Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 272, 26 September 1917 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 26, 1917

FAMOUS FLYER OF FRENCH CORPS KILLED BY FOE

Captain Guynemer Brings Down 53 German Planes Before Death. PARIS. Sept 26. Captain George Guynemer, 'who has been officially posted as missing. Is credited In the army aviation records with having shot down fifty-three German airplanes inside the German lines and with hav ing destroyed at least twenty-five more that were uncounted. Captain Guy nemer has been missing since he flew from Dunkirk on September 11. Captain Guynemer was one of the youngest men of his rank In the French army having been promoted by President Poincare in February last, at the age of twenty-two. At the beginning of the war Guynemer was under age. He tried five times unsuccessfully to get into the army and finally had to literally break his way into tne aviation corps. Infantry Reject Him. The infantry refused him because he was under weight for his height and the flying corps rejected him be cause the examining surgeon could see he was too nervous. Finally, through the influence of a friend of his family who was in charge of an aviation school he was allowed to learn to fly. He astonished his in structors by his rapid progress and coolness and won a flying license after which the aviation corps accepted him, Guynemer became an "ace" in the French aviation corps in August, 1916, and soon thereafter surpassed the rec ord of sub-lieutenant Jean Navarre, who up to that time led with twelve German machines to his credit. In the meantime Guynemer had received two bullets in the arm at Verdun. In 1916 the academy of sports awarded the young aviator a 10,000 franc prize for "the best sporting event of the year." At the end of the same year. with his captain's stripes he received the cross of the legion of honor. Four in One Day. Captain Guynemers greatest day's work was on May 17, of this year, when he brought down four German machines, two of which he accounted for in the space of two minutes, having attacked a group of four. With only three cartridges left while on his homeward flight he encountered the fourth German and Bhot him down with one of the three remaining cart ridges. One of the two victims he shot down on August 4, last, was Lieut Hohendorf, a German aviator who flew for a French airplane company before the war and who had shot down twelve machines. The fifty-three German machines credited to Captain Guynemer's record were worth something more than 1,500,000 frances. Some of them were manned by two or three men and it is estimated that he accounted for more than eighty pilots, observers and gun ners. RETAIL GROCERS UNDER WAR RULES CHICAGO. Sept. 26. Retail grocers of Chicago have before them today a set of rules calculated to reduce expenses and to place the conduct of their business on a war basis. They provide: First Establishment of two sets of r-rices one to be paid for goods for which cash is paid and goods carried home, the other for goods bought on credit and delivered. Second The elimination of premiums, trading stamps and trade boosters. Third The discontinuance of forcing sales of any commodity by fixing a low price with the provision that a quantity of other goods must be bought to obtain the bargain rate as of sugar. Fourth Placing seasonable limits on quantities which may be purchased by a consumer, to prevent hoarding. These rules were adopted last night at a conference between representative of retail grocers association and Harry A. Wheeler, state food administrator. The grocers also agreed to undertake a compilation of- staple necessities, with a view of fixing a margin of profit to be exacted by the retailers as distribution charges. No attempt will.be made to limit profits on luxuries. 3,000 MECHANICS WILL WORK AGAIN WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. International officers of the labor union involved in fhe strike of more than 3,000 machanics at the Norfolk navy yard have advised the heads of the local union there to return the men to work pending negotiations to adjust the differences. MANUALS FOR MAKING DRESSINGS ARE HERE ' Manuals for making surgical dressings are now on hands at Red Cross headauarters. Women wishing to make the dressings may call and study - the instructions given in the manual. Detailed directions and charts are given. Instructions for packing, and shipping the Red Cross supplies are lso given in the book. SISAL TAX FIXED MEXICO CITY, Sept, 26. Beginning September 15, the export duty on sisal fiber, one of the principal products of Yucatan .was Ixed at 5 per cent, of the price paid for the fiber in foreign markets. The secretary of fmance will fix the average sales price of the fiber which shall be considered for taxing purposes each two months basing his figures on the quotations in the foreign markets.

"The Littlest Major"

Major C. O. Berg, veteran of the Spanish war, getting "orders" from "Major" Lynn Harden at Camp Grant. The little Major is delivering his "orders'' in true military style. Photo by the International Film Service.'

r Here are two of I the busiest Majors I in the camp at RockI ford, I1U . Evidently V the little "Major" is .",4 J telling the big Major 4jfc tf "where he gets off" ir:. ' ' ' j and the big Major V- jr seems to be taking ,j it in good part. C The little "Major" is Lynn Harden, who has been a frequent visitor there with I his mother. The big I Major is Charles O. j Berg, training camp - 1 officer who has been I detailed at Rockford. He is acting senior Major and was recently a ppointed as officer of the summary court marshal in his regi ment. Major Berg is a resident of Glen Ellyn. D '

American Farm Machinery to

Develop Macedonian Agriculture

ATHENS, Sept 26. (Correspond-; ence of The Associated Press.) American agricultural machinery is to be used on a huge scale to develop the rich agricultural resources of Macedonia and Thessaly, which have lain for ages in an undeveloped state. One of the largest orders ever given by Greece has just been placed with United States concerns, and the first shipments of 200 farm tractors, 1,500 auto-rakes, and a whole shipload of other large implements left New York on the first of the Greek liners to sail since the Entente blockade was raised. A company with $8,000,000 capital, has just been founded to carry on this development of Macedonia and Thessaly. It is chiefly Greek money, with some French and American. But part of the plan called for utilizing modern American methods, by which farming is conducted in the western states on a huge scale. The ancient methods of ploughing and harvesting still prevail in Thessaly and lower Greece, and this will be the first time that the big steam farm tractors have been operated here on a large scale. Even the primitive wooden plough is used by many peasants, but at Volo, in Thessaly, iron and steel ploughs have been turned out for some time past Forced by War. This development of the Balkan graneries on a large scale is one of the necessities forced on Europe by the war. All of the countries have suddenly realized that they could not feed themselves in the pinch of war. Greece alone has bought about $15,000,000 worth of grain every year from the United States, Russia and Bulgaria. With these countries cut off by submarines and war conditions, Greece is now trying to get wheat from India. The other Balkan states are in the same condition. They have lots of idle land but are feeding themselves from America, and beyond seas. The formation of this new companyWants All Garments by Next Saturday Anna Lough in charge of the garment department at the Red Cross rooms wants all garments finished by the last of the week as a shipment will be made early in October. Many sewing machines have been donated to the association. Monday afternoon the aid society of the First Christian church sewed for the Red Cross and the Guild of St Paul's Episcopal church sewed at the Parish house. The aid society of the Reid Memorial church sewed all day Wednesday for the Red Cross. WILL ELECT OFFICERS ""An election of officers and trustees of the Administrative Board of the North Fourteenth Street Union Mission will be held at the regular quarterly meeting of the Board, Monday, October 8, at 7:30 o'clock, at the Y. M. C. A.

has resulted from this determination,

encouraged by the government to develop the fertile Balkan regions so that Greece and the other Balkan countries may hope to be self-supporting and even contribute to the grain supply of the rest of Europe. Macedonia virtually is a vigrin soil, very rich, and capable of large crops. The Macedonian tobacco already commands high prices in the world's market. It trebled In value the last year. Good Wheat Region. Thessaly is the region where the French High Commissioner, M. Jonnart, introduced intensive farming the past summer in order to meet the pressing needs of Greece. It is one of the best wheat regions, and even with primitive methods it produced last year 5,000,000 bushels of wheat oats, barley and rye, 10,000,000 pounds of tobacco, and much cotton and rice. With the large consignments of American machinery now on the way, and abundant capital available, it is expected that these products of Macedonia and Thessaly will be enormously increased, and that the hope will be at last realized of making it one of the great graneries of Eastern Europe. PERUJAYBREAI( WITH GERMANY LIMA, Peru, Sept. 26. The government has instructed Peruvian minister at Berlin to present to the German government a demand that satisfaction be given within eight days for the sinking of the Peruvian bark Lorton. If the demand is not met diplomatic relations will be broken off. ARGUMENT BEGINS IN DAMAGE SUIT Argument of counsel in the suit of John Pritchard against W. M. Hoover was begun late Wednesday afternoon in Wayne circuit court The suit is over the alleged negligence of Hoover when the latter and Pritchard's son collided on the streets of Hagerstown last July. Hoover, who was driving an automobile, is alleged to have struck Pritchard, who was riding a motorcycle and damaged Pritchard's machine to the extent of $150. Two days have been spent In the examination of witnesses and it is not probable that a verdict will be reached by the jury before Thursday morning. Upon the outcome of this case will depend largely another suit brought by the same parties against Hoover in which personal injuries resulting from the accident are asked to be soothed to the extent of $1,000. Both parties in the suit are farmers living near Hagerstown.

STUDENTS' SEATS ARE AMONG BEST

The sale of students' tickets for the People's Music Course has not been as large as the course promoters expected. Indications are, however, with the opening of Earlham and the beginning of the season by music teachers, the sale will take on impetus. - Some of the seats which have been set aside for use of students at a reducd price are among the best in the Coliseum. They are seats for which a higher pice could easily have been obtained. Because of their limited number these seats will be gone before long. They are selling rapidly now. These season tickets are for any bona fide high school, college or music student and are not transferable. The sale of regular season tickets continues to be gratifying, although they are not going as rapidly as they did when the chart was opened. There are still a number of good seats, how ever. CHURCH TO GIVE COMEDY PLAYLET Two comedy playlets will be given in the Westville Friends church satur day night, beginning at 8 o'clock, for the benefit of the church. The farces to be presented are "The Rough Dia mond," and "Coon Creek Courtship The characters will be takwen by Mrs. Elizabeth Shendler, Miss Hattie Eby, Miss Gertrude Tiffany, Mrs. Raymond Shendler, Omar Williams, Herbert Hawley, Harry Hartman, Hugh Will iams and Richard Paulson. Richmond Men at Labor Convention Lucius Harrison, employed at the Ballinger Printing company, is attend ing the convention of the State Federa tion of Labor in session at Anderson, as a delegate from Richmond, Two other delegates were to attend the con vention. The convention will close Saturday. DELEGATION TO ' VISIT EATON FAIR Preble county folks will be visited Thursday by a large delegation Commercial club members, who, with their wives and friends, will spend the afternoon at the Eaton fair. Automobiles will leave the Commerc ial club rooms at 12:30 o'clock. Banners and pennants will be used in deco rating the automobiles. The trip will be similar to the one made last week when Commercial club members visited the Hagerstown Horse Show. ROOSEVELT NAMED HONORARY CAPTAIN LONDON, Sept. 26. The Gazette announces the appointment of Kermit Roosevelt to be temporary honorary captain while specially employed from August 22, last. Kermit Roosevelt who was in train ing at Plattsburg, left there on July 9 to accept an offer to serve in the British army on the staff of General Maude, commander of the Mesopo tamia forces. With Mrs. Roosevelt he arrived at a British port on July 26 French Ship Sunk in Spanish Waters PARIS, Monday, Sept. 24. .The French steamship Amiral de Kersaint, 5,570 tons gross, was sunk on Septem ber 14 after being attacked by a sub marine in Spanish territorial waters, The submarine opened fire from the midst of a fleet of fishing boats, the presence of which prevented the steamer from using her guns effec tively. After a long combat the steam er was sunk just outside territorial waters. The captain was taken pris oner on the submarine. Ten members of his crew were killed or have died of injuries. Lie Still He Tells Harvard Freshmen CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 26. "Don't let the excitemenx of the war disturb your studies," is President Lawrence Lowell's advice to members of the freshman class at Harvard university. Speaking at a reception tentered the 1921 class last night President Lowell continued: "They say that the hardest job of a soldier is to lie down and remain still when he is under fire. You are practically in that same position as you remain here at Harvard, while older fellows are doing the fighting and it is your task to go steadily on your academic course." Burned by Parr af in Mrs. George Thomas, 718 West Main street, was painfully burned on her right arm, Monday afternoon by an explosion of paraffin. She had put the parrafla on a stove to melt when, it caught fire. In carrying it, it exploded, burning Mrs. Thomas severely. CLUB TO ELECT HI-Yl club members have dinner Tuesday evening at the Y. M. C. A. This Is the first semi-monthly dinner. An election of officers for the coming year will be held.

Benny's Stick May Win Series

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"Benny" Kauff, star outfielder of the New York Giants. Kauff has finally landed in the .300 class of hitters, which he did not do in his first year in the big league. "Benny's" Dig Dat will sure be a big factor in the coming games with the Chicago White Sox, and may decide the series.

Continuous Play on Stage Seen LONDON, Sept 26. (Correspond-1 ence of The Associated Press.) The continuous play, presented perhaps on a revolving stage, will develop after the war, in the opinion of Lady Wynd ham, wife of Sir Charles Wyndham, the British actor and theatrical manager. Before her marriage to Sir Charles, Lady Wyndham was Miss Mary Moore, an actress and his part ner in the management of several Lon don theatres. "The war," she declares, in an article In the Pall Mall Gazette, "will prob ably supply motives for various plays long after peace has been restored not the war which is expressed in glimpses of battle, but the war as it shows itself In the hearts of men and women and influences their lives and their actions. "My belief is that after the war an entirely new style of play will be evolved, and it will then be considered old-fashioned to drop the curtain and have an entr-acte. The practically continuous play will be due, if it comes into being, to various causes. There is, among other things, a tendency for people to go to revues and music-halls, where the curtains do not drop. j Must Ban Breaks. "It is an indication of the TestleBsness of the age, and it was noticeable before the war. If these people are to be attracted to the theatre, they must have plays presented to them which do not contain a series of breaks. There may be rapid changes of scene and costume, or there may be the same setting throughout the performance. "To have the same setting from beginning to end in a successful play would mean the need for greater art on the part of the players. As for the writer of plays of the kind which I foresee, he will find the work quite easy if he is a good craftsman. "One misfortune arising from a changed style of play will be the loss to the public of many fine examples of the playwright's art which have won fame in the past It may be that theatres will have to be altered constructivally. For instance, the stage of each theatre may have to be of the revolving type, to enable the swift Gity Statistics Deaths and Funerals STILWELL James A. Stilwell died Monday at his home, 212 South Eighth street. He is survived by his widow, one daughter and three sisters, Mrs. Michael Voss, Mrs. Elizabeth Shute and Mrs. Thomas Wickett. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 : 30 o'clock from the home. Rev. Alpheus Trueblood of Dayton, will be in charge. . Burial in Earlham cemetery. Friends may call any time. ROSSITER The funeral of Mrs. Charlotte Rossiter was held at 2:00 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the home, 26 Richmond Avenue. Rev. C. Raymond Isley of the Second English Lutheran church officiated. A quartet composed of Mrs. Wellbaum, Miss Mable Reynolds, Andrew Rausch and Rev. C. R. Isley sang. The pallbearers were O. H. Little, Omar D. Bullerdick, William Kramer, C. W. Merrill, L. E. Turner and A. Dwiggins. The burial was in Earlham cemetery. LANTZ William Corbin Lantz, 57 years old, died Wednesday morning at 6:30 o'clock at his home, 134 State street from a complication of diseas es. He is survived Dy nis wiaow, susan B, one son, John M. Lantz, and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be private and will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home. Burial in Earlham cemetery. Visit the store of pleasant dealing Opp. Post Offic BRIEFS Auto's atention! Nice home-grown watermelons and mushmelons. Right off vines. Finest quality. W. K. MarItin, New Paris, O., on Middlebor pike, 3-4 miles from New Paris. 25-2L

Revolving by Lady Wyndham change to be brought about as I sug gest. Something of the sort exists at the Coliseum. "There is nothing more revolutionary in the continuous play of the fu ture than there was in the past in the change from the five, six, or seven act play to the play of three acts four at the outside with which we have grown familiar. We must therefore, look forward to the results of an evolutionary process rather than to those coming from revolution. JONES EMPLOYES SUBSCRIBE $11 Employes of Jones Hardware com pany boosted the Palladium Tobacco fund with a voluntary subscription amounting to $11. . The lists in the downtown stores were not checked Wednesday and the subscription from the hardware store employes Is the only amount that is added to the fund. The total sub scriptions for the two weeks that the fund has been open now amounts to $186. Contributions received Tuesday are listed as follows: Previously acknowledged .....$175.00 Employes of Jones Hardware company 11.00 Total $186.00 Elaborate plans for new buildings have been made for the American Methodist Missionary college at Rome, Italy. A side on Monte Mario already has been obtained. ISfhere did He !kp your Coffee Dirt and dust are never found in olden Sun Coffee In our sunlit factories we keep it clean- pack it clean and deliver it clean in air-tightpackages through your grocer. We even take out the chaff that makes ordinary coffee muddy and bitter. Try Golden Sun. Sold only, by grocers. The Woolson Spice Co. Toledo, Ohio AT RATLIFS Out of The High Rent District No. 12 North 9th St. s3UY HERE AND FOR LESS

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RUSS MINISTER IS CONVICTED

PETROGRAD. Sept 26. General Soukhomllnoff former minister of war to sentenced to hard labor for life after conviction of the charge of high treason in the court here today. A throng assembled this afternoon in the hall in which the trial was held, as the hour approached for the finding of the verdict The crowd composed a varied picture made possible only by the revolution. Generals in splendid uniforms rubbed elbows with private soldiers clad in rustic blouses. Women in silks and furs jostled plain gowned women of the poor. As the chief justice calmly address ed the jurors, instructing them in the law the court room was like a scene in a picturesque drama, in decided contrast to the setting of American trials. Gen- Soukhomlinoff, in drab uniform bald and bearded, sat with head in hand, elbow on the dock, peering in tently at the jurors. Beside him was his wife, a pale cameo-featured woman of perhaps 35. She seemed only half her husband's age. Her black dress and hat with veil thrown back lent unexpected gravity to her face, so vivacious when surrounded by gayer colors. Beside the dock, standing stiffly at attention save for furtive glances oc casionally at the prisoners, stood two massive Russian private soldiers in brown blouses, their rifles with fixed bayonets resting on the floor. Hurricane Warnings Along Gulf Coast WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. The tropical disturbance approaching the United States from the Gulf of Mexico probably was central this morning 100 miles west of Key West. Hurricane warnings are displayed on the gulf coast from Mobile to Apalachicola and storm warnings over the remainder of the gulf coast of Florida. The Pullman Company is the larg est single employer of colored labor in the United States. - (Advertisement.) f HIS MEDICINE WOMEN VALU Positively Relieves the Suffering. More Convincing Proof. When Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was first introduced its curative powers were doubted and bad to be proved. But the proof came, and gradually the use of it spread over the whole country. Now that hundreds of thousands of women have experienced the most beneficial effects from its use its value has become generally recognized and it is now the standard medicine for women's ills. The following letter is only one of the thousands on our files. Dennison, Texas. " I cannot feel that I have done my duty until I tell what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound haa done for me. I suffered from female troubles so I could hardly 3rag around and do my work- I was very nervous, and had dizzy spells, heat Hashes, and headaches until life was a burden. My husband brought me a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham s Vegetable Compound and I scon began to improve. I continued its use and am now free from all pains and aches that made life a burden. You may use this letter in any way you like for I want the world to know what a grand medicine Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is. Mrs. G. O. Lowery, 911 S. Barrett Ave., Denison, Texas. Write the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass., for free advice. A Simple Dress for School or Play 2174 For the guimpe, one could use crepe, batiste, lawn or dimity. The dress could be of the same material, or of gingham, chambray, challie, poplin, voile, repp, linen or pique. The Pattern is cut In 4 sizes: 2, 4, 6and 8 years. It requires 2 yards of 27-inch material for the dress and 1 yards for the guimpe, for a 4-year size. A pattern of this illustration mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents insilver or stamps. Name Address City Size Address Pattern Department, Pal I a. dliir