Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 225, 2 August 1917 — Page 1

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EFFORT MADE TO RAILROAD BAYER SAYS

HIS NORSE Kitty Pratt Expected to Test ify That Youth is Sane Four Physicians to Go on Stand. HEARING IS PUT OFF Miss Kitty Pratt, -who has been tak tag care of George Barer since his confinement at the Pratt home on North Sixth street, said today, and probably will testify Friday morning In circuit court that Bayer Is not Insane, but that efforts are being made to "railroad" him Into Easthaven. "I do mot know Bayer, and never heard of him until I was hired to taice care of him, but I do know that he is not insane and that efforts are being made to railroad him." Miss Pratt de clared. Hearing Postponed. On account of other business com big before the court, the hearing in regard to the sanity of Bayer was post poned until Friday morning, tnrougn an agreement of counsel. A number of witnesses In the case were in court Thursday morning ready to testify. Four Doctors to Testify. Four physicians have been summon ed as witnesses and will testify to Bay er's mental and physical condition. It was understood today. The two phys icians that filed the complaint, Dr. E R, Churchell and Dr. J. M. Bulla, to gether with Dr. F. S. Harold and Dr. 8. O. Markley, will place their opin ions as to Bayers sanity before- the court in an effort to keep him from an asylum. In addition to the testimony of the four physicians, Miss Pratt will testify as to Bayers actions and his mental condition. FOOD MEASURE IS GIVEN TO HOUSE ' WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. The con ference agreement on tha administra tion food control bill, containing neither of the senate's amendments which would have provided for a congressional war expenditures commit tee and a food board of three mem bers, was reported to the house today. Both proposals which had been objected to by President Wilson, were stricken out of the bill by the con ferees. The house is expected to adopt the conference report tomorrow and the senate during the coming week after much debate because of the elimination of its war committee and food board proposals. Richmond Division Will Hire No Women No old men or women are to be em ployed In place of men on the Richmond division of the Pennsylvania un less the company is forced to do so to use them because of the shortage of other labor, officials said Thursday. The number of men taken by the draft will not affect the company's Richmond situation and until the number, was known, the railroad will make no definite decision. Women will be employed before the company has recourse to the older men, according to the officials. KAISER HAS NO MINION IN NORTHERN MEXICO NOW JUAREZ. Mex.. Aug. 2. The German Imperial government today is without an official representative in northern Mexico for the first time in twenty years. Since the death of Max Weber, German vice-counsul, Frederick Reuter has been acting as vice consul but yesterday the consulate was closed and it was announced it would not be re-opened. Reuter has gone to a ranch near Santa Rosia. NAVY BUY8 CLOTH WASHINGTON. Aug. 2. Contracts have been awarded by the navy for 1,744,000 yards of woolen uniform cloth: The awards were distributed among 22 firms. Do Your p-! Join the Bit Now j- Red Cross WEATHER FORECAST For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Friday. Warmer Friday. Temperature Today. 1 Noon ..82 Yesterday. Maximum 95 Minimum 71 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair tonight with moderate temperature. Friday, fair and warmer. General Conditions Wisconsin storm has passed entirely away and cool weather prevails over the west, and has caused the fall In temperature since last night. Frost in Colorado and Wyoming, Wednesday morning. The temperature will rise again after tonight. Severe electrical storms were prevalent in all parts of Indiana last nleht. but none in Wayne county.

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Weather Man Predicts Cold Wave for Tonight; Temperature Will Fall Below 50. A cold wave is slated to strike Richmond Thursday night Relief from the torrid weather of over a week, during which thermometers hovered around the 92 mark, Is at last In sight, although It may last only several days, weather Forecaster Moore announced Thursday. The temperature will fall to 50 or below during the night, Moore said, caused by the cold wave moving over western Canada. To Arrive at 8:00 The lagging northwest winds will arrive about 8 o'clock, Moore said, sending the red liquid in thermometer scurrying downward toward the 5" mark. It is expected 'that the winds will bring the coolest weather of the season. The relief may be only temporary however, as it is believed that the temperature will gradually climb up to 90 before Saturday afternoon, when rains are predicted. At 7 o'clock Thursday morning thermometers registered 69 degrees, the coolest morning for several weeks. At noon it had reached the 81 mark and wasn't expected to go much higher. WAMPLER SAYS HE IS FATHER OF JUDGE PLAN Doctor, Who is for Bavis, Admits He Started Move Waidele Denies it. Dr. John M. Wampler says he is the father of the proposed ordinance creating the office of city judge at an annual salary of $1,200. The ordinance, which will come up for first reading before the city council next Monday night,, was first proposed by Councilman Frank Waidele on May 7. Dr. Wampler admitted Thursday that it was his "suggestion" to Councilman Waidele which caused the mat ter being taken before council. Attorney Wilfred Jessup was also in terested in the creation of the office of city Judge, the doctor said. Waidele Saw Need Councilman Waidele said "that he Saw the need of a man with a legally trained mind sitting . as city Judge two years ago when he attended a session of the court. He said he proposed the adoption of such an ordinance on May 7 as he though the time was ripe. He denied that Dr. Wampler "suggested" the Introduction of such an ordinance and said that he had held no conversation with Dr. Wampler for some time prior to taking up the question before council. Wampler Tells Why Dr. Wampler said he urged the Introduction of such an ordinance be cause he didn't want to "see Dr. W, W. Zimmerman try the cases coming up in police court because he isn't competent to try them." A picture of Alfred Bavis, ladependent candidate for mayor, hangs on the wall in the office of Dr. Wampler. Asked if he favored Bavis' candidacy for mayor he said he thought Bavis a very competent man, and far ahead of Dr. Zimmerman in civic matters. "Doe's" Against It Dr. Zimmerman opposes the crea tion of the office of city Judge claiming that any man with a "practical mind" is competent to decide the cases which are brought up In city court. Dr. Wampler says he "suggested" the creation of such an office to Councilman Waidele but "Dr. Zimmerman's past record shows that he isn't competent to try the cases." Girl Graduates To Be Urged To Take Up Nursing Studies Appeals to learn nursing to replace the hundreds of nurses taken from the United States by the war, will be received in a few days by every girl who was graduated from the Richmond High school In 1917. The names of the graduates were forwarded Thursday to the National League of Nursing Education in Washington by Superintendent Giles in response to a request for them. Taking up of nursing is urged as a patriotic duty by the league. All Food For Navy Must Pass Standard WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. Navy men are "no prison squad" says Paymaster McGowan; chief of the navy's bureau of supplies and accounts, in an edict, insisting on rigid inspection of pur chases. "It is therefore directed," he said, "that every effort to try on the navy any experiments or tests of any food products whatever, shall be propmtly suppressed. It should be constantly borne in mind that doubtful food is bad food and will be treated as such." MARINE MINISTER QUITS PARIS, Aug. 2. Rear Admiral Lacaze, minister of marine in the French cabinet, today handed his resignation to Premier Ribot

Mere Boys Comprise Bulk of Prisoners Taken By Entente Allies In Great Flemish Drive ; German Losses Heavy; But British Lose Few

BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCS AND BELGIUM, Aug. 2. (By the Associated Press.) "The situation la virtually unchanged." This sums up the day's news from the wide zone along which the British and French yesterday hurled Prince Rupprecht's forces back to the supporting defenses at a depth varying between one and three miles. . Artillery activities continued with great Intensity, the British pouring a steady stream of high explosive shells into positions which the Germans now hold, but there waa comparatively little infantry fighting. Water Fills Shell Holes. The allies today were busy consolidating the positions they captured yesterday. Heavy German counter-attacks had been looked for but outside of a few local attempts to regain the positions these did not materialize. This waa perhaps due partly to the heavy rain which continued without cessation since last night, filling shell holes with water and turning the terrain Into a deep mud over which It is difficult to fight. The German guns, however, many of London Would Take Squint at Amexes LONDON, Aug. 2. The Daily Mall makes a plea that American troops be given an opportunity to be seen in London before long. The papers say Londoners ought to have the chance of showing the Amer icans the feeling of enthusiasm their arrival excites. It says: "London needs . a heartening spectacle as well as an opportunity to express its enthusiasm." It declares that a column of Amer ican regulars throughout the streets of the metropolis would have a rousing reception. 24 Yankee Sailors Lost When Motano Is Sent To Bottom LONDON, Aug. 2. It was reported at the American consulate here today that 24 members of the crew of the American steamship, Motano, which was sunk by a German submarine on July 31 lost their lives. OFFICIAL LISTS OF DRAFT TAKEN INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 2. The official list of registrants in Marion county, outside of Indianapolis, containing 2,691 names, disappeared last night fvl-Nn the office of Hugh McLandon, ch rman of the exemption board for thaCMivlsion. Heeported the theft of. the numbers aid names today to the federal authorities and Jesse Bachbach, state conscription officer. The liBt was being used to prepare other lists and out of it was being prepared the list for posting to call the first men for examination. The list was in use until late last night by the exemption board and was placed in a desk which later was locked. The authorities had very little to say about the matter but it is said they do not believe the list was taken by anyone desiring to escape being called for examination. AMERICAN FLYER FALLS TO DEATH MINEOLA, N. Y., Aug. 2. Captain Ralph L. Taylor, in command of the training section of the aviation signal corps here, lost control of his airplane today and plunged 800 feet to his deathSergeant Thomas Pell, who was in the machine with him, suffered a broken jaw and internal injuries. SHIPPING BOARD TO DIRECT SHIPS WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. Plans for taking over for operation all American ocean-going merchant ships soon will be announced by the shipping board. Charters will be requisitioned under a recent act of congress, authorizing the president to commandeer tonnage for government use. The program is preliminary to put ting into operation a program between the American and British government for joint control of the world shipping. it win give tne snipping board con trol of ocean freight rates charged by American ships and a rate base being worked out will be used for building end international rate schedule. New Orleans Chief Slain By Officer NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 2. James W. Reynolds, superintendent of the New Orleans police department, was shot and killed in his office today by Ter ence Mullen, a patrolman. Captain of Police Jerry Mullen, who was in the superintendent's office at the time, re ceived two bullet wounds in the chest.

which had been withdrawn to positions further back before the rain begain, have been carrying on a steady bombardment, especially against the territory captured by the allies on the northern side of the Ypres salient but their firing has been more or less erratic because of the storm which blocked the work of the observation officers. As usual, the Germans are employing great ' quantities of gas shells. ' British Losses Few. Due to the complete preparation made for yesterday's assault, the British casualties have not been excessive but the condition of 'the battle field and statements by prisoners Indicate that the German loses were exceedingly heavy. The British medical corps has again evinced a most complete organization. At 8 o'clock last night all British wounded had been collected and brought back to emergency stations. More than 4,000 prisoners with some sixty officers were taken by the British In the Ypres salient alone. Prussians, Bavarians and Saxons all have given half their number to swell the

CONSCRIPT BOARD "RESTS ON OARS" With practically all of the first part of the work finished, and the notices mailed for applicants to appear for examination, the Richmond district exemption board will "reBt on Its oars" until next Tuesday, when the first of the 504 registrants will appear for physical examination. Members of the board will be unable to resign from their places from now on and can be removed only by President Wilson, according to an order received from State Conscription Agent Eschbacb Thursday morning. According to the order only the most necessary and urgent needs will be sufficient for the resignation or removal of any member of a local board, which will act as long as the war losts. The members of the board are literally "drafted," according to the orcef, and are in the same status as the men who were drawn In the draft numbers, and are forced to perform the work given them. Submarines Really

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. The story of the submarine attacks on transports convoying America's first expeditionary forces to France Is told today In the official report of Admiral Gleaves, commanding the naval convoy, made public by Secretary Daniels. At least two undersea raiders are Indicated to have taken part In the first attack, which was centered on the flagship of Admiral Gleaves. The second group of transports also en countered two submarines, one of which apparently was destroyed by bombs from an American destroyer. Regarding the third group of vessels, there is some difference of opinion among officers and the convoy as to whether there was an attack, but there is much evidence submitted to indicate that submarines were repelled, accompanying vassels of the fleet. The report was given out by Secretary Daniels, with information of millLOAN SOCIETY OPENS AUG. 10 The BQsiness Men's Remedial Loan association will open for business at 17 North. Ninth 6treet on Augst 10. Applications for loans will be received by the manager beginning Aug. 6. The stockholders last night elected the following - directors: Dr. C. A. Peterson, W. A. Bond, A. L. Jenkins, W. O. Seaney, W. L. Thornburg, C B. Beck, H. C. Clarke. The officers are: Dr. C. A. Peterson, president; W. O. Seaney, vice-president; H. C. Clarke, secretary; C. B. Beck, treasurer; C. E. Haseltine, manager. The company was organized by F. S. Wellsmere, W. B. Denison and A. C. Denison. Stock was taken by 122 Wayne county men. The management announced that the business of the organization does not conflict with the scope of the bank or building and loan association. It proposes to handle loans ranging from $25 to $300 on chattel, or collateral security at a reasonable rate of Interest. Wives Supplied Men to Dodge Conscription NEW YORK, Aug. 2. Agents of the department of justice, it was said today, were conducting an Investigation here to learn if marrlagebrokers have been supplying women as wives for men seeking to avoid being drafted into the national army. The investigation is said to be the result of two days' work by members of the department after they discovered that many of the men applying for marriage licenses knew little or nothing about the women they were seeking to marry beyond the necessary facts I to obtain a license.' j

total captured and no more dejected appearing men have been seen In British prison stations since the beginning of the war. Few Old Non-Coma. Particularly noticeable was the scarcity of veteran non-commissioned officers and the large number of young men from the 1918 class who are nothing more than raw recruits. One veteran of many battles freely expressed his contempt of these youngsters, who be said, lacked stamina to Stand up under the hardships of war and could not be depended upon in a tight place such as they' found themselves facing yesterday. A majority of these prisoners were a miserable, sorry looking lot, many of them suffering from internal complaints caused by exposure and the majority from hunger. Few of them have any hopes of Germany winning the war and one officer ventured the opinion that the time of the fatherland's downfall was near at hand. He based his opinion on the scarcity of men and certainly boyish faces now in prison camps appear to be indicative of a lack of human material.

Army Camp Cook is Arrested When He Foments a Strike HATTIESBURG, Miss., Aug. 2. Nicholas Feigel, chief cook for a construction crew at the army training camp here was under arrest today charged with being "dangerous and suspicious." . The arrest was made by county authorities at the request of officers of the construction company who claimed Feigel attemped to incite a strike among commissary employes. He will be turned over to the federal authorities. Feigel stated that although he was a native of Germany he was a naturalized American citizen. He came here from St. Louis. ROOT HAS BROKEN RIB Frank Root, Pennsylvania railroad engineer, is confined to his home with a broken rib sustained several weeks ago while bathing in a pooL The inJury gave him no trouble until yesterday when it forced him to call In a physician. Did Try To tary value deleted, after a censored copy had been sent in confidence to the senate naval committee, members of which recently inquired regarding the complete authenticity of this account of the attack as published July 3. The report was written by Admiral Gleaves while at a French port and was submitted to Admiral Mayo, commander of the Atlantic fleet, who forwarded it to the navy department BOY ASKS $15,000 FOR HIS INJURIES EATON, O., Aug. 2. Damages In the sum of $15,000 are asked from the Cincinnati Northern railroad by George D. Baker, 13 years old, in a suit filed in common pleas court by his guardian, N. O. Walker. According to the petition, plaintiff suffered a fractured skull, broken lower Jaw and other injuries when struck May, 1917, by a backing locomotive at a grade crossing In West Alexandria. The accident in which the lad figured cost the life of his mother and injured his stepfather. Notices have been mailed the first 316 registrants in Preble county and examination to determine eligible for service will be started Monday and Continued Tuesday and Wednesday. The list will be divided into three classes, one for each day. Dorothy Heironimus Drafts Design For Friends' Canning Dorothy Heironimus, Earlham freshman. Is the author of the design which will be placed on every can of fruit or vegetables put up for war relief by Five-Years' Friends In the United States. Out of the many designs submitted, that of Miss Heironimus, was adopted, with a slight addition from the work of a competitor. Many thousand of them will be distributed to the Friends through America, the first Installment of 6,000 being ready for distribution now. Miss Heironimus is a daughter of N. C. Heironimus, principal of the Garfield school. She has always been interested In art, but has never studied it MANN GRANTED DIVORCE Judge Fox Thursday granted a divorce to Fred A. Mann from Nellie Mann, on a charge of cruel and Inhuman treatment Mann accused his wife of failing to cook his meals and also declared that she wrongfully accused him of associating with other women.

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American Surgeons Help Allies Care for Wounded In Battle of Flanders. BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM. Aug. 2. America played a small but Important part In the battle of Flanders. A number of American surgical teams, which were brought to the front from the base hospital by the director general of the medical service, worked side by side with their British allies in caring for the wounded. DRY AMENDMENT GOES OVER TO NEXTJJESSION House Prohi Leaders Delay Action on Sheppard Measure. WASHINGTON. Aug. 2. National prohibition by constitutional amendment waa hung up in the house today by the prohibition leaders themselves. The resolution to submit the proposal to the state, passed yesterday by the senate, waa put out of the program for the present session, and will sot come up until the regular session in December. Plans to reconvene the democratic caucus and reverse its decision, to consider only war legislation, were abandoned. It waa believed delaying action until the next cession win help the prohibition cause. The resolution passed the senate late yesterday by a vote of 65 to 20, eight more than the necessary twothirds. The only change made in the resolution as originally reported to the senate was the adoption of an amend' ment providing that the constitutional amendment shall be Inoperative un less ratified by three-fourths of the states within six years from the date of its submission. GEN. BRUSSILOFF QUITS COMMAND FETROGRAiV- Ang. i General Alexis A. Brussiloff. commander In chief of the Russian armies has re signed. General L. G. KornHoff, com mander In chief of the Russian armies on the southewestern front, has been appointed generalissimo. General Tcheremissoff, commander of the Eighth army, has been appointed to succeed General L. G. Kornlloff on the southwestern front RUSSIAN GENERALS DEMAND POLITICS STAY OUT OF ARMY LONDON, Aug. 2. According to a Petrograd dispatch to the Post Russian army commanders had a conference at headquarters recently and virtually sent an ultimatum to Premier and War Minister Kerensky that unless the army was kept outside politics and treated merely as a fighting machine, they would resign as being unable to carry on the war victoriously. The correspondent believes the ultimatum will be accepted. 21 SHIPS SUNK IN LAST WEEK LONDON, Aug. 2. The following Is the British weekly shipping summary given out yesterday: Arrivals, 2,747; sailings, 2,776. British merchantment of more than 1,600 tons sunk, IS; under 1,600 tons, three. British merchantmen unsuccessfully attacked 9, Including three previously. Fishing vessels sunk, none. MURDER TRIAL BEGINS MONDAY William H. Harris, slayer pf Hensley Trachenburg, was indicted on a charge of murder in the first degree by tha county grand jury, after a brief session Thursday morning. Testimony was heard by the Jury from several persons who were acquainted with the circumstances of the shooting, which occurred at the east end Pennsylvania railroad yards Monday night Prosecutor Strayer announced Thursday that the trial will be held next Monday. PLANS FOR PROPOSED K. OF P.." BUILDING ARE OPENED HERE Plans and specifications of the proposed K. of P. building on South Eighth street were opened to Richmond bidders Wednesday afternoon. Several of the city's contractors figured on the building Wednesday and Thursday. No time for the submission of bids has been set. The plans have already been submitted to Ohio bidders, and many bids are expected from Ohio builders.

KAISER CALLS WAR COUNCIL AT BRUSSELS; DRIVE IS m

Allied Forces Retain Grip Positions Won in Heavyj Smashes Along Flemish Battle Line. FOE FIGHTS FIERCELY AMSTERDAM, Aug. 2 Emperol William has called a war council of the high military and naval leaders ot, German to meet at Brussels today. - (By Associated Press Germany la battling with , despera tten probably unparalleled In the wax to hold her lines In Flanders against the combined Anglo-French attack. Notwithstanding the heavy handicap which the atrocious weather has lnv posed upon them, however, the entente forces have made good their most Important gain and apparently are only awaiting clearing stmospherlo con dltlons to blast their way farther into the Teutonic front. ' Boasts Uncalled For The boasts of successful resistance) to the entente thrusts that hare come from the Berlin war office, were based as usual on the unwarranted assumption that an attempt had been made to break through and upon the fact that at one or two points the German re action resulted in some of the far ad vanced forces of the allies terns pushed back. . Today, however comes the so nouncement from London that despite the hampering rainfall the British have negatived the result of one of the; German counter thrusts, completely re-, establishing their line in the neighborhood of the Roulers-Tpres railway as' the outcome of a night attack, ! Paris reports two attacks on th French lines east and southeast of, Rhelms end assaults In the Avocourt wood sector in the Verdun region and in the Apremant forest southeast of StMihieL- All these were fruitless foe the Germans. ; Some important movement apparent! ly is under way on the Russian northern front which, has been holding en tirely firm while the southern end of the line was falling back. Now, however, the Russians are re-i ported, to nave evacuated the Uaknll ridge head, 15 miles south east of Riga, the Germans marching Into the evacuated position. The exact sig niflcance of this development is yet to be revealed. MISLEADING OF AMERICANS WAS MICHAELIS' PLAN JULES CAM BON French" Foreign Minister Replies to Annexation Charges. PARIS, Aug. 2. Jules Cambon. ger era! secretary of the ministry of for eign affairs, commenting oa Premier Ribot's reply in the chamber of deputies to the recent statement of Dr. Mlchaelis, the German chancellor with regard to a secret treaty with Russia, said to the Associated Press yesterday: "The purpose of Herr Mlchaelis was to mislead the anti-annexatlonist ele ments of Russia and the United States In attributing to France, a desire to annex what had never belonged to It No Frenchman, myself among them. who keeps the memory of the sad wound of 1870 would have dreamed of precipitating Europe into , a war to avenge this injury, but since war has been imposed upon us, it Is natural and Just that we should profit by it to retake what had been unjustly torn from us. Towns Have Been French. Tn the region of the Sarre to which allusion has been made are towns which have been French for centuries and which the treaty of 1814 recognized as ours. "Sarre Louis, for example. Is the birthplace of Marshall - Ney, who la 1814 refused before a court-martial to avail himself of the arguments of his lawyer, who would have made him innocent of the crime of treason by the fact that his birthplace was no longer in France. Ney preferred to be shot rather than to renounce his French citizenship by judicial subtlety." M. Cambon considered the allega tions of Herr Mlchaelis as having been caused by the necessity of replying to the revelations respecting the crown council at Potsdam July 5, 1914, M. Cambon who was then ambassador at Berlin, said: . Believes Statement. "I have reason to believe that these revelations which place at this date the responsibility and initiative of the war conform to the truth and I am not surprised that the German . govern ment attempts to divert the discussion by accusing us of seeking annexations which are absolutely contrary to the feelings of all reasonable Frenchmen." .-. . ; '. - Respecting the Balkan conference. which took place last week, in Paris, M. Cambon expressed the hope that the United States would take part and make its voice heard in all future conferences. "France and ; the .United States," said be, "are countries whose principles and whose objects in this war are most alike." :