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SLAV CLASH MAY CHANGE CONFERENCE TO MOSCOW Government Forces Post Cannon for Defense in Winter Palace Square of Petrograd. CITY IS IN TURMOIL fBULLETINI LONDON, July 19-A Reuter dis patch from petrograd aaya tne numoer of killed or wounded In the two day of disorder there is estimated at about 500. PETROGRAD, Wednesday, July 18. The government controls the city today as completely as the soisneviKi appeared to control It yesterday. PETROGRAD, July 19. An extraor dlnary cabinet council Is discussing the proposal to transfer the seat of the provisional government to Moscow. M. Tseretelli, minister of posts end telegraphs and member of the council of workmen's and soldiers delegates said yesterday the general assembly of workmen and soldiers and peasants would be held at Mos cow in order to prevent the Interference from an irresponsible sanction of the Petrograd garrison. The general staff buildings and winter palace square are headquarters for the government forces which are bivoucking there and have posted cannon. The general feeling is that the decisive stage between the forces of order, and disorder is rapidly approaching Outline Their Policy At a Joint meeting of the workmen's and soldiers and peasants councils a resolution was adopted in reference to the ministerial crisis to the effect that the departure of the Cadet ministers cannot be made the pretext for depriving the government of the support of the revolutionary democracy. On the. other "hand, the resignation of the Cadets makes It imperative for democracy to redetermine its attitude regarding the organization of power. Therefore, general assembly councils of workmen and soldiers and peasants must be convoked and such assembly will meet within a fortnight hence to discuss the organization which is to replace the Cadet minis ters. Meanwhile all power must be concentrated in the present government which must act in conformity with the decisions reached at the last general congress. Clash In Streets Owing to reports of an Intended attack on the Tauride Palace for the purpose of arresting M. Skobeleff, minister of labor: M. Tseretelli, minister of posts and telegraphs, and M. Tchernoff, minister of agriculture, the military authorities sent two ngni guns thither, which met en route a machine gun regiment Shots were exchanged and some horses were killed. A party of infantry stationed at the Champ De Mars, scene of the military reviews, fired on the Cossacks from Pavlovsk. U. S. Takes Control Of French Railroads PARIS, July 19. Official announcement Is made that the United States Transport service is taking over control of the French railroad lines from the port bases to the permanent camp and the front. Tracks are being laid and sidings enlarged. The roads will be manned later by American engineer regiments. American locomotives, mostly narrow gauge, will be utilized. Most of the supplies will be imported from the United States. A section of the French state forests has been turned over to the United States. American lumbermen will - take out lumber for railroad ties, barracks and other purposes. In addition to this 30,000 tons of lumber will be Imported from America mommy,

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WASHINGTON. July 19. Ten mil lion men are registered in the United Slates for war service 687.000 are reeded in the first call for the national army. Who shall go first? "This question is asked and the method by which it is to be answered outlined by Provost Marshal General Crowder, In an explanation issued today of the great drawing to be held Triday in Washington. 1 The scheme evolved is so simple that the drawing of one set of a thousand numerals and another of ten will fix with absolute equality of chance the orderin which everyone of the ten million registrants shall report to ' his local board for examination and subsequent exemption, discharge or acceptance for military service. 10,000 With Each Drawing. , Since the average exemption dis- ( trlct registration is 3,000 and there are J 4.557 district, the average number of

Germans Lose Heart, Says Von Stein

AMSTFPniM .Tiilv 19. Many Ger mans have become faint-hearted says General Von Stein, former Prussian war minister, as quoted by the General Anzelger of DusBeldorf. The general, replying to a telegram from the German National Union expressing con fidence in him gave tne rouowing aavice: "Everyone should possess confidence In the future greatness of Germany, but an excessive anxiety and faintheartedness is still troubling many persons. Everyone should endeavor to give an example of self-renunciation and sacrifice and to make selfish and faint-hearted persons ashamed of thomulvM" - Admiral Von Tirpitz, replying to a similar telegram, said: "The U-boat is extremely effective, but needs time." . ; MAJORITY WILL DEMAND PEACE IN REICHSTAG Armies . Occupied in Major . Movements Only in Galicia Says Report. "AMSTERDAM, July 19, The Berlin Tageblatt says the committees of the majority parties in the German Reichstag have decided unanimously to move the peace resolution. Previously the committee was divided, two members of the center and one Liberal disagreeing with the majority. The Tageblatt says that in the Reichstag 221 deputies will vote for the peace resolution. (B7 Associated Press) While the world today is awaiting with keen interest the declaration of German policy which the new imperial chancellor, Dr. George Michaelis, is expected to deliver in the Reichstag, the military forces of the belligerents for the moment are engaged in infanItry operations of major Importance only along the front in eastern Galicia. Reports from this theatre of Intense activity have indicated a lessening in the speed of the Russian drive. " There has even been a recession at one point where Austrian and German reserves have been thrown into the fray in an effort to stop the Russian on-rush which was threatening to roll up the entire Austro-German line from GaUcla down through the Rumanian mountains and plains. Germans Try Often. Otherwise the French front in northern France presents the most notable features of momentary interest. Few clays pass without an effort on the part of the Germans to get back some of the valuable territory which was wrenched from them in the spring offensive or to make local inroads elsewhere on the French line. A new field was chosen for an attempt of this sort last night the first really sharp attack for some time in the field of the great Hindenburg re-t-eat last March being delivered just to the south of St Quentin. The crown prince chose a front r.early half mile in extent where the !--.,,-. i, n,ineri hillock to the east rf Gauchy. General Petain's forces were taken aback at first ty tne intensity or the drive and yielded some ground in the first line. men listed with each operation of the drawing machinery will be about 10,000. . . General Crowder announces also that local boards will be instructed to call 200 per cent of their quota at the first call to provide for probable exemptions. That means that 1,374,000 men will be notified to appear for examination within the next few days. !f more are necessary they will be called for as needed . by the local roards in the. order provided for in the drawing. . tn enm districts the- 100 ner cent allowance for exemption - may be too large and in others too small, but the local boards will be instructed in every case to continue calling for men until the district quota is filled. Each state governor is now allotting to his districts their respective portions of the Mate's quota. All Have 8erlal Numbers. In each of the 4,557 exemption districts among which the ten million

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MEW CONTRACT FOR LIGHTING AT NEW PARIS TO BE PROBED Village Officials Believe Ses sion of Council Which Gave Ashe Franchise for 25 Years Was Illegal.' GLENN FAVORED ACT NEW PARIS, O., July 19. An investigation will be begun here to determine the legality of the procedure of the village council in granting to Rob ert S. Ashe, who claimed to represent the Liberty Light and Power company, a twenty-five year franchise for fur nishing light and power. This was the statement Thursday of Village Clerk E. C. Mikesell. who said he believed the franchise was "rushed" through too rapidly. The franchise, similar to the exten sion contract granted Ashe at Brad ford, where he and Mayor Timothy Glenn of New Paris are alleged to have bribed six city councllmen, was passed by unanimous vote on may s Rate is Reduced. A ten-year contract, which reduces th rat.fi for commercial OUrDOSe8 from eleven cents to ten cents for the first twenty-five kilowatt hours was also rrantd. The cost of street lights are also reduced under the ordinance to $3 per month for each of tne twentynine lights of 100 candle power. However, figures or omciais aow Vt a rata nf ton Cf.nt8 a kilowatt hour Is charged for the street lights, the same rates as are cnargea ior commercial purposes. The ordinances passea Dy tne ciu council of Bradford and the New Paris city council are alike, in that they resliehtlv. Even with the reduction they are much higher than Richmond consumers pay wita meir municipal light and power plant ?; Rules Were Suspended. The twenty-five year franchise was granted Ashe on May 27, under suspension of the rules. Mayor Glenn was very much in favor of the granting. Continued On Page Two. "FRAME-UP" SAYS ASHE; REFUSES TO BE MADE THE GOAT . Robert 8. Ashe, president of the Bradford and Gettysburg Light and Power company, arrested Wednesday in Bradford, Ohio, charged with brib ing six councllmen. assuring the grant ing: of a ten-year extension of the com pany'e franchise, in a statement Thursday claimed that officials of Bradford had "framed up" the case in an at tempt to make him the "goat." "When I sit and testify before a Jury of my peers, I am confident that the matter will be settled 6atisfactor iir, tn me" h said. "I don't Dropose tn h made the 'eoaf as the officials of Bradford have tried to ao. Tavior ExBialna Connection. F. M. Taylor, vice-president of the First National bank, who is secretarytreasurer of the Bradford Light company, said he knew nothing of the business transacted By tne company, fct that he was onlv a "fleurehead. He denied that he knew anything ahmit th comnanv's business or that he had anything whatever to do with it. Ashe would not comment further on the case and refused to say whether or not Mayor Glenn of New Paris, arrested along with Ashe on a similar charge, was a stockholder In the company. Ashe claimed that he would not waive preliminary hearing when the case came up. which he said, depended on his attorney, Wilfred Jessup of Richmond. He emphatically denied that he had given any members of the city council or Bradford $100 or any amount of money as a bribe. He refused to say whether or not he had any knowledge that the men had been bribed or that the bribing was done by agents employed by him. Draw The registration cards have been divided, the cards have been given serial numbers. The number of registrants in each district varies from about 185 in tne smallest to more than 9,000 inhe largest, so that the serial numbers to be dealt with in the drawing range from one to between nine and ten thousand. In order to reduce the mechanical process and make It possible for the 1,000 numbers drawn to reach every man in every district, a so-called "master key" has been devised. This will be obtained by drawing slips numbered from naught to nine, which will he listed in the order they are drawn to form. the key. : Then will begin the drawing of the numbers 1 to 1,000. For the district with not more than 1,000 registrants there will be no problem to determine the order of appearance before the exemption board. The number drawn first will x the man whose card bears that serial number as the first to ap

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pardon. x ' 1 v I WASHINGTON. . July . 19.-Presi-dent Wilson today Issued pardons for the 16 suffragettes , who; are; serving a 60 days' sentence In' the w!prk house at Occoquana, Virginia, . for 'picketing In front of the White House. Secretary Tumulty said the, pardon must speak for itself, and that, the White House would have no statement to make of the President's reason for Us action. v Cattle Washed Into CreekWhen jn Storm OXFORD, O.. July 19. 'Considerable damage from - yesterday's storm is reported by farmers living east and south of here.' , V ' . - " .Fifteen feet of; C.-L' & W, railroad track was washed out about ; one mile south of town,' and . several I wheat fields were stripped 'of ' thelr'shocks. On the farm of Joseph Davis, near Darrtown, several bead of cattle were washed into Four Mile creek. They were rescued later' several miles below.. A number of. small buildings were blown away by the high wind. . ' SHIPPING PLANS MADE. WASHINGTON. July 19. Plans for handling the immense amount of mercy supplies now going abroad as well as the necessary purchase of tents and drugs, hundreds.' of ' ambulances, thousands af blankets and great stores of bandages, sheetings and other materials, was discussed at a conference of the directors of the Red Cross 6UP: ply service here Wednesday. Newfo pear before his board.-. In the district with only 185 registrants, the 185 will be liable for appearance In the order in which their numbers t aredrawnT and when a number higher than that appears the district of course will not be affected. , Master Key Makes It Fair Application of ,the master key makes it possible to apply fairly each of the one thousand numbers drawn to districts with more than one thousand registrants. As a number Is drawn It will be added to 'each- of the thousands In excess of one thousand In each district ?-?-V-';- ' - "The key will fix the order In which each group of thousands Is to be placed on the liability list which will run from Number 1 to more than 10,000. "For Instance if 9 should be the first number drawn from the key, all registration numbers to the, 9,000 group would go in a block at the head of the list arranged in the order in which

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Threw Monkey-Wrench Into Scheme To Sell Out Citizens To Utility

By LUKE SCHNEIDER . ' BRADFORD, O., July 19. Residents of this thriving; railroad town, about 3,000 In number, would have been bound to an ironciad contract which would -have compelled them to pay for eleven more years a rate of ten cents for electric light, and also to bear exhorbitant charges for street lighting had not Robert S. Ashe, Richmond capitalist, and Mayor Timothy Glenn, of New . Paris. tried - to bribe President George J. Stichter, of the village council, according to the story given out, Thursday by Mayor David "Not satisfied with having five mernhprn of the council "fixed" they attempted to bribe Stichter, he says, which meant assurance that their con-t-raot nf tip w rates ' which were re duced as a "concession," would go through and their franchise would re extended for ten years. Hearing Within Ten Days. ; As a result Ashe, who is president of the Bradford and Gettysburg Light plant,- and Glenn are under bond of $5,000 on charges of bribery. Preliminary hearing will be held within the next ten days when they probably will be bound over to the grand Jury for investigation. ' Officials here hint that the arrest of Ashe and Glenn is only a "starter" and that an' "upheaval" of similar illegal transactions will be exposed before the investigation ends.. : The city also would have been un-

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the numbers 1 to 1,000 came out In the second drawing. "TMotnvta with ifiss than 9.000 reg istrants' therefore would disregard this first block entirely and would be af fected only by the position or tne Key numbers for the blocks corresponding with the number of thousand of registrants." : " In i his explanation of the process and of the reason for fixing the order of liability for all of the men when only 687,000 . are; needed, General Crowder says:' ? -r Order, of Examlnalon !"If . we were dealing with the ancient draft, we should take every fourteenth man. But we are not conscripting. ' We are selecting for military service thoso whose civil service can best be spared." ... Therefore the question is not 'who shall go first?' but 'who shall ' be first called up for examination?' And what we must do Is to make a list showing the order of examination. , V ,

Watch The Window! If you want to know -whether yon have been drafted, watch the Palladium window tomorrow. A man with a megaphone will announce the numbers as soon as they come off the wire. The Palladium will have Instantaneous service. As soon as a number is drawn in Washington it will be flashed to Indianapolis and be given to the Palladium without delay. The Palladium will maintain an open wire between this city and Indianapolis for the convenience of men who are subject to conscription. The drawing will begin at Washington at 9:30 Eastern time, which is 8:30 Central time. The full list of the men drawn in the county will be printed tomorrow evening.

CLUB IS HOT ON TRAIL OF HORSE DEPOT Strenuous efforts were made Thurs day by the Commercial club to get In touch with the ' Harrington-Talbott company of St Louis and Kansas City. The Harrington-Talbott company has one of the biggest horse depots In the world and has been shipping 100000 horses a year to the allies. Representatives of the company wcm in TnHiTiftnnH Wednesday, and Pnlnmhna TTiiirsriav. 1 nnki n fir for a suit able site along the Pennsylvania railroad to establish a great depot, which vrnnlri handle about 25.000 horses a vear. The company wants a tract of between 500 and l.ooo acres, witn waiar an1 fire nrntection. Tn TnHannnnlla Wednesday they ex pressed themselves as unsatisfied with what they had seen, and were to inspect Columbus sites Thursday. The Commercial club thinks Richmnnri hsui an ideal site for the farm. in what is known as the old Miller place, just-east of town, this iarm has 460 acres, is located next to the city mains and is near the Pennsylvania and the national road. Telegrams were sent to bt. ixmia and Kansas City Thursday, giving details of the Richmond offer. Unfortunates Have One Day Of Fun Scores of tired mothers and children enjoyed a day of sunllgnt ana iuh at Glen Miller i park Wednesday at the annual Salvation armys piwuc . Basket lunches were eaten- by the picnickers, and the army furnished Ice cream and cake. The party went out in special street cars. Captain Mayme Balrd was In chargeable to erect a municipal light plant anoh Richmond did In 1901. which wnviM nrohablv have meant a six cent rate, such as is in iorce m luenmona. Instead of paying almost aouoie me .... - . M . OXl X amount 1" it naan t Deen ior outuier. Will Tell of Bribes. Burr H. Young, Charles Bigler, Bert Fry, Walter Lancaster and O. L. Boyer, the five councilmen, virtually are under arrest and will testify at the trials of Glenn and Ashe that they were given bribes of $100 each for voting for the extension of the fran chise and the new contract Stichter took the bribe on instructContinued On Page Eleven. 100 WOMEN TO SEW SHIRTS FOR SOLDIERS More than 100 women have registered at the Commercial club to sew shirts for soldiers. The shirts, which are to be sent cut out from Jeffersonville, will be received soon. Thirty-five cents a shirt will be paid for the sewing, and the shirts may be sewed either at home or at Red Cross headquarters. A notice will be given when the headquarters are to be opened. An inspector will be In charge of the amrv Women who wish to sew shirts are asked to call the Commercial club. 2,000. "Now no one knows how many men must be examined to yield 687,000 sol-j diers. Therefore no one can say just how many men it is absolutely neces-J sary to put on this list "A moment's reflection will prove that the whole 10,000,000 mu6t be given their places on the list of 'order of examination. "Every registered man Is in a state of uncertainty. He does not know when he will be called. He hesitates to plant a crop for fear he will not reap it Employers hesitate to engage his services fearing they will be but temporary. This condition ought to be cured for tne repose of the public mind. It can be cured to some extent by putting ever man on the list "For this reason the whole 10,000,000 names are to be given places on the list of order of examination. - - Segregation Into Groups. .k. "Obviously no single agency could examine 10,000,000 men. . Therefore the , 10.000.000 are segregated into

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HBERSFOR ARMY TO BE MADE FRIDAY 'Committee Room of Senate) Office Building to be Place 1 of Draft Time is Set for! 9:30. INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN WASHINGTON, July 19. Ninethirty o'clock tomorrow morning in a -committee room of the senate office building have been fixed as the time and place for the war army drawing. Secretary Baker and cabinet officials and members of the senate and house military committees will witness" the drawing. Provost Marshal-General Crowder counts upon finishing In little more' than an hour the entire process which1 will fix the order of liability for ap-' pearance before the local exemption board of each man of the ten million' registered. COUNTY BOARD ALL SET 1 FOR DRAFT OPERATIONS The stage Is set for the enrollment' of Wayne county's share In the new army, according to an announcement made today by the county conscripi tinn hmtrH. Everr detail of the coun- - ty board's work has been arranged, and as soon as tne numDers are given j tn thn hrtard bv the national govern-! ment they will start in motion the machinery for the selection oi tne county's men. , The selections for the eastern district will be made In the private office of the county clerk on the second, flrwir nf thn rrmrt house and as soon as the holders of the drafted numbers are learned, Sheriff Carr will noury the persons holding tne numbers to report at the court house, before the board. Clerk Kelly will keep a record of the examination of each man and have charge of the exemption blanks, and Dr. F. W. Kreuger will have charge of the physical examination of the witnesses. Some time will be taken In securing the men for the new army on account of the large numoer or exemptions mat. nmhuhlT.hit filed and the time required to pass on the exemptions. Do Yobti-' '-i Join the Bit NowfJ Red Cross WEATHER FORECAST F. I.JI.M hw !1nltrf RtltM Wnlth. er Bureau Generally fair tonight andFriday. Temperature Today. Noon ..........83 Yesterday's Temperature. Maximum ... ........89 Minimum ... 59 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair tonight and Friday excepting possibly local thundershowers. ConHnnni warm. r.nani rvinr!ltln The TMt area. of high barometrlo pressure has built up over tne west auanuo ana iow nsiiiM nvAr thn far north has result ed In warmer weather throughout the central ana western states. iempen ture of 104 at Denver, Colorado. Thundershowers over the southwest New Chief Starts Drive On Drivers Who Forget Plates Already Richmond's new chief ol Police. Edward McNally has proved he means business, much to the sorrow nf Pfthert Stevens. Stevens was sr. rested yesterday and this morning - . . a was linea si ana costs ior operating a motor vehicle without a licence plate attached to both, the front and rear. "We are going to put a stop to the driving of automobiles without license plates," Chief McNally declared, 1h state provides the plates when the license Is issued and there is no ex cuse for not using them." , There are numerous owners of anto mobiles who are not displaying theii license tags and as soon as there are found they will be arrested and If found guilty will be fined. groups of suitable size for convenient examination. There are 4,557 of these groups. For each group a board has been appointed to examine for select, ion. By far the' greater number of these groups consist of approximately 3.000 men. ' - "Since this Is so, our problem Is not to put the whole 10.000,000 names in one list arranged in the order of ex aminatlon. It is to determine the order of examination in each group. , Necessity for Drawing. '"Since all registered men stand In an equality of right and duty, the question of priority can only be determined by lot or drawing. It would be possible to have 4,657 separate drawings one for each group but since methods would vary and since supervision and absolute insurance against the charge of fraudulent manipulation could not be had in that way, every Continued On. Page. TweJve.J

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