Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 67, 30 January 1917 — Page 2
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CONVENTION BILL PRESENTED TO SENATE BY COMMITTEE
INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 30. The lower branch of -the state legislature received twenty-one new bills and passed a' number this morning while the Senate was receiving petitions favoring state-wide prohibition from every counly in the state. The Mouse adjourned at 1 o'clock until 10 tomorrow morning, but the Senate met again this afternoon. The absent voters' bill was passed by the House. Another bill passed provides for the establishment of weight instead of dry measure for all foodstuffs with the exception of berries and a few other garden products. Censorohip Bill Presented A new motion picture censorship bill appeared In the House. Representative Meyers Introduced a measure to repeal the law permitting Sunday baseball in the state. m A common house cat is placed on the 6ame footing as dog and made ihe subject of a license in a bill introduced today. The measure fixes the Mcense fee at 50 cents for males and $1 for female cats. Representative Mosier in his bill would establish eight hours as the
DEPOSED PRESIDENT APPEALS TO NATION
base for a day's labor, in all industries, except household work and farming and would provide one and pne-half pay for overtime. Provides Tax Exemption Widows and orphans will be granted an exemption of $500 on property for taxation if the bill of Representative Hyland becomes a law. The constitutional convention bill was reported to the Senate thi3 afternoon by Judiciary committee A, six committeemen favoring its passage and five against it A minority report urges a measure calling for a referendum on the question to be held the third Tuesday in June.
ORDER ARMY RETURN
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. The War Department today ordered General Bell, commanding "the Western department, to return to home stations for muster out of the Federal service Troop A, Cavalry, and Battery A, field artillery, of Oregon, and Troop B, Cavalry, and Company A, Signal Corps, of Washington.
CLUB APPROVES TRI-COUNTY PLAN
Tentative approval of the plan for joint control by Wayne, Union and Fayette counties, of the -Tuberculosis sanitarium was given by the Public Health Committee of the Commercial club this afternoon. The committee, however, opposed a proposal to transfer the Smithvale
property, recently donated to Wayne
WASHINGTON. Jan. 30 Refusr.l of recognition by the United Stated of " the de facto government set up in ' Costa Rica by Federico Tinoco after his revolutionary coup d'etat was " urged today by Alfred Gonzales, the : deposed president of the republic in
' sn official communication to the state; ccu:My for the sanitarium, to the three 1 department from American Minister oct:nl!e3 for Joint ownership. Hale Rt So tf, who is -'fording: Plans for furth - the fight in the ' Mm asylum. 'Jensatets asks Interven-; icrislature for full-time health ' tion by this government to restore r.lrnj officer law" also w . discussed by the
III! lucrum it I iu Secretary Lansing said today the 1 apppal had been received but that the ' department's course could not now be ; discussed. Amonp; other state depart- " ment officials, however, If is not believed that any action will be taken, : certainly not po long as Coata Rica remains tranquil. In his pppeal Gonzales states Tinoco took control not by revolution but by an act of treason.
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As 15,000 spectators cheered, the superdreadnought Mississippi, third naval ship to be named after that State, was launched at Newport News, Va., on January 25. ( This giant superdreadnought, almost identical in design, with the Pennsylvania and the Arizona, will have a speed of twenty-one knots and will displace 33,000 tons. Her main armament will consist of twelve 14-inch guns of larger than usual calibre. Hence, longer range and "hitting power." Besides her secondary armament, she will carry three anti-aircraft rifles and four 24-inch torpedo tubes. The photograph on the right shows the giant ship as she was being christened. Note her enormous bulk when compared with the spectators. On the left is shown Miss Camille McBeath, daughter of J. M. McBeath, National Committeeman of Meridian, Miss., in the act of naming the superoreadnought.
Judge Fox Grants 18 Divorces; Starts New Year With Rush
The. new year started off with a rush at the court house. Sheriff Clem Carr. has been on the
$50,00Q in delinquent (axes still on the books. Reveals Unusual Activity. - An imnsiinl tkotivltv in roal oc-ntr
jump serving three hundred grandl transactions for January is revealed
STEAMER BOWDEN . IS RUN AGROUND
committee.
PLEDGE $500,000 TO RLIEF FUND
' NEW YORK, Jan. 30 More than ' $500,000 has been pledged to the com- " mission for relief in Belgium by members of the rocky mountain club of " New York, it was announced today. The money originally was subscribed ' toward the new $1,000,000 home in this city, but John Hays Hammond, presi- ' dent of the club, said the members had : decided to postpone the erection of ' the club house and devote their ener- ; gies at present toward feeding Belgian children. ' PREPARES SURPRISES FOR DORM INMATES
The program for the Y. M. C. A. Dorm' Men's banquet tomorrow night is being kept secret. Secretary Ellis ' M. Learner said today that it will be ' made up of a series of surprises. The dormitory men have expressed great Interest in the banquet and almost every one of them has promised to be present
NEGRO MURDERERS GET DEATH PENALTY
MINDEN, La.. Jan. 30. Chester Tyson. Mark, Peters, Larkin Stewart and Anderson Heard, negroes, charged with killing live members of the family of John Nelson Reeves hist Christmas eve were found guilty by a Jury here today. The verdict against Tyson and Peters carried with it the death penalty. Heard and Stewart were sentenced for life. Two white men implicated are held in jail without bail. .
jury subpoenaes and making arrests
on the thirty-five warrants which have been issued on indictments returned. The grand jury of, the Wayne circuit court has been in session since the tpnth nf fhp ninnth AWns-ethpr fnrtv-
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thirty-five indictments . have been returned. Seven persons have entered pleas of guilty to indictments. Eighteen Divorces Granted. Judge Fox of the circuit court gave cupid a record breaking chase by granting eighteen divorces while up until this evening only . twenty-four marriage licenses were filed this month. In the county treasurer's office, 510,000 was paid on taxes due before the first Monday in May. Without any soliciting whatever, $3,111.29 in delinquent taxes was paid. It was estimated this morning that there is about
THREE BIG BANKS . MERGE RESOURCES
FOSLER COMPANY CASHES BAD CHECK
An unknown man succeeded in passing a forged check on the Fosler Drug company yesterday. Securing gocds valued at $3.50 he tendered a check for $13.50, made payable lo "Carl Kaufman." to which the forged signature of tan official of Ihe Hutton Casket com- ' !any was attached. He received $10 in change and, it is believed, left the city immediately.
LEWIS MAY COACH EARLHAM SQUAD Walter Lewis, Indiana 12, a Richmond attorney, probably will coach the Earlham baseball Bquad or this spring. It is understood Lewis has been off rd the position by 11. 10. Whiteside. Uilector of uthlctica at Kaiiliam. Lewis is well qualified for tin: place having played with the state university nine during the year '10, '11 and '12, serving one year as captain.
CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 30 Formal announcement was made today of the merger of three local banks representing total resources of $132,000,000, linking the Union National bank, the Bank of Commerce, National Association, and the Citizens' Savings and Trust company. The merger gives Cleveland a banking combination ranging among the half dozen largest In the country. ThS two national banks, which will operate as a separate unit, have combined deposits of about $30,000,000 while the Citizens, which will operate separately, has about $60,000,000. The selection of a president and other officers will be decided upon later.
DYNAMITE DIRT OFF RAIL LINES
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jaa. 30 Dynamite probably will be used to clear the frozen masses of snow, ice and sjud from one track of the Union Pacific railroad in Wyoming, it was said today by road officials, who asserted the mixture had proved too hard to be handled by snow plows and shovels.
FIRST AID CLASS MEETS
L. .'. Schwan's First Aid class of Seniors will be launched at the "Y" this evening at 7:15 o'clock. Care of the Injured and what to do in case of an accident are incorporated in the course. It is expected that a class of at least fifteen will enroll for the
work this evening.
17 PERSONS JOIN SECOND BAPTIST
As a material result of the evangelistic services at the Second 1 Baptist church seventeen new members have been added to the church. The services which are being held each evening are conducted by the Rev. J. W.
Robinson, pastor of the Second Bap-,
tist church, and the Rev. W
Bell, formerly of Indianapolis. An vitation Is extended to the public.
by the books in the' county recorder's
office. One hundred and twenty warranty deeds have been filed while during the same month last year only eightyone warranty deeds were recorded. The coroner investigated five cases during the month, one murder, two suicides, and two natural deaths.
DEFENSE AGAIN OPENS REBUTTAL
. SAN ANGELO, Tex., Jan. SO Defense testimony in surrebuttal began today in the case of Harry J. Spanell, on trial charged with the murder of his wife, with the prospect that Sf anell's fate would be in the jury's hands tomorrow. Taking of testimony has consumed two weeks. .
CHEESE IS THOWN UNTO THE OCEAN
NEW YORK, Jan. 30. Thirty tons of merchandise consisting of Holland gin and Dutch cheese, part of a 300. ton cargo on the Dutch steamship Vulcanus, were thrown into the sea by orders of a German submarine "commander when the ship was held up by
M. H. 1 a v-boat December 27, off the English
SUPPLY OF FOOD DECLINES RAPIDLY
AMSTERDAM, Via London, Jan. 30. According to the Berlin Vorwaerts, Adolph Batocki, president of the Food regulation Board, clearly indicated in a recent speech that the German food supply for the spring was very scanty and would require the most careful distribution and economical use. Calculating potatoes in the value of wheat, he said that for the current year there were 2.000.000 tons less of both available for animal and humn consumption than there was last year and that, owing to the prohibition of wheat for animal feeding, this would greatly diminish the yield of animal products. Even turnips cannot now be use for animal fodder.
WILSON EXPECTS MEASURES TO PASS
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Mme. Suzanne Grinberg, a woman lawyer of Paris, is known as "the good friend" of the French soldiers in the trenches. Mme. Grinberg pleads the ..... ,f th "noilus"' before the war council.
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WASHINGTON. Jan. .Administration leaders In congress today sot come encouragement over legislative prospects from President Wilson's statement after his regular visit to the capitol yesterday that he believed every important measure in which lie is interested will be acted on at this session.
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OFFICER DIES FROM HIS WOUND
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 30. John P. DeRossette, 33, an Indianapolis mounted policeman, shot several days f.go when he attempted to arrest two negroes, died in a hospital here today. Claude Taylor, 21, and Ernest Cdoley, 22, are under arrest. The police say Taylor has confessed to the shooting.
FORMER OFFICIAL HELD ON SUSPICION
NEW YORK, Jan. 30 The Norwegian steamship Bowden, from Matanzas and St. Jagos, Cuba, went aground last night on the southeast, of Barnegat Shoals during a fog and rough sea and was reported today by officers of the coast guard cutter Mohawk to be in no immediate danger. It was believed she could be pulled into deep water at high tide. Signals of distress were heard by the Barnegat coast guards shortly after the vessel grounded. Efforts to render assistance were futile, owing to the rough weather and the Mohawk left here to go to her rescue. The Bowden is a vessel of 718 tons net.
NEW YORK, Jan. 30. In spite of the steady increasing price of all kinds of paper, more writing paVer is being used than ever before, says L. C. Gerry, president of the American Stationers' Association of New York. At the annual dinnerof the organization last night Mr. Gerry asserted that the people of the United States
1-seemed to be writing more letters
and were buying more paper. p.ens, ink, lead pencils, blotters and stationery supplies of all kinds.
FOREIGN MINISTER WITHDRAWS BILLS
QUARETARO. N. M., Jan. 30.On the recommendation of foreign minister Aguilar.Jhe constitutional assembly today withdrew for reconsideration and amendment article 33 of the new constitution, which was under consideration. The provision in this article regarding which the foreign minister addressed the assembly, and the revision of which he recommended, was that requiring foreigners to renounce nationality and treaty rights insofar as they affected property, they wished to acquire, before they could acquire it. The discussion was suspended for an hour while the committee withdrew for amendment of the article.
VICTIM OF FEVER HAS APPENDICITIS
ECONOMICS CLUBS TO FURNISH SONGS
Home economics clubs from the email towns of the county will furnish the musical entertainment at the County Home Economics day celebration in the Richmond high school auditorium. Feb. 9. Great interest is being taken . out over the county in the celebration. Every woman is invited to attend.
CHICAGO, Jan. 30 A man believed to be L. Henri Charlebois, formerly secretary of the government rivers commission in Montreal, Canada, Is under arrest here today. The police said he is wanted in Montreal on charges of . passing worthless papers amounting to about $20,000 on the bank of Montreal. They asserted also that since leaving Montreal last October, he has been in New York, Cleveland and Cincinnati. The man under arrest is penniless.
EATON, O., Jan. 30. The latest victim of scarlet fever is Alice, 11-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe D. Clear, Cherry and Wadsworth streets. The girl first suffered an attack -of appendicitis and later fever developed. The home has been quarantined. Because of the child's illness Deputy
i Sheriff Clear was prevented going to ! Kansas Cjty, Mo., to. return Arthur L.
Campbell to, this city to face an indictment for abandonment of his children.
MARGARET RICH TAKEN BY DEATH
Margaret Rich, 80, a pioneer resident of Wayne county, died at her home three and one-half miles northwest of Richmond on the Greensfork pike, this morning at 11 o'clock. She spent her entire life in. Wayne county. The immediate cause ,of her death was grip although she has for some time been a sufferer of pulmonary tuberculosis. She bad been in bed only three days. Surviving members of the family are: Francis Rich. Willis D. Rich. Evaline Ratliff, Miriam -Rich, Oscar Rich and Mrs. Jerome Shurley, and fourteen grandchildren and . seven great grandchildren. Mrs. Rich was the widow of the late William C. Rich.- Funeral arrangements will be announced later. Friends may call any time.
People Write Despite High Taper Prices
RED CROSS CHAPTER TO GET UNDER WAY
A Red Cross chapter will be organized at a meeting of persons interested to be held Friday evening at S:00 o'clock in the Commercial club rooms. Attorney Paul Comstock, who is sponsoring the plan, issued a call for the meeting today.
PURDUE SPEAKER TO MAKE TALK
J. D. Harper, Purdue Hniverslty. has been secured as an extra speaker for the Whitewater patrons' day celebration to be held in the Whitewater school building, Feb. 8. The Whitewater high school orchestra will furnish music. All people of Franklin township are invited to attend. Miss Zella Wigent, of the International Harvester company, will be the principal tpeaker.
PLACE TWO CHARGES AGAINST RAILROADER
APPRAISES RAILROAD HOLDINGS IN COUNTY
BANDITS ATTEMPT TO CROSS LINE
MEXICO CITY, Monday, Jan. 29 It has been reported to the war department that bandits tried to cross from the United States into Mexico today near Brownsville and were forced back by troops under Gen. Ricaut. Gen. Ricaut reported tuat American troops were pursuing the bandits on the American side of the line.
FRANCHISE LEAGUE MEETS
Board of Directors of the Richmond Woman's Franchise League met Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Wayne County Motor club rooms.
EDUCATON WILL SPEAK
S. B. Christopher, Cincinnati, O., spent today in the county auditor's office, appraising the value of real es
tate owned by the Big Four railroad ir
vvayne couniy. ne is ine lauroau representative on the Interstate commerce commission which is appraising the total value of the WThitewater division of the Big Four railroad.
Professor Kirkpatrick, a noted edu
cator of Columbia university, has been secured as the speaker for the annual meeting of the Wayne county teachers' association, the first Saturday in
March.
BOWMAN ON. PROGRAM
PRAY FOR SUCCESS OF CHURCH CAMPAIGN
Special prayers were offered by members of the Richmond Ministerial association Monday for success of the simultaneous evangelistic campaign undertaken by the Church Fed
eration.
Lewis S. Bowman, county auditor, will speak to the township trustees at their regular monthly meeting in the
office of the county superintendent of
schools, Feb. 7. He will discuss the quarterly poor relief reports.
STEWART TAKES COUNT
Hal Stewart, Fort Wayne light weight, who has a big circle of friends in Richmond, took the count in the sixth round of his scheduled ten round bout with Ford Munger, at
Rev. Elmer E. Davis, of Second Pres-i Muncie last night. -
tyterian church, spoke on -the recent evangelistic conference in Cincinnati.
Faul Sands, an employe of a railroad hotel at Boston, Ind., was convicted on two charges in city .court Monday. Pleading suilty to public intoxication he was fined ?1 and costs. A few minutes later it was discovered that his suitcase was filled with unused linens, bedcov ers and pillowslips.
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Boston hotel. Sand3 . was again arraigned on a charge of petit larceny, pleaded guilty and was fined $25 and costs and sentenced to a term of sixty days at the penal farm.
SCOUT TROOP TO MEET
Troop 2. Boy Scouts will hold a meeting in the council chamber, city hall, at 7 o'clock tomorrow night.
CLOSE MISSION SESSION
Missionary work conducted by the Christian church in foreign lands was explained in an all day rally at First Christian church yesterday. Last night an illustrated talk was given by each of three returned missionaries. Several out-of-town persons attended-
BOARD HOLDS MEETING
Plans which will immediately add to the efficiency of the First Methodist Sunday school will be considered tonight at a called meeting of the Sunday school board.
PRISONER IS FUGITIVE
QUARETARO, Mex., Jan. 30. Jose Martinez, who was a prisoner in connection with the assassination of Presiednt Madero in 1913, escaped ten days ago from the penitentiary in which he was confined, It was made known today.
War Leads to Musical Shows
NEW YORK, Jan. 30. One of the largest theatrical producing firms in the country, which has twelve musical productions now playing in New York or on tour, announces today that until the war was over it would produce no serious plays, but only comedies, farces and musical shows. "It has been our experience." says-the announcement, "that the public demands and will patronize in times of stress only those attractions which are designed wholly to amuse."
BARUCH CONFESSES TO LARGE PROFITS LATE LAST MONTH
NEW YORK, Jan. 30. Bernard Baruch, Wall Street speculator, $50,001 contribuator to the last Democratic campaign fund and heavy short sellei Irv the stormy days preceeding the issuance of President Wilson's fecen! peace note testified at the "leak" inquiry today that his profits on the market between Dec. 10 and Dec. 21 Mere $476,168., Every 'cent of this profit, he declar; cd, was due to his foresight in in terpreting speeches by Beth man Holl wegg and David Lloyd George as mean ing peace was coming.
ALFRED UNDERHILL TO STUDY LAW?
Judge Fox of the Wa)'n circuit informed members of the local bar assoc iation today that Alfred Underbill bad told him' last week that he would like to apply for admission to the bar. Some time ago. Underbill applied for admission to the bar at Tipton. "I told him to get some first class lawyer to present his application and swear to his good moral character aud that I would then refer him to a committee composed of John Rupe. Wilfred Jessup and Charles Sbively for examination," said the Judge. "I don't know whether he will apply or not." GERMANS MAKE MOVE
PARIS, Jan. 30 The Germans last night, made another offensive movement in the region of hill 304 north west of Verdun, attacking a French trench. The attack, says today's war office announcement, was stopped by gunfire by considerable losses to the Germans.
KEEPS HANDS OFF OF COSTA RICA
CLEVELAND RECORDS QUAKERS AT NIGHT CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 30 Earth shocks were recorded on the seismograph at St. Ignatius College observatory Monday night. Starting at 10:10:35 p.m., they reached their maximum at 10:18:40 and ended at 11:30 p.m. Rev. Father Odenbach, in charge of the observatory, estimates the location of the quake at a distance of between 7,000 and 8,000 kilometres.
WASHINGTON. Jan. SO RepcrtS of the bloodless revolution in Coita Rica reaching up to today indicated no conditions in that republic which the United States would regard as grounds for intervening, as requested by Alfredo Gonzales, the deposed president. The state department awaited word from American minister Hale who provided refuge in the legation, to Gonzales when Frederico Tinoco, former minister of. war. by a coup
i d'etat proclaimed himself provisional
president.
HIRSCHTOOPEN ANDERSON STORE
Ed. Hirsch, who has been operating a store on North Ninth street for two years, has opened his second .tore in Anderson, Indiana. The new store will be conducted on the same plan as the Richmond establishment, and will handle the same grade of merchandise at cash prices. Mr. Hirsch, who is president of the firm, will also act as general manager of the two stores. He will still remain as manager of the Richmond store.
TEACHERS ASKED TO SHOW PROOF
NEW YORK. Jan. 30. President Wilson's opinion that "Every person appointed as a teacher in the public schools should furnish proof of American citizenship as one of the required qualifications." is quoted by ,the Board of Superintendents of the New York Public Schools in a report to the Board of Education. The president sent this reply to an inquiry made by the board and added, "I had assumed that this was already the rule, and I am surprised that it has not been so."
RUSSIA EXCLUDES MORE PRODUCTS
; WASHINGTON." Jan. 30 RusFia has added manv new articles to her list of commodities excluded by her on the ground of not being necessities. The new list of articles reached the department of commerce today and among them are most kinds of vehicles except those for railed tracks, preciou3 metals, jewelry, wall paper and decorations, and table delicacies.
LARGE STEAMER RUNS AGROUND
NEW YORK, Jan. 30. A forge unidentified steamship is hard aground today on the southeast end of Barnegat Shoals, N. J. On account of the rough sea the coast guard service was unable to render assistance, but at daylight the revenue cutter Mohawk picker her way down from Sandy Hook in a dense fog.
AUTO GANG NUMBERS ABOUT 60 PERSONS
CHICAGO, Jan. 30. States Attorney Hoyne said today that various ronfessions of automobile thieves show that the gang numbered about 60 persons and that between January 1, 1916. and Jan. 29, 1917; they stole 3,455 machines, of which 2,437 were recovered. Two detectives, he said, aided the thieves. The average aggregate value of the cars was $1,900,250.
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Eaths are infrequent enough on any of the fighting lines, even when bath trains are run behind the trenches for the use of the troops on reserve, as both the Russians and the Germans do. These German officers, assigned to the Austrian forces in the snowy Carpathian Mountains, are determined to have their bath, and they are not at all fussy about hot water. Just plain, ordinary snow does the.u very well, If nothing better can be procured.