Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 15, 29 November 1916 — Page 1

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ROUMANIAN ARMY READY TO WITHDRAW FROM LINES

Forces Hold Ground Northwest of Capitol But Face Imminent Peril All About Bucharest. FIGHTING CONTINUES ALONG MACEDONIA Paris Announces Capture of Two Heights By Serbs, on Cerna River Region in Yesterday's Battle. The situation of the Roumanian armies defending Bucharest appears increasingly critical. Only to the northwest of the capitol do the Roumanian lines seem Jo, bo holding at all firmly and even here the capture of Curtea De Arges, on the Argenchu river, although that point li eighty miles distant from, Bucharest, seerrus to indicate a weakening of the Roumanaln resistance . in this direction. On the southwest the peril is imminent with the enveloping movement of the Central powers placing their forces within forty miles of the capitol. News dispatches have reported tlio Roumanian government and diplomatic officials leaving Bucharest for Jassy, 200 miles north of the capitol near the Russian frontier. Retre?t Already Bequn. That the retreat of the Roumanians near the defenses of Bucharest is already under way and is a precipitate one, is Indicated by today's German official ftatement which announces a t'isorderly retirement of the Roumanian forces a Jong the entire Wallachlan front bf fore General Von Falkenhayn's pteadv advance. Von t, Mackensen's Iianube armies are marching forward in ft corresponding advance. " " Possibly as a diversion in aid of the Roumanians, the Russians have taken the offensive near Klrllbaba on ths Golden Bistritza, in the Carpathians northwest of the Roumanian frontier. Attacks here, Petrograd reports, netted then the rldses east and south of Kirlibaba and the capture of more than 700 prisoners. 'Berlin declares the Russian attacks, delivered at many points along the Carpathian and Western Moldavian front, resulted only in local successes which were paidifodearly. .Macedonian Front Active With the exception of the Roumanian front none Is more active at present than the Macedonian. The allied armies do not appear to have slackened the force of their offensive in the Monast.ir region. Paris today announces an important advance by the Serbians in which two heights were captured, notably one northwest of Orunishten east of ths Cerna river .where an effort is evidently being made to bring the line up to a lovel with that within the bend of tlie stream, towards Monastir. Meanwhile an advance by the Italians is reported in the region west of Monastir where a violent battle is raging in which progress also has been made by tho French. PENNY CLUB NEEDS 36 MORE CHICKENS With 24 chickens promised and ?6 donated, the anual Christmas dinner of the Pennv club is In sight. Mrs. Millard F. Warfel of the Penny club said today she feels confident that 36 more chickens will be promised by the time they are needed, which will be about Christmas day. "If the chickens are given to us. the Penny club will use its own money to buy the other necessities for the meal," Mrs. Warfel said. ENDS 2-DAYS SPREE Mary Ree, aged 63, a domestic em-j ployed at Cambridge City terminated ; a two days spree in Richmond in city! court this morning. She was fined $1 J and costs. Testimony indicated that I Mary had a grand old time in Rich-j mond notwithstanding the fact that: she indignantly assured the court that she was too old to have a good time. Weather Forecast I For Indiana Fair tonight and Thursday colder. Temperature Today. Noon ...43 Yesterday. . Maximum 52 Minimum 41 For Wayn County by W. E. Moore: Partly cloudy. Colder tonight and Thursday. Probably followed by fair weather. ( General Conditions: The northwest ern storm continues eastward along! the i annaian ooraer ana is causing present unsettled weather. Moderately rold wave covers the Rocky Mountain plateau and will cause falling temperatures tonight and continued cold Thursday.

DEATH VISITS HOME IN PLACE OF SON

Thanksgiving will be a sad day in the home of Mrs. Mary Smith at Chester, i Mrs.. Smith bad been expecting her son, Frank Bush, whom she had not seen for three years, home from Pittsburg to spend the holiday. In stead his body was brought to Chester today and funeral services will be held there tomorrow. Details of the death reached Mrs. Smith today. Bush who was connected with a garage in Pittsburg, was taking a new truck to a purchaser outside the city, when he lost control of the machine which turned over, pinning him beneath it. His injuries caused instant death. Definite time for the services tomorrow had not been fixed yet today. TAX COLLECTORS WEIGH 200 POUNDS; MANY PERSONS PAY To escape the embarrassment of having trouble with the state delinquent tax collectors who will start work in Wayne county next week and to save the added expense 'of collection, scores of 'persons are paying up back taxes at the county treasurer's office! Several persons owe taxes for six years back which they will be forced to pay. On first visits, the delinquent tax collectors will levy on property where people refuse to pay. " Absolutely no "sob" stories will be accepted. The men are under contract to collect every cent available. Each of the six field men weighs more than two hundred pounds. Delinquent taxes on the books at the county treasurer's office amount to more than $50,000. It has been estimated that it costs at least $5,250 to carry these accounts along from year to year. There are 7,000 delinquent accounts. It costs approximately fifty cents to assess each of these annually and twenty-five cents to get each one properly recorded on the books in the treasurer's and auditor's office. AUTOMOBILE FENDER HITS VAN VOORHIS GIRL The young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Van VoorhU, 538 North Nineteenth street, is suffering from the fracture of several ribs as a result of an automobile accident on the Nineteenth street bridge. The child had a narrow escape from very serious injuries. Becoming excited when she noticed the approach of an automobile the child was unable to get out of the path of the car. By quick work the driver succeeded in avoiding running down the little girl but the fender of his car caught her a . glancing blow on her right side, turning in the ribs and fracturing some of them. PAPERS DOUBLE PRICE PITTSBURG, Pa., Nov. 29. All afternoon papers in this city announced today that, effective Dec. 1, the price of t their editions would ; be doubled, and that advertisers and others heretofore receiving free copies will have to pay the advanced price two cents. The papers are the Chronicle Telegraph, Evening Leader, Press and Sun. "Owing to the enormous increase in cost of white paper and other materials used in the production of newspapers it is impossible to produce a newspaper selling at one cent," the announcement says. DRAW NEW VENUE FOR JURY SERVICE The following men have been drawn to sit on the petit jury of the Wayne circuit court during the remainder of the October term: Judge S. Nicholson, Clay township; Elmer Lumpkins, Dalton; Edward S. Saxton, Franklin; Jerome Swisher, Jackson; Jacob Ingerman, Jackson; Howard Whiteley, Jackson; John G. Clark, Jefferson; William E. Brooks, New Garden; William L. Fouts, Perry; Homer E. Stell, Wayne; Edwin Norris, Wayne; Andrew W. Kerber, Washington. Yesterday, Judge Fox dismissed the entire petit jury which was drawn at the beginning of the term for inability to reach verdicts. LOCAL CLUB ENTERS HIGH PRICE FIGHT Investigations of reports that produce dealers are holding fruit, vegetables and other produce for high prices and letting such food stuff rot rather than lower their prices will be participated in by the Richmond Commercial club. Secretary Haas received a request for information today from the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce, which, announced a sweeping investigation of the reports. TOWN IN COAL BUSINESS VEEDERSBURG, Ind., Nov. 29. This town today unexpectedly is in the coal business. About 500 tons of coal was dumped in a freight wreck on the C. & E. I. railroad, and Mayor Dotson and the city council bought all of it. It is being sold for $3.25 a ton. The market price Is $5.50 a ton.

BA VIS LAYS OUT ROUTES FOR STREET CAR SERVICE

Plan Would Become Operative Upon Completion of New Bridge at South G Street. WOULD PROVIDE NEW LOOP LINE Cars Would Enter Traction Station Over Tracks From South End Relieving Main ' Street. Plans for the betterment of the street car and lnterurban service in Richmond on the completion of ' the construction of a bridge across the t river at South G street are already being considered by Mayor Robbins and Board President Bavis, It was learned today. Briefly stated the plan approved by these two officials calls for the operation of traction cars over the south end bridge instead of over the Main street bridge. The plan also provides for. all traction cars coming into the lnterurban station from the south instead of from Main street Routes East Bound Cars The route for traction cars west of South, Eighth street would be east on National avenue, to Southwest Fourth street, which is about a half block east of the car shops ; south on Southwest Fourth to Southwest E, east on that street to the Abington pike and south on the pike to the road which is to be constructed between the South G street bridge and the pike, thence east across the bridge and along South G street to South Eighth street; thence north to the traction station. s.. - , --vSv Route for cars entering Richmond from the east would be along . Main street to some north and south street, between South Fourteenth and South Twenty-third street, and south on this street to South E street, thence west on South E street to South Eighth street and north on South Eighth street to the traction station. "The removal of traction cars from Main street would to a great extent remedy the congestion on that already too narrow thoroughfare and on the new Main street bridge," President Bavis said today. "The plan would also stimulate the growth of southwest Richmond and provide much needed street car service lor the sontheast section of the city. Would Open New District "With tracks placed along South E street east of South Eighth street, a 'loop' street car service could be pcovided for the southeast part of town, a section that greatly needs street car service. "There is a petition now pending for the improvement of South E street and other pikes and streets in that locality under the provisions of the three mile road law. When this improvement is made South E street, east of Eighth street, should also be kwidened about ten feet preparatory to the installation of tracks for street cars and interurbans. "When the construction of the South G street bridge is begun the city is prepared to put through proceedings for the widening of South G street between Fifth and Ninth streets to conform with the width- of the street east of Ninth street. With the completion of that improvement South G street will be wide enough for the placing of tracks between the bridge and South Eighth street." WEBB LODGE MEETS On Wednesday evening, December 13, Webb lodge of Masons will observe one of its most important functions of the year, a celebration and banquet In honor of its past masters. .It is expected that fully four hundred members of the lodge will be served at the banquet. , . , ,. . POOR FARM ESCAPES ; HIGH LIVING COST Before county council today, Auditor Bowman estimated average cost of keeping each person, at the county poor farm this year would be between $2.25 and $2.30 a week. Last year the cost for each person was $2.59. A few years ago the average cost was $4.54 a week. The average cost of keeping people in poor farms for the United States is $175 a year while last year it required only $134.49 to keep each poor person In Wayne county, because of Supt. Petro'B efficient methods. CITY BUYS POTATOES EVANSVILLE, " Ind., Nov. 29 Mayor Ben Bosse has begun making arrangements to buy potatoes and cabbages in car load lots to be sold at cost to consumers.

FIREMAN INJURED FIGHTING ROOF FIRE

Clarence Lane,' a fireman attached to the motor chemical truck at the central fire station, was quite seriously injured yesterday afternoon while his company was fighting a fire at the residence of Richard Hannah, 15 Colfax street, Mt. Auburn. His condition was considerably improved today. While on the roof of the burning building a small section of it gave in and a nail penetrated a short distance into Lane's right knee. A few hours later the knee became greatly swollen and at midnight he was suffering excruciating agony. Today he was confined to his bed but was resting easy. The fire at the Hannah home burned off the roof and gutted the kitchen. It started about 3 o'clock yesterday aft ernoon. Hannah was home at the time and sleeping so soundly that his children had great difficulty in arousing him. It is thought that the fire started In the kitchen. CHURCH FOLK LAUD CREATOR SERVICES OF THANKS Union services of fourteen protestant churches at the First Methodist church tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock will feature the Thanksgiving worship in the city. Other congregations have planned for individual services. For the union worship, the Rev. J. S. Hill, pastor of the Reid Memorial church, will deliver the sermon. The rest of the program fololws: . Doxology Invocation by Rev. Thomas H. Adams. Reading of Thanksgiving Proclamation, Rev. James P. Chamness. Anthem by First M. E. choir. Scripture Reading by Rev. H. S. James. - v Hymn "O, Could I . Speak' the Matchless Wortyw ' -J" :-,.. - -t , Thanksgiving Prayer by Rev. Charles H. Woodman. Offering for Home for Friendless. Anthem by Choir. Sermon, "Gratitude for Peace and Plenty," by Rev. J. S. Hill. Hymn America. Benediction by Rev. Elmer E. Davis The Rev. Harry C. Harman, pastor of the church will be in charge of the service. Participate in Services. Congregations participating in .this service will be the Reid Memorial and Second Presbyterians, First, Grace and Fairview Methodists, First Baptist, West Richmond, East Main street, South Eighth Street and Whitewater Friends, United Brethern, First and Central Christians and North Fourteenth Street Mission. At the First Presbyterian church, the Rev. J. J. Rae, pastor, will deliver the address. The collection will be devoted to benevolences in the local Continued On Page Ten. COMMISSION TRUCK HITS LIGHT AUTO A motor truck owned by the Phillip Mercurio Commission . company in making a turning at South Sixth and A streets this forenoon collided broad side with an electric coupe owned by Benjamin Johnson and operated by a colored chauffeur, who was the only occupant of the coupe. The truck shoved the electric ahead of it a dis tance of fifty feet before the truck driver could bring his machine to a stop. The electric was not badly damaged and its driver was not hurt. He was badly frightened however. ARMY WOULD GIVE 155 FAMILIES FOOD . With the names of 155 Richmond families who expect a visit from the Salvation Army Santa Claus on his list, Captain Miller with his assistants will inauguarate a campaign for a Christmas fund tomorrow. The Christmas "kettles" will be placed on the streets December 12. , Captain Miller today announced that the Elks' lodge had agreed to aid in the work necessary to furnish Christmas baskets to the 155 families. The fund raised by the Salvation Army workers will b9 supplemented by aid of the Elks in case the Army is unsuccessful in its attempt to care for the entire list of families. "With food fully twenty-five per cent, higher this year we expect some trouble in caring for the needs of all the city's poor," said Captain Miller. STREET CAR STRIKES SEANEVS AUTOMOBILEA northbound street car collided with a westbound automobile driven by Will Seaney this morning. The windshield of the automobile was broken Ind a fender considerably damaged. No one was injured. Neither the motorman nor the auto , driver noticed the approach of the other until it was too late to avoid a collision. ... .

LEGAL JINX MAY BLOCK BRIDGE VOTE ONCE AGAIN

County Council Questions Legality of Appropriations Finally Passed on Thanksgiving Session. SEPARATE CONTRACTS FOR TWO BRIDGES Work on South Side Span Would Begin About Six Months Later Than Main Street Bridge. , BULLETIN Council, In Its special session this afternoon, stood solidly for the $180,00 special appropriation for Main street bridge but was forced to postpone action until the week of December 11, because a re-advertisement will be necessary. There was a question on the South Q street bridge, but it is expected to carry. Again the jinx has the Richmond bridge proposition in his claws. This time all councilmen seem to favor letting the $185,000 appropriation for the South G street bridge and the $180,000 for the Main street bridge. But when they met this morning, they found that there ,were certain legal limitations which they will have to dispose of first. In the first place, tomorrow is a legal holiday. When council passes an appropriation which calls for more than $15,000, it must meet two days in succession. The question arose whether the appropriation would be strictly legal if it were voted upon the final time tomorrow." , ' The,estimates have been on file in the -county-auditor's office since the county council was in session in September. It was not generally known until, today, however, that they would not be altered. Because County Attorney Hoelscher was detained in circuit court this morning these legal questions were not argued until the council met at 1 o'clock this afternoon. William Bockhoff, who voted against the appropriations in September, this morning asked Engineer Mueller if it would not be best to give plenty of time for the completion of the South G street bridge so that one contractor could bid on both bridges and thus cut down the size of the bids. Engineer Mueller replied that It is the plan of the commissioners to ask for bidswhich will call for a contract for both bridges and for separate bids on each of the bridges. If one man is given both bridges, he will be asked to start the Main street bridge first and to complete it in 1917 but he will not be required to finish the South G street bridge until 1918. "This way much time can be saved" Engineer Mueller explained. Again, there was much question about whether the Main and South G street bridge appropriations have been properly advertised. Before today, it was not definitely known whether appropriations for one bridge or two would be asked and no estimates for either were published. Members of the South Side Improvement association said that to them it did not matter so much when their bridge is erected just so the appropriation is granted now. They said that they felt, however, that it would have been advantageous to the county to have had the South G street bridge erected first " . The engineer estimated that about nine months would be required to build the Main street bridge. If one contractor is granted both jobs, work on the South G street bridge will probably be started about six months after the Main street bridge is underway. ! Mr. Mueler said that many large) firms are planning to bid on the work j and tEat these jobs are having much influence over the contracting fraternity. Large contractors are hesitating to take other jobs because it would make too much work for them if they get the local jobs. There will1 be probably ten. firms who will bid on both bridges and about six who will bid on only one. ; DENY FALL OF CITY JUAREZ, Mex., Nov. 29. Denying published stories that General Gonzales last night officially announced in El Paso the fall of Chihuahua City to Villa, Carranza officials here today declared Gonzales was in Laguna and would not return until late this afternoon. They added there was no definite news from Chihuahua City yet. BANDITS GET $12,000 FROM KANSAS BANK HAZELTON, Kan., Nov. 29. Entering the Hazelton state bank early today four bandits blew the safe and escaped with $12,000. The robbers took the two men night operators in the telephone office out of town with them In an automobile to prevent them from giving an alarm.

EGGS HEAD LIST GF PRICE ADVANCES

WASHINGTON, Not. 29. Retail prices of foods In the United States as a whole advanced three per cent, from September 15 to October 15, making a sixteen per cent, increase for twelve months, as shown In reports compiled today by the bureau of labor" statistics. The figures came from 725 retail dealers in forty-five cities. . In the thirty days covered In the report, meats declined in price from 1 to 6 per cent, but all other articles given except tea, coffee and rice, advanced from 1 per cent, for hens to 6 per cent for butter, bread and sugar, and 11 per cent for eggs. MISS WOODWARD OUTLINES WORK OF DRY SESSION Regarding the conference of dry workers which she attended in Indianapolis recently. Miss Mary Woodward of Fountain City, secretary of the state W. C. T. U. has prepared the following resume: A conference of the dry workers of Indiana was held at the Y. W. C. A. in Indianapolis at which the following organizations were represented, the W. C. T. U., the Anti-Saloon League, The Flying Squadron, Prohibition Party, the Y. M. C. A State Sunday Schools association, State Federation of Churches, the Dry Democratic organization and the Legislative Council of Women. After a statement of the purpose of the meeting by Mrs. Culla Vayhinger, President of the Indiana W. C. T. U. and considerable discussion of the situation the following resolution was offered by J. Frank Hanly and endorsed unanimously: Federation Is Favored. Resolved: That it is the sense of this meeting that a state federation of the dry forces of the state be effected to include all civic, religious or temperance organizations of a state-wide character, favorable to state-wide prohibition, to be known as the Indiana Dry. Federation, to take charge of and to conduct the .campaign for the- enactment of a state-wide prohibition statute at the coming session of the state General Assembly, and that every such organization be united to join and co-operate with said Federation. It was also recommended th'at each organization appoint two persons to represent it in a committee meeting to be held on Saturday, December 2 at the Claypool hotel, Indianapolis, for the purpose of organization. This does not mean the disbanding of any organization as each will be free to work along their own specific lines, but it does mean the unification of the forces for a definite end. COUNTY VOTES FUND OF $1,000 TO COVER ELECTION EXPENSES For the first time in the history of Wayne county, county council today in emergency session granted an extra appropriation to cover election expenses. The sum of $1,000 was voted. This brings the total cost of the election, primary and registration up to $10,000 . Auditor Bowman explained that this is the first tlma that the primary election was required in a national election and that this was the reason for the original estimate being too low. Council passed appropriations amounting to $6,730.52. Sheriff Steen came In for several special appropriations for expenses of taking prisoners to the penal farm. An appropriation of $680 was granted for the care of poor in the townships. As has been the case for the past ten years, special appropriation was granted for poor farm supplies. The amount this time was $2,200. The original estimate was $8,050. For the care of orphans an extra $500 was appropriated and $150 more was voted for salary of the probation officer. . r The following other extra appropriations were passed: Soldiers' burial, $400; legal publications, $200. STOVALL ACCEPTS CHARGE AT URBANA The resignation of Rev. AV. O. Stovall from the pastorate of the First Baptist church, will be placed before the church members tomorrow night at prayer meeting. Rev. Stovall, before leaving for Cincinnati today on business until Saturday, said be had sent a copy of his resignation to J. Will Ferguson, clerk of the advisory board. Rev. Stovall's resignation asks for his release January 1 to become pastor of the First Baptist church at Urbana, O. , , RAISES SALARY SCALE PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov: 29 The American Window Glass company announced today, that wages of all its employes .would be increased 10 percent. The advance will affect about 8,000 workmen - in Western Pennsylvania and Indiana, f

DRY FORCES WILL BRING PRESSURE ON WILL CARTEL

Will Present Petitions for Anti-Liquor Vote Bearing Signatures of 50 Per Cent. NICHOLSON LEADS COMMITTEE WORK Sympathizers Declare They Voted for Bartel in Ignorance of His Prohibition Views. r , . A dry drive which will be the great est ever put across in Wayne county. Is being worked out here in an effort to swing Representative-elect William Bartel from the ''wet" column. Mr. Bartel probably will be presented with a petition which dry workers declare will have signatures of more than 50 per cent of voters appended, asking him to cast - Wrayne county's . vote for statutory prohibition. Timothy Nicholson, head of the official dry forces in Wayne county and state president of the anti-saloon league, today gave out first information on the plans of his committee. He will not issue the names of his committee members, he said. Names Are Withheld. "You never heard the names of wet committee members, did you?" said Mr. Nicholson. With a map of Wayne county and a list of every person in every, community who has ever worked for the dry cause, a committee of three from the dry committee is blocking out the campaign. The committee will be ready to assemble its facts and plans Friday night,, Mr. Nicholson said. . "Our work hinges entirely on that committee," said the chairman today. "This will require great organization work. We are not going to stop at 50 per cent of the voters but we will get 100 per cent if possible. As soon as this sub-committee is ready to report, we will have another county committee meeting to adopt or amend their plans." ' Charges Stand Not Clear. The committee will attempt to show Representative-elect Bartel that from 2,000 to 3,000 of the 6,000 vote3 cast for hira were cast by dry sympathizers in ignorance of his stand. It will be charged that his stand was not clear to the voters at large, and that he was not elected as a "wet" but as a Republican. Other arguments, which" the dry members say are incontrovertible will be presented. S. Edgar Nicholson, editor of the American Friend, who was one of the leading dry workers until a few weeks ago, and who led the city option fight two years ago, will be out of the county fight surrounding Representativeelect Bartel's vote in the legislature. He has been troubled with his health recently and has dropped everything but his publication, he said. Cites Dry Statistics "However, I have the figures here which I believe will show Mr. Bartel conclusively that this is a dry county, not a wet one," he said. "In the county option election In 1908, the wet majority was 700, which was caused by a wet majority in Richmond of 1.800. Two years ago the wet majority in Richmond's option election was reduced 500 to 1,300. "This shows that there would have been only 200 wet votes in the county Including Richmond, to form a majority. But I believe the growth of dry sympathy has been even greater proportionately in the county districts than in Richmond. "If I had the time and were feeling . well enough to go into this campaign, I -vould present this figures to Mr. Bartel, myself. If Mr. Bartel is presented with a petition signed by more than 50 per cent, of the voters of Wayne county, I believe he will be convinced that his wet sympathies were not understood. "Only yesterday, a prominent man who is said to have dry sympathies, told me he voted for Mr. Bartel, not knowing that he intended to join the opposition to dry legislation, but that he and others would inform Mr. Bartel that they would know what bis sympathies are if Mr. Bartel asks for their votes again." FUTURE CLAYS SPEAK Future Henry Clays of the Garfield and Richmond high schools will meet' in vocal combat in the high school auditorium this evening. The subject, of discussion will be "Woman Suffrage." Harold Stanford, Dorothy Tietz' and Richard Thornburgh will uphold "votes for women." The Garield contestants who will take the negative side of the question are John Mutchner, Benita Monarch and , Frank Chrowe. .. . - PENNSY. FILES DEMURRER . A demurrer to the . complaint was iled in circuit court today in the suit of Ruby Lane against the -Pennsylvania railroad for $10,000 damages for personal Injuries.-, ... n :

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