Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 191, 23 June 1917 — Page 1

HOME EDITION VOL.XLII.,NO. 191 CITY PASSES ITS QUOTA N SUBSCRIPTIONS TO RED CROSS "Army" and "Navy" Report Gain of More Than One Hundred Percent, of Foe's .- "Territory" in Richmond.

! COUNTY LAGS BEHIND

Plunging ahead in a terrific drive for the last three days of the campaign, the Red Cross "army" and "navy" yesterday put the subscriptions for the city of Richmond, exclusive of Wayne township, over the hundred per cent mark. Subscriptions for the city total $14,034, while the apportionment was $13,953. Outside of the city, the county falls almost $4,000 short at noon today, of reaching the apportionment. A goal of more than $6,000 is set for the workers in the country districts, and even with the magnificent totals brought in by some of the townships, the subscriptions fall far short of the mark. - Barrage Conceals Again. With the hundred per cent, line crossed, the barrage fire concealing the city soldiers and sailors fell again, this morning, and will not be raised until Monday, when final results of the battle are published. Hopes of making the total raised In the county to $35,000 instead of the $25,000 set by the national Red Cross committee were raised today by the encouraging report from the city, and the soldiers and sailors are now seeking that goal. Campaigning throughout the county continues briskly. More supplies were rushed forward during the morning to the firing line at Boston and other points. . Boston to Exceed. , Richard ' Wbitmeyer. leader at Boston, came in this morning,, He stated that the Boston district Would exceed itc apportionment. , Meetings for Dalton and Boston axe to be addressed by Richmond men tonight. William Dudley Foulke is to go to Dalton, and Secretary Learner of the Y. M. C. A. will speak at Boston. Dalton township, the last in the county to get away, has the organization completed, and will start her campaign Monday. Wayne county falls far short of the record of other counties in the state and the central committee is anxious that she be up among the leaders when the final results are known. Madison county, with an apportionment of $29,000 and a total subscription to date of $56,000 leads the state. Milroy, a little town in Rush county has the best record of any in the state. Four hundred dollars was asked of Milroy, and rhe came back with a subscription totalling $3,600. Haas Issues Statement. Edgar M. Haas, secretary of the Richmond central ' committee, made the following statement this morning. "The Red Cross campaign in Richcontinued On Page Five. Do Tour Bit Now Join the Red Cross WEATHER FORECAST For Indiana By United States Weather Bureau Showers and thunderstorms tonight and Sunday morning. Probably followed by clearing during Sunday. Somewhat lower temperature in south and central portions Sunday. Temperature Today Noon 84 Yesterday Maximum 84 Minimum 61 For Wayne County By W. E. Moore Showers and thunderstorms tonight and possibly Sunday followed by fair weather. General Conditions Local rains have continued in the north and central portions of Indiana, Ohio and I111-. nois. Fair weather continues, over the Ohio valley. Storm is now central over the Great Lakes and is moving southward causing general thunderstorms. Somewhat cooler.

Two Maps of Europe and the Real Peace Snag

EDITORIAL NOTE Carl W. Ackerman, the author of this article, was for two years a leading newspaper correspondent In Germany, and recently returned to this country with Ambassador Gerard. Mr. Ackerman has as intimate an acquaintance with conditions on the surface and below it In Germany, of tr.s German political and diplomatic machine and the German war machine, as any American. He knows the situation In the Central Empire, and he knows the Government Leaders and how their minds work and what their plans are. In this article, he analyzes clearly a situation which confronts . every American. He shows what the hopes and Buroosea of the Imoerial Govern

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WATCH IT RISE $25,000 $20,000 $15,000 $10,000 a ?s,ooo SLAYER BARES SORDID AFFAIR WAUKESHA! Wis., .June .23. Under the Influence of sedatives, Miss Grace Lusk, the slayer of Mrs. David Roberts, obtained some sleep last night and fears for her recovery which were felt for a time yesterday were removed today. Cowardice of the man she loved and the collapse of ' the "higher romance" were charged today, by the slayer against Dr. David Roberts. A pallid sufferer on a hospital cot, by her own hand, Miss Lusk today begged for the death she failed to accomplish when she , ired two bullets into her own body after killing Mrs. Roberts- But she display a degree of her old time vigorous temper when she laid bare the sordidness of the affair that, has linked her and Roberts for more than a year. In this indictment she claimed support in the letter Roberts wrote her. Roberts Denies Note Roberts, however, has denied writing anything to Miss Lusk. The unsigned pencilings, said to be in his band, found among the effects of the psychology teacher who shot down his wife bore out her charges. "It is spring now," was written in one of the masculine notes to Miss Lusk, "and I. feel that I want to walk with you in green pastures now, now, now." . "O, he has the maudlin and common sentiment that characterizes only the horse doctor," said the teacher, when she was reminded of this note. "I thought his mentality matched mine, that his conception of ideals was pure and his intellectuality a rock of ages; but he is a charlatan. He has sacrificed me and his wife on the altar of common desire." Clay Township in Excess of Its Quota Five hundred and fifty-seven dollars was reported in the coffers of the Clay township Red Cross fund after the terrific one-day drive made by the army there yesterday, almost exactly the township's apportionment. Of this amount, $507 is in cash, and the rest in pledges. The township, while it has been almost covered, is good for more, says Chairman Deetors. Clay township's apportionment is $545, but the township isn't expecting to rest on its oars, after raising it. Two hundred dollars was added to the Hagerstown fund, yesterday by the canvassers, and the Jefferson township total is now almost $400. TO PERMIT IMPORTS LONDON. June 23. The government has decided to relax the prohibition upon importation of cotton hosiery and glassware from the United States. Licenses for the importation of these goods will be granted. ment are and "why it dodges the question of definitely stating peace terms. By Carl W. Ackerman. Every big shop in Berlin has a map of Europe in the show window. People look at these maps every day. They are proud of them. The show the German armies "far' in enemy territory." Most of Belgium, eight provinces of Northern France, Poland and a section of Russia, Rumania, Servia, Montenegro and Albania are occupied by German troops. Austria-Hungary. Bulgaria and Turkey are designated, also, as being under the Imperial German General Staff. Vienna, Sofia and Constantinople can do nothing militarily or politically without the Kaiser's authority. Fast trains run

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RUSSIAN ENVOY TELLS CONGRESS NATION IS FIRM Cheers Greet Statement That Rumors of' Separate Peace Are Unfounded. WASHINGTON. June 23- Ambassador Bakhmetieff, head of the Russian mission, emphatically declared in his address before Congress today assembled in the hall of the bouse, that the rumor of a Russian separate - peace with Germany was unfounded. The ambassador's declaration came at the end of the most remarkable reception yet given to any of the foreign mission in either house of Congres. m. Shouts and cheers came from floor and gallery. Members, who on previous visits of missions, have applauded or remained quietly in their seats, cheered loudly. . . man wnmon anrt children caught the sweeping wave of patriotism, shouting and waving their handkerchiefs. The applause and cheering were renewed warmly when the ambassador added. "Rumors of a separate peace are unfounded." Princess, Clad in Overalls, Serves Buns to Workers LONDON, June 23. Princess Mary, only daughter of the King, is dividing her time between her vegetable garden at Windsor Castle and visiting munitions plants where she usually presides over the canteens. The Princess likes to reach a munitions center unannounced and to delight the factory girls by serving and passing out their hot midday meal. When the munition workers at a certain factory hurried into their canteen for their dinner the other day they were surprised to find the Princess standing besides a great urn, clt.d in large blue overalls, ready to hand out food to them. Every girl was eager to purchase at her hands and many returned to the counter for a superfluous packet-of chocolates or a bun, Just for the sake of another smile from the Princess. "v.. 'l.y i 'j v-,J'-V. v-.... U ---W DRY BILL LOOMS" AS CHIEF ISSUE WASHINGTON, June 23. Prohibition as a war measure loomed up as the big Issue in the house today with a sharp fight promised before a final vote on the food control bill, which was expected by tonight. The contest was over the question whether the section of the bill authorizing the president to limit, regulate or reduce "the supply of food matrials or feeds used in making alcoholic liquors shall be changed. 4 Prohibitionists were determined to secure, if possible, the adoption of a stronger "dry" provision and their forces were lined up for the fray. Most of them favor absolute prohibition of the use of grain for beverage purposes during the war but are divided over the various pending proposals to accomplish this. Consideration of the food bill continued in the senate today, while the leaders held further informal conferences in an effort to reach an agreement on disputed points in the measure. . Horrors! Clergy to "Gambol on Green yy Richmond ministers will leave the cares of the pulpit behind and "gambol on the green" at Cedar Springs next Tuesday. A real for sure picnic is being planned by the gentlemen of the cloth. Ministers and their families will leave on the 10:20 east bound interurban. They will return to the sobriety of life for a short time about 11 o'clock, in order to hold a short business meeting and elect officers. The party will take dinner at. the Cedar Springs hotel at 12 o'clock. In the afternoon, all sorts of antics will be "pulled off" by the preachers. Everything from a baseball game to drop the handkerchief will be indulged in. This will be the last regular meeting of this season. Next meeting will be held in September. hourly from Lille, France, to Warsaw and Wilna, Russia. Twice a week the Balkaniug goes from Berlin to the Porte and returns. The map of Germany, which we studied in school, is not the chart of Germany today. Deutschland has grown. Germany today is a military organization stretching from - Helgoland to the Dardaneles and from the Hindenburg line in the west to the front from Riga Bay to the Black Sea. "Germany has been victorious!" That . is the verdict of nearly every German. "The war Is won. We must hold out." That is what they say in the land of our enemy. And, If,.you take issue with them, if you point out that they have lost their colonies, their world trade, their international stand

How New Grace Church Will Appear " : -llf Isi ll ate if

Above is a picture of the new Grace M. E. church as it will look when finished. model the present structure will be started tonight under the dir!'.on of Rev. H. L. Overdeer and O. F. Ward. CROWN PRINCE'S ATTACKS FUTILE (By Associated Press) Heavy attacks by the Germans are continuing along the Aisne front with the fighting at times assuming almost the proportions of a general engagement. No substantial successes have attended the Crown Prince's etforts. The latest bulletins from the front Indeed indicate to be turning even more favorably for the French, whose artillery is proving that it has lost none of its effectiveness in breaking up an attack. The Crown Prince's primary purpose apparently is to forestall the renewal of the French offensive movement which was expected in this important sector south and southwest of the Fortress Loan, the German key position, which would be seriously menaced , by a -farther FrewSwidvance. So far as appears GenerarP?taln has lost none of his commanding position while v the Germans have sacrificed heavily for such small gains as,, they have. been able to effect. The plan of the Germans seems to be, to launch heavy forces on a comparatively narrow, front in the areas under attack. They penetrated a salient in the French line yesterday on the Chemin des Dames in the neighborhood of Epin de Chevregny. Last night they tried to debouch from the ground gained but found all their efforts broken up by the French fire. Other attacks in the region of Vauixaillon to the west and nearer Chevreux and other points to the west were likewise futile. COCCHI KILLED GIRL IN RAGE BOLOGNA, Juno 23. Alfredo Cocchi today confessed to the Italian authorities that he had murdered Ruth Cruger in New York. Cocchi said he murdered her in a fit of furious jealousy because he failed to win her love.X Alfredo Cocchi went to Bologna from New York in February after the disappearance of Ruth Cruger, a girl 18 years old. When the girl's body was discovered in the basement of Cocchi's motorcycle shop in New York, police commissioner Woods cabled to Italy asking for the man's arrest on a charge of murder. This was followed by a request to the same effect by the state department at Washington and Cocchi was arrested on June 20. He at first vehemently protested his innocence and insisted that he had left America on account of trouble with his wife. The man's nerve broke down after he was placed in solitary confinement, although he retained a lawyer and announced his intention of fighting extradition. There was some question as to the possibility of his being returned to this country, due to the Italian law which requires Italian citizens to be tried in Italy, even for offenses committed abroad. ing as a nation and a race, they shrug their shoulders and, reply: "We will get all that back when the war is over." . But should you ask them what they are going to do with the territory they occupy,' you touch , the national" war nerve. That is the issue which divides German public opinion. That is the imperial conundrum. ' German, as - a nation and as a people, does not know what will be done with the conquered territory. President Wilson stated on April second that we are officially at war with the Imperial German Government, but it Is obvious that we cannot defeat the Kaiser without fighting German soldiers. When- our troops leave the trenches in France,

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JUNE 23, 1917. Plans for the new building include a pipe-organ. The building work will begin about the middle of July, and the church is expected to be completed in December. Members of the finance committee are O. F. Ward. G. W. Miller, C. E. Thompason, F. F. Riggs, G. F. Hamil

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AN ATLANTIC PORT, June 23. The captain of an American steamer, just arrived at an Atlantic port, reported today that he believed the steamer had sunk a U-boat two days cut from Liverpool, England, enroute to America. Beyond this statement the captain would not vouchsafe any information. In a story written by the wireless operator of the steamer, he said: "We discharged our cargo at Liverpool and left for our homeward voyage on June 1. We were running at nights without lights. The guns were cleared for action, but we hoped we would be as lucky going back as we were going over. Ship Reports Attack "We saw . one submarine June ; 4. One British e ship, bjsr wrrsless, call was T. L. O. her name was not listed in the international radio stations of the world sent a, signal of distress, which we' picked up. She reported the was attacked by a submarine. ."The British ship was exchanging shots with the submarine for about a half hour. When they reported by wireless the submarine had submerged. Could See Shells "I heard S. O. S. from another British vessel the Manchester Port. She reported she was being attacked by a submarine. She wasfighting at close range. After twenty minutes of hard fighting the submarine again sudContinued On Pege Nine. Every Married Man Can Understand This Women are showing more intelligence in registration for the constitutional delegates' election than the men according to the clerks. This is due to the fact, it is believed that they have been giving more study to the requirements than the men and they are not confusing the registration for the September election with the special election to be held next Tuesday. One hundred and forty-eight persons had registered until noon today and the registration clerks werer busy for the "greater part of the afternoon. Many persons who work in factories that do not operate on Saturday afternoons applied for, registration today. Hollweg is Blamed Because Submarines Missed Pershing ZURICH. June 23. The pan-Ger-rianists, who are all enemies of the German chancellor, are using the safe arrival of Gen. Pershing, the American warships, and the hospital units in Europe as a weapon against Von Bethmann-Hollweg. "Is - luck with Wilson?" the reactionary press asks, according to the Strassburger Press. "Where are our submarines keeping themselves?" they will encounter, bayonet to bayonet, the Kaiser's subjects. Then we shall be at war, unofficially but actually, with the German people. For all practical military purposes - the American people, through the army, will be attacking the German people through von Hindenburg's army. At, the very, beginning, this will be a people's war. We will be fighting some of these people who stand before our shop windows of Berlin and count conquered territory as a gambler counts his chips.1 The new map of Germany shows that it. pays to fight. Confusion as to Causes of War. Traveling through some parts of the United States since my return from Germany. I find many people asking whether it is possible for us to fight

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ton, J. K. Deem. The building committee is composed of H. M. Kramer, I. Laning, T. W. Hadley, C. H. Addleman, H. S. Stillinger; and the organ committee of A. B. Price, C. H. Kraroer, R. W. Phillips, Alton Hale, F. F. Riggs and Grace B. Gorman. MAYOR ISSUES PROCLAMATION ON RECRUITING Young Men of Richmond Urged to He Heed President's Call for Volunteers. To the Young Men of Richmond: The President of the United States has issued a call for 70,000 volunteers to bring the United States 4py, up to its iyHl. war; strength, and these men are want- " ed immediately.- -The President further asks that these 70,000 volunteers be recruited during the week of June 24. It is to be hoped that the call to service with the colors will be promptly responded to by the young men of Richmond, for Richmond and Wayne county must play its full part in this war. Let our young men show this coming week that they are true sons of the Republic. It will be the supreme sacrifice but this sacrifice must be made. (Signed) WILL J. ROBBINS, Mayor of Richmond. Sergeant Warner is in charge of the United States Army recruiting station in this city, located at Sixth and Main streets. Applications for enlistment should be made there. Able bodied young men who recently were listed for conscription will be called to the colors by September 1. The men who volunteer next week In response to the President's call for 70,000 volunteers will have a advantage of two months training before the draft is resorted to and many of these volunteers will be appointed noncommissioned officers for the conscript army. Uncle Sam needs fighting men. He needs YOU. Remember the United States is now engaged in the greatest war of its history and its outcome depends entirely upon the way the young men of the Republic respond to the call to service. Next week notices containing the President's proclamation calling for volunteers will be displayed through out the city, the cost of printing these notices being defrayed out of the patriotic fund raised In Richmond more than a year ago. AMERICAN WOODMEN MAY CONSERVE FRENCH FORESTS PARIS, June 23. Among the latest reinforcements to the American military mission ' is Major Harry Solon Graves, chief forester of the United States, who was commissioned a major in the reserves when he volunteered to investigate forestry conditions in France. Major Graves will consider the feasibility of bringing over a regir ment of American woodsmen to aid In the conservation of French forests, if such assistance should be necessary.

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the - Kaiser. : Some Americans, and they are not all hyphenated, especially In the Middle West, believe the Kaiser is the same as his people. There seems to be an impression that we cannot accomplish our purpose in entering the war; that we cannot make democracy safe. I found in Indiana and Illinois people who believed that Germany could never be defeated. Some stated our entrance on the side of the Entente was really to give us a voice at the peace conference! While Americans, will admt that the extension of German ruthlessness to the high seas dragged us unwillingly into the European maelstrom of shells, poison and blood, still they do not understand how by declaring war we can help free the German people from their Imperial

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SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS ELLIOTT WINS APPLAUSE OF REPUBLICANS AT BIG RALLY G. O. P. Nominee Received Enthusiastically When He Appears at Coliseum Morrow Raps Gray's Record. WOOD ALSO SPEAKS Despite the early evening rain a crowd of 500 attended the closing meeting of the Republican campaign in Wayne county, held at the Coliseum last night, and were rewarded by three excellent addresses on questions of grave importance. The speakers were Richard N.? Elliott of ConnersviHe, Republican candidate for congress, Edwin Morrow of Kentucky and ! Representative Will Wood, of In-! diana. Congressman Fess of Ohio, who was to have spoken, was unable to attend. Elliott Well Received. The crowd -was particularly Interested in Mr. Elliott and when lie was introduced by Charles Teetor. of Hag-i erstown. chairman of the meeting, he received a flattering reception. Mr. Continued On Page Two. . . . i Trial of Youthful "Jesse James" For Murder is Started CUMBERLAND, Md., June 2S. The trial of Payne Culp, fifteen years old for the murder of his school mate, Thomas 'Wilson, 14 years old of Garrett county, Maryland, last March began here yesterday. It Is alleged that the boys hrtongsjfl to "Jeese James" organization and that both boys entered their class room Intoxicated. The shooting occurred in the Gormanla school. COLBY TO ADDRESS DEMOCRATS TONIGHT AT GRAY MEETING Bainbridge Colby of New York, for mer Progressive leader, will deliver, an address at the Coliseum in the interests of the candidacy of Finly H. Gray, Democratic congressional no ml nee. Henry U. Johnson of this city, will preside at this meeting and will deliver a short address. Government- Now that we are an Ally, we want to know, says the public, what is the attitude of the German people. We want to know whal they are thinking and talking about We want to know whether by fighting these people we can defeat the Kalsen . When President Wilson told Con gress that "we have no quarrel witl the German people," and that we art glad ... to fight for the ultimats peace of the world and for the libera tlon of its peoples, the German. peopK included.' be was not reflecting; pure) ly American opinions. Neither was hi expressing a Wflsonlan ideal. ! It wai the statement of a fact suggested bj German citizens themselves. In Ger many and in Switzerland, several Ger Continued On Page Four. -

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