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RICHMOND, IND.,. FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1917.

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Split in Attitude of Western Brotherhood Locals Reported in Chicago

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women ARE FORCED TO SERVE TIME IN IDLENESS

County Authorities Provide

Work to Occupy Minds of

Men Held Prisoners in Jail

WOMEN ARE PROBLEM

BY BASIL WALTERS.

In the study of reform of law

violators, women prisoners have always presented a special problem. In Wayne county, male prisoners are worked on roads in the summer time and plans are under way to work them on stone crushers in winter. This labor gives them opportunities to enjoy fresh air and exercise during-the time they are being kept away from influences which caused their arrests. The men enjoy the work and all "come out better men than they were when they were ' arrested," said a Chicago prison reform expert on his visit here recently. ' Serve Terms In Idleness. .'. With wemen, the problem is different Although the jail at the Home of the. Friendless is under efficient management, county officials have not established . any 'kind" of work . f?r " fa male prisoners. ' Thus, the women are

.forced to serve out their sentences in:

complete idleness. The number of women prisoners Is not as great as that of men, yet as was demonstrated by the recent grand Jury investigations, their crimes are no less varied and dangerous. It is recognized that women - are harder to reform than men. " The fact that a man often sinks to the lowest depths and climbs back to a safe and honorable position in society while a woman rarely does, is worthy of study. , Women Deserve Attention. Practically all attention has been devoted to male prisoners. Women prisoners also need attention. Idleness is recognized as detrimental to character building. Then it must follow that idleness of women prisoners is not in keeping with the general reform and "clean up" campaign which hasbeen launched in Wayne county. The problem of dealing with women

prisoners is puzzling county officials. County commissioners are willing to back up the work of Prosecutor Strayer in the reform movement. They have considered various plans of furnishing occupations for female prisoners but have never found one they care to adopt. They are open to suggestion. Wayne county men were responsible for the founding of the state penal farm for men. Will Wayne county lead Indiana In the movement for providing proper "reform" institutions for women?

Food Supply to Last One Week; Employes and Both Railroads Prepare For Impending Strike With food supply sufficient to feed the population of the city and immediate vicinity for a week or ten days in the stocks of the Richmond wholesale and retail groceries and produce commission houses, and a fuel supply sufficient for the city not longer than a week, it has been estimated, Richmond will be confronted, next Monday, with the most serious crisis in its history when the strike of trainmen on the Richmond and Indianapolis divisions of the Pennsylvania lines, the G. R. & I. and the C. & O. railways is scheduled to start. Superintendent Stimson of the Richmond division and his aides were in conference all morning making arrangements for the conduct of the company's business after the strike becomes effective. While this conference was in progress, various officers of the locals of the four railway brotherhoods were busy notifying members of these organizations to be prepared to answer the strike summons Monday. It was stated that no official orders regarding the calling of the strike had been received as yet. - Officers of the brotherhood locals predicted that the big majority of the members of each of the four organizations would walk out Monday. This prediction is made following a poll which has been taken by brotherhood representatives. On the other hand Richmond division of ficials believe that a majority of the trainmen, especially the engineers and conductors, will elect to remain in the company's service. Company representatives have also been making a poll of the trainmen. 4 Will Continue Service.,

I It is said that the division officials

PRESIDENT CALLS CABINET; ADVISORS SUGGEST SEIZURE OF ROADS AS NECESSITY

(By A.ssociftt(i Press) WASHINGTON, March 16. President Wilson is expected to make his first move to prevent the threatened railway strike after today's cabinet meeting. The president had cancelled a regular meeting when he got reports from conferences in New York and then sud

denly called the members in session for this afternoon. The general impression is that the president before going further will appeal to both railroads and men not to plunge the country into a strike at this critical juncture of

Further than that the president's purposes have not been disclosed.

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are determined to operate as many trains following the calling of the strike as possible. A number of men, former railroaders, have been secured to take the places of strikers and quite a few men employed in the division offices and other capacities are listed for service as trainmen. The division department of the railroad police service has enlisted fifty

extra officers, who are to be sworn in as deputy sheriffs, for the purpose of protecting the company's property in Richmond. Arrangements have been made for the protection of property at all other points on the division. J. E. Manford, of this city, a freight engineer and a member of the grievance committee of the Richmond local of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, said today that, he was confident that ninety percent of the engineers on the division would respond to the strike call. There are about 100 engineers employed on the division.- . Unions' Have Everything to Qaln. Manford declared that in striking the brotherhood men had everything to gain and nothing to losevIf tae men

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eo, tneir conaiuo&v; ir tney submit To - Continued On Page Seven.

Here's a Mayor Withoat a City

Richmond's Boytown government is a thing of the past. Today Joe Swearlnger, Boytown mayor, announced that lack of interest among Richmond boys in the unique educational institution had made if necessary for him to abandon the government. It has been Impossible to get a quorum out at council meetings for the past three months.

GRAND DUKE IS AT POST AT CAPITOL

(By Associated Press) LONDON. March 16. The grand duke Nicholas is reported in a Reuters dispatch from Petrograd to have reachthe Russian capitol. The dispatch says that he will probably take command of the troops.

LOCAL ASK STATE FOR PLACES

Element Stands for Strike

It is known . one element In the cabinet, regarded as favoring the labor side is urging to let the situation come to a strike if the railroads do not yield, on the assumption that the strike wilt be successful. Another element, regarding the strike as a national calamity, or an unpatriotic act, is pressing for vigorout action to prevent it. Some of the president's advisors hold the view that he has the constitutional authority to take over the railroads and draft officials and men to operate them on the grounds of a national necessity. Some of the men in official circles say that last fall the president regarded the controversy as one between the railroads and the men. ' The situation now they say concerns the government vitally and that in such a situation the president regards the country's interest as overshadowing all others.

DOTH SIDES MARK Tin

IN NEW YORK

(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, March 16. Both sides in the threatened railroad strike expressed a willingness today to hold further joint conferences although the situation this morning was devoid of any suggestion of a compromise. ' Indications were unofficial that both the railroad managers and the brotherhood chiefs were marking time pending any possible action by the president and with each group prepared to respond to overtures from the other side.

British Occupy Part of Village East af Bagdad

(By Associated Press) LONDON, March 16. A portion of the town of Bakubah on the right bank of the Diala about thirty miles northeast of Bagdad has been occupied by the British, it was announced in a report received today from Gen. Maude in command of the Britist Tigris forces. The Turks continued to fall back on the right bank of the Tigris.

FRENCH PENETRATE. TO ADVANCE POSTS

(By Associated Press) BERIN, March J6. An attack with strong . forces was -begun , by French troops on thk Macedonian front yestenhteeTegton of Monastirs-w-The French en tefT advanced trenches at one foist. '

DRffM FELT i mm mm AT CONFERENCE-

(By Associated Press) CHICAGO, March 16. Persistent reports of dissension in the ranks of the hundreds of local brotherhood chairmen attending the executive meeting to ratify the strike order were circulated in the corridors of the Masonic temple where the meeting was held. Timothy Shea, assistant presklenl of the firemen, and other high officials denied them but they would not down. Representatives of the Kansas Cfty locals, the most powerful west of St Louis, were said to have instructions to oppose the strike. Denver was said to have similar instructions.

Local Brotherhood Heads Declare Most

Of Men Will Obey Strike Orders When

Announced for the Pennsylvania Lines

Richmond trainmen and engine men , this insurance amounts to $2,000 to

are preparing to obey the railroad $3,000 and has been carried for many

ARMY OFFICER IS DEAD.

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 16 Rear

Admiral Vincendon L. Cottman, U. S. N., retired, died here last night, aged 65. Funeral services will be held to

morrow.

Weather Forecast

For Indiana by United 8tatea Weather Bureau Rain tonight and Saturday. Warmer tonight. Colder Saturday. West portion. Temperature Today. Noon 43 Yesterday. Maximum 44 Minimum - 29 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Rain tonight . or Sunday. Much warmer. Decidedly colder Saturday night or Sunday. Strong shifting winds. General Conditions The -storm which now covers the southwest has already caused rain in southern Illinois and extends southward to the Gulf of Mexico. It will cause general Wins during the next 36 hours.

BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 16. Just now when Governor Goodrich with the help of the Indiana Republican committee officers is sifting applicants for various State jobs in order that places may be filled, it develops that two Richmond men are under the

microscope, both of whom are being favorably considered and may land. One of these is George Matthews, formerly county clerk of Wayne county who is after a deputyship in the department of factory inspection. It Is said that Matthews, as well as several other Richmond Republicans,

applied for one of the chief deputy

ships, but what Matthews may land is a travelling deputyship or factory in

spector. No Official Announcement.

While no official announcement has

been made and none need be expected

until the appointment is formally made, it is regarded as quite likely that Matthews will land a travelling

inspectorship. He has received the endorsement, it is said, of the Wayne

county Republican chairman as well as the district chairman, and in addition is said to have been endorsed by various prominent Republicans of his home county and city. The other Richmond man whose claim for recognition is being considered is William A. Bond, city attorney of Richmond, who would like to become a member of the Indiana public service commission. Bond's claim for the post rests chiefly in his familiarity with public service corporations, due to his work before the commission in the last three years.

It is said that Bond is one of two or three applicants for the place who is receiving consideration, though it is by no means certain that Bond is to be the favored man. ,

Justice Minister Frames Amnesty

(By Associated Press) LONDON, March 16. Deputy Herensky, the new Russian minister of justice, has decided to frame a measure of general political amnesty, according to a Petrograd dispatch to Reuters dated Thursday. The Grand

Duke Nicholas, commander in the Caucasus, has telegraphed President Redz-

ianko of the Dunsa that, in accord with general Alexieff, chief of staff, he had asked the emperor, in order to save Russia and bring the war to a

successful end, to take the only step

possible in the present fateful circum

stances.

Strike Branded as Unpatriotic

(By Associated Press) WINCHESTER, Va., March 16. At a mass meeting of citizens here today the action of the Railroad Brotherhoods In calling a strike at this time was denounced as "unpatriotic and unAmerican." '

Miners Threaten to Go on Strike

strike order

They are viewing the latest move of their brotherhood chiefs quietly. They

have been prepared for the order since last fall and their attitude with respect to the strike has been learned long ago. Officials of the Richmond division of the Pennsylvania are preparing for the strike. . Superintendent Stimson attended a conference of rail chiefs in Columbus yesterday. When he returned he Issued orders covering the strike to office 'men and others not affiliated with the brotherhoods. Fifty Extra Guards in Service. It is understood that 50 extra guards have been added to the Richmond division force. Leaders among the brotherhood men predict the vast majority of the men will quit work when their division is called. They predict that 95 percent of the freight service employes will obey the call and that a smaller percentage of the passenger men will go out. Not many of the passenger conductors will go out, they believe, but other classes in the passenger service will remain loyal to the brotherhoods. Conductors Face Hard Choice. Passenger conductors, many of whom are close to the pension age, are between "the devil and the deep

blue sea," it is pointed out. If they strike they lose their pension rights. It they don't strike they lose the insurance, which most of them carry in the brotherhood funds. In most cases

years.

Pennsylvania trainmen will not be

called out in the first order. It is

understood the New York Central,

Nickel Plate and B. & O. men will get the first call Saturday, together with employes of the St. Louis and Chicago yards. Freight men on the Southern, Norfolk and Western, C. & O. and Virginian will be called out Sunday, it is understood.

(By Associated Press) WHEELING, W. Va., March 16. Unless the demands of miners of subdistrict No. 5 and District No. 6, United Mine Workers of Anferica, for

an increase in wages are granted by the operators, it is announced here by district officials that a strike will be

called April 30. There are 14,000 miners in the sub-district.

TURKS ATTEMPT TO HOLD POSTS

(By Associated Press) The Turks apparently have pot halted their flight from Bagdad on the west bank of the Tigris where they were la6t reported by Constantinople somewhere to the south of Samara, 70 miles north of Bagdad. General Maude, the British commander, reports them continuing to

fall back. On the other side of the Tigris, however, the Turkish forces are apparently endeavoring to hold on for a time, at least, to territory lying northeast from Bagdad toward the Persian border. Fighting of notable importance by all indications Is taking, place on the Macedonian front.' The French have been on the aggressive with considerable forces. Today's Berlin report says continued attacks by the French were repeated yesterday.;. . j

RUSSIAN MINISTERS ARRESTED BY REBELS; BROUGHT TO DUMA

(By Associated Press) LONDON, March 16. Premier Golitzine, minister of the interior and M. Protopopoff, the minister of justice, were among those arrested and brought to the duma building by the revolutionary executive committees orders, according to a Reuter's Petrograd dispatch. Premier Golitzine was later released but the other two ministers are still held. The dispatch says that when the soldiers guarding the duma learned of the arrival there under arrest of Gen

eral Soukhomlinoff, former minister of war, they loudly demanded that he be surrendered to them. The deputies had great difficulty in calming the troops who insisted that at least the

general's epaulettes be torn off. The former minister submitted quietly to

this degradation.

PRESIDENT WILL CALL BOTH SIDES TOGETHER

(By Associated Press) - WASHINGTON, March 16. After the cabinet had been in session fifteen minutes this afternoon Secretary Wilson 4efty saying that Secretary Baker would issue a statement shortly on the rail

road strike situation. Hope was expressed that a strike paralyzing the commerce of the country could be averted. Secretary Wilson said the action decided upon met with his entire approval. The action decided upon was to have Secretaries Lane and Wilson, and Daniel Willard and Samuel Gompers, members of the advisory commission of the council of the

national defense to confer

with both sides at once. This action was expected by thepresident and his advisers to avert a strike. Secretary Baker announced, after the cabinet meeting, that the council of national defense, with the approval of President Wilson, had decided upon this step. Arrangements for conferences with the representatives of the two sides will be made at once. The mediators, speaking for President Wilson, will ask the brotherhoods of the railroads to postpone the

strike it they cannot avert one on the ground of national emergency.

Insist Situation Changed. Soma of the chairmen were said to insist that the brotherhood chiefs now in New York had so right to call a strike on tha basis of the rota takes last summer. Tha passage of tba Adamaon law. Its course In the courts, and tha international situation wars said to have changed the aspects of the situation to such an extent that 1h sentiment of last summer could scarcely be expected to remain as it was. ' Chief of Police Schuettler, said today that it necessary ha would plaea police guards on milk trains to bring milk Into Chicago for children. Confer on Milk Trains. City officials and officials of Interurban lines conferred today -with reference to bringing milk Into tha city in case of a railroad strike. Approximately 4.000 miles of track owned by 23 trunk Ilaa and tea rallroads itossedf" aa switching or belt roads are Included hi the Chicago switching district which come under the strike order for Saturday night The initial order would effect soma S.000 men.

Food Shortage Can be Avoided

Richmond residents need have no fears of a food shortage in case of a strike if they don't become panicstricken and purchase large quantities of food In advance. . This is the concensus of opinion among dealers in foodstuffs. Richmond retail and wholesale dealers in foodstuffs have sufficient stock to feed the city for several days at the usual rate of con-sumption.

Local Railroads Declare Embargo

An embargo upon freight shipments from Richmond on the C. & O. railroad became effective today. The Pennsylvania railroad issued an order that freight would be shipped from Richmond only at the risk of the shipper. This will affect Richmond Jobbers and manufacturers at once, especially those firms which have been experiencing difficulty In moving their products. These orders were Issued as a precautionary measure in view of the strike situation. It is understood the same orders prevail all over both railroad systems..

FIFTEEN PROVINCES ENDORSE REVOLT

(By Associated Press) PETROGRAD, " Via London, March 16. The council of nobility already has held special' meetings in fifteen provinces and endorsed the new revolutionary government.

NO TIN SOLDIERS WANTED AS GUARD

(By Associated Press) . CHARLESTON. W, Va., March 16 Saying that "This is no time for tinsold lers," Governor John J. Cornwell of West Virginia, has announced that he will have no personal military staff. Should an occasion arise demanding the presence of a military escort, the governor will call on the state military department to furnish such officers as are necessary, ,

JOINT CHURCH COMMISSION REPORTS ON METHODIST CHURCH MERGER

A plan for merger of First and Grace Methodist churches will be presented tonight at quarterly conferences of both churches. The plan will be presented by the joint commission on union, which is composed of five members of each church, the two pastors and the district superintendent No details of the proposed basis for merger have been given out and members of the congregations are In the dark concerning its provisions. Provides for $100,000 Church. It is understood the plan provides for abandoning both the present church structures and erecting a new building?" to cost approximately $100,000, at a central point "The , plan . provides for a . complete merger of the congregations and . their societies and for the selection of a pastor, or pastors, to minister to the united flock. It is not known , wheth

er the question of a name will be pre-

If merged, the new congregation would have a total membership of more than 1,300 and would be by far the largest Protestant church in the city. The Sentiment Is Divided It is understood there is considerable division of sentiment with regard to the change. The plan has many warm supporters and many equally warm opponents. Rev. U. S. A. Bridge, pastor of Grace church, refused to predict the outcome of the commission's report Rev. Harry C Barman, pastor of First church, said the question of merger was a "dead letter." The plan will be presented at Grace church conference at 7:80 and at First church conference at 8:30. A meeting of the official board of First church will be held at 7:30. This is the last - quarterly conference of the conference year for both churches. '