Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 214, 20 July 1917 — Page 1

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FIRST NUMBER IS WITHDRAWN BY SECRETARY OF WAR BAKER Officials, Blindfolded, Start Drawing of Capsules From Large Bowl All Names Will Be Picked. TO FINISH TONIGHT WASHINGTON, July 20. The great lottery to fix the order of liability for military service of each of the ten million men of the United States registered for the war began at 9:49 o'clock this morning. By some time tonight every man will know whether he is among the first 1,370.000 to be called before local exemption boards. From the 1,379,000, the boards are to select 6S7.000 for America's first draft army of 500,000 and to fill up vacancies in the national guard and the regular army. Officials Start Drawing In the committee room of the senate office building, with representatives of the press present, war department officials and members of the senate and house military committees began the drawing of 10,500 slips, bearing numbers corresponding with the serial numbers of each registrant in the largest district in the country. Secretary Baker, was the first man to withdraw a capsule enclosed slip from a irreargTOsTJowTrTrrBlindfolded, he drew number 258. In every district in which as many as 258 are registered, number 258 heads the list of those to be called. Baker Explains Lot. "We have met this morning," announced secretary Baker in opening the proceeding, "to conduct the lot or draft by which the national army and such additions as may be necessary to bring the regular army up to war strength, are to be selected. "This is an occasion of very great dignity and 6ome solemnity. "It represents the first application of a principle believed by us to be thoroughly democratic, equal and fair In selecting soldiers to defend the national honor abroad and at home." To Preserve Looks. "I take this occasion to say that every step has been most honestly studied with a view not only to preserving throughout the utmost fairness in the selection but also to preserve all those appearances of fairness which are necessary to satisfy the country that this great selection has been made in accordance with every principal of Justice. "There are assembled here this morning in addition to officers of the army who are going to conduct for the most part the mechanical part of the work, the chief of staff, the adjutant general, and other men high in the military establishment, and the drawing is to be held under the observation of the senate and house military committees so that both the executive and legislative branches of the govornment are here to see that fairness I "3 given to every person." Senator is Nervous Chairman Chamberlain, of the senate co.'nmittee, drew the second naraber. The senator, blindfolded, and plainly nervous, was unable to locate the wide mouthed glass bowl unaided and after he had groped for a few seconds an attendant guided his hand to the capsules. He drew a capsulo and then silently stepped aside. "The second number is 2,522." shouted the announcer. The handkerchief then was placed over the eyes of Chairman Pent, of the house military committee, and he withdrew the third number, 9,613. Senator Warren and Representative Kahn, ranking minority members of the senate and house military committees, drew the next two numbers, 4,532 and 10,218. Major-General Tasker H. Bliss, acting chief of the staff of the army, drew the sixth number. Bliss is Applauded Just then a round of hand-clapping, tho first applause to break the silence Continued On Page Five. t Do Yourprn- Join the Bit Now p Red Cross WEATHER FOPFCAST For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Saturday. 1 Temperature Today. Noon 85 Yesterday. Maximum .....85 Minimum ....56 ILIFF IS IMPROVED

The condition of Edgar lUfT, who has been seriously ill for several , weeks, is much improved, t A iavor"hie change was noticed Thursday.

Priest, Called In Draft, Is Willing To Go As Private v Rev. Clement Zepf. who was selected Friday for the national army, is the first clergyman in Richmond, within draft age, to offer his services to his country. Under the army conscription law any ordained clergyman is exempted from military service. He is assistant rector of St. Andrews Catholic church. Father Zepf said he would not claim exemption, but that he would very likely join the colors as a chaplain if arrangements can be made for him to do so. In the event he isn't made a chaplain he said he would make an attempt to get in the army as an officer or a private. f He has written Bishop Chartrand regarding his situation. "I am an American and I want to do my duty to my country in its time of need," he said.

AMERICA WILL AVAIL LITTLE SAYS MICHAELIS New Chancellor Praises Submarine as Legal War Instrument. COPENHAGEN, July 20. Chancellor Michaelis in his address before the Reichstag yesterday said Germany would not continue the war a day longer if it could obtain an honorable peace. America's intervention was not regarded with Berious concern. The German fleet, particularly the snbjDaraSjjjrouJld master the; situation, be said. . "' The Reichstag adopted the majority peace resolution by a vote of 214 to 116 with seventeen not voting. "Although," said Chancellor Michaelis, "English statesmen knew, as shown by their Blue Book, that Russian mobilization must lead to war with Germany they addressed not a word of warning to Russia . against military measures while my predecessor in instructions July 29, 1914, to the ambassador at Vienna directed him to Bay that we willingly fulfill our duty as an ally but must refuse to permit ourselves to be involved in a world war through Austro-Hungary disregarding our counsels. "The man who wishes to kindle world war does not write like this but a man who is laboring and has labored for peace to the utmost. "Compelled to Seize Sword" "The concentration of the Russian army compelled Germany to seize the sword. There was no choice left to us and what is true of the war itself is true also of our weapons, particularly the submarine. We deny the accusation that the submarine warfare is contrary to international law and violates the rights of humanity. "England forced this weapon in our hands through an illegal blockade. Continued On Page Six. Russian Socialist Is German Agent PETROGRAD. July 20. A letter from General Brussiloff's chief of staff states that Nikolai Lenine, the radical socialist leader, is an agent of the German general -staff. The evidence was traced through the confession of Lieutenant Ermolenko that he was sent to the front of the Sixth Russian army to make a propaganda in favor of early peace with Germany. ' Lenine's task was to compromise the provisional government in the eyes of the people by every possible means. Funds were sent through the intermediary of an employe of the German legation at Stockholm. The alleged chief German agent in Prussia is Maxis Koslovsky, to whose account two million rubles are now standing, It is stated. Six Youths Race To Beat Conscription Six, young men of Richmond left for Indianapolis Friday in a race to enlist before their number was drawn at WaslUngton. If they reached the Indianapolis station and were enlisted, even a minute before their number was called, they are volunteers, but otherwise they belong to the draft army and couldn't enlist. Three went for the navy and three for the army. , CONGRESSMAN WILL SEND BULLETINS ON CANNING GIVE NAME TO MURPHY More than 100 persons, already have written Congressman Elliott for bulletins on home canning and drying of fruits and vegetables. The congressman has a number of these and people who wish one are asked to give their names to City Gardener Murphy. ..:

These Are Picked

The appended two lists of names are Wayne County draft selections in the order in which they were drawn in Washington today. The irst name in each district represents the first man who will appear before the draft boards of Wayne county. The names in the irst district embrace Wayne, Boston and Franklin townships. The second district includes all townships excepting Wayne, Boston and Franklin. -, Count down 350 names In the first district list and 188 in the second district list and you will have the approximate list for the first call.

FIRST DISTRICT e - Y 258 Jesse Ralph Brown 2522 Emerson N. Wenger 458 Leslie Cox 1436 Ollie Lee Maines 2C24 Roger Q. Wilson 854 Olin Clair Gray 1894 Richard Mann Race 1878 Joseph H. Puthoft 1095 Robert Leon Hudson 2022 Antonio Russo 1455 Webster Bryan Marshall 783 Orwood E. Fuller 1813 John Perry 1858 Charles L. Pope 2389 Alfred R. Thornton 1752 Aloysius Peter Otten 2494 William Weaver 1117 Wm. A. Ingall 1572 Leroy Mobley 1748 Madison Ambrose Osmer 2195 Joseph Henry Smithmeyer 837 William Percy Goehner 2036 Gustave A. Sander 337 Frank S. Campbell 676 Elmer W. Erk 275 Howard Brunner 509 Frank O. Darland 1185 William Henry Kahle 564 Guy R. Dickinson 2166 Irvin Tabor Sbutz 945 Harry Rogers Hart 191? Robert Ray 596 Claude A. Doyle 2C20 Harry Glenn Wilson 1267 Frank Joseph Kleman 2148 Alfred Theodore Shoemaker 536 William E. Dean 1495 Albert George Metzger 2453 Carl Edward Vantz 548 Francesco DeLauro 126 Leonard A. Beach 1679 John Sherman McLaughlin 1237 Ewald C. Killinger 784 Wm. C.Furman 1732 Andy Norton 755 Eugene Foster 107 Wm. H. Barth W 1546 Frank Kenneth Mills - ; 1563 Damon F. Mitchell 2099 Harold W. Scott 1369 Fred Ledbetter 616 Lawrence Wm. Duning 373 Harry W. Chenoweth 1676 Carl McLain 1266 Chas. Frederick Kleman 1891 Lewis Quinn 775 Howard French 2684 Clement M. Zepf 486 Harry F. Crump 692 William W. Evans I COO Harry Scott Driggs 1986 Rirol Rohlig ... 2549 Charles W. White 1682 Russell Bowman McMahan 507 Arthur Vernon Darby 309 Enos C. Burnett 437 Wm. R, Conway 1324 Frank Henry Lakamp 604 Everett Nathan Druley 43 Howard Armstrong 2181 Albert Sipple 1763 John A. Pamer 1548 Guy L. Milton 1?64 William Thomas -Klein 1066 Lawrence Martin Hoover 924 George Clinton Harlan 2455 Luigi Vash 1 ' -2501 Roy C. Weeks 420 Leo Everett Cohne 1014 Benjamin Harrison Hickman 1178 Russell S. Joy 514 Enos O. Daugherty 2374 Ben F. Thompklns 433 Leonard Joseph Connerton 1329 Cleo Clifton Lamb ........ 10 Robert Adams 1045 Harry James Hoff 1031 Edgar Clamour Hirschfield 1705 William Grover Newman 1331 Willard Elbridge Lamm 16S5 Frank McMullen 487 Carl L. Culbertson 1282 Ervin Knight 1323 Harry J. Lahrmann 1847 Noah H. Piper . 797 Leo Gard 140 Ben W. Beede 2599 Albert R. William3 1536 Samuel P. Miller 1922 Geo. E. Reed 1723 Elbert Russel Noggle 1779 Lester F. Parks 1236 James Taylor Killgors 2247 Ray P. Sperling 2011 John Sauson Ruby 432 Wm. Leonard Conner 18 Earl John Ainsworth 652 Earl J. Epping 927 Benjamin F. Harper 1484 John Meredith 739 Floyd Flood 1551 Frederick Edward Minneman 601 Elmer Ellsworth Driscoll 1322 Bernard J. Lahrman 1146 Lawrence David Jessup 1103 Howard Chas. Hunt 2319 Harry Cecil Study 1395 Forest E. Livelsberger 2479 Frederick Mc. Wallace 606 Paul Grandstaft Druley . , 182 August Blomeyer 1771 Green Parks . 513 Clarence E. Daugherty 46 Herbert Chester 'Arnold 1020 Sandy James Hicks 1651 Paul Joseph McCarthy 1099 Ora A. Hughbanks 1955 Jesse James Ridge 2628 Harry Winters 1636 Charles Mull 223 Herbert Paul Bradley 2066 Frank H. Schmedinghoff J 441 George Mann 117 Walter C. Bass 2330 Steven Sw.artz.cup 602 Charles Crawford Drinkwater 2675 William A. Yodes : 390 Roy Clark 2233 Frank B. Snyder 1818 Ginseppe Petriello ,772 Joseph Frederick ; -' 1 . f Continued Or Page Ten.

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SECOND DISTRICT 258 Chester Paul Locke , 458 Charles Forehart ' . 854 Emmet t John Mitchell1 783 Joe Tongo 837 Clinton B. Hinshaw 337 W. A. Lintner 676 Robert J. Ulrick ; 275 John Carl Root 509 Leslie Orville Evans . 564 Edwin Hamilton Jones ' . 945 Clarence Paul Throckmorton 596 James R. Behr 536 Matt Cornell Derowecz 548 Ralph Fink - . 126 Ira Walter Joslin 784 Fred Engle : . 755 Kenneth Earl Huggman , , 107 Alonzo Howard Woods i 616 Daniel Leroy Personette ' ' 373 Horace Minor Thompson 775 William H. Hamilton -. 486 Roy Charles Schepman . 692 Clinton A. Brock 600 Jesse Gregar c v 507 Bon Burk v 309 Omar E. Binkley 437 Ralph Estus Champe 604 Harry Sourbeer Rush 43 Gerald Clyde Frazier : 924 William J. Teasel 420 Charles B. Scott ... 1014 Harley Elmer Smith 514 Frank Louis Close 433 Herman Arthur Huddelson 10 Raymond Charles Kelley , 1045 Clarence Pierson 1031 Perry Morton Stoops 487 Romie Wenzler i 797 Granville I Coomes V 140 Carl Albert Feregge 432 Shirrel Morris i ; 18 Earl Isaiah Helms 652 Harvey L. Parker , 927 Luke Flatley " 739 Louis Smith 601 Leroy Tout - - : 606 Edwin DeWitt Wickes,' -182 Raymond, A, Deeter., 513 Herschel Foster- - ' v 46' Charles William Blue , 1020 Homer Glenn Callaway 223 Carl Ammerman 117 Elmer B. Jackson 602 Arthur Moistner 390 Glen E. Golay i. 772 Howard Darwin Given 721 Harvey Jerome Day, Jr. I 786' Guy Pasqualette 280 Paul King Bryan 72 Earl J'arker Stevens 983 Walter William Turner 757 Orville Hoover 966 Earl Clayton Clingman ' 868 Claude Wickersham :. 332 Lewis W. Johnson ; 379 Cecil O. Baker 542 Clarence Wayne Ohmit 194 Glenn V. Pickett 874 Wlliam T. Bond 552 Edwin B. Newman - 298 James Howard Frazer . 438 John Lee Hines , 675 Lawrence L. Davis 343 Clarence A. Hinshaw 982 Earl Hinshaw 726 Bennie R. Dale ' 905 Harry Everett Parker 933 Verlin J. Sheffer "15 William Rexford Jarrert 452 Forest Johnson Travis 355 Clem William Black 530 Jack Albert Addler 809 Howard H. Thomas 645 Alfred S. Chamberlain 218 William Davis Hayward 620 Clayburn Glen McNutt 550 Grover Monger 574 Dayton Otho Leapley 31 Edward Parker 981 Harry Eaton Hunt 770 Lawrence Ellis Mohler 882 Albert Earle Conley 525 Everett Daniel Modlin 760 Clyde C. Geisler 677 Green H. Collins N 749 Robert Ray Innis 49 Orville Lester Study 183 Clyde A. McMullen ' 56 Albert Harrison Higgins 792 John Lewis Cross 5 Pierre Helms 350 John Tullock Moore 54 Lawrence Jackson McConaha 870 Lawrence Ray Harrison 1016 Albert Joseph Wedding 335 Clarence Duke 493 Paul William Stafford . 923 Andrew F. Flattlcy 341 T. Herschel Duke 549 Walter Kendall 440 Russell McClellan Zook 741 David Preston Overbey 1054 Ozro AllenDailey 711 William Edward Newcom 1022 Grover August Lawrence 841 Raymond Wilson Powell 638 Gerald L. Mead 1032 Charles W. Wilson 323 Keneth M. Duke 269 Philemon Forest Macey 685. Charles Timmons 1007 Watson John Faucett 391 Herbert Elvin Miners ,..-. 356 John Clayton Daugherty . , -. 112 Walter C. Williams . 128 Harrison Morton Miller 679 George Henry Keagy 805 Roy Stidham - 11 Roy Austin Morgan 900 Paul Harvey Cain 353 Cleo M. Stanton 970 Ivan Clee Ewers . 637 Ray C. Sherry 360 Lercy Ammerman 571 Elihue Hollingsworth 488 Horace Reed 704 Vance A. Wine 1053 Ora Herbert Knipp 363 Walter Ammerman 6 Walter Caldwell I 327 James O. Clark ' dot iivercii oiuiiu 93 Walter Earl Spahr . 957 Louie Edward Thompson Continued On Page Ten.

ASSASSIN MISSES RUSSIAN MINISTER

... . llllpiill MINISTER KERENSKY PETROGRAD, July 20. An attempt to assisinate War Minister Kerensky was made today at the town of Polotsk. A shot fired at the minister missed him. - . ' SLAVS ROUTED, BERLIN CMS BERLIN, via London, July 20. German -troops; have pushed forward through three strong Russian . zones ol defense between the Sereth and Zlota Lita rivers, in eastern Galicia, says the official statement issued today by the German army headquarters staff. The Russians suffered heavily, the statement adds, and are retreating in disorder. The Germans took a few thousand prisoners. At Jacobstadt, Dvinsk and Smorgon, along the Stokhod river, and from the Zlata Lita river to south of the Dniester river, the statement adds, the artillery fire increased in intensity. EXTERMIST UNITS HOLD MEETINGS TO DISCUSS ORDERS PETROGRAD, July 20. The Russian failure to hold the Germans in eastern Galicia, says an official statement issued by the war department today, was due to extremist detachments holding meetings and discussing the advisability of obeying orders which some regiments had refused to obey. Tho Russian statement Bays the 607th Mlynov regiment situated between Batkov and Manajov, voluntarily retired before the Germans and es a result the neighboring unit also had to retire. Becomes Father and Is Drawn For War Duty at Same Time R, J. Haas, 27 years old, became the father of a girl, and was drawn for military service at the same time Friday afternoon. Haas, who is a dairyman, says it is an added reason why he will claim exemption. "But I'm ready to go when they need married men," he said. Here's Your Answer! - Question 1 How many men from District Number 1 will have to serve in the first army? Answer' About 175. Question 2 How many men from District Number 1 have been called? Answer1 About 350 as it is estimated that 50 of the men called will be exempt. ' Question 3 When will the men who come on the first call have to report? Answer All men who ask for exemption must file their exemption claim within seven days from today.' The men who will actually go will be notified by the government as no date has been set for the, mobilisation of the new army. Question 4 When will the men on second call have to report? Answer: No date has been set by the . government as the first army must be organized and trained. . ; v Question 5 How are exemptions filed? Answer Apply to the exemption board at the Court House for this information. '

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DRAFT DAY PASSES SERIOUSLY; MOTHERS AND WIVES WEEP AS RELATIVES NAMES ARE CALLED Unofficial Quota is 268 for Ccunty, But 536 Men Will Be Permitted to Enter National Armed Forces Most Eligibles Ready to Go Superstitious Feared Effect of Drawing on Friday. - ? 8

FIRST MAN DRAWN IN QUAKER CITY SAYS HE'S LUCKY Fellow-Workers Congratulate Brown Wife Says "What Will I Do?" Jesse Ralph Brown, 27 years old, married and father of- a six months old girl, had the honor of being the first man conscripted in Richmond Friday. Brown, a machinist at the Starr Piano company, considered himself lucky. Fellow employes thought he had been highly honored and quit their work to congratulate him by shaking hands. "I'm ready to go any time the country needs me," Brown said. Brown thought for several minutes and ..then spoke of his little baby and MS wife, to whom he was marciedT&t the age of 18. -' "To Respond Willingly." "I know they need my support but so does the country. If the government sees fit to call me away from them I'm certainly going to respond willingly." His wife, Mrs. Marjorie Brown, at her home, 305 South Sixth street, broke down and wept when told that her husband's number, 258, was the first drawn. "I expected him to be drawn, for that's just our luck," she said. "What will I and little Bernice do if they take him away from me. I can't work because I've been 111." She said she thought her husband's first duty was to his family. FULL LIST TO BE PRINTED SATURDAY The full list of registered men and the position they have drawn will be printed in tomorrow's issue. Owing to the slow drafting method, the names of all the men registered in the county had not been selected at a late hour this afternoon, and indications were that the work would go far into the night. It is highly probable that all the eligible men listed in tonight's issue will make up the first army, as the number is less than the estimate of men Wayne county was expected to furnish. French Withstand Furious Onslaught PARIS, July 20. The Germans made a general attack last night on the whole sector of the Aisne front between Craonne and Vauclerc, using large bodies of troops. The war office announces that the French withstood the furious assaults and maintained their positions everywhere. . The ground before the French positions was strewn with dead. '- Hotel Guests Can't : Put Shoes in Hall; Germans Steal 'Em BERLIN. July, 18 .(via London) July 20. The time-honored custom among hotel guests of depositing one's footwear in the corridor outside the door to have it polished is likely to come into disuse for the time being. The growing demand for shoes, even cast off s, has encouraged thefts of footyear in hotels. W : v ; ..- ,.- In order to rescue hotel guests from their predicament in the case of such losses, the Imperial clothing bureau has ordained that purchasing certificates be issued without the ordinary restrictions whenever the applicant is able to prove that he has been robbed of his boots in a hotel. " J

Draft day was one of unusual solemnity in Richmond and Wayne county, Friday. While most of the men whose numbers were called said they were willing and ready to respond to their country's call, others were, struck with fear. Practically every home in the county felt the effect of the first drawing for the first national army. Many Tears Are Shed. Everywhere, throughout the city, mothers of sons, whose numbers were selected, wives and sweethearts gathered and many tears were shed. Soon Wayne county will give up 269 of its young men, the cream of those selected. The men whose numbers were selected displayed no unusual feeling in the matter, and took the news as men, usually take such news. As usual it is the mothers who will' do the suffering. There was something uncannily ser-' ioue about the day. One felt It as he watched women standing in small knots In streets and saw them In their door ways. Several women would gather and talk quieUy. ' Church Bells Toll." , ' News that the first numbers had been selected was told by the tolling of church bells in many of the city's churches. A corps of workers was kept busy at the office of The Palladium answering telephone calls, regarding the draft, . "My son. my boy tell me, tell mewill he have to go?" one woman asked in a low voice. It sounded as if she had been weeping. Yes, sho was told when she gave his number, her son was called . "God," she said, a deep sob, and she was gone. Crowd In Good Humor. There were hundreds of simflai cases. Crowds gathered in the front of The Palladium office. The men laughed and joked and the popular question was, "Did they get you?" Quota Not Set. Wayne county's quota for the firs! national army has not been definitely determined, according to State Conscription Agent Jesse EshbacB in a long distance telephone talk with The Palladium. He said the quota had not been determined because of the failure of national guard officers to report the

number of men in each county. The unofficial quota of Wayne county is 269. There will be 538 names drawn, however, as the President has called for 200 per cent of the quota on the first call. Superstitious One Affected. Many superstitious ones thought it was a psychological mistake to conduct the drawing on Friday, because of the old superstition regarding th day. "I wish It had been the thirteenth as well as Friday," Ross Williams, as sistant secretary of the Y. M. C. Ay 6aid. "That was always my luckM day," he added. Williams' number hal not been drawn late Friday afternoon. ' Mayor Robbins said that Friday was just as good a day as any other. He doesn't believe in superstitions anyway, he says. Leslie Cox, 25 years old, the third man drawn, said he would go willingly if a good home could be found for his wife and two babies. Cox, who is a clerk, celebrated his wedding anni' versafy Thursday night. Wenger Is Undecided. Emerson N. Wenger, a brakeman living at 227 North Sixth street, who was the second man to be drawn said he would claim exemption on th grounds that his wife was dependent Continued On Page Six. BELL FURNISHES $10,000 BOND INDIANAPOLIS, July 20. Mayor Joseph E. Bell, Indicted with 44 others by the federal grand "jury on a charge of. conspiring , to corrupt the 1914 election, came to the federal building today, accompanied by several bondsmen and a number of other indicted men, and : surrendered . himself ; to arrest. - . . .,;.'-"'--'? Among those who accompanied the Indicted men, was Thomas Taggart. Bell's bond was fixed at $10,000. Several minor city officials and police officers accompanied the mayor's party and also surrendered.

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