Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 234, 13 August 1917 — Page 1

THE RICHM01CD PAIXABIUM

VOL. XLII.,NO. 234Palladium and Sun-Telegram 'Consolidated 1907 RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1917. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

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ASK WOMEN TO DECLARE WAR AGAINST FOOD WASTE

250 Distribute Hoover Food and Women's Service Cards in Wayne County, Tuesday. EVERY ONE MAY HELP Every woman in Wayne county will be asked to pledge herself to war on waste, beginning Tuesday when more than 250 women in the county will distribute Hoover Food cards and Women's Service cards. More than 150 women in Richmond, under the direction of Miss M. E. B. Culbertson, secretary of the Wayne county Council of Defense, will canvass every home in the city and ask one member of the family to sign the cards. The women signing the cards are in no way financially obligated. Ask to Forego Meat Every family in the city and county will also be asked to observe a wheatless and a meatless day, one day a week. The national wheat harvest is far below normal, according to government officials, and if each person weekly saves one pound of wheat flour that means 150,000,000 more bushels of wheat for the allies to mix their bread end will be one of the biggest aids in saving Democracy. Families will also be asked to observe one "meatless" day and not serve any kind of meat on that day. People are urged to eat more vegetables and "eat what you can't can." Distribute Cards The cards to be distributed Tuesday morning pledge the women to conserve food and makes her a member of the national army against waste. There are no fees or dues to be paid. They pledge themselves to carry out the advice of the food administration so far as they are able. Every woman in the county, irrespective of race, whether they are white, black or yellow will be asked to sign the cards. By signing the cards women will -how thei patriotism to the United States and show that they are willing to make any sacrifice the country calls upon them to make in its time or peril. Sign Cards at Once. The women workers will call at each home asking one woman member of the family to sign the cards. Instead of leaving the cards, and collect them later, the organization has decided to ask women to sign the cards at once. The work will be done much faster in this way. The cards will be sent direct to Washington and each woman pledging herself to save the country's food supply will receive a window poster from Herbert Hoover, national food administrator, showing that she is a member of the national organization. For ten cents a badge will be sent any woman desiring them. Leaders of Movement. Miss Elsie Marshall is vice-chairman of the Hoover Food card committee for Wayne county and Mrs. A. W. Roach is chairman for Wayne township. The Women's Service cards -will be in charge of Mrs. E. W. Shirk, county vice-chairman of the Women's Service card committee. Mrs. Paul Ross is chairman for Wayne township. "I feel sure that the women of Richmond and Wayne county will sign these cards without much urging," Miss Culbertson said Monday. "It Is a sure way of showing their patriotism to the United States. "Women must be awakened to the knowledge that much is wasted through carelessness and work to eliminate this. And surely every family can get along one day each week without eating meat." "Preach the Cospel of the Clean Plate." S'LAZAR is murdered JUAREZ, Mexico, Aug. 13. Jose Ynez Salazar, a revolutionary leader and former chief of staff to Francisco Villa, was shot and killed at the Noga les ranch, a short distance from Ascen lo, Thursday. Americans arriving lere today from Casas Grandes said Salazar had been killed by a small band of home guards who were organized to protect the Casas Grandes Ascencio district. Do Ycur-F-, Join the! Bit Now Red Cross WEATHER FORECAST For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Showers this afternoon or tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy. Today' Temperature. Noon "9 Yesterday. Maximum 86 Minimum 54 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Unsettled tonight and Tuesday. Occasional showers and possibly thundrr storms. General Conditions Local rains have fallen over the Central 6tates during the last 24 hours and thunder htorms In a few localities. The weather will continuo unsettled for the next 24 hours.

Facsimile of Food Conservation Pledge To the Food Administrator, Washington, D. C. : I am glad to join you in the service of Food Conservation for our nation and I hereby accept membership in the United States food administration, pledging myself to carry out the directions and advice of the food administrator in the conduct of my household, insofar as my circumstances permit.

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Number in Household Do you employ a cook? Occupation of Breadwinner Will you take part in authorized neighborhood movements for food conservation? There are no fees or dues to be paid. The Food Administration wishes to have as members all of those actually handling food in the home. DIRECTIONS Mail your pledge card to the Food Administrator, Washington, D. C, and you will receive FREE your first instructions and a household tag to be hung in your window. Upon receipt of ten cents with your pledge card and a return addressed envelope, the official button of the Administration, and if desired, the shield insignia of the Food Administration will also be sent you.

CHange Germantown to Pershing is Plea East Germantown refuses to have anything at all to do with the Kaiser. A petition, signed by every resident, has been forwarded to Postmaster General Burleson to have its name changed to Pershing. The town has been restive under its German cognomen for some time, a movement being started several months ago to change the name to Verdun. Not a resident can speak German. The two was founded early in the last century by Pennsylvania Dutch. CAMBRIDGE TIGHTENS ON EXEMPTION PLEAS CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., Aug. IS. The second district exemption board is tightening up. Almost 100 applications for exemption were considered and decided Saturday. New Instructions were received Monday morning, warning the board against being too lax, and they spent all day Monday re-considering Saturday's list. Consideration of the affidavits in each case was the only thing dene by the board, no one yet being asked to appear In person to plead his case. A few of the men were granted exemption, a few other denied it entirely, and many were askd to appear as a result of Saturday's work, but the new instructions Changed matters, and now no exemptions are being granted except temporary ones. No results will be made definite enough to send to the district board until Tuesday, Chairman H. C. Miller said Monday. Japs Fear Embargo of U. S. on Steel TOKIO, Aug. 13 Leading members of the Kokuminto party, composed of national liberals, and a number of prominent shipbuilders held meetings and adopted resolutions urging the government to negotiate with the United States in an endeavor to procure a-modification of the embargo on steel exportation on the ground that It will prove a serious menace to Japan's industries. QUAKERS WILL NOT BE EXEMPT FROM MILITARYSERVICE Religious Objectors Will Be Assigned to Non-Combat-ant Duties. WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 Religious objectors are assigned a definite place in the national army for the first time in a ruling made public today by Pro vost Marshal General Crowder. They will be sent to the mobilization camps for duties which the President may designate as non-combatant. The ruling says they "will be drafted, forwarded to a mobilization camp and will make up a part of the quota from the state and district from whence they come and will beassigned to duty in a capacity declared by the President to be non-combatant." The regulation referring to them reads: "Any person who is found by local board to be a member of any well recognized sect or organization organized and existing May IS, 1917, and whose then existing creed or principles forbid its members to participate in war in any form and whose religious convictions are against war or participation therein in accordance with the creed or principles of the said religious organizations." Duties Not Announced. The duties which may be allotted to these men have not been made known. There are numerous army organizations, however, such as the hospital corps, quartermaster corps known as non-combatant troops " in army organization. There will be in addition many labor battalions, messengers, motor drivers, clerks and the like who will have no active part in the fighting, although they will be as much exposed to shell fire in bringing supplies up to the line and taking wounded back as are the active regi ments. Presumably objectors will be placed in these units where their work will be to save life, not to take it. j

U. S. MAY SEIZE WHEAT TO STOP FOOD GAMBLING Hoover Announces Government's Purpose to Conserve Supply for Nation.

BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. Creation of a grain control board to supervise distribution of wheat and manufacture and sale of flour will be announced within a few days. President Wilson will issue a series of executive orders giving the food administration powers conferred on the execueive powers conferred on the executive will deal with wheat and flour and will direct the food administration to proceed Sept. 1 with the enforcement of the regulation made last night. WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. The government will take over this year's entire wheat crop, if necessary, in order to conserve the supply for America's fighting forces and the allies and reduce costs to the consumers of this country, according to an anContinued on Page Eight. 244 PIONEERS ANSWER GALL IN LAST YEAR Twenty Die at 74, and One at 99, Old Settler's Record Will Show. . Wayne county's pioneers are passing away fast. The death roll of people above seventy for the year 1916-17, to be read at the Old Settler's picnic at Centerville, Aug. 18, will contain 244 names, by far the largest number ever reached. During the ten years in which the roll has been read, the number has gradually increased from 167 in 1903 to 217 in 1916, and the present roll breaks all records for the fifty-eight I years of the society s meetings. The largest number of deaths occurred during the month of January, with thirty-six, and the least during Continued On Page Three. IN COURT HOUSE YARD UNIDENTIFIED MAN COMMITS SUICIDE An unidentified man, about 60 years old, ended his life by shooting himself in the temple, the court house yard about 3:30 o'clock Monday afternoon. According to employes of the court house, the man had been sitting on a bench in a pensive mood for some time. Without saying anything, he arose and fired a bullet into his brain. The police were called. His identification awaited the arrival of the coroner who found $100 in bills on his person but no marks of identification. HUGHBANKS CLOSES The first store in Richmond to be closed on account of the war was closed Monday. Hughbank's Candy Shop, managed by Ora Hughbanks closed Monday morning when Hughbanks received notice to report for military service in Indianapolis. Hughbanks was one of the first 116 men to pass the selective conscription examination and not file claim for exemption. AMERICAN SUBMARINE UNITS TO GO TO ITALIAN FRONT MILAN, Aug. 13. Arrangements are being made for the sending to the Italian front of several American ambulance units similar to those which have been in operation in France since the beginning of -the war. The first unit Is expected in October.

BERLIN AWAKES TO U. S. HELP TO THE ALLIES

Leaders Finally Realize Magnitude of Preparations Here and Determination of US. William Bayard Hale, former resident of this city, war correspondent ,-it Berlin, in an article in the New York American, discusses Germany's awakening. Hale is in New York now. My confidential correspondent passed out across the German frontier, July 19, and reported to me at Christiana on July 20. His report is confirmed by members of my family, who Lad emerged from the beleaguered empire two days earlier. Germany now realizes the seriousness of the entrance of the United States into the war. No event, no circumstances, no incident, no campaign, of the last three .ragic years approaches in importance the change which within the last two months has overcast the sky of Ger man sentiment. The rainbow of hope which brightened in the East with Russian debacle indeed scintilates, but In the western Leavens there looms a cloud whose stormy and portenous aspect furnish es today the chief feature of the scene which ocupies the immagination of ihe Central Powers of Europe. Kitchener's Prediction. Thewar, so far as the European nations allied against Germany can wage it, in Germany is regarded as a thing ever and done with. Germany believes that she has, in the, three years' struggle, vindicated her ability to defend herself against any possible combination of European enemies. Her soil is free except for a few square kilometers, while her own armies ocupy immense tracts in France, Russia, Serbia, Belgium, Rumania, Montenegro. Except also as to her colonies, which she still confidently expects to receive hack again in exchange for the European territory she now ocupies. Three years ago today Lord Kitchener said to me: ''Count on three years, Hale; count on three years." Two years later, fourteen months ago, I saw four or five corpses laid on the deck of the Frederick VII.; the body of K. of K. was not among them. It was never found, but his prophecy has come true. I put it at the front of this dispatch ihat (subject to the one qualification I now speak of) the spirit of he Ger man people is one of unanimous satisfaction and confidence. But a new . factor has now to be dealt with; a new portent of immense Continued on Page Eight. Cotton Enters Camp Herbert M. Cotton, former Richmond boy, salesman, was one of four applicants out of twenty-six to be accepted for the second officer's training camp. Cotton had military training in college. He was stationed at Elkhart when he Joined the camp. 5 AMERICANS LOST; STEAMER HITS MINE WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-Five American passengers were lost when the British steamer City of Athens struck a mine and went down near Cape Town, South Africa on August 10, according to today's state department dispatches. Ten other passengers and four of the crew were also lost, the dispatches say. The dispatches say four of the Americans were missionaries and named Mr. and Mr. Maygard, Miss Robinson, and Caroline Thompson. The latter is of the Methodist mission board. A Mr. Pointer of that mission was saved. Nineteen other missionaries of an organization with headquarters at 356 Bridke street, Brooklyn, N. Y., were saved. Eleven Women Get "First Aid" Diplamas Eleven Richmond women, Monday received diplomas from Washington, showing that they had successfully passed "first aid to the injured examinations." The examinations are signed by President Wilson. Those receiving them are Miss M. E. B. Culbertson, Mrs. Frank Druitt, Mrs. Paul Comstock, Miss Elizabeth Cornstock, Miss Mary Clements, Miss Martha and Ruth Scott, Miss Vivian King, Mrs. E. W. Shirk, Miss Ruth Pennell and Miss Dorothy Land. The examinations wrere taken early in June and forwarded to Washington. The women hold themselves in readiness to take any nurse's place in hospitals, where the regular nurses have been called for war work, according to Miss Mary Culbertson. Swiss Paper Closed for Upholding Wilson WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. State department dispatches report the office of the Freiezeitung, a semi-weekly newspaper published In German in Berne, has been raided by the police on the ground of unneutrality because it supported the policies and acts of President Wilson. The department has no knowledge of any suppression of newspapers in Switzerland support ing the cause of the Teutonic powers.

George V. Amid Ruins of Sommc District

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The King of England inspecting all that remains of Thiepval church Just a year after the Somme offensive. King George was taken by motor to every part of the Somme battlefield and visited the scene of many fiercely fought conflicts.

THREE CERTIFIED TO ARMY BOARD TOTAL IS 119 local Board May Call '300 More to Obtain Full Quota Demanded. Three more Richmond men were certified to the district selective army board by the Richmond board Monday .bringing the total number of men for the national army to 119. It is not known whether any of these will file claims for exemption before the district board, but it is believed that some will. The men passed examination for physical ability and did not claim exemption before the Richmond board. Those certified were Jesse Grant Fry, 1216 South B street; James Thomas, 805 North Thirteenth street, and Karl Karcher, 1115 South Eighth street. Ruby is Rejected. John Lawson Ruby, 320 South Second street, who said he didn't knowthat he was supposed to report for an examination, was rejected because cf disability. He had tried to enlist i.i the army at Indianapolis he said. The board indicated Monday that in every doubtful case coming before them exemptions would not be granted but the man certified to the district board, where an appeal might be taken by the man if he choose to appeal. The board is undecided still, however, on the mode of proceedure in granting discharges or exemptions. Under the ruling of the provost marshal general, in charge of the draft. men whose parents are "able and will ing" to provide for bis wife and children during the absence of the husband, discharges will not be granted. Take Up Exemptions. Exemption - claims will probably be taken up the latter part of this week or the first of next week. Men who have filed claims for exemption have until next Monday to file their affidavits supporting their claims. No call for additional men will be made until the board decides on the cases of every men in the first call, who have already been examined by the board for physical requirements. It is believed by board members that it will be necessary to call at least 300 more men for examination before Pichmond's quota of 252 men is filled. This will not be definitely decided, however, until all exemption claims are taken up. HAWEKOTTE INJURED William Hawekotte. 73 years old, was seriously injured, Sunday afternoon when run down by an automobile in Glen Miller park. In the confusion to obtain a physician to treat his injuries the name of the man who ran him down was not obtained. Hawekotte, it is said, stepped directly in front of the automobile and was thrown to the ground. His nose was broken and he sustained several deep cuts. He will recover. ANNOUNCE EXAMINATION Examinations for a postmaster at Boston will be held in the Richmond postoffice Sept. 8. The postoffice is a fourth-class one. Information and blanks for the examination can be gotten fro mthe Richmond officials.

Wiley is Accepted for Officers' Camp

Charles T. Wiley, manager of the Richmond Electric company, has received an appointment from the government to the second Officers' Training camp at Indianapolis, as captain. Mr. Wiley, who is married and has three children, is a graduate of Purdue university, and while a student at-Pur-due was a first lieutenant in a national guard company at the university. He is an electrical engineer and will try for an appointment as captain in the engineers' corps. DEFER ACTION ON CEMENT PLANT Whether Richmond will be the home of the million-dollar Indiana Portland Cement company will be decided by the directors of the company. The proposition Richmond has offered the company, details of which have not been given out, was given to the representatives of the company in Richmond at a joint meeting of the! aireciors or me inaustriai Development company, the trustees of this company, and the New Industries committee of the club, Monday noon. "We aren't ready to give anything definite yet," said Adam Beck, president of the cement company, after the meeting, "and it will be several days before anything Is settled," he added. ,No definite ime had been set for a rate meeting with the Pennsylvania officials. Beck said, nor had a site for the plant been determined upon. The company probably will build its own tracks, to bring the raw material from the quarry to the plant. The directors of the cement, company will meet in a few days, to consider the Richmond offer, and nothing definite will be known before then, according to Beck. Virginians Speed up Drafting of Soldiers Randolph county, West Virginia, didn't waste any time filling its quota for the first national army according to the county sheriff, S. L. Marstiller, who visited Sheriff Clem Carr Sunday. Sheriff Marstiller, came here to arrest T. H. Sale, who had been living at Centerville, and return him to Elkins, West Virginia, on a charge of embezzlement. Sale is a native of Elkins. Randolph county's quota was 247 men. Many of the men selected filed claims for exemption on the grounds of dependents. "But I'll tell you, sah, we didn't waste any time about certifying the first men who passed the physical examinations," the tall Virginian said. "The first 247 who passed, whether they filed exempt'on claims or not were certified to the district board, sah." Thus the Virginia officials passed the buck to the district board. Sheriff Carr said he didn't believo the same proceedure would be gone through here. Dreamer Slays Wife TOLEDO, Aug. 13. Dreaming that there was a burglar in the house, b rank Lerouc walked in his sleep, procured a gun and shot his wife in the right side early this morning. She died an hour later in a hospital.

EXISTENCE OF GERARD TELEGRAM IS GIVEN DENIAL

German Newspaper Asserts Message Was Not Written by Emperor William to Ambassador. EXPLAINS INCIDENT BERLIN, (via Amsterdam,) Aug. 13. The semi-official Norddeuteche A1Igemeine Zeitung denies the existence of the telegram alleged by James W. Gerard, the former American ambassa dor at Berlin, to have been sent by Emperor William to President Wilson In August, 1914. when the German em peror is quoted as having asserted that Belgium's neutrality "had to be violated by Germany on strategical grounds." The alleged telegram, which has reached Berlin by way of Switzerland, has the emperor saying that King George sent him word through the emperor's brother, Prince Henry, that Great Britain would remain neutral if war broke out on the continent involving Germanv and Francs and Austria and Russia. The Norddeutsche Allgemenine Zeitung says: we are in a position to declare that no such telegram from the emneror exists. It is true that Mr. Gerard was given an audience on August 10, 1914. in order to give him an opportunity of placing President Wilson's offer of mediation before the emperor. Text of Meacte. "The President's personal message to the emperor read as from the official head of one of the powers which signed The Hague convention, and said: "T feel it to be my right and my duty in accordance with article III of the convention to declare to you in a spirit of truest friendship that I would velcome any opportunity to act in the interest of European peace, whether now or at any other time that might be betetr fitted, to render you and all concerned services which -would give me satisfaction and joy.' "This proposal - was made at the time when the armies of both sides had already crossed the frontier and when it seemed out of the question to call a halt to events. The1 emperor could, therefore, only have his thanks conveyed to President Wilson for his offer and thereby remark that while the present moment was too early for mediation by the neutral powers, the President's friendly proposal might later be returned to. Explains Events. "The emperor then conversed for some time further with Mr. Gerard and explained to him the events that led up to the outbreak of the war. The emperor particularly pointed out the ambiguous and disloyal attitude of Great Britain which had destroyed all hope of a peaceful agreement. "Mr. Gerard's statements in his memoirs appear to be a reproduction of this conversation. If the press la enemy countries sees revelations in them that only shows they are ignorant of the German White Book which, in essence set forth the same events. "Possibly during the conversation the emperor wrote a memorandum for the ambassador so that he might not announce anything to Washington that would be incorrect. "In that case it would be a matter of record destined to assist Mr. Gerard's memory, but it would not be a communication from the emperor to President Wilson." Newspaper's View. The Cologne Gazette says there la no apparent reason to doubt the genuineness of the emperor's telegram as published by Mr. Gerard. The newspaper says it cannot see how its contents can serve as fresh proof of Germany's guilt, as It only gives new evi-, dence of the cunning and ambiguous policy followed by Great Britain in the days prior to the outbreak of the war. The newspaper sees in the Gerard revelations another move in a plan to exploit the Stockholm conference in favor of the entente by putting the question of responsibility for the outbreak of the war and then pressing the Socialists into the position of being accused parties. The Neueste Nachrichten of Munich, Bavaria, says it does not matter whether the emperor's message to Wilson is authentic, as it only proves the emperor's love of peace. But quite another thing, the newspaper says, is' the use of the entente pre6s and telegraphic agencies are making of Mr. Gerard's book, "as it is a-great effort made again to represent Germany as being responsible for the war." The Neuste Nachrichten complains that the entente has been given a four days start with its foreign press while the Berlin government now promises a belated explanation and adds: "Our diplomacy in the days of the telephone always seems to work at the pace of the mail coach." The Lokal Anzeiger, commenting: on the publication of the alleged telegram, says: "Mr. Gerard's comments on this alleged telegram of the emperor attempt to prove that no greater misfortune could have happened to the world, including the new world than England's non-participation in the war. It is futile to argue against such stupidity. The very imperial document which Mr. Gerard publishes proves conclusively what Influence worked with might and main in July, 1914, to prevent war."