Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 286, 12 October 1917 — Page 1

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.RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1917. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

LA FOLIETTE TO APPEAR BEFORE SUB CQCIMITTEE

Senator Under Fire. To Be Permitted to Present His Side of Case to Board Investigating Charges. TO PROBE SPEECH WASHINGTON. Oct. 12. Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin today was invited by the senate committee investigating his alleged disloyal speech at St. Paul to appear next Tuesday hefore the committee for a hearing renrMnte nnHftrtinnn in his address. The hearing probably -will be public and will be confined to the statement nt facta in th urippch. naxticularly re garding Mr. LaFollette's statement that former Secretary Bryan appealed trt President Wilson to keen passeng ers off the Lusitania because of ammunition a.lsed to be in her cargo. tia rrtmrnlttne advised the senator that Its investigating authority does not extend to his right to ma me non-partisan league speech nor into .the motives of his critics. To the letter nt to the committee yesterday by Senator LaFoIlete. asking a hearing and suggesting extension of the investigation. Senator Pomerene today re plied: - "Referring to the request contained in Tour letter the sub-committee begs to advise you that it does not concede that its powers extend to an inquiry into your right to make the speech delivered by you in St Paul that question being reserved by the full committee for its consideration; nor does it believe Itself authorized to Inquire into the motives or animus on those making attacks on you. "The sub-committee desires, however, to afford you an opportunity to be heard and to inform the committee with reference to the accuracy of various statements contained in the speech referred to, and to that end, you are Invited o attend at the ensuing session of the committee In the capitol next Tuesday. Senator LaFollette is expected to be me nrsi witness on ruesaay. ana 10 submit much data toward substantiating his statement. - ! s ' ' " . .:,' ICE PLANTS TO STORE POTATOES; WILL SAVE FOOD Richmond ice dealers are planning to co-operate with the Wayne county board of food production and conservation. In saving food products by storing them in ice warehouses. At a meeting of the Indiana Ice Dealers' association held Thursday in Indianapolis, which was attended by Otto Rettig, as a representative of Wayne county dealers, the association pledged itself to carry out any suggestion offered by the state board of food conservation and the state Defense council, concerning the storing of foodstuffs. Wayne county Ice dealers are able to care for several thousands bushels of vegetables, and particularly are their warehouses fitted to care for potatoes. The Rettig company has informed the county board that they will care for at least 1,500 bushels of potatoes or a similar amount of other vegetables and the Wayne Ice company will be able to care for more than 2,000 bushels. The Ice dealers will act on the suggestion of the county board. BACK FROM ENGLAND. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. Admiral Mayo, commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet, and his staff have returned from England where they participated in a naval conference with the allies. This announcement was authorized today by the navy department. Now you have another chance to do your bit you can buy another Liberty Bond. WEATHER FORECAST For Indiana By United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Saturday except snow flurries in extreme north portion. Freezing temperature tonight. Today's Temperature Noon 34 Yesterday Maxim urn 60 Minimum 32 For Wayne County By W. E. Moore Fair tonight and Saturday excepting for possible light snow flurries this afternoon or tonight. Below freezing tonight. General Conditions The British Columbia storm moves far south out of its usual path for the season, causing rain and snow flurries over north and central Indiana. Weather will clear some time during the next twenty-four hours with a general freeze over Wayne county tonight. Temperature probably will go 5 to 10 degrees below freezing, but warm weather is probable by the first of next week.

Obregon Says Mexico Is Not Pro-German

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CHICAGO, Oct 12. General Alvaro Obregon, former minister of war in Carranza's cabinet, who is on his way to Washington for a conference with President Wilson, stopped in Chicago yesterday with a -message for inter national gossips who put Mexico in the pro-German class. With all the vigor he has applied to Mexican revolutions the general heped hia ire upon slanderers of his country. Hhe said the popular feeling In Mexico was pro-French, if anything. Existence of German plots and propaganda financed by German money was admitted by the Mexican general, but he argued this condition wm Tin fHfferpTit frnm that 4n the United States. Mexican efforts ! to Buppress the intrigues are Just as powerful and sincere he contended. WANT 10,000 IN SUNDAY SCHOOL NOV. 4 Day Set Aside To Get Full Enrollment To Attend "the i Church Sessions. Ten thousand Wayne county people In Sunday school on November 4. Whether you belong to a Sunday school or not, B. P. Jones, of Milton, president of the Wayne county Sunday school association asks every man, woman and child in Wayne county to find the location of a Sunday school and attend on Sunday November 4, which has been designated as "Go To Sunday School Day." Plans are being made to have every Sunday school room in the county filled to overflowing on this day, as a part of the nation-wide movement to instill interest in Sunday schools and their work. The roll books of Wayne county Sunday schools show that there are 10,000 persons in the county who are enrolled in the Sunday schools of the county and officers of the various Sunday schools of the county are planning to have at least a full attendance on that day. 10,000 Is Minimum. Ten thousand has been set as the minimum attendance for Sunday school day, and it is predicted by Sun- ! day school workers that this mark will be exceeded by at least 2,000. "On-Tn-Suiidav-School Day" is being promoted by the Indiana Sunday hi iiooi association as a part of the plan ! of the national association and is plan- ! ned for a twofold purpose. By having j this nation wide rally the Sunday ' schools of the country hope to be able i to show their real strength In the I church and at the same time interest those people who do not attend Sunday schools in the work of the organization. Go to Sunday school on November 4, and then stay for church. TO REDUCE MINIMUM. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. In its requisitioning of ships October 15, the shipping board is considering taking I over all American vessels of more than 1,500 tons dead weight capacity lnI stead of 2,500 tons as first announced. I The great need of trans-Atlantic tonnage, it was said today, has made this , step necessary.

First Community Sing to be Held at Garfield School Oct. 30

The schedule for this season's "Community Sings," which were so popular last season, was announced Friday by Miss Martha Whitacre, president of the Teachers' federation. Ralph C. Sloane will conduct the sings and Miss Edna Marlatt supervisor of music at the Garfield school, will be at the piano. The first "sing" will be held Tuesday evening, Otcober 30, at the Garfield school. Miss Whitacre in her announcement Friday said the sings are to be for everybody and it is hoped that persons all over the city will feel free to attend. Soloists at Each "Sing." There will be special solo work at each meeting. Soloists will be announced later. The meetings will be held each Tuesday evening. On account of the appearance of the Cincinnati Symphony orchestra in the People's Music . course at the Coli

WINTER ARRIVES

OF FIRST SNOW OF SEASON

Tim first tsnow flurrieB of the season ntriirk Richmond nedestrians square in the face Friday, and an erratic temper ature crawled downward untu it reacned the freezing mark. a irpnpml freeze over the county with light snow flurries is predicted for Friday night by Weather Forecaster Moore. The temperature will drop between five and ten degrees Deiow the full-furnace-heat mark. Snow started falling early Friday morning after Jupiter P. Rain had dropped around the city and county. The flakes sailed, lazily and calmly down on Richmond pedestrians at different periods during the day, reminding Badly of coal and coal prices. Near "Heavy" Mark. The little red liquid, always skittish, fell almost to the heavy underwear mark. And it was all caused, so the weather man tells us, by a storm in British Preachers to Urge Congregations to Buy Liberty Bonds Richmond congregations will be urged from the pulpits Sunday to buy Liberty bonds. Acting on the suggestion of the Btate Council of Defense, the ministers of the city have announced they will urge the purchase of bonds. Although no official action -on the matter was taken by the Ministerial association, practically all of the ministers have ex pressed their intention of aiding the Liberty Loan campaign tnls way. In at least one of the churcheB of tJ8"! . v r t t. s.m.. f th PMmt Methodist Episcopal church, said Friday the church had been planning to purchase a bond of the eecond issue. French Professor, Held in Foe Camp, Fools 'Em 2 Years PARIS. Sept. 25. (By Mall). A profesBor of the Sarbonne, the great French university, recently secured his release from a German military prison by a remarkable exercise of will power. He fell into the hands of . the Germans In 1915. Deciding at once to get- free in . some way, he feixned' blindness. - . , rethrt'iisBlt-wa,.mposslblet for - the German military doctors or eye specialists to catch . him off his guard. , They subjected him to the severest known tests, such as sudden apparitions of unfamiliar and unex pected objects, sudden transitions from complete obscurity to dazzling Iischts. He was tortured by scientific ways of verifying sightlessness but never once departed from a fixed blank stare, presenting always an absolute absence of expression in his eyes: He was finally declared totally blind and in cluded in a recent exchange of permanently disabled prisoners. EMBARGO POT ON SHIPMENTS EAST Freight shipments to points east of Columbus, O., are being rejected by railroads running into Richmond, and between ten and fifteen car loads of freight' are being rejected daily, railroad officials announced Friday. Shipments to points west of Richmond and as far east as Columbus are being received however. Any shipments to points east of Columbus necessitate re-handllng at these points and because of the acute labor shortage can not be handled. The embargo was issued by the national embargo committee, which is made up of representatives of all railroads. The congestion In Richmond yards of the Pennsylvania lines, which was regarded as serious for some time, is now being relieved according to railroad officials. The cars have been reduced to between seventy-five and eighty-five It was said. Shortage of labor Is being felt by the railroads all along the various lines. The force at the Pennsylvania freight rouse in this city is about half as large as It usually is. seum, November 7, the second sing will be held November 13 and will be at Second Presbyterian church. November 20 there wlil be a meeting at the high school-auditorium and November 27 the sing will be held at the West Richmond Friend's church. During the week artists appear here in the People'B Music course there will be no sing. If any changes are made In the schedule announcement will be made. Song Book Adopted. The Community . Son . book to be used at Community Sings' aU over the United States has been adopted by the Teachers' Federation and the books have been ordered. TheBe books will be used at the chapel exercises at the high school each week. The sings will be similar to the ones held last year and the old-fashioned songs that - grandmother and grandfather, as well as father and mother, like to hear will be sung.

ON WINGS

Columbia, which without any regard for Richmond persons at all, strayed from the straight and narrow path, or rather "its usual path." Old Sol will continue to strike until the first of next week. Then he's scheduled to return bringing with him "Just a little bit of warm weather,"' which no doubt will be "good" news to the coal dealers., COLUMBUS DAY IS OBSERVED Just 425 yearB ago today, Christo pher Columbus discovered North America, and the Discovery day was observed throughout the country. Banks and saloons and several busi ness houses were closed In Richmond in commemoration of the day. Special programs were given at St. Mary's and St. Andrew's Catholic schools Thursday afternoon and the children dismissed until next Monday. A dinner was given, by W. A. Klein Thursday night for members of the Fourth Degree of the Knights Of Columbus at his home, 136 South Fourteenth street, in honor of Columbus Day. South Bend Man Talks Talks were made by all the members and S. E. Dickens, master of the fourth degree, of South Bend, addressed the members regarding the Catholic fund for providing recreation centers In the sixteen arm cantonments for Catholic members of the camps. He declared the fund would reach nearly $3,000,000, as the response throughout the country has been unusually large. When the Knights of Columbus started raising the fund, they thought not more than $1,000,000 would be raised. He also said the buildings in the camps which provide a. chapel, reading and writing room, were under construction and would soon be completed. ARMY BOARD ISSUES LIST OF DESERTERS Uncle Sam wants information concerning men who failed to appear for examination for the national army. The Richmond army board has prepared a list of names of men who have failed to report for examination at the call of the board. Some of these men are already In the regular army or national guard but the fact that they have enlisted has not been given to the army board. Under orders from the adjutant general of Indiana, the Richmond board Is seeking all available information concerning these men. Look over the list and report to the Richmond board any information you may have concerning any of the men. Three men that have been examined by the Richmond army board have failed to appear to be sent to Camp Taylor and these are classed as deserters. A reward of $50 will be paid if any of these three men are brought to an army post. This reward, however, Is to cover any expense that might be incurred in capturing the deserter and bringing him to the authorities. Following are the lists of men who have failed to appear and the deserters as issued by the Richmond army board : Lester Salvor William Smith, Frank I McMuIlen, Georgp Mann, John Wil liam Bailey, Josenh Frederick, Mike Rousos, Alvln H. Shelley, Jerome Merkel, Vasiliy Ladutka, Percy Houston. Ervin H. Byrd, Robert Cecil Perrine, Darwin Ralph Burelison, Paul E. Short, Raymond G.Wilson, Walter Smith, Earnest H. Holmstrom, Gloster Smith, Domonico De Vincentis, Mailen Mills. Peter Dyle. Clarence L. Mathews. James Mullen, Ervin Lewis, Ralph R. Breese. John Yoskenlck, James Belton Littleiohn, Henry Neal, John E. Gehring. William H. Kephart, Dimocomcor Libbeamtr, Arthur Hilts, Markus Edward, Mathew Duncan, George J. Harris, Jesse Stweart. The following named men are deserters : William Oscar Land, Fred Fisher, Antonio De Carlo. BECK TO GIVE "LOAN" DINNER A Liberty loan dinner for 'postoffice employes will be given at the postoffice next Wednesday night, by Postmaster Beck. All employes will be urged to lend their money, or as much as they possibly can, to the government for its use in the war. A luncheon will be served and Lawrence A. Handley, cashier of the German-American bank and former . postoffice employe, will address the men he formerly worked with. . The sale of Liberty bonds closes October 27. Wayne county's quota is $1,700,000 and every person in Richmond and the county is urged to buy one bond at least

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MRS leuErar NEW YORK, Oct. 11. First Lieuten ant Joseph O. Taylor, at Camp Mills, couldn't tell how soon the "Raibow Division" might be off for France, and arranged a marriage by telephone with his fiancee, " Miss Ruby Knight, at Bainbrldge, Ga. She has arrived in New York. She has her husband on forty-eight hours' leave. Insurance Rate on Ships in War Zone is Cut 25 Percent WASHINGTON, Oct 12. Reduction of approximately 25 per cent recently hy the government In war risk insurance rates on vessels traversing the war zone was followed today by a reduction of one-third In premiums on the insurances, of officers and crews on such vessels. As in the case of the previous reduction, "decrease of risk" was assigned by the government as the Impelling cause. The new rate, which Is effec tive immediately is 60 cents per $100; the old rate was 75 cents. The reduc tion applies to crews of all American vessels sailing between Americani ports and all European ports and African ports on the Mediterranean. " Loan Failure Means We Quit Mar, Says r A mbassador Ger ard NEW YORK, Oct. 12. Liberty Bond buying in the United States has thus far averaged from 60 to 90 percent in the various regiments throughout the country. It was announced here today at headquarters of the; department of the east October 24 has been designated "Have You Bought Your Liberty Bond Today," when every person will be expected to ask his next door neighbor whether he has subscribed. The Liberty Loan committee here today made public a telegram received lrom James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany, saying that failure of the Second Liberty Loan "means that we resign from the war." NEGRO SHOT BY "UNLOADED" GUN Another "unloaded" revolver was i discharged, and as a result Houston j Delapey, a negro, an employe in the C. &. O. shops at Boston, is lying at the railroad camp hospital with a bullet wound in his back. Delaney was shot by his wife with e. 32 caliber revolver during a "party" at the. camp, at 3 o'clock Friday morning. Sheriff Carr was called to investigate the affair and Mrs. Delaney, with Henderson Bell, another employe, was brought to Richmond and placed in jail pending a further investigation. When asked the cause of the shooting, both, Mr. and Mrs. Delaney declared that It was "accidental" and rthat neither of the two men knew the I gun was loaded when the accident ocj curred. One other negro, Mote Kenj nedy, was questioned concerning the shooting but declared that he had left the camp before the "accident" happened. The bullet struck Delaney In the back, just below the ribs, and passed out his left side. Attending physicians say that he will probably recover. Sheriff Carr and Acting Prosecutor Reller were in Boston Friday investigating the affair. Company Which Made Cannon in 1776 to Have Anniversary NEW YORK, Oct 12. -A celebration to mark the one hundred and seventy-fifth year in the manufacture of steel, including the making of munilions In every American war, will be observed by the Wharton Iron & Steel company, at High Bridge, Na J., tomorrow. The company made cannon balls during the revolutionary war. The original company was founded in 1742. Gold medals will be given to employes who have been fifty years In service and silver medals to those in the twenty-five year class. Nearly two thousand medals will be distributed to employes who have worked continuously from five years and "up to twenty years.

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M'CONAHA TO BUILD PLANT BLOCK LONG Largest Motor Shop In Eastern Indiana To Be Erected Along Alley. Plans for the largest and most complete garage building in eastern Indiana are being made for the McConaha company, which will erect the new building on the ground just south of its present implement store on South Fourth street The new building, which will be erected by William Crowe, will be three stories high and will have a basement under the entire structure. It will be three stories high and according to the present plans will be made of reinforced concrete. The land on which the building will ' be erected consists of two lots and will fun'" the entire length of the block from Fifth to 'Fourth - street on the alleys iTha vhulldlng-wiU e 264 feet long and 53 feet wide. To Have Big Elevator The greater part of the building will be U6ed for sales rooms, repair department for automobiles and automobile storage. The building will be equipped with a five-ton elevator, enabling the company to care for all kinds of motor vehicles, from the smallest roadster up to the heavy road trucks. .Walter McConaha and Everett McConaha were in Indianapolis and Muncie Thursday Inspecting the larger motor stores and garages in those cities, and the new building will contain , all of the latest improvements for handling and repairing motor vehicles. Work on clearing the land and excavating for the new building will begin probably next week and it is planned to have the building ready for occupancy by next spring. The present garage will be moved from its location on Main street to the new building as soon as the latter is completed. REVIEWS 22,000 CHINESE. PEKING, Thursday, Oct 11. President Fang Kwo Chang today reviewed 22,000 troops In connection with the celebration of the anniversary of the Chinese republic. Af eature of the review was a flight by a Chinese aviator, who had constructed his own ma- ' chine. The airplane was of the "nusher" type with the propellor behind and a machine gun in front.

Giants Are Confident Lot Now; Sox Claim They Were Roughed; Both Teams Speeding Westward

BOARD THE GIANTS' SPECIAL TRAIN. Oct. 12. No more confident ball club ever sallied forth to battle than the New York Giants today enroute to Chicago and the fifth game of their world's championship series with the White Sox. Having evened the count at two an the National League champions were convinced that they had only to continue playing at the same speed they developed in the two games at New York to overcome their American League foemen ami they felt not the slightest doubt on that score. Yet the Giants carefully resisted any attempt to prophecy a complete triumph within the next two playing days. They were frank : to confess that they regard the White Soz as at ready beaten, but they do not display the slightest tendency to underrate their opponents.. They expressed a belief that Manager Rowland of thelWhitet Sox will almost certainly start ; Ed.r Cicotte, of shine ball fame, again In tomorrow's engagement at . Comlskey : Park, and anticipated another gruelling contest in which the "breaks" in the luck would probably: decide the game. ' They also predicted ? that - Harry "Slim" Sallee will lead the New York club into action in the fifth game of the series and the third to be played in Chicago, and that he will be even more effective against the White Sox

HAIG PUSHES AHEAD AGAIN ON FLANDERS BATTLE LINE

British Launch New Offensive Three Days After Last Blows Falling Thick and Fast. PROGRESS .IS MADE BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM, Oct 12. (By Associated Press.) By 7:45 o'clock this morning, reports were received that everything was going well with today's British attack in Flanders. The troops along a wide front had pushed forward to a depth, averaging 800 yards or more. (By Associated Press) The British steam roller "goes up hill very slowly bat it Is now going down hill and. battles are following each other more and more rapidly,' said Adjutant General Maurice, direct. I or of operations at the British war offices yesterday. The troth of this assertion was driven home less than twenty-four hours after it was made by the beginning this morning of another British attack In Flanders. Only three days had elapsed since the last attack made on Tuesday. Good progress was reported early by Field Marshal Haig along the six mile front northeast of Ypres on which today's assault Is being delivered. Apparently the objective is the remainder of the ridge commanding the Flanders plain over the dominant point of which the British have already passed and are driving downward. Regardless of Weather Another notable fact in connection with the present theories of drives, is that each is now apparently being made regardless of weather conditions. , One good day for airplane observation was enough for the British in this instance to get theirranges andIaunc!, r thebv dr,um lres , drop their :;barrage "ana push to' the attack through the mud and renewed rainfall. There is no Indication ithat the French forces on the British left which pushed forward approximately a mile to the edge of Houtholst wood In Tuesday's attack are participating in today's advance. Their task for the moment seems to have been completed- by the bringing up of their lines to a point where efficient protection would be given the British left flank in the renewal of the wedge driving process being carried out between Passchendaele and Gheluvelt Unofficial dispatches from British headquarters reported that the British at an early hour had pushed several hundred yards into the German lines, the advance along one wide sector averaging nearly half a mile. On Passchendaele ridge, Haig's troops had fought their way within about 1,000 yards of the center of Passchendaele village. The Germans seem to have scented the approaching battle although they probably were Ignorant as to Just where the blow would fall as today's Berlin statement reported that the British drum fire was directed on the front from the river Lys to the YpresMenln road. This area is south of the front actually attacked. As a precautionary measure the German guns dropped gas shells on the British front nearly two hours before the attack was launched. Numbers of prisoners already had been taken by the British when the correspondents filed their morning dispatches. ON BOARD THE WHITE SOX SPECIAL TRAIN, Oct 12. The Chicago White Sox having lost their edge on' the world's series by dropping two games to the New York Giants are hurrying west today to meet the Polo Grounders on Comlskey park, where the American leaguers hope to come out in front again. The Sox were none too happy a lot as they contemplated eighteen consecutive innings of play without scoring a run against the Giants on the Polo grounds. T simply could not hlf said Chick GandlL "and that is all there is to It. If yon cant hit you cant win. We will start again in Chicago. Benton pitched the best game so far against us. We have hit better pitchers than Schupp." Some of the Sox players complained that the Giants roughed them as they went into second base and said that if the New Yorkers were looking for trouble they "would find it before the series were over, " Manager Rowland plans to uncover Bob Russell against the Giants on Saturday. Cicotte says he is ready-to go on the pitching hill on Saturday if -Rowland calls upon him. ...... than he was last Saturday when he held the American Leaguers to seven hits while yielding a t to 1 decision . to Cicotte.