Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 239, 18 August 1917 — Page 1

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BRITISH HURL RACK DRIVE (IF GERMANS NEAR LENS

Kaiser's Artillery Pounds Air lies' Positions Near Ypres, but Germans Unable to Advance Lines. POCKET GARRISON A naval battle in German waters between British and German light sea forces is reported by the British admiralty. While the British were scouting on Thursday, they sighted a German destroyer, which was badly damaged. Two German mine sweepers also were damaged and two German submarine attacks were without result. No British ships were damaged. Another effort was made early today by the Germans to re-capture the ground taken by the British in their successful attacks In the vicinity of Lens, giving them control of dominating positions. The British official war statement reports that sharp fighting occurred northwest of Lens and that once more the attack of the Germans was repulsed completely. The Germans continued to pound the British positions heavily with their artillery. In the vicinity of Ypres, also the big German guns kept up a lively fire but no infantry attacks are reported. The fighting Thursday at Polygon was desperate. Wave after wave of the enemy came surging up against the London troops who held on determinedly with rifle and bayonet until two simultaneous counter attacks from different directions forced them to retreat. Forced to Retreat. Gradually they withdrew, fighting all the way. Some few of them were surroundedd and fought until forced to surrender. One young officer In command of ten men found himself encircled by the enemy and his men being swept by machine gun fire. The last heard of him was contained In a message he signalled back to his division, laying his men were facing death and that he saw no way but to surrender and save their lives. " Try to Get Garrison. Along most of the French front It was comparatively quiet although a hard local battle was continuing about a strong German redoubt known as "Les Lilas" which lies about a thousand yards southwest of the St. Jansbeek river. In their advance the French surged foward on either side of this position, making1 a sort of pocket about it and It was expected that the small German garrison would be compelled to surrender shortly. The Germans delivered a counter-attack on the French ex treme right flank but this was repulsed by artillery fire. CzarBound for Siberia? PETROGRAD, Aug. 18. Telegrams from Viatka, on the northern route to Siberia report the passage of two special tains with lowered blinds which no one was allowed to approach. The trains which are going eastward are assured to contain the former emperor Nicholas and his family. Do Your pJ'-i Join the Bit Now Red Cross WEATHER FORECAST For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Sunday. Warmer tonight in central and north portions. , Today's Temperature. Noon 79 Yesterday. Maximum 79 Minimum ..y. 65 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair tonight and Sunday with possible local thundershowers. Warmer Sunday. General Conditions Clear weather continues over the central states due to high barometric pressure. Heavy local rains are continuing south of the Ohio river to the gulf. Heavy rains are also occurring on the Atlantic coast, with 2U inches of rainfall at Philadelphia. Russia on Elihu Root upon his return from Russia, delivered an address In New York City in which he spoke of German influence upon the Slav mind. He declared Germany tried to buy treason in Russia and in the United States as well. Mr. Root then said: "There are men walking about the streets of this city tonight who ought to be taken out at sunrise -tomorrow and shot for treason. They are doing their . work under false pretenses. They are professing to be for the country and they are lying every day 1 In every word. If we are competent and fit for our liberty we will find them out and get at them. And every one can help. Not by talking to each other about what we hear, but by turning to the authorities charged with the pursuit and detection of traitors all the information we can gather." Mr. Root, discussing the Russian situation at the Chamber of Commerce, said:

SERGEANT FJ. EACH AVE, Battery A, Second Illinois Field Artillery, is bidding farewell to his wife and baby, Roseland, at Chicago, as he leaves for Houston, Tex., before going to France. Scenes like this are being enacted all over the United States.

You'll Find Our Boys Fighting In All Branches of Uncle Sam s Growing Military Establishment

Send Soldiers' Names The Palladium wants to kna the name of every man in Richmond and Wayne county who is serving bis country. Do you have a son, or brother or any relatives in the service? If his home is in any -part of Wayne county, send his name, age and branch of the service he is in, together with the names of his parents to the Palladium, so that his name may be placed on the honor roll. Wayne county is no slacker! Her soldiers are scattered over all parts of the United States, most of them in training camps preparing themselves for the game of war. Reports to the Palladium from proud mothers and fathers show that the county's young men didn't hesitate very, long when President Wilson issued the call to the colors, just after war was declared. Many are in Fort Harrison,' a few in Texas, some already back of the French firing lines, one in Hawaii, and here and there all over the country, Convicted Woman Spy Given Right to- Appeal PARIS, Aug. 18. Although a revision court martial has rejected the appeal of the Dutch dancer Mata Hari who was recently condemned to death as a spy, she still can ask that her case be heard by the supreme court. Kern to be Buried at Summer Home ASHEVTLLE, N. C., Aug. IS. The body of John W. Kern, former senator from Indiana, who died here last night, was sent early today: to Hollins, Va., the late senator's summer home, where burial will -take place. Funeral arrangements had not been completed today when those in charge of the body left here. Mr. Kern died at an Asheville hospital from TJraemic poisoning after an illness lasting since Tuesday. Mrs. Kern and his daughter, Mrs. George B. Lawson, of Roanoke, Va were with him at his death.

Way to Freedom, Says

"The extraordinary ease with which the Czar's government was removed, was due, not merely to the fact that It was an autocracy, but also to the fact that it did not govern efficiently; it was not up to the job; it had allowed Russia to drift into a position where there was vast confusion and they were on the verge of bankruptcy. The Government had become, practically, merely a government of negatives that ceased to lead the people, so that the Czar and the bureaucracy were slipped off as easily as a crab sheds Its hard shell when the proper time comes. Arraigns Germany. "Up to the revolution it had been a criminal offense to meet, hold meetings and discuss public questions. Under the rulings of the police three was an unlawful crowd, so that if three men undertook to talk about the weather in the street, they were required to move on or were arrested.

"Good-ByerDaddy"

all attesting the patriotism of old Rich mond. . With every mail delivered at the office of the Palladium names of soldiers are received, Richmond, has been heard from but there are still more to be heard from Centervill, Milton. Cambridge Citv. Haererstown. Whitewater Webster, Williamsburg,' Greensfork, Abington, Boston, Chest rf Economy, East Germantown, and every other home in the county which has given up a son or husband for Uncle Sam's use in the greatest of all wars. Dwlght L. Russell, 23 years old, is behind the firing lines in France serv ing in - General Pershing's forces. Russell was called to the colors - in August of 1916 and was with Pershing's Mexican expedition, serving in the motorcycle company. He was made a corporal while serving in Mexico. He is the eon of Mrs. Anna Russell. Fred J. Hugo, 24 years old, enlisted in June and is serving in the headquarters company of the First Indiana Continued On Page Seven. KAISER DELAYS PEACE ANSWER COPENHAGEN, Aug. 18.The German foreign office is not yet ready to announce the government's standpoint on the pope's peace proposals and an answer probably will be delayed considerably while the four central pow ers are endeavoring to reconcile somewhat divergent views and interests re: garding peace, , : A cordial article in the Cologne Gazette perhaps presages the German point of view by declaring it is the duty of all governments to support any effort at honorable mediation and pointing out that the pope's action is in line with previous efforts of Germany. It is evident that Austria-Hungary will throw its full weight in favor of an affirmative answer to the 'pope's 'welcome proposal just as Bulgaria which recently has been manifesting extreme sensitiveness upon AustroGerman discussion of the future of the future of Macedonia will flatly and vehemently oppose any acceptance of the return of occupied areas. The note which was sent direct to the emperor by the pope was published in the morning papers. Immediately after the revolution all Russia began to meet and discuss. That was the condition when the Mission went there. ' "Now, into that state of affairs .there came Intervention by that malevolent power which is intermeddling with the affairs of every nation upon earth, stirring up discord, stimulating, feeding, financing all the forces of evil doing it ; here among us now that; power that finds its account in alliance with all evil passions, all .the , sordid impulses of humanity, in every nation in the world, entered into Russia, Thousands of agents poured over the border immediately upon the revolution. "All the pro-German sympathizers in Russia were visited and spurred to action. Newspapers were purchased and newspapers were established, and a great propaganda went on to fill the minds of the simple-minded people who hd never thought or talked about

OLD SETTLERS RECALL DAYS THATARE GONE Descendants of Wayne County Pioneers Gather at Centerville. .

Praising jMoneere5ortsa,nd achieve ments and' the yok To!e by the early settlers in the county of "Wayne, W. H. Talbot ' of Orleans 'fspoke this afternoon on "The Day," before the annual meeting of the Wayne County Old Settlers' Association at Center, ville. . s " His wife, formerly Miss Rose Farr, of Liberty, was for years a state officer of the Rebeccas, and many renewals of friendship were made by them today at Centerville. Harvey Speaks. President Caleb Harvey spoke briefly of the aims and objects of the association, the early and past reunions. - Walter Ratliff, of Richmond, secretary, and John Dines, treasurer, of Centerville, also spoke. The report of the secretary showed a loss of membership. Mrs. Grace Julian Clark, of Irvington, daughter of the late George Julian of Centerville, reviewed what had been accomplished for universal suffrage of women. The Centerville chapter of the American Red Cross was present to honor Mrs. Walter Lewis of Richmond, who spoke on . the needs of the soldiers, the necessity for first aid appliances and socks, and how Wayne Continued on Page Eight. SHEFFER DISCHARGED AFTER PROVING AGE Ernest - M. Sheffer was discharged by the Richmond selective army board Saturday, when Sheffer proved by affidavits that ' he . was beyond the age of 31. years on June , 5, registration day, and thus not required to register. Sheffer said he believed that he was older but upon investigation of his father it was found he was beyond the age of registration. Claims that they are supporting a wife and children in Italy didn't get a discharge for Pasquale Rodonella and Nichele Nicolette, Italians. Their affidavits failed to show that they were solely dependent upon them.

Root, Calling on America to Give

political, affairs, to fill their minds with the German view; of the war and their duty. .' '. . "The men who correspond to the I. W. W. here, the extreme socialists and anarchists, with whom the German agents made ' common cause, preached and sought to bring about the destruction of the -Industrial and financial system in Russia; the destruction of nationalism in Russia; under the ; promise to the . peasants and the workingmen of a universal brotherhood of the proletariat of the world, which should destroy all national government, and, bring in a universal reign of peace and brotherly love, not suggesting to them as to what Germany might do in the meanwhile, if the national force of Russia was destroyed for the purpose of bringing about this millenium., "Notwithstanding all this, in a country withno central, government

COAL RETAILERS MAKE BIG PROFIT SAYS OREPORT President Studies the Trade Commission Report and May Decide to Fix the Retail Price.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 The federal commission, which has just completed its investigation of coal production costs, probably will submit its findings to President Wilson in a few days. The report will serve to acquaint the president comprehensively with the national fuel situation in relation to the consumer. President Wilson went to the food administration office today for a personal conference with Herbert Hoover and later went to the federal trade commission. It was believed the president discussed the coal situation and the extent to which he would assume the powers to control distribution vested in him by the food bill. May Fix the Price. Under the law, the president may fix the price of coal, operate the mines or "commandeer stocks and sell them to the public. Some decision of which Continued On Page Seven. THESE MEN FAILED TO FILE AFFIDAVITS ASKING DISCHARGE Following is a partial list of the men who have claimed discharge from service because of dependents, but who have not filed affidavits supporting their claims. Today is the last day for men who filed their claims on August 8, to file their affidavits of proof. Monday is the last day for any man who has claimed discharge after August 8 to file their proofs. If proofs are not filed the men will be accepted for the army. The following list is not official: William R. Conway, wife, child. J. J. Havens, wife, three children. Wm. McNally, dependents. Franklin L. Carver, wife, 2 children. Emil Marmore, wife and child. Clyde Raymond Hunt, wife, 2 children, examined Philadelphia, Pa. Wm. F. Niebuhr, dependent mother. John Leslie Williams, wife, child. Alfred J. Johnson, examined Marion, Ind., wife and two children. Chas. Russell White,, wife, child. Wm. Lawrence Stephenson, wife and dependent parent. Herbert H. Morrow, wife and child. BLAST WRECKS POWDER PLANT NEAR QUEBEC BULLETIN RIGUARD, Quebec, Aug. 18. An early estimate placed the dead at 250, but indications were this afternoon that were few casualties. The first explosion was caused by the overheating of the machinery in the nitric acid building. The flames swept to other buildings. The employes were able to escape, other explosions followed quickly. MONTREAL, Aug. 18. A terrific explosion at the powder plant of Curtis and Harvey, Limited, at Rigaud, Quebec, ' today is believed to have caused heavy loss of lives.- Five thousand men and women are employed at the plant which covers an area of five square miles. At points near Riguad it was learned that three explosions took place. The first at 9 o'clock was heard in Vaudreuil, 20 miles away. It was followed by two there in succession. The explosions disrupted telephone and telegraph communication with Rigaud, making it difficult to obtain information. Traffic on the Canadian Pacific railroad, Ottawa-Montreal line, which passes closes to the plant has been suspended. Trainmen who got away from the scene of the explosion reported that forty houses at Dragon, a little village near the powder plant, occupied by workmen were raized by the force of the explosion. Passengers on a Canadian Pacific railroad train which passed the scene of disaster placed the number of dead from the first explosion at twenty. that had power to force Its decrees, In a country with no police; a country in which the sanction and moral obligation of the laws had disappeared with the disappearance of the Czar, there reigned order to' a higher -degree than has existed in the United States of America during this period. (Applause.) "In the first enthusiasm for freedom, In the liberation of political prisoners, a great many ordinary criminal prisoners were also released, and they went about and committed some depredationswhich, of course, all found their way into the newspapers; but even with that, the general average of peace and order, of respect for property and life in Russia, I say, was higher than could reasonably be expected from any 180,000,000 people in the world under any government. (Applause.) - "Now, there -Is -great financial dif

Passed by Board For Army Service

Gustave A. Sander, wife. Alfred Theo. Shoemaker, wife. Carl Edward Vantz, examined at Greencastle. Frank Joseph Kleeman, examined in Chicago. Erwin Rufus Knight, wife. Guy L. Milton, wife. BenJ. A. Hickman, wife. William Christopher Furman, wife. Louigi Vash. wife. Russell Pitcher, wife. Clarence S. Geier, wife. Guiseppe Petriello, parents. Mike Marsio, wife. Elmer E. Driscoll, wife. Howard Charles Hunt, wife. Orville Knox, wife. Claude Bozorth, no claim. Roy W. Dye, wife. Robert N. Land, wife. Nick Delucio, wife. Frank M. Minor, wife. Michael Hutzel, wife. Wm- Wilson Zook, single. Raymond S. Thomas, wife. Ermal Ross Hudelson, wife. Wm. E. Saunders, wife. John Ralph Ingerman, wife. ' ' Wm. L. Jones, wife. :r Adam Milam, wife. Edward W. Bloemeyer, wife. Elmer E. Atkinson, wife. Benona H. Parshall, wife. Glenn E. Whitesell, wife. Arthur Ray Barnes, wife. Paul Hollopeter. wife. Chalmer P. Dixon, wife, Friend. Benjamin Deuker, wife. Everett Jerome Mitchell, wife. John W. Grimes, single, (examined at Pekln. 111.) Albert R. Williams, single, Friends church. Samuel P. Miller, wife. Elbert R. Noggle, wife. James T. Kilgore, wife. Ray Paul Sperling, wife. Harlan A. Hank, wife. Clem McConaha, wife. John Lewis Schatzman, wife. John W. Kemper, no claim. Howard R. Jefferies, wife. Pasquale Rodondella, wife and child in Italy. A. Chester Mills, wife. Robt Lorenzo Hungerford, wife. John A. Thomas, -wife. Michele Nicolette, wife and child in Italy. Earl Sherron Gilbert, wife. Jack Edward Uhl, wife. Lawrence W. Duning, wife. Ray J. Ellstro, wife. Julius W. Moelk, wife. Bert D. Welch, wife. Earl W. Allen, wife. Richard Mann Rose, wife. Robert Leon Hudson, wife. Joseph Henry Puthoff, no claim.. Men Discharged William Percy Goehner, wife and four children. Frank Smith Campbell, wife and child. Robert Ray, wife and two children. Albert George Metzger, wife and three children. Enos Ozias Daugherty, wife and child. Robert Adams, wife and three children. Carl Luther Culbertson, wife and two children. Continued on Page Eight.

Member of Parliament Opens Chautauqua Program Sunday

SUNDAY PROGRAM 9:30 a. m. Sunday school, Supt. Harry Reeves, president Richmond Sunday School association. 10:30 a. m. Sermon-lecture, Rev. John G. Benson, D. D., "The New Religion." 2:00 p. m. Prelude, Oxford Concert Co. 3:00 p. m. Address Hon. Francis Neilson, member of Parliament, "Europe After the War." 5:30 p. m. Young People's Union. 7:00 p. m. Lecture, Rev. J. G. Benson, "Hidden Among the Stuff." 8:00 p. m. Concert, Oxford Concert Co. Indications point to a record breaking attendance at Chautauqua, Sunday. Secretary Wissler announced Saturday that the Fifteenth annual session would open without delay or change. The first day's session will open Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock with a community Sunday school, under the leadership of Edward Hasemeler, president of the State Sunday school association. Rev. Benson to Preach. Morning church services wfll be held in the auditorium ten at 10:30 o'clock, Rev. John G. Benson, who will be the ficulty in Russia; the old regime brought the country into a very involved and critical condition financially; there is great disturbance Industrially. But when I have met people, and I did, a great many, who shake their heads over the industrial and financial conditions there, I have thought always, with a cheerful reassurance, of what a fine character are the people, and I have remembered that our dollar in the Civil War was ae low as the Russian rouble, and I haven't any doubt that the character of the Russian will pull up their finances just as the character of America pulled up our finances. The Teuton Menace. "That vast country is to be opened, to , be developed, the great stretch through Siberia, from the Urals to the Pacific, with unimaginable wealth of the same kind which has made the power of this great republic. Yon'

BOARD TAKES SIXTY-FIVE MARRIED n FOR SERVICE

105 with Wives and Children' Discharged, 3 Exempted, and 45 Are Required to Appear Again. NO ACTION ON 33 Sixty-flve men were accepted, 105' discharged, forty-lve notified to appear for further examination, and: three men exempted by the Richmond ; selective army board yesterday. The sixty-flve men passed were all married men but have no children, according to their claims. The 105 men discharged have dependent children, according to their affidavits. All of the cases of the men discharged are appealed to the district board, however, by the government's attorney, William Dudley Foulke. It lies within the power of the district board, whose headquarters are in Fort Wayne, to accept any of the men discharged by the Richmond board. Three Are Exempted. The Rev. Father Clement Zepf, assistant rector of St Andrew's church, was exempted from service, as Is provided in the case of ministers of religion under the selective service law. Floyd Flood, apprentice seamen, and Paul M. Lyons, who Is in the naval service, were also exempted. Assuming that none of the sixty-fiv ; men accepted by the Richmond board will be exempted or discharged by the district board, Richmond has nearly 200 men to ftU its quota of 254, as fixed by the government. No Action on 33. - In thirty-three cases, no action was taken as some of the men who have filed claims for exemption have not filed their aflldavlts supporting their claims. In other cases, included In the thirty-three, men have been examined by boards In other cities and no reports have been received by ther Richmond board. All of the 6lxty-flve married men accepted by the board have five days to submit evidence before the board which might tend to change their decision. Unless this is done the men will be certified for service to the district board. - , Many of the forty-five men notified; to appear before the board to testify' as to why they should be discharged! from service have children.' APPOINTS WISSLER. Announcement was made Saturday by C. O. Williams, that W. O. Wissler has been appointed as acting superintendent during the county institute next week. Superintendent Williams; will be In Washington for the greater! part of the week attending an educa-1 tional conference. platform manager during the entireseason. Rev. Benson will deliver aj sermon lecture Sunday morning oa "The New Religion." The concerts by the Oxford Concert company at 2 o'clock and again at i o'clock in the evening promise to b musical treats. This Is the second time that the Oxford company hat been engaged for the Richmond Chau. tauqua. their first appearance .last year making such an appeal to tha t audience .that con tret for this year's assembly was made with the company. The afternoon concert of the Oxford company will be short and will precede the adddress by Hon. Francis Neilsoik The evening concert will be the onlj! attraction on the program for Sunday evening. Knows Europe. , The address by Hon. Francis Neifc son, a member of the British parlia ment, on "Europe After the War" id one of the biggest lectures on the pro gram. Mr. Neilson was a member cl the British parliament for five years) and during that time made a thorough study of the conditions in Europe that! brought about the present world con flict and he Is recognized as an authority on his subject. He is a leader of the Liberalist party in England. Every Aid

have the wealth, you have the char acter, you have the opportunity for development, and, with these, I feel cei tain that Russia is going to create and maintain free self-government which will make he a republic worthy to stand side by side with the great republic of the United States, and a republic which will spur us to higher effort in order that we may be worthy to stand by her. (Loud applause.) "There is but one danger that I see and that Is that Russia, God forbid itj may be overwhelmed by Germany; and if that were to happen, the develop ment of the free institutions In Russia, " adapted to to her life and character and the genius of the Russian peopli would be made impossible. 'The Ruw slans know that the thoughtful men of Russia know that and, with coui age worthy of all honor, with couragf ' worthy of imitation by us, they art wrestling mightily to prevent thai great misfortune," ; .