Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 243, 23 August 1917 — Page 1

RICHMONB PAIXABiUM

VOL. XLII., NO. 243 ffiflof Palladium and Sun-Telegram RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1917. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

FOULKE GALLS ON CITIZENS TO ASSIST IN FRAUD EXPOSE

Government's Attorney Asks Persons Knowing of Illegal Exemption Claims to Report Them to Him. SAYS GASES ARE FEW William Dudley Foulko, government counsel In Richmond district draft cases, has issued an appeal to patriotic citizens to report cases of fraudulent exemption claims. The appeal follows: "To the People of Richmond, and Wayne, Franklin and Boston Townships: "The local conscription board . has passed upon many claims for exemption and discharge from military service, allowing some and refusing others. These lists have been published in the daily papers. "I have been appointed by the government and directed to appeal to the district board at Fort Wayne all cases of discharge on account of the dependency of wife, children- or other relatives. While this appeal has to be taken in all cases it is evident that in the greater number of them the discharge has been properly granted and the appeal is a mere formality so as to give the district board the right to take up any particular case in its discretion. Some Cases Improper "Yet there are some cases which it will be necessary to call to the special attention of the district board, cases where the discharge may have been improperly granted. 'In these cases circumstances will generally bo known to neighbors and acquaintances of the man discharged. Perhaps the man has really not been supporting his -wife or child or widowed mother or infirm parents at all; perhaps the wife has been earning an independent livelihood; perhaps his or her relatives have independent means sufficient, when taken with the sum which the soldier could allow out of his $30 a month pay, to support them and are ready and, willing to do so. "Provost-Marshal CTOwder has notified us that wherever the wife or other dependent will receive support from other sources there is no real dependency rendering discharge advisable, and he adds: Cases Within Ruilng The following classes of cases are within this ruling: A. Wife and Children. 1. where the parents or other relative nf the wife or husband are able. ready and willing to provide adequate support for her (and cnnaren u anyi rfnHncr th absence of the husband. Where th'e wife owns land which has produced income by the husband s labor, but which could -with reasonable certainty be rented during his absence, to other persons so as to produce an adequate support. uTisre there exists same ar rangement by which the salary or wage of the husband is continued, nin or in Dart by third persons, being employers or Insurers or others. and such portion or tne salary or wage either alone or with an allotment of his soldier's pay. or with other definite income, will furnish a reasonably adequate support. B. Other Dependents. I. where in one of the foregoing ways u reasonably adequate support is provided for a widowed mother, infirm parents, or orphan child under 16 years (as enumerated In section 20, paragraph H. 2. 3. 4, 5) of a son. brother or father called into the service. Asks for Aid. "I can not personally know all these cases and therefore cfrll upon citizens as a patriotic duty to write to me and give me information of anything showing that there is no just cause for exemption and that the discharge was improper, in order that I may call such cases to the attention of the district exemption board at Fort Wayne when the appeals are considered. "I have already conferred with the chief of police and other representatives cf the force In the city of Richmond, and with numerous persons having wide acquaintance throughout the city and county and I believe as a resuit of these inquiries that the great mass of the claims made for exemption and allowed by the board are genuine cases 'where there are dependents who hav no other means of support. "The good faith of most of these claims is incontestible but this makes it all the more important that if there are iny which should not be allowed, notice be given to the government by those who know the facts. "Wm. D. Foulke." Do Your p-i Join the Bit Now j-1 Red Cross WEATHER FORECAST For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Cooler Friday. For Richmond and Wayne County, by W. E. Moore Probably thunderstorms this afternoon or tonight. Friday partly cloudy and much cooler; variable winds becoming northwest. General 'Conditions The storm which caused the heavy rains is slowly moving eastward and is being followed by cooler weather in the Canadian northwest. Temperatures below GO on the Canadian border. The nd of the week will be very cool.

German Flyers Drop Bombs on French Hospitals, Killing 30; Youths Are Glad to be Captured

OX THE FRENCH FRONT, Aug. 23. (By the Associated Press) The incendiary bombs which were dropped by two German aviators on two hospitals behind Verdun on Sunday evening killed ten wounded men, one woman nurse and nineteen trained male nurses. They wounded forty-nine male nurses and inflicted further injuries on patients suffering from wounds received in battle, many of whom rushed naked into nearby fields in an attempt to find shelter from the bombs which were being rained down. Meanwhile the German aviators circled about in the air for half an hour, firing their machine guns at hospital orderlies who were endeavoring to extinguish the flames. Were Treating Fee The nurses had just finished bandaging 180 wounded Germans who hp.d been brought direct from the battlefield and had gone to bed, when the bombs were dropped from a height of only 300 yards. The Red Cross signs were painted prominently on the roofs PRICE OF HOGS IS SENT DOWN Recent heavy rains, insuring a bumper corn crop, caused a rush of hogs to the market and as a result, all grades of. hogs dropped from 75 cents to $1 on Glen Miller market Thursday. Scarcity of corn for feed and the prospects of a ruined crop due to the lack of rainfall had caused a decided rise in the market last week, but the rains of Tuesday night and Wednesday cleared the way for a reduction in price. Although there is no chance of a great drop in the price, there is a possibility that the market will fall a little below its present standing. AUSTRIA LOSES 30,000 TROOPS (By Associated Press) Italy's great effort on the Isonzo front is meeting with continued success, Rome reports officially, and her troops are proceeding toward realization of ' their objectivesT Further ground has been gained on both the northern and southern wings. Austrian counter attacks of great severity are being repulsed. Tho Austrian losses in the first two days of the battle are computed unofficially in Italy at 30,000. The Italians claim to have taken 16,000 prisoners. The fighting on the Verdun front is dying down. The French objectives north of Verdun apparently have been attained, and except for the capture by the French of a small fortified position, the infantry actions in this sector are reported. The number of prisoners has reached 7,639. The Fronch also have captured 24 cannons and more than 200 machine guns. The Germans continued their attack on the Aisne front last night, but met with no better fortune than heretofore. Several assaults near Laftaux mill. Allies and Cerny were repulsed. Berlin Acknowledges Receipt The German government has acknowledged at the Vatican receipt of the Papal peace note, promising to examine it carefully and to reply after reaching an agreement with its allies. The Germans are continuing vigorously and successfully their new offensive on the extreme northern end of the Russian front Notwithstanding the difficulties of the ground over which they are attacking they have made substantial gains along the Gulf of Riga. The official report from Petrograd shows a Russian withdrawal of about Ave miles along the coast in the direction of Riga. Berlin gives few details of this fighting and it is not yet clear whether the Germans have committed themselves to a sustained offensive in the north. Chinese Desperadoes Seek to Seize Ship AMOY, China, Aug. 23. The British steamer Laertz, bound from Singapore for Amboy, reports a piratical attempt to seize the ship. The Laertz carried 900 Chinese passengers, among them, unknown to the officers, 41 desperadoes who had been deported. These criminals attacked the European officers, but after a hard fight were overpowered by the Europeans with the help of the Chinese crew. The Laertz called at Cape St. James, Indo-China and obtained an armed guard. West Patriotic as East, Says Phelps William Lyon Phelps, Eastern man, says Westerners are just as patriotic as Easterners, and that any attempt at "geographical patriotism" should be silenced. "The pitch of feeling sometimes runs a little higher in the east than in the west, but there is just exactly as much depth of patriotism at bottom," says Dr. Phelps. "Sectional differences should be buried as quickly as possible, and geographical patriotism discouraged. We are out to win this war as soon as possible, and there should be no division of strength."

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which had been in existence for more than a year. The correspondent, after Inspecting the hospital, visited a camp at which German prisoners are assembled. It considerably more than 6,000 officers and men. The correspondent was per mitted to interrogate a large number of the prisoners, many of whom are eighteen or nineteen years of age. They all declared themselves con tented at being out of the war. On the way other smaller camps, containing hundreds of prisoners were passed. IMPROVERS CALL OFF BIG PICNIC FOR CELEBRATION South Siders Cancel Annual Outing to Join in Soldier's Party, The South Side Improvement association has cancelled "its one big day of the year," to participate in the celebration to be held in honor of Richmond's soldiers. At a meeting of the board of directors of the association it was decided to cancel the Labor Day Picnic and participate in the celebration instead. The organization will furnish three decorated automobiles and all mem bers will be asked to take part in the huge street procession, the largest ever held in the history of Richmond or Wayne county. Awaiting Direction. Secretary Koll of the association in a letter to Lawrence Handley of the committee in charge of the parade says the association awaits the direc tion of the committee in charge of ar rangements. Every organization in the city is asked to unite in honoring Richmond's soldiers. Relatives of soldiers already serving their Uncle Sam will have a place of honor in the parade. Officials and employes of the court house, at a meeting held in tpie court house Wednesday afternoon, agreed to take an active part in the celebration Detailed plans of the part to be tak en in the celebration by the court house officials will be worked out at a meeting to be held next week. Nephew of Former German Envoy Here Is Taken Prisoner PARIS, Aug. 23. Among the 600 prisoners taken by the French in the hollow recesses of Dead Man s Hill, was a battalion commander with his staff, including Count Eugene Bernstorff, the nephew of the former Ger man ambassador at Washington. CEDENT PLANT CONTRACT SIGNED Work will be started on the proposed plant of the Indiana Portland Cement company, at last definitely secured for Richmond, as soon as the cement men can work out details of site and construction. Adam Beck, president of the company, is in California conferring with cement experts there, and Will J. Hart, secretary returned last week from Canada, where he had been looking over machinery. Hart in Richmond Wednesday, said the contract bringing the company here already signed by the Richmond Commercial club, had been signed by the company's board of directors. Albert Kleinknecht, city power plant superintendent, says the tentative schedule of power. called for by the new plant will mean a revenue of $130,000 a year for the city plant. Credit is given to George Seidel, vice-president and John Lontz, president of the Commercial club, for bringing the new industry here. NEW COAL RATES EFFECTIVE NOW WASHINGTON. Aug. 23 Secretary Tumulty today telegraphed E. J. Wallace, secretary of the St. Louis Coal Club, that President Wilson had authorized him to say that the bituminous coal prices fixed in the president's statement Tuesday became effective at once. Mr. Tumulty's telegram was in response to an inquiry as to the effective date. In his answer Mr. Tumulty said, "The President authorizes me to say that the coal prices prescribed become effective at once." COMMISSION ENDS TASK . NEW YORK. Aug. 23. The Belgian war commission officially has come to an end. Baron Moncheur, head of the mission, 'announces that a few days will be BDent in New York in an un official capacity. Today's program, besides a luncheon and dinner, inr.lurios a review of the seventh regiment in central park.

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Iv- '-Thomas Watt GrefforvW" 3 SECOND DISTRICT HAS MORE MEN THAN ITS QUOTA Board - Finishes Hearing on Exemption Claims of First Call. CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., Aug. 23. The second district Wayne county exemption board flnished sitting on exemption claims of men on the trst call Thursday morning, and will begin on the second call men Friday. The board has slightly more men than the quota, with those certified for service Thursday, but will examine all those on the second call, to allow for exemptions which may be granted by the district board.' Those certified for service Thursday follow: Marion C. Paisley; Walter H. Bertsch, Cambridge City; Clifford M. Howard, Cambridge City; William F. King, Richmond; Vesper B. Richardson, Centerville; F. H. Hunt, Williamsburg; H. Corby Burnett, Hagerstown; Harry Franklin Caldwell. Connersville; Blaine Williams, Greensfork; Luther C. Wisehart, Hagerstown; Everett W. Lamar, Hagerstown; Earl Adams Clark, Fountain City; Bert Skinner, Centerville; Cardinal Watkins, Williamsburg; Ernest L. Reece, Fountain City; Oscar Jones Russell, Centerville; Clarence Duke, .Williamsburg; Watson J. Fawcett, Milton; Herbert E. Myers, Cambridge City; Ray C. Sherry, Hagerstown; Leroy Ammerman, Greensfork; Vance A. Wine, Hagerstown; John C. Daugherty, Cambridge City; Walter C. Williams, Centerville ; George H. Keagy, Hagerstown; Roy A. Morgan, Centerville; Paul Harvey Cain, Economy; Freddy Clayton Williams, Greensfork; Thomas Lawrence, Centerville; Paul R. Bertsch, Cambridge City; Earl Alexander Cheeseman, Greensfork; Frank C. Hale, Richmond R. F. D.; Clarence M. Rummel, Cambridge City; George W. Sharp, East Germantown. Pontiff Expected No Early Peace When He Spoke, Says Legate KANSAS CITY, Aug. 23. Pope Benedict did not expect early peace to result from his proposal' to the belligerent nations that hostilities be ended, according to a statement by Monsignor Giovanni Bonzano, apostolic delegate to the United States, who is here today to attend the convention of the American federation of Catholic societies which begins next Sunday. "I can say authoritatively that the Holy Father believed there was no prospect of the warring nations arranging terms soon, said Bonzano, "but he believed that he could impartially offer a proposal that might bring the leaders of the warring nations to a normal sense of thought and to try to arrange terms." PAINTER DIES IN POVERTY. LONDON, Aug. 23. Matthew Maris, painter, died in London yesterday in poverty. He was born in 1839.

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SECRET SESSIO AT ROME PRE PEACE NOTE, SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23. Tho San Francisco Examiner today says Vlsconts Y. Kawai and M. Okuchl of Japan passed through here last night on their way to the Orient from Rome, where they attended at the suggestion of Pope Benedict and high United States official, secret conferences between representatives of the entente nations previous to the publication of the Pope's recent plans for peace. Viscount Okuchi, who is a graduato of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, Eng., according to the Examiner, admited that he and Viscount Kawai had attended the conferences with representatives of the other allied nations at Which the peace proposals of the Pope were outlined. Issues a Statement He was said to have issued this statement: "When the United States declared war against our common enemy the first thing that suggested itself in the upper house of Japan was the probability of a more genuine entente between the United States anr ourselves. It was while this matter was under dlscusion that a message was received from Rome asking that accredited delegates be sent to confer with the other allies. "We did not think much of this suggestion until a request came from the 25,000 CAPTURED IN THREE DAY LONDON, Aug. 23 In the past three days the entente allies on the western front have taken 25,000 prisoners and since July 31 they have taken 32,500 prisoners," said Major General Frederick B. Maurice, chief director of the war intelligence office, in his weekly talk today with the associated press. "I am confident," he added, "that before the end of August we will have topped the figure of 40,000 which the Germans claim to have taken in a month on the Russian front although their total undoubtedly is composed by at least half of mere stragglers from the mutinous and disorganized units."

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sooo in tn i OF ALLIES OED POPE'S DECLARE JAPS United States signed by a man who Is levered in Japan. Viscount Kawai and myself wero then appointed to attend tho meeting. "I have no objections to being quoted as saying that England appeared adverse to a peace settlement at the present time, and France had very much the same attitude as England far as the conference was concerned. "After leaving Rome, we visited the front in France. Wo bring with us a firm conviction that the Germans can. not hold out much longer." Germany Recalls Girls From Abroad BERNE, Aug. 23. Numerous German girls employed in Switzerland as nurses and servants received an official call to return home for harvest work. Others who are now in Germany for the holidays are prevented from returning to positions in Switzerland for the same reason. Campers Will Need Blankets, Says Moore Chautauqua campers will, need extra covers during the next few nights, Weatherman Moore said Thursday. Cooler weather which it is expected will send the temperature below fifty is predicted by the weather forecaster. Probable thunderstorms and showers are predicted for Thursday night . The cool wave is caused by the same Canadian storm which caused the heavy rains Tuesday night and Wednesday throughout the county. SHIP IS FLOATED AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 23, The Merchants and Miners steamer, Powatan, sunk in a collision with the British oil tanker, Telena, on Dec. 6, on Horseshoe Shoals, at the head of Chesapeake, and abandoned and sold to wreckers by the owners, has been floated and reached an Atlantic port today. The vessel will be rebuilt.

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LEFT TO HOL SACKTHROl PRICE FIXING Richmond Yard Owners Have Thousands of Bushels Stored Which They Bought at High Prices. ALL RESENT ACTION Retail coal dealers of Richmond are left to hold the sack, as a result of President Wilson's action on the coal situation, according to present indications. Every coal dealer In Richmond has a large supply of coal in storage, bought at high prices. Unless the government permits the dealers to dispose of their present stock at a fair margin of profit, thousands of dollars will be lost by them, they claim. Several dealers said they expected the prices to fall very soon while others claimed that present prices would prevail throughout tho winter. Goodrich Urges Delay. Governor Goodrich, however, has advised the people of Indiana to wait until the prices fall cr some definite action is taken by the government before buying their winter's supply of coal. C. S. Heet, manager of the Hackman, Klehfoth and company, one of the largest dealers in Richmond, said Thursday that it would be unjust to the retail coal dealers of the country to force them to sell the coal they now have in storage far below the price they nave paidHe predicted that many retail coal dealers would fall if forced to do that. Heet said that In his opinion the dealers could sue the government to recover what they had lost due toi the government fixing prices. Approves Regulation. "I believe that it Is a wise thing1' to regulate prices. But coal Isnt the: only thing that is high- The government should not discriminate against1 the coal dealers." His company has more than 7.000' tons of coal In storage. He said that In his opinion the company would lose more than $3,000 unless allowed to dispose of the fuel at present pricesi of from $7.50 to $8.00 per ton. "And lowering1 of the prices at the mine will not stimulate production,' he said. "If the operator's profit Is cot the miners will not get the increase In wages which they have asked for In many localities, and there is a possibility of a strike." If the government fixes a retail price and does not allow dealers to dispose of their present stock, which they paid high prices for, many dealers may be forced to the wall, he predicted. Mostly West Virginia Coal. Most of the coal handled by Richmond dealers is bought at the West Virginia mines. Dealers have been paying $4.50 and $5.00 a ton at the mine for lump coal, they claim, and then pay $1.15 a ton on transportation. The price as fixed by President Wilson Is $2,25 a ton, the dealer be-, lng required to. pay the freight rates; as always. Dealers believe that the retail price i of lump coal will be fixed at $5.00 v ton. Price for Indiana lamp coal at the mines has been $3.75, according to dealers. The president's price Is $2.20 for lump coal There Is a freight rate of $1.00 a ton on coal shipments at Indiana, which the dealers must pay. Dealers say that West Virginia coal is better than Indiana coal for domestic use. Production Costs Differ. O. D. Bullerdlck 6ald he does not believe the president can regulate the retail price because of the different cost of production in the various mining districts. He predicted that there would be a scarcity cf fuel as the result of the president's price making, as the operators can get a better price from greater part of the fuel there. Says Twill Take Year. Raymond B. Mather of the Mather Eros, company, said he didn't believe the government would fix the retail price. He said that in his opinion the price of coal would not be considerably lowered for a year or more. His company he said has about 4,000 tons of coal in storage, the biggest amount ever stored by the company. All of the dealers say that the President should have fixed the prices in the spring before the dealers had laid in a large supply for next winter's use. John Starr of the Starr and Woodhurst company said that the dealers would "have to take their medicine." He said the President is behind the times and was slow in acting on the situation when if he had taken action early in the spring ..dealers would have known what to expect G. A. R. HONORS KOKGMOVETERANS

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BOSTON, Aug. 23. Orlando A. Somers, of Kokomo, Ind., was elected commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at the closing session of the annual encampment today. There were no other candidates and the electiqn was by acclamation.