Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 171, 31 May 1917 — Page 1

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DAYOMETUSED BY FRENCH TO HOLD ENEMY; LOSSES HEAVY

Germans Start New Drive at Four Points But Are Held in Check British Front is Still Quiet. ATTACK IS SHARP PARIS, May 31. The Germans attacked the French lines in the Cham pagne with extreme violence at several points last night. The attacking forces were checked at some places by the French fire and at others at the point of the bayonet, the Germans retiring each time after heavy losses, the war office announced today. The French took prisoners during the fighting including two officers. (By Associated Press.) Desperate attempts by the Germans to push back from the vantage ground ! won in the recent attacks by General Petaln's forces in the Champagne region hare been renewed. As a whole the French line remained intact under the successive severe blows dealt it early today in a sustained effort of an extremely violent and sanguinary character, gas shells being liberally employed. One Dent Made In Line. The front was dented at only one point and this only slightly, the Crown Prince's troops gaining a footing in .some advance trenches northwest of Mont Haut. . At the Teton, the Casque, and positions northwest of Auberlve and at Mont Blond, on the front against which the attacks were launched the net German gain was nil, the valuable ground which the French need for the pushing of a further offensive particularly for observation purposes, being retained Intact. French Raids Continue. Along the British line in France the comparative quiet continues, broken only by trench raids. Increasing ar tillery activity from the Arras front, however; is reported today near Bullecourt and further noth along the Starre east cf Arras. - , British losses of men in the Arras tattle are reflected in the figures of casualties published during May which total 112,233 including 5,902 officers. The political situation in Spain is being closely watched particularly in view of today's newspaper announcement in Madrid that the constitutional guarantees would shortly again be suspended. AUSTRIAN POLES BE FREE FROM HAPSBURGS COPENHAGEN (Via London), May 31. A national convention of Austrian Poles, which was held in Cracow during the Whitsund holidays, unanimously endorsed a resolution of the Parliamentary Polish club calling for a re-establishment of free and independent Poland with access to the sea. The convention declared that international regulation of this question would constitute a guarantee of lasting peace. The resolution also expressed the hope that the Austrian emperor would support the project in the certainty that the re-assemblement of the Polish state through Austrian help would also assure to the monarchy a natural and reliable ally. After its adoption the resolution, whtcb is a virtual appeal for independence and separation from Austria and the Hapsburg dynasty, was read from the city hall balcony to a vast crowd and greeted with thunderous applause. Do YonrpTT-j0in t!le Bft Now1- Red Cross WEATHER FORECAST For Indiana, By United States Weather Burear. Generally fair and cooler tonight and Friday. Temperature Today Noon . 67 Yesterday . Maximum 72 Minimum 49 For Wayne County, By W. E. Moor Partly cloudy and much cooler tonight and Friday. General Conditions The storm continues to move eastward with high winds and general rains. Cold weather has reached central Iowa and will reach here not later than tonight. South winds shifting to strong northwast. '

GERMANS STEAL FISKE'S DEVICE

i NEW YORK, : May 31. Ideas embodied in Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske's Invention of a torpedo launching sea-plane have been "appropriated" by the Germans and were used by them in torpedoing the 3.000 ton British steamship Gena, off Aldeburgb, May 1, acording to a statement given out here last night by the Aero Club of America. Torpedoing of the Gena was reported by the British admiralty May 2. Two seaplanes participated in the attack and one was brought down by the British. The charge of theft against the Germans is based on evidence received by the Aero Club yesterday, the statement said. The evidence consists of a sketch of the captured German seaplane which shows that the arrangement for holding the torpedo is exactly like that in Admiral Fiske's invention. SMALL INVESTORS GALLED UPON TO HELP SWELL FUND With a little more than two weeks left in which subscriptions may be secured,, Wayne. county investors have subscribed to $525,000 worth of Liberty bonds, according to a statement given out today by the county Liberty loan committee. - This amount is about twothirds of the apportionment for the county, as figured by the Federal Loan board. With small investors awakening to the fact that it will be necessary for them to do their part to secure the success of the Liberty loan, subscriptions for the bonds are coming in more rapidly at the banks of Wayne county and County Chairman Hiatt said today he was confident the apportionment of the county would be raised. It will be necessary, however, to raise the remaining . amount of the county's, share of $850,000 through small investors, as all of the bank subscriptions ' have figured in the amount given out today. "Bonds in denominations of $50 and $100 Will play, a prpminent part in the success of the loan." said Hiatt today, "and it will be necessary for every man in the country to do his share in the raising of the loan." "Investors are beginning to realize, however that the opportunity for ininvesting their money in sound United States bonds, bearing three and a half percent, as is now presented is a good business proposition and - they . are rapidly coming" into "the banks of the county and subscribing to the loan." , Main Street Bridge Being Dismantled For the first time since 1S96. Main street bridge 1s closed to pedestrians. For about-18 months it has been closed to vehicles,' and Tuesday pedestrians were forbidden to use it. ' - ' ' Main street bridge was built by the Massilon Bridge company of Massilon, O. The contract was Jet May . 19, 1896 the total cost being $61.00Ov The late Elli3 Gray was a stockholder in the' Massilon Bridge company at that time. Alonzo Marshall was auditor and the commissioners who signed the contract were James A. Scott, Caleb J. Harvey, Sol Woody. Bonds for the new bridge will go on sale, Saturday, July 14. Notices to that effect are being sent out today by Auditor Bowman.LIEUTENANT WARFEL CALLED TO COLORS Another Richmond boy has been called to the colors. Lieutenant Frederick C. Warfel, of the medical officers reserve corps reported to the post hospital at Fort Benjamin Harrison. Lieutenant Warfel is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Warfel, of Richmond avenue. He was educated in the Richmond schools. , . He is a member of the faculty of the Indiana University school of Medicine and a member of the staff of the Indianapolis City hospital. . ,

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DRAFT PLOT

IS UNCOVERED BY OFFICIALS AT COLUMBUS Governor Bares Activities of Group Which Sought to Prevent Men Registering June 5. PRINT SHOP RAIDED COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 31. A gigantic propaganda plot with national headquarters in this city organized to induce young men of military age all ever th country to refrain from registering for conscription next Tuesday has beeu uncovered by state and government secret service agents, according to announcement made this afternoon by Governor James Cox. Details of the plot, which is said to have extended into many states, became known when United States marshals raided a print shop and office at 111 South High street, where practically all of the propaganda literature was printed and undisturbed. It was stated that the plot appeared to be well financed and well organized. Three Men Held. Three men already are under arrest in this city in connection with the plot and it was said that further arrests would be made both here and in other cities of Ohio and the Middle West within the next few hours. It was said that the men already under arrest here would be araigned here late this afternoon on charges of trea son. Shortly before noon the raid was made on the print shop headquarters by United States District Attorney Bolin, United States Deputy Marshall Walters, Detective Shively, of Cleve land; Chief of Police Carter, of Cal umbus, and , numerous plain clothes detectives, ? , '.v. - - Harry E.- Townsley; allefrtwte the proprietor of .the print shop,, was arrested in the raid. '7 Earlier in the day, Tmmon Hennancy, a graduate of Ohio State Univer sity, and Aloery vamisper, a car builder, were placed under arrest for distributing . anti-conscription liter ture. Draft is Immoral, Declares Pacifist NEW YORK, May 31 The conscription act was characterized today as both immoral and unconstitutional at the first American Conference on Democracy and Terms of Peace which was again in session today at Madison Square with Socialists and pacifists in attendance. The speaker was Daniel Kiefer, of Cincinnati, who was introduced after Dr. Judah L. Magnes, of the organizers of the conference, had referred to newspaper dispatches from Washington telling of the purpose of the department of justice to take stenographic notes at peace meetings and prosecute those who Infringe upon the law. "I don't know whether this is the kind of meetings the department of justice means," said Mr. Magnes, "but if it is and there are stenographers here I would like to invite them to tnis piatiorm wnere tney may see and hear everything that transpires. "In Prussia at political meetings the stenographers are seated on the platform. They take notes and report to the government Inasmuch as we are ery rapidly becoming Prussianized, we should follow the l Prussian example at our meetings." , College Students Held as Plotters NEW YORK, May 81 Owen Cattell and Charles S. Phillips, described as Columbia University students, and Eleanor Wilson Parker, a telephone operator, today were arrested by sgents of the department of justice, charged with being engaged in a conspiracy " to spread anti-conscription sentiment. BODY OF OPERATOR FOUND NEAR TOWER NEW PARIS. Ohio. May 31. William Glenn, 27 years old, son of Mayor and Mrs. Glenn of New Paris, for several years a telegraph operator at the local tower, was found dead at the foot of the tower steps this morning at 11:30 o'clock." The cause of his death is not known. . Glenn, who was married six months ago, . and who leaves his widow and parents, has been subject to attacks of acute Indigestion. . , 4 It is the supposition that an attack ot this disease ' caused his sudden death." The coroner bad not made his report late this afternoon. It is not thought that Glenn was' the victim of foul play. ,

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SNIPERS SHOOT AT SOLDIERS IN EAST ST. LOUIS Anti-Negro Riots Recur for Third Time Situation in Control. EAST ST. LOUIS, Ills., May 31. Anti-negro riots which began Monday night, have recurred each night but with decreasing violence, and Col. C. E. Clayton, commanding the six com panies of Illinois national guardsmen now op duty today deciarea ne oelieved the officials had the situation well in hand and that there would be little more disturbance. Last night, despite the fact that the city was patrolled by police, special deputies and national guardsmen, fifty men, massed shortly after the saloons closed at 6 o'clock and began a search for negroes. One was shot and wounded, while two others were beaten with fists and clubs and warned to leave town.'; The, mob congregated near a negro section in the outskirts of the city and the shooting attracted the national guardsmen who soon dispersed it. There was no further trouble until early today when three shots were fired from second story window of a house near a negro district at a group of guardsmen who were standing under an arclight. None of the guardsmen was hit. The disturbances, which started Monday night, grew out of a protest against the importation of negro labor from the south, made by labor leaders at a meeting of the city council. Friends May Tote . Shells, Says Wood In response to inquiries as to how members of the Friends church should fill out conscription return blanks, L. Hollingsworth Wood, secretary of the yearly meeting of the Orthodox branch of the Religious Society of Friends, of New York, who , was in - Richmond for several days recently, has issued the following statement to the Friends of this country in reference to the registration: "That is a matter of individual conscience. The most effective way would be to say he is a member of the Society of Friends and is conscientiously opposed to bearing arms. While members of this society are exempt from combatant service, we are not exempt from such service as the President may designate. That may be making munitions, or it may be toting shells." . ......

In Wake of Tornado

Cleveland Youths Who Enlist Walk "Path of Honor in CLEVELAND, May 31. To stimulate recruiting in Cleveland's 'campaign to enlist 1,300 men for the immediate needs of the army and' navy before June 5, a "path of honor" plan will be tried out tonight when several hundred high school pupils will range themselves along a calcium-glare pathway leading from Superior avenue to the recruiting station in the public square. Tbey will sing the national battle songs while Cleveland's young men march down the "glory trail" to the recruiting satlon under the glare of great search lights. PRINCE UDINE GIVES GREETINGS OF KING TO AMERICAN PEOPLE WASHINGTON. May 31. Prince Udine, of the Italian commission, delivered in the Senate chamber today a message from King Victor Emman uel to the American people. Barbed in uniform of gold and blue with green shoulder sashes, the Prince was enthusiastically received. The union of efforts ,and purposes of Italy adn the United States was emphasized by the Prince. "Italy entered into the war with aims equal to those which you pursue," he said. "Her territory had not been invaded, her insecure boundaries had not been violated. Our people understand that the sacrifice of free nations was the prelude to their own sacrifice and that -we could not remain indifferent without denying the very reasons of our existence." BABY IS KIDNAPPED SPRINGFIELD, Mo.. May 31 Lloyd. 14-months-old son of B. H. Keet, vice president of the Holland Banking company was kidnapped while his parents were attending a dance at the country club last night. Bloodhounds were placed on, the trail of the kidnappers early today. Sugar May be Taxed Half Cent a Pound WASHINGTON, May 31. The Senate finance committee today decided to provide in the war tax a bill to raise $80,000,000 by consumption taxes of two cents a pound on coffee, five cents on tea, one-half a cent on sugar end three cents on cocoa. Another important change . agreed upon was the elimination of the present tax of 12ii per cent on war munitions now raising . $25,000,000.

First pictures of the disastrous tornadoes which swept the Mississippi valley and took 200 lives the first of this week are shown. In the top picture relief workers are seen searching for dead amid the ruins along Twelfth street In Mattoon, 111. Ninety blocks were razed in Mattoon. Mrs. Robert Wright and her four children are shown among the ruins of their home In Mattoon in the picture below. High School Girl Refuses to Recite Wilhelm's Slogan ST JOSEPH, Mich.. May 31 True to Old Glory, Miss Lena Johnson, a junior in the St. Josepn High school; has been denied entrance into her German class until she recites "Deutschland Uber Alles." This is the verdict imposed by her teacher, Miss Addie Kline, supported by Superintendent of Schools E. P. Clark, and practically upheld by four members of the school board. Miss Kline, who is of German descent, uses for her argument that the reciting of the poem is strictly a matter of discipline. Supt. Clark declared: "In every way I am encouraging patriotism in our schools, but the affair is a trivial one, and Miss Johnson may return to her class when she makes the recitation." Miss Johnson declares she will attend the Benton Harbor school even if she has to pay tuition. DEMOCRATS TO PICK DELEGATES NEXT SATURDAY County Chairman Lewis Issues Call for Ward and Township Meetings. Walter O. Lewis, Democratic county chairman, today issued his call for township meetings Saturday afternoon throughout Wayne county for the pur pose of electing delegates and alter' nates to the district Democratic convention to select a candidate for con gress. This convention will be held In Cam bridge City Thursday, June 7. Wayne county will have the largest representation In the convention, twenty-five delegates. The apportionment of Wayne delegates and the time and place of ' holding the township meetings follows: Abington and Boston townships, at Boston, . 2 p. m., one delegate, one alternate. . . Clay. Webster and Green townships, at Williamsburg, 2 p. m., one delegate, one alternate. - Jefferson. Dalton and Perry townBhips, at Hagerstown, 2 p. m., two delegates, two alternates. Franklin and New Garden town ships, at Fountain City, 2 p. m., one delegate, one alternate. Washington township, at Milton, 2 p. m., one delegate, one alternate. Jackson and Harrison townships, at Cambridge City, 2 p. . m., three delegates, three alternates. Center township, at Centerville, 2 p. m., one delegate, one alternate. . . Wayne township, at Richmond, circuit court room, 2 p. m., fifteen delegates, fifteen alternates. Beg Pardon! Efforts are being made to raise the full amount of Wayne county's apportionment of $5,000 for the Y. M. C. A. war work fund although the organized effort for the campaign has been abandoned. Wayne county lacked $1,690 of filling its quota in the week's campaign, the apportionment for the county being $5,000 instead of $3,000 as was announced at the close of the campaign. The announcement made In last Monday's Palladium that the county bad over-subscribed its apportionment by $310 was an error, the amount subscribed : for the work here ' being $3,310. , v

PASSENGERS ARE SAVED BY STORM FREAK; 12 ARE DEAD

Tornado Plays Many Pranks as it Rages Through Missouri and Illinois Forty Are Injured. , WHOLE VILLAGE RAZED ST. LOUIS, May 31. Tornadoes in Missouri and southern Illinois yesterday caused the death of twelve persons and the Injury of forty or more, according to advices today from the various communities over which the storm passed. One death by lightning Is reported from Pans, 111. At Mineral Point, Mo, four were killed and thirty Injured; at Palmer three are known to be dead and a number Injured, and at Bye one man was killed. In Alexander county, Illinois. two men were Ulled and another fatal ly hurt Four Other Towns Hit Four other Missouri towns. GranitevCle. Bonne Terre, Dlehlsladt, and Bis marck were reported struck, by the storm but definite Information has not' yet come from those points. The twister, which took four lives at Mineral Point, flattened every structure in the village with the exception of the school house. Much property damage was done In Alexander county, Illinois, where two men lost their lives. One of the freaks of the Illinois storm occurred near Mounds, when a ten ton steam road roller was lifted and whirled for fifty feet. Wind Saved Train. An automatic block-signal . on the Iron Mountain railroad, near Mineral Point, pot Into operation by the wind, warned a Memphls-St. Louis train carrying 400 passengers, who watched the storm destroy the village and then gave aid to the injured. The victims were placed on the train and taken to Desoto where they were cared for at the railroad Y. M. C. A. Scores of negroes at Mineral Point aided In the rescue work, according to Conductor Gregg of the Memphls-St. Louis train. Has Close Squeak. A number of freaks were reported, one being the experience of the station agent, who was standing with his arms about the shoulders of Thomas Lemasters. conductor, when the Mineral Point station was demolished. The agent escaped unhurt but Lemasters was killed Instantly. A thrilling race with the tornado was won by the engineer of the Mississippi and Bonne Terre railroad near Mineral point and possibly saved the lives of 100 passengers. When the twister became visible the conductor ordered the engineer to put on foil steam In an effort to outrun It The storm followed the train for more than a mile before it changed its course. Belgians Forbidden to Pick Up Papers Dropped by Airmen HAVRE, May 31. A fine of ten thousand marks and three years' imprisonment are the penalties by the German authorities on Belgians who dare pick up proclamations or objects of any nature dropped by allied aviators In invaded territory. The Inhabitants are forbidden to approach any flying machine that may be obliged to light in Belgian territory and are obliged, whenever an aviator lets tall any object whatever to notify the burgomaster, who, in turn, must report Immediately to the kommandantur. This measure Is supposed In Belglum to be intended to put an end to propaganda by the aviators of the Belgian, French and British flying corps, who have until now succeeded . in keeping the Belgians remaining in occupied territory more or less posted on the military situation. One-Seventh of Pie Now Sold For Nickle CHICAGO, May 31. Pies cut in seven pieces confronted lovers of that pastry who lunched In moderate priced restaurants today. A few years ago a quarter of a pie could be had for a nickle. Then they began cutUng It In 'five pieces, and a few weeks ago the angle became more acute and they made it six. . The restaurant proprietors claim the wholesale price of pies has ben raised from 18 to 25 cents within a week and that they are obliged to make seven divisions in order to obtain any profit at a nickel a cut A few restaurants have - restored the quarter portion and are charging tea cents. .- . i . . t .