Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 194, 27 June 1917 — Page 1

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HOME EDITION AI VI II mi Palladium and Sun-Telegram RICHMOND, IND., WEDN HSDAY EVENING, J U NE 27, 1917. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS "Consolidated 1807

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SECOND BATCH OF FIGHTERS ARRIVES AT FRENCH PORT

New Detachment Will Join General ' Pershing's Force and Be Put in Training for Active Service. SEA TRIP IS QUIET A French Seaport, June 27 The second contingent of American troops arrived and disembarked this morning. . The troops landed amid frantic cheers of the people who gathered hours before. Enthusiasm rose to fever pitch when it was learned that the transport and convoys had successfully passed the sub zone. The port was to be flagged in honor of the occasion. To Go to Camp All the troops now arrived are to be transferred to a camp not distant from this port when Major-General William L. Sibert Is installed. Whence they probably will go to a point near the front. All the troops are in excellent shape and enthusiastic over the successful trip and their reception and eager for action. The harbor is dotted with convoys. The streets are filled with soldiers in khaki and with blue jackets. Great numbers of trucks are transporting immense supplies to the camp in which the troops are to be held. Part of Pershing's Force. WASHINGTON, June 27. The epochal landing of American troops can not be fully discussed at this time for obvious reasons for safety of other contingents. It is entirely permlssable to say that they are part of the force which will be under command of General Pershing and for whose arrival the general and his staff have been arranging ever since they landed on the other side. The American troops will be an entirely Independent command just as are the British troops, working, of course, with the French at the head of operation as they are on French aofl. When the troops have had their period of preparation behind the lines they will take a place on the battle front to be arranged by General Pershing, after consultation with other officials there and probably very soon will carry the Stars and Stripes In the assaults which steadily are driving the Germans out of Belgium and France. AH Are Regulars. All troops under General Pershing's command are regulars and comprise the division which President Wilson directed to proceed to France. Information as to other troop movements is surrounded by censorship to insure so far as possible a safe voyage through the submarine zone. it ia not nermiaslble to say what precautions were taken to get the American troops ship past tne uerman submarine lone but there is no doubt that the precautions were as carefully worked as they were effective because it is generally believed that sometime ago most of the German submarine fleet was withdrawn from its attack ercial shinning to make it ready to ambush the American troop ships. The successful landing, while it iHnp ft nort of eratificatlon to offic lals here, Is regarded with added sig nificance for its moral eriect in Germany, if it is permitted to become known there. DINES WITH KING STOCKHOLM. June 27. The Amer ican minister. Ira Nelson Morris ana Mrs. Nelson Morris were dinner guests of King Gustave at the palace last night. Do Your p-'-t Join the Bit NowLifJReI Cross WEATHER FORECAST For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Probably showers and thunderstorms In north and central portions and fair in south portion tonight and Thursday. Temperature Today. Noon 71 Yesterday. Maximum 92 Minimum 62 For Wayne County by W. E. Moor Occasional showers and possibly thunderstorms tonight and Thursday. General Conditions Barometric pressure continues low oyer the Great Lakes and has resulted In heavy rains over the central states. Weather cooler In the west but cool wave Is losing strength. Another storm covers the southwest and will cause continued unnettled weather.

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Spirit of 76" to Parade Streets in Effort to Get Army Recruits

"The Spirit of '76," will stalk Richmond streets this evening to stir patriotic spirit among Richmond's young men for the recruiting week campaign. With costumes designed to represent the famous old painting. Sergeant Warner's assistants are to play, martial fife and drum music. A squad of Ohio soldiers on duty here, has been asked by the sergeant to help in the demonstration. The Spirit will appear at 7:30. Two more volunteers for regular army service will go to Indianapolis soon; making a total of five for the week. Bulletins from central headquarters show that the 70,000 men asked for by the President are not being obtained. Posters appealing for bridgemen and trackmen to build railroads behind the Here's Ray of Hope For Friend Father; "Spuds" Are Cheaper Sunshine and rain are bringing the price of vegetables down. There Is a noticeable fall in the price of potatoes. The decrease began Monday and has fallen at the rate of about a dollar a barrel each day All green vegetables are becoming much cheaper. Home grown products are now coming in. The great number of vegetables raised this- year probably will lower the prices of all fruits and vegetables early thi3 season. STRAYER'S RECORD ' LAUDED BY JUDGE Reviewing the record of the prosecuting attorney. Judge Fox, of the Wayne circuit court, praised the activity of Prosecutor Strayer, for bis efforts since he has been in office. According to the records of the court, Strayer has tried 420 criminal cases and has obtained conviction on all but four. In two cases the defendant was acquitted and in two others the charges were dismissed by the court. Strayer has made this record in s'x months. The foregoing ngures are for the county cases only, and do not Include the cases in police court which are handled by a deputy. SEPARATE PEACE IS REJECTED BY RUSSJEPUTIES Definite Refusal to Move for Cessation of Hostilities is Made. PETROGRAD, June 27. A resolution categorically rejecting any more for a separate peace between Germany and Russia has been adopted by an overwhelming majority by the congress of workmen's and soldiers' deputies of all Russia. The resolution at the same time declares that restoration of peace at the earliest possible day is the most important need of the Russian revolutionary democracy. The text of the resolution which was proposed by revolutionary Socialists and the Minimalist Social Democrats, follows: Text of Resolution "The present war arose In consequence of aspirations of Imperialists, prevailing among the ruling classes of all countries and tending towards the usurpation of markets and submission to their economic and political Influence of small and decadent nations. , "The war is leading to complete exhaustion of the peoples of all countries and Is placing the Russian revolution on the edge of a precipice. "While making millions of victims and absorbing billions of the wealth of the country, t threatens to Increase still more the disorder In which Russia was left by the old regime leading to famine and turning the country from productive labor for consolidation cf Its r.ewly won liberty. 8truggle for Peace Seen "The congress recognizes consequently that the struggle for more rapid ending of the war constitutes Continued On Page Nine.)

u front in France were received today by Warner. The seventh reserve engineer's volunter regiment is the one asking for men. Pay runs from $25 to $50 a month, and twenty per cent increase is allowed for foreign service. RICHMOND MAY GET BIG BRANCH PLANT President Jenkins of the ' Vulcan Spring company, of St. Louis, met the industrial committee of the Commercial club last night, to talk over the possibilities of placing of a branch here. The St. Louis man will place a factory, 50 by 200 feet, employing several hundred workmen, somewhere in tLe middle west in the next few months, and Richmond advantages were laid before him by the committee. The Vulcan company manufactures automobile springs for all makes of cars, and has service stations all over the middle west. LIGHTNING DOES DAMAGE IN CITY; CROPS BENEFIT Heavy Electrical Storm Passes Over Eastern Indiana Girl Stunned. Accompanied by a big electrical disturbance, Richmond and vicinity was visited by one of the heaviest rainstorms of the season last night and this morning. Little damage was done throughout the city by the lightning and farmers declare the heavy rainfall was invaluable to the growing corn. The heaviest bolt of lightning in the city flashed shortly after seven o'clock last evening. At least, one person was injured by this flash which was centered on the city jail in the rear of the city hall. Girl Is Stunned. Jeannette Thomas, . 12 years old, daughter of C. E. Thomas, engineer at the Westcott hotel, was stunned by tho flash and suffered a severe nervous shock. She was standing in the kitchen of her home when the flash occurred which knocked her unconscious. She was still under the care of a physician this morning. The bolt that struck the city jail, tore a drain pipe from the side of the Continued On Page Nine. Suit Against Wrong Man is Dismissed Judge Fox today dismissed the in dictment against Harry Byrum, of Connersville, charging him with burglary and receiving stolen goods, on motion of the state. Byrum was indicted with three other men on charges of robbing chicken coops in the western part of the county, principally on the testimony of Harry Leister, who is now in the county jail waiting to be taicen to Micnigan vny to serve a term of from one to eight years on a like charge. . According to Leister's story, Byrum was a member of a gang of chicken thieves that operated in and around Cambridge City and acted as a fence for the sale of the stolen goods. It was later found, however, that Leister perjured himself to save his son-in-law, Howard Walters, who was the real "fence" instead of Byrum. Following the uncovering of the evi dence against Walters, Sheriff Canwent to Cambridge City today and arrested Walters and he Is now In the county jail awaiting trial. BRITISH TO SELL PLANES LONDON, June 27. The British government advertises a sale of airplanes. It has 105 air planes which It desires to dispose of Immediately. Only one is complete with engines. The others are ready to have the engines mounted. Presumably most of them are of obsolete models.

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MITTEE ON CULTURE New Provision Prohibits Manufacture of All Intoxicants Including Beer During Course of War. wine is favored WASHINGTON, June 27. With drastic prohibition amendments to pro hibit the manufacture of beer as well as distilled products, and giving the President the discretion to permit the manufacture of wine only, the administration food bill was agreed on today by the Senate agriculture committee and favorably reported as a substitute for the bill now under consideration. By a vote of eight to seven the Senate agriculture committee rejected the sub-committee's plan and proceeded to consider various other substitute proposals. - 'v Wine Given, Preference . 'After rejecting the subcommittee's prohibition, plan, the full committee adopted the house prohibition provision with a modification as to manufactures of vinous beverages. The new provision would prohibit the manufacture of all intoxicants, including both distilled spirits and malt beverages and, wine, but would allow the president's decision to permit further manufacture of wine only. The sub-committee's draft of the food control bill put up to President Wilson the question of deciding ' whether the nation shall be "bone dry" during the war. The house prohibition sections absolutely forbid the manufacture of foodstuffs into liquor. ALL SAVED WHEN AMERICAN SHIP S SENT DOWN Sailing Vessel Sunk by Bomb Off French Coast on Monday. LONDON, June 27. The American sailing ship Galena, 1,048 tons gross, was sunk by a bomb on June 25. There were no casualties. The Galena was sunk off Uspant Island (off the coast of France, 26 miles northwest of Brest.) Fifteen survivors were taken to Brest! NEW YORK, June 27. The Galena was formerly the barkentine Foohng j Suey. She left here March 22 with cargo ror itouen, r ranee, one carnea a crew of 18 men commanded by Captain P. V. Marshall, among whom, according to the records of the United States commissioner of shipping here, were eight American citizens. Under the name of Foohng Suey the vessel was built in 1888 at Glasgow, Continued On Page Nine. WOODMEN LAND ON BRITISH SOIL LONDON, June 27. Ten units of American woodmen sent over by New England states, an organization to turn every forest of the United Kingdom Into use, have arrived in England. The complete equipment of the unit caused surprise and occasioned a great deal of favorable comment. The woodmen" brought with them not only the necessary machinery but were fully equipped in every way event to lubricating oil. Their arrival found them ready to establish their saw mills and begin work at once. The only necessity for their maintenance is raw food, which their own cook will prepare.

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WASHINGTON, June 27. Despite the fact that the Prohibitionists in Congress have a clear majority in the Senate, dispatches from Washington indicate that it unlikely that the Senate will accept the bone-dry amendment to the Food Bill as passed by the House. Senator Gore, a total abstainer, and a representative of a dry state, is chairman of the committee that will get the Lever bill when it goes to the Senate. Senator Gore is for prohibition but hesitates to accept the bone-dry. amendment in its present sweeping form at this time. Senator Kenyon, advocate of prohibition under ordinary cireumst?ncesr is quoted as saying that he be-" lieves something like the House bill will pass the Senate, but that the prohibition of light wines and beers would show a very close division of sentiment. Senator Hoke Smith, J Georgia, while not speaking for publication, is known by his colleagues to believe that the wise and. sane course is to prohibit the manufacture of whiskeys and gins, and permit beers and light wines to be. sold. .

FALL OF LENS IS EXPECTED SOON; FRENCH TAKE IMPORTANT FORT

CBy Associated Press) While General Haig Is closing in so closely upon Lens that the capture by the British of that coal mining city and its adjacent fields seems imminent, it is a question whether the British operation will be accompanied by any offensive move by the French on ! a large scale. Although there has been more or less jockeying for positions by the two commanders along the Aisne and Champagne front, particularly the former, the German activities appear more like efforts to choke off any possible extended movement by . the French than any "thing else. On the other hand General Petain's occasional strokes give the impression that all he is trying to do is to preserve his vantage point as his basis for resuming the French advance at some future time when such efforts seem advisable. Germans Lose Fortress. The most important of the recent French drives was that of Monday at Kurtebiz. The Germans seem to have suffered a considerable deprivation here, one of the positions taken being a fortress of some magnitude which had served the crown prince well as MAY TRY POLICE IN CRUQER CASE NEW YORK, June 27. Examination of members of the police department who conducted the investigation of the disappearance of Ruth Cruger, the high school student who was murdered here last February, was continued today when Leonard M. Wallstein, commissioner of accounts, resumed the public hearing ordered by Mayor Mitchel to determine why the police failed to solve the mystery of the young woman's disappearance. Commissioner Wallstein said that twenty detectives and higher officials of the police department had been called to tell all they knew ot the efforts made by the police to find the young woman: Following his recommendation last night that , John Lagarenne, a detective sergeant, be placed on trial lor dereliction of duty, the commissioner said that "unless other detectives and police officials can afford a better explanaion of their parts in the search for Ruth Cruger than Lagarenna I shall be forced to take similar action In each and every case."

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at Bone-Dry Bill SEJtTATOJS,' a point of departure for counter-attacks. Cumulative evidence that all Russian opinion of influential character is now definitely set against any idea of a separate peace continues to come from Petrograd. The powerful PanCongress of Russia is emphatic on this point in a resolution just adopted by an overwhelming majority. The program of the entente in Greece continues to develop more and more tangibly. WOMEN DENIED REGISTRY RIGHT As a result of the ruling made by Judge Thornton yesterday, orders were issued at the registration office in the court house today to discontinue the registration of women voters until the Indiana supreme court makes its decision on the injunction issued yesterday. The applications of those women that have already registered will be kept by the board until a disposition is made of the case and then if the women are denied the tight to vote at the constitutional election they will be thrown out. Registration applications have been fewer today than they have at any time since the office opened. There have been only 51 registrations since yesterday noon. Special Session ot Legislature to Probe Coal Seen INDIANAPOLIS, June 27. An immediate session of the Indiana legislature is in prospect unless congress enacts legislation giving President Wilson power to fix toal prices and regulate the distribution of fuel. The fact that such a special session is being considered seriously was announced today. GERARD CANNOT COME - John .3,1. Lontz, President of tho Richmond Commercial club,, announced today he had been unsuccessful in his efforts to have James W. Gerard, former United States ambassador to Germany, deliver an address at the club dinner. Mr. Gerard stated that his time is so much occupied that he could not arrange to come to Richmond. . i

$. PLURALITY IS EXPECTED TO REACH 2,700 IN DISTRICT Gray Shows Loss Since Last Fall in Every County Wayne Goes for G. O. P. . Nominee by 1,383. WINNER LEAVES SOON UNOFFICIAL VOTE Fayette county Elliott. 2.058: Gray, 1,550. Elliott plurality, 510. Comstock plurality, 234. Hancock county Gray. 1.493; Elliott, 1.455. Gray plurality. 3S. Gray 1916 plurality. 502. Henry county Elliott. 2,931; Gray, 1,925. Elliott plurality, 1.006. Comstock plurality, 813. Rush county Elliott, 2.401; Gray. 1.917. Elliott plurality, 484. Cornstock plurality, 343. Shelby county Gray, 2,429; Elliott, 2.030. Gray plurality. S93. Gray 1916 plurality, 650. Union county Elliott, 842; Gray, 572. Elliott plurality. 270. Cornstock plurality, 135. Wayne county Elliott. 4.139; Iray, 2,757. Elliott plurality. 1,383. Comstock plurality, 1,205. Franklin county (Complete) Gray.' 1,738: Elliott. 1.167. Gray plurality, 571. Gray 1916 plurality, 706. Sixth district totals Elliott, 17.024; Gray, 14,380. Elliott plurality, 2,644. Comstock plurality, 978. ' Richard N. Elliott,, of Connersville, Republican candidate for congress, was elected yesterday over his Democratic opponent, Finly H. Gray, by a plurality which will be, approximated, 2,700. This plurality is based on the returns received today from all precincts in the district except three in Franklin county. One of the Most Decisive Elliott's victory was one of the most decisive ever won by the Republican party in the Sixth district. Despite the fact that the total vote polled, except in three Franklin precincts was 15,454 less than the vote returned la the congressional contest last November, Elliott's plurality was about twothirds greater than the plurality received by Judge Comstock over Gray. The Comstock plurality was 978. Elliott carried Wayne, Henry. Fayette, Rush and Union counties, in each instance by a greater plurality than Comstock received. The pluralities Gray received in Hancock, Shelby and Franklin are less than those he received last fall. Gray Loses in Hancock - Hancock, one of the state's rockribbed Democratic counties, returned a plurality of only 38 for Gray. Last fall he carried this county by 502. In Franklin Gray's plurality of 1918, of 706, will be cut down to approximately 500. In Shelby, another stal. wart hotbed of Democracy the Gray plurality of 650 in 1916 was reduced to 309, yesterday. It was Wayne county, however, which swept Finly Gray and his brother, Georre. into the political scrap heap. The Grays had devoted much of their time during the brief cam paign to Wayne county, hoping that the Republican plurality in Wayne could be held to such a small figure that anticipated Democratic pluralities elsewhere would result .in a Democratic victory. The efforts of the Gray brothers were fruitless, however, for, despite the fact that 4,237 less votes were Continued On Page Three. MEXICO REMOVES IMPORT DUTIES ON NECESSITIES MEXICO CITY, June 27. By order of the government all import duties were removed last night from articles of prime necessity. Including food stuffs, from July 1 to December Si; Import duties also were removed on gasoline and higher derivatives of petroleum. .This replaces the refiners ' in Mexico In competition with . refiners in the United States and undoubt edly brought , about the sooaen rise here in the price of gasoline from 21 to 50 centavos per litre or approx, mately 50 cents a gallon. i

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