Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 35, 22 December 1916 — Page 1

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NEW WE FORWARD IS MADE ALONG THE TIGRIS

British Capture El Arish, Enemy Stronghold Situated Ninety Miles East of Suez Canal. FOLLOWS LONG QUIET Winter Weather in Far Northern Theatres Causes Cessation in Military Operations by Both Sides. While winter weather Is causing military operations on most of the fighting fronts to lack features of Interest, considerable activity is developing in sectors far enough south to admit of energetic campaigning. On the Tigris, the British after a ' long period of quiet, have recently pushed forward close to Kut-el-Amara on the South and are continuing to attack the Turkish forces in that region, evidently in the hope of resuming their long delayed march toward Bagdad. . El Arish It Captured Now another field of activity is demanding attention with today's announcement from London that British forces have captured , El Arish, in Egypt, on the Mediterranean, ninety miles east of the Suez canal. Little has been heard from the Egyptian operation for some time bat the -British are known, to have been making somewhat elaborate preparations to protect the canal region from other Invasions such as that of last cummer and their defensive lines have been pushed far out on the Slni. Apparently there has been a recent effort still further to extend the defensive zone, of which the capture of El Arish constitutes an important development. Extends Toward Palestine The taking of El Arish establishes the British front at this point well toward the border of Palestine and marks the further eastward penetra tion by British forces in this area. El Arish has been the object previously of attacks by British warships and aviators. On the Franko-Belgian front the artillery is the only arm of the service that is displaying activity, and even the bombardments such as those reported in the Somme and Verdun regions are not of pronounced intensity. BIG JUDGE REFUSES FREEDOM OF DADDY AS XMAS PRESENT INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 22. Opal Iseley. the 11-year-old girl, who recently, unaccompanied, invaded the governor's office here and pleaded with Gov. Ralston and his wife, who happened to be at the office, to release her father, who was sentenced to prison for complicity in a bank robbery at Greenwood, as a Christmas present "the only Christmas present" Bhe .wanted, was at home sobbing today, after failing yesterday to' win the in tercession of the "big Judge" at Franklin, who sentenced her father. Opal made the trip to Franklin alone nd at the Johnson county court house tcked to see the "big Judge." She was 'jiken before Judge W. E. Dupree, who passed the sentence, and pleaded with lim to have her father released so that e could return home for Christmas !Wen the "big Judge" said he could lo nothing, the , little girl's frame thook with sobs and she left the court . louse to board a car to return to her tome. Weather Forecast j For Indiana by the United States Veather Bureau Fair and continued tld tonight Colder north east porlon. Saturday fair. Somewhat warmir. Temperature toon .. IS Yesterday. faximum ... 42 flnimum 20 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore -Fair and Colder tonight, about zero or below. Saturday fair with rising emperatures. General Condition Three storms rhich covered the east caused snow as r west as the Mississippi river last light. .The cold wave is now central ver the upper Mississippi valley with he coldest temperatures on record his month in Kansas and Missouri, lie western storms are gradually movig southeast and have a diameter of .000 miles. They probably will reach ere the first of the week with snow Dd high winds.

CM SAVES LOCAL PLANTS FROM EMSARG!

Richmond manufacturers are beginning to complain over inconveniences iir.posed by the freight embargo declared by the Pennsylvania railroad nearly two weeks ago. Under the provisions of this embargo the company refused to accept freight, with the exception of foodstuffs, for any connecting line. The embargo even prohibited, the acceptance of freight which involved transfer from one division of its system to another. Yesterday the embargo was slightly modified and the local division can now accept general freight for a few other divisions of the system. " Store Finished Products. Richmond manufacturers have been continuing a normal output of their products while the embargo has been in operation but have, as a rule, been obliged to store much of their outputs. The C. & O. railroad is generally praised by the local factory managements for the efficient service it has provided while the Pennsylvania embargo has been operative. There has been a great Increase in the amount of freight handled by the C. & O. out of Richmond the past two weeks but the C. & O. has met the situation in a manner which has won much praise from the manufacturing interests. Meet Demand for Cart. The demand for additional cars was promptly met by this line and they were very fairly distributed among the various factories. Even the unfavorable weather condition has not handicapped the C. & O. to an apprec iable extent, in its efforts to handle the abnormal business the Pennsylvania embargo thrust upon it locally. Managers of several local factories said today that if it had not been for the assistance rendered by the C. & O. the past two weeks their plants would now be either shut down or operating with skeleton forces pending the lifting of the Pennsylvania embargo. Several factories have been experiencing considerable difficulty of late in securing materials. RECOVERY IS SHARP Oil NEW YORK, Dec. 22. Opening prices on the stock market today showed a sharp recovery from the closing quotations of yesterday. LLOYD GEORGE'S SPEECH PROVES DISAPPOINTING BERLIN, via London, Dec. 22. The Vorwaerts, which was one of the first newspapers in Germany to talk of peace, expresses deep disappointment over the speech of Premier David Lloyd George. CALLS FORMAL PROTEST BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 22. In ac cordance with a call, signed by ninety six prominent citizens of Maryland, a meeting will be held here tonight to protest against Germany's deportation of Belgians. ENFORCE CLOSING LAW WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. France's new six o'clock closing law is being enforced rigidly, according to official information reaching here. Already it is declared, the measure is saving a great amount of electricity and gas. BOPP RESUMES STAND SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.. Dec. 22. Franz Bopp, German consul-general in this city was ready today to resume the stand for direct and cross examination on the government's charges that he and six others conspired to destroy shipments of the munitions to the entente allies in violation of the United States neutrality. TWENTY-ONE IN JAIL Twenty-one men are confined in the county jail. Five were released this morning, two will be set free tomorrow and the term of another expires Sunday. LEAVES FOR COLUMBUS Miss Pearl Edgcomb is leaving today for Columbus, Indiana, to visit her mother. She will also attend the Zumwinkel-Canaday wedding in Indianapolis. Wednesday, December 27. XMAS MAIL IS HEAVY MILTON. Ind., Dec. 22. The Christmas mail at this place Is very heavy, both the outgoing and the incoming. WED AT COVINGTON The fourth Richmond couple in a week to take advantage of the reported secrecy of Covington,- Ky., marriages, took their dip yesterday. It was Buford Bailey, golf instructor at the country club, and Marie Pipher, daughter of Mrs. Grace Fisher. They were expected to return today to tell their friends of the weddins. GLASS ADMITTED FREE NEW YORK, Dec. 22. Repaired pieces of stained glass for church windows are to be admitted free of duty in keeping with a decision handed down in a test case by the board of annraisera.

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CHAMHESS EXPLAINS CONTRACT HE HOLDS WITH TAX DEPUTIES

The contract under which Warden Sanderson and his company of delinquent tax collectors are working in Wayne county was made public today by County Treasurer Chamness. For each account collected in Richmond, Mr. Sanderson receives a constable fee granted by law amounting to eighty cents. It matters not how large or how small the account may be,, the fee is the same unless it is found necessary to foreclose a levy in order to make the collection. Extra costs are added to cover expenses of foreclosure. . Eighty-Cent Tax Raised ".' . This eighty cents is added to the amount of taxes due the county and to the sixteen per cent, added to all delinquent accounts. Of this sixteen per cent., ten per cent, goes to the county and six per cent, goes to the county treasurer. For each account collected in the county outside the city of , Richmond, the special deputies receive sixty cents in addition to ten cents for each mile the men have to travel in order to make the levies. The collections cost the county nothing. The deputies only receive pay on accounts which they collect and the cost of collection, is, added so that the tax payer must bear it. All fees which the collectors acting as deputy county treasurers receive are specified by law. When Mr. San derson and his men started work here there were 7,000 delinquent accounts. Delay Activity Here . Because of many foreclosures of levies which have been made in Logansport by the same firm of collectors and the sale of goods which )s now being made, the collectors will not resume work in earnest in Wayne county before next Tuesday. They expect to finish their work here before the first of next year. To date something over $14,000 has been collected here. V The contract was made public by the county treasurer because of the many rumorg afloat that, the special collectors were receiving fifty percent of all money collected. .' CAMPAIGN ATTENDANCE SPUR TO SUNDAY SCHOOLS That special efforts will be made by "Sunday schools of the city to have large attendances greet members of the flying squadrons who will visit the schools during January is the expectation of the committee of the City Sunday School association which is planning the city-wide Sunday school campaign. While the campaign will in no respect resemble an attendance contest between the various schools, the committee hopes that the total attendance for the city will show an increase on the last Sunday in January over that for the last Sunday of the current year. Sunday school superintendents are gladly making the slight adjustments in their regular program in order to entertain the squadrons for ten minutes each Sunday. The committee announced today that Ralph Little, soloist at the First Christian church, had consented to become a member of one of the flying squadrons.

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SHOW TIES TRAFFIC IIP WITH EVERY TRAIN LATE

The heaviest fall of snow of the year, which terminated at 3 o'clock this morning, threatened a complete pallatization of transportation and bore every appearance of the blizzard which tied up Indiana three years ago. Almost 12 inches of snow has been the fall beginning Dec. 8, and 7.5 inches remains on the ground. .Street cars were forced to abandon schedules long before the customary time of terminating the daily runs. - At 9 o'clock last night a heavy wind swept fine snow before it and piled it in deep drifts on car tracks, street corners and even on porches and in doorways. Train Is 3 Hours Late. Trains already felt the effect of the snow at noon yesterday. The fast St. Louisdn, due in Richmond at 10:36 o'clock In the morning left Richmond almost 3 hours late, having lost more than an hour between Columbus and Richmond. All through trains last night were more than three hours late and today were from one to three hours behind schedules. Only local trains with terminals in Richmond were able to combat weather conditions. : Railroad employes said Richmond seems to have been the snowj center, east, west, north and south. As much snow has fallen here as at any other point. No place has been missed and only the failure of the promised cold wave enabled trains to run with any certainty at all. - . Vossler Issues Report There Is now enough snow on the ground to assure a white Christmas, no faatter what weather conditions may arise by Monday, and probably the nnfeimt . snow will remain on the grpund, if added to from time to time, until next sprinng. .The fall of. snow, this month, whteh hree light thaws have reduced to 7.5 inches ground snow, follows: Dec. 8 .75 inches. Dec. 9 .40 inches. Dec. 11 .30 inches. " Dec. 12 .20 inches. ( Dec. 13 2.90 inches. Dec. 14 .84 inches. Dec. 15 Trace. Dec. 19 .24. Dec. 203.80. Dec. 212.04. A government snow and ice report received today by Walter Vossler, government weather observer stationed at the Water Works company pumping station, 6ays the greatest depth of snow on the ground in Ohio is 6 inches, Kentuck 6 inches, Michigan 15 inches, Cascade Tunnel, Wash., 59 inches, California 16 inches, Massachusetts 12 inches. Oregon 36 inches and Wyoming 35 inches. Indiana and Illinois were not included in the report. NO ALUMNI CONTEST "Kid" actions on part of the R. H. S. and Alumni basketball teams led to the cancellation of the game scheduled for the Coliseum toniht The Alumni wanted to play Spot Schepman. R. H. S. said no. No game the result LEND Mr

WILSON'S NOTE PROVES ENIGMA TO LONDON FOLK

LONDON, Dec. 22. President Wilson's note is given the honor of the biggest display in the morning papers relegating the war news to a minor place. Headlines such as "President Wilson's strange peace essay," "President Wolson's Peace Feeler," "Amazing Note," indicate in slight measure the astonishment caused by the communication. Much specnlation is Indulged in as to the motive or causes which inspired the president to send such a note after his assumption of the attitude that he would not mediate unless invited by both groups of belligerents. One section of the press, utterly rejecting any idea of the possibility of peace negotiations as the outcome of the recent German note, flatly attributes the president's action to the success of propaganda conducted by Count VonBernstorfE in America and what they describe as the masterly inactivity of the late British government. Tbe more general impression is that the agitation in America for an embargo on food exports had much to do with Mr. Wilson's action. ITALY REMOVES ALL SHIP TAX; BOOSTS MARINE ROME, Dec. 22. (Correspondence . . . l . - ; of The Associated Press.) In order to increase its mercantile marine, Italy has by governmental decree dropped its subsidy policy and made a bid to shipbuilders to place their vessels under the Italian flag by ordering the re moval of practically all ship taxes for five years and exempting such ships from military requisition for a similar period. Already twelve new ships are building in Italy under the new law and, inasmuch as a vessel pays for Itself within three or four trips under existing freight rates, it is anticipated that foreign firms will take advantage of these new conditions. The immediate reason for the new law is that Italy has been suffering severely during the , war because of high ocean freight rates on grain, coal and every other product imported, However, Italy has been actively increasing her merchant marine for the past dozen years and she intends to continue that policy after the war. Before the war she was spending $8,000,000 a year in subsidies, five million of which went to vessels carrying the malls, one to cargo boats, and two to shipyards. She has lost through submarines during the war more than 100,000 tons of vessels, which has cut down her increased tonnage obtained by subsidies. Her total net tonnage January 1, 1915, was 1,282,115 as com pared to 1,632,614 tons in 1905. Her number of steamers at present is 949, representing a tonnage of 933,156. ISSUES 1,000 APPEALS FOR WARM CLOTHING In an effort to get a sufficient quantity of warm clothing to supply the demand, the secretary of the Social Service bureau is sending out 1,000 personal appeals for help. Clothing will be the only kind of gifts distributed by the bureau during tbe Christmas season.

CLEAN LITTLE SNOW OFF MAIN STREETS

Street Commissioner Knollenberg confined his snow removal to Eighth and Main streets today, confessing that his appropriation was now so lean that he could not afford to attempt a general removal of snow from the principal business streets. From midnight until an early hour this morning a traction snow plow operated over the street car lines, shoveling great quantities of snow on the driveways of the streets. A year ago similar action by the street car company caused council to pass an ordinance requiring the .com pany to remove to dumps at its own expense all snow shoveled onto street driveways, but the company contested the validity of this measure and emerged victorious from the fight. FAILS TO GRASP CAUSE FOR NOTE FROM PRESIDENT EDINBURGH, Dec. 22. President Wilson is declared to have placed himself in a position of an interloc utor on the side of Germany by the Scotsman which, in an editorial commenting on the president's note says: 'President Wilson has hitherto ob served a discreet reticence which he maintained the small nations he is now. so conferned about were suffer ing unparalleled wrong. What motive can have prompted him to throw aside that peculiarly prudent reserve Just at ??,omeilt action was I most likely to be misunderstood? It is strange that no one among his counsellors had the wit to see that intervention at this juncture, immediately following the manoeovers of Berlin and before the entente powers had time to deal formally with that movement runs the extreme risk of being misconstrued. , Makes Reason Unintelligent "His explanation on this point makes bis action still more unintel ligible. jr he brooded over, this, con ception so long in silence what reason can have impelled him to become suddenly communicative just at a moment when his perception of the proprieties makes him uneasy and distrustful. It is not surprising that he feels embarrassed for he acted so that he becomes virtually an interlocutor on the side of Germany. Why did he not wait for the entente's reply to Germany? Why did he step into the ring with proposals which, whatever his intention, must present themselves to the allies as 'directing the course which in his judgment they should take." LETS 1917 CONTRACT FOR OFFICE SUPPLIES Contracts for supplies for county officials and county institutions for 1917 amounting to approximately $5,000 will be let by county commissioners at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. Last year the contracts for supplies amounted to $2,970.78. It is anticipated that there will be an increase of about twenty-five percent in bids. Paper of which the price has gone up by leaps and bounds is one of the main items in the supplies. OLD ROADS BOOSTERS DINE WITH MILLS Frank A. Davis, secretary of the National Old Trails Association, and W. P. Simpson, both of Kansas City, Mo., dined at the Westcott hotel last night with Joseph H. Mills, president of the Wayne County Motor club. They were said to be here trying to add to a partially completed $1,000 fund for posting road signs in Indiana. Mr. Mills was out of the city today.

WINIFRED BROWN VISITS CITY DN WAY HOME FROM CHICAGO

Winifred Brown, the pretty 23-year-old deaconess who disappeared from the "Methodist Deaconess' Home, Indianapolis. Dec. 10, passed through Rich mond last night and returned to the home of her father, W. D. Brown, a farmer at Modoc. She was brought from Chicago, by her uncle, Clarence C. Brown, 232 South Fiftenth street. Mr. Brown denied today that there was any mystery in the girl's disaipearance and could not account for statements made by Rev. John Marvin Dean, pastor of the Second Baptist church, of Chicago. The missing deaconess was found at the home of a woman missionary attached to " Rev. Mr. Dean's church. v Can't Explain Statement. "She thought her soul was lost, and rather than let her parents know, she decided to lose herself and let them think she was dead," the Rev. Mr. Dean reported to have said last night "She has been ill, possibly not her self mentally."; said her uncle here today. "She went to Chicago and would have come back on the first train. She had no money, so she went to the church mission and made herself known. Then she went to work." There were no detective t work, on

NEW FIGHT CENTERS ON ONE SEAT : IN SENATE

Contest by Edward Eikman Throws Scare Into G. O. P. Ranks at Caucus in Indianapolis. CONTROL THREATENED Ruling by Senate Committee in Favor of Democrat Would Give Party Majority of Two. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. Dec. 22. While the Republican members of th Etate legislature which convenes Jan. 4 were gathering here tcay to discuss plans for the organization, especially of the Senate, which is divided equally twenty-five Democrats, twenty-four Republicans and one Progressive who has announced that he will vote with the Republicans an interesting phase of the problem developed which, if carried out as planned, may give the Democrats control of the upper House. Edward Eikman, Democrat, who was elected joint senator in 1914, from Hancock, Rush and Fayette counties, after the resignation of Cary Jackson, who was elected in 1912 from the same district, plans to contest the seat of Lem P. Dobyns, Republican, who was elected in the last election to represent Hancock, Rush and Decatur counties, after the state had been redistricted by the legislaturee of 1915. Would Shift Control Should the elections committee of the Senate report in favor of Eikman and this report be adopted when the Senate would stand twenty-six Democrats and twenty-four Republicans, including the one Progresive. Eikman's move threw a scare into the Republicans gathered here for the meeting which was to be held later in the day, and it probably will form one of the main issues at the meeting. Eikman has bad a brief prepared by his attorney and purposes to present his claims to the Senate elections committee as soon as the legislature convenes. Eikman's contention is that 'when he was chosen at the regular election of 1914, he was elected for the constitutional term of four years and that when the legislature in 1915 substitute ed Decatur for Fayette county in the district it in no way affected his position as a regularly elected state senator. He claims an error was made in nominating a candidate for the state senator from the newly, constituted district and that the election of Dobyns is invalid. He also points out that twenty-six senators were chosen at the 1916 election when only twenty-five under the constitution should have been elected. ASKS SIZE NO. 40. FOR FRIEND'S SHIRT "Give me a size forty," said a prominent young woman yesterday when she went into a Main street men's furnishing store to purchase a silk shirt as a Christmas gift for a boy friend who is away at college. The purchaser was greatly confused . when the clerk told her that fourteen and one-half was the average size. the case and there were no sensational elements, Mr. Brown said. The girl' called her home on long distance tele-? phone Wednesday night and reached' them by wire Thursday. She told har father where she was and he immediately telegraphed her cousin, Frank". E. Brown, a resident of Chicago and a son of Clarence Brown. ' . Was With Son at Time. "I was with my son when the tele-" gram arrived," said" Mr. Brown. "I found the church number and locatej her immediately. She returned with very little urging. Her train to Modoc was late last night and she bad supper . at our house, then she went home with her brother, Glen Brown. Whether she will return to the Deaconess home has not been decided. The girl's health, which is believed to . have caused the meloncholla' which caused her to leave Indianapolis when under nervous strain, probably will " cause her to remain at borne for some time. - ' v - - , .. ' She has always been a church worker, her uncle said.. She graduated from a Deaconess' school In Kansas City two years ago and then went to the Indianaoolls home. .