Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 11, 24 November 1916 — Page 1

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EXPERT WORKS OUT rau OF CHEAP HALS FOR' THE TABLE . Hotel Steward Shows Palladium Readers How Palata- . ble Meals Can Be Cooked : for Little Expense. ECONOMY NECESSARY IN BUYING FOODS Housewives Neglect to Go to Market But Depend Upon ' Telephone, Increasing Cost of Living. Breakfast Baked Apple Boiled Rice , Liver and Bacon Toast and Coffee. Dinner s Roast Ham Boiled Potatoes Rice Pudding , ' Corn Bread Coffee Supper Boiled Fresh Beef Baked Sweet Potatoes Cseamed Parsnips Raw Apple v Coffee There is an urgent need for more 'individual action on the part of house'wives drying to combat high prices nthan for talk of concerted action, ' "busting the trust" and co-operative buying, according to L. E. Rauchman, steward at the Westcott Hotel. -It ia a case of trottin out the mar ket basket, which went into the discard with the popularization of the telephone for ordering, Mr. Rauchman declared today. In times of high prices, the real demand is for efficient buying, more asking of questions and less bewailing of prices, he said. 1 Study These Facts Here are some of his suggestions: "Cheaper cuts of meat are as nutritious as the more expensive cuts. Instead of buying the best bacon at 85 cents a pound, buy the ends at 15 cents a pound; bam at 25 cents a pound; ham hocks at 15 cents a pound. "By UBing compound instead of lard you can save 3 or 4 cents a pound. ' "By using a soft white sugar instead of graunlated you can save from 2 to 3 cents a pound. You can buy two day old bread two loaves for 5 cents. This bread is really better than the fresh bread and some of the older countries have laws prohibiting the sale of bread until it is 24 hours old. "By watching your chance you can often get the sorted or small potatoes as low as $1.00 a bushel. They are not a fancy baking size but are just as good. Another Suggestion "Instead of buying fancy barrel npplos at 60 cents a peck, buy the bulk at 20 cents per peck. "A good can of cane syrup at 10 cents per can when the same size can of maple syrup costs 50 cents. "Carrots, parsnips and turnips are some of the cheaper vegetables. The Virginia sweet potato is a great deal rheaper than the Jersey sweet, and but few people can tell the difference. "Chuck beef costs 18 cents; pork shank, 15 cents; beef cut from the neck, 15 cents; liver. 12 cents. These cuts are all nearly as nutritious as the more expensive cuts. Rice has not advanced a great deal and it makes a very good cereal for break fifct.". . Housewives Negligent "There is all this talk of German efficiency and of French economy, while the people are asleep to the fact that the United States department of agricukurJBs affording housewives as much chance for household efficiency," said Mr. Ilauchman. "I order all its bulletins on food and food preparation and find them filled with sound advice." Cronmery butter is selling at 40 to 50 cents a pound, while a good grade of nutritious and palatable oleo can be had for 23 cents, Mr. Rauchman raid. Bread 24 hours old sells at two loaves for five cents and it is more digestible than fresh bread, and he considers storage eggs at 34 cents good buying as against fresh eggs at 45 cents, when it is necessary for the housewife to economize. CREATE NAVAL BASE NEAR SAN DIEGO SAN DIEGO, Calif., Nov. 24. Detailed plans for the establishment at Ban Diego of a powerful marine base In Pacific coast and for a naval supply depot were made public today by Lieut Ernest Swan son. Port Commandant, following the recipt of a dispatch from Washington that the navy department had asked congress to appropriate $1,600,000 for additional navptl facilities.

ENVOYS OF CARRANZA SEEK MORE DELAYS

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Nov. 24. When the Mexican-American Joint commission met today It appeared almost certain that the request of Car ranza's representatives for a recess of two weeks would be granted. They were Insistent that' they must be given an opportunity ot refer to their government a full account of the proposals made by the American commission after Secretary Lane, chairman of the commission had secured from President Wilson" his approval of the Plan. TREPOFF IS NAMED RUSSIAN PREMIER LONDON, Nov. 24. 11 a. m'. Alexander Trepoff. Russian minister of railways, has been appointed premier, according to a Reuter dispatch from Petrograd. The retiring premier, M. Stunner, by an imperial ukase has been appointed grand chamberlain ot the imperial court, retaining his functions as a member of the council of the empire. Petrograd newspapers say that the appointment of M. Trepoff as premier implies the necessity that the governments make a communication tor parliament.explaining the impending problems connected with the work of the government. . ROBBER MAKES HAUL OF $100,000 IN GEMS ARKANSAS CITY, Kan., Nov. 24 A robber entered McDowell's Jewelry store here shortly before noon today, held up the only clerk in the place and escaped , with $100,000 worth of Jewelry. KNAPP PAYS $450 FOR TIME OF VICTIM The suit of John Williams, colored, Hagerstown, against Arch B. Knapp for $2,000 damaged for killing his son, has been compromised for $450. This was reported to Judge Fox in circuit court today. Knapp is confined in the state prison serving a two to fourteenyear sentence for having injured young Williams so badlr that Afterwards died. The trouble occurred at Hagerstown, Hallowe'en night a year ago. Young Williams was 19 years old when he died. Under law, the father was entitled to no compensation for the son's death but he was. entitled for compensation for the two years' service which the boy would have rendered for him before he was of age. FEDERAL CONTROL OF ROADS IS URGED WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. Railroads will need $1,250,000,000 additional capital annually for the next ten or twelve years to increase their facilities to handle the country's growing commerce, Alfred P. Thorn, counsel for the railway executives' advisory committee, told the congressional railroad investigating committee today, continuing his statement on behalf of the railroads begun yesterday. About $250,000,000 a year additional will be required, he said, to refund maturing indebtedness. To attract investors, Mr. Thom suggested that federal regulation should replace the present system of authority divided between the states and the central government. He cited examples of Injustice and hampering of railroad financing caused by state control of issues by interstate roads. DAVIS GOES TO PEN Forest Davis, the eighteen year old Lynn, Ind. boy, who, yesterday, confessed to having stolen three Ford cars since last May, was arraigned before Judge Fox in circuit today and entered a plea of guilty to a charge of grand larceny. The boy made no effort to defend himslf. He was sentenced to a term of from two to fourteen years in the reformatory at Jeffersonville and Judge Fox stated that he would recommend that the boy be released after he had served the first two years of his term. POSTPONE MARKET The market which was to have beeri given Saturday by the Psi Iota XI sorority has been postponed indefinitely.

"Sherlock Holmes!" Here's A Job for You

. Why is the wind which sweeps around the corner of the Westcott hotel at Tenth and Main streets of greater force than wind any place else in Richmond? Although this question has been asked since the Westcott hotel was built, apparently no one has mused over it long enough to be inspired with a logical answer. - , The wind comes cutting from the north across the sidewalk at a terrific velocity, noticeably greater ' than et corners of similar - construction Ninth and Main, Eighth and Main and

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RICHMOND INDv Leaders in CARTER MOST IMPORTANT WAGE HEAR-f ING IN HISTORY OF UNITED NOW UNDER WAY. Lines In the great legal battle between almost a million organized railroad workers on one side and the organized power of railroad capital on the other are rapidly drawing close, with the legality of the Adamson eight-hour day as the immediate issue. And here are the men who will figure most prominently in what promises to be one of the greatest and most- historic legal battles in the history of industrialism In America. Representative W. C. Adamson, of Georgia, chairman of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, is the father of the Adamson Act making an eight-hour . day compulsory on the railroads of the country, and which act is , generally credited, besides having prevented a GREEN ASKS PARDON FOR SLAYING ' DONE llMlTlTfSHOT GUN James H. Green, who was sentenced to the penitentiary for life on a murder charge, will plead' for clemency next month at a session of the State Board Of Pardons. He has not yet asked for a recommendation for leniency from Judge Fox or Prosecutor Reller. According to evidence Green rented a shot gun six blocks from his home and took it to his flat in the rear of the Starr Piano sales rooms on South Tenth street, summoned his brother-in-law, Ulysses Clark, to the door, and discharged a full charge of shot from the gun into his body, killing him almost instantly. Green had been boarding at the home of his brother-in-law. Prosecutor Reller said today the murder followed a series of protests by Clark when Green came home - intoxicated frequently and failed to pay his board. COAL SUPPLY GONE; CARS QUIT RUNNING NATCHEZ, Miss., Nov. 24. Scarcity of coal is responsible for the shutting down today of street car service here, according to officials of the local power company. The supply of coal on hand and available in the future, it Is said, will be needed for production of light and other purposes than the operation of street cars. DEMOCRATS SPEND $408.95 IN COUNTY The State Central Committee of tha Democratic committee spent $408.95 in Wayne county during the recent campaign. This does not include money spent by state officials on visits here, or for advertising in local papers. These facts Were made public today ir. the report of expenditures filed with the county clerk by Webster Parry, sub-state treasurer. Of this amounjt, $150 was donated to the county organization directly and the remainder was spent for automobile hire and organization work. , other intersections to Fourth and Main streets. The wind, also plays pranks around the court house. A piece of paper may be placed near the court house drinking fountain and in a short time it will be whirling past second floor windows toward the south side where it drops for a rest. It is pushed along gently Into another current which takes it west to the Third street side and around -the corner toward Main street. ' From there It is danced in . eddies to the north 'side and sucked back to its original resting, place near the east" entrance.

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FRIDAY EVENING, NOV.

Rail Wage Controversy

general strike of railroad much to workers. with having done re-elect President Wilson. Newland Presides. Senator Francis Newlands, of Nevada, Is presiding over the hearings of the Joint committee of Congress auVILLA AGAIN OPENS ATTACK ON CHIHUAHUA SAYS REPORT Carranza Soldiers and Offic-i ers Desert De Facto Leadt erandj oiir Bati dif wlthofft j Firing Shot. , : ' REFUGEES ESCAPE TO AMERICAN LINE Passengers Returning to El Paso Believe Villa's Forces Will Capture City Within 24 Hours. EL PASO, Tex., Nov. 24. Francisco Villa and his command renewed their attacks on Chiuhuahua City at 9 o'clock this s morning, a message received in Juarez stated. He was repulsed said an afternoon . dispatch. CARRANZA LOSES HEAVILY CHIHUAHUA CITY, Mex., Nov. 24. (Delayed by military censors.) One general, two colonels and 100 men of the Carranza forces were killed during the fighting today between Carranza troops and Villa bandits. Four hundred men of the Villa command are known to have been killed and left on the battle field. CARRANZA SOLDIERS DESERT EL PASO. Tex.. Nov. 24 Richard Wisbrun, an American member of a party arriving here early today from Chihuahua said that 1,000 Carranza troops sent out, Wednesday by General Trevino commander at Chiuhuahua have gone over to the bandits, without firing a shot. The train arrived at Juarez from Chihuahua about 3 a. m. bringing 100 refugees in passenger coaches and three box cars filled with Chinese. The train left Chihuahua at noon yesterday, a short time after the attack on Chihuahua by the Villa bandits began. . . Expect City to Surrender. At that, time the guns on Santa Rosa bill were firing at intervals and the rifle fire on both sides was said to have been brisk. Mr. and Mrs. Dickerson, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis and another American named Harris boarded the train at Chihuahua but left it and remained behind when Carranza officers told them that the train was certain to; be attacked and they had no chance to reach the border. .The train crew objected to leaving and , were only induced to make the trip upon receiving $40 gold collected by the passengers. ' Other passengers were of the opinion that the town would surrender to Villa after, a brief resistance as practically the ' entire civilian population and many of the soldiers are believed to be Villa sympathizers. OFFICER WANTS TOADS WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. Common toads are wanted by the governor of Guam, and Captain Roy C. Smith, U. S. N., in an effort to eradicate a deadly disease prevalent among cattle of the island possessions. Toads with ravenous appetites and particularly fond of snails are especially preferred as, the captain says, snails are responsible for the disease.'

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:24, 1916. thorized . to investigate existing rail road conditions. He announced at the opening session that the wage question would be thoroughly investigated in order that Congress might substitute for "brute force and strikes, the most barbaric and brutal of processes, lawful and orderly -methods of arranging differences between men and managers." ; Samuel Rea is president of the Pennsylvania Railroad and one of the leaders among the railroad managers who are contesting the legality of the Adamson law. . W. S. Carter and Warren S. Stone are two of the leading four chiefs of the railroad brotherhoods. These two, together with W. H. Lee and L. E. Sheppard, the four chiefs, brought about the enactment of the Adamson law shortly before President Wilson's re-election by taking a vote of railroad men which resulted in a decision to strike on all railroads unless an eighthour day was obtained. ; BABY MARiE DRIVES AWAY THE "SHADOW" SEE HER SATURDAY Seven hundred pupils in the first and second grades of the Richmond schools have been given tickets by the Day Nursery association to see Baby Marie Osborne in "Shadows' nnd Sunshine" at the Coliseum, Saturday and Sunday. School children will be admitted for five cents. A large number of tickets have been sold. Seats can be obtained at the box office ot the Coliseum Saturday and Sunday. The proceeds of the film will go to the day nursery. Where Baby Osborn plays in this film her appearance has caused unstinted praise from press and public. The baby heroine will take your hand in her chubby one, and lead you through an interesting tale and show how she chases the shadows away and brightens up everything within the radius of her sunny presence. Remembering her mother's saying that girls with black faces never go to heaven, she attempts some missionary work by trying to remove the fast.black from a little darkey by giving him a compulsory bath. SEEKS RELiEF FOR BELGIAN WORKMEN BERLIN, Nov. 23, (via London) Nov. 24. Secretary Joseph C. Crew of, the United States embassy had an hour s interview yesterday afternoon with Chancellor Von Bethmann-Hollweg regarding the Belgian labor problem. He laid before the chancellor, informally and unofficially, suggestions for a certain amelioration of the compulsory employment of Belgian workmen as concessions to Belgium national feelings and public opinions. Details of the conversation are regarded for the present as confidential.

GAS DEMURRER ATTACKS CITY'S BASIS OF ACTION

"The action of the Public Service commission in fixing new rates was a proper . exercise of legislative power and cannot be interfered with or set aside by the court," reads the demurrer to the complaint of the City of Richmond asking a reconsideration by the Public Service Commission of its recent seventy cent gas rate order, which was filed . by Attorney Wilfred Jessup in circuit court yesterday. The demurrer points out several parts of the Shiveley-Spencer Utility law to substantiate the foregoing declaration. Judge Will Rule Tomorrow. Special Judge Fred Gause, New Castle, ' will consider the demurrer when he comes to Richmond, tomorrow. Two weeks ago when Judge Gause opened the trial of suit, he overruled a motion presented by Attorney Jessup asking that the city attorney be forced to present a more specific

PRINT PAPER HEARING SET FOR DECEMBER 12

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. The Federal Trade commission today fixed December 12 as the date for another public hearing on the news print paper situation and - invited manufacturers, jobbers, newspaper publishers and any others interested to appear. SIR HIRAM MAXIM IS CALLED BY DEATH LONDON, Not. 24. Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor of the automatic system of fire-arms, died at his home here early this morning. -' Sir Hiram Maxim was born In Sangerville, Maine, on February 5, 1840. He was a descendent of English puritans who were among the early settlers of Plymouth county, Mass. After a meagre schooling he went to work in a machine shop. At twenty-eight he was a draftsman in a large steamship building concern in New York City. The Maxim automatic gun was invented in 1884 in' London and was immediately adopted by the British government which used it in the war with Matabele. The gun fired 600 rounds a minute and caused such slaughter that Parliament seriously " discussed th9 question as to whether its use was Justified. Some years later Sir Hiram, created abaronet by Queen Victoria after having become naturalized as an Englishman, Invented the first smokeless powder. , . ENTENTE BIDS BOOST PRICES PAID FOt MILK NEW YORK, Nov. 24. Declaring that purchasing agents of the Entente allies outbid his agents by 25 percent in the purchase of raw milk from New York state dairymen, Loton Horton, president of one of the largest milk distributing companies in this city, in a statement today predicted milk riots in this city .within a few weeks unless steps were;,taken immediately to curtail exportation of milk products. "Onr Ideal milk supply' is affected sericslyr by this enormous drain for foreign markets," Mr. Horton . eald-rin-my,; estimation IoHj-lM,000'uarti tf milk that should flow daily into the local markets are being shipped abroad in cheese and powdered and evaporated milk. It is time the public knew that Europe threatens to drain New York's milk supply dry. I have fifteen "men out searching for additional sources as far west as Chicago. The situation is serious." REACH. AGREEMENT ON ONE TEST CASE OF ADAMSON LAW KANSAS CITY, Nov. 24. A tentative agreement, or a test case of the Adamson law, has been reached by the attorneys of the railroad and the government -who have been in conference here yesterday and today. The agreement has been forwarded to Attorney General Gregory at Washington, and the conference here will await his action upon it. Announcement of the tentative agreement was made today but attorneys said they were not ready to state its terms. The hearing before Judge John C. Pollock in Kansas City, Kan., on the injunction suit brought by the Atchinson, Topeka & Sante Fe railway will not be held, it was said until final action on the agreement is taken. PENNSYLVANIA FILES SUIT INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 24. Two suits, attacking the constitutionality of the Adamson eight-hour law were filed in the Federal district court here tcday by attorneys representing the Pennsylvania company and the P. C. C. & St. Louis railway company. L. Ert Slack, United States district attroney, is named as defendant in both suits. complaint, 'in presenting this motion, Mr. Jessup made use of many statements which are used in the demurrer. "The valuation by the commission of property of the public 'utility and the fixing of rates, tolls and charges were authorized by the act of the general assembly of the State known as the Shively-Spencer act," reads the demurrer. "No facts are alleged to show that in exercising its delegated authority, the commission acted wrongly or unlawfully." "The Shiveley-Spencer act expressly authorizes the commission to establish a tariff or schedule of rates based upon a classification of consum ers, taking Into account the quality of gas used, the time when used, the purpose for which it is used and other reasonable considerations, and to provide for a higher rate to be charged to consumers of smaller quantities than consumers of larger amounts of gas."

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SINGLE COPY. 2 CENTS FIND 81 BUYS 41 CENTS LESS OF FOOD STUFF THAU 111 1915 Investigators' Figures Show Big Advances in Food Necessities This November as Compared With Last Year GROCERY ORDERS 1 REVEAL DIFFERENCE Marketmaster McKinley Suggests Mayor Robbins Buy Potatoes and Retail Them to Housewives of City. j

Not. 1915 Nov. 1916 Codish, 1 lb..... 0.20 $0.20 Eggs, 1 doz 45 .45 Butter, 1 lb...... .40 .45 ' Cheese, 1 lb 4 25 .33 Barley, 1 lb .10 .15 Oatmeal, 1 lb.... .07 .10 Macaroni, 1 lb... .07 .07 Molasses, 1 gaL.. .45 .60 Sugar, 6 lbs .35 .50 Beans, 1 lb....... .06 .15 Cabbage, 1 head.. .03 .08 Carrots, 1 pk .25 .40 Onions, 1 pk.;;;; .30 .75 ' Potatoes, 1 bu 90 2.25 Tomatoes, 1 can.. .08 .15 Apples, 1 bu..... .50 1.00 Raisens 10 .16 Milk, 1 qt.. .08 .10

The foregoing . is ' a grocery order any Richmond housewife might send in for delivery any day In the week and the table shows what prices she would have been charged in November, 1915, ad for the same month this year. Last year this typical grocery order would have cost the housewife, $4.64. For the same order this year she will be charged $7.89. In other words, for each dollar she Invests in such an order she obtains 4L1 cents less for it than she did a year ago. ..'-Bread Not Included -"Bread isaet Included' to' the above list. The housewife pays no more per . loaf this year for bread than Bhe did a year ago but she gets a smaller loaf. Included In the small list of commodities which have not advanced ia price during the past twelve months are coffee, tea, rice and cocoa. Eggs are sky high at the present time but no higher than they were a year ago. Compare Cabbage Price George McKinley, local marketmaster and food Inspector, looks upon the abnormal price of potatoes as a question of such serious importance that today he suggested to Mayor Robbins that, if It were possible to do so, the city purchase one or two carloads of Michigan potatoes and offer them for sale at the local market house at actual cost, limiting each purchaser to not more than two bushels. He believes that the city could sell potatoes for at least $1 a bushel less than the prevailing market price. He Intimated that he did not believe the price now asked for potatoes was justified. Mayor Robbins has taken this matter under consideration. SEE STILL HIGHER PRICES INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 24.-rCondi-tions in the food markets of central Indiana are such that Indianapolis produce dealers say they would not be surprised if within a short time the consumers here will be paying 50 cents a dozen for eggs and 50 cents a pound or more for butter. The predictions are that Thanksgiving turkeys, dressed, will bring 42 cents a pound, and may be scarce at that price. Chickens will be plentiful, at about 25 cents a pound. Geese and ducks also will be plentiful, commission men say. Another Cause of Worry The egg and butter markets, however, are causing the most concern. The dealers say the storage supply of eggs is low and also the supply of fresh eggs is not up to te usual amount Fresh eggs already have brought 48 cents a dozen here. Bakeries which made contracts for their butter supplies several months ago, and also for eggs, aregetting them at the contract prices, much less than the market price, and it is said probably will continue to do so. For the private consumer no relief is in sight, commission men say, unless hens lay more eggs and cows produce milk with more butter fat Weather Forecast For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Saturday. Solder tonight Temperature Today. Neon 30 " Yesterday. Maximum .55 Minimum 27 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair tonight Sand Saturday. Continued cold tonight Temperature far below freezing. General Conditions The two storms came together yesterday over the Great Lakes and . has a diameter of over 1.500 miles. It is causing ra'n, and snow and westernly gales throughout its path. Cold wave will follow it and will probably cause temperatures not far from zero over this city Saturday morning. -