Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 155, 12 May 1917 — Page 1

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REV. MOTLEY AND AFFINITY AREJISSING Pastor of Spartansburg Church, Formerly of Richmond, Writes From Dayton, "Gone for Good." SEARCH FOR ELOPERS

W. R. Motley, pastor of the Spart aniburg Christian church until Wednesday, Is gone. When Motley left he was accompan ied by Mrs. William Mann, comely, well dressed and charming. They drove away with a horse and carriage furnished Motley by the church. The last news heard from them was contained In a postal card which Mrs. Motley received from Dayton, Ohio, Thursday. The postal stated that the former pastor was "gone for good" and that tite horse and carriage might be found at a livery stable In Greenville, Ohio. Husband on Trail. William Mann, husband of the missing woman, went to Dayton last night to enlist the services of the police In an attempt to find the elopers. The church board in a meeting, called last night, decided to make an effort to apprehend the missing parson, so that It would not appear that the board was sanctioning his course of action. This makes the fourth Spartansburg minister, within the last few years, who has taken French leave. Motley went to the Spartansburg charge about a year ago. Formerly he had been pastor of the Central Christion church, this city. Last spring grave charges were made against him before the local church board. As a result hia relations with the local congregation were severed. At Spartansburg, Motley was receiving an annual salary of $1,200 a year which Included bouse rent, a carriage pnd the use and feed of a horse. He was popular with the members r his 'congregation. His sermons were deeply religious and he had succeeded I" creating a most harmonious a'id cordial relation with the other church in the town. An LMipreached sermon. Ipst. Sunday he preached on "Thou Shalt. Not Kill." Members of tha church described his discussion of the war as masterly. At the time he an nouncod that tomorrow night he would consider as his text, "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." He will not preach tomorrow. A few days prior to the elopement romor became current of alleged lnti macies of the pastor with Mrs. Mann. Wednesday morning Mrs. Mann, who lived with her, husband a short distance from town, went to Spartans burg and drew from the bank, $200 which was in her name. At noon she dressed to leave and In formed Mr. Mann that she intended to depart with W. R. Motley, pastor of the Christian church. Her husband re fused to believe her statements. It is understood that she has left him several times before only to be gone for a day or two and then return, although neighbors say they seemed a most happily wedded couple, having Continued on Page Four WHEAT SETTLEMENT PRICE MADE $3.18 CniCAGO. May 12. The settlement price for May wheat wiped from the Board of Trade yesterday as a speculative opening was fixed at $3.18 a bushel today. The prices of July and September were a little disturbed by the price Axing on May. July opened U to 394 cents lower at $3.49 to $2.4614 and September 1 to 3 cents down at $2.16 to $2.14. ENGLISH BOAT SUNK BERLIN (via London). May 12. The Admiralty announces that a British destroyer was sunk in the engagement on May 10 between German lis;ht forces and British cruisers and destroyers. Weather Forecast For Indiana bv United States Weath r Bureau Fair and continued cool tonight aud Sunday. Frost tonight northeast portion. Temperature Today. Noon 54 Yesterday. Maximum 60 Minimum 38 Forecast for Wayne County by W. E. Moor Fair tonight and Sunday. Continued cold with probably frost tonight. General Conditions The Hudson Bay cold wave has doubled in dimensions and covers that part of the United States east of the ninetieth meridian. It is central over Ontario and is moving slowly southeastward. The warm wave still continues in Western Canada with temperatures of 82 de grees at Medicine Hat and 68 degrees at Winnipeg. The temperature at Medicine Hat, the home of cold wages, is 10 degrees warmer than at New Orleans, La., and is the same as that at Tampa, Fla.

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TT.S.S.;T130C5 The giant superdreadnought CONSCRIPT LAW WILL DEPLETE LABOR SUPPLY It was announced at the offices of the Richmond division of the Pennsylvania railroad today that much difficulty is being experienced in securing the required number of laborers. especially truckmen for the freight stations. Not much difficulty has been experienced in securing the additional men needed for the train service to comply with the provisions of the "eight-hour" Jaw, and the working forces at the two local shops are being kept re cruited up to normal without much trouble. Anticipate Some Difficulty Division officials admit, however, that they anticipate great difficulty will be experienced in maintaining sufficient working forces in the sev eral departments as soon as the army draft law becomes operative. Keen competition for the service of laborers, railroad officials say, is responsible for the company's shortage in this class of workmen. "We are continually importing laborers but offers of higher wages takrs many of them away from us. We can use fifty truckmen at the Richmond freight station right now," said one railroad official today. LONTZ ORDERS FORGE TO FIRST ROLL CALL OF CLUB CAMPAIGN; Commander-in-chief Lontz today issued orders for, the grand offensive to be undertaken by the Commercial club's military and naval forces next Monday. These orders were transmitted through General Dudley Elmer, of the army, and Admiral E. H. Harris, of the navy, to their subordinate officers The drive for recruits is to begin at 10 o'clock Monday morning and to continue with undiminished fury on all fronts for three days. A roll call will be reviewed each morning by the commander In chief at which time all officers, down the line, will be required to submit complete reports of their activities. Eight hundred volunteers have been called upon for service with the Commercial club, which now is on a war footing. A one-half page ad In today's Palladium gives full details of the campaign. ' Runaways Make Up With Friendly Cops; Returned to Homes Two little girls, one three, the other two years old, wandered away from home today and were found wandering along Main street by Officer Vogel song. He at once made friends with the tots and induced them to accompany him to police headquarters, where they remained for an hour before they were identified. Anxious mothers finally arrived and Mary and Maude bade reluctant goodbye to the new friends who had played with them at headquarters. It was impossible to ascertain the surnames of the children, nor could they tell where they resided. Later it was learned that they lived on Southwest Second street. Harry Hodgin presented the two little misses with chewing gum but three-year-old Maude forbade Mary to partake of her gum. She always swanows it, aiauae explained. RICHARD LACKEY GOES TO COLORS Richard K. Lackey, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Lackey, 107 North Twelfth street, was the first man at Lansing, Mich., to enter the officers training camp at Fort Sheridan. Mr. Lackey has been connected for some time with the J. W. Knapp com' pany, dry goods dealers. WILL ADDRESS FORUM William T. Green, of the Typographical Union' in Indianapolis will speak before the Forum tomorrow afternoon. Mr. Green has for many years been an advocate of Constitutional re-adjustment. His subject will be "Labor and Social Justice."

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JELL (By Associated Press) Telling blows were struck by the British "at the Hindenburg line last night and early today. Near Bullecourt, where the main Hindenburg line has been pierced, a further 'successful thrust was made by General Haig's troops, This was pushed home and the objective gained despite the desperate efforts which have been made during the last few days to compel the British to relax their pressure upon this vital spot. Further north beyond the Scarpe and along the Arras-Cambrttf rvad, ground also was gained. The purpose of the attack was completely attained, the London offical statement declares. The German concentration of men and guns here have evidently not heen able to prevent General Haig pressing ahead when he was ready to advance toward the Dorcourt-Queant switch in the Hindenburg line, protecting Douai, one of the chief centers of the German front in northern France. Many Prisoners Taken. Several hundred prisoners were taken by the British in these operations, which the official report characterizes as "very successful." On the Aisne and Champaigne fronts the French are keeping up a destructBuild Wooden Ships Successfully on Shore WASHINGTON. May 12 Chairman Denman of the shipping board today called the attention of national defense council officials to a recent accomplishment in wooden shipbuilding on the Pacific coast, which he said, demonstrated the practicability of the board s great wooden snip program. "The board has just Feen advised," said Dr. Denman, "that two passenger Eteamers and a freighter of about the size and power to be built by us, have been built on the Pacific and have Euccessfnlly completed their trial trips on the coast" TAX COLLECTORS WANTED BY U.S.' AT GOOD WAGES " Opportunities for good positions are opened In the government service by Increases in revenue collecting forces. Superintendent of Mails Wilson today received notice of vacancies in ranks of deputy Income tax collectors, Inspectors and agents. These positions pay from $1,400 to $1,600 and more yearly and are open to expert accountants more than 25 years old. Wilson has full Information on the examinations for these places.

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THE NEXT SUBMARINE ive artillery fire and harrying the Germans by outpost attacks. Less energy is being displayed by the German artillery along the line held by the French, the only exception being the Verdun region, where violent big gun fighting in the neighborhood of Avocourt wood is reported. Nothing spectacular has occurred is connection with the British campaign in Mesopotamia since early this month but an official statement issued iu London today reports an important clearing operation by the British. The Turks have been driven out of virtually all the lowlands north of Bagdad falling back to the Jebel-Hamrin range, sixty miles from that city. 690 School Pupils Give Demonstration of Musical Studies Another May Festival is scheduled for May 24 and 2d. Tbis Is to be a musical demonstration of all grades from the Kindergarten on through the High school. Rehearsals this week will put everything in shape. Window cards will be put out Monday, and program of the three concerts will soon be published. Performances will be given Thursday evening, Friday afternoon and evening. Thursday evening will be Garfield night. Friday evening the High school chorus and orchestra will give the program. A chorus of 600 fifth and sixth grade children will be the feature number Thursday afternoon. The songs will be two part songs, and will display the unusual ability of the children. Prof. R. C. Sloane has entire charge of the program, with Miss Edna Marlatt assisting. Piano accompaniments will be played by various people. KANSAS CITY ENDS MAY WHEAT TRADING KANSAS CITY, May 12. New trading In May wheat on the Kansas City board of trade has been discontinued under the terms of a resolution adopted today by the board of directors. It was explained that the action was taken solely as a patriotic move and with the idea of co-operating with the government in the national crisis. GIVES A LECTURE J. Edgar Williams gave his illustrated lecture, "See America First" in Cambridge City, last night. Mrs. Williams accompanied Mr. Williams. ,

SENATE VOTE KILLS PRESS CURB PLANS

WASHINGTON, May 12 The newspaper censorship provisions were stricken entirely from the administration espionage bill today in the Sen ate by a vote of 39 to 38, on motion of Senator Johnson, of California. Senators Watson and New voted against censorship. After the censorship clause had been stricken from the bill Senator Kirby, Democrat, of Aransas, introduced an amendement providing for a definite and specific press censor ship under the supervision of the sec retaries of war and the navy and that was defeated, 65 to 5. Prohibition against the employment or use of cereals, grains or other edible things in the manufacture of beverage liquors during the war and one year after was proposed as an amendment by Senator Cummins. ASKS MAYOR'S AID IN ARRANGING FOR LOCAL COAL PROBE J. W. Cardie, a member of the Indiana Public Utilities commission, has written to Mayor Robbins requesting his co-operation in arranging for a meeting to be held here by members of the state commission, next Thursday, for the purpose of inquiring into the coal situation. The letter is as lol'ows: "My dear Sir The Public Service Commission has undertaken an investigation of the coal situation. We !iav already had a meeting of the coal operators and mine owners, and have learned quite a little about this coal shortage. "It is the purpose of the Commission to visit a number of the larger cities in the State in order to get as much, information as we possibly can as to conditions, and I would kindly ask you through your office, to assist in arranging a meeting at your place for Thursday, May 17, at 10:00 a. m. This will be an open meeting for th public utilities men, the manufacturrrs" ffnd the- consumers, and while it will be impossible for us to get evidence from, each and every one who may oe present at mat meeting, we will aim to get such evidence as we can in order to assist us In this investigation. . "I have written the Secretary of the Commercial Club and asked him to co-operate and ihelp arrange for a place for this meeting." MINNEAPOLIS WILL GAMBLE IN WHEAT MINNEAPOLIS, May 12. The board of directors of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce at a special meeting today decided to continue trading in May wheat. The board after considering the action taken by the Chicago board of trade, decided there was nothing in the Minneapolis situation to necessitate similar action. ICE CREAM CONES FED TO FINE HOGS " CHICAGO, May 12 A new food for hogs has been found in the shape of ice cream cones. Recently Edward and Nelson Morris, packers, purchased several tons of broken lots of cones from makers at $26 a ton and fed them to hogs as an experiment. Corn costs from $1.50 to $1.70 a bushel, and the ice cream cone diet not only proved a saving of money, but it produced a superior class of hogs. Var Almost Closes Buenos Aires Port BUENOS AIRES, May 12. Labor troubles, fhipping difficulties and ether reactions of the European war have reduced this once busy port to a condition of semi-stagnation. In all branches of Argentina's Industries except in the meat export business and a few other foreign trade specialties the effects of the war have been disastrous. UNCLE SAM BRINGS TROUBLE TO END WASHINGTON, May 11. The government today demonstrated its deter mination not to tolerate labor disturbances which would disrupt war preparations, by persuading central Pennsylvania coal miners and operators to reach an agreement to avoid the strike of 75,000 miners threatened for next Tuesday. MATTHEWS NAMED BY STATE G. A. R. George Matthews, of this city, was named a member of the division council at the business meeting of the state encampment G. A. R. at Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis, yesterday Orville E. Starr, of Richmond, recited James Whitcomb Riley's poem. "Old Glory" as part of the program which preceded the election of officers.

Calls Upon Richmond For $1,440 Monthly J. Edgar Williams, executive secretary for the Armenian and Syrian relief, Is starting a campaign to raise money. The work Is done among the thousands of Armenian refugees and exiles .who fled Into Caucasus, Persia. Lower Mesopotamia, .Palestine, Arabia, and other territories now protected by the Russian and British armies.

These refugees are in a critical condition, naked, and bodily exhausted. This relief association has a plan whereby people can pay a certain amount ech month toward the fund. Each town and city is allotted a certain amount, and Richmond has been assigned $1,440 per month. Travelers Organize For Relief Activity ST. PAUL, Minn., May 12. A campaign to enlist the services of the 700,000 traveling men of the United States Is the object of the Commercial Travelers National Patriotic league begun today with the first regular meeting of the organization here. The league was tentatively formed only recently, but it has grown so fast that 1,000 delegates from all parts of the country were expected today. The raising of a fund of $1,000,000 to be used in such service as relief of persons dependent on travelling men called to the colors and dissemination of patriotic sentiments. FRENCH SUFFERING WILL BE DESCRIBED BY MISS SCHOFIELD Miss Elizabeth Schofield, who Is to lecture here next Thursday evening at the high school auditorium, on the "Fatherless Children of France" is peculiarly qualified to discuss this subject. Miss Schofield, an Englishwoman who has lived most of her life in Paris, was in the French capital at the outbreak of the war and no woman during the progress of the war has been more actively identified In relief work, especially relief work for French children, than Miss Schofield. American " people k ' interested in French relief work persuaded her to come to the United States recently to give the American, people direct information concerning the pitiful condition of the young war orphans of stricken France. Miss Schofield will lecture in var ious Indiana cities during the week of May 14. No admission charge is asked for her lecture and no collection will be taken. The public is cordially invited to attend her lecture. OLIVE GATES LEADS FOUR JAIL INMATES IN BOLD DELIVERY Four women, three serving sentences, the other an insane patient, effected an escape last night from the women's jail on South Tenth street. The insane woman was found at her former home today and returned to the institution. The three prisoners, Elizabeth Culbertson, Olive Gates and Cornelia Nestor, are still at large. One of the women secured a knife and succeeded in removing the screws which held two of the bars in a window of the jail corridor. The four women crawled through this opening and dropped to the jail yard, a distance of over six feet. The jail delivery was not discovered until after sunrise. Elizabeth Culbertson and Olive Gates effected an escape from the women's jail about a month ago but were apprehended the following day. These two girls figured as material witnesses before the grand jury in Its recent "clean up Richmond" crusade. TONG WAR PARTIES PROPOSE PEACE SAN FRANCISCO, May 12. The Chinese tong war which has been waged for the last five months along the Pacific coast will be terminated it is expected, at a peace conference beginning today at which representatives of the six tongs involved, will participate. LfNES REPORT PROFIT SAN FRANCISCO, May 12. The Japanese Mail Steamship company operating lines of steamers between the Orient and Seattle and England, made a profit' of $10,000.00 in the six months ended April to, it was an nounced at a meeting of the directors in Tokio, according to a cablegram published today by a local Japanese newspaper. MAKE NEW STANDARD CHICAGO, May 12. The fifteen cent - loaf of bread Is to become the standard in Chicago Monday, follow, ing the decision of several large bakers to stop the manufacture of the six cent size and to make the ten-cent loaf the smallest baked.

SMITH GETS BRIDGE JOB AT LOW BID OF $169,990

Contract Not Awarded for Construction of South G Street Span Smith Uses County Plans. STARTS JOB AT ONCE Isaac E. Smith, Richmond contractor, today was awarded a contract for constructing the Main street bridge by the county commission. No contract was let for the South G street bridge. His bid contained four propositions covering different types of railings and the prices ranged from $156,590 to $169,990. The commission chose the latter proposition. He bid exclusively , on the official plans. This price is $10,100 less than the1 appropriation of $180,000 for the; bridge. Three other construction firms bid : on the bridge. They were A. J. Tawger & Co., the Hackedorn Contracting, company, of Indianapolis, and the Vans Construction company, of Baltimore. Bids on Official Plans. j The Yawger company bid on the of-j ficial plans prepared by County Bridge i Engineer Mueller atd offered to build i the bridge for $177,487. The Hackedorn company bid on the; official plans and on plans prepared! by the Standard Re-enforced Concrete company, of Indianapolis. On the for-; mer plans it bid $254,000 and on the1 latter, $243,000. The Vang company bid $179,000 on: the official plans. As neither bid for the South G street bridge was within the appro-: priation a contract for this -work wasnot let. The commission now has two! options. It either may re-advertise for1 bids or ask the county council to increase its appropriation. No reference to Governor Goodrich's request that public works be postponed during the war was made during the session of the commission. Smith's Proposal Specified. Smith's proposal specified that work on the bridge should start within SO days and that it should be completed within 12 months from the time of beginning. The Hackedorn and Vang companies bid on the South G street bridge. The Vang company used the official plans and bid $195,000 for a complete bridge. The Hackedorn comnanv bid on th official and Standard Re-enforced Concrete company's plans. On the former it bid $263,000 and on the latter $253,000. A delegation from the South Side Improvement association was present to support its claims for Immediate construction of the South G street bridge. It was given no opportunity to speak. The National Concrete companv, which had prepared and filed plans covering the Lutin patents, had no qualified representative to explain its plans. The National Bridge company failed to present a bidExplains Company's Plans. Russell N. Edwards, of the Standard Re-enforced Concrete company, explained his company's plans to the commission. Bridge Engineer Mueller explained his plans to the commission. A number of bridge men and contractors who were not represented in the bidding attended the session. The Hackedorn company presented safe bids. All of its proposals provided for postponement in event of government interference with the steel supply and for an allowance up to ten per cent covering any Increase in the price of steel PROHIBIT TRADE IN MAY WHEAT CHICAGO. May 12. Traders on the Chicago board of trade today faced an unprecedented situation as a result of the action yestrday of the board of directors in ordering that trading in May wheat be discontinued. The order of the board came as thj price had touched $3.25 a bushel, a!tnough the close was at $3.18. a'net advance of three cents for the day. Before the market opened today, there was much speculation as to the price which a committee, headed by James A. Patten, will fix as the settling price for existing contracts, the board of directors having ruled that such contracts must be adjudicated by delivery of wheat or the payment of the settling price fixed. WILL SING OFFERTORY Mrs. F. B. Stant will sing the offertory Sunday morning at the Reid Memorial IT. P. church when a special service for the Red Men will be held. Miss Ruth Harris, soloist at the church has gone to Carlyle, Ind for the summer. MRS. flOWEN RECOVERS Mrs. George Bowen, wife of George Bowen, elevator proprietor at Crete, Is at Reid Memorial hospital where she is recovering from a serious operation.