Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 164, 23 May 1917 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1917

PRESS OBSERVES CENSORSHIP ON MISSION'S MOVE

WASHINGTON, May 23. Vice premier Vivianl Marshal Joffre and the French mission sailed from New York Tuesday May 15, unknown except to a few officials and many American newspapers, which loyally kept the secret so the distinguished guests of the nation might not be unnecessarily endangered by German submarines, the party slipped away on the same steamer which brought them over, convoyed by a French warship. So loyally was the secret kept by the volunteerxeensorship under which American newspaper are cc-operating with the government that the French commissioners generally were supposed to be still in Washington and up to yesterday invitations to them to visit various sections of the country were received in great numbers: The departure of the Frenchmen was attended by as much secrecy as the government could throw around it and the arrangements were such as to make it difficult for German spies to use any information had they gained possession of it.

DENIES PROTESTS MADE TO BERLIN ON SUB WARFARE MEXICO CITY, May 23. Ernesto Garza Perez, in charge of the foreign office, denies that Mexico had made any representations to Germany on the submarine Issue, Senor Perez was shown a dispatch from Amsterdam which stated that the Mexican minister to Germany was believed to have protested on behalf of Mexico against unrestricted submarine warfare. He

declared the Mexican government had not authorized any such representations.

EVEN CIGAR STORES SELL LIBERTY LOAN

NEW YORK. May 23. Participation

of retail stores in the campaign for

subscriptions to the liberty loan today spread to cigar stores, especially shops and other small business places throughout the city. Signs advertising the loan appeared in even more conspicuous places than placards announcing reduced prices for merchandise and in many of the larger stores, especially those engaged In the mall order business, employes were assigned to send out pamphlets to out of town customers inviting them to participate in the loan. .....

ENTERTAINN FOR MAN LEAVING FOR FRANCE

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Dill are entertaining with a family dinner this evening at their home, South Eighteenth street. Covers will be laid for fourteen guests. Among those who will enjoy the party are Mrs. Emily Hutton of Los Angeles, California; Dr. and Mrs. James Stanley of Indianapolis and son, Mr. Howard Stanley, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, who is leaving for France with an ambulance corps.

NICK GEORGE ARRESTED

Jvick George,' taxicab owner, was ar

rested yeBterday for speeding and this

morning in police court was fined fl

and costs on his plea of guilty.

FOLGER WINS CONTEST

Semi-annual Extempore contest was held Tuesday morning in the chapel at Earlham College. The awards

went to Herschel Folper, first; Kent Morse, second, and Robert Loree, third..

HARVEY WILSON IS ILL

The condition of Harvey Wilson, who is very sick with pneumonia at Reid Memorial hospital, was somewhat improved today. His physician said he was holding his own. ALIEN SUITS MUST WAIT

MACON, Ga., May 23. The text of Federal Judge Speir's recent decision regarding the right of alien enemies to bring suits, made public today, shows that the judge did not deny that Germans might file suits during the war, but held that such litigation must remain in abeyance until peace Is restored.

BRIEFS

NIAGARA FALLS EXCURSION DATES July 11 and August 15, via Toledo and Boat Lines. July 25 and August 1, via Cedar Point and Boat Lines. Plan your vacation to take in one of these trips: The Ohio Electric Railway Company. 224 NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT State of Indiana, Wayne County, ss.: Estate of Isaac D. Gause, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has duly qualified in the Wayne Circuit Court, Executor of the Ivast Will and Testament of Isaac D. Gause, Deceased, late of the Wayne County. Indiana. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. ALBERT R ALBERTSON. Executor. Gardner, Jessup. Hoelscher and White, Attorneys. May9-16-23

SUMMER EXCURSIONS TO NIAGARA FALLS July 11 and August li, via Toledo and Boat Lines. July 25 and August 1, via Cedar Point and Jtoat Lines. Plan your vacation to take in one

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. According to unofficial report received from Paris,.; Japanese . troops have, been Janded. in France .and. nowwill fight alongside the English and French for the first time. It is also said that a number of Japanese warships have arrived at Marseilles to aid in the war on German submarines and convoy Allied merchantmen.-' ' "

Severe Privations Suffered by Portugal Due to Ruthless Submarine Warfare

LISBON, May 23, (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Portugal for the last iew months has been suffering severe privations as the result of war conditions. Prices on foodstuffs, and indeed . on all other articles, have increased alarmingly and

the submarine warfare, allied to the utter lack of transports, is causing a shortage of coal, wheat, maize and other articles of immediate importance with which the government is unable to cope. The coal shortage is especially felt. Should it not be remedied thousands of factories will close. In private houses petroleum has been . substituted for gas for the last two months, and for kitchen uses, sawdust stoves and boxes lined with traw are used by all classes in place of the absolutely unobtainable coal. Wood has reached such a price, owing to the continu-

CHICAGO PLAYERS SIGN FOR DRAFT

CHICAGO, May-23. Members of the Chicago .American ' League club who are subject to conscripion under the army bill, passed by Congress last week, went to the city clerk's office in a body today for the purpose of registering.' Although a majority of the players are not residents of Chicago they decided to register here under the absentee clause of the army bill, as the American League schedule will send them on the road on June 5, the day designated for registration by President Wilson.

RUSSIA PROPOSES TO CONTINUE WAR

HAVRE. May 23. Baron Beyens, the Belgian foreign minister, today received a telegram from the Russian foreign minister in which he greeted Belgium and declared. "Russia will continue to pursue this war. not for the purpose of conquest or envy, but to assure all nations the right to shape their own affairs and to secure a peace guaranteeing against new attacks."

al export of pitwood, that only the wealthy can acquire it for fuel. The Lisbon streets are almost in darkness, the lamps affording little light, and the electric public illumination being immensely reduced. The lack of wheat and grain has caused the government to allow only the sale of one type of bread which is very dark and almost uneatable. This causes riots and bakeries are being looted.

FIRE DEVASTATES TOWN n

AMSTERDAM, May 23 A Budapest dispatch pays the Hungarian town of Gycenyoes has . been devastated by fire, 1,000 houses being destroyed and 240 still on fire. Several thousand persons are homeless and seven deaths have been reported. Gycenyoes is 44 miles from Budapest and had a population in 1900 of 16,442.

MAKE SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS PARIS, May 23. Successful attack's were made by the French last night on three parts of the front, the war office announces.

REPRINT INTERVIEW OF COUNT HERTLING

AMSTERDAM, - May 23-.-r-In an- interview re-published by German newspapers from a Hungarian paper, Count Hertling, Bavarian premier, is quoted as having said in regard to the reported partition of Alsace Lorraine between Prussia and Bavaria: "It is completely new and hitherto has been unknown that a decision has been reached about the position of Alsace Lorraine."

COMPLETES CONSIDERATION

AMATEUR TOURNEY HOLDS ATTENTION OF BALL PLAYERS

Former Commercial League teams and clubs oX other business and , mercantile firms of the city are interested in a "city amateur tourney" which wilj be staged soon. - Any business house In the city is invited to list a team in the tournament. Definite arrangements for the competition have not been made. ' "

LETTER RELATES TRIALS OF JEWS

CHICAGO May 23. Privations : of the Jewish population of Jaffa in its flight before the Turks were described in a letter, received here today by Adolph Kraus, president of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, from Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice. British ambassador a Washington. ' The letter enclosed a copy of a cablegram received at the British embassy from the foreign office in London for the Information of the various Jewish bodies in the United States.

EXCEPTION MADE IN CASE OF GOLD

WASHINGTON, May. 23. Action of the house ways and means committee in making an exception in the case of

gold and bullion to the provision of the war revenue bill which would .place all articles, on the present free list, under a duty of ten percent ad vah

rem, has relieved treasury officials of

further remonstrances from banks in many sections of the country againBt

this particular feature of the measure

FURTHER EVIDENCE OF BRIDGE FRAUDS TO BE PRESENTED

- Further evidence of bridge frauds will- be presented to the grand jury tomorrow, it is understood. 3 The three engineers K. r. CoffliC of the state board of accounts,' City Engineer Charles and County Surveyor Horton wlU make a detalled report to the Jury-tomotrow on several bridge toeasuremehts which they have nude recently. ; ; It is understood that on nearly all of the, bridges measured,, serious variation from-taa engineer's plans Jere found.. . .-. . . The -jury spent today investlgatiing criminal cases of minor importance;;

HEAR BOTH SIDES OF RATE PETITION WASHING-TON; ' My 23. Hearings on the railroads' petition for a'fifteen percent advance in freight rates were resumed today by the interstate commerce-commission with an exhaustive -program under- which shippers, state railroad unit niihlis utility onmmiooi.

mmj vuuuuidbiuuo and others will be. permitted to state .- i

uieir views. - Hearing will last-three weeks and decision, iris expected, will be Tendered prior to July 1, the date, upon w.hich .the roads have asked for. authorization of the proposed increase.DUMBA IS ELEVATED o i- - TO HOUSE OF LORDS

Murphy to-Conduct Garden Department . The Palladium is to conduct a garden question department It will be under the direction of. E. F. Murphy,- civic' gardener, who. will answer U questions concerning planting and cultivation through this department, i ?' Gardeners having questions concerning their gardens should send them to E. F. Murphy, In car of the Palladium, and the answer .will appear. In the garden department;.. . "' . ..

1,000 in Attendance y is Goal of County

VIENNA, May 23. Among the life members appointed to the Austrian house of lorda by Emperor Charles, to addition to Dr. Con6tantin Theodor Duniba, former ambassador at Washington, and Field Marshal Von Hoetzendorf; are Moriz Benedikt, publisher of the eue Freie .Presse, and Baron Skodav;director general of the arms and munition works bearing his name. UNITED STATES ENGINEERS - ARRIVE AT LONDON

LONDON, May 2&-r-The first detachment of United States army engineers under command of Major Parsbti7 arrived iri London this evening. The second unit of the American hospital corps has reached Great Britain;

' E. P, Jones, of Milton, president of the Wayne County Sunday school 'association, has issued an appeal to Sunday school workers and members to attend the county oonrention at Cambridge pity on May 31 and June 1. Jones insists that., every pastor, superintendent, teacher, and' Sunday school officer should participate in the convention as delegates.

""Her Has -set agoaL of at least, l.OOOf

in : attendance'. - - - - Especial emphasis will be placed on the Secondary convention, which is for the young, people. This session will consider the holding of . the interest of

young people and will try to open. the.

way for. leading all Sunday school pupils to Christ.-. ' .'

' SOUTH OPPOSES MERGER

".BIRMINGHAM, Ala.," May 23. The committee on bills and overtures submitted an unfavorable majority report today, on . the proposal to unite the Southern and, . Northern - branches of the' Presbyterian church to the general assembly Of the Presbyterian church id' the .United States, the Southern branch; In session here. ,: -

CHECK RISING EXPEN8E

WASHINGTON, May 23. The tendency of railroad operating expenses to increase a great deal faster by percentage than operating revenues, apparently has been checked somewhat, according" to latest reports of the railroads to the interstate commerce commission. - .

PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY

WAR WORK FUNDS SWELL AS PEOPLE -GIVE. GENEROUSLY

, . War .work funds are still growing. Since yesterday at noon $536 has been collected. . . Mr. H. R. Robinson presided at the luncheon at the Y. M. C. A. this noon. Reports Were given from the 75 workers. People are giving generously, and prospect, seem good. - At present $1,258 has been subscribed. Wayne County's apportionment of the state sumr is $5,000. An interesting incident was related by .one-of the workers today. He went to a home -where mother had just received -a letter from her son, who for - a "long time has been serving in the Jefferson barracks near St Louis. The young man told his mother of the great work 'the Y.j M. C. A. is doing there.'Vand, -now., helpful it is. This woman was - enthusiastic over the work, and made a very large donation to the fund-here. "People. wIjq' realize what the work is, giver liberally," said one of the workers todayt .

STRIKERS HINDER

- MUNITION WORKS

LONDON,- May 23. The charge of impeding the output of munitions which was made against leaders of the engineers' strike who were arrested last week has been withdrawn by the government, the men having given an understanding- to abide by- the agreement reached last Saturday; A - minority of the striking engineers has been awaiting this action before resuming work.

WOLF'S COMET VISIBLE

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 23. Additional observations of Wolfs Comet by Prof . Barnard of . Yerkes observatory indicate that it Will be visible in the northern sky through small telescopes until September.

ELL-ANS

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WASHINGTON, May 23. Consideration of the war revenue bill was completed in the House, sitting as a committee of the whole this afternoon.

WILL CONFER DEGREES

STRIKE OUT AD. TAX

WASHINGTON, May 23. The section of the war tax bill proposing a tax

on advertising matter other than

that contained in newspapers and periodicals was stricken out today by

the House on motion of Democratic leader Kitchen.

PRINCETON, N. J., May. 23. Honorary degrees will be conferred on all of the Ambassadors and Ministers representing the allied nations as well as Secretary of State Robert Lansing and Herbert Hoover at the 170th annual commencement of Princeton university which will be held on June 18: The usual commencement exercises.'

Negroes of South Carolina are now buying merchandise on the co-operative plan.

LONDON, May 23. The sinking of eighteen merchantmen of more than 1,600 tons is reported in the weekly shipping statement.

HONOR BOYS AT FRONT

CENTERVTLLE, Ind., May 23. Next Sunday evening willvbe Young Men's night at the Methodist Episcopal church.. Special music will be pro vided and due respect paid to the soldier boys now at the front.

WAR QUESTION APPEARS

DALLAS, Texas,- May 23.--ThO war question was expected to reappear at today's session of . the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States of America when the committees on chaplains in the United States army and on temperance reported. ....

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