Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 60, 22 January 1917 — Page 7

THE KiCHAiOM D PALLADI UM AN D IS UN-TELEGKAM, . MONDA Y,J AN. 22, 1917

SENSATIONS C1AY FOLLOW

FAY CRAFTON RELEASED

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On a grand jury Indictment charging the operation of a house of ill fame Fay Crafton was arrested by a police officer this afternoon. She yas released on bond of $300.

The trial of the case involving the Crafton woman promises to be a sensational one, the authorities have intimated." '' ; :

GOODRICH EXPECTS LOWER HOUSE

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INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 22. With bearings in prospect on a number of important measures, including prohition, suffrage, good roads, and the consolidation .of . a number of offices in the state house described by Governor Goodrich as "useless," the public wllj be given an opportunity to express its view to members in both branches of the legislature. , Greatest activity is forecasted for the house .of .representatives, 'Where the adrnisintration Is expecting Its greatest measure of encouragement in prompt response to its program. The senate is expected to maintain the attitude of "watchful waiting," espoused originally by the Democrats who are not losing sight of their numerical strength.. . . The absence of Senator Green, another Republican, the third to be stricken ill since the-opening of the session,' serves further to embarrass any attempts on the part of the nominal majority to push through a program. . ... . The absence of the usual number of measures intended to benefit . organized labor, is causing some comment at this time. Except tot modifications of the compensation bill, which changes the time payment shall begin In industrial accidents from fourteen to seven days and Increasing the payment from 55 to 65 er.cent. over a period of time, there, are no important bills being backed by the

MENTION NEW ADDITION" ' The new addition to the local plant of the Atlas Underwear company is listed umong the bis contracts held by the Bedford Stone and Construction company, acording to financial articles published today in which the company predicts an unusually prosperous year In 1917. ;

WELCOME NEW SECRETARY

To welcome the new boys' secretary, Ross Williams, to Richmond, members of the Intermediate department of the Y. M. C. A. will give a banquet at the association building at 6: SO o'clock tonight. Athletic Director L. A. Schwan and Prin. Frank Picket! will .speak.-: ;

COLONIAL THEATRE WRECKED BY FIRE

SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 22. The Colonial theatre in the heart of toe business district waa destroyed by fire this morning. The loss is estimated at $40,000 without insurance. The business was owned by State Senator C. R. Summers, and was teased by Frank Chapman. The Boyer Floral company in tbo same building lost its stock of flowers, birds and gold fish with a loss of about $5,000. The fire started at an early morning hour. It origin is unknown.

FIRE CHECKS ATTACKS

PARIS, Jan. 22. Two1 attacks were made by the Germans last night on the Verdun front, on the right bank of the Meuse. Today's official announcement eays they were driven back each time by the French fire.

HOLD PRAYER SERVICE

Reld Memorial United Presbyterian prayer meeting will be held at the home of M. B. Ballinger. 608 North Eighth street tbts evening at 7:30 o'clock. The public is invited. GIVE FIRST EXAMINATION

One hundred and twenty-five persons will take the teachers' examination in the high school building next Saturday, County Superintendent Williams said today. This will be the first examination in 1917.

VALUE PERSONAL ESTATE

Personal property of the estate of Vashi Kimmel is valued at $1,624.11 in the Inventory filed with the county clerk today. Tersonal property of the netate of Jacob Lannerd was valued at $6,470 03. in the inventory also filed today. y . .' FRANK SITLOH ARRESTED

Frank Sitloh was arrested today by Sheriff Carr upon an indictment of the Krand'jury charging him with harboring vicious dogs. The dogs are alleged to have killed several turkeys beloiiiu to William Doran and Frank Kublman. Sitlob .was released on $100 bond.

DEED RECORDED TODAY

A deed for the transfer of lots 205 and 203 in the Richmond Lake and Park company additions from James Carr et. al. to the Dickinson Trust company was recorded today. All improvements are included. , MAN COMES HOME FROM STATE HOSPITAL The tubercular man who lived in a tent with his family cast of the city during the summer months and who was placed in the state tuberculosis hospital at Rockville by the township trustee a few weeks ago has returned home, the secretary of the social service bureau reported today. The man became home-sick and refused to stay in the hospital any longer. ' A new baby carriage, which includes receptacles for clothing, can be folded to resemble a suitcase.

organized working-people. The only other bill along this line is that offered by - Senator VanAuken limiting druggists and pharmacists to 10 hours per day, and this is said to be without federation of labor - backing,- these sales-people having no formal organization. A new phase Is likely to be given the public utilities troubles arising from the charges against Commissioner Edwin M. Lee, if the plans now laid. are fullv developed In the house this' week. It is understood that a bill reorganizing the commission ,is now. in the bands of Rep. Behmer of Logansport, chairman of the Labor committee, who will probably introduce the measure upon the next call of the bouse for the introduction of bills. ' -

DISCUSS PREPARING INDUSTRIES TO GET READY FOR STRIFE

NEW YORK,. Jan. 22. Discussion of industrial preparedness, universal military service. International peace, gov. ernmental regulation of immigration,

and compulsory health insurance, with J

corporation executives, labor leader and noted publicists among the speakers is on the program of the National Civic Federation's seventeenth annual meeting, which opened here today. V. Everit Macy, the new president. U chairnnu. Memorial services were held . for

Seth Low, the late president of the or-

ganization with addresses by Talcott Williams, for the public, Frank Trumbull for the employers, and Samuel Gompers for labor. The convention will close Tuesday night with a dinner at which Mr. Gompers will be among the speakers and at which moving pictures on industrial preparedness will be showu.

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ON $300 BOND . One of the witnesses who appeared before the grand jury in the investigation of the case which involves this woman was John Underbill.

GERMAN SINGERS DECIDE UPON DATE FOR 1917 FESTIVAL

Sunday, June 10, has been definitely set as the date for the tri-state Saenngerbund to be held under the auspices of the . Richmond Maennerchor at the Coliseum. Further arrangements for the singing festival, in which 400 or 500 singers from the states of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky will participate, were made at a meeting of the Maennerchor yesterday afternoon. The concert proper will be under the direction of Louis Ehrgott, of Cincinnati; Lee B. Nusbaum, and Will Duning. Jr., of this city. Mr. Ehrgott will direct the assembly chorus. Mr. Nusbaum will direct the orchestra, and Mr. Duning will lead a chorus of Richmond singers. Six chorus and two orchestra numbers will comprise the program. The orchestra will be composed of Richmond musicians and will be forty pieces in number.

SEIZE DUTCH SKIP TO EXAMINE MAILS

LONDON, Jan. 22. An Amsterdam dispatch to the Times says that it is believed there the chief reason for the seizure by German warships of the Dutch mall steamer Prinz Hendrik, was to search its mails. There were 1,500 bags of mail on beard and these were examined at Osted. It is reported that mail destined for German prisoners was returned as also American packages. The remainder is supposed to have been taken to Berlin. Among the Belgians on board who were held as prisoners was an Antwerp timber merchant who is above military ae. i It is supposed that his destination is connected with bis business or financial positions. CIVIC LEAGUE MEETS

ROUMANIAN PRINCE GOES TO PETROGRAD

LONDON, Jan. 22 The crown prince of Roumania and premier Bratiano have arrived at Petrograd for a conference with the Russian authorities on important questions, including the Roumanian situation, according to a Petrograd dispatch to the Times.. The dispatch says that tens of thousands of Roumanian refugees continue to pour into Bessarabia and then - adjoining provinces. Among them are 12,000 Roumanians boy pcout.s who the correspondents says the Germans theaten to treat as grrilas. Some refugees have arrived at Petrograd. :

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ST, ANDREW'S HAD SUCCESSFUL YEAR; TRUSTEES NAMED

Congregation of St. Andrews Catholic church now numbers 2,000 members as shown in the 1916 church report, submitted at a congregational meeting yesterday. This is the largest congregation in the city. Receipts for the year totaled ap proxibately $15,000 and the disbursements totaled $11,500. St. Andrews school now has 365 pupils, tba largest enrollment in its history. Church trustees were elected at the meeting. Those re-elected were: Josph Walterman, Ferdinand Grothaus and Edward Geier. New trustees are Joseph Hoch and Aloysius Pardieck. Mr. Walterman will continue to serve as financial secretary and Mr. Grothaus will be treasurer.

SLIPPERY PAVEMENT

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As usual the present season of snow arid ice has claimed its accident victims. David Edwards. 841 "North Twelfth Street, is a patient at Reid hospital suffering from a fractured hip as a result of a fall upon a sidewalk. Mrs Andrew Roser, 215 South Tenth is also at Reid hospital suffering from a broken ankle resulting from a fall on the back walk at her home.

GOODRICH TAKES LEE FROM POST

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 22, Governor Goodrich removed Edwin M. Lee, former Progressive state chairman, from' office as public service commissioner this afternoon sustaining the charges of Incompetency against him. No successor has been named yet. Lee's future action has not been announced. Lee was appointed in December by former governor Ralston.

LONG HOURS FACE CONGRESS TO PUSH NEEDED MEASURES

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. Longer day and possible night sessions of the senate and a legislative program for the remainder of the session of congress were considered today by the senate steering committee. The committee met in response to President Wilson's personal appeal to its members to speed up action on his legislative program, including the railroad rtrike restriction bill. Congress may be called in extra

session in the event of failure to put:

through the administration legislative measures before adjournment on March- 4, and such a session, senate and house are anxious to avoid, if

possible. One of the principal barriers j

in tne way is opposition to the railroad legislation. . In some quarters, however, it is not believed an extra session would be called to take up the railroad legislation alone.

POST OFFICE ESTABLISHES H EFFICIENCY RECORDS

OHIO REACHES FLOOD STAGE; RISES RAPIDLY IN PITTSBURG

ARMY AVIATOR IS IN HOSPITAL IN WEAK CONDITION YUMA. Ariz., Jan. 22. Lieut. Col. Harry G. Bishop, second of the lost army aviators to be rescued from the Senora desert, with his limbs, swollen and bruised, is cOnvalestfng-itf tiofipital here today. He will recover from the weak and exhausted physical condition caused by his experience unless there are unforeseen complications, it was stated by physicians. He slept in a bed last night for the first time since he started January 10, from North Island Aviation Station with Lieut. W. A. Robertson on their attempt at a cross-country flight to Calexico, Cal. Robertson returned from San Diego last Saturday and is recuperating at a hotel there.

' PITTSBURG, Jan. 22-Heavy rains and melting snows over the watersheds of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers all of yesterday and last night prompted the weather bureau to announce thi3 morning that the Ohio river would pass the flood stage' 22.5 feet here. The-gauge at the point bridge registered 9.2 feet at S o'clock when it went out of commission, but the water continued to rise rapidly. Both the Allegheny and the Monon

gahela were reported rising at all observation points. Predictions based upon last night's observations were that a sudden drop in temperature would check the flood, but while the temperature fell, it did not reach the point where swollen tributaries were frozen. "

Electric street car service was begun in Matanzas and Cardenas on December 17.

, Opening of the country roads yesterday by the heavy rainfall was welcomed by the Wayne county rural mall carriers who have had much difficulty in serving their patrons for the rst ten days because of the heavy euow. Efficiency records established by the rural carriers the past ten days have been in sharp contrast to the rural service provided last winter which vas so poor that the protests raised by Wayne county rural residents finally bad echo -in the balls of congress. High Close Service Given. Despite extreme handicaps the rural mail carriers have given high class service this winter. The latest any one of the four carriers , out of the Richmond post office returned to the office last week was 2:30 o'clock, and ach one of these carriers has a route of more than fifty miles. Verlin Foland,' carrier of Route B. north and east of Richmond, has been on the job every day this winter. The three other carriers have used their substitutes occasionally but have measured up to Foland's efficiency record. Foland the past week had great difficulty in covering his route because of heavy snows, but he carried a shovel with him and whenever a drift blocked bis path he would shovel his way through. Farmers Lend Assistance. All carriers report that the farmers have been- doing everything in their power to make the rural carries' work as easy as possible, especially in keepins the roads open. " The efficient manner in which the Richmond post office handled the deluge of Christmas business last month has become known throughout

the country as indicated by a letter Postmaster Beck received today from Calvin M. Selph, postmaster at St. Louis and president of the National Assoojation of First Class Postmasters. Selpb requested Beck to meet him Tuesday evening at the Pennsylrania station "to greet you and congratulate you upon the splendid enowing you" made during the holidays." Selph will pass through Richmond enroute to New York.

MAN IN VIRGINIA . WANTS POLICE JOB

Chief of Police Goodwin today received tie following letted from James K. Blalack of Hilton, Va.: "Can you offer a position on your police force? I am 35 years old, beighth 5:11. weight 206 pounds, plenty of nerve and the best of references." "James has plenty of nerve, all right,' 'remarked the chief.

PURDY READS PAPER

An interesting paper was read by Dr. Alexander C. Purdy, of the Biblical department of Earlbam college, at the weekly meeting or the ministerial association this morning at the Y. M. C. A-

GERMAN DRIVE MEETS REVERSE

BERLIN, Jan. 22. (By Wireless to Sayville.) Lively " skirmishing has been in progress along the Rumanian front, according to today's army headquarters announcement. In the Putna Valley area on the Moldavian western front the Russians attacked the German advance line but were repulsed.

PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY

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EATON. O., Jan. 22 A meeting of! the Woman'B Civic League will be.

held Tuesday evening in me commercial club rooms. This meeting was to have been held Tuesday of last week, but bad to be postponed. ATTEND CONFERENCE

D. D. Ramsey, principal of Whitewater school, and Miss Ada Woodward, principal of Vaile school, wero the Richmond teachers who attended a meeting of state teachers in Indianapolis Sunday for the purpose of considering bills effecting schools and teachers now pending before the legislature.

FIND NEW TRACE OF JEAN CRONES CHICAGO, Jap. ?2. Police today are investigating a rumor, attributed to friends of Jean - Crones, that he attended a . masquerade ball, given under the auspices of the Workers' Institute of Chicago Saturday night. Crones, a cook, is charged with poisoning the soup which resulted in the serious illness of more than a hundred guests at a dinner tendered Archbishop George W. Mundelein about a year ago.

FAMOUS SCRIBE DIES AT CAPITAL

WATER COVERS STREETS

To those who believe in variety, the Weatherman has been partial. . Spring balminess Saturday, supplanted by April f bowers Sunday and snow today, now threatens to develop into zero weather by morning. Yesterday's allday rain, which gave way to a dense fog in the evening, did not, as far as learned today, cause any serious accidents, although streets ' were almost unpassable. PRESENT JOHANNING WILL

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22- Charles A. Edwards, for years one of the bestknown Washington newspaper correspondents, died here last night after a lingering illness, aged 56 years. He represented a number of Texas newspapers up until about three years ago when he was compelled to give up active work. Mr. Edwards - enjoyed a wide acquaintance among public men. He formerly was secretary of the Democratic congressional committee.

$2.75 Petticoats $1.93 E T J 1.

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Special lot of Plain and Fancy, Petticoats, $2.75 values at $1.38

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75c BRASSIERES 50c Special lot of Brassieres, all sizes, excellent 75c values, pre-inventory sale price of 50c

TUESDAY, the Fourth Day of our

Starts off with even more buying advantage than the first day. The "high cost of living", as applied to dry goods and ready-to-wear merchandise has been solved at our store.

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The estate of Catherine Johanning was valued at $4,300 when the will w3 presented to Judge Fox for approval in circuit today. It is to be divided equally. mong seven children. FIGURE AVERAGE COST

THOSE AWFUL CRAMPS Suggestions that may save Much Suffering

The average cost for each inmate at the county poor farm for the year 1916 was $121.63. making the cost per week per capita, $2.31. The annual cost per capita for caring for insane in the United States in $175, The annual per capita cost for the Wayne county poor farm in 1915 was $134.49. ;

PLANS FREQUENT TRIPS

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WASHINGTON, Jan. ?2 President Wilson plans to go to the capitol two or three times each week to keep in touch with members of the Senate and House for the ' purpose of hurrying consideration of his legislative program and avoiding an extra session

FINED FOR ASSAULT

Frank Scheibler, owner of a Main street meat market, was fined $1 and costs in circuit court on a plea of guilty to assault and battery on Colon Schaefer, owner of a Main street grocery store. Scheibler wat indicted by, the grand jury.

MaryfviUe, Pa. "For twelve years 1 suffered with terrible cramps. I

would nave to stay in bed several days every month. I tried all kinds of remedies and was treated by doctors, but my trouble continued until one day I read about Lydia E. Pinkbam's Vegetable Compound and what it had done for others. I tried It and now I am never

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Tuesday Bargains in Waists and Skiffs' SPECIAL LOT OF SKIRTS Worth to $10.00, C A sale price Q-kQ SILK CREPE DE CHINE WAISTS, all colors, thirty styles

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$35.00 SUITS

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$18.75 SUITS

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$30.00 COATS $12.50 $1&75 COATS $7.50 $12.50 COATS $5.00

Silk

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Yard wide Silk Shirtings, value CAp 65c yd., special for Tuesday . HdUX Tuesday only, $1.00 yard silk, just AQg for the day, per yard

$2.00 Striped and Plaid Silks, 41 AO special purchase, per yard . . One lot Figured, plain and striped QQ crepes, 65c values, now per yard '.

SILK AND WOOL REMNANTS, HALF PRICE

Tuesday Specials in Fine Woolens

40-inch Silk and Wool Poplins, 1 25 Tuesdaj', per yard '.

54-inch Novelty Striped Woolens, also plaids, special value as Skirt- J1 A Q ings, $1.75 value, per yard. ; . )1J

Wool Remnants J Price

40-inch Plaid Woolens and Checks fiffjp Tuesday, per yard . . . . . . . ; .-. . uuv

Pre-Inventory Specials for Tuesday Wool Cap and Scarf Sets, value $1.?5 to $3.00 ho" at :.Yz Price Separate Wool Scarfs...; lz Price 75c Fancy Ribbons, now ..39c Fleeced Union Suits, ladies' 85c value at 50c $1.00 Men's Shirts 79c

Two Spools Thread, black EJ and white .

$1.50 Children's Bathrobes 98c Special lot Ladies' Waists, $1 values at 79c Additional Domestics Offerings Best quality Apron Gingham, JQ per yard Plain Chambray Gingham, 32 ICp inches wide, extra value, yard Fancy Sateen, all colors and 1 91 patterns, per yard Double Fold Percale, cheaper 0 than Calico, per yard -.J-il Gingham Full 32-inch French 1 C .Gingham, splendid value at. ... Fine Scotch Gingham, stripes "I K and plaids, special at .

:ufu! 23c

I 36-i I line

inch Madras, beautiful

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Wash Goods Attractively Priced 40-inch India Linen, 25c value, per yard 19c Extra quality Nainsook, ISc per yd. 35c French White Pique, wide and narrow waie, per 3'ard 36-in. Lace and Fancy Striped OXn Voile, 35c values, per yard, now 27-inch Voile, 25c values- , X9c

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Embroidered Voile, 36 in. yide,: QQc 50c values, for quick selling, yd Special showing of ; Dress " Voiles," spring styles at 59c and 39c per. yard. Fancy Colored Pique, 35c value, 25c

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