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TAKE BRACE ON HEW IINE OF DEFENSE Petrograd Reports Indicate Considerable Measure of Success in Checking Ad vance of Teutons. RUSSIANS HAMMER WESTERN FRONTIER Illness of New British Premier Causes Postponement in Time for His Address Outlining Policies. Indications today point more strongly than ever to the probability that the new defensive line of the Roumanians following their retreat from Bucharest, will be drawn along the Buzeu river, forming the southernly boundary of the northern province of Molavla. Additional reports from Petrograd Indicate a considerable measure of success by the Roumanian army in holding up the Teutonic advance northeast along the railroad from Ploechtl north of Bucharest, to the town of Buzeu, located at about the center of tho Buzeu river line, which stretches eastward to the lower reaches of the Danube. Russians Hammer Away. Meanwhile the Russians are hammering away at the.Geaman lines on the western frontier of Moldavia and report making headway in the valleys running toward the west. Their object apparently Is not only to hold the Moldavian frontier safe, but possibly to achieve an eventual success in breaking Into Hungary and cutting In behind the Teuton supply lines. There has been but little fighting on the other fronts. In Macedonia the Serbians report having driven tho Bulgarians back In one sector northeast of Monastlr. On the Franko-Bel-glan front but little has developed. David Lloyd George, the new British premier Is ill, suffering fror a severe chill, and has postponed his speech In the House of Commons which it bad been planned for him to deliver on Tuesday, outlining the policy of the new government. WHO CAUSED BREAK IN OUTLET MAIN? TESTIMONY HEARD For the first time durrng the present administration members of the board of public works sat as a court today and heard witnesses testify under oath in nn effort to establish the responsibility for the partial destruction of an outlet main between the municipal electric plant and the river. Examination of the witnesses was conducted by City Attorney Bond. J. F. Hlpsklnd. contractor, who is constructing a new water intake and outlet system for the municipal plant has refused to meet the expense of repairing the outlet main, which will amount to nbout $100, charging that dty plant employes were responsiblfor the damage. When the board convrned ns a court this morning there were a number of city plant employes and employes of Hlpsklnd present to testify. Hlpsklnd and his employes contended that the old outlet main was broken when a city lineman dropped two larg" glass insulators from the top of a pole onto the mam. city plant em ployes admitted that two insulators had fallen from the pole but denied that they Btruck the main. They alao stated that the main was broken before the insulators were dropped and that water was pouring from the pipe. They claimed that a Hlpsklnd employe caused the break by digging under a weak section of the main. PLAN HOSPITAL CRAFT WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. The projected navy hospital ship, construction of which has been authorized, will be the first vessel designed and built for this purpose by any nation, according to surgeon general Bralsted whose annual report was made public today. I : I Weather Forecast j For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight except snow north east portion. Colder Tuesday. Fair. Much colder with a cold wave. Temperature Tcday. Noon 37 Yesterday. Maximum 33 Minimum 13 For Wayne county by W. E. MooreUnsettled tonight. Probably snow flurries and colder. Tuesday fair. Cold wave. General Conditions The storm cen tral over Arkansas last night is movIng slowly northeastward with rain and snow in its path. A cold wave is following It and is expected to reach this nortion tonight or Tuesday.

MARINA CASE BREAKS PACT WITH AMERICA

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. Announcement was made at the state deparement today that complete information now at hand covering the case of the British horse ship Marina, torpedoed with the loss of six Americans makes it appear to be a case of "clearcut violation of German's pledges to the United States." HALE RELATES EASE WITH WHICH TEUTONS CAPTURED BUCHAREST BY WILLIAM BAYARD HALE BERLIN, Dec. 10. It took, the armies of the Central Powers 100 days to capture Bucharest. They would have probably done It In one tenth of that time If the possession of the capital had been regarded as the first desideratum. What Falkenhayn and Mackensen really have been engaged in during the last 14 weeks has been the surrounding of the Roumanian armies and the occupation of the vast agricultural plains of Wallachla and the sulphur and oil wells of Transylvania and Piedmont They only troubled themselves with taking possession of the capital when it fell like a ripe apple Into their mouth. The Roumanian government had long been in flight, maintaining a precarious and totally disorganized existence at Jassy, close to the Russian border. At the present moment all of the really valuable portion of the country, namely Southern Wallachia, Is in full possession of the Central Powers. It comprises a territory twice as large as Belgium, with a population nearly equal to that of the latter country and .with incalculable mineral supplies, wheat, corn, oil much of which had been bought and paid for by the British, but had not been delivered, falls a prize to the enemy. ZERO TEMPERATURE BOOKED FOR CITY After a good getaway Saturday, Winter is preparing for a lightning spurt tomorrow to make up ground lost in the false start early in November when the season was nosed out by a dark horse, Indian Summer. According to W. E. Moore, weather forecaster, the thermometers will stand near zero Tuesday night or Wednesday, the cold wave being preceded by snow. A touch of snow of the kind read about in the nineteenth century poem and fireside stories came for a half hour this morning. Snow flakes as big as half dollars fell in such profusion at times it was possible to see barely a block away down town. Streets and sidewalks still warm, quickly melted a large portion of the snow falL ELWOOD CLARK DIES ECONOMY, Ind.. Dec. 11. Elwood Clark, 82, died at his home here Sunday morning with heart trouble. He was born in North Carolina but moved to this county in 1869. Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock this afternoon, with Rev. Oliver Frazier officiating. Burial was at Sugar Grove cemetery. ASPHALT 40 YEARS OLD WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. The asphalt paving industry in the United States is forty years old today, according to a government report. On Dec. 11, 1876, was completed the frst extensive piece of paving on Pennsylvania avenue, this city, for nine blocks, between Sixth street and the treasury, on a plan developed by E. J. DeSchmedt, a Belgian chemist. MAKES BIDS LOWER BY USE OF PATENTS "Claiming that through the use of certain patent? and special economic construction details which will be outlined in plans which his company will submit for the South G and Main street bridges, contractors can make bids for several thousand dollars less than they otherwise could," Russell N. Edwards, secretary of the Standard Reinforced Concrete company, Indianapolis, asked county commissioners today to consider carefully bids submitted on his company's plans. APPEALS DISMISSED WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. Appeals from New York Federal court rulings granting immunity to John I Blllard Williams Skinner and James S. Elton in the New Haven railroad prosecution were dismissed today in the supreme court by the department of justice. REVOLUTION BREAKS OUT LONDON, Dec. 11. Telegrams received here today from Athens say that a revolution has broken out in the Cyclades a group of Greek islands In the Aegean Sea.

Murray Helps Palladium's Fund

To Spread LETTERS TO SANTA Dear Santa Claus: I want you to bring all my presents to my home, and don't make no mistake to take it to Richmond, Va. I shall tell you a few things I want for Christmas. I want a new bicycle painted white and red. I also want an American model builder, number four, with an electric motor. So I may make toys that they run by electricity as street car or automobile. I want a new pair of roller skates with ball bearings and a gold watch. Now if you bring me all these things at my I house I will be a good boy all the time next year. Lovingly yours, Dear Santa Claus: I do not want many things because they cost so much. I only want two things that I've been wanting for a long time . I would like to have an erector set, No. four with motor and a tool chest with tools this Christmas. I will close ray letter now. r P. S. I hope other little boys and girls will have a happy ChrlstmasjU: year and I hope the poor little crrffT dren will have a happy Christmas. Dear Santon Claus: 1 I wanto a beegun and a sled and a nis pear of glewes. And a nlse suit. Pies gev me a suit. With love, Dear Santa Clans: . My teacher said I could write to you or to Aunut Molly. When she mentioned your name all of us children laughed. She said she would like to know what we laughing about. One little boy got up and said he didn't think there was any Santa Claus. And all of us shook our heads that we didn't think bo either. She said she wished Santa Claus would get even with us for saying there wasn't any Santa Claus. She said she didn't like to give up the thought of thinking there was a Santa Claus. Well I don't think I will get very much this Christmas. But I am almost sure I will get a new pair of shoes. One evening when I was up town I saw a beautiful doll but it was $6.50 so I don't think there is any danger of me getting it. Well I will close for this time. Goodbye Santa Claus. If there is a Santa Claus. Tours truly, GROWS STRAWBERRIES IN SMALL FLOWER POT Home-grown strawberries In December! Such is the delicacy that G. A. Bair, 202 North Seventh street, enjoys. Mr. Bair planted a strawberry vine In a flower pot last fall as an experiment. Today after eating some of the fruit, he has four large well-flavored berries on the vine. RAISE $30 MISSION FUND About $30 was donated for the Christian Women's Board of Missions at a special service in the First Chiistian church yesterday morning. Mrs. Laura DeLany Garst, a former missionary to Japan and at present dean of the school of missions, Indianapolis, delivered a special address. OBSERVE GIFT SUNDAY Gift Sunday will be observed at the First Christian church, Dec. 24. Every member of the Sunday school has been asked to bring something which can be distributed among the poor of the city. A special Christmas program will be given at the Sunday school on this date. GILES RECOMMENDS COMMUNITY SERVICE "Every boy has two jobs, the first Is to keep himself clean and healthy and the second is to keep his chums clean and healthy. The be6t way for him to do the first job is by working at the second." This advice was given to member of the First Methodist Sunday school by Superintendent' J. T. Giles of the public schools yesterday morning. In applying his talk to the Sunday school, SupL Giles urged the members to take a more active interest in matters of civic health and morals. His utterances were especially well received.

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1 Have you a baby In your home? Suppose you have. And suppose through Bome misfortune you were unable this Christmas to .buy even so small a gift as a doll and a rubber ball for the little round-faced cherub in the crib, how would you feel today? Pretty blue, and that's a solemn truth. You would hardly feel like calling on a charity organization to buy a tri fle for your little boy or girl, would you? Of course not. Well, suppose a good friend tipped off your plight to some Good Fellows and some Good Women, and, without your knowing It, Santa Claus would leave a doll and a rubber ball for the babe. What would you do? Cry! Well, no one would blame you. All of us would. And you would say, "God bless them." Where You Enter the Game And now supposing that you haven't a babe In your home. You're going down the street, and see little boys and girls standing in front of the toy shops saying they hope Santa Claus won't overlook them, but leaving the Inference that they fear he will. These boys and girls belong to you. That's where you get into the game. If you are not as sour as a green apple and haven't a heart as hard as a boulder, you will help them. These little people ought make you think of the time when you were a kid and your heart at Christmas hoped against hope that Santa would bring you something. And if he failed to come! You know that tragedy. And if he did come! You know that happiness. So adopt these little boys and girls. Make Every Child Happy And now suppose you say what's the use of letting any child have a heartache on Christmas, what's the use of letting any Good Fellow who has had a streak of bad luck this year worry because he cannot buy a few toys for his children; let's make every one in Richmond happy on Christmas. Your're on the band wagon now, and yelling with the rest of us. The Palladium has a list of the sick dads and overworked mothers and trusting children that may be disappointed on Christmas. Let's get together and make the sick dad feel better, and the overworked mother feel rested, and every boy and girl happy. . lSeYouovto, th. iWeTil4f- a

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ber that to help this Christmas spirit along, you want to go to the Murray theatre on December 18, 19 and 20. O. G. Murray has billed a high class attraction for these days. He's co-operating with other Good Fellows to make Christmas a happy day for every one In Richmond. The proceeds of this : attraction will be expended joy-work. in MRS. LYDIA PETRI) CULLED SUDDENLY HAGERSTOWN, Ind., Dec. 11. Lydia Petro, widow of Charles Petro, former Jefferson township assessor, died Sunday morning at her home on West Harrison street here. Her death caused probably by heart trouble, was unexpected, although she has been ailing slightly. She was 79 years old. Mrs. Petro came from Sugar Grove. She joined the United Brethren church there when young. She was married Sept. 4, 1854, to John Bousman, who died in 1896. She was married to her second husband in 1903. He died two years ago. Four children survive her, Ede Bousman, Mrs. M. G. Reynolds, of Anderson, Mrs. George Canaday, of Economy, and Theodore Bousman of Hagerstown. Frank Petro, superintendent of the county infirmary, is a step-son. WRITE TO PRESIDENT FOR HIS AUTOGRAPH Joseph Tumulty, eecretry to President Wilson, will receive a letter tomorrow or Wednesday from the Wayne County Anti-Tuberculosis society, asking for a word of greeting to the association In its fight for a tuberculosis sanitorium. A Red Cross seal will accompany the letter, with the request that it adorn the White House stationery on which the president will be asked to write the greetings. Should the plan succeed and an autographed Red Cross seal be received here in time, it will be auctioned at a theatre before Christmas with nine other Red Cross seals. Fifteen or twenty minutes time will be asked for the auction and it will be made as lively as possible. It will be the first time the plan has been tried here.' It has been announced today that Red Cross seal sales Saturday had reached the greatest figure here at this time of the campaign. Between 15,000 and 20,000 seals have been paid for. WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE . DELIVERS ADDRESS The story of Indiana from time of Its admission into the Union till the present day was related to the students of the high school by William Dudley Foulke at "Admission Day" chapel exercises this morning. Mr. Foulke's address was supplemented with a musical program by the high school chorus and orchestra.

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Christmas PEflSYPUTS EMBARGO ON ALL CLASSES OF FREIGHTS Applies to Through Shipments Except Perishable Foodstuffs-Became Effective at Midnight Sunday. MEASURES TAKEN TO RELIEVE TIE-UP Richmond Shippers Welcome Action in Hope that Business Be Expedited as a Result. Announcement was. made today at of the Pennsylvania lines that a freight embargo had been established by the company, becoming effective Sunday at midnight. The embargo Is effective against all classes of through freight, freight which must be handled by two or more railroads or two or more divisions of the Pennsylvania, with the exception of such freight as coal, foodstuffs and perishable goods. A general local freight business which necessitates only short hauls is not prescribed against in the embargo. When the embargo will terminnate is not announced but it is understood the embargo will be lifted before the close of the week. Must Relieve Congestion. It is stated that the embargo was necessary to give the railroad company an opportunity to clear up all tho congestion of business It now has. Shortage of cars would not permit tho acceptance of new freight business until the freight now awaiting shipment had been provided for, It Is stated. Richmond business concerns accept the new embargo complacently; they have grown accustomed to delays in freight shipments and are hopeful that the embargo now on will result in relieving the traffic congestion. , Shipment Reaches Ney York. One local concern has just received word of the arrival of a shipment in New York sent from Richmond the latter part of September. At Eaton a stock dealer with a large consignment, of hogs and cattle has been waiting several days for the arrival of stock cars. It is reported that an unprecedented tie-up of cars in seaboard yards is greatly responsible for the car shortage. Apparently there is a lack of vessels to handle the freight carried by the railroads to the eastern seaboard. WAR HAS REDUCED THE SPINACH CROP WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. War has reduced the spinach crop. Reports to the department of agriculture from the Norfolk . district of Virginia say that Holland's embargo forbidding exports of spinach heed has caused a decrease in acreage this year, planters being unable to obtain sufficient seed to plant. It is estimated the crop will amount to 550,000 barrels. LOTS OF BACHELORS ELDORADO, O., Dec. 11. Some of the married women of Eldorado will I robably be surprised Friday night when informed their worse-halves of their intention to attend the second annual bachelor's banquet. At this stage gathering the male citizenship of th town will make merry with food and entertainment in the K. of P. temple. CICERO SPITLER DIES ELDORADO, Ohio, December 11. Cicero Spitler, aged sixty-one years, a former resident died recently at Arcanum. Funeral services will be held at the U. B. church in West Sonora at 2 o'clock Tuesday. He is survived by a widow, two daughters, Mrs. All Henderson, Mrs. Ed Shiverdecker, We3t Sonora, three sons, Claude and York of Arcanum and Aubrey of Dayton.

ASK JAMES WATSON TO BACK PROHIBITION

Friends, Presbyterian, and other churches yesterday joined In the fight to make Washington dry by urging Senators Kern and Watson to vote for the : measure which would prohibit selling in the District of Columbia. A copy of one of the telegrams follows: "Richmond, Ind., Dec. 10, 1916. "Hon. James E. Watson, "Washington, D. C. "The First Presbyterian Church of this City very respectfuuly but earnestly urges that you vote in favor of the Prohibition bill for the District of Columbia tomorrow. "WALTER G. BUTLER, Elder." FRENCH FACILITATE NEW COMBINATION PARIS, Dec. 11. Premier Briend was busy all day Sunday seeing not only politicians but prominent business men and manufacturers In view of the new combination to facilitate which all ministers and under secretaries will hand in their resignations. WING TEUTON PLANES PARIS, Dec. 11. Four German aeroplanes were brought down yesterday, two of them on the Verdun front and two in the Champagne, the war office announces. Intermittent cannonafiing occurred south of the Somme last night. DANISH SHIP SINKS LONDON, Dec. 11. Lloyds announces that the Danish steamer Nora is believed to have been sunk. The Nora was a vessel of 772 gross tons. Her recent movements have not been reported. BERLIN POLITELY SAYS . , , "KEEP HANDS OFF" PARIS, Dec. 11. Germany's reply to the Swiss note regarding the deportations in Belgium has been received, according to information from Berne. It Is most politely worded, the dispatches say, but nevertheless makes It clearly understood that, Switzerland has no ground for interfering with events in Belgium. FIX SALARY SCALE ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 11. A salary basis for Evangelists, instead of the present system of "part salary, part subscription systematically solicited, and part free-will offering" is urged b7 the commission on evangelism of thi Federal Council of Church, submitted to the quadrennial convention of the council at its final session here today. START EGG BOYCOTT ANDERSON, Ind.. Dec. 11. Anderson's first organized effort to combat the high cost of living will be launched tomorrow when a boycott on eggs and butter will be enforced by housewives of the city. The contest was decided upon yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the women's council and local grocers. The boycott will be continued until Dec. 22. DISCIPLINE SPECULATES CHICAGO, Dec. 11. Three separate investigations into the cost of foodstuffs are under way here today. The executive committee of the National Retail Grocers' Association met and one of the chief purposes of the meet ing, according to Frank B. Connolly, of San Francisco, vice-president of the Association, is, to find means for discipling food speculators. GREAT GRAFT HERE; STAFF SPLITS $137 (From the front, 1 p. m., Monday.) Six members of the Palladium editorial staff and D. S. Coe, Indianapolis News correspondent, split $137.50 at noon today. The gift went seven ways and came from Strickland Gilllland, one of the foremost humorists in America, a former Palladium reporter. Mr. Gilliland came from the Starr Piano company's phonograph department where he had just spilled stories reported to have netted him $250. He then entertained the members of the staff with $137.50 worth of stories. "No, you will never see those published," said Mr. Gilliland, "nbr hear them from a Chautauqua stage." He will return to Richmond shortly after Christmas. WILL DELIVER ADDRESS BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 11. Ambassador Romulo S. Noan of Argentine Republic will deliver the principal address at the Indiana University Founders Day exercises, Jan. 19, 1917. DISPATCHER INJURED E. M. Minor, a C. & O. dispatcher, was painfully but not seriously injured Saturday at Boston. Ind., when a set of springs fell off a baggage car and dropped on him.

coura MEET AGAIN TO PUT FINAL BILL THROUGH

Commissioners to Advertise For Bids at Once for Main Street and South Side Spans. BOCKHOFF OPPOSES G STREET BRIDGE County Council Provides Ordinances Specifying Means For Paying Off Bond Issues. , ( Appropriations of $180,000 for a Main street bridge and $155,000 for a South G street bridge over the Whitewater river were passed on first reading by Wayne county council in session this morning. The council will meet at 1:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon to pass the appropriations off second reading. Never in the history of the county has a large appropriation been turned down on second reading. All seven councilmen voted In favor of the Main street bridge appropriation and William Bockhoff cast the only negative vote against the appropriation for the South G street structure. Ask for Bids at Once Commissioners announced today that they would advertise for bids immediately and that they will grant the contract for both structures about the middle of February. Before the appropriations were granted, the commissioners went on record stating that they would specify that the Main street bridge be rushed through to completion but that the contractor would be given an option of finishing the south side structure within two years. This will make it possible for one contractor to bid on both bridges. Tear Down Old Structure The firm which receives the contract for erecting the Main street bridge will have to tear down the old structure. The old bridge will be used in the construction work of the new up to a certain stage. Part of the old bridge will be junked and several of the best beams will be painted, and stored away for use in smaller county bridges. When the appropriations were granted, there was a shout of joy from about fifty persons who had gathered in the commissioners' room. South Side Improvement association members were especially enthusiastic. "We've worked for the south side bridge for twenty years and we sure appreciate it," said Adolph BHckwedel, president. - Pass on First Reading Ordinances for bond issues were also passed on first reading today. For the $180,000 Main street appropriation, 360 bonds for $500 each to be retired at the rate of ten every six months and drawing four and one-half per cent, interest will be issued. Tho South Side sinking fund of $85,000 was voted for the South G street bridge and $100,000 worth of bonds will be Issued. These bonds will be issued in $500 denominations and will draw four and one-half per cent, interest. They will be retired at the rate of five every six months. In case work on the South G street bridge is not started immediately, thfl $100,000 worth of bonds will be issued but they will not be sold until they are needed. This will prevent them from drawing interest when the money is not needed. Prices Remain Uncertain. Engineer Mueller said today that prices of labor and materials which will be needed in the bridge construction are very uncertain because there is a prospect of peace being declared in Europe. Before he cast his votes on the appropriations, Mr. Bockhoff made the following statements: "I am voting in favor of the Main street bridge on the slant because there seems no possibility of getting a level one. "I 'am voting against the South G street bridge despite the fact that I have tried hard to see my way clear to vote for it. "Since receiving Engineer Harrington's report, I am more than ever conContinued On Page Nineteen. GIVE SURPRISE PARTY ELDORADO, O., Dec. 11. Frlend3 gave a surprise party for Ray Miller, near Eldorado. Thursday in honor of his eighteenth birthday. READ CHRISTMAS PRAYER Many ministers joined in the Red Cross seal campaign yesterday by reading the official prayer written for the National Red Cross. It Is a prayer for the restoration of health to tubercular victims. Other ministers will read the prayer next Sunday and ask that members of their congregations assist In the Red Cross seal campaign ' for a tuberculosis sanitorium by purchasing seals for letters and Christmas parcels. '