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DUTY OF U. S. TO TAKE LEAD FOR LASTING WORLD PEACE

Governor Capper Brings War i Problem Before Confer- ! ence of State Executives at National Capitol. DEFENDS AGAINST MEDDLING ' CHARGE World Must Find Some Formula for Solution of Prob- ) lems Instead of War and i ; Suffering. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. America Is confronted today with the responsibility and duty of leading the more xnent for universal ' peace and to Insure that such wars as that of the present shall no longer disturb the world. Governor Arthur Capper of Kansas today told the conference of governors here. : "Upon the American people," said Governor Capper, "rests the responsibility and duty of leadership In the movement for permanent peace among civilized nations. It Is no quixotic enterprise to which we are called. We arr not meddlers In the affairs of others when we say that war must cense. War Affects All Nations. "The interdependence of nations, the bonds of commerce and finance, entirely ' aside from ' the distates of common humanity make It impossible for this plague of wttr to exist anywhere upon the globe without seriously affecting both our international relations and our domestic affairs., Our protest Is not sentimental though we thank God we are moved by human suffering and the waste of human life by this destroying world sickness. "The close of the world war strikes the hour for the organization among civilized nations of an actual federation with the purpose of maintaining a world peace. And America Is the one nation which can propose such a federation and effect its organization. The task is hopeless without us. This Is because of our non-participation In the present struggle and because of the magnitude of the nation and Its resources. Cites too Many Agencies Through such agencies as the proposed League of nations to enforce peace or the world's court league which proposed .submission of all justifiable questions at issue between nations to an international tribunal Governor , Capper declare the object might be obtained. "The United States," he said, "Is tho logical nation to begin this movement for which destiny has now prepared mankind. Never before since the dawn of history has such an opportunity been presented to any nation as now comes to. ours. Our task is to keep one' single issue burning into the general human consciousness; that the world can and must find some other Way to settle differences of opinion than by the slaughter of men and the starving women and children." SET CONCRETE MOLD FOR PLANT ADDITION . Work on the Atlas Underwear com pany's addition to the Tenth street plant is progressing rapidly despite the cold weather. Twelve men were at work today on excavations and on ono side of the basement, molds for the concrete walls already have been set In to place. The accumulation of Ice , snd snow of a night Is chopped through and the men continue to work at almost the same' speed as in tern perate weather. The work is made possible chiefly tli rough the fact that gravel was struck shortly after the top soil had been re moved. It is possible for the men to remove the gravel without the usual winter difficulties of excavating. ! Weather Forecast !

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er Bureau rair tomgnt ana Saturday with elawly rising temperature.

, Temperature Today. Noon 12 Yesterday. Maximum .....20 Minimum .' 3 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Probably snow late this afternoon or tonight Slowly rising temperature. General Conditions The crest of the cold wave appeared last night and registered 10 degrees below zero at Earlham college this morning. A reaction to milder weather is indicated by low barometric pressure over southern Canada. The cold wave has been especially severe throughout the south. Frost at Tampa, Florida, and tn other southern states. Frosts In California. ' 1

PRESIDENT AWAITS PREMIER'S ADDRESS BEFORE HE ACTS

WASHINGTON. Dec 15. President Wilson probably -will not finally determine on any formal steps in connection with the peace proposals of Germany and the Central powers until after David Lloyd George, the British prime minister, has spoken . In the House of Commons Tuesday After a conference with President Wilson, Secretary Lansing said the position of the American government had . not been determined, and that the note ' from Turkey had not been received. There were Indications that while the president was still waiting for an expression of the attitude of the entente allieB before taking any formal step, he had made up his mind sufficiently on 'his general policy to dis.cuss it with the cabinet. BLAME MISFORTUNE ON THWARTED LOVE ; Long lingering love for a sweetheart of his youth, the mother .of .his child, but whom he never married because of parental objections Is claimed to have caused the insanity of Frank Mori-la, 1 deceased, formerly a wealthy transfer man of this city, by attorneys for Walter Morris in his suit against Isabelle Haner which is now being tried la circuit court . Walter Morris claims to be the illegitimate son of Frank Morris and is seeking to break the will of the former transfer man which gives an estate of $35,000 to iBabelle Haner. Mrs. Haner is a sister to Frank Morris. i Attorneys tor Mrs. Haner deny that Walter Morris Is a son of the deceased man and they are also attempting to disprove the contention that Frank Morris was ever insane. MINIMUM WAGE RECEIVES: OF COMMITTEE At a Joint meeting members of the ordinance committee of council and members of the board of public works, last night. It was shown that if a minimum wage of $2.50 per day for all laborers '.employed by the city were to be provided it would mean an increase of $9,420 a year in municipal expenditures, an expense which could not be provided for inasmuch as It was not anticipated when the- 1917 budget was framed. The ordinance committee finally decided to report to council next- Monday night as being opposed to a $2.50 minimum wage. The report will contain the following recommendation: "That the matter of increased pay be left to the discretion of George J. Knollenberg, street commissioner, Charles Ford, superintendent of parks, and officers of the health department with the recommendation that where such Increases are reasonably justified they be made. Would Keep Old Employes. "This recommendation is made to obviate the necessity of removing any of the employes, who have rendered the city faithful service and who would not be able to secure employment elsewhere." ... , "There are some men working for the street department who have been in the employ of the city for thirty years. The city is anxious to care for these faithful employes but It could not do so if it were necessary to pay every laborer not less than $2.50 a day. The city, with such a scale, would have to secure $2.50 a day I workmen," Board President Bavis said today. "We believe It is best to leave the wage question to department heads. They will pay their men what they are worth." Recently the board authorized the street commissioner to pay laborers during the winter season 20 cents an hour, with a working day , of nine hours and ten hours pay. So pleased were the men affected by this order that today the board received two boxes of cigars from the men. DAVENPORT FUNERAL TO BE HELD SUNDAY MORNING NEAR CITY -The funeral of Samuel E. Davenport, a well-known farmer living on the Union pike four miles north of the city, who committed suicide by hanging yesterday afternoon will be hell from the home Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, sun time. Burial will be at Fountain City. Worry over ill health and fear that bis mind was becoming affected was asigned the reason for Mr. Davenport's act He leaves a widow, and two rfmall children. MORE MORTGAGES Fll ED With the approach of the Christmas season, the number of chattel mortgages filed at ' the county recorder's office is increasing daily. Yesterday seven were filed. ..This would be an unusually large number for a week under normal conditions.

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ItlHI OHVC n-j i AFTER RESCUE! OF HER CREW EUREKA, Cal., Dec. 15.--The submarine H-3, in which twenty-five enlisted men and two officers of the United States navy were imprisoned for several hours yesterday while she pounded, disabled, in a heavy surf on the beach near the Eureka harbor entrance, was still Intact early today a? far as could be seen from the shore. , The 6ea was smoother during the night, and hope was expressed that with the aid of the coast guard cutter McCullough, which left San Francisco last nigth and should arrive here during the day, the stranded diver would be hauled back into deep water. Stay on Mother Ship. The crew of the H-3 spent the night on the U. S. steamship Cheyenne, the mother ship of the H flotilla. In Eureka Harbor, while the H-l and the H-2, which were accompanying the H-3 to San Diego from Puget Sound, continued unconveyed to San Francisco. Werner Sweins, the plucky coast guardsman of the Eureka life saving station, today became the hero of the rescue. While the navy men were still bottled up in the-diver, a coast guard cutter with eight men pulled along side with a lead line for i a beeches buoy. When the cutter was dashed away by a giant wave, Sweins leaped aboard the diver and made fast the line. ! : Washed overboard, he clasped a straggling line and hauled himself to safety, only to be forced to repeat hi hard struggle a moment later. The conning tower , hatch was opened to Win when the men inside became aware of his presence through his lusty kicks, and a little later Sweins and members of the crew were able to haul the buoy tackle aboard. TOYS ACCEPTABLE . FOR XMAS WORK . Many inquiries have been received by The Palladium regarding toys and money that persons wish to donate to the Christmas fund- The fund is open to the public. ; Any person who desires to give Jnoneyor tags, may do so, and proper credit will be given for the gifts.'" Remember, this fund is intended to make every child in Richmond happy. If you want to co-operate, you are cordially invited to do so. Attention is again called to the benefit vaudeville bill given by O. G. Murray and The Palladium next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Attend this show and boost the cause. ARE PICKETS LEGAL? GASE IS REVIEWED WASHINGTON. Dec. 15. Labor questions Involving legality of union organizations, their right peaceably to "picket," and liberty of contract were argued today before the supreme court. In two West Virginia cases, the court reviewed decrees of Federal Judge Dayton of finding the United Mine Workers Union, and the American Flint Glass Workers Union illegal organizations and also combinations in restraint of trade under the Sherman law. Judge Dayton's decrees and Injunctions were annulled by the fourth circuit court of appeals and the corporations' injunction suit ordered dismissed. Th companies then appealed 40 the supreme court. WOULD BAR LIQUOR ADS FROM MAILS WASHINGTON. Dec. 15. A bill prohibiting the transmission of liquor advertisements by mail to any one except licensed liquor dealers was favor ably reported today by the House post office committee. It Is aimed at the so-called mail order liquor business in dry territory. CAN'T HAVE WHISKEY SHIPPED TO HOMES ROANOKE, Va., Dec. 15. Unmarried men in Virginia not living with their parents cannot have shipped to them the quart of whiskey a month allowed under the new prohibition law. Prohibition commissioner Peters so ruled today on the ground that the law does not recognize a boarding or rooming house, club or lodge room, as a "home" in which liquor may be kept for private consumption. TIETZ, ROST AND HABERKERN MAKE TEAM Julius TIetz, Benjamin Rost and William Haberkern winners of the high school debating elimination contest In school chapel this morning will represent the Richmond high school In duel debate with (he Ft Wayne high school orators early next year. The three winners will form the R. H. 'S. debating trio in other debates to be arranged with outside schools later. The subjects for discussion this morning was "Government Ownership of the Railroads." DR. J. B. BUCK IS DEAD Dr. J. B. Buck, father of Robert J. Buck . of this city, and one of the foremost medical men In Ohio, died at his home In Cincinnati yesterday afternoon. He was well known, her

LEE'S APPOINTMENT OVERTURE TO MOOSE SAYS ALFRED BAVIS

Members of the Progressive city administration failed to show any en thusiasm today when they read of the action of Governor Ralston In appoint ing Edwin M. Lee, Progressive state chairman, as a member of the Indiana Public Utilities Commission to succeed John F. McClure, a Republican member, whose term expired last May. "It is shrewd political move on the part of the governor," remarked Board President Bavis. "It is probable the governor anticipates this action on his part' will bring the Progressives into a closer relationship with the Democratic party. - ' . Forsees Political Move "It is understood, of course, that the next governor, Mr. Goodrich, has authority to call for the resignations of all five members of the public utilities commission." Other administration officers stated that they failed to see what peculiar qualification Mr. Lee had for the office he has been appointed to. It is no secret that in the event Mr. Goodrich makes a clean sweep of the present utilities commission no tears will be shed by the city officers of Richmond, who are far from satisfied with the action taken by the commission in most of the cases brought before the commission by the city of Richmond. REV. WOODMAN WILL DEDICATE JAY MEMORIAL 1 Rev. Charles M. Woodman, pastor of the Allen Jay Memorial church, will have the honor of delivering the dedicatory sermon at the new building, erected by the fWest Richmond Friends, 'at West Seventh and Main streets, at 10:30 o'clock Sunday morn ing. The programs Issued In "folder from are Just off the press and contain in h addition to the program for, the dedlcal tion a brief synopsis of the church's history. f The program follows: 10:30 o'clock A service of Devotion, the message of dedication in which Naomi Harrison Jay and Charles M. Woodman will take part, the dedication offering, and a concluding dedicatory service. , " : , 3 o'clock The service of devotion will be followewd by words of greeting from previous pastors, from the Friends churches of the city - by Francis Anscombe, by the Ministers association and the Church Federation by Dr. J. J. Rae, from the Y. M. C. A. by E. M. Learner, and from Earlham college by President Robert L. Kelly. The -message of the afternoon will be given by Alexander C. Purdy, head 0! the Biblical department and . pastor of the college. Prior to the services of dedication, the Bible school which has developed into unusual strength under the efficient direction of E. Harrison Scott, superintendent, will assemble for the first time In its new quarters. Music will be furnished by the school orchestra by twelve pieces. Following the study period Sunday morning. Prof. Arthur Charles will address the Bible school members. The enrollment has reached as high as 171 during the last three months. GIVES $25,000 PERMIT Building Inspector Hodgin today Issued a permit for the construction of a $25,000 addition to the Atlas Underware company s plant on North Tenta street Work on the construction Of this building, which will be a duplicate of the plant now used by the company, has already been started by the Bedford Stone and Construction company of Indianapolis. TRIBE OF BEN HUR ELECTS NEW LEADER.S Officers elected by the Ben Hur lodge last night were: Charles Mullen, chief; Arthur Williams. Judge; Miss Maude Holcomb, teacher; Mrs. Elizabeth Kamp. scribe; Ross Robineon, keeper of tribute; Floyd Lamb, captain; Mrs. Arthur Williams, guide; Ray Wright inner gate; Damon Mitchell,outer gate; Omar Wine, drill captain. The officers will be installed in January. SONG WRITER IS DEAD SANTA ROSA, Cal., Dec. 15. Joseph T. Miles, author of the song, "There'll be a hot time In the old town tonight," died here last night Miles who was a veteran actor,-was known on the stage as "Joe Haden." He was 70 years old. - . . - $4,000,000 APARTMENT PLANNED IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, Dec. 15. Plans for New York's largest apartment house, a structure thirteen stories high covering the city block bounded by Lexington and Park Avenue and Fortyeighth" and Forty-ninth streets were announced here today. The building will cost $4,000,000 and the project Including a long lease of the site, will Involve a total expenditure of more than $8,000,000,

ESTIMATES FORMED ON CROP FOR YEAR

r WASHINGTON; Dec. 15. Final estimates of tls year's production of the country's . : principal farm ' crops announced by the department of agriculture today are: . . Corn. 2,583.241,000 bushels, compared with 2,732,447,000 the 1910 to 1914 average. Wheat, 639,886,000 bushels, compared with 728,225,000 the Ive year average. TEXAS MOVIE BELLE WEDS PAUL FRIST; HINTS AT ROMANCE Miss Annabel Brant, 21 years old, who has been known here as a Texas beauty since she became a resident of Richmond last summer, was married In Covington, Ky., yesterday to Pau! C. Frist 22 years old, a Pennsylvania railroad telegraph operator whose parents are prosperous farm owners northwest of New Paris. "Yes, there is a romance, but I won't tell what it is," said Mrs. Frist today, speaking from the home of her husband'B parents. The bride was formerly a motion picture actress in Chicago, where she lived after leaving Dallas, Texas. She became well known here immediately because of her striking appearance. She lived at 34 North Tenth street until her marriage. - . - The couple left Richmond yesterday with William Mungavin, Frist's brother-in-law, also a Pennsylvania telegraph operator. They went to New Paris immediately after the ceremony. They will make their home in Richmond where Frist is well known dowT. town.- He attended business college here. TRACHODONT FRAME GIVEN TO MUSEUM NEW YORK, Dee. 15. The last addition to the collection in the American Museum of Natural History here is an entire petrified skelton of a mammoth trachodont, or duck-billed dinosaur, 8,000,000 years old, recently unearthed in Montana. In life the dinosaur was forty-five feet long and weighed about a ton. Its tail was Hfteen feet long, his body twenty-five feet long and his skull four or ive feet. In the trachodont's Jaws .were 2,500 teeth. This pre-historio relic along with several - other dinosaurs, several of them newly discovered species, were brought here by Professir Barnum Brown of the American Mu seum; who was in charge of the expe tition sent to search for them. ACCEPTS ULTIMATUM LONDON, Dec. 15 The Greek government has accepted the ultimatum presented by the entente allies, says a dispatch from Athens to the Central News agency. ..- PLATTSBURG STUDENTS TAKE LECTURE COURSE NEW YORK, Dec. 15. Graduates of the Plattsburg military camps, nearly one thousand in number, have begun work in the winter school jf military instruction, which is to supplement the practical work at Plattsburg in the course for officers of the reserve corps under the new army bill. The classes are held every Thursday evening under Captain Ralph M. Parker, second United States Cavalry. TO HEAR SUPT. GILES Supt. J. T. Giles of the public schools will address the Sunday school of the City Mission at 10:15 o'clock Sunday morning. PLAN FOR UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. While Adjutant General McKain was telling the House military committee today of the efforts necessary to get recruits for the army under the volunteer system the Senate committee authorized public hearings to begin Monday on the subject of universal training and military aervice. " GRANT HIGHER WAGE FOR CLOTHING WORKERS NEW YORK, Dec. 15. The American Clothing Manufacturers' association representing most of the manufacturers whose workers are on strike, announced today that on next Monday they will grant an Increase in wages of about $2 a week, approximately the increased wage demanded by the strikers. CLOSE FOR HOLIDAYS ; WITH SPECIAL MUSIC A musical program featuring a number of the more prominent musicians will mark the close of school and the opening of the holiday season at the high school auditorium Thursday afternoon next Members of the high school music department will - take part The full program has not been completed. , . '

SALOON ISSUES PLACED DEFORE MAYOR DOBBINS

Men interested In social reform work In Richmond who are co-operating with Secretary Melpolder of the Social Service Bureau In his efforts to have that section of the third ward north of the Pennsylvania railroad declared a residential district for the purpose of closing the only two saloons now operating In Riverdale have been calling upon every member of th council presenting statistics showing social conditions in Riverdale and urging that the two saloons In that district be closed as the Initial step in the betterment of these conditions. Bring Pressure to Bear.. Today Secretary Melpolder and four church workers called upon Mayor Robbins and asked him to support their movement. Besides Secretary Melpolder those who called on the mayor were Harry Scott, L. H. Bunyan. George H. Knollenberg and George Ballinger. The mayor was not asked to state his position on the question but the committee endeavored to convince him that the best interests of the community, especially Riverdale, would be served if the two saloons were forced out of business. Mr. Bunyan stated that the committee in charge of the work was greatly pleased over the statements made to the committee by several of the councilmen. Mr. Bunyan was asked when the committee intended to formally bring before the council its petition to have the. north half of the third ward declared . a residential district and he stated that this had not yet been determined. One councilman stated today , that a member of the social service bureau's committee had informed him that four of the twelve councllmen had placed themselves on record as favoring closing the two Riverdale saloons DEMURRAGE RATES PUT PENALTY ON HOLDING UP CARS WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. Drastic regulations adopted by the railroads went into effect today with the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission as emergency measures to relieve the shortage of freight cars which for months has been a break on the country's commerce and affected the high cost of living. The first regulation provides that a consignee may have the usual two days to unload a car and that thereafter demurrage shalKbe charged at the rate of $1 for the first day, $2 for the second, $3 for the third, and $5 for the fourth and each succeeding day. Hereafter the charge has been uniformly $1 a day. TRACTORS PURCHASED FOR RUSSIAN FIELDS LONDON, Dec. 15. A Petrograd dispatch to the Central News Agency says that a representative of the ministry of agriculture, addressing an agricultural congress, announced that during the current year 300 tractor engines had been bought abroad for Russia. Before the war such machines were scarcely known in the empire. The speaker said that in addition 90,000 rubles had been spent for harvesting machinery, the demand for which was continually growing. He also declared that huge deposits of phosphates had been discovered which would meet the deficiency hitherto supplied by importations. MISS WARNER IS DEAD Word has been received here of the death at Kansas City. Mo., of Miss Mary E. Warner on Dec. 7. Miss Warner was formerly a teacher in the Richmond public schools. SCHATTEL HAS DOUBLE IN SAFETY DIRECTOR Fred Schattel has been informed that he has a "double" residins In Oakland, Cal. The discovery of the "double" was made at police head quarters when the Policeman'6 Months ly for December arrived. A picture of F. F. Jackson, director of public safety, so closely resembled Schattel that officers at first believed It was a likeness of the local man. The picture was sent to the cigar store where Schattel is employed. BARNARD MAKE8 REPORT INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 15. A report on the recent inspection of weights and measures made in smaller towns and rural communities under the direction of Dr. H. E. Barnard, state food and drug commissioner, shows that about 80 per cent, of the measures of storekeepers and other dealers in those communities were incorrect The losses usually fell on the customers the report said. Where the defective measures and scales could not be corrected they were condemned.

PEACE MOVE HANGS FIRE WHILE GEORGE REIMS ILL

Entente Governments Expected to Hold Conferences Next Week to Determine Answer to Germany. RUSSIANS FACING SERIOUS PROSPECTS Military Writers Predict New Defensive by Russo-Rou-manians Along Line of Buzen River. Further developments regarding the peace proposals of Germany and her allies are awaiting the consultation and decision of the entente governments as to official action to be taken Probably nothing definite in this connection may be expected before next week, the probable occasion being the appearance of David Lloyd George, the new British premier before the House of Commons on Tuesday. The premier, who has been ill, is improving In health and according to today' indications will be able to make at that time his postponed statement regarding the policies of the new government. Consequences Are Serious. Possible serious consequences not only for the Roumanians but for tha Russians are Implied in today's announcement from Berlin of the capturo of the Roumanian town of Buzeu. Military' writers have very largely assumed it to be the Russo-Rouman-lans intention to make a defensive stand along the line of the Buzeu river running in an easternly direction not far from the southern border of Moldavia, Roumania's northern . province. The town lies south of the river near the center of the line. Berlin reports a defensive by the French in the region of Verdun. Attacks made in attempts to retake the lost French positions west of tb Meuse, were repulsed, according to the Berlin report. PATRONS HOLD BACK CHRISTMAS PARCELS First Christmas parcels to tax the capacity of the regular mailing departments of the postoffice, overflowed into Superintendent Wilson's office today and extra help was at work delivering. "The citizens of Richmond are slow in mailing," said Mr. Wilson. "They are waiting again until the last minute, forgetting that parcels may get into a tie-up which may delay their delivery until after Christmas. This H in spite of the fact that the .department has given them every privilege on Christmas parcels, permission to write suitable inscriptions against opening before the proper time and sending cards with the names of recipients of gifts written on them without paying the usual first-class postage." WILL INVITE WILSON INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 15 Invitations will be extended to President Wilson. Vance C. McCormick, Democratic national committeemen and Governor Major of Missouri by the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association to attend its midwinter meeting here Feb. 8. The association will be in, session two days. A "love feast" will be held the first day. Business will occupy the second day. CONTINUES EXAMINATION SAN FRANCISCO. Calif.. Dec. 15. Cross-examination of Louis J. Smith, which occupied the entire day at yesterday's trial in the United States district court of Franz Bopp, German consul general here, and six co-defendants for alleged conspiracy tc violate American neutrality by blowing, up property of the entente allies, fs continued today by the defense. TO START BIRD FARM EVANSVILLE. Ind., Deo, 15. A strip of ground twelve miles below here and near Henderson, Ky., may be purchased by the Indiana State Audubon Society for the purpose of establishing a bird farm, according to George Clifford, vice-president of the state society. The plans have not been perfected as yet it is said. LOAN OF COAL SAVES PUBLIC LIGHT PLANT t CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind . Dee. 15. Only the courtesy of the Malgra company and Lorln Ulerich prevented the Cambridge municipal light and water plant from being forced to close recently "when the plant's coal supply was exhausted. Each of the above firms transferred a car of coal to the municipal plant

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