Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 230, 8 August 1917 — Page 1

RIGHMG PA VOL. XLII..NO. 230 io7E Palladium and Sun-Telegram MAIL EDITION RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1917. - SINGLE COPY. 2 CENTS

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COUNTY CAN GET SERVICE OF AGENT AT LITTLE COST

Purdue Man Explains to Trustees That Government and State Will Pay Salary. OPINION DIVIDED Wayne county can hire an agricultural agent with an expense of less than $600 a year. At a meeting of township trustees Wednesday morning, T. A. Coleman, a representative of Purdue university, presented the proposition whereby the state and federal governments will pay the salary of a county agent, and the only expense to the taxpayers of the county directly will be for incidental expenses. Coleman explained to the trustees that under the new food bill now before congress, and which will probably be passed, the federal government will give to the university for the extension department a fund sufflclnt to pay $1,000 for each agricultural agent in the state and that the state government has offered to pay one-half of the salary of each agent. Salary Would Be Paid. The salary of a county agent for this county would be about $1,600 Therefore, with the appropriations from the state and federal govern' ments, the entire salary of the agent would be paid. Futhermore it was proposed to take over the coutny supervisor of Domes tic Science, to have charge of the work with women and girls, and to pay part or. all of her salary from the appropriation made to Indiana by the nation. The need of a county agent in the Increased production and added efforts on the farm to feed the world in the present war was shown by Coleman, who urged the trustees to think of the matter in the light of .their patriotic duty. Following Coleman's offer, the trus tees held an extended discussion of the matter in an executive session with the sentiment of the board divided as to what would be the best cour6t to follow. County Superintendent Williams i3 urging its adoption. "The matter." said Williams, "depends on the farmers in othef town ships in the county. Wayne township will have little to say. Personally I am in favor of a county agent, and in view of the offer made I think it ia a splendid proposition." KQRNILOFF SAYS SLAV WILL FIGHT LONDON, Aug. 8. The correspondent of the Times at the headquarters of the Seventh Russian army talked with General Korniloff on the eve of his departure to take over the supreme command. General Korniloff 6aid: "The first stage of the war is over. The second phase begins today." The correspondent eays the Russian commander repudiates the possibility of the Russians surrendering. He holds that if Russia concludes a dishonorable peace to which traitors have been driving her she will become a German colony for ever. The Germans would seize her foodstuffs, enroll her men and treat her as a conquered country. ! There could be no choice between the evil of war and the evil of surrender. The new government must realize the necessity of inviting the allies to help in the reorganization of the rail way service for warfare. If Germany decided, as all signs indicate, to trans fer the main pressure to the Russian front, it would be hopeless to rely on methods that availed against the in ferior Austrian troops. Russia is full of splendid fighting men. Ten millions have already been enrolled but they are scarcely trained. They are too busy attending meetings Instead of drill. These millions must be helped by the British, and French officers as the Serbians, Rumanians, Greeks and Americans have ben. Do Your r-J -iJoin the Bit Now LJJ Red Cross WEATHER FORECAST For Indiana by United States Weath er Bureau Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Tnrfav'n Temcerature Noon 821 Yesterday Maximum S3 Minimum 63 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Occasional showers and probably thunder storms. General Conditions The Mississippi valley storm which is causing the present rain, continues to move slowly eastward, producing 6howers and thunderstorms in its path. The weather continues unsettled over much of :ho United States, east of the Rocky ilouataloa. .Very cool in Wyoming.

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Better Not Be Examined for New Army Then. Telia How It Feels to Be Tested by Docs.

By ROSCOE FLEMING COURTHOUSE, Aug. 8 (Special to the Palladium.) It wouldn't do for a prude to take the physical examination for the selective army. Members of the examining board waste little time on social amenities. When we went in we were thinking of a suitable remark with which to . greet the board. Our first stop was at a table where sat a busy man with a pile of blanks before him. We knew him. "How. are you? Is everybody well at home?" we asked cordially. Responds All In Heap. $

"Sound'n well physically? Health ln'fere 'th succes in life? Ever n asylum er hospital? Sign here," he responded in a chatty tone. We signed. "Take 'm. Doc," said the questioner. "Take off all your clothes," commanded Doc." We were horrified. "Yes, all of 'em! Think this is an old ladles' home?" Blushing deeply, we did as he directed. Now our form is slightly slim to say the least. We have never made any claims to being a latter-day Appollo. But our feelings were hurt by the remark made by Sheriff well, one of the board. "Lord, what a shite-pote," he said. "You'll never pass!" "Step on the scales," Bald the doctor, who is a tall man with a cold blue eye. Weight Figures Deleted. "Weight -." (suppressed by censor), read the doctor. Reading the words on a card across the room, to test eyes, and answering questions, while one ear was plugged up, were the next steps. The doctor then approached, bearing a complicated piece of furniture made of rubber tubes. Applying one end of it to us and the other to his ear, he moved it around over our heart and lungs, listening with an interested expression. We wondered what he was finding, and if we would take cold. Suddenly he stabbed us in the abdomen with a bony finger. "Cough," he commanded. We coughed, once in a bass voice and once in tenor. He explored us some more, bearing a triumphant expression as he brought up the darkest secrets of our frame-: work, then turned and made out a slip' swiftly. We were free to go after dressing. j The "whole process took Just six min- , utes. i

ONE THIRD OF QUOTA MUST GO EARLY IN NEXT MONTH

INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. S One-third of the quota of each state for the new national army probably will be ordered to entrain for camp between., September 1 and 5, according to a telegram received today by Jesse Eschbach, staje conscription agent, from General Crowder, provost marshal. The message said the war department expected to call not to exceed one third of the quota between those dates to proceed to the training camps. The local conscription boards in the meantime, the message said, should certify daily to the district appeal board list of names of men called who have not been exempted or disHeroic Burgomaster, Held By Germans, Is Honored By Lawyers HARVE, Aug. 8. Lawyers of Brus sels have unanimously elected Adolphe Max, the heroio burgomaster of Brus sels, Imprisoned by Germans, as pres ident of the bar association, according to news received here. The announcement of the election was received with rousing cheers re gardless of the fact that German sen trlea were nosted at the palace of Justice where the election took place. Burgomaster Max was arrestea at Brussels Sept. 28, 1914, for his "irreconcilable attitude," according to an announcement of the German military governor. After being imprisoned at various places in Germany he was finally interned at Glatz. Paris papers some time ago asked President Wilson the pope and the King of Spain to interfere in his behalf. More recently, the Belgians offered to exchange the German governor general of East Africa for M. Max. EATON MAN FALLS FROM FAST TRAIN EATON, Ohio, Aug. S. William A. Acton, of this city, is seriously ill in a Columbus hospital as the result of injuries he sustained a few days ago when he fell from a Pennsylvania flyer as it sped through London at a rate of 60 miles an hour. His skull was fractured and he sustained other injuries Proudly I Give Him; Wife Offers Spouse CAMBRIDGE CITY. Aug. 8. Mrs. Lavon Zook, of Dublin is a patriot. She would qualify for the "Death Brigade" of the Russian army. Here's the letter she gave her husband to present to the draft board: "I am willing that my husband join the colors as I can see my way through while he Is at war, for it is his duty, and proudly I will give him." Zook is a professional wrestler. The couple have a child. He pased the physical examination.

Our Skinny Reporter

BRITISH BEGIN ARTILLERY DUEL (By Associated Press) In Flanders the heavy artillery fire has opened up again with a bombardment from the British guns of drum fire intensity In some sectors. The Germans are replying spiritedly and the duel appears to be work up to notable proportions. Berlin. reports a British attack near the Belgian coast which the Germans beat in hand to hand fighting. This operation is recordded in the British official statement as a successful raid operation is recorded in the British captured a few prisoners and a machine gun. Other Raids by Allies. Judging from the German statement there were further raids In force by entente troops on other portions of the German lines on the Flanders front. On the French front in the Aisne region new attacks were made by the crown prince east of Vauxaillon, and west of the Callfornie plateau. They were repulsed. There is con-, siderable activity all along the Aisne front. The Germans who broke Into the Russo Rumanian line near Fokshani on Monday extended their success yesterday, today's Berlin statement re ports. charged either because they did not file claims for exemptions or their claims were disallowed. . ,Tp. meet . the, requirements othe war department Mr. Eschbach was informed each state must have ready at least one third of its quota by September first and to do so the local boasds must carry their work forward rapidly. Fewer Rejections for Physicial Defects Now Than in Civil War Draft. WTio says the race Is slipping? The number of men disqualified because of physical disability under the present draft law is slightly lower than the number of thos disqualified when the drafts of the Civil war were held according to records. Records show that the average percentage during the Civil war was twenty-six percent. The average percent up until the present time, under the present draft law is abouty twenty-five percent. Wilson Gets Blame For China s Entry AMSTERDAM, Aug. 8. AustroHungarian newspapers, according to a telegram from Vienna, view China's declaration of war as the work of the Entente, especially President Wilson. It is aimed as a blow at German and Austro-Hungarian business interests in China and to oust two troublesome trade competitors by furnishing the Chinese with a pretext not to pay their debts, rescind railway and mining concessions granted to Austrians and Germans, confiscate Austro-Ger-man capital invested in the country, seize their ships and intern their subjects.

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Largest Parade In History For Draftees9 Send-off Day

The biggest parade In the history of Richmond will honor Wayne county's conscripts shortly before they are ordered into training camps, according to plans made by the committee on ar rangements late Tuesday afternoon. Governor Goodrich will be Invited to attend and it is planned that more than 15,000 persons participate in the parade. The parade will be held In the afternoon and the same night the conscripted men will be honored at a dinner and vaudeville entertainment in all probability to be held at the Coliseum. Only members of the patriots' families will attend the night meeting. Autos To Parade. All school children, all fraternal organizations and every owner of an automobile in Wayne county will be asked to participate in the parade.

NEW MINISTERY TO BE FOUGHT

BY SOCIALISTS Opposition Based on Princi pie Says Organ Vorwaerts of Berlin. AMSTERDAM. Aug. ft Philip Scheldemann, socialist member of the German Reichstag, In a speech delivered at Mannheim, Baden, before 6000 people demanded in the interest of peace the speedy substitution for the present government of Chancellor Michaells, a government really representing the will of the German people. COPENHAGEN, Aug. 8. German Socialists will oppose the newly con stituted government at Berlin on prin ciple, the .socialist newspaper Vor waerts declares in its comment on the ministerial appointments. "Persons so foolish as to expect a great gain in the direction of a parlia mentary regime," says the Catholic newspaper, Germanla, "will naturally be disappointed," but it expresses the opinion that the presence of Catholic representatives in the gevernment greatly Improves the system. It appears that Dr. Spahn, leader of the Catholic centre party in the Reich stag, will be forced to retire from par liamentary life on account of his ap pointment as Prussian, minister of jus tice. Must Resign Seat. He must resign his seat owing to the constitutional proviso upon accepting the portfolio, but it Is asserted there is nothing to prevent Ms stand ing for re-election. He will according ly do this though he cannot become a member of the Bundesrath. August Worms, leader of the Flem Ish movement in Belgium, said in. an Interview in the Berlin Tageblatt the aim of the movement was the re-estab lishment of Belgium as a dual mon archy of Flanders and Walloania under King Albert All of Her Three Sons Given to Army By Liberty Widow LIBERTY, Ind., Aug. 8. One Liberty mother has given all she possibly can to the United States for the war against Germany. She hasjgjyenthe three sons aJlot whonTnave enlisted in the army, with the consent of their widowedd mother. They are Clarence, Albert and John Davis. "They're all I have, but they belong to their country too," she says. PARTNER HOLDS DE SAULLES BOY MINEOLA, Aug. 8. All mystery about John Longer De Saulles, the four and a half year old son of Mrs. De Saulles who shot and instantly killed her husband when he refused to give up the child last Friday to her care was cleared today when he was found in the care of G. Maurice Heckscher, De Saulles business partner. Counsel for Mrs. De Saulles was expected to make an appeal to Mr. Heck scher that the mother, who is confined in the county jail here on a charge of first degree murder, might be allowed to see her son. Should this appeal fail, it was said legal action would probably be taken. Mrs. De Saulles, who was said to be in a serious condition by three physicians, who examined her, has been removed from the cell she occupied to a room in the sheriff's partments of the building after Dr. Gay F. Cleghorn, the county physician. had said it was necessary that she have better care. In a statement re garding Mrs. De Saulles' condition made public today. Dr. CleEhorn said: "She is thin and wasted and weighs less than 100 pounds. She will have to be built up and kept under observa tion, but there is no reason why this should not be done where she it. If she fails to respond to treatment and grows worse here, the question of re moving her to a hospital can be taken up agafn." Only decorated automobiles will be al lowed to enter the parade however. Several educational floats will also be made for the procession. The conscripts, 351 in number, will have a place of honor in the parade and, according to plans, will drop out of the procession at a certain place, and review the remainder as it passes. The slogan of Basil Walters, former Palladium reporter, "Send him away with a, smile," was adopted by the committee. "It should be a day of enjoyment for ail concerned, a day of jollification rather than a day of sadness," members of the committee said. The committee Is negotiating with the commander of the aviation camp at Dayton for the sending of several airplanes here on the day, to encircle the city and drop flags in the form of bombs.

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Of the 99 Men Examined Wednesday 77 Were, Accepted Physically.

Seventy-seven men passed physical examinations Wednesday while twenty-two were rejected, making a total of ninety-nine examined Wednesday morning. Their names follow:

Accepted. Pasquale Roldallo Joseph Mitrone Kenneth Wright Nick Delneio William R. Knanber Nicholas Kolentus Wilbur Schnelle Herbert Stegman Lee Fowler William Saunders George S. Guyer Rowan Vosmeier Joseph E. McKee Charley Ernst Edwin H. Frauman William G Wright Earnest Harris Aloyius J. Pardieck Ora A. Hughbanks Lester E. Davis Irving Insky . Clarence S. Geler Manuel A. White George J. Carroll Carl F. Wilkemeyer Paul McBrlde Clarence P. Gagen Ernest M. Sheffer Charles E. Sharits Orville Knox Claud Bozarth '

Asa C. Adelsperger Stanley R. Hall Michael J. Quigley Leonard H. Carman Chas. B.' Sharp Robert N. Land Feleppa Nazzareno Jesse G. Dillman George W. Bayly Harry Covill Wilbur A. Uhde Roy Clark Rudolph Rak 31enn S. Dennis Leonard E. Hoover Julius Wm. Moelk rhomas L. Ammerman Ray C. Pitcher Paul G. Nolte Fred S". Wier Ora F. Wiley Edward H. WIechman Lee W. Ridgeway Relnhardt Erdmon Otto F. Lantz Verlin C. Ratliff Herbert H. Vorl Clarence Burkhardt Jack Wilson Harry B. Williams Edwin W. Blomeyer Ralph M. Hyde

Continued On DUNK ARD CLAIMS EXEMPTION IN SECOND DISTRICT Gives Church as Excuse Adler Passes Perfect Physical Test. CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., Aug. 8. Jack Adler, foreman in the Bertsch Machine Shops, passed the best phys ical examination of any man who has come before the draft board of the second district, which today continued examining registrants. Adler filed no exemption. His firm, it was said, would like to see him exempted. Alfred Chamberlain, member of the Church of Brethren, the Dunkard church, passed the physical examination, trat asked exemption because of church affiliation. He ia a farmer. Two Hi nsha ws Meet. ttaxenceHlnshawfrahd "Earl Hinshaw, examined in close succession, met today for the first time. Twenty-one had passed the physical examination at noon; seventeen claim ed exemption; twelve of the seven teen are married; the other exemp tions were on the ground of agricultural work. Lewis Johnson, Greensfork, passed, exemption, father and mother. Cecil Baker, Cambridge City, did not report. Clarence Ohmit, rejected. Clem Pickett, Greensfork, passed, claimed exemption, mother and wife. William Bond, Fountain City, passed. claimed exemption, wife. Edmund Newnean, city, passed, no exemption. James Frazier, WTilliamsburg, passed claimed exemption, wife and child. L. L. Davis, Hagerstown, passed, cleimed exemption, wife and baby. National Guard for 5 years. Clarence Hinshaw, Williamsburg, Continued On Page Five. Pasquale9 s Wife Is In Italy, So He May Have to Wear Khaki Pasquale Roldallo, naUve of Italy, passed the physical examination be fore the examining board Wednesday. Although his wife and children are still in Italy, he filed a claim for ex emption on the grounds that he was their .sole support. The war has kept them from coming to this country, he said. How to get affidavits from his wife, supporting his claim is worrying Pasquale. RUSSIA QUIET, ROOT EXPLAINS CHICAGO, Aug. 8. Elihu Root, with other members of the American mission to Russia which has completed Its work, in Chicago today, said that as a matter of fact there is scarcely more disorder in Russia than there is in the United States "Certain disturbances are envitable in a change of govern ment so radical as that of Russia," said Mr. Root, "and cable dispatches deal largely with these disturbances. Hence the public has gathered an Impression that there is little going on in Russia except demonstration. "As a matter of fact if reports on American affairs dissimulated in Russia, concentrated on our little disturbances race riots, the I. W. W. and the like Russians would have about the same picture of us as . we now have of them." LABOR RALLY PUT OFF , LONDON, Aug. 8 The entente al lied labor (Conference which was scheduled to open in London today to consider the question of sending representation to the Stockholm confer ence has been postponed until the end of August at the request of the French Socialists. t . . ' ,

for the National Army In Richmond,

Matthias G. Schroeder Elmer E. Atkinson Harry A. Paust Russell B. Pilcher George C. Kelly Roy W. Dye William R. Barton Idam W. Milam Sherman F. Koetrlght ybertus J. Runkle Rejected. James Jarona John S. Seim Arch E. Nicholson John P. Scott Rudolph J. Price Clarence E. Lane . Lawrence E. Peterson Joe Magro Edwin E. Shawhan James E. Carroll Forest H. Meek Everett R. Bolander Earl W. Gilmer Clarence A. Thomas Glenn B. Heard Guy K. Morris Harry T. Faucett Ernest M. Elliott David C. Morrison Harvey Fosler Russell Wilhelm Roscoe B. Fleming Page Three. MURDER U-Boat Crew Takes Life-Belts From American Survivors, Smashes Lifeboats and Leaves 'Em to Fate Four Drown. LONDON, Aug. 8 Four Americans were lost on the British steamer Belgian Prince, which was sunk July 31 by a German submarine. One American is among the survivors. Thirty-eight of the crew of the steamer were drowned and three others were rescued by a patrol boat and taken to a British port. The survivors 6ay the submarine attacked the vessel after which the commander ordered the crew to take to the boats and go alongside the submarine. According to the survivors, the Germans removed the lifebelts and clothing from all the crew except eight, smashed the lifeboats with axes, then re-entered the submarine and closed the hatches, leaving the men on deck. After traveling on the surface fori .several miles the U-boat submerged. The Americans who lost their lives were William Crissy or Hughes, 144 East Second street, Philadelphia; James Shew, Detroit; Thomas Gilmore, Merrick, Mass.; Ben Cain, negro, Norfolk, Va. The sole American survivor is William Snell, a negro from Jacksonville, Fla. The American consul at a Brit ish port today heard from his lips the story of the murder of the crew. Only Member of Auto Party Who Escapes Injury Shoots Self MEADVILLE, Pa., Aug. 8. When Miss Florence Hughes of New Brighton, Pa., was killed, and two other members of an automobile party, Howard Beck, of Aspinwall. Pa., and Miss Mabel Spencer, of Slippery Rock, Pa., were severely injured in an accident caused by the machine strik ing a tree while running at a high rate of speed at Conneaut Lake near here? last midnight, Walter Welch, of Slippery Rock, the fourth member of the party, is said to have drawn a revolver and shot himself. He Is in a serious condition with a bullet wound in the neck. GERMAN SEAPLANE TAKES OVER DUTCH FISHING SHIP, BUT WARSHIP RELIEVES IT FLUSHING, Holland, Aug. 8. A German seaplane stopped a Dutch fishing boat near Westkapelle. One of the airmen went aboard and ordered the boat to Zeebrugge. While still in territorial waters a Dutch patrol boat met and brought the boat to Flushing. The German airmen were interned.

Wayne County Youths Prefer To Fight Kaiser In America

CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., Aug. 8. Strong physically, but preferring to fight the kaiser at home instead of in France. That's how the young men of the second Wayne county district sized up, after the district's quota for the first day had passed before the examining board yesterday. , Almost ninety per cent of the men passed the physical test. Almost ninety per cent of those who passed, filed claims for exemption. Board Will Be Strict. Members of the board ' indicated Tuesday that some of those who claimed exemption would have a hard time getting it. The board would be fair and would give every man a chance to show good reasons for exemption but those who didn't show good reasons would have to go, they said. Joe Tongo, Italian, and an alien, was the first man to show up. He came at six-thirty, despite the fact that the notices called the men for nine o'clock. "I wanted to be in time," he said. Chester Locke, No. 258, was the first man to be examinedd, and was admitted promptly at nine. He was asked the routine questions and passed swiftly on to the doctors for physical examination. He passed with flying colors, but said 'that being a member!

DRAFT MILL THROWN INTO HIGH GEAR BY EXAMINERS

Physicians Test 99 Candidates for National Army in Foflr Hours Time Wednesday. Illiiv iov rnrrnnii MAfii Hoiv rmxuuiii The Richmond draft mm was la better working order Wednesday and seventy-seven men, out of ninety-nine examined by the board, qualified physically. The entire ninety-nine men were examined in four hours time, the examining physicians being able to make better time after the "newness" wore off. Twenty-three percent of the' men examined were disqualified. Many File Claims WTiile the examining board was busy determining the men's physical standing, a steady stream wound its way into the county clerk's office where exemptions were filed. A total of fifty-seven claims for exemption, most of them filed by mar. ried men, had been made up until noon. About sixty claims for exemption were made during Tuesday. Several of the eleven men who were to be examined Tuesday, but who failed to appear, came before the board Wednesday. All gave good reasons for cot appearing when called and no action will be taken against them. Reported to Officials Men failing to appear within ten days after they are called are certl fed to the district boards and reports will be made to department of Justice officials at Indianapolis who investigate. While many of the men examined are very eager to reveal their physical defects, others try to conceal them so that they might be accepted, according to examining physicians. But the physicians find out as a thor ough examination is made. The examinations will continue through Thursday when the last 168 men will be tested. The board will then meet following the last examination and pass on the physical examination. Sheriff Can-, chairman of the board, and Clark Kelly may still order men, who were rejected by the examining board, accepted or vice versa. Seven Vessels and 90 Men Lost In Gale LONDON, Aug. 8. Seven Norwegian sailing vessels and ninety men were lost in a heavy gale near Greenland, according to a dispatch to the Central News from Christiana. The vessels were part of a fleet of fifty and were returning from a fishing trip in the Arctic ocean. The gale was encountered on the outward journey. Wheat Averages 46 Bushels to Acre on W.H. Beeson's Farm Walter H. Beeson, living near Webster, Ind., claims a record for a wheat crop In Wayne county. On a small field of five acres, the yield of wheat was 230 bushels, averaging 46 bushels to the acre. The entire farm averaged 35 bushels to the acre. The grain was threshed last week. WANT TO WHIP KAISER. .WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Aug. 8 Amid the greatest enthusiasm the New Zealand parliament today adopted a resolution in favor of "carrying on the war until Germany has been vanquished." of the Friends' church he would claim exemption. He'll Fight at Home. 1 can't fight, but am going to try to do as much at home as anyone could in the trenches," he said. Frank Louis Close, cabinet-maker, said that Tuesday was his birthday. "I was married on that day, and passed the examination for the selective army on that day," he said. He claimed exemption. Horace Thompson, unmarried, made, a claim for exemption, but stopped after he had started out, came back and said: - "Say, mark that out. I want to go." He was accommodated. Families Chief Barriers. Wives and children were the chief barriers to military service for most of the applicants. Of the first thirtyseven, sixteen were married. David L. Personette, with four children, had the biggest family. . Various claims were presented b7 the unmarried.' Farming was the excuse given by many One boy, a laborer, evidently at a loss for a claim, said he had three brothers dependent upon him. -, Little knots of men gathered outside Continued On Page Thr.