Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 43, 2 January 1917 — Page 1

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HAr.ir.1ERS AT EAST FRONT WITH VIGOR Only on Roumanian Theatre Are Armies Active, While Other Forces Everywhere Remain Inert. BUSS FACE DEFEATS In none of the Important fighting fronts except the Roumanian are there more than prefunctory activities by any of the belligerents. In the Roumanian war theatre, however, the cnrrent reports indicate that some of the hoariest blows of the war are being struck by Field Marshal Von Macken6en'a army. The Teutonic attack is being pressed in strong force all along the curving front from northern Moldavia to the Danube. At the latter point the bridge bead protecting Braila on both sides of the river are being assaulted and at last count the Russo-Rouman-lan position at Matchin on the Dobrudja shore was in process of being pressed slightly under the hammering of the Bulgarians, Turks and Germans. New Threat It Presented. What seems to be the more serious threat to the Russian front, however, is developing to the northeast where both the Petrograd and Berlin statements show Teutonic progress at various points notably in the direction of Fokshani. north of Rinnik-Sarat, near th southern Moldavian border. Danger of the western Moldavian linn being rolled up and a retreat forced is being pointed out as a result o' the continuing thrusts at the RussoRoumania front as it curves southeastward from the Moldavian mountains and continues toward the Danube. The Russian resistance is evidently a determined one, however, and the fighting ground has not yet touched the line of the Sereth. which has bcn picked as the probable position to be taken up by the RuVtan. for .he KO-! Uion of their southern front c-d of ; tbdr B-ssarabian territory. ' , .; j i m thn T-ranrn-TiAleffln front, foflav s Paris statements mention only skirr::hh"s near tho Lorraine border. CLEM COLLECTS DATA SUPPLY OF MILK Dr. Lou Clem, city dairy inspector. is completing his report for the past ; y-ar . 1 - . . k. w J .... .1 4 . a mArni'o ! cabinet meeting next Monday night. "The report will show the total amount of milk consumed in Richmond last year and It will be an astonishing one," the dairy Inspector said. "No city In the state had a better milk .supply than Richmond had last year and notwithstanding the recent slight increase in the price of milk It now sells for a very reasonable rate and is one of the cheapest things a person can buy. "The latest scoring of dairies shows a steady increase in the standard of our dairies and the standard now maintained locally is unequalled in Indiana." HOUSE COMMITTEE DRAFTS NAVAL BILL WASHINGTON. Jan. 2. Work of drafting the big naval appropriation bill probably will be begun by the house naval committee tomorrow. Chairman Pedgett expects to call the committee together then with a view to laying the bill before the house for discussion by the middle of January if po!slble. Estimates originally submitted by the navy department totalling $379,000,000 have since been increased considerably. Mr. Pedsett said today, however, that he hoped to keep the total within $400,000,000. JUDICIAL REFORM BILL REPORTED IN SENATE WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. Simplifying and expediting litigation in federal court by giving the supreme court 'full authority to promulgate a new code of pleading and practice are the objects of a Judicial reform bill favorably reported today by the senate judiciary committee. It has been endorsed by the American bar associaMon, and 40 state bar associations. VILLA LOOTS VILLAGES LAREDO. Tex.. Jan. 2. Villa followers have captured and looted te town of Salinas, Hidalgo, south of Vil ladania, between Laredo and Monterey, according to advices reaching the border today. No loss of life resulted it was said. I Weather Forecast ' For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Probably overcast tonight and Wednesday. Warmer tonight. ' Temperature Today Noon 46 Yesterday Maximum 41 Minimum '. 16 For Wayne County by W. E. Moors Partly cloudy. Moderate temperature tonight and Wednesday. General Conditions Barometric pressure Is high over practically all tho United States with low pressure ever Canada. These conditions are the cause of reactlcn to warmer weather lor past 36 hours. ,

BAViS INSISTS ON CIVIL RULE IN LIGHT PLANT

Before the close of this year President Bavis of the board of public works wants the city council, he said today, to pass an ordinance placing al! employes of the Richmond Municipal Electric plant. Including the superintendent, under the protection of a civil service system. "It is highly important that this industry, one of the largest in the city, should be relieved of the menace of partisan politics and the protection afforded by civil service be provided for its employes," President Bavis 6aid. "If the plant continues to be successful it must be operated as nearly like a well managed privately owned plant as Is possible. Few Change In Personnel. "In the past the city has been fortunate in the seleptlon of plant superintendents and recent city administrations have wisely made very few changes in the personnel of the plan't working force, but without civil service there is no guarantee that such a policy will be maintained In the future and it will be unwise to take chances any longer. " "The interests of the city plant wil! never be properly safeguarded until the plant has civil service. There is no side-stepping that fact and I sincerely hope that council will act in this matter before the end of the year." Advocates an Ordinance. President Bavis advocates an ordinance providing strict rules and regulations governing the selection of plant employes and guaranteeing all plant employes their positions so long as they meet the efficiency requirements. He would, in instituting the civil service, require a competitive examination for the principal officers and require physical examinations for workmen together with moderate mental tests. NEW ELECTION BILL CUTS CONTRIBUTIONS WAHSHINGTON. Jan. 2. A new corrupt practices bill, limiting contributton. to a national political party to e Lcm? f J0 ? ,HrX2. 1"! ""a "wmw.iww vcwav?. committee today for its approval. The measure, a revision of Senator Owen's bill, was prepared by a subcommittee It will be reported to the senate tomorrow and its rassage expedited under an agreement said to have been reached by leaders of the two parties. . The new bill limits total contributions in a presidential campaign to $1,500,000: limits individual contributions to $3,000 and prohibits altogether contributions by corporations. NINE BILLION VALUE PLACED UPON CORPS WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. Almost nine billion dollars was the aggregate value of all crops of the country last year. In an estimate announced today by the department of agriculture, the exact value was set at $8,934,587,000. That was an increase of $2,165,989,000 over the value of 1915 crops and $2,867;206,000 over the average of the years 1910 to 1914. Texas held its lead as first state In value of Us crops but Illinois as second state In 1915 was displaced by Iowa last year. The other states of the leading, ten, In order of value of there crops were Nebraska, Georgia, Kansas, Pennsylvania, New, York, Indiana and Ohio. COMMITTEE SELECTED GIVES SPLIT REPORT NEW YORK, Jan. 2. A committee appointed by the American Astronomical Society reports a divided opinion on the merits of the plan to save daylight by setting forward the hands of the cloclrs. An announcement by the New York Daylight Saving Committee today says that two of the astronomers, Prof. Harold Jacoby of Columbia University, and Frank Schlessinger, directpr of the Allegheny Observatory, favored the adoption of the plan. Two others. Professor Edward P. Pickering of Harvard and Professor Henry Norris Russell of Princeton, believe that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. NEW YEAR SOCIALS FALL VERY FLAT NEW YORK, Jan. 2. Attempts to hold a New Year's eve celebration here last night because New Year's eve chanced to fall on Sunday failed to arouse general enthusiasm. There was some gaiety at a few of the hotels and restaurants which had arranged for a belated celebration but on tb.9 streets the spirit of New Years eve was conspicuously lacking. FORWARD ENGLISH TEXT OF ENTENTE REJECTION WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. Secretary Lansing said today that the English text of the French reply to Germany's peace proposal probably would be forwarded to the Central powers today without waiting for the official French text. That will be sent direct to the Central powers by the American embassy in Paris. NEW OFFICIALS "QUALIFY" With the opening of barrels of apples and many boxes of cigars, incoming Wayne county officials have fully qualified for their offices. The court house is proving a mecca for all "assisting" friends this week.

196,294,146 PERSONS CARRIED BY RAILROADS WITH NO CASUALTIES

PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 2. The Pennsylvania railroad system In 1916 carried 196,294,146 passengers on Its lines east and west of Pittsburgh, without the loss of a single life in a train accident, according to statistics made public by the company today. It was a record-breaking year in the handling of both passenger and freight traffic. No passengers have been killed on any lines of the Pennsylvania system in a train accident, the statement says, for three years, during which time 553,890,063 persons were transported approximately fifteen billion miles. , More than nine million freight and passenger trains were operated over the company's 12,000 miles of railroad lines in the three year period. M'KINLEY APPEALS FOR MORE SUPPORT FROM MERCHANTS In his report for the past year, George McKinley, weights and measures inspector, food inspector and rnarketmaster, asks for more co-operation on the part of the merchants in his efforts for a strict inforcement of the laws pertaining to the handling of foodstuffs and the weights and measures law. McKinley states in his report that more commodities were sold by weight in Richmond last year than ever before but he complains that he had insufficient support from the merchants in the performance of his duties. Housewives Lend Support The housewives of the city rallied to McKinley's support last year in a most satisfactory manner and . McKinley states that the help he received from this source was invaluable. A number of foodstuff dealers in this city are now selling their commodities almost exclusively by weight the report states. During 1916 there were seven prosecutions for violations of the weights and measures law and eight prosecutions for violations of the food laws and in each case a conviction being obtained, fines totaling $300 being paid. McKinley inspected . 3,846 weights and measures last year and made 1,140 food inspections.' The receipts for his office totaled $765.25. His report was one .'cf the most satisfactory nnd comprehensive of its kind ever submitted.-:-" ---- . POST OFFICE BILL WILL RAISE RATES WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. The annual post-office appropriation bill reported to the House today carried provisions to increase rates on newspapers, magazines and other secondclass matter by a zone system, establish penny postage on local letters, and imposed heavier penalties for sending liquor through the mails. . The bill would apropriate $329,533,120, $4,000,000 more than the current post-office act, readjust rural carriers' salaries and increase the pay of a number of employes. Magazine publishers have protested vigorously against the rate increase, which would affect only publications carried more than 300 miles. SECRETARY WOODWARD OPENS OFFICE HERE The new year started off in rushing fashion by bringing Richmond two important offices. Prof. W. C. Woodward, general secretary of the Five Years Meeting of Friends, has established an office on the fourth floor of the Second National bank building. Miss Ruth Sims, a graduate from Earlham college, who has recently been engaged in library work at Chicago, has been appointed Mr. Woodward's assistant. RESUME ACTIVE WORK Work on the Starr Piano company property, the old Shurley livery barn on North Eighth street in the rear of the Second National bank building, has begun. Clarence Gennett. one of the owners, said the company intends to build three sorie3 in the front at once while Negotiations are going on for the Bisposal of the rear. The stores probably will be completed in 90 days, hhe said. ARREDONDO LEAVES FOR MEXICO CITY WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. Elisio Arredondo, General Carranza's ambassador designate here, said goodbye to Secretary Lansing today and will depart tonight for Mexico City. Raymon P. Denegri, Carranza consul general at San Francisco, will, be in charge of tho embassy. The reason for Arredondo's departure has not been made clear. He recently denied he was being withdrawn. CONFER ABOUT PROBE OVER OFFICIAL "LEAK" WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. Charges of a "leak" of advance information on President Wilson's peace note including other charges that someone profited on it in the stock market gained further official attention today when Sf-nator Stone. Democrat, spoke on the subject and Thomas W. Lawson Gf Boston, conferred with Chairman Henry of the House rules committee about the proposed Congressional investigation, i

PEACE DREAM IS SHATTERED BY ENTENTE'S BITTER NOTE

BERLIN, Jan. 2. "The peace dream is over for the present," Fays the press. "Whoever abandoned himself thereto will be sobered by the entente reply and will adapt himself to the hard reality." ' "If the German offer is today rejected the thought of peace is not by this refusal suffocated. The allies had been deluded into the belief that our offer of peace was a confession of our weakness and attempts to save ourselves before the collapse. "When the coming months of the war show that this lie is shivered on the German arms, revulsion must come and then woe to those rulers who will have to answer for the useless bloodshed." COUNCIL PUTS VETO ON MORE WAGE INCREASES Council put its foot down on increases in salaries for city employes at its session last night and the annual salary ordinance, put through under suspension of rules, provides the same salaries for 1917 as were paid last year, with one exception. Mayor Robbins made an effort to convince the counciluien of the advis ability of increasing the salary of the superintendent cf the municipal electric plant, Clarence Kleinknecht, from $1,800 to $2,40 - a year but council cculd not be budged. Only One Raise Granted. The only increase in salary author-J ized under the 1917 salary ordinance advances the pay of the chief engineer of the municipal plant. Howard Gluys, from $1,620 a year to $1,800 the same salary received by his superior, Superintendent Kleinknecht. . ; Every member of the fire department, -with the exception of Chief Miller but including . Assistant Chief Carter, had petitioned for a salary increas&voj , $5 per .month, but this petition was ignored. -v---Council passed a motion made by Councilman White that an investigation be conducted to ascertain what salary the plant superintendent was entitled to, but the fact remains that it will now be impossible to increase any salary until next year. Rohhins States Oninfon. that he believed the manager of a half million dollar enterprise, such as the municipal plant, was entitled to more compensation than $1,800 a year, pointing out that privately operated plants paid their managers much larger salaries. Council's principal opposition to a salary advance for Kleinknecht was based on the fact- that council had been given no opportunity to inquire into the merits of the case. Mayor Robbins informed council last night of the re-appointment of William E ersman as a member of the board of police commissioners. POSTED LETTERS SLAYER MAILED , CAN'T BE FOUND Stamped, sealed and addressed let ters which, it Is believed by Prosecutor Strayer will shed light on the motives which prompted J. Valentine Kaufman wealthy farmer to murder his wife at their home near Pennville and then to commit suicide, have disappeared. The letters had been placed in the mail box by Kaufman but were taken out at the request of Mrs. Conway of Cambridge City by Mike Gehring who turned them over to Mrs. Conway. They were addressed to Nell Wright a Cambridge City undertaker, Will Strang, Connersville, and to The Palladium. Other notes which had not been placed in the letter box or had not been sealed were addressed to the coroner and to Undertaker Wright, it was learned today. These also have disappeared. Mrs. Conway denies that she has any of the letters, although Prosecutor Strayer learned that one of the sealed letters had been opened at the house. In order to obtain the notes, Strayer announced today that he would call upon the grand jury and upon a postal inspector If these extreme measures seemed necessary. HOLD VAN SANT FUNERAL The funeral of Joseph Van Sant was held from the home two miles east of the, city Monday afternoon, the Rev. James S. Hill and Rev. George Thorpe officiating. Burial was in the Earlham cemetery. Pallbearers were William Austin, D. W. Foster, Charles Ridenhemy John Stelnkamp, Alfred Dingley and Henry Mason. ADVISORY BOARDS MEET Advisory boards of the various township trustees in Wayne county met today for the second time this year to consider and pass upon the 1916 annual reports of the trustees.

OPERATION OF CLUBS IS LAW VIOLATION SAYS WILL RELLER

When William W. Reller relinquished the office of prosecuting attorney to Frank T. Strayer yesterday, ho spoke frankly to four "wet" clubs and lodges of the city, where drinks are served. "You are operating In violation of the law," he said. "You are continuing custom at the sufferance of the officials In office and I hope you will not make it hard for them by taking undue advantage of the privilege. I am leaving office, but I presume there will be no change. I have looked upon clubs as your down town homes, as long as we have a 'wet' city.'V He said treating should be stopped and every effort should be made to prevent drunkenness among club members. Dr. W. W. Zimmerman reiter ated the statements of the former prosecutor and said it is the wives of club members who must be considered if the clubs desire to continue keeping liquor and beer. Frank T. Strayer, the new prosecutor, said he will take Mr. Reliefs viewpoint and regard clubs as the down town homes of members as long r.s they do not indulge excessively. "But I will prosecute to the limit if I have to," he said. PANAMA EXPOSITION CLOSES AT MIDNIGHT AFTER 2-YEAR RUN SAN DIEGO, Calif., Jan. 2 The Pan-ama-California international exposition closed at midnight last night after having been open to the public continuously for two years. Among congratulatory telegrams received by President G. A. Davidson was one from President Wilson, which read: "May I not convey to the San Diego exposition association my warm con gratulations upon the completion of an unique and valuable service to the art and Industry of the country. III JII1J 1 J 1.1 III LUO W Uii tl ' Tha attendant riurine the vear is estimated by exposition officials today in excess of 2,2ou,uuu sugnuy unuer' the record established in 1915. The main buildings and the landscape effects will be preserved. ELAM OSBORN DIES ; AT ECONOMY HOME ; ECONOMY, Ind., Jan. 2. Elam Osborn, 78, one of the most popular citizens in this part of the county, died at his home last night. He had been suffering some time from a tumor on his neck. He was born in the house in which he died. For forty-three years he has been engaged in the undertaking business. Mr. Osborti has for many years kept up the temperature record that his grandfather began in 1833. These records have become very valuable: The funeral will be held in the Economy Friends' church, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. Oliver Frazier will officiate. His wife, Mrs. Agnes Osborn, to whom he was married at Huntsville, in 1862, with five sons and four daughters survive him. .The sons are Frank Osborn of Muncie, John Osborn of Richmond, Joseph Osborn of Rochester, J. T.. Osborn of Chicago and Rollin Osborn of Freeport. The daughters are Mrs. Helen Massey of Richmond, and Mrs. Jennie Ballinger, Mrs. Ethel Marshall and Miss Daisy Osborn, all of this place. PARK DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE MEETS WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. National parks conference was opened here today by the department of .the interior to continue throughout the week. It brought together many persons from throughout the country interested in national park development and was arranged as a celebration of the creation by congress last August of a National Parks services. Secretary Lane opened the session. Creation of the grand canyon and Mount McKinley as new national parks and the enlargement of the Sequoia National Park to include the Tehiplte Valley, the Kings River Canyon and Mount Whitney were among the new parks projects advocated by speakers. DECEMBER VERDICTS FILED BY CORONER ' Coroner Morrow filed reports for the following deaths during December with the'eounty clerk today: Ernest Davenport, 28, who lived Jour miles north of Richmond, committed suicide, Dsc. 14: Margaret Burden, nine months, died of pneumonia, Dec. 16; Joe Smoll (Identity not definitely known) was killed by a Pennsylvania train while sweeping snow from the tracks, Dec. 20; Jonathan White, 75; who lived one mile east of Richmond, died of heart failure, Dec. 22. The reports for the tragic deaths of Valentine Kaufman and his wife near Pennville, Saturday, have not been filed. ALLIES DELAY ANSWER TO PRESIDENT WILSON PARIS, Jan. 2. The allies reply to President Wilson's note will not, it is understood, be published until .the end cf the week. The text has been completed and is now being considered by the different cabinets.

SOUTH Si DEBS HOPE TO HELP CITY EXPAND

Construction of a boulevard to connect . the Main and South G street bridges was advocated as a worthy cause for the "south side Germans" to take up by Mayor Will Robbins at the South Side Improvement association bridge party yesterday afternoon. - Other speakers of the afternoon took up the idea and advocated that after the completion of the bridges a beautiful drive be constructed through the river valley extending for a distance of two miles or more. Landscape artists have said that this could be made one of the most beautiful drives in the United States for very little cost. Doddridge Receives Gift. About three hundred men attended the affair which was given as a cele bration over granting of appropria tions for the Main and South G street bridges. Mordecai Doddridge, retiring president of the board of county commissioners, was presented with a gold headed umbrella by the association. Mr. Doddridge was unable to attend because of sickness in his fam ily. The other commissioners and members of the county council were called upon for speeches. By the Mayor, retiring Prosecutor Reller, and incoming Prosecutor Strayer the "Germans" of the South Side were complimented as being Richmond's most valuable asset. All three officials agreed that these boosting citizens never break the laws of the state, nation or city. . Co-operation of all citizens for the upbuilding of the city of Richmond w as urged and a slogan, "50,000 population by 1930" was presented for ap proval by Gus Kennepohl. Will Reller, who acted as master ofl . ! . . x .v. i i ceremonies, made the point that al though the South Side Improvement association worked ardently for the improvement of the south side its activities have a wider purpose the upbuilding of Richmond. Proposes Salary Increase. Adolph Blickwedel proposed that 3 concentrated effort be made to get the salary for members of the county - - ! council increased. Each member rej ceives $15 a year. This would have to w miuusu icywoj. William Seaney, William Cheesman Andrew Simpson, Lee Nusbaum, j Henry Bode, Hugh Allen. R. A. Davenport, J. T. Druley, Mark Stevens, John B. Faucett, Hans Koll, Alfred Bavis, Matt Von Pein, John Reed and Frank Strayer made brief talks. It was voted to have an annual New Year's celebration. 27,00000 PIECES " OF MAIL SENT OUT Eight post office clerks handled 27,000,000 pieces of outgoing sail last year, according to records kept by Leo Zeyen, a dispatching clerk. His computations, based on actual machine-count figures, and estimates of Heights and haid stamping, follow: Letters, actual count. 4.860.000; newspapers and periodicals published here, 4,000,000; parcels, 300.000; registered pieces, 32,000; permit matter, 300,000. The total is j 9.492,000 to which Is added the catalogs mailed here making more than 10,000.000 outgoing pieces. The incoming was 17,000,000 pieces. WRECK TWO BUILDINGS ON GARFIELD GROUNDS Work of clearing the school property on the site of the new Garfield school addition is progressing slowly but there is no reason to believe that the lof " will not be vacated by April 1, tbvtime 6et by the school board. Two of the brick dwellings which constitute a part of the properties to be leveled have been wrecked. Superintendent Giles of the city schools has been assured the school property will be ready for the start of building operations April 1. APPOINT FREEMAN a i iar.iifh AS COUNTY ATTORNEY So that they would not have to mer-t today, county commissioners held a late evening session yesterday after the South Side Improvement association bridge party and appointed Gath Freeman county attorney for i 1917. He succeeds Gus Hoelscher, ! who was not a candidate for re-ap pointment. Other appointments will probably be made by the board before the close of the week. PREMATURE CELEBRATION TERMINATES FREEDOM FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR James Hollingsworth, charged with having embezzled $40 from Billy Barefoot, Cambridge City, was permitted to go free by Judge Fox in circuit court today, after having promised to rrpay the money and to behave. Only a few hours after, Hollingsworth was .placed under arrest by Sheriff Carr on a charge of intoxication. For his premature celebration of freedom, Hollingsworth probably will be brought before Judge Fox within the next few days on the original charge of embezzlement. BANKERS PURCHASE LAND The deed of Howard S. Davis and wife of Henry county and Chase P. Mauzy and wife of Rush county to Albert D. Gayle and Frank M. Taylor for a three hundred-acre farm northeast of Williamsburg in Green township was filed at the recorder's office today. The deal was completed some time ago.

LAWMAKERS MEET AGAIN AFTER SHORT XI.1AS RECESS

Senate Commerce Committee Arranges Hearing on President's Suggestions for Railroad Legislation. STONE MEETS WILSON WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 Congress retoday after the holiday vaca- ' if in 1 1 n n rnuco rr -n-tvir nnraniv ran. road, appropriation and revenue legis lation, on hand for completion before adjournment March 4. The senate commerce committee arranged hearings on President Wilson' suggestions for measures relating to railroad control and prevention of hasty strikes, and invited representatives of railroad managements, labor organizations and the public to participate. Following President Wilson's conference at the capitol yesterday wit a Chairman Stone of the senate foreign relations committee, administration senators today took steps to ascertain sentiment of both Republicans and Democrats on the pending resolutions stating the senate believes that the President's action in tending the recent note to belligerent powers repre"ZZrlL X,tl sentiment and earnest desires of the - n . 1 . ' 1, . . . 1 I : 1 1 - - I people of the United States." ILIFF ELECTED CITY CHAIRMAN BY THE G. 0. P. After slating that he was not a candidate for Republican city chairman and really did not want to continue in that office but would accept it in lbs event he was re-elected, Edgar lliff was promptly re-appointed to tha .position , at the organization meeting of the Republican city precinct committeemen at the city hall this afternoon. In accepting the re-appointment Chairman Illff answered the criticism that because he was a supporter of Dr. W. W. Zimmerman he might be prejudiced against other mayoralty candidates. "I want it to be known that even' candidate for the Republican mayoralty nomination will get absolutely impartial treatment at my hands," Iliff 6aid. "When Dr. Zimmerman was nominated for mayor by the Republicans three years ago I fought for him as hard as I could, but in this coming primary campaign I will show him no favors that I would not extend to any ' other candidate for the nomination. This has got to be an open, square fight." Succeeds Denver Harlan. W. Howard Brooks was elected city secretary to succeed Denver Harlan and Charles Potter, was elected vice chairman. Walter Johnson, who has been city treasurer, was nominated to succeed himself but withdrew when Charles Woodhurst was nominated for the same office. "I'll be glad to turn the deficit over to another," Johnson remarked with a laugh. Dr. Zimmerman attended the meeting and made a brief speech. Therewas considerable talk indulged in by the committeemen as to possible candidates against Dr. Zimmerman for the mayoralty nomination and the party workers appeared to take it for granted that Dr. S. G. Smelser, city health officer, would enter the contest within the next few days. Committeemen reported several prospective candidates for nomination as city clerk. Including Hal Robbins. 'Clark Thomas, Watson, P. O'Neal. Br d HOLD NEW YEAR PARTY Fiftfy members of Gonzage Council, Y. M. I., held a New Year's dinner party at St. Andrews school last night Father Frank A. Roell and Rev. Clement Zepf, of St. Andrews Catholfj church were the chief speakers. TWO MACHINES HIT While driving south on West Fifth street Frank Threewits, a fanner, ran his automobile into a car owned by a man named Timmerman just as Timmerman started his machine' and guided it away from the curbing. The Threewits car was considerably damaged. The other car was net badly damaged and no one was hurt. RECEIVE NEW LEADER Complimentary to Ross Williams, who assumed his duties as Boys secretary of the YOfVI A. today, an entertainment will ib siven in the boys department tonight at the close of th3 Bible study classes. A large attendance at the Bible class supper is urg ed. . , , FORM AMBULANCE CORPS To decide upon" plans for activities during 1916. troops Boy Scouts will hold a meeting: in the council chamber at 6:30 o'clock Wednesday night The organization of a junior ambulance corps is under consideration.