Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 236, 15 August 1917 — Page 1

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CANADIANS TAKE HILL DOMINATING

CITY OF LENS British Gain Stronghold North of City French Take Ground on Coast Near Dixmude. RUSSIANS FALL BACK (By Associated Press) The British and French returned to the attack Ja northern France and Bel glum laet night, and preliminary re ports indicate that they have won considerable successes. The principal blow was struck by the British on a front about '4,00V yards fro mthe northwestern outskirts of Lens to the Bols Hugo, northeast of Loos. General Halg announces Jthat his troops carried the German first lines at all points and are making satisfactory progress. ' Canadians Capture Hill. ' Hill 70 a German stronghold northwest of Lens, which dominates the city has been stormed by the Canadians. Since the beginning of the attack on the northern end of the Franco-Bel-glum line, which apparently has been selected by the British and French for their principal efforts in the summer campaign, the Canadians have been making steady progress around Lens driving slowly into the outskirts of this Important and bitterly disputed mining center. The new attack on the front immediately north of Lens, evidently is designed to close around the city from the north. If successful, this operation may compel the Germans to evacuate the town without a direct attack on It, with the heavy sacrifices such a move probably would involve. French Attack Dixmude. The French attack was made near the coast In the vicinity of Dixmude. The official communication from Parts reports good progress west of the Dixmude road. London also announces gains by entente troops in the sector north of Ypres. - Active operations continue on the Alsne front. The French position between Hurtebls . and ,Craonne .were bombarded heavily during the night but the Germans did not renew the infantry action which have cost them such heavy . losses in . the last few weeks, in their efforts to expell the French from commanding positions. Petrograd admits the Teutons captured a height west of Ocna in southwestern Moldavia. TROOPS QUELL MADRID RIOTS , MADRID, Aug. 15. Interior Minister Guerra said yesterday that the strike agitation had increased in several quarters of the capitol but that the troops acted vigorously and quelled the disturbances. The government has taken steps to restore order. The captain-general at first framed his order in a moderate spirit and then replaced them by other more severe. The government and press are without news from the provinces. A few newspapers hope to appear tonight The rest have suspended publication on account of the military censorship. Madrid is without cabs. Most of the stores are closed. Groups of workmen parade the streets while soldiers patrol the principal points of the city. The minister of the interior has received letters from a number of persons offering their services as special constables. Premier Dato said: "We are confronted with an anarchist movemen inspired by no definite object, not even of effecting a change in the ministry." Lutherans to Unite ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 15. Fusion of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Wisconsin, Michigan. Nebraska and Minnesota is to be considered by dele gates to the biennial convention of the Joint synods of these states which opened here today. The plan calls for the transfer of all property of the synods to the new Joint synod, which will represent 700 congregations with approximately 200,000 communicants Do Your pJ'-i Join the Bit Now -f Red Cross WEATHER FORECAST For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Not much change in temperature. Today's Temperature. Noon 80 Yesterday. Maximum ......83 Minimum 60 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Somewhat unsettled. General Conditions Weather continues fair over most of the central states, but some cloudiness. Heavy rains over the plain states. Generally dry elsewhere. Temperature changes have been unimportant. .

SAYRE IN PARIS

BQVES?. fiAXRE Francis Bowes Sayre, son-in-law of President Wilson, in his uniform of Y. M.C: A. Worker in Paris. He is one of .the Association's chefs working in the French capital for the comfort and welfare of the American soldiers in France. The organization is doing wonders in making the men happy in their new field. " , The photograph shows Mr. Sayre and Mr. Crosset, of Boston (right), on their way to entrain for the British fighting front, where they Inspected the Y. M. C. A. quarters and canteens. CZAR REMOVED TO NEW PRISON PETROGRAD, Aug. 15 Former Em peror Nicholas and his family are be ing transferred to another point. They were removed in an ordinary train instead of in the gorgeous imperial train on which Nicholas was brought to the palace. The former emperor appeared to be very much depressed. Former Empress Alexandria seemed . to be pleased at the .prospect of a change. N. V. Nekrasoff, Vice premier, said today that the removal of Nicholas was decided on after a series of se cret sessions of the council of min isters late last month. The motives of the ministers, he said, are political and military. It was decided to get Nicholas out of the way before circumstances arose making it difficult. When the former emperor reaches his destination the facts will be announc ed. , - At the time of the revolution Nicholas was at the front On his way back to the capital he was arrested and taken to the Alexandrovsky palace at Tsarskoe-Selo, 15 miles south of Petrograd, where the former imperial family has since been confined. It is reported they were being transported to Siberia. SPRAGUE TESTIFIES AT RATE HEARING O. C. Sprague, division freight agent of the Pennsylvania, will be the principal witness for the Pennsylvania freight department at the hearing on increase of freight rates before the Indiana utilities commission, Thursday. He is one of the best authorities on division and through rates, and interchange of freight rates in the country. Mr. Sprague carried the case of the Pennsylvania some time ago before the Interstate commission at( Chicago when the railroad company 'was on a like petition for an increase in freight rates. He was on the witness Ftand three days and his statistical knowledge and handling of intricate freight problems before the Interstate commission made a deep Impression. His testimony Thursday will deal with the classification of freight rates.

Home Guards Enroll; Thursday; First Drill to be Held Sunday

Enrollment for the Richmond company of the Indiana militia will begin Thursday morning, according to an announcement made Wednesday by Frank Benn, chairman of the Wayne county committee. Enlistment blanks in the Richmond company may be obtained at the Starr Piano company, at Tenth and Main streets, Neff and Nusbaum's, Seventh and Main streets, and at several other business houses to be announced later. A meeting of - the Wayne county committee will be held Thursday evening to arrange details for the organization1 in the office of Robblns, Reller and Robbins. First Drill Sunday. The first drill of the organization will be held for the younger men Sunday morning on Roosevelt field in Glen Miller park, under tie direction of LeRoy Harding, a former National guardsman. Efforts are being made by members of the Wayne county committee to obtain a machine gun from the govern ment. Fred Gennett Is now In Wash ington conferring with war department officials for the purpose of obtaining

Government Takes Over Tomato Pack

BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. 15. The government has notified the Maryland packers that it will take approximately 18 percent of their tomato pack, amounting to 1,800,000 cases at the price of $1.45 a case for number threes and $1.30 for 'number twos. The packers say that this is a tentative offer, although most of them expect to fill the government orders at these prices, which are to. hold until September 15, when they are subject to change. The government has also practically commandeered a similar percentage of the pack of corn and green beans, the prices to hold until September 15. TROOPS 0F U.S. MARCH THROUGH LONDON STREETS LONDON, Aug. 15 American troops marched through London today. They were reviewed by Ambassador Page and later by King George at Buckingham palace. Great crowds lined the streets, which were decorated profusely with American and British flags. Enthusiasm was shown everywhere. The Americans were cheered by civilians, by soldiers on their way to the front, and by wounded men. The troops were escorted by guard bands. A meeting of the cabinet was in progress when the Americans approched Whitehall. It was adjourned to permit the premier and his colleagues to pay their compliments to the Americans. The cabinet went in a body to the war office. Greeted by Cabinet. As the Americans passed the Horse Guards parade to Whitehall they were greeted from the windows of the war office by Premier Lloyd George, Foreign Secretary Balfour, Chancellor Bonar Law, War Secretary Derby, Winston Spencer Churchill, minister of munitions; George N. Barnes, member of the war council; Admiral Jellicoe and other high officials, as well as by French and Belgian officers. The evening newspapers say that for a parallel to the scenes witnessed today in the neighborhood of Trafalgar Square it probably would be necessary to recall the time of the South African war and the return home of the troops 9,000WomenPledgs to Wage War on Waste More than 9,000 women of Richmond have declared war on. waste and pledged themselves to conserve food as much as possible, Miss Mary E. B. Culbertson, secretary of the county council of defense, who is in charge of the distribution of the Hoover food cards, said Wednesday, Women continued to distribute the cards today. The campaign will be concluded by Saturday. More than 10,000 cards hae been signed by women pledging themselves to do some war work. Miss Culbertson has sent to Indianapolis for more cards. PAPERS OF BERLIN CONDEMN KAISER'S MESSAGE TO GERARD COPENHAGEN. Aug. 15. Public tion of Emperor William's telegram to President Wilson In the memoirs of exAmbassador Gerard, and the lame and belated attempt at explanation made by the semi-official Norddeutsche Allgemelne Zeitung calls forth criticism in the German press of what Is termed the German emperor's irresponsible conduct of the foreign affairs of the empire. The various Berlin newspapers com ment on the system which permits a sovereign to pass upon such a proposal from a neutral power and to draft an important state document without con sultation with a responsible minister, or even without the necessary record subsequently being made. The incertitude of the semi-official organ whlcti can only say tnat "poss ibly" the emperor may have drafted some such memorandum occasions general discontent. a mounted gun, but it Is not probable that a gun can be brought to Richmond on account of the scarcity of guns for the regular army. Twenty-three Sign at Hagerstown. Twenty-three men signed the enlist ment sheet at Hagerstown at a committee meeting held there Tuesday night and efforts will be made to get at least 75 men for the guard before the end of this week. With two exceptions, all of the men at Hagerstown are above the conscription age, only two young men between the ages of 18 and 21 years signing the sheet. The Hagerstown company is -in charge of Delmar Mohler, chairman of the militia committee there, and be will remain In charge of the work until a regular organization Is formed. About fifty men attended the meeting at Hagerstown. Frank Benn, county chairman o? the militia committee will go to Cambridge City Wednesday evening to interest men in the militia there. No effort toward organizing a company has been made there, but it is hoped that Cambridge City will be able to muster in a full company.

GOVERNMENT TO PURCHASE SUPPLY OF 1917 WHEAT

Fifty Million Dollar Corporation to Stabilize Prices for Home and Foreign Consumption. ASSIST FLOUR MILLS WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. Government purchase of enough of the 1917 wheat crop to stabilize prices in the United States was forecast in the formation today of a $50,000,000 corporation by the food administration. The intention is to take over the entire harvest if necessary to maintain fair prices. The corporation will make all allied purchases of wheat and flour and thus will stabilize prices to the allies. Through this arrangement, too, it hopes to secure itself against any possible loss. . Open Agencies. The food administration will open agencies at all the principal wheat terminals, carrying on its transaction with the usual dealers. No commission charge will be made except to cover cost of operation. The price to be paid for wheat will be fixed by a committee under the grain division headed by President Garfield of Williams College. This price the food administration expects to see maintained in private as well as government transactions. The corporation will be put under the grain division of the food administration, and its executive officers will be the same as the officers of this division whose names were announced today. Assist Flour Mills. Flour mills will le assured wheat at the price to be paid by the government and the food administration is ready to purchase for the mills all the grain they use. Representatives of the wheat buying industry came to Washington for a conference with the food administration on the government's plan to license the operation of all elevators. Detailed regulations drawn by the food administration and approved by President Wilson governing the licensing will be announced shortly. - The following executive offices have been named: 'Herbert Hoovec chairman; Julius Barnes, Duluth, Minn., president; Gates W. McGarrah, New York, treasurer; F. G. Crowell, Kansas City, vice-president; Edward Chambers. Chicago, transportation director; Curtis H. Lindley, San Francisco, counsel; J. W. Shorthill, York, Neb., secretary. Norwegian Ship Was Used as Decoy by German Submarine AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 15. Twelve members of the crew of the Norwegian ship Benguela, captured June 15 by a German submarine and used for sixteen days as a "decoy vessel" for British and allied shipping, reached here today on a Spanish vessel. According to the sailors, they were held prisoners on board their own ship for that time, their vessel in charge of Germans cruising about in waters usually frequented by merchant ships, with the U-boat partly submerged, hovering about to attack anything that might be tempted to come near he supposed Norwegian ship. The effort was fruitless, however, the men said, as during the entire sixteen days nothing was sighted. At the end of that time the Benguela was loJted of her stores, the crew set adrift in their boats and the vessel destroyed by bombs. The men were picked up and landed at a Spanish port. The submarine which made the capture was described as being of 1,700 tons, armed with two J-inch guns in addition to torpedo tubes. She carried a crew of 70 men and one of the officers told the Norwegians that they had been out for five months from their base. IDENTIFY SUICIDE AS JAMES FLOWERS James Flowers is now believed to be the name of the men who committed suicide in the court house yard Monday afternoon, because of ill health. Coroner Morrow was In communication with Camden, O., where it is believed the dead man has relatives. The man shot himself as he sat on a bench in the court house yard and died immediately. Poor health is believed to have been the cause. A Catholic prayer book was found on him on the fly leaf of which was written the request that he be buried in a Catholic cemetery. Send Soldiers Names Do you have a relative enlisted in his country's service? The . Palladium would like to know who he is. If you have a son or brother or any relative In service, send his name, address and age together with information as to what branch of the service he is in to the Palladium at once.

U-Boat

WILLIAM A. MILLER, South when a member of the gun German submarine. William A. Miller is the hero of South Chicago.. ... - . On every one's Hps la the story of Miller's capture, together with five other men, when the oil tanker Campana was sunk by a German submarine on August 6, as told1 in a brief dispatch to his mother. Miller was employed in the South Chicago steel mills. Shortly after the United States entered the war he joined the navy. A few months later a card was received stating that he was a gunner on the U. S. S. Pennsylvania. Nothing more was heard until two months ago, when another card was received. This time he said he had been transferred to another ship and would soon sail for England. Mother Swoons. Last Saturday the message from Secretary Daniels arrived. Mrs. Greebeck swooned when the contents of the message were read to her. Mrs. Greebeck stopped her washing yesterday to talk to a reporter. "William was such a good boy," she said, "but he craved excitement. I let him go after he pleaded with me for permission. I always feared something like this would happen to him." William's four brothers wish to be part of Uncle Sam's army that eventually is going over to get William and his comrades and bring them back. "I am drafted, but the draft is too slow. I am going to enlist right off," was the sentiment of Stephen Miller, twenty-four. John, nineteen, is not drafted. "But I'll get into the army just the same. I'm going in with you," he said. Andrew, sixteen, and Joseph, ten, expressed like enthusiasm and were almost at tears ' when they were told that there were no army places for little boys. Electric Iron Starts Blaze in Goins Home Fire did $100 damage to the home of Will Goins, 709 South. SevvkV street, Wednesday morning. It was the largest fire in Richmond in more than three months. The fire, which started in the kitchen, is believed to have been caused by an electric iron. There was no one at home at the time. Box 24 was pulled. COATES CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING Robert H. Coate, 70 years and wife, Mrs. Vashti Coate, 69 years old, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their home, 123 South Sot ,.? street, Tuesday. The couple, who married fifty years ago, have lived in Richmond for the last twenty-four years. A steady stream of people visited them Tuesday and offered congratulations and presents. Two sons, Walter J. and Clarence M. Coate,. came from Chicago to celebrate the event. Mrs. Charles W. Foulke, 133 North Fourth street, is a daughter. There were six grandchit dren present. Coate is a carpenter.

Prisoner

Chicago boy who was captured crew of the Campana, sunk by J - SELECTED MEN vTO LEARN DRILL Every man who has been, certified for military service in the national army is' asked to be at the Pythian Temple on South Eighth street, Thursday eyening at 7:30. The men will be offered an opportunity to learn some of the rduimentfl of military drill before going to training camps. Drill will be started Thursday evening if arrangements can be made. Five of the eight men who have agreed to act as drlllmasters for the selective army boys met with. Julian Cates, head of the movement, at the Commercial club rooms Tuesday evening and laid plans for the drilling. CONTRACT SIGNED FOR CEMENT FACTORY The Richmond Commercial club Tueesday s:gned the contracts which would bring the million-dollar Indiana Portland Cement company's plant to this city. The contracts were forwarded Tuesday evening to Adam Beck, president of the corporation, at .Huntington. He is expected to call a meeting of the directors there within a day or so to sign the contracts for the company. Will H. Hart, secretary of the cement company, left for Montreal Tuesday to buy machinery for the new plant. AUCTIONEER OFFERS TO SELL CLOTHING OF SELECTED MEN Wayne county men selected for the first national army will not be compelled to sell their clothes or other things they won't need after they get in the army at a sacrifice or a much lower price than their value. The men's clothes and any other thing they have to sell may be disposed of at public auction, prior to the departure of the men. Col. Joe Kennel, auctioneer of Eaton, has offered his services to the committee in charge of arrangements for the celebration here, and will auction the men's belongings without charge. ' The date on which the sale will be conducted will be decided by the committee on arrangements. , Men who are selected for army service will be required to report to Col. Kennel or the committee in charge of arrangements what they have to selL

ALLIES FEAR KAISER BACK OF PROPOSAL FOR PEACE Decline to State Their PosW tion 'Until Offical Text of! Vatican Proposal is Translated.

BRITISH ARE SKEPTICAL WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. Administration officials today awaited the official text of Pope. Benedict's peace proposals before giving any Intimation of the nature of the reply to be given the Vatican. That the peace offer will require an answer is readily acknowledged by officials, but it is believed that the Interests of the allies will require a rejection. It is virtually certain that the proposals cannot be accepted in their present form. The communication from Rome probably will be transmitted to the state department through the papal delegates here or the Spanish or Swiss legation. The answer Involves a delicate task for the belligerents, because the proposals offer a warweary hope for. the restoration of peace. Pope Benedict's proposal had not been received today by the government but Secretary Lansing said the summary as published by the Associated Press was substantially in accord with the unofficial outline he has before him. There is no change in the first impression, that the allies certainly will reject the proposal in its present form and probably refuse to consider it at all. There is a growing probability that in making clear to the world their refusal they will restate their war alms. In discussing the probable channel of communication Mr. Lansing said that, as the Vatican was without diplomatic status here, the note would In all probability come through some neutral embassy. POPE IS AUTHOR OF NOTE ROME, Aug. 14. The peace proposals of Pope Beedlct were written entirely in his own handwriting. The pope consulted Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary of state; Archbishop Ceretti, assistant papal secretary of state, and Monsignor Tedeschini, papal under-secretary of state, in formulating the documents. Archbishop Ceretti, who arrived recently from America where he stopped on his journey from Ausralia, is now supervising translation of the communication into English. The Glornale dltalia says the papal appeal is the most impressive and most concrete ever addressed to the belligerents, giving them the general lines on which peace negotiations may be Initiated. It adds: "The explicit terms in which the note is worded led to the supposition that the intentions of the two belligerent groups are not in absolute conflict with the ideas and hopes of the pope." BRITISH PAPERS APPREHENSIVE LONDON, Aug. 15. Some of the morning newspapers refrain from commenting on the pope's peace proposals while those which discuss them editorially base their genesis to Austria, and either reject absolutely or Indicate the belief that the text when received will show them to be unacceptable. The Daily News which although a firm supporter of the allies alms has a decided pacifist leaning, says that whatever reasons which hitherto restrained the pope from coming forward as an official champion of peace, the long delay has materially Impaired the advantages the Vatican origin" ally possessed for disinterested inter ventton. The Dally News thinks It fairly clear that the pope's appeal was really Inspired by Austria but maintains that if his holiness can really persuade the belligerents to state their conditions in concrete terms, he will confer a very great. If belated, blessing on mankind, and if he can further persuade Germany to declare its willingness to restore the independence of Belgium, Serbia and Rumania and withdraw from other Invaded territories the door to peace will be open and a blank refusal by the allies to negotiate on such a basis would be almost unthinkable. Sees Austrian Influence The Dally Mall does not comment editorially but in an introduction In its news columns says the pope's proposals are impossible and that the scheme is really Austrc-German. The Chronicle refers to the traditional intimacy of Austria and the Vatican and the . Austrian court's Intense desire for peace. The Times while .suspending final judgment until the text is available, says the proposals as described In the telegraph summaries are utterly inadmlssable by the allies. It expresses astonishment at the Vatican's alleged hope that the document will be favorably received and lead to the not distant end of the war. One Hog Brings $127 Sampson, 970 pounds of hog. brought $127.10 Wednesday at Glen Miller stock yards. . Dan Kitchen, living near Boston, was the owner of the hog. According to men at the stockyards it was the finest specimen of pork ever purchased,- and it was regarded as perfect. The hog brought $13 per hundred. . , , .. ,