last two months when Benjamin Franklin, 75, a life-long resident of the community, died at 5 o'clock this morning. Death was caused by apoplexy induced by a severe cold contracted a few days ago while the deceased was attending the funeral of his sis ter-in-law. He was one of triplets, the children of the Rev. and Mrs. James Kemp, all of whom lived to maturity. For 66 years he followed his trade as a tailor, also serving as a member of during the civil war. Mr. Kemp was a Presbyterian and a leading Democrat of the county, having borne the nickname of "Tammany." He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Ella McPhereon Kemp, to whom he was married in 1883, three sons, Charles, Elmonte, California; Samuel, Richmond; Fred, Bradford, Ohio; Mrs. Edith Lee, Dayton; Mrs. Laura Wiliams, Chihyoga Falls, O.; eight grandchildren and two sisters. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon con ducted by th BV. E. J. Vance. Burial! wu D6, m ispnngiawn. - WHILE OWNERS ARE AT CHURCH Operations by what the police believe to have been an organized gang of automobile thieves resulted in the theft of three Ford cars Sunday evening in this city while the car owners were attending church. Two of the machines are still missing. One was recovered, having been abandoned after a tire had come off. A touring car owned by W. B. Earton, of Middleboro, and a runabout, owned by A. N. Keller, 617 South Thirteenth street, were taken after they had been parked near the Central Christian church, North Twelfth and B streets., These two machines are still missing. A touring car owned by H. A. WilBon, 1309 Boyer street, parked on North Fifth street opposite the Nazarene church at North Fifth and A streets, was driven by the thief to the railroad crossing on Northwest Fifth street. It was abandoned there when a tire came off. The thief departed so hurriedly after his mishap that he did not take time to shut off the engine which was running when a man who was passing along took charge of the car. All three cars are believed to have been taken about the same time, convincing the police that an organized gang was operating in the city. MAY FORM STATE OUT OF LITHUANIA PARIS, Nov. 20. Germany is about to follow up her declaration of Polish independence with a similar announcement regarding Lithuania, according to dispatches from Switzerland to the morning newspapers. The dispatches say that the new state will probably ' receive Prince Eitel Fredrich, second son of the emperor as its soverign and will form a state of the German empire with a similar status to that of Bavaria or Saxony. As in the case of Poland, the dispatches add, the first step in the creation of the new state will be the formation of Lithunian army to fight under Field Marshal Von Hindenburg. - It is estimated that Lithunia could raise 150,000 men. EVEN PRICE OF BEER ADVANCES IN CHICAGO CHICAGO, Nov. 20. Practically all of the bars in the downtown district of Chicago today raised the price of beer by serving it in glasses two-thirds the size of those used heretofore. . A number of downtown lunchrooms also announced increases of five cents each on such orders as ham and eggs, bacon and eggs and 'small ' steaks', while pies formerly cut into five sections hereafter are to be divided into six.

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So successful was the first efficiency test of J. L. Townsend's electric chicken thief detector, early Sunday morning, that long suffering chicken raisers in Spring Grove were enthusiastically predicting today that no longer would Spring Grove be the happy hunting grounds of hen house prowlers. Incidentally those residents of the suburb who were at irst inclined to scoff at Townsend's chicken thief detector were today requesting him to install his device in their several chicken houses. Recently Townsend completely wired his chicken house so that in the event a night prowler opened the door an inch or even placed his hands on a window a large gong in the Townsend home located af the side of Mr. Townsend's bed would instantaneously begin operations. Shortly after midnight Sunday Townsend was aroused from his slumbers by the gong. Seizing his shotgun and calling to his dog, Townsend departed post haste for the hen house. As he ran out of the kitchen door he saw a man carrying a large sack departing from the hen house at great speed. Townsend fired and the echo was an agonized howl from the departing stranger. The thief ran so fast that even the dog could not get to him before he vaulted a fence and disappeared. "After I shot the man dropped the bag. There were two hens in it one dead. I had killed it with shot so I am sure some of the shot got into the thief's side," Townsend reported at police headquarters today. "I didn't mind killing the hen because my wife had instructed me to execute one for Sunday dinner." A recent raid on a hen house in Sprins Grove netted the thief sixtyfour chickens: APPEAL TO WILSON WDDLETOWN, N. Y., Nov. 20 Residents of this city are in such straits on account of the shortage in the- coal supply that they have made a formal appeal to President Wilson for relief. A committee of citizens sent the following telegram to the president: Mountains of mined coal stand at all great terminals, yet our local dealers are unable to secure any to supply the necessary requirements here. Citizens here appeal to you for help." Only a few hundred pounds of coal can be purchased at a time and many residents are compelled to burn wood. AVIATRIX COMPLETES TRIP TO NEW YORK NEW YORK, Nov. 20. The recordbreaking aeroplane flight of Ruth Law, begun yesterday in Chicago, terminated at Governors Island here at 9:40 a. m. today after stops at Hornell and Binghampton, New-York. The final 152 miles from Binghampton to this city, was covered this morning in 2 hours and 20 minutes and the entire journey 832 miles in an air line took the actual fying time of 3 hours and 1 minute. DIET TEST SUBJECTS GET SHORT RESPITE CHICAGO, Nov. 20. Twelve persons who, after eating full meals of chicken, turkey, roast beef and vegetables last night and then prepared to go on short rations in the diet test of the municipal health department, were given a two-day respite today. John Dill Robertson, health commissioner, had announced that he expected to feed the twelve six men and six women for two weeks for $20 a week, or at a rate of little more than eight cents a meal. He said today however that he had been forced to postpone i.he beginning of the experiment until Wednesday because he has found that the kitchen which is to be used must be specially prepared. The experiment is to be made in an effort to demonstrate a method of reducing the cost of living. CANNED GOODS IS- - SHORT THIS YEAR NEW YORK, Nov. 20. Retail grocers complain of a shortage of canned goods and some predict that only onethird of the normal supply will be available in New York this winter. Many grocers are running out of their supplies of standard, widely advertised canned products, declared a trustee of the Retail Grocers' Association, and are unable to replenish their stock. - -'" 1 .;: -v- - STEAMER IS STRANDED BERLIN, Nov. 20. The' American steamship Siberia, according to wireless reports received here, is stranded on the East Goodwin sands near Dover and is asking for help. The officers of the Siberia say it is impossible to launch boats owing to the heavy seas.

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,1 JOSEPHUS DAKIEIS. Many reports are being circulated In official circles today to the effect that Secretary of the Navy Daniels may resign from the cabinet It Is said that announcement of the resignation will be made before the inauguration of President Wilson in March next REV. STOVALL RECEIVES CALL TO OHIO PULPIT Rev. W. O. StovaJL pastor of the First Baptist church; admitted today that he is considering the call from a church in;, Ohio. No definite . agreements haye, been made and the Rev. Mr. Stovall refused to make public the name of the town in which the church is located. - Yesterday, the Richmond pastor delivered two sermons to the congregation of his prospective new charge. He said today, however, that there w a possibility that he will remain in Richmond. The Rev. Mr. Stovall, since he took charge of the First Baptist church in this city, four years ago, has been active in community activities and in the work of the ministerial associations. STARTS SURVEY OF DIFFICULTIES RAILROADS FACE WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 The joint congressional committee appointed to investigate a wide range of problems in reference to railroads and other common carriers, held its first meeting today. State railroad commissioners were to be heard first At frequent sessions during the next six weeks, the committee expects to receive the views of railway officials, financiers, labor leaders, shippers, heads of express. teleDhone and tpIagraph companies and other students of transportation problems. The committee is to report by January 8. ASKS SALOGNISTS TO HELP SUSPEND TWO BUSINESSES John Melpolder, secretary of the Social Service Bureau, who is actively engaged in an effort to blot out the enly two saloons in that section of Richmond north of the. Pennsylvania railroad," has written to every saloon keeper in the city, with the exception of the owners of the two saloons mentioned, urging them to support him in this work. Melpolder wants the saloon keepers to urge council to declare the third ward, north of the railroad, a residential district. His let ter reads: ' . This letter is addressed to you in the interest of that section of our city commonly known - as "Riverdale" or "Goosetown,'- where girls and boyswhite and black, native and foreign are the victims of demoralizing conditions. Provides Most Crime. Though this section has but onetenth of Richmond's population, it has more than one-third ; of Richmond's serious crimes upon the police docket and receives more than one-half of Richmond's charity relief. -While, of course, this crime and poverty cannot be directly and legally charged up to the two saloons operating in this section yet you will agree that there : is . greater , possibility to raise the moral and economic standards of these people when these two particular saloons are removed from if Continued On Page Nine.

"DRY" FORCES OPENS STATE WIDE FIGHT If THIS CITY

Services in Local Churches Open Strong Campaign and Start. Petitions for Prohibition Measure. JUDGE FOX WISHES MOVEMENT SUCCESS William H. Bartel, Jr., Representative-Elect Announcces Firrs '. '. Stand '. '. Against Voting Out Saloons. With the slogan "Indiana 'dry by 1918," a movement to become state.wlde in scope, was launched in Richmond yesterday which aims at the passage of a law by the legislature, which meets in January, ."prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors" in the state of Indiana. The launching of the state-wide prohibition movement in Richmond yesterday was under the supervision of Timothy Nicholson, Richmond's venerable temperance worker and president of the Indiana Anti-saloon League, the Rev. E. S. Shumaker of Indianapolis, superintendent of the Anti-saloon league, and by six other league leaders residing in various parts of the state. .... Extend Movement Rapidly. Having started the prohibition ball rolling in Waype county Mr. Nicholson today stated that the movement would at once be extended Into the other ninety-one counties of Indiana. Yesterday was Anti-saloon Sunday" to 3!ayji.cOTiUyJtbe.fcejnperance question- was the principal topic discussed in practically every protestant church in the county. League leaders who were In the county all occupied, pulpits and sounded the state-wide prohibition keynote. Following services, resolutions addressed to the members of the senate and house of the 1917 legislature were circulated in the churches for signatures. Some time the latter part of the week or the first of next week there will be a general circulation of these petitions. The petitions for the men to sign read: Text of Petitions. "We, the undersigned legal voters of Wayne county, State of Indiana, respectfully petition and -uree you to vote for the passage of a bill prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes within the state of Indiana." The petitions for the women to sign pray for the enactment of a prohibition measure in the name of "tha mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of Wayne county, state of Indiana." The various Protestant churches following the morning services appointed representatives to attend a meeting held at the Y. M. C. A. in the afternoon, at which meeting a plan was devised for the general circulation of petitions. Mr. Nicholson was chairman of this meeting and he was instructed to appoint a committee of ten, five men and five women, to have charge of the petition circulation campaign. "I will appoint this committee shortly," Mr. Nicholson said today. "I expect these petitions will be in circulation throughout the country not later than the first of next week." ' Nicholson is Very Active. Despite his eighty-eight years Mr. Nicholson is as enthusiastic and energetic in directing the prohibition movement as a youth In his 'twenties. "A state-wide prohibition law will be passed by the 1917 legislature. I am confident of that," said Mr. Nicholson. "Nothing can deny this movement and the supporters of the measure will be both Republican and Democratic legislators. It will not be a partisan bill. The Anti-Saloon league had planned this prohibition movement several weeks before the election and the question was to have been brought before the 1917 legislature had it been controlled by the Democrats or by the Republicans. I hope the Lord will permit me to live to see the day when Indiana becomes 'dry. " Pox Extends Best Wishes. While Mr. Nicholson . was talking with a newspaper man Judge Henry C. Fox called to wish the prohibition movement "good luck." "The entire country win he 'dry' within eight years," Judge Fox predicted. Superintendent Shumaker of the Anti-Saloon league said, while in Richmond Sunday, that indications were that the proposed state-wide prohibition bill would be put through the legislature with little difficultyThe League apparently anticipates the big majority of the Republican legislators will support the measure and is expecting substantial Democratic support because of a political feud now existing between the Democratic state organization and the so-called brewery interests, j ' :,; - Propose Option Election ' Mr. Shumaker said' that following the election certain members of the 1 Democratic organization called upon him and proposed Immediate steps for calling an option election in Marion county as a reprisal against the liquor . Continued On Page Five. :