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Palladium ALL RICHMOND PAYS TRIBUTE TO BOYS IN KHAKI TODAY Great Civic Demonstration and Parade Shows Patriotic Feeling of Quaker City Folks. MILITARY BALLTONIGHT This is the day Richmond and Wayne county bows' to "our army boys" the young men who have answered the call to the colors and who will fight for the glory of the state and the nation In the cause of democracy. Many Richmond and Wayne county soldiers who are in camp at Fort Harrison arrived here Monday morning to participate in the huge street procession. Greeted With Music. Persons from throughout the county began to pour Into the city early In the morning. They were greeted with band concerts at the three principal entrances to the city. A fitting tribute was to be paid to those men who are already in the service and thase who have been selected to fill Richmond's quota in the first national array. These men were made to feel that the people of the entire county are not going to forget Uncle Sam's call. Program of Speeches. Following the parade a program of music and speeches will be given at the post office corner. Ninth and North A streets. Major and Mrs. Paul Comstock will lead the military ball to be. given in the evening on North A street Trom Tenth to Eighth streets. A fee of five cents will be charged fop each dance, excepting men selected for army service and those already In the service who will be guests of honor. Proceeds of the ball will go to the Red Cross fund. SPEAKER URGES FULL SUPPORT MONMOUTH COURT . HOUSE, N. J., Sept. 3. Unqualified support of the government In the war was urged as the duty of every American citizen, native and naturalized, today by Speaker Champ Clark in a Labor Day address here on the famous revolutionary war battle field. "No nation will longer endure or deserve to endure that does not protect all of Its citizens wherever they may be on land or sea," declared he. Praising President Wilson's recent reply to the pope's peace proposal the speaker said, "it will be read forever and forever." DISEASE CLAIMS MRS. ED ROSER Mrs. Matilda Roser, 59 years old, wife of Ed Roser. and a widely known Richmond club woman, died very un exDectedly Sunday morning at 8 o'clock at her home, 223 South Elev enth street, of heart trouble. Although she had not been In good health for some time, it was not thought that her Illness was serious. She is survived by her husband, Ed Roser, one daughter, Mrs. Frank Youngflesh, of Richmond, and a son. Charles Roser, of Decatur, 111. Funeral services will be conducted Tues day afternoon at the home by Rev. F. W. Rohlfing. Eiirial will be in Lutherania, Friends may call at any time. COUNTY TO SUE FOR SMITHFIELD Announcement was made Saturday by County Attorney Gath Freeman, that condemnation proceedings soon would be started against the estate of Mrs. George Smith, at Smlthfield, to obtain a clear title on the land and property to be used by the county as a tuberculosis hospital. Proceedings became necessary when Harold H. Smith and Lloyd Smith, of Indianapolis, refused to sign over their interest in the Smlthfield property, af ter Mrs. George Smith had expressed a desire to give the estate to the coun ty for a tuberculosis hospital. The suit probably will be filed Tues' day. RUSS GIVE UP CITY OF RIGA PETROGRAD, Sept 3. The Russians have abandoned Riga he war office aonoonoea.

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Truck Driver Held for Failing to Light Lights on His Truck Richard Colburn of Newcastle, was arraigned In police court Monday morning, charged with failing to place proper lights on a motor truck which he was driving. His case was taken under advisement by Mayor Robbins pending the arrival of his employer from NewEd McPherson, of New Paris, crashed into the truck. with his automobile, while the truck was standing on the National road east of the city. Record Attendance at Trades Congress LONDON. Sept 3. The Forty-ninth annual trade union congress opened at Black Pool at noon today with a record attendance of nearly 700 delegates representing more than three million workers. John Hill, secretary of the boiler maker's union and one of the best-known and most influential labor leaders outside of parliament will preside. Many prominent labor leaders are In attendance Including Arthur Henderson, former member of the war cabinet who however is present merely as "a fraternal delegate," from the parliamentary labor part. Two other fraternal delegates are Americans, James Lord, and John Golden. As far as the general public is concerned chief interest in the congress centers in the question of the Stockholm peace conference. AUSTRIANS HELD IN GALLERIES BY ITALIAN GUNS Forced to Remain Without Food; Fierce Hand-to-Hand Conflicts. UDINE, Italy, Sept. 3. Notwithstanding bad weather conditions fighting still continues all along the ItalianAustrian line and consists for the most part in isolated hand to hand encounters between small detachments of Italian and-Austrian soldiers, the latter Imprisoned by Italian artillery tire in galleries, the mouths of which have been closed by shell fire. Austrian defenders remain in these galleries several days without food or munitions. The attacking forces are straightening out the new line by cutting out salients still held by strong groups of Austrians who are unable to advance or retreat and are obliged to surrender. Counter offensives by the Austrians in which they are supported by reinforcements are being continually repulsed and outlying portions of lost positions remain in Italian hands. The prisoners taken during the last four or five days are for the most part fresh troops in excellent physical condition and well equipped showing the immense effort the enemy is making to save the situation. Notwithstanding that the Italians have not lost a yard of the ground gained. One Person Killed by Foe Air Raider LONDON, Sept. 3. One person was killed and six injured by bombs dropped in the aerial raid over East Kent last night it is announced officially. The attack was made by a single airplane and was directed against the important channel port of Dover. Pope Fatigued hy His Hard Labor in Working For Peace ROME, Sunday, Sept 2. Owing to the suspension of audiences yesterday by Pope Benedict a report was circulated that he was not welL The report was without foundation as the pope was suffering merely from fatigue due to his arduous labors, partic ularly in connection with the peace proposals and the new interests in them aroused by President Wilson's reply. Today the pope was rested and resumed his audiences, of which he is expected to bold a large number on Monday the anniversary of his election to the Pontificate. The pope has receive many messages dealing with his initiative in making the peace proposals. TRUSTEES ALLOW FLOOD CLAIMS Trustees of the Indiana Flood Sufferer's Fund have mailed checks to claimants who filed claims last May. All claims were allowed except twelve. The association suggests that persons who filed claims and received no notices of any kind, should write to the office at Indianapolis. In many cases the addresses of claimants have been changed and the letters will not be. received. After ten daysihe money will b -returned tp the Marlon probate .. . ......

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BELGIANS TO TELL ABOUT WAR BAVAGES Distinguished Guests to Speak at Postoff ice Corner Tonight at 6:45. General LeClercq, member of the Belgian mission to America, and his aide, Major Oesterreich are due to ar rive In Richmond at 6:35 this evening. They will make short talks at the post office corner, Ninth and North A streets, at 6:45 o'clock. The Belgians arrived in Indianapolis Monday morning and later left for Anderson where they were to speak at the farewell for the troops at that place. A committee of Richmond men will meet the distinguished visitors at Newcastle, in automobiles. Ed Harris, Byram Robbins, George Dilks and Willard Carr are included in the committee which will meet the visiting officers at Newcastle. Tried to Save MissCavell. Both the visiting military men have been in actual service in Belgium and both have won medals of, honor. Statesman, officer and lawyer. General LeClercq did all in his power to save the English nurse, Edith Cavell, who was convicted as a spy by a German court martial and shot Every plrson in the city who can 6hould hear what these leading mill tary men of Belgium have to say about the great war. BELGIANS ARE GUESTS AT FT. BENJAMIN HARRISON INDIANAPOLIS, Sept 3. General LeClercq of the Belgian mission and Major Oesterreich, his aide, were en tertained informally by the officers at Ft. Benjamin Harrison early today fol lowing a breakfast with Indianapolis and Anderson public men. Both the men have been active with the Bel gium army in the present conflict The general and his aide came to In dianapolis from Washington on their way to take part in a farewell celebration In Anderson for the troops of that city. They were shown about Indianapolis and were taken to Ft Benjamin Harrison that they might see the active preparations of this country for developing new officers for the army and the training of the regulars and the national guardsmen. The trip to "Anderson was in the private car of President A. W. Brady of the Union Traction company of In diana. The military escort from In dianapolis was composed of the mem bers of M Company of the . Fourths In diana infantry. A reception commit tee which Included Ed. C. Toner, chairman, Dale J. Crittenberger, Mayor J, H. Mellett, G. W. Gates, Hugh Hill, Horace C. Stilwell, Austin Rutherford, John W. Lovett, and James M. Larmore, all of, Anderson, accompanied the party to Anderson. GOVERNOR GOES TO ENEMY CAMP CHICAGO, Sept. 3. Governor Frank O. Lowden arrived here today to take personal charge of the situation aris ing out of the conflict of authority between himself and Mayor Thompson with whose aid the People's Council of America for Democracy and Terms of Peace was able to hold a meeting here yesterday after it had been inter dicted by the governor. Mayor Thompson was believed to be at Lake Geneva, Wis. Four companies of Illinois national guardsmen under command of Adj. Gen. F. S. Dickson are in Chicago today, "awaiting developments" in the Pacifists program as enunciated by the People's Council. The soldiers are here under orders of Governor Lowden, who decided upon military interference to prevent the peace meeting after Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago instructed the local police to allow the session to be held. Meanwhile the peace delegates assert the purpose of their assembling has been accomplished; that the skefeton of a permanent organization has been established and that no immediate sessions of the council are contemplated. Many of the delegates today are said to be enroute home. JAMES RETURNED TO U. B. CHURCH Rev. Hiram S. James was re-appointed pastor of the First United Brethren church of Richmond,, at the convention of the churches held in Indianapolis. It will be the ninth year as pastor of the church here. Rev. Mr. James is visiting in Wabash, Ind.', at present and expects to return to Richmond the latter part of this week. Flies Attracted By Yellow Poplars Sanitary Officer Borton reported an unusual circumstance at Fourteenth and C streets, where old yellow poplars which exude a clammy juice are surrounded by myriads of yellow flies. The swarms are on the trees and on the sidewalks, and give trouble to the residents. He will report to the board that the trees be removed if the residents owning them are willing. Some years ago an order of this kind was issued by the health board, but could I

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Some of the American troops in London marching In review before King George, Queen Alexandria, the Dowager Queen and Field Marshal Sir John French, commander of the British Home Defenses.

Skulking Disloyalty Must be Suppressed; President Wilson Writes to Samuel Gompers

WASHINGTON. Sept. 3 Hearty approval of the conference of the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy to be held at Minneapolis next Tuesday, and the task it will undertake of suppressing disloyalty has been given by President Wilson in a letter to Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor and chairman of the Alliance. The letter, made public here today, denounces those who seek to ignore America's grievance Germany and Insist "that the nation whose citizens have been foully murdered under their own flag, whose neighbors have been invited to join in making conquest of its territory and whose patience In pressing the claims of justice and humanity has been met with the most shameful policy of truculence and treachery, does not know its own mind and has no comprehensible reason for defending itself." Must Oppose Disloyalty "While our soldiers and sailors are doing their manful work to hold back reaction In its most brutal and aggressive form," the president wrote, "we must oppose at home the organized and individual efforts of those dangerous elements, who hide disloyalty behind a screen of speeches and evasive phrases." The letter follows: "My Dear Mr. Gompers I am sure

Space for 1,000 Couples Inside Ropes at Big Military Ball

The military ball will be held at the Coliseum tonight in the event of rain, the . committee in charge of arrangements announced Monday morning. The dance will begin at 8 o'clock. Big Military Ball on North A. between Eighth and Tenth streets under the management of Mrs. Charles Kolp. Singing of Patriotic Songs at 7:30 p. m., by quartet of the best talent in Richmond. This to be immediately followed by Grand March and dancing which will continue until 11:30 p. m., music to be furnished by entire City Band. This will be the biggest Military Ball ever held in Richmond. Dancing space for 1,000 couples. There will be a charge of five cents for each dance. Receipts to be used for Red Cross and Patriotic Fund. Everyone is invited. Uncle Sam's boys will be admitted free. The Boy Scouts will be on guard duty to look after the crowd. Entrances will be as follows. One on North Eighth and A street One on North A, at the rear of Masonic Temple. One on North Ninth, north side of A. One on North Ninth south side of A. Floor Managers. Carl Maag, Grant Fry, Alden Marshall, Chas. Twlgg, Huston Marlatt, Chinaman Purchases Turtle and Frees It To Please His Gods YOKOHAMA, Japan, Sept 3 While native longshoremen were bidding for a monster turtle which had been caught in Yokohama Bay, Ar Long, a Chinese, carried off the prize by an offer of $51. He then towed the turtle out into the bay and gave it its freedom. Ar Long was putting into practice a Chinese superstition that he who frees a captured turtle shall be eternally blessed. The turtle weighed 700 pounds and was believed to be 1,000 years old. NEW CASTLE YOUTH GETS CHANCE TO MEND WAYS Robert Keimery, giving his address a Chicago, was fined $30 and costs in police court Monday morning, and his companion, a 16 year old youth of Newcastle, Ind., was sent to his home there after being given a chance to mend his ways. It is believed that Kennery may have been implicated in a recent burglary here. TO SERVE ICE CREAM ' St. Paul's GuUd members of the St Paul's Episcopal church will serve ice cream this evening in the parish

that you understand my inability to accept the invitation to address the Minneapolis conference of the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy is due only to official necessity and not in any degree to lack of appreciation of the importance of this occasion. The cause you and your fellow patriots uphold is one with the cause we are defending with arms. While our soldiers and sailors are doing their manful work to hold back reaction in its most brutal and aggressive form, we must oppose at home the organized and Individual efforts of those who hide disloyalty behind a screen of speeches and evasivo phrases. All Have Fought "I have read with real pride the names of the men and women who are to take part in the Minneapolis conference. Not one but has a record of devoted service to fundamental democracy; not one but has fought the long, hard fight for equal justice, braving every bitterness that the humblest life might know a larger measure of happiness. "With all my heart, I want them to feel that their devotion to country is in no wise a betrayal of principle, and that in helping America today, they are serving iheir cause no less faithfully than in the past. I have had sympathy with the fears of the work

Roy Dennis, Julian McCarthy, Philip Starr, Earl Spangler, Paul Miller, Marlow Kluter, Raymond Jones. If you wish to remain inside of the ropes between dances see that your tickets are given to the floor managers for the next dance. Tickets to be handled by the Red Cross as follows: Ticket Sellers. Mrs. Frank Druitt Mrs. John Clements, Mrs. Paul Comstock, Mrs. Burton Carr, Mrs. Frank Chichet, Mrs. Howard Dill, Mrs. Milton Craighead, Mrs. Walter Butler, Mrs. L. C. Anthony, Miss Anna Nicholson, Miss Vivian King, Miss Margaret Starr, Miss M. E. B. Culbertson, Miss Mary Clements, Miss Louise Malsby. Ticket Takers. Boy Scouts. FOES' TONGUE IN CHURCH DOOMED A L. NICKLAS Rev. C. L. Nicklas, pastor of St John's German Evangelical church, sees the day still several years away he says, however when the German language will be eliminated from churches. At a congregational meeting Sunday it was voted to add an English service at 8:30 o'clock every second Sunday morning. German services will be held at 10:30 o'clock as usual. Another English service is held every Sunday night Rev. Mr. Nickles said the arrangement will be permanent if it proves satisfactory. He said the action was taken to "take care of the future." . PEACE RESOLUTIONS WILL BE ADOPTED The stand to be taken by the Young Socialists of Indiana in the war "will be determined at the final session of the third annual convention of the Young People's Socialist league, to be held Monday afternoon in the Vaughn hall. It is probable the Socialist opposition to the war will be maintained by the young people. The opening session of the convention was held Sunday morning. Verlin Ballenger, of Richmond, was given the honor of the chairmanship of the convention. About fifty delegates attended the meetings. A. picnic supper was setved-ittGlen-Mlller park-Sunday

ers of the United States; for the tendency of war is toward reaction, and too often military necessities have been made an excuse for the destruction of laboriously erected Industrial and social standards. "These fears, happily, have proved to be baseless. With quickened sympathies and appreciation, with a new sense of the invasive and insidious dangers of oppression, our people have not only held every inch of ground that has been won by years of struggle, but have added to the gains of the twentieth century along every line of human betterment Given New Dignity "Questions of wages and hours of labor and industrial readjustments have found a solution which gives to the toller a new dignity and a new sense of social and economic security. I beg you to feel that my support has not been lacking and that the government has not failed at any point In granting every just request advanced by you and your assistants In the name of the American worker. "No one who is not blind can fail to see that the battle line of democracy for America stretches today from the fields of Flanders to every house and workshop where toiling, upward striving men and women are counting Continued on Page Eight. TODAY'S MOVING DAY FOR THOSE . WHOCAMPED Tenters At Chautauqua Move Back to Their Homes-Program Ended. It's all over. Today is moving day, and the return march of the G. A. C. started, early Monday morning, bringing the weary, but happy campers back to their homes, after two weeks under canvass in Richmond's tent city. Some of the campers began to pack their belongings as early as four o'clock, and at six o'clock Monday morning, the usual stream of wagons and automobiles began to move toward, town, loaded with camp equipment. Peace Was Unbroken Although there was the usual unrest that has always marked the closing of a Chautauqua camp, nothing unusual occurred to break the peace of the camp, except for an occasional whisper from one of the tents and the appearance of three extra policemen. Except for the night performance, when the rain drove many persons away from the grounds, the auditorium tent was filled throughout Sunday, and a record attendance was made for the final day. The large audience was greatly pleased with the address given Sunday afternoon by Chief Caupolican, of Chile, who spoke on the life and customs of his people, the Aurocano Indians of Chile. Chief's Singing Pleases Chief Caupolican told of the many quaint customs of the tribe of which he is a member, and sang a number of the Chilean folk songs. He possesses a wonderful baritone voice, and his singing was one of the biggest hits of the entire assembly. The work of removing the camp will be somewhat handicapped owing to the heavy rainfall Sunday night and the muddy condition of the grounds. Efforts will be made, however, to have the entire camp torn down, and the grounds cleaned within less than two weeks. The chautauqua just closed was the most successful ever held. Business Men to Go to Indianapolis Representatives from twenty Richmond business houses and factories will go to Indianapolis Tuesday morning to protest against the granting of an increase in freight rates by the public service commission at the second hearing of Indiana . railroads before the commission. Notices were sent out following a meeting Monday morning and the men will leave for Indianapolis- Tuesday moraingyaWft4Mr!olock.

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AUTO CRASH BRINGS DEATH TO FOURTH VICTIM LATER Puthoff and Wife and One Miss Witte Killed Instantly When Interurban Hits Machine Sunday. LITTLE GIRL SPARED Three persons were killed Instantly and a fourth died Monday morning, the result of an Interurban car striking an automobile at the Washington road crossing, one and one-half miles west of Jackson park, ten miles west of Richmond Sunday morning. The dead: Frank Puthoff, 42 years old, saloonkeeper. Mrs. Anna Puthoff, his wife, also 42 years old. Miss Bernedine Witte, 49 years old. Miss Anna Witte, 54 years old. Miss Bernedine Witte was the fourth victim of the accident. She died Monday morning at Reid Memorial hospital. Little Katherine Puthoff, 4 years old, was the sole survivor. She was severely cut about the head and face but her recovery is certain. The little girl, dazed by the shock, does not know that both her father and mother are dead. At the home of her grandmother. Mrs. Frank Rager, 325 South Sixth street, she continually asks for "mamma." "Why Dc,Vt Mamma Come?" "Why don't mamma come home?" she Is asking. The girl shakes her head and stares blankly when asked regarding the accident She is unable to tell anything about it and refuses to speak. Mr. and Mrs. Puthoff will be buried in St. Andrews cemetery Tuesday morning. Services will be held at St Andrews church at 9 o'clock according to Wilson, Pohlmeyer & Downing, undertakers, who have charge of the bodies. Three other children, the oldest 12 years old, are made orphans by the accident To Be Burled Wednesday Services for the Misses Witte will be held at St Andrew's church Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock. Burial will follow in St Andrew's cemetery. Both the Interurban motorman and Puthoff, who had been a saloonkeeper for the last three years at 203 Fort Wayne avenue, had a view of the crossing for several hundred feet The party had attended services at St Andrew's church early Sunday morning and started to motor to Napoleen, Ind., where the three Puthoff children had been visiting Rev. John C. Rager. pastor of St. Maurice church. They were forced to detour because of repair work being done on the National road, and the accident happened as they were driving out of the rWashington pike on the National road again. Warning Was Sounded According to Motorman Boles' story the usual warning was sounded as the car approached the crossing. The motorman saw the machine approaching but presumed that the warning had been heard. According to the story of witnesses, to Cosoner Morrow, who is investigating the accident, the speed of the automobile suddenly increased, in what, it is believed, was an attempt to "make" the crossing ahead of the car. The collision followed and the bodies were hurled high in the air and the machine totally wrecked. The interurban car was derailed by the Continued On Page Five. PEDESTRIAN HIT BY AUTOMOBILIST James Eaton, of North Seventeenth street, was run down and badly cut on the face Saturday afternoon by an automobile driven by Louis Hasecoster at Seventeenth and Main streets. Eaton got off a street car and stepped around the rear of the car to cross the street As he stepped from behind, the street car, Hasecoster, who was not observing the motor vehicle law in regard to passing street cars, struck him with his automobile. THREE GIRLS HURT IN AUTO SMASH-UP Three persons were hurt, none of thorn seriously, when an automobile, driven by Virgil Lafuze. toppled over the embankment on the approach to the over-head bridge crossing the C. & O. railroad at South Ninth street Sunday evening. They were Miss Hester Williams, Miss Eleanor Smith and Miss Jnlia Smith. The three girls, who were camping at Chautauqua, with Lafuze and two other , young men ' were on a pleasure trip. ' At the bridge Lafuze drove to one side of the road to allow' another machine to pass and the front wheels of his machine ran over the edge of the road. The machine rolled twenty feet down the embankment turning completely over twice. . , Miss WilHams back was wrenched and the other glnis escaped with slight cn,ts and bruises. Miss Julia Smith is visiting fcera fTpnCinrctmuUt. . V