Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 270, 24 September 1917 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, SEPT. 24, 1917

YOUNG QUAKERS REFUSE TO TAKE STAND ON DRAFT

Hear' Pasition of Church Outlined by Jones and Furnas. Quakers of military age declined to indicate, at a meeting held in the East Main Street Church Saturday after-' noon, whether they would refuse to accept any duties what ever which were in any way connected with the military establishment. About seventy-five Friends who are in the dr$ ft attended the meeting. Nearly 50o Friends in all listened to the exposition of traditional peace doctrines of the Friends. Walter C. Woodward, general secretary of the Friends in America, called the meeting of all Friends within conscription ages residing within the jurisdiction of the Indiana Yearly "Meeting of Friends. V. Near the close of the meeting Secretary Woodward, on the request of Jesse Phillips, asked the young men whether they would follow the program as outlined by Horn Jones, field secretary of the Young Friends board, which not only opposes active participation on the firing line but any connection whatever with the fighting forces. None Take Stand Tliv were asked to indicate their stand by rising. None arose and they pleaded for time to give the matter careful thought. That there is "no chance for the Quaker with cold feet," was the statement of both Tom Jones and Paul J. Furnas of Indianapolis, formerly editor of the Earlham Press. Both have been selected for army service and both have Sled claims for exemption i '"r clause 174 of the selective seract. i' is the Quakers with the courage oi their convictions and those who know what their convictions are who will win out. "As a free agent I am ready to risk my life and to help any man at any time," he continued. "But as a part of a military machine, which has for its purpose the taking of life, I cannot because of my conception of Christ's teachings." Willing To Go To Camp While he declined to advise the Friends as to what course to pursue, he said he is willing to go to Camp Tatlor and there await the president's ruling as to whether the Friends reconstruction units would be officially recognized. "Wc do not p.sk for any soft snaps," he said. "I am just as willing to go Into daup'T ;.nd accept difficult service as anybody." He declared t'.iat lie had information from a liiph military authority that the reconstruction units would be recognized. Tom Jones declared he is "willing to be called a slacker, or a coward. I am willing to go to prison or be shot for the principles I stand for." Speakers also pointed out that if the government recognizes the separate reconstruction work it will mean that every Quaker will have to contribute to the support of the unit. JOHN GGOOiNGTON DIES AT AGE OF 81 John Y. Coddington. 81 years old,one of thr- pioneer farmers of Wayne county, died Monday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Hill Dana, 106 North Sixth. street, of senility. Mr. Coddington was one of the most widely known and prosperous farmers of the county, and for the greater part of his life lived on his farm near Greensfork. He was born at Liberty, Ind., on April 18. 1836. Besides Mrs. Dana, two other daughters, Mrs. Olive Hoak, and Mrs. Mamie Gregg, survive. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Christian church in CentTviUe. Burial will be in Crown Hill rprr,etry. Services will be in charge of Rev. Henry Boyd. Friends may call at. any time. Intriguing Kir J 4

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jCOU.-mqsI asiausToTaEE, Count von Bernstortf, former German Ambassador to the United States, who has been exposed by Secretary of State Lansing as one of the plotters against the United States at a time when this country was neutral and von Bernstorff was at Washington representing a supposedly friendly power. According to the Lansing statement, von Bernstorff sent a message to his government in which he sought permission to employ a "slush fund" of .$50,000 in influencing members of the American Congress against war with Germany.

Governor Rallies But His Condition Still is Critical

INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 24 Although the doctors attending Governor Goodrich at a local hospital admitted his condition over Sunday was worse than it has been for several days, they announced in a bulletin this morning that he showed slight improvement over last night. His condition at present is critical. The bulletin says: "The governor passed a restful night and we feel that his condition at present is a slight improvement over his condition yesterday. The Increased aggravation of his bronchitis is not at this time worse than it was three days ago. We feel that his condition Is satisfactory under the present circumstances. The governor's condition Was unchanged this afternoon, according to the announcement of the attending physicians. Little change was looked for during the rest of the day. RICHMOND MEN IN HIGH SPIRITS By EARL A. CLARK Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. Friday, September 21. Thousands of men have passed into camp here from all parts of Indiana, in the past two days, and within the next two days as many more will arrive. The Richmond contingent of one hundred conscripted men arrived at about five forty-five tonight. Every one seemed to be in a good humor and their spirits were high. They were immediately assigned to Quarters and went to evening mess a few minutes after. The mess consisted of baked potatoes, roast beef, coffee and bread. A part of the boys were assigned to the 55th and a part to the 56th companies of the 14th Battalion, 159th Depot Brigades, Second Regiment, The 14th Battalion is commanded by Captain Charles F. Donobue, formerly of Greencastle, Indiana. In some of the Kentucky contin gents a great number cannot read or write, and for that reason the Army Y. M. C. A. is going to start night schools to teach the rudiments of education. General Wleder thinks that all soldiers should know how to read and write, and for that reason is going to compel all to attend these schools, who do not already have this knowledge. It is thought, however, that Indiana will have very few illiterates of this sort. Potatoes 15 Cents Bushel in 1846, Old ilton Paper Shows MILTON, Ind., Sept. 24. Miss Florence Newman, of this place, has a copy of the Milton Times of the date of October 22, 1846. The publication was a weekly, and was neutral in politics and religion. The market report shows that wheat was selling at 50 ', cents a bushel: oats. 15 to 17 cents; j flaxseed. 5S cents; apples, green, 15 cents; apples, dried, 50 cents, and potatoes, 15 cents. ; A notice of the marriage of Henry Rocket and Miss Margaret Bengel also is published, as having taken place October 15, 1846. The marriage ceremony was performed by David Kern, then a justice of the peace here, who died a few years ago at Indianapolis, and whose daughters, Mrs. Albert Izor and Mrs. 'John Taylor, and son, Walter Kern, still live in that city. There also is an account of the death of Jacob Sinks, age seventythree, which occurred on October 9, 1846. Mr. Sinks was prominent as a business man here at that time. In the same paper notice also Is given of the death of his wife, Mary Sinks, age sixty-five, the day following the death of her husband. The Milton Times was published by William D. M. Wickham. Diplomat ' s ; - J$ -.v :

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SURVIVORS OF FIFTY-SEVENTH

HERE THIS WEEK Veterans of Famous "Preach er Regiment" to Hold 38th Reunion. The remnant of one of the bravest regiments In the Civil war the 57th Indiana Volunteer" Infantry, which was organized in Richmond fifty-six years ago will hold its thirty-eighth annual reunion In Richmond Thursday and Friday. Its eighth reunion, thirty years ago, also was held In Richmond. There are about forty survivors of the regiment which fought through the bloodiest battles of the war of the rebellion. A program of entertainment for the veterans is being arranged by Lawrence Handley and the Sons of Veterans. The sessions will be held in the Post G. A. R. rooms, in the north corridor of the court house and. will be open to the public. Only 40 This Year One by one these battle scarred men, who sacrificed their all on the altar of patriotism, in the war of the rebellion, are passing away. Last year there were about fifty remaining members. This year there are about iori. The men will register at the headquarters in the court house Wednesday. An automobile trip over the city will be made and the "Camp fire" will be held Wednesday night. Thursday a business session will be held and officers elected. Present officers are Benjamin Mattls, of Richmond, president; Grant Beverly of Lynn and Asher Pierce xf Williamsburg, and William White of Whitewater, vice-presidents. "Preacher" Regiment The regiment, which was commanded by Col. Willis Blanche, of Kokomo, was organized in the autumn of 1861 at Camp Wayne, Richmond, Ind. The regiment was made up of recruits coming largely from Wayne, Hamilton, Howard, Henry, Randolph, Delaware, Tipton, Madison, Boone, Grant, Marion and Fayette counties. Rev. J. W. T. McMullen. and Rev. F. A. Harden were in charge of the organization. Several other ministers and 400 members of the regiment were members of the church, so the regiment was named "the preacher regiment." The 57th regiment was in twentytwo battles and many skirmishes and won the name of being one of the bravest of regiments. Many were killed and many crippled for life, but they fought on for the just cause of the north until the end of the war. The regiment fought in the battle of Shiloh, April 6 and 7, 1862; the siege of Cornith, Perryvllle, Rocky Ford, Burnt Hickory, Peach Tree Creek, New Hope church. Muddy Run, Rock Face Bridge, Spring Hill, Kenesaw Mountain, Missionary Ridge and Chicamaugua and others. CONGRESS HAS WILD SESSION WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 The house had a wild and noisy session today over the disclosure that Count Von Bernstorff while ambassador here asked his government to authorizee the expenditure of $50,000 to influence Congress. Representative Norton of North Dakota attacked Representative Heflin of Alabama, who was quoted in a local newspaper as saying he could name a dozen congressmen who "have been acting suspiciously." Heflin denied that the interview attributed to him was correct. While there is no indication as to what will be the state department's next disclosure of German Intrigue In America or elsewhere it is known that disclosures as sensational as any yet published are being held in reserve and may be made at any time. One of the things the state department has is a list of persons who reretvpd German money in the pass port frauds, the munition plots and practically all the other activities of intrigues here which took place between the beginning of the war In 1914 and the entry of the tt.u,4 oatAo in thp conflict. This UliltCU W t t- v, - u w ' , lint is said to contain scores of names. and the amounts of money represent ed run very high. From time to time the department also probably will make public cer: tain evidence to dispose of the denial of those who have been involved in the disclosures already made. Aviation Of ficer Changes Seats in Plane High in Air RANTOUL, 111., Sept. 24 Officers of the army aviation school here de clared today that the feat of Major Maxwell Kirby who changed seats m an airplane at an elevation of more than 1,000 feet was the first of its kind ever accomplished in the United States. Major Kirby arrived Saturday from Dayton, O., where he was In charge of an aviation school. He made his initial flight here yesterday, ascending alone in the rear seat and using a stick control. When the airplane was a quarter of a mile in the air and running at the rate of a mile a minute the major climbed to the front seat and took wheel control of the machine, making the descent without mishap. CUBS GET HUNGL1NG CINCINNATI, Sept. 24. The Chicago National League club has drafted Player Hungling from the Springfield, O., club, according to the announcement by the national baseball commission here today.

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Here are three principals in the tragic mystery which surrounds the death of Mrs. Maude A. King, wealthy widow, which federal agents and the authorities of three states are investigating. From left to right they are Mrs. Mary Melvin, Mrs. Maude A. King and Mrs. Gaston B. Means. Mrs. Melvin is Mrs. King's sister and Mrs. Means the wife of her business advisor.

Red Cross Workers Will Show How to Make Up Comfort Kits

Although material for making comfort kits will not be donated at the Red Cross headquarters, full instructions for making them will be glven,to any one who will call at the rooms. A circular showing the different kinds of kits and what to put in them have been received at the work room. Red Cross officials urge that many women make these to cheer up the soldiers and also furnish him with some of the real necessities of life. The articles to be sent in these kits are: Blotting paper, chewing gum, chocolate (if wrapped io tin foil), corn plasters, collapsible cups, compressed tea tablets, compressed malted milk tablets, scrapbook of good 6tories or jokes, gaiter laces (khaki-color), garters, knift, (two blades, such as Boy Scouts use), marbles, nail brush, nail file, pinball with pins, puzzles, scissors, (folding in a sheath), water-tight Mrs. Johnston Talks at Gallery Sunday The Art Study Club will meet Wednesday morning in the art rooms in the high school. The paintings on exhibit will be studied and discussed. A number of persons visited the art rooms Sunday afternoon. Mrs. M. F. Johnston talked on the paintings. The public is invited to visit the rooms at any time during the morning and afternoon of school days. BLAST KILLS 59 - AMSTERDAM, Sept. 24 Budapest dispatches printed in German newspapers arriving here tell of an explosion in the Lubenz coal mines. Fifty-nine persons were killed and 55 injured. New f irst photograph of the marvelous plane ever built. It is equipped with

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one behind, any of which can keep the machine aloft when the two are disabled. Smaller types of this plane have been received in this country and are in use of American aviation camps. One of them recently started from the aviation camp near Norfolk, Va., and carrying fifteen passengers, remained in the air six hours. The passengers with Captain Rlznati, who drove the machine, says that the plane did not rock as much as an auto rounding curves on a country road. The Caproni triplane, shown in the above photo has 700 horsepower Flat motors. Details are kept secret, but the three motors operate separate propellers, but two in front which pull, and one in the rear which pushes. Each engine is independent of the others. If two stop, the plan can still keep in the air with the power of one motor. This machine which carries 4,400 pounds, which permits carrying fuel for six hours, a crew of three people, three guns and 2,750 pounds of bombs. It has a speed of SO miles an hour, climbs 3,250 feet in thirteen minutes, .61,500 in twenty-seven minutes, and 10,000 feet altitude In fifty-seven minutes.

Women in Death Mystery

match box, postcards, shoe laces, talcum powder, tape, and toilet paper. Two kinds of kits are made, one suitable for the front and one for hospital use. They are to be made of plain khaki. Colored cretonne has not been advised because it is dangerously visible when carried by troops at the front. GALL MEETING OF ALL WAR WORKERS The State Council of Defense, through the Wayne county council, has arranged for a meeting of all war workers of the county to be held in the circuit court room Tuesday afternoon at 2:30. At this meeting the purposes of the government in connection with the various defense organizations will be explained in detail by members of the state organization and federal agents, and it is the desire of these men that all interested in war work be present at this meeting. WILL EXAMINE TEETH OF SELECTED SOLDIERS BEFORE THEY'RE CALLED TO COLORS Although no notice of the fact has been received by officials of the Richmond army board, announcement was made Monday by members of the Eastern Indiana component of the Indiana Dental association that arrangements have been made with the surgeon-general of the United States army to have a dental examination of all conscripts before they are called into service.

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STROKE VICTIM Mrs. Charlotte Rossiter, 62 years old, wife of Walter Rossiter, traveling salesman died Sunday afternoon at her late home,- 26 Richmond avenue, following a stroke of paralysis suffered last Wednesday noon. Mrs. Rossiter was well known in Richmond, having been a resident of this city for the last thirty years. Besides her husband she is survived by one daughter, Hazel Marie, a student of the local high school; and three sons, Fred Rossiter, of this city; Ednor M. Rossiter, of Dayton, and Will Rossiter, formerly of Indianapolis, but now a soldier with the Indiana troops stationed at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. The children and husband were with the mother and wife before the end, a special leave of absence permitting the soldier son to be home. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the home. Rev. C. R. Isley. pastor of Second English Lutheran church, will be in charge. 14 Indians Arrive at Training Camp CAMP JACKSON, COLUMBUS, S. C, Sept. 24. Fourteen Cherokee Indians from North Carolina, accompanied by two exemption board members to explain their status, have arrived to serve in the national army. The Indians have separate schools and associated with neither white people nor negroes. Another contingent of 25 is expected Tuesday. " J 4 4 . . ... JZCcib fyj.mt. and gun-carrying aeroblades, two in front and bombing propeller

MEANS DENIES HE KILLED MRS. MAUDE! KING Pleads Not Guilty to Charge of Murdering Wealthy Employer. CQNCORD, N. C. SepL 24. At the beginning of the preliminary hearing of Gaston B. Means, on the charge of murder in the killing of Mrs. Maude A. King, Means entered a plea of not guilty. Concord was thronged today for the arraignment of Gaston B. Means, charged in a warrant sworn out Saturday by Solicitor Hayden Clement, with the murder of Mrs. Maude A. King, a wealthy widow for whom Means acted as business agent. Through the hearing before Police Magistrate Palmer the state announced it expected to have Means bound over to the grand Jury for the murder of the woman, who was mysteriously shot and killed near here Aug. 29 last. In furtherance of this plan a corp3 of crime experts and pathologists were brought here from New York and Chicago and federal officials who have taken a part In the case were co-operating with police officials. Has Six Attorneys. Means was backed by an array of legal talent, including four attorneys of Concord and two from Charlotte, one of them beine Frank R nhnm

brother of James W. Osborne, former district attorney of New York. Mrs. Anna L. Robinson and William and Paul Robinson, mother and brothers of Mrs. 'King, also were represented byy Counsel P. C. McDuffie of Atlanta, taking part in the lengthy conferences of the prosecution which preceded the hearing. It first was planned to hold a second Inquest, but counsel for the state abandoned that plan and had Means arrested. This resulted in setting the preliminary hearing n place of the second inquest which was to have been opened today. Reiterates Innocence. At the first Inquest, Means testified that Mrs. King accidentally shot herself and the coroner's jury returned a verdict to that effect after hearing number of other witnesses. Exhumation of the body after it was taken to Chicago and buried and investigation by District Attorney Swann in New York where Mrs. King formerly lived followed by the first inquest and resulted in solicitor Clement's decision to reopen the investigation here. Solicitor Clement last night went to the jail, at Mean's request and there the latter reiterated his Innocence and. accoraing to counsel for the crosecution, sought to discuss the case. Solicitor Clement and those associated with him declined to make public just what passed between them. It ws said, however, that Clement advised that Means wait until today's hearing. Continued War Will be Fault of Others, Kaiser Tells Troops LONDON, Sept. 24 Emperor William, says a dispatch from Amsterdam to Reuters, has visited the battlefields in Rumania and inspected the troops which participated in the campaign in Transylvania and Rumania in the autumn of 1916. These troops are now on the Moldavia battle front Addressing the troops. Emperor William pointed out the world-wids historical importance of this fighting, which, he said, was also of great importance, economically, for the home lands. The emperor concluded with the statement that "If war was to continue, it was not the Germans' fault." 20 PERCENT WILL LEAVE OCTOBER 3 INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 24. The third contingent of selected men for the national army will be only 20 per cent of the first quota instead of an additional 40 percent as was first announced, according to a telegram received by Jesse Eschbach. state c&nSerfntinn nfftr-ar- fmn. . i , I ' "um pjuvuat Luarsoa ; general Crowder todav. ! Tl, " " "c v in go to camo Oct. 3. When the men for the remaining 35 Derepnt will ho cant nn.. i . j ov-ui. iu vamp lids IlOl ! been announced. Forty-five percent j of the first quota of men for the naj tional army are already in camp. 15.0C0 STEEL WORKERS GIVEN 10 PER CENT RAISE JOHNSTOWN. Pa. Rent 94 Vr. j teen thousand steel workers, iployes ' ft tVa fnvwKw?.. O . l ... . mo v-uiuua oioei company, ana xn I Lorain Steel company here, were to- , day noticed Jhat effective October 1. 1 their wages would be increased 10 per- ! cent. City Statistics I Deaths and Funerals j BOS WELL Roland Don Boswell. 4 years old. died Sunday morning at j the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. ! Don Boswell, Charles avenue, of diph theria. Besides his parents, he is survived by five brothers, two sisters and a grandmother, Mrs. Hannah Waking. The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the residence and will be private. Burial will be In the Lutheran cemetery. STILWELL James A. Stilwell. 60 years old. died Monday morning at his home, 212 South Eighth street, of dropsy. He is survived by his widow, Mary and one daughter, Mrs. Marga Martin. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. The Education Committee of London, Eng., has accepted the offer of clergy-men of all denominations to do national service as school teachers.