Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 198, 2 July 1917 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, JULY 2, 19fi

IIOU QUAKERS ARE TRAINING TO OFFER AID Director of Friends Unit Explains. Courses t Given at Woolman House. ' : r 5 1

Robert G. Brown, of Woolman House, Swartbaaore, Penna., head of the ' comnalasary department of the rrieade reconstruction and ambulance unit, which la to start training for service In France at Haverford, Penn.. some time In July, gave a talk on the unit and Its directing committees Sunday afternoon at the North A Street Friends church. - Training, besides covering a rigorous flva-weeks' course In ambulance work proper, will Include Instruction 13 French, Brown said. Engineers, social workers, chemists, dentists, doctors, and many others make up the membership of the unit While this corps will be.. In service only nine months, others are to be formed as scon a possible. - Women probably will be needed later. English- ambulance and 1 nursing units are composed of three worn fen to one man and only the difficulty of ' getting:, passports has kept the directors from ' planning to send women, he said. Besides the unit -of 100 young men, a- women's organlzaion and several Other smaller parties of workers will soon go over. A' party of seven, three women and four men. is to help English Friends, and six women have already gone to Russia. Support will be given to the work of reconstruction and relief work in France, Russia and Serbia, which is being carried on by English Friends. HELD INCRUGERCASE DF,T.-r6J2ST JOHN JA(;A7?EMKrir. '. ; Detective-Sergeant John L. . Lagarenne, of the New York City Police Department, whose trial, by Police Commissioner Woods on charges of negligence in the Ruth Cruger murder case has been recommended by Commissioner of Accounts Wallstein, who is' probing the police conduct of the Cruger matter. It was Lagarenne who Conducted a ; search of Cocchi's premises and failed to find Ruth Cruger's body, and it Is alleged to have been Lagarenne who . largely was-responsible for allowing Cocchi to escape so easily. DODDRIDGE LITERARY SOCIETY MEETS AT PRESIDENT'S HOME. MILTON, Ind.. July 2. An interesting meeting of the Doddridge Literary Society was enjoyed by about ninety persons at the home of the president. Miss Cora Gates. : All members responded to the roll call with quotations from the Bible.' The program was as follows: piano solos by Miss Harold of Liberty, readings and impersonations by Mr. Limeback, of Liberty; piano solo by Howard Meeks, readings by Miss Buhl, of Centerville; and Miss Checseman. - Owing to the absence of the editors of the Literary Fortnightly, Howard Meeks substituted and read a brief but interesting pater. Joseph Ryan was elected editor for the Literary Fortnightly, Howard Meeks substituted and read a brief but Interesting pper. Joseph Ryan elected editor of the Literary FortniKhtly for the next meeting . which will be held July 10 at the -home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bertsch, near Milton. All members are asked to reD I 'Vil , V1I .(UWLU.. v,.., UIIQ 1 iual if possible. CHICAGO BARBERS STRIKE CHICAGO. July 2. Barbers In down town shops were ordered out on strike today. They demand wage concess ions and shorter hours from master barbers. Members of the union declared three thousand chairs woul. be -vacant today because of the strike. At WASHINGTON TUESDAY F r""1" ' it

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Y Wants 100 Members With 109 new members on the rostr er as a result of the campaign for 100 during June, the Y. M. C. A. is going right out after another hundred during the month of July, ' Seventy-two of the additions are men and thirty-seven boys. An informal reception for them was held Saturday nght in the lobby of the "Y." POST- OFFICE TO CLOSE ON. INDEPENDENCE DAY . , The post office will be closed on Independence Day. Box mail will be distributed, but no carriers' routes will be busy, no rural routes covered and no windows open. Only one application has been received for the examination for stenographers and typewriters which will be held in the post office Tuesday. WATCH LIGHTNING'S PLAY Unusual end beautiful lightning effects in the Sunday evening sky were commented upon Monday by many Richmond peopleClouds piled high in the eastern sky were touched at their upper margin by the sun which had set, producing a dazzling white, while the lightning played through the dark lower depths. The moon in the Southern sky added to the picturesque effect. Iq QUARTERMASTER MOVING TROOPS BY RAIL -New U. S, Fores Will Require 7,320 Trains -Monthly Supplies, One Billion Pounds. The Quartermaster Corps is Jnst npvr the;-busiest department of , the United States Amy. " Without it not' a single Company of troops could reach the firing Bee. not a soldier be clothed,-fed or armed. , "" ' 7 V -' ' To move the great army Unc!e Sam Is bringing into being means the marshal ling of 124.5SO railroad cam In 7.320 trains aad directing them without delay or confusion ever routes many of them .over three thousand miles long. To keep iliis force provisioned in the field means supplying and shipping one billion pounds of freight a : month, requiring fity-fi ve trains a day. The Quartermaster Corns, in co-opera'

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BOY GARDENERS TO ORGANIZE

Twenty-five boys of the city interested in gardening will form the charter membership of the Garden club to hold its first meeting at the Commercial club Tuesday night' Plans are being made by Civic Gardener Murphy to continue the work into the fall, and to have a special gardening and agricultural evening class of boys not in school if enough interest is shown. Boys who are interested in gardening and have or will make a garden, are invited p join the club. APPROVE ASSESSMENT ROLL The primary assessment roll for the improvement of an alley with cement between South ; Ninth and Tenth streets and from South F to G street was approved by the board of public works in regular session Monday morning. The improvement will cost taxpayers along the alley $613.37. ' A plat of eight lots, known as the Albert W. Gregg's sub-division in which an alley is given the city was also approved. . REINHARDT INJURED ... Walter Reinhardt, 1414 South B street, was slightly injured Saturday afternoon when his bicycle turned into the path of an automobile driven by R. L. Snyder, of Liberty The front! wheel of the bicycle was broken. The accident happened at Seventh and South A streets.

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training Soldiers and Equipment mn Exact and Complicated Science.

tion with the Defence Committee or railroad presidents, lias organized America's 2G0.OOO miles of railroad, with its hundreds of corporations, into one system nnd plotted . every mile and every train more OTer its myriad routes. The examination of an applicnnt for a commission in the corps is cited by Garret Smith in Leslie's Weekly to illustrate the complicated detail of such an officer's task and the possible seriousness of the slightest error.! The examiner bad asked bim to give every move be would, make in equipping and transporting a regiment from Buffalo to an imaginary firing tine at Wilmington. He picked a one of bis stopping point a small Junction where, unbeknown to bim. the siding was too short to bold his train. The; examining officer pointed out tbnt by so doing be would cause a block that would delay, a whole division xof troops destined for a weak point at the front just long enough to let the enemy through. ' , i , t Quartermaster Corps officers must know every stopping point, length of sidings, junctions, capacity of terminals, , loading

Red Cross Explains, How Money is Spent For Fighting Forces Richmond Red Cross organization has received a letter from vHenry P. Davison, chairman-of the War Council of the Red Cross; In which be tells how . the' money, which was recently raised,- will be used. , . ,-VFirsU and . foremost. ,we shall., provide,; as we may be called -upon by the Army and Navy for the care and safety of our (.soldiers.... and , sailors wherever they may be," he says. He says that money will,, be sent to France at once for Pershing's men. Twenty experts will be sent to Russia to aid them in their needs at this time. A similar commission will be sent to Roumania to make a survey of their nceds ' . : " y. , All money spent by the war council will be made public in so far as is possible. '"The Red Cross belongs to the people and the War Council wants the public to understand the seriousness with which it regards the trust which .- has been committed to it," the letter states.

RUSSELL ACCEPTS WOOLMAN HOUSE JOB Elbert RusselL formerly professor of Biblical Literature at Earlham, and Richmond resident for several years, v.'ho has been at Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed Director of Woolman House, Friends school for religious and social service at S .varthmore, Penna. - " Russell's appointment is for a' term of three years. The school has recently been taken from the exclusive control of the Hicksite branch of the Friends church, and is now under the direction of a committee from all three branches. . ROBERTS POPULAR AT BAPTIST CHURCH The congregation of the First Baptist church will vote on a new minister Thursday evening at a business meeting. Sunday morning and evening, Rev. T. A. Roberts of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky.. preached: He was recommended to the congregation by Rev. A. F. Lee, of Georgetown, Ky.," who was unable to accept the position here because of illness of his wife. The pulpit committee is very much in favor of Rev. Raberts and a favor able decision probably will be reached Thursday. SUPPRESS SUBMARINE LIST COPENHAGEN, July 2. For many weeks, obviously in compliance with orders of the censor, German newspap ers have published no death notices from the submarine service, from which conclusions regarding the num ber of submarines destroyed might be drawn. ILIFF IS IMPROVED Slight improvement is shown in the rtH?tirtn Af P7nrsiT- THff w nrt io rfn fined to his home, seriously ill. Al though it is believed that Mr. Iliff will recover, his. condition is improving very slowly. and unloading facilities, site of tunnels. capacity of bridges, &&, along their routes. The estimates of tbe corps are based on a Torre or twenty field armies, or snout 1.ftOO.(Vm men. With them go 700.000 mount and ' draught animals. BO.OU) ?eblcles and 'A.IWO big pins. A tabulation of ' rolling stock and other railroad equipment ' just completed shows that to handle this traffic there are needed, besides more heavy cars, special terminal yards, and siding, loading and unloading platforms, double tracking of many single track lines and the bnilding of new lines into undeveloped territory. " This means the raising of a vast amount of new capital by the railroads. The railroad executives believe tbiit the systemotir.lng and unifying of railroad control under federal authority, brought about by war preparation, will prove the value of sticb entralixed rejmlation for permanent adoption by the United States as a pence measure. This vast increase of expense in putting the roads in shnpe for war is alxo ' given as one of tbe chief resons for asking the Interstate Commerce . Commission for permission to lnurea freight rates, . ........ - . .

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Above is shown "Model S," the Red Cross pony, which was given to the Chicago girl who obtained the greatest number of conrtibutions to the Red Cross. ; Model appears with Miss Marylyn Miller, petite-dansense, in one of the big shows in Chicago.

Six Men Join Army : Six men was the total given by the Richmond recruiting office to the regular army during recruiting week. Six went also" to the militia during the week, the Ohio . ur,it here obtaining iour Saturday, and two going to Indianapolis to join the state troops. The district's quota was about thirtyfive. Dennis J. Broughal, who will leave Monday afternoon for Indianapolis, is the latest Richmondite to go into the regulars. WAR TIME CROPS GROWN IN MANY LOCAL YARDS One thousand Richmond householders are this year helping win the war by cultivation of back-yard gardens, says city gardener Murphy. Gardens under direction of Mr. Murphy run all the way from the size of a sheet to those of one or two acres, and the hardy agricultural army is growing! everything tnat is vegetaDie. Big lots formerly vacant, with from ten to forty separate plots, are popu lar. Many owners confess that this is the first season for twenty years that they have gardened. A seventy-six-year-old bachelor, who died recently at Borden. Kentucky, was found to have collected more than 100 fancy waistcoats, j able Watches ment and etc. day. We also have 0. Silverware That Satisfies

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ATTACK U. S. POLICY. TOKIO, July 2 Relations with the United States and China continue to Ie the basis of opposition attacks on the government in the diet. Ketara Machizuki contended in parliament Saturday that a grave misunderstanding existed between Japan and the United States owing to ambiguity of Japan's Chinese policy, many Americans suspecting an intention to subjugate the Chinese and exploit Chinese resources. TUNNEL PLAN REVIVED : LONDON, July 2. Plans . for tha construction of a tunnel under the English Channel and the linking up of the East and West coast of Scotland by a ship canal have been engaging considerable attention lately. More recently the proposal to bore a tunnel beneath the Irish sea has been levived. HUNGERFORD IMPROVES' Robert Hungerford is after an operation. improving

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NEW YORK POLICE ' j; UNABLE TO LOCATE U , missing wmi)

NEW YORK, July 2. While Commissioner, of Accounts Leonard M. Wallstein ,wai today reviewing tho testimony so far given In the investigation of the police methods in solving the disappearance of Ruth Cruger," preparatory to resuming continuing the inquiry on Thursday, the detective department continued its" search for,' Miss Velma Pomeroy, well known in suffrage circles and active as a public speaker In gaining recruits for the army, who disappeared from her apartment here last Tuesday under suspicious circumstances. Although a 'large number of detectives were assigned to the search for Miss Pomeroy, it was admitted by the police that no trace of the young woman had been found. Charles W. Pomeroy. a foreman supreme court justice of Montana, father of the young women, began an independent investigation today and announced his intention of remaining here until his daughter was found. y BANK ASSESSMENTS BOOSTED $20,000 BY REVIEW BOARD Assessments, showing a net increase for the last year of (20,000 were made by the county beard of review against the banks and trust companies of the county made last Saturday. The total assessed value of the banking institutions of the county for the year are $1,497,310 as compared with $1,477,310 for 1916. The assessments for this year follow i First National bank, Richmond, $159,490. ; Second National bank, Richmond, $426,680. Union National bank, Richmond, $213,900. J Dickinson Trust Co., Richmond, $262,500. Farmers' State bank, Boston, $18,790, First National bank, Cambridge City, $44,250. Wayne National bank, Cambridge City, $45,740. Wayne Trust Co., Cambridge City, $19,010. ; Cnterville State bank, Centerville, $28,320. Northern Wayne bank, Economy! $9,900. First National bant Dublin, $23. 250. Fountain bank, Fountain City, $12,220. First National bank, Greensfork, $20,740. - First National bank, Hagerstown, $51,680. Union Trust Co., Hagerstown, $26,cro. i Farmers' Bank of Milton, $19,500. First National bank, Williamsburg, $23,130. German-American Trust Co., Richmond, $84,530. .... x Jackson Township bank, East Germantown, $7,500. TITUS SUFFERS BRUISES WHEN BICYCLE SKIDS Asa Titus, son of Mrs. Mary Titus, 318 South Fifth street, was cut and bruised Sunday morning when he fell off his bicycle. He was riding aloe; the New Paris pike when his bicycle skidded, throwing him against some rocks on the road. He was brought to a physician's office here, where several etitches were taken on the cuts or his face. PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY -Investigate Phone 186S as wen as Dy &L6.50 No : Plated IUngs T t

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