Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 183, 14 June 1917 — Page 1
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O flag of the red, white and blue, Thou banner of freedom and light. Emblem so faithful and true. Thy mission Is justice and right The red of thy stripes, like the blood Of the martyrs that gave thee to fame. Reminds that our own, as a flood, Is pledged to preserve thy fair name. The white of thy folds speaks of peace, That hope of a war-ridden world. Thou leadest the way for release "Wherever thy stripes are unfurled. The blue of thy field and its stars A glittering message has brought. To shatter the shackles and bars,
Wherever oppression ARMY OF 200 MOBILIZED TO AID RED CROSS General Dill and Admiral Harris. Strengthening Lines for Start of Drive for $25,000. CANVASS IN ONE DAY "Boost the Red Cross." Under this slogan, and starting their Red Cross Week campaign with a big mass meeting In the Coliseum Sunday afternoon, an army of one hundred men and one htfndred women, under the leadership of General Howard Dill and Admiral B. H. Harris, will make next week a drive in Richmond to secure the city's share of the $25,000 to bo raised in Wayne county. Woodmansee To Talk. Judge D. D. Woodmansee of Cincin nati, former president of the National Lincoln League, is to be the speaker at the mass meeting. He will explain the work of the Red Cross so that Richmond may know exactly where her money goes, and just how it is to be used. No solicitation for funds is to be made at the meeting, its sole purpose Continued On Page Five. Do Your Join the Bit NowLj-' Red Cross WEATHER FORECAST For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Friday. . Temperature Today. Noon .-67 Yesterday. Maximum 85 Minimum J 53 Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair tonight and probably Friday. Continued cool tonisht. General Conditions The storm of last night lias passed to the eastern states. The western cool wave has overspread the entire Mississippi valley. Temperature of 104 degree was accorded at Dodge City, Kans., Tuesday, but Is cool there now. Weather will probably remain fair for two or three days. WASHINGTON, June 14.- President Wilson warned the American people in a Flag Day address on the Washington monument grounds today that Germany had- carried into effect the greater part of her Immediate plan of conQUest and now is negotiating a new "intrigue of peace" designed to end the war while her aggressions are secure. All the Central empires, the President declared, have been cemented into one great autocracy ridden empire "throwing a broad belt of German military power and political control across the very center of Europe and beyond the Mediterranean into the heart of Asia." This accomplished, he said, it is easy to understand why Germany is j
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has wrought. LA. Handley. Former King Sails on British Warship ATHENS, (via London), June 14. Former King Constantino left Athens late Tuesday to embark on a British warship. The proclamation of former King Constantino, announcing his abdication, was posted throughout the streets today. It saya: "Obeying the necessity of fulfilling my duty toward Greece I am departing from my beloved country with the heir to thethfone' and nrteaving -my son Alexander my crown. I beg you to accept my decision with calm, as the slightest incident may lead to a great catastrophe. . KAISER IS CHAGRINED The HAGUE, Netherlands, June 14. A Cologne dispatch says that the news of King Constantine's abdication created a painful impression at Ger man headquarters. The emperor ex pressed great chagrin and sent his brother-in-law and Queen Sophia a message of sympathy. AMERICANS BEING HELD IN GERMANY COPENHAGEN (Via London), June 14. Michael J. Stark, of Chicago, an employe of the International Harvester company, at Neuss, Russia, arrived here from Germany last night. He has been trying since February to obtain a passport and was just now given permission to leave Germany. He says that a number of Americans of his acquaintance have been absolutely refused passports until the war is over On the other hand, the German authorities are pressing American women to leave the country. One woman, a long time resident in Germany, who recently reached Copenhagen, on her way to America, said that when she appeared for compulsory charge asked her what justification she had for remaining and said that the government thought that all American women had better leave Germany. Another recent American arrival is Miss Sjosilius, of Duluth, an American singer who was engeged by the Mannheim Opera. Miss Sjozilius was released from - i contract owing to the war. ZEPPELIN DESTROYED BY BRITISH WARSHIPS LONDON, June 14. Zeppelin L-43 has been destroyed over the North Sea by naval forces. Chancellor Bonar Law announced today in the House of Commons. fostering a propaganda for an early peace. 'Teace, peace, peace has been ; the talk of her foreign office for now a year and more," said the President. "A little of the talk has been public, but most of it v has been private. Through all sorts of channels it has come to me and in all sorts of guises. The military masters under whom Germany la bleeding see very clearly to what point Fate has brought them. "Will Justify Selves." "If they can secureeace now. with the immense advantages still in their hands which they have up to this point apparently gained, they will have justi fied themselves before the German!
Farmer Kills Wife of President of Springfield Team
SPRINGFIELD, O.. June 14. Mrs. Elmer Redelle, wife of the president of the Springfield base ball club, was shot and killed by J. M. Hinkle, a farmer, who thought members of an automobile party of which Mrs. Redelle was one, were attempting to steal his hogs. .. ; Hinkle is held for investigation, and, according to officers, admitted firing into the automobile as it was speeding away from his place. Redelle is known to Richmond baseball men. He visited Richmond with his club on its recent engagement here. LIBERTY BELL CALLS NATION TO W BONDS Peal From Revered Relic Sent From Coast to Coast Total is $1,843,000,000. WASHINGTON. June 14. Subscriptions to the Liberty Loan reported to the treasury department at 1 p. m., totaled $1,843,000,000. It was announced that no more figures would be given out until final figures for the total subscription are ssembled after the books close tomorrow noon. PHILADELPHIA, June 14. A faint peal from the Liberty Bell in Independ ence Hall reverberated, with the aid of the telegraph, from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast today when May or Smith struck America's most revered relic with a golden hammer to call last minute subscribers to the service of the nation. This eleventh hour appeal to tardy Americans is expected to be the signal for an advance of late subscriptions Continued On Page Nine. Hogs Chew : Body of Man Killed in Storm RALEIGH, Ind., June 14. The body of-Alonzo Mattix, mutilated by the hogs he had been feeding, was found late yesterday afternoon in the hog lot on his farm near Lewisville by members of his family. Mattix 'had ben killed by lightning in a thunderstorm. Part of Mattix's right leg -was torn off and the trunk was torn and gnawed. The body, also was burned by the lightning. Mattix leaves a widow and three children. He was forty years old. No arrangements have been made for the funeral.
Paris Opens Arms to Pershing; Thousands Cheer Selves Hoarse; Flowers Hurled Into Motor Cars
PARIS, Wednesday. June 13 Paris opened its arms to General Pershing and his staff this afternoon and welcomed them with an outburst of spontaneous enthusiasm such as only Paris is capable of. No conquering hero returning could have hoped for or received such a tremendous reception as greeted the American commander as his automobile sped through hundreds of thousands of cheering people. Paris, and particularly the French authorities, had planned and hoped for a great reception, but it is doubtful whether even the. most optimistic pictured the almost frantic crowds that all but blocked the progress of the automobiles. , Cheer Themselves Hoarse. Men and women cheered themselves hoarse and flung masses of flowers into the cars. Parisiens declare that the only event in their life time that approach this reception in enthusiasm was that accorded to King George of England in 1914. When the special train reached the station. General Pershing and Field Marshal Joffre were the first to appear. ' Behind them came a stream of people; they will have gained by force what they promised to gain by, it." The President recited again the German aggressions which drove the United States to war. He declared the purposes for which American soldiers, now carry the Stars and Stripes to Europe for the first time in history are not new to American traditions because realization of Germany's war aims must eventually mean the un-1 doing of the whole world. He spoke in full as follows r . Text of Speech. "We meet to celebrate Flag Day because this flag which we. honour and under which we serve is the emblem of our unity, our power, our thought
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LIBERTY LOAN SALES REACH FIGURE WAY OVER QUOTA Banks Report Total of $1,039,200 Given to Defense Fund Hicks, of C a mbridge City, Has Record. WORK TO CONTINUE Wayne county has fulfilled Its share in the success of the United States Liberty loan, it was announced today by the County Bankers' Libert Loan committee. The committee today announced that the sale of the bonds in the county totaled $1,039,200 today at noon and with tomorrow's sales yet to be fig ured on, the committee expects the total to be well above the $1,100,000 mark. Quota Reached Yesterday. Wayne county's apportionment of $870,000 was reached yesterday when several of the banks in the smaller towns of the county reported that they had made up then- allotments. These subscriptions, with a number of small er subscriptions added to the local banks' totals, put Wayne county among the list of leaders in the state. Today the chairman of the committee telegraphed to the district chair man at Chicago that "Wayne county blew off the lid and more than raised its quota." The success of the county campaign Continued On Page Five. COMMITTEES PICKED FOR JOHNSON RALLY . Hiram Johnson, Republican senator from California. 1 will arrive in Richmond the morning, pt, Friday, June 22. for the big rally that evening in the coliseum. Definite arraangements for the meeting have been made by the committee. William Dudley Foulke Is to be chair man of the reception committee, the other members being L. S. Bowman, George Cates, A. M. Gardner, E. G Hill, Matt Von Pein, and Henry C Mason. E. M. Campfield will head the deco rating committee, hie aids being Joseph H. Hill and George Matthews. Scott Webb, in charge of the ushers' starr, will have charge of the parking arrangements for automobiles. A special parking place will be provided on North A street, in charge of a force of police. Senator Johnson will probably re turn to Washington directly after tfee meeting. American officers, each with a French officer as his host. The first shout of welcome became a continuous roar that seemed to shake the station to its foundation. The police hurriedly began to clear a lane down which a half dozen automobiles moved at a snail's pace between frantic throngs. American Flags Waved. From hundreds of windows American flags were waved by men, women and. children. French girls, with flags pinned to their breasts and their arms filled with flowers bought from their scanty savings, fairly fought for a chance to get near enough to the machines to hurl their offerings into the laps and on the shoulders of the astonished American officers. The 'Americans apparently had not imagined the heights to which Parisian enthusiasm could rise. Boys, men and girls and even some old women struggled to jump on the running board of General Pershing's car to shake hands with him. The demonstration was the more Continued On Page Nine. . and purpose as a nation. It has no other character than that which we give it from generation to generation. The choices are ours. It floats in majestic silence above the hosts that execute those choices, whether- in peace or in war. . "And yet, though silent, it speaks to us, -speaks to us of the past, of the men and women who went before us and of the records they wrote upon it We celebrate the day of its birth ; and from its, birth until now it has witnessed a great history, has floated on high the symbol of great events of a great plan of life worked out by a great people. "We are about to carry it 'into bat-;
School Head Slays Student tor Undue Intimacy with Wife 4 SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 14. Arthur Willard, 34 years old, former University of Utah, student and now principal of the Bingham high school, last night shot and killed Cecil Holmes, 21, one of his pupils,' whom he had accused of paying undue attention to his wife, daughter of J. Holen Kimball, prominent churchman. The shooting took place In Bingham where Holmes was a boarder in the Willard home. Under the laws of Utah. Willard, who was arrested, will be freed at the preliminary examination if the contention that the slain student was intimate with Wlllard's wife, is sustained.
AMERICAN FLAGS ADORN LAPELS OF MALEBUYERS Women Sell More Than Thousand in Street SaleCity Shows Allies' Colors. More than one thousand silk American flags, sold by the Women's Re lief Corps, went on the lapels and waists of Richmond residents today. Flag Day. Besides these smaller emblems, hundreds of larger ones, flung to the breeze from every store front and office building, and from porches in the residence districts, proclaimed Richmond's loyalty. The supply of 1,000, which the Women's Relief Corps sold in the streets, proved inadequate at noon, and the women were forced to call upon last year's unsold supply. ' Prices paid for the flags by purchasers ranged from five cents up to Continued On Page Nine. Mental JaUetio merMiltolnMnit Unveiled in School MILTON, Ind., June 14. A . memorial tablet to Oliver Perry Voorhees, formerly of Milton, and principal of the .Oyler school at Cincinnati for fifteen years, has been unveiled in the Oyler school auditorium. The Inscription on the tablet was written. by B. F. Dyer, superintendent of the schools of Boston, Mass., and a life-long ; friend of Veorhees. It is as follows: Oliver Perry Voorhees Beloved Principal of Oyler School 1900-1915. Lover of Children, Inspirer of Youth, Wise Councillor of Teachers, Proud of being a Schoolmaster, Rejoicing in Friends, Devoted to the Community. Hail to Thee, Blithe Spirit. Mr. Voorhees was a son-in-law of Mrs. Phil Hoshour, of Milton, and a brother of Miss Dora Voorhees, of Richmond. RUSSIAN MINISTERS GREET ROOT PARTY PETROGRAD Via London), June 14. A large delegation of Russians and Americans, including several ministers the chief of the local military staff and the entire personnel of the American embassy and consular establishments greeted the Root commission on its arrival here yesterday afternoon. A guard of troops stood at attention as the special rolled into the station. United States Ambassador Francis presented Foreign Minister Terescbtenko to the chief members of the commission, after which the minister introduced his colleagues, N. V. Nekrasoff, minister of ways and communications, and A. I. Shingaroff, minister of finance, and several assistant min isters. . The commission was escorted to the winter palace of the former emperor, where the principals were lodged. In the evening the French minister of munitions M. Thomas, who is on a special mission to Russia, called on Mr. Root. The commission will be formally presented to the provisional government on Friday. ...... tie, to lift it where it will draw the fire of our enemies. We are about to bid thousands, hundreds of thousands, it may be millions, of our men, the young, the strong, the capable men of the nation, to go forth and die beneath it on fields of blood far away, for what? For some unaccustomed tiling? For something for which it has never sought the fire before? ' Never Sent Abroad Before. "American armies were never before sent across the seas. .Why are they sent now? ?:- For some ' new purpose, for which this great flag has never been carried before, or for some old, familiar,: heroic purpose for which Jt has seen men, Its 'own men, die on ev
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Theodore Marburg is Guest of Foulke Theodore Marburg, for several years minister to Belgium, who returned from that post just before the breaking out of the world war, and Is now chairman of the Foreign Relations committee of the League to Enforce Peace, is to arrive in Richmond this afternoon. Mr. Marburg is to be a guest of William Dudley Foulke, and is to be entertained at dinner by Mr. Foulke this evening. Native of Economy May Head Hospital toitffigent Abroad Wayne county friends of Dr. Edmund Clark, of Indianapolis, were pleased to learn today that if the Washington authorities accept the indorsement of the State Council of Defense, he will be appointed head of the Eli Lilly base hospital, No. 32, organized at Indianap olis for service on the French front The indorsement was sent yesterday to Col. Jefferson B. Kean, directorgeneral of military relief, at Washington, and he is expected to announce his choice in a day or so. Dr. Clark was born at Economy, Indiana, and attended Earlham college and Indiana University school of medicine. He received his degree in the east, and since his return to Indianapolis in 1896, has practiced general surgery. ACKERMAN SENT TO MEXICO BY JOURNAL Carl W. , Ackerman, who yesterday was in the city to recleve an honorary degree at Earlham college, announced that he is planning to leave this conntry for Mexico about July 15, to secure data for a series of articles for the Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Ackerman is under contract with the Saturday Evening Post until the first of next year. He left la6t night for New York city after attending the commencement exercises at the college yesterday. WALLACE ACQUITTED OF AUTO THEFT CHARGE Following a short deliberation, Harold Wallace was acquitted of the charge of grand larceny by a jury In the Wayne circuit court last evening. The verdict was reached on the fourth ballot. Wallace was charged with the theft of an automobile belonging to Claude Addleman from in front of Trinity Lutheran church, April 7. Wallace claimed he knew nothing of the theft of the car, and that, his partner, Lloyd Wade, had told him that the automobile had been given to him, (Wade). Lloyd Wade, who was indicted on the same charge as Wallace has not be arrested. ery battlefield upon which Americans have borne arms since the Revolution? "These are questions which must be answered. : We are Americans. We In our turn serve America,: and can serve her with no private purpose. We must use her flag as she has always used it. We are accountable at the bar of history and must plead in utter frankness what purpose it is we seek to serve.- . - "It is plain enough how we were forced into the war. The extraordinary Insults and aggressions of the Imperial German government left us -no self-respecting choice but to take up arms in defense of our rights as a free people, and of our honour as a sovereign government. The military mas
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When first ear talker's hands unfurled The standard of the free Its starry radiance lit the world With hope of liberty. From Isnd to land, from year to year Its blue and white and red Unawed by power, unstained by fear. Their glorious gospel spread. But now the tyrant from his lair -Goes forth to seek his prey , . On land, in water and In air To burn and sink and slay Now that the world's great struggle . comes Shall man be free or slave Mid clash of arms and beat of drums. Look how those colors wave! . We shall not falter where they lead. Our eager spirits glow With one great thought behind the deed Whene'er we strike the foe. Beneath those fluttering folds we wear To shatter every chain Till earth shall be as free as air And justice rise again. William Dudley Foulke. SHAFTS SENT AT PACIFISTS BY "COLONEL" Roosevelt Pleads for Undivided LoyaltyMakes Vigorous Appeal for Red Cross SPEAKS !N LINCOLN LINCOLN, NeTj , June 14. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, In a speech which he delivered here today at the celebration of the semi-centennial of the Statehood of Nebraska, criticized the national policy of the United States ror raiiure to act promptly to protect property against German ruthleseness and brutality, deplored national failure to prepare for war, pleaded for undivided loyalty to the American flag, denounced the pacifists, and asked for generous support and for the use of the Red Cross in caring for American troops on European battlefields. "We permitted our national policy." he said, "to be swayed by the national devotions and national antipathies cf men who exercised the rights of American citizens but showed themselves traitors to America by the way in. which they prostituted our citizenship to the Interests of Germany or to their hatred of England. Damage to Moral Fiber. "It would be impossible to overstate . the damage done to the moral fiber" of our country by the professional pacifist propaganda, the peace-atany-price propaganda. The professional pacifists during the first two and a half years of the war, have occupied precisely the position of the copperheads during the time of Abraham Lincoln. "The fact that sheer cowardice was more potent than the love of peace was proved by the fact that the leading pacifists dared not condemn a single specific act of wrong-doing when cucn act was committed by the powerful and brutal foe they most feared Germany. They clamored for neuContinued On Page Eleven. Beg Pardon! Rev. W. R. Motley, who is now under arrest at Mobile. Ala., under a charge of violating the Mann white slave act, was nver connected with Richmond women in a scandal, as the Palladium said yesterday. He was, however, charged by four local women with having made improper advances to them and for this reason was asked to resign from the local pastorate. During his stay in Richmond, It is understood. Motley made advances to a number of women of his congregation, but none of his advances were received. ters of Germany denied us the right to be neutraL 1 . ; "They filled our unsuspecting communities with vicious spies and. conspirators and sought to corrupt ' the opinion of our people in their own behalf. ; When they found that they could not do that, their agents diligently spread - sedition amongst us and sought to draw our own citizens from their allegiance, and , some of those agents were men connected with the official Embassy of the German government itself here in our own capital. They sought, by violence to do-' Continued On Page Two.