Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 192, 25 June 1917 — Page 1

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CANVASSERS OBTAIN MORE THAN $30,000 FROPCOUNTY

Official Returns of Campaign Made at Meeting Monday Evening Today is "Pershing Day." LAST EFFORT MADE The last terrific drive of the Red Cross army and navy for Wayne county ends this evening at 6:30 when the 200 Richmond army and navy workers and sixteen of the out-of-town leaders I meet at the Y. M. C. A. to report the results of the campaign. More than $30,000 is the sum which Wayne county has raised in the week for the work of the j Red Cross, accordin j to tentative estimates made today by Secretary Edgar Haas of the t central committee. 'Richmond has raised $20,000 of this and the rest of the county about $10,000, the central committee thinks. Free-for.AII Fight. The battle between the Army and Navy forces raged fiercely through Richmond streets. Sunday and Monday, with the restrictions of territory removed, and free-for-all, catch-as-catch can rules prevailing. The offices were busy all day taking money from Richmond folk who had been missed. . I Contributions were received dur ing the day from several business houses and lodges, who responded to !: '" Continued On Page Nine. Pennsy to t ake Off 4 Passenger Trains Four passenger trains on the Pennsylvania lines will be taken off next Sunday. Trains No. 1019 and No. 1023 on the Indianapolis division, which arrive here at 5:05 p. m. and 1:80 p. m. respectively, will be taken off. On the Richmond division trains No. 806 and No. 907 arriving at 11:30 p. Ci. and 6 a. m. will be taken off. The great amount of freight, which in now being handled, is given as the cause for these changes. Do Yoqr i-J Join the Bit Nowj-J Red Cross WEATHER FORECAST ' For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Tuesday i except probably thundershowers in extrerae north portion. Warmer in ' north and central portions tonight. Temperature Today. Noon 81 Yesterday. Maximum 79 Minimum 54 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Increasing cloudiness. Possibly thundershowers tonight and Tuesday. General Conditions Weather Terrains fair east of the Mississippi river but unsettled over the middle west due to a storm north of the fortieth phrallel and west of the lakes. Very narm weather prevailed yesterday in South Dakota. Ninety-six degrees in Rapid City.

"Long-Haired, Grim-Visaged" Gray Fought Any Increase

Editorial Note Gus J. Karger Is the veteran Washington correspondent of th Cincinnati TimesStar. No newspaper man Is better acquainted with official life in the capital than he. He has seen , countless statesmen bloom and fade and he writes with authority. BY GUS J. KARGER. WASHINGTON, June 25. Miss Jessie Wilson, daughter of the President of the United States, was about to be married to the man of her choice. The Americans and the nations of Europe, then at peace, were vying with each other in manifestations of interest and approval. All the wcrld likes a bride-to-be even Con-grew- , And in Congress, under the leadership of Jim Mann, everybody was coming acros with a five-spot, in order that the liking might be translated into some substantial indication of cordial good will. Then it was, on October 30, 1913, the day preceding the day customarily dedicated to the antics of those who carry the cap and bells, that a

Prospects

WATCH IT RISE $35,000 hr JOT 3 I I CUV." $25,000 $20,000 $15,000 $10,000 $5,000 SIGNS OF GREAT FIGHT ARE SEEN (By Associated Press) ..The British front in northern France again ' is developing' signs of marked activities. ' Today's official statement from London details an unusual number of raids carried out by the British in practically every important sector from Belgium to St. Quentln. Operations by raiding forces on this scale are usually the prelude to offensive movement of moment. General Haig has not struck a hard blow on any extended front since the week of the Messines fighting when the famous ridge on the Belgium front was captured and " the -way prepared for further smashing operations in this sector. Ground is Gained. Incident to last night's raid were local operations that gained ground for the British. Thus some progress by them below Lens and northwest of Warneton in the Messines area Is reported. There is a mometary lull in the infantry activities oil the Aisne front. The French have virtually succeeded in keeping it entirely, their line in the Vauxaillon area, entered by the Crown Prince's forces in a sudden drive on a narrow front last week. Further fighting is in progress to the east of this sector in this skirmishing for positions on the part of the two armies. Each anxious to gain criminating points for either offensive or defensive purposes: PANAMA MISSIONARY - TELLS OF HER SCHOOL Miss Elsie Janet Kiser, a teacher in the Methodist Episcopal missionary schools in Panama, told an audience at First M. E. church last night 'manyinteresting things about her work in the zone. She illustrated her talk with lantern slides. Miss Riser's ninety children are of a dozen different nationalities and range In color from white to patent leather, she told her hearers. tall, gaunt, long-haired, grim visaged son of Indiana took the floor in the House. And Finly H. Gray, former mayor of Connersville, representing the Sixth district, spake as follows: Members are Disgusted. "I wish to absolve myself from any participation in the movement that has been inaugurated in the House on the part of members for the purchase and presentation of a costly gift to the President's daughter" and much more to the same effect, to the extreme disgust and embarrassment of all concerned, excepting only Finly Gray, whose eyes were fired with holy zeal. Nobody would have said a word everybody was too much put out and Gray would have got away with it, if he hadn't been careless enough to address Himself to Jim Mann. "I'd like to hear from him," he said, "in justification and in defense of his policy, not from a Republican standpoint, but from the standpoint of Jacksonian economy and. Jefferson simplicity. Jim Mann asked for half a minute. Here's the way he used it up: "After hearing my distinguished friend from

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LABOR TO ACT IN RAMSEY CASE; MEETING CALLED Committee to Report Thursday Evening That Principal Had No Hearing. Under the auspices of the Richmond Trades council a mass meeting will be held in the high school auditorium, Thursday evening at 8 o'clock, to discuss the action of . Superintendent Giles in notifying D. D. Ramsay, principal of the Whitewater school, that his contract, which expired with the close of the last school term, would not be renewed. Robert Graham, chairman of the committee appointed by the Trades Council to arrange for the mass meeting, said today his committee would submit a report on the results of jsome investigation the committee has conducted. Without a Hearing "The report will state that Mr. Ramsey was dismissed without a hearing and without any explanation being offered to him for Superintendent Giles' action," Graham said today. Anyone interested in the case is invited to attend the meeting and anyone who desires to speak will be givContinued On Page Three. Hollweg Accused of Trying to Strangle German Newspapers LONDON, June 25. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company from Amsterdam says , that leading. German newspapers are ' protesting angrily against Chancellor Von BethmannHollweg's decision to allow them to use only 44 percent of their former quantity of paper. The Tageblatt, the Tageszeitung and the Rundschau of Berlin charge the chancellor with attempting to kill the German press. The Cologne Gazette say6 the blow is a deadly one for the German newspapers which probably will soon cease to exist. ..... ILIFF IN SERIOUS CONDITION Edgar Iliff, who for some time has been confined to his home with intestinal trouble, is reported today as being in a very serious condition. Mr. Iliff was apparently recovering but yesterday his condition became much worse and his recovery is doubtful. Senate Expected to Prohibiting WASHINGTON, June 25. The fate of prohibition as a wartime measure rests with the senate where acceptance of the food control bill in the form in which it passed the house with its drastic prohibition amendments added, as a substitute for the bill drafted by Senator Chamberlain, Is assured. Senate leaders today arranged to expedite the food control bill passed by the house. The bill was referred by the senate without discussion to the agriculture committee. Senator Reed, of Missouri, today continued his attack upon it. . No additional committee hearings are proposed. A vigorous fight Is promised over the' prohibition proposals, particularly Indiana, I think it will be hopeless to put into his soul the expression, which finds Itself in the heart of every other member of the House. (Applause). The other members do not need to be told why." (More applause). : No Tears Were Shed. Then it was that members of Congress, on both sides of the House, first came to a cloakroom agreement tbat no tears should be shed if the Sixth Congressional ..district ever reached the decision to leave Finly Gray at home. The agreement was kept, religiously and to the letter, when the 1916 returns stranded Gray on the shoals, of political defeat. , i ' Daniel Webster Comstock, Republican, who trimmed him to a comfortable fare-ye-well, was received with open arms. But Congressman Comstock. nearly 80 years old at the time of his election, survived only a few months, and tomorrow the people of tbe Sixth Indiana district are to make choice of his successor. 1 ' And, behold, on the Democratic side of the contest; the ' tall, gaunt, longhaired, grim visaged Gray again looms up as a contender. ' Congress

Billy Is Host to Hobsier Neighbors; ' Arraigns Slackers

WARSAW, Ind., June 25. Billy Sunday proved this afternoon that he is as good a host as he is a preacher. He delivered a patriotic address before a crowd of 7,000 persons In the Winona Lake auditorium and then extended an invitation to every one to come to his beautiful cottage and pay him a visit. Every room in his home was thrown open and the Rev. Mr. Sunday acted like a big healthy schoolboy on a vacation as he shook hands with his countless visitors and escorted them from room to room. - Hundreds of persons were on hand with cameras and Billy never refused p. request to come out into the sun and he posed in every conceivable position , and finally asked his friends for suggestions. It was Billy's farewell to Winona Lake for the summer. Today he and Mrs. Sunday left for the big ranch at" Hood River, Ore. Mrs. Sunday was also there, but because of her recent operation and illness she was unable to help out much in entertaining. However, she shook hands with everyone as she reclined on a davenport. . During his patriotic address, the Rev. Mr. Sunday directed the finger of scorn at the slackers. He called upon the patriotic young men of the country to flock to the colors and called upon" God to "give them power to shoot straight." DAM GIVES WAY; VALLEY FLOODED , FAIRVTEW, Utah, June 25. The force of hundreds of millions, of gallons of water, caused by the melting snow flowing suddenly into the mammoth reservoir which impounds the waters of the Price River Irrigation company, twelve miles northeast of Fairview, San Pete county yesterday afternoon caused the concrete core of the dam to give way. " ' ' ; -Today the dam was reported to Tie rapidly crumbling and the eleven thou Sand-acre feet of water which had been stored is rushing down the Price river valley. No loss of life has been reported so far. Residents of Scofield, Helper, Castle Gate and Colton deserted their homes and went to higher ground to escape the flood having been warned by telephone of the break. All hope of saving the dam has been abandoned and it is said that 40 miles of track of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad may be damaged. The immediate effect of the flood aside from the damage to farms, bridges and railroad trackage will be temporarily, at least, to shut off the mines of Carbon county from receiving the supply of cars on which they depend for moving coal to the smelters. Pass Bill Making of Liquor that permitting manufacture of malt liquors and wine. Many "dry" senators strongly oppose extending the prohibition to beer and wines, although there is a strong sentiment in the senate against further manufacture of whiskey, brandy and other distilled spirits. . Prospects are, however, that the senate will in the end vote-to retain the prohibition proposals or at least the provision prohibiting use of foodstuffs in manufacturing distilled spirits. It is expected also that the senate' will add compromise amendments resulting from conference between senators. The substitute bill will be made the unfinished business and a final vote within a week or ten days seems probable. had thought to be rid of him once for all, when he retired at the end of the last session. If he'd have to get his votes from among the members . of the House, there wouldn't be anything to it. 'He'd get just about one vote. " . ' Champion of Pee-pul. When Gray first came to Congress in 1911, he came as one of the radical champions of the common pee-pul especially the common pee-pul in the rural districts. He was at pains to make clear, in his little autobiography in the Congressional Directory, that his education was limited to the common schools "in the country districts only;" and in " his speeches, which quickly began to flow from lips inspired, he continued to appeal to what he regarded as the settled convictions of the American farmer. Naturally, he espoused pacifism and anti-militarism among the tenets of his faith,' and the speeches be made in those days, . allaying himself with the Little or No Navy men, are coming home to haunt him. True, Mr. Gray himself now sees the light streaming in two directions.

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Mrs. Grace Humiston, the New York lawyer, whose persistence in the belief that missing Ruth Cruger was a victim and that her body would be found in the shop of Alfredo Cocchi, led to the uncovering of the girl's body. Out of Mrs. Humiston's efforts Is growing a movement to safeguard young girls from the city's wolves."

'tRuth Did All in Her Power to Attract Me," Says Confessed Slayer

BOLOGNE, June 25. Interrogation of Alfredo Cocchi, self-confessed slayer of Ruth Cruger in New Yark, is kept secret by law JnJItalyuntil just before the counsel are allowed ?to 'lexamine the result of investigations made, both by the police and judge. According to unofficial information, Cocchi recounted to Judge Zucconi his history in America. He said: 'My machine shop gave me a satisfactory position. I earned sometimes $100 a week. ; I had never seen Ruth Cruger before she came to my shop to have her skates sharpened. From the vprv hp.einnine ' Puth rllrl nil in her 'power to attract my attention. I felt something strange when her dark penetrating eyes fixed on mine. "I was still more disconcerned when she came again, February 13 to get her skates. An overpowering attraction for the young woman seized me. What happened afterwards seems like a dream. , My memory at this point fails me utterly. ' "Didn't Mean To." "In view of the facts which have been presented it must be true I attacked and killed her. But God help me, I didn't mean to. My will power could not resist any more. When I returnd home I was like a person in a trance. I remember speaking of this peculiar mental condition and thought I was ill. "I began to realize the gravity of my Continued On Page Three. Wonder If They Sang in Their Own Tongue CHICAGO, June 25. Singing of "The Star Spangled Banner" by two hundred Chinese, caused a crowd to gather in South Clark street, near Harrison last night. The occasion was the installation of the new headquarters of the Hip Sing Tong, which was decorated with the Chinese and American flags. President Young Gew delivered an address, in which he urged all of his : countrymen to assist the United States in the war against Germany. In the Quaker communities of the Sixth district he is making his canvass so it tms been reported to Washington as one who abhors war and all its instrumentalities. But in those sections in which the Quaker element is lacking, the grim-visaged Hoosier poses as a veritable son of Mars and spouts patriotism and loyalty like unto a gusher. Opposed to Any Increase It was in August, 1912, that he put himself on record, when the debate turned about the proposed naval program. "I am opposed to an appropriation for two battleships. I am opposed to any appiopriation for one battleship. I am opposed to any , appropriation for battleships," he said, "I am protesting against the further increase of our navy as a wanton waste of public treasure and a vain and useless burden upon the people of the civilised world."; - : ' You see, in August, 1912, two years before the world was set on fire, when the United States still had plenty of time to provide, itself with a few extinguishers, Gray had seen a

Cruger's Body

JOBS GRACE BRITISH VESSEL SINKS' U-DOAT AN ATLANTIC V PORT, June 25 Officers of a British steamer arriving here today report having sunk an at tacking German submarine. The British vessel sent a shell Into the U boat's magazine causing an explosion which parted the under water's Continued On Page Nine. Admiral Sims Serves Coffee to Survivors of Submarined Ship BASE OF THE AMERICAN FLOTILLA IN BRITISH WATERS, June 25. (By the Associated Press). The spectacle of Vice Admiral Sims, now acting commander of the allied naval forces, serving hot coffee to survivors of a submarined ship was witnessed by the people of this village last night when a British destroyer reached dock with fifty-five members of the crew of a torpedoed British merchantman. Admiral Sims appeared among the crowd of townspeople on the quay and greeted many of the survivors Vith a handshake and helped to make comfortable four injured members of the crew who were taken away in ambulances. Charles Dalton of New York and several American negroes were among the survivors. Dalton . said the ship h-id been torpedoed without warning and sank within a few minutes. But as the wireless was able to send out S. O. S. the destroyer arrived within an hour and rescued three men clinging to .wreckage and all of the remainder who were in boats. vision of peace. Of course, barbarous and uncivilized tribes might yet go to war, he admitted. "But we claim," he told the House, "tbat war among civilized nations can bo prevented by peace arguments. Civilized nations have already abolished the chain shot in modern Warfare. If nations can do that, then the killing and mangling of thousands by bulets and bombs and mines can likewise be prevented by international agreement." No doubt he believed it. No doubt, if he should happen to be returned to Congress, he would believe other things equally bizarre and absurd. The chain shot has been abolished; but liquid fire and poison gases have taken its place. "It is time to call a halt to the training of armies and the building of navies," he believed then, and perhaps believes now. "It is time for mediation and a great peace movement in the world." Glorified Grape ' Juice He stood for the "grape juice" diplomacy of William Jennings Bryan and glorified in it

District

ELLIOTT HAS PROMISES OF BIG VOTE IN ALL COUNTIES Farmers to Be Taken to Polls in Autos Pleas of "Poor, I Honest Old Finly" Fail to ! Move Voters. DEMOCRATS HIT GRAY Tuesday the voters of the. Sixth Indiana District will select at the polls a successor to ' the late Judge D. W. Comstock as representative in congress. Reports received today from the various counties indicate the election of Richard N. Elliott,! the Republican nominee. Even the lieutenants of Finly Gray,' the Democratic nominee, are claiming only a small majority for their candidate. Farmers to Get to Polls This is one of the busiest seasons In the year for the farmers and they are short on farm laborers, but both Republican and Democratic organisations in Wayne ccutity aro making arrange-j ments to get as many voters to the polls as possible, using automobile.; While a large vote Is not anticipated. ' it is believed the rote win be close to normal. Every man who is eligible to vote last November can participate in the election tomorrow without further legistratioa, and men who have reached the age of 21 since November also can ' vote ' without being , registered. The list of voting places Is published elsewhere in this issue. Women cannot vote. - Speaks In Newcastle At Newcastle Saturday night Elliott and Edwin Morrow of Kentucky, spoke to a crowd that congested the tig coliseum. Predictions are being made that Elliott will carry Henry county by a majority ranging between 800 and 1.00C. A hot fight has been In progress in Fayette county, the home of both candidates, but the Democratic leaders Continued On Page Two. ONE NEGRO SHOT, SECOND HANGED PTJNTA GORDO, Fla., June 25. Shep Trent, a' negro, was taken from officlers near Cleveland. Fla.. four miles from here last night' and shot to death. He bad been arrested -for an attempt to assult a white woman Saturday. Trent laid to wait for the woman on a dark street, but she out ran him and escaped. GALVESTON, Tex., June 25. Chester Sawyer, a negro accused of attacking a white woman, was taken from jail here early today and hanged near the city limits. The mob composed of only a few men, entered the jail by a ruse and then overpowered the jailer. ENGELBERT STRICKEN H. H. Engelbert, cigar and tobacco dealer, is seriously ill at his home, following a hemorrhage suffered last night. The attack was unexpected, he having been in good health yesterday. in Navy Mr. Gray treated the Mexican situation humorously on that bleak March afternoon'. "I might. see fit to vote for war with Mexico on certain conditions," be said, playfully. "These conditions would be that the men who are asking for war shall organize tbe first company; their sons shall organize the second company; and the newspapermen - who are striving to rush the country into war shall organize the third company. When the charge on Mexico is to be made. I would place the men who are demanding war in the front rank. When tbey fell down I would have their sons flU up the breach, and when their sons were slaughtered I would have the pewspapermen fill up the breach. And until tbe men who are caUlng1 for war. their sons and the newspapermen fell down I would not allow a single American to lose his life or 'shed his blood on Mexican soil."- . t Can ft be possible Congress asks that the Sixth district is taking the candidacy of Mr. Gray seriously t -