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LIGHT VOTE IS POLLED HI ALL COUNTIES OF DISTRICT Shrinkage Expected to Benefit Neither Party Rich- . mond Men Decline to Exercise Franchise. ELLIOTT LOOKS GOOD Estimates that the vote cast in the sixth district election to day would be considerably less than the vote of last November were generally made by Republican and Democratic leaders this forenoon. It is believed by party workers that the vote shrinkage will be greater in Wayne than in any other county. In several south end Richmond precincts a num ber of voters of both parties dei clared their intention of not visiting the polls. One-Sixth Cast at 11 Only a little more than one-sixth the normal vote In Wayne county had been cast up to 11 o'clock this morning. The normal vote Is approximately, 6.650. Up to 11 o'clock this mornins there had been, In round numbers, 1,200 votes cast. Party leaders predicted that onethird of the normal vote would be cast. - Neither Republicans nor Democrats had effective orgsnizatfons, according to precinct workers. In some precincts the poll books had not been revised. Precinct workers were constantly calling upon the headquarters of their respective parties for automobiles to help in getting out the vote, but both organizations experienced difficulty in securing machines. Reports from several rural precincts this after noon said a light vote was being cast. ' Improves at Noon At noon today the voting in the city improved. The- vote was especially light in precincts where factory workers reside for the most part. In the twenty-flfth precinct, North Fourteenth and G streets, where there is a large colored, Italian and Hungarian vote, only sixteen men had voted up to 10 o'clock this morning. There are approximately 280 voters in the precinct. Reports received from Fayette, Franklin, Henry, Hancock, Rush, Shelby and Union counties at noon today all gave the information that a light vote was being cast. To Get Out Farmer Vote, The farmers "are very busy in their f.elds now but campaign managers of both the Republican and Democratic organizations were making efforts to poll as large a vote from this class as possible with automobile service. In several rural districts Republican volunteers from Richmond and other county towns worked in the fields for a number of farmers until they had Continued On Page Five. Anonymous Giver Donates $3,000 to Friends' Ambulance A check for $3,000 was received this 'morning for the Friend's ambulance fund by Secretary Woodward of the Five Year's Meeting. The big gift brings the fund almost to the $6,000 mark. Its donor wishes to remain anonymous, but is a wealthy Massachusetts Friend who is known In Richmond, says Secretary Woodward. Do Yourr-- Join the Bit NowLLj-JRel Cross WEATHER FORECAST For - Indiana By United States Weather Bureau Probably fair tonight and Wednesday. Cooler in northwest portion tonight and in north portion Wednesday. Temperature Today Noon (street thermometers) 92 For Wayne County By W. E. Moore Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Conditions favorable for local thunderstorms. General Conditions Generally fair weather prevails over the central states but local rains fell yesterday in Indiana and western portions , of Wayne county. It is raining now in western portions of Wayne county. Abnormally high temperatures continue over the Mississippi valley but it is very cool in the far northwest. Fro6t at Baker City, Oregon, and at Yellow Stone Park. Wyoming.

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Another field in which British women are entering and making good Is that of taking the place of male hostlers and grooms in the army remount stations. The photograph shows two of these women stable hands grooming a charger for service on the western battle front. Thousands of soldiers have been relr ased from the work by the employment of women. And the lattter are proving just as efficient.

ELECTION PROBE IS TO CONTINUE; CHIEF INDICTED INDIANAPOLIS. June 26. T'ne special . session of the grand jury has been called for July 1.1 partjy because of disclosures made during the trial of Samuel W. Perrott. chief of the Indianapolis police department and six ethers. A conference attended by Judge A. B. Anderson of the United States district court, Ferdinand A. Geier, of Milwaukee, who presided at the trial just closed, Frank C. Dailey, special United States attorney for poll fraud investigation, L. Ert Slack, United States district attorney, and Milton Mangus, his assistant was held early today, after which it was said another grand Jury will be drawn. Perrott and . five other members of the police department charged - with conspiracy to commit election fraud, were found guilty last night by the jury. Time was granted their tatorneys to take what legal steps they desire. Perrott's bond was raised from f5,000 to $10,00. He provided it PRIEST INVOLVED IN CRUGER CASE NEW YORK, June 26. Something of the movements of Alfredo Cocchi, confessed slayer of Ruth Cruger, immediately after the murder last February, was expected to be disclosed today br Rev. Gaspar Morretto, manager1 of the Saint Rafael Society for Italian Im migrants. A subpoena calling Father Morretto before District . Attorney Swann was Issued early today following the receipts of dispatches from Bologna, Italy, stating that Cocchi In confessing his crime had asserted that he spent the month in the house of a priest in Charleton street this city, before he fled from the country on board a British ship. In a statement to an assitsant district attorney, Father Morretto said that Cocchi came for confession about the middle of February. Cocchi was greatly agitated, he said, and left after confession without telling where he was going. Refuses to Tell 'Em. Statements as told by the priest, disclosed that Helen Cruger, sister of the murdered girl, and a young man called on him later and asked if Cocchi had been to see him. Father Morretto told them, he said, that he had not seen Cocchi because neither Miss Cruger nor the man with her had any official standing and were not entitled to the information. At the public inquest today Commissioner of Accounts Wallstin John L. Largarenne, the detective, who was assigned to the Cruger case when the girl was first reported as missing, was to be recalled to give further details of his investigation of missing persons and the general system followed by the police in such cases. CAPTAIN IS IMPROVED Captain Younkin, who has been seriously 111 with pneumonia, developing from a case of inflammatory rheumatism, was reported by. Reid hospital attendants to be improved this morning.

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Bugs Mobilize For Drive on Gardens Holding their scientific names before them as a shield,, all the bugs that garden tnfck is heir to are now planning a determined drive on Richmond gardens, says Gardener Murphy. The offensive already has opened, but will grow in , intensity for some time. Fungus diseases also will try the spirit of the amateur gardener. The four kinds of insects that are most to be feared just now are plant lice, cabbage worms, potato bugs and cucumber beetles. Richmond gardens are holding their own with the gardens to be seen in the country near Richmond, according to Murphy. . FOUR YOUNG MEN IN FRIENDS UNIT Four Richmond young men, Eugene Quigg, . Leland T. Hadley, Jesse Griffith, and Lewis Morrison, have received notice that they have been accepted as members of the Friends' ambulance union to start training July first, in Haverford, Pennsylvania. They are to get ready for call and be prepared to leave at once, says the notice. . Quigg is .the son; of William H. Quigg, and has been a student at the University of Wisconsin this year. He studied two years at.Earlham college Griffith is the principal of the Rich mond Business college, a graduate of Earlham. Hadley was graduated from Earlham in June. He was manager of the college glee club, and prominent in col lege activities. He is the son of Mr and Mrs. Frank Hadley. Morrison is a junior in Earlham col lege, and the son of Professor Edwin Morrison of the physics department. The -Friends unit has been granted the honor by the government of being the first civilian unit to go to the front in France. It has a memberlhip of 100. A score of applications have gone in from Richmond and Indiana Friends, and more acceptances may be announced later. Page Maclean Clan! Johnny Bull Wants 'Em to Fight for 'Im NEW YORK, June 26. A call for the Clan-Maclean has been sounded from headquarters of the British recruiting mission in this city. About fifty or sixty men, Macleuns preferred, are wanted to fill the vacancies in the ranks of the 236th battalion of Canadian overseas force,' which the government will be asked to designate as the Maclean highlanders of North America. ' Already the states are represented on the rolls, of the , battalion, for which Lieutenant Colonel Percy Guthrie, who will command it in France, is here seeking recruits. In the last ten days a total of 1,301 British subjects have enlisted here for service in France. '

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in Pajama-Clad Guests Roused by Screeches, Seek Slayer in Vain Pajama-clad men, nd women in negligee, last week stormed the office of the W'estcott in the middle of the night. A blood curdling screech sounding all over the hotel had aroused 'em. """'' ' The halls, stairways and lobby were instantly filled with startled wayfarers, all searching for the author of the screech. ........ Just as the women were becoming hysterical and the men peeved, the screecher was found. A touring party from California, coming into the city had caught a small screech owl. They purchased a bird cage, put the owl into it and set it in a deserted corner of one of the corridors. When the halls became dim. the owl gave vent to his feelings. The hotel management has put a ban on screech owls. JOBBERS DOUBLE PRICES OF FOOD WASHINGTON, June 26. Current retail prices on canned vegetables are nearly twice the prices paid canners by wholesalers for this season's output, the federal trade commission reported today in connection with the investication into food prices. The Inquiry into canned goods, the commission explained is "to forestall speculative prices." Wholesalers are paying about 7 cents a can for cbrn and 9 cents for tomatoes and peas, f. o. b. factory. The same cans are. sold retail at an average of 17 cents for corn, 18 cents for peas and 20 cents' for tomatoes. "A large part of the canned goods being canned at these prices is last? year s pacK. . says ' a commission statement "an4;was flMdy.tne chr.ers at 'considerably" lower prlces'&an now prevail. To Save Information The statement does not attempt to analyze the difference in prices. Next autumn and winter, if complaints are made . to any locality, that unreasonable prices are being charged for the canned peas, corn, tomatoes, salmon or similar products which are now be ing packed, the commission will be in a position to promptly expose any extortion." Reports have been received from about 2.000 canning factories in respones to the commission's inquiries. The commission will investigate quantities purchased by various deal ers in an effort to prevent speculative holding. Wetherman Directs Hottest Attacks on Richmond Sector A heavy, hot, air attack was delivered on the Richmond sector today by the weather man. The attack was general all over Indiana and the central states, but the Richmond defenders, even with the aid of a large battery of 42 centimeter electric fans, were driven from their trenches to cooler spots during the day. Hawkins bathing beach and" Glen Miller park saw the largest crowd of any week-day during the year, and - other bomb-and-sun-proof defenses were crowded. Street thermometors registered all the way from 92 to 99. Showers and cooler weather are promised for tonight and, tomorrow. FLOOD DAMAGE IS MILLION AND HALF; HUNDREDS HOMELESS SALT LAKE CITY. June 26. The damage to railroad trackage and buildings and to crops, caused by the bursting of the. Price River irrigation dam in Gooseberry Creek, Sunday, was estimated today at more than $1,500,000. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of additional damage in loss of traffic will . be .suffered by the Denver Rio Grande railwad because of the tie-up of the coal mines ir. Carbon county, which depend upon the railroad for an outlet. .Thousands of miners will be thrown out of employment until the railroad is able to rebuild from 15 to 30 . miles of track which has been washed away. Three large steel bridges have been washed out, scores of highway bridges have gone and all concrete culverts In the Price river valley between the dam and Price, a distance of 45 miles, have been destroyed. Hundreds of residents of Castle Gates, Scofield, Helper and other smaller points spent last night on the sides of . the steep canyon through which the torrent poured. As yet no loss of life has been reported, but numerous inquiries tor : missing : persons have ben received. ,

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ne SUCCESSION IN SURPRISE STAR AT FOE General Plain's Men Takje Entire First Line and Cut Up Germans. PARIS, June 26 The French made a surprise attack northwest of Hurtebise last night, after brief artillery preparation. The war office announces the capture of the entire first line German trenches, which were held against desperate counterattacks. More than 300 prisoners were taken. BERLIN, (via London), June 26. The French troops which penetrated the lines north of Hurtebix on the Aisne front were subjected to a counter-attack and ejected from the greater part of the position they had occupied, army headquarters announced today. (By Associated Press) General Petain has resumed his dashing operation on the Aisne front and today reports a brilliant success for his troops in a surprise attack north of Hurtebise. The entire first line of the strong German position there was carried and held against counter-attacks. The Germans were badly cut up besides losing more than 300 men in prisoners. It, is in this sector between Creoanne and Cerny, that the most feasible route lies to the German fortress at Laon, the vital part of this whole German line on the French line. - Seven Speedsters M u , m, cftcu uy iriujfui Richmond's ' speed colony received another sad blow in police court today. Seven men, who last Saturday and Sunday tried to make a speedway of the asphalt pavement on Richmond avenue, were charged a dollar and costs each for their fun by Mayor Robbins. The men who were fined by Mayor Robbins were John W. Clements, Harold Long, Clifford Henson, Lee Nicholson, Frederick Cates. .Dan Connors, and Allen WThite. MINE SWEEPERS FIXED ON SHIPS AN ATLANTIC PORT, June 26. A mine sweeping device calculated to pick up and safely bring to the surface any mines that may be in the path of vessels is now being attached to a number of ships proceeding through the waters of the war zone. One of these devices was observed and when let down a netted projection extends a dozen or more feet on either side of the ship. If a mine is encountered it is picked up and brought on. a passenger liner which arrived here today. It is attached to the bows to the surface at a safe distance from the vessel. ,The ship to which the device was attached is on her first trip here since April, when she was compelled to seek a dry dock in a British port on account of damage from a mine. The explosion, officers said, tore a big hole in her bottom and killed one member of the crew. Water tight compartments held and the ship was able to make port without assistance. Canadian Soldiers March in Detroit DETROIT, Mich., June 26. A monster military parade here this afternoon arranged in behalf of the Red Cross campaign for "mercy dollars," was marked by the unusual eight of British troops marching on United States soil. Permission has been obtained from Washington for a Canadian volunteer regiment to cross the border and march in the parade with National Guard troops, naval militiamen, fraternal and civic organizations and other uniformed bodies. Flags of the allies Intertwined, will form the chief decorative scheme along the line of march. YUM! YUM! BOYS' GARDEN CLUB TQ HAVE ICE CREAM Twenty-five boys of Richmond, under the direction of Civic Gardener Murphy, will meet in the Commercial club rooms a week from today to form the Richmond Garden club. The boys range in age from fourteen to twenty-five. Any Richmond young man, in school or out, who wishes ' to join the club is welcome says Murphy. '-. ..CA. picnic is to be. held .. by, the club immediately after -its formation, and Cecil Bender baa donated a freezer of cream for the occasion.

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IT HAS RISEN! $35,000 $25,000 $20,000 $15,000 $10,000 TOTAL GIVEN TO RED CROSS WAR FUND IS $32,000 Perry Township Leads All of Wayne County in Her Subscription. . With reports still coming in from both - city and country workers, and the Red Cross fund within $125 of $32,000 this noon, the Wayne county total was expected to run well over that amount by tonight. At noon, the total in Red Cross coffers ' was $31,863. Of this, $30,431 was the amount given as raised at the Red Cross luncheon . last night when the Army and Navy .met, sigoed a treaty of peace and shook hands. Many out-of-town workers attended the luncheon. Perry Leads County. Perry township, with the amazing total of $1,137 raised, her quota being $431, led the township reports of the county and . wa given the silk flag offered by the Richmond Commercial club. Little Harrison, with $413 secured, although her quota was but $243, came In second; Boston, with $608 to an apportionment' of $484, and Washington, which subscribed $1,195 to a quota of $685, were 1 the other leaders among the rural districts. Admiral Harris' navy decisively beat the army in the last engagement, chalking up-$2,247.75 to the army's total of $S70.63. After the announcement of the victory, the lights were lowered for a minute, and a "salute" Continued On Page Five. WAR FUND REACHES TOTAL OF $104,000,000 WASHINGTON, June 26. The Red Cross "Humanity Dollars' campaign passed its mark today with a total of $104,000,000 tabulated at noon and returns still coming in. The Red Cross War council predicted a total of ten million excess, by night-fall. Stories of generosity which amazed even the campaign directors reached headquarters today. r Wealthy men and women gave millions, and those of smaller means subscribed to the limits of their : ability. Hundreds of cities went far past the goals previously set for them. Several hundred thousand volunteer workers participated in the intensive canvass which was unique in American history. Only three weeks before, had plans for a nation-wide drive been, ' formulated by the new Red Cross War Council. AMERICAN FLYERS ARRIVE , : ON "TIGHT LITTLE ISLELONDON, June 2C. A small contingent of r the United r States flying corps arrived r In England yesterday wearing civilian .clothing, with -blue silk armlet bearing white letters "U. S. Flying Corps."

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Entente Program in Greece Gaining Ground Venizelos Arrives in Athens to Form of Cabinet. TROOPS IN CAPITAL By Associated Press) The entente is succeeding; rapidly with its execution of its program in Greece. Former Premier Venizelos sajd support-'-ers of the allies had arrived in Athens to proceed with the work of forming a cabinet to which King Alexander has summoned him, and it is expected that he will have his new government, formed by Wednesday; reports' say. A proposition that Greece joined the allies is expected to be presented to the Parliament soon after its convocation, according to special dispatches. Three Months Given. These add that three months' time' may find Greece in the field with her entire forces after a campaign In educating the people to the fact, which M. Venizelos is expected to conduct. Trouble in Capital. In the Greek capital there has been some trouble with the reactionary element today's dispatches show, and' French troops yesterday entered the city and occupied the city to maintain order. British aircraft waged a brilliant fight over Flanders on Monday, three naval machines engaging ten German airplanes. In a 16-minute .battle the Germans were worsted, one' machine' being brought down in flames while two others were believed to have been driven down out of control. The British came through unscratcheL Latest Aerial Raid Brought Death to 91 LONDON, June 26. Official figures of the casualties in the London air raid of June 13 were announced yesterday. Subsequent deaths and the discovery of more bodies in the debris have brought the number of dead to ninetyone men, twenty-four women and fortytwo children. The injured number 20C men 110 women and 100 children. ACTION PUT OFF ON DRY CLAUSE WASHINGTON, June 26. Extension of government control to iron and steel and their products, petroleum, and its products, farm implements and sisal, jute and hemp products, such as binding twine, was decided upon today a3 an amendment to the administration food control bill by the Senate agriculture committee. Addition of other articles is under consideration. Other amendments agreed to by the sub-committee which will remove much opposition to the legislation, provide that the bill shall not apply to farmers, gardeners, and stock raisers, products raised upon their own land and shall not give the food administrator power to impose individual's rations or regulate their meals. The committee deferred action upon the prohibition section. Payments of Taxes Range From Eleven Cents to $32,192.02 Residents and corporations of Wayne county paid In actual cash.? $571,918.30 for taxes at the spring payment since last November, according to the statement issued today by County Treasurer Weidner. The total taxes paid in the county was $592,313.18, but of this amount, $20,394.88 was allowed for road work. Taxes in the county ranged from one payment of 11 cents, made on a small lot in the county, to $32,192.02, paid by the Pennsylvania railroad company. The city taxes paid before May 1. amounted to $298,320.50, with $14,236.22 in- delinquent taxes. In the county $270,678.08 was paid for current taxes and $9,078.32 for delinquencies. , GUARANTEES SU8PENDED MADRID,' June 26. The' government .yesterday, decided to suspend! the constitutional guarantee. " Premier , Dato went to the palace to obtain tnei king's signature to the document Authorizing the suspension, .,