Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 250, 31 August 1917 — Page 7

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SUSPECT TAKEN AFTER FIGHTING OFF 500 COPS

Police See Solution of Payroll Robbery Near With Arrests.

Girl Like Me Ought to Wed Youth, Says Wounded Bride

CHICAGO, Aug. 31. With thrt ot the men said to have been implicated In the pay roll robbery at the Wlnalow Brother plant here Tuesday, , when two expretB messengers were killed, under arrest, police said today that they know the names ot the remaining two men, and expect to have them in custody by night. The arrest late yesterday of Edward Wheed. ex-convlct and counterfeiter, clears up the matter materially, they say. . Wheed was arrested 1 after a spectacular battle, in which he Apposed, single handed, nearly five hundred policemen for two hours, finally surrendering when he ran out of ammunition. Three policemen were wounded in the exchange of hundreds of pilots. . Gold Wrapped On Legs. After the arrest of Wheed, $1,010 in

gold was found in the house where he made his stand. Several hundred dollars is also said to have been found wrapped around his legs. Wheed said that the money had been handed him by an ex-convict, who. asked him to keep it for him for a few days. Wheed was arrested after the police had received information that a man known in the underworld, as "Ammurition" was exchanging gold coin for currency. The prisoner admitted that the name applies to him. In the search for the bandits, the police have arrested more than fifty men, many of whom, they say, have criminal records. Three of these, Wheed, Charles Carrao and Anthony Cosetlno. are Charged with murder in connection with the death of the two messengers.

Gary Peace Rally is Postponed When Promoter is Nabbed

GARY, Ind., Aug. 31. A pe&cetneet ing advertised to be held under the auspices of the People's Council, did not take place last night, because James H. Dolsen, chief prbmoter Was taken into custody by agents of the department of justice. A crowd was on hand at a hall, but when it was learned that Dolsen, replesonUtive here of the Council, had been detained by the federal authorities, it dispersed la good order. A number of posters, which it is claimed, violate federal laws,' were 5?ized at Dolsen's hotel.

PACIFISTS MAY

(Continued Front Page One. told that they would be unwelcome in Fargo. N. D., dn Wednesday, and unceremoniously escorted from Hudson, Wis., on Thursday, the arrangement committee of the People'! Conference of America for Democracy and Peace, headed by Charles P. Lochner, executive secretary, was uncertain early today as to where the national convention would be held.' It is barely possible that some point In North Dakota will be selected. After the peace advocates had been asked to leave Hudson, Governor Lynn J. Praxler, of North Dakota, reiterated his statement that tij council may hold its proposed peace meetIn.'? In his state and will be accorded adequate protection as long as speakers refrain from making seditious r.tatement3 or pronouncements which might incite mob Violence. Governor Wants 'Em 'The people of North Dakota are broadminded enough to permit freedom of speech," said Governor Frazier, "ahd I am still ready to provide the protection offered In my message to officers of the council." It is doubtful, however, if the conention will be held in Fargo. Mayor Steam has taken a firm stand against it ftnd loyalty organizations of the city are outspoken In their opposition to it. The appearance of the arrangement committee of the peace council in HudBon, Wis. yesterday aroused the citizens to a high pitch. Indignation meetings were held during the

day, the common council passed an

order forbidding the holding ot the

convention and at a mass meeting in the evening, resolutions were adopted.

protesting against the convention and calling upon Governor Phllipp to stop

It. Run Out of Town Excitement ran high and from an Orderly meeting there developed an

unorganized mob which went to the hotel where the pacifist delegates

were stopping, hustled them into an

automobile and took them tothe depot

where they were put aboard a train for Minneapolis with orders never to return Shortly after the pacifists were driven from the city, a truck load of peace literature for the meeting arrived and it was at once made the object of another attack. . . The driver, innocent of the situation, tried to make terms with the crowd, but Quickly learning its temper, wheeled the truck around and started at break-neck speed for the inter-state bridge, followed by a hooting crowd until it reached the Minnesota side. Governor Phllipp, who yesterday was reported to have given his permission for the holding of the conference in Wisconsin provided no disloyal ut

terances were made, last night said.

that not only had he not given any such permission but the statement that he bad, was made without any authority from him. Japan is called the "land of the blades" by its own people, some of the older scholars having declared that the first sword was Invented by the tame cod who Invented poetry.

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CHICAGO, Aug. 30. "It's no use,

moaned Mrs. Mary Borkovich from her cot in the County Hospital, "I'm too young and he is too old. He has never wanted to go where I wanted to go. He wanted me to stay at homo because he wanted to stay at home."

Mrs. Borkovich, 23 year 6 old, has a bullet wound in her head and her husband, 45 years old, is held by the police awaiting the outcome. There's a baby, six months old, and that's the greatest worry the young mother has, she said.

Housewives, Farmers and Merchants Take Stock of Foodstuff

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. A Volunteer army made up of ten thousand American housewives, three hundred and fifty thousand merchants and thir

ty-five thousand farmers, is today engaged in taking an inventory of the nation's food supplies. They are taking stock of the food they have on hand, in the pantry and preserve closet, on the shelves and under the counter, in warehouse and grain elevator, and in bams and bins on the farm. From the Quantities reported by these, the bureau of markets Will estimate the total food stocks of the na-

STATE UTILITIES SEEK SURCHARGE

INDIANAPOLJS, Au. 31 The hearing on the question of allowing public service companies to place a suK charge on bills for- bea tins service in many cities of Indiana, held here before the Indiana public service com mission ended this afternoon. Practically all the companies gave higher fuel costs as a reason for asking the right to place surcharges on bills. Some said they desired to impose a surcharge on patrons temporarily only while others said they must have permanent increases in rate. A compromise was effected today between natrons of the Interstate Public service company and its Newcastle patrons by which the consumer agreed to an increase of five cents per square foot radiation and the company to furnish what was termed "satisfactory service." . No decision by the commission will be made in the other cases for some time.

Labor Chiefs Hurl Defi at Pacifists

NEW YORK, Aug. 31. The American Allies for Labor and Democracy, among whose members are leaders in the American Federation of Labor, has sent a telegram to Governor Burnquist of Minnesota, asking that he reconsider Jiis decision not to allow the People's Council to meet in that state, it was learned today. The message said that the ''Menace of the people's organization was realized by the American Alliance, the members of which were anxious to meet those of the council and fight it out faoe to face." The telegram also said that such action would not give the pacifists any excuse to cry "suppression of free speech" and concluded: "We have nothing to fear from open argument; it is only secret plotting that we fear."

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crops are all in, and these figures win form the basis of subsequent food regulations and distribution. As tfoon as the returns from today's

inventory are complete, they will be

forwarded to Washington for tabulation and the results will be announced later.

If there are any aching teeth or other molar defects among the men of the Twenty-third New York National Guard Regiment it won't be the fault of Lieutenant R. S. Chaner, the regimental dentist. The photograph shows him at work in the temporary camp of the command, Van Cortlandt Park, New York City, where the men are spending a short time before leaving for Spartanburg, S. C.

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U ruuw guuwii m iiw uu mrnim" ed. The great underlying cause . responsible tor the council's dedsloa to abandon its attempt to organize a gnrernment under the proposed German protectorate Is the change In tha Polish attitude resulting from the Russian revolution, according to these newsttaners. ' ' ' '

The direct reasons to be sea gat. however,, are In the great fceattattaa and delay of the Austro-Huagataa German powers la entrusting to tta Polish authorities the ooctrol awtsr the Polish army, la waioa tho 6amans wish to inoorporate their, own forces, and the German determlnaftnc to exclude Lithuania from the saw kingdom. The Poles Insist that Caa kingdom be proclaimed aad bava tale graphed Emperor William askiag tkat Vilna be inoluded la the protectorate The German Mais Reichstag oata mittee has put Its seal upon the go ernment's decision by unanimooaly approving Its plans for separate ad

ministrations la Lithuania and Courland. The Tageblatt commenting oa tsJs phase ot the situatloa says the resident of Courland and Lithuania most be led to recognize German occupation as liberation from the Muscovite yoke. The Lokal Anzelger says that further developments of the conditions ot occupation can lead only to an antonomous self-administration under a German protectorate. It tells the disappointed Poles that Germany did not undertake the war to establish a Polish empire from sea to sea, and that she must first look out tor her own security In the east.

AUSTRIAN BUDGET THIS YEAR SHOWS GREATER DEFICIT

ZURICH, Aug. 31. The Austrian budget for 1916-17 shows a deficit of 344,000,000 crowns compared to a deficit of 49,000,000 crowns in the preceding year. Two of the largest items of expenditures are 1,761,000,000 Crowns for interest on war loans and 1,650,000,000 crowns for the support of soldiers families. Special and direct expenditures are not included in the budget.

Toronto has given three airplanes to England.

FILIPINOS SEEK RELIEF

MANILA, Aug. 81. An appeal has been sent to President Wilson by the Philippines farmers congress, now in session, asking that he take measures to relieve transportation difficulties on the Pacific ocean as far as they affect the products of the Philippines.

COURTS IN ORDER

MILTON, Ind., Aug. 31. In view of the coming visit by players of the Interstate association, the roque Courts here have been put In order and the ground newly cemented.

WASHINGTON SEES

RUSSIAN PEACE

WASHINGTON. Aug. 81. Officials of the state department expressed surprise today that news dispatches from Russia had reflected passimism. They said the general counsul at Moscow had reported the address Of General Korniloft as enthusiastically received and that appearances Indicated steady progress toward an amicable understanding between the factions. Relying upon reports of Its own officials the state department is confident that a unity of purpose and action will be the result of the conference.

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SEEK 1,000,000 HOUSES

LONDON, Aug. 29. The Joint Committee on Labor Problems after the war is pressing for an immediate decision as to the government's housing

policy and declares that 1,000,000 houses Ought to be completed within four years from the declaration of peace. The cost is placed at 250.000,000 including a sinking fund to repay the whole debt within 60 years.

POSTMASTER TO QUIT

EATON, O., Aug. 2 H. D. Collins, postmaster at Ne ,s, has ar- "need that he win roa tv

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