Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 291, 18 October 1917 — Page 1

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VOLUNTEERS TO CANVASS CITY IN BIG LOAN DRIVE t

Richmond to be Given "Turn-ing-Over" on Liberty Loan Day Set Aside by Presi dent. TOTAL IS $590,000 Richmond will be given a "turning over" next "Wednesday, the day set aside by President Wilson as "Liberty Loan Day," and the Wayne county committee expects also to plan for a general drive In bond sales In every township as well. At a meeting of a special Richmond "boosting" committee, held Wednesday afternoon, a plan was devised for giv ing the city a thorough combing on Wednesday of next week, and a field committee of between sixty and one hundred volunteers will get into the harness for a short, energetic, and, it Is to be hoped, a successful drive to push Richmond's end of the quota of $1,700,000 across the line. Only a few hours will be devoted to the undertaking, but It is planned to have every section of the city covered. This in no sense will be a soliciting campaign. Citizens generally have awakened to the fact that the govern ment is not begging for funds. The funds are needed by the government H in fact doing a favor to every citizen who agrees to loan $50 or more. Drive Will Remind Them. Most persons have reached the conclusion that they will buy a bond. The difficulty with the campaign up to date is lack of action. The drive on next Wednesday will simply be a re minder to these persons and opportunlty will be given for them to sign up their applications on the spot. The following Saturday the nation wide campaign will be at an end, and then Liberty bonds can no longer be purchased from the government. Subscriptions received by Richmond hanks yesterday amounted to $32,500; the total in Richmond to date being $590,000. The total subscribed in out side townships has not been accurately reported, though It is believed to ap proximate $175,000. v To Display U -Boat in New York Park NEW YORK, Oct. 18. A German submarine captured by the British will soon be on view in New Tort It arrived in three section in the hold of an English steamship yesterday and was unloaded to be assembled in Cen tral park as .an exhibit to aid the Liberty Loan drive. POSTOFFICE MEN WILL BUY BONDS All members of the postoff ice staff have bought Liberty bonds. They pledged themselves to do so Wednes day night at a dlnneT at the Federal building. "Our Duties to Ourselves and to the Government" was the subject of Post master Beck s address. Superintendent of MallB Wilson cade a brief talk, on the Increase in the postage rates to go Into effect November 2. Lawrence A. Handler, of the Ger man-American bank, made an address explaining how the banks are prepared to furnish Liberty bonds. He urged the employes to purchase as many tonds as possible. Assistant Postmaster Henry Deuker, said many depositors in the Postal Savings department had withdrawn their money to purchase Liberty bonds. BECK ASKED TO HELP Postmaster Beck has received a letter from H. E. Barnard, federal food administrator of Indiana, asking for the assistance of the Richmond postoffice In the three weeks" campaign to bo waged in Indiana for the conservation of food. 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 and colder tonight and Friday except rain or snow In extreme north portion. Today's Temperature. Noon 67 Yesterday. Maximum 74 Minimum 47 For Richmond and Wayne County by W. E. Moore Rain probably turning to snow flurries late this afternoon or tonight followed by fair weather. Cold wave 1b coming and temperatures will fall below freezing within thirty-six hours. General Conditions The center of the Rocky Mountain storm which is causing the present rain here is moving across the lakes. A cold wave from Medicine Hat, Canada, will arrive before midnight causing a decided fall In the temperature. Snow Is from one to six Inches deep In Montana hut it is not probable that it will be moro than squa!l3 in Indiana.

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::. K1KTG VICTOR. ROME. Oct. 18. Thnne-fc THwo- m. tor is the onlj Entente ruler who has constantly lived at the front among his soldiers, yet very little Is said and printed about him. His name never appears in the General Staff communiques. The war correspondents never mention the Klne'n except when allowed to describe ofnciai ceremonies conner.tpri with tha visit at the Italian front of other Entente rulers or high Entente officials. Very few civilians have seen the King aunng nis brief visits to the capital, when his presence here is required by Important Cabinet meetines. th Km, is never seen in the streets, as in for mer years. WEED TO DO T WORK IN FRANCE Herbert S. Weed, 303 North Elev enth street, former secretary of the tucnmona young Men's Christian association, has been appointed to do Y. M. C. A. welfare work with the American troops In France. He will leave Richmond early In November. ' ... . ,v ... .: - Mr. Weed' has been: In Y"" C. A. work for the last nineteen years having begun as assistant secretary of the association in his homo c.itv stun. ford, Conn.c He served in Richmond irom iiu to 1918 and has been agent for the Equitable. Life Assurance society here since that time. He was also lay pastor of the Earlham Heights Presbyterian church. Mr Weed will be a secretary of the National War Work Council of the Young Men's Chrietlan Association. He also has a son, Robert Weed, in the regular army. Child Prisoners Suffer From Lack of Food in Germany AN ATLANTIC PORT, Oct. 18. A thirteen year old boy, Lucien Suslere, who has spent three years In a German prison camp, arrived here today on a British steamship on his way to his home near St. Louis. The Germans-do . not treat the French children captives unkindly, he said, but there is not enough to eat and they are suffering for lack of food. Lucien showed the effects of having lived on. curtailed diet. FIRST CASUALTY ON MAN-O'-WAR WASHINGTON, Oct 18. The story of the first casualties of the war aboad an American warship, was told today in the published announcement by the navy department of the torpedoing of a United States destroyer in the European war zone by an enemy submarine. The casualties were one killed and five slightly Injured. The destroyer made port in a dam aged condition. The extent of her damages however, were not revealed for military reasons. The dead man Is Osmond Ingram, gunners mate. He was blown over board by the explosion and his body was not recovered. News of the incident, which occur red Oct. 16, was flashed to the navy department las night by vice Admiral Sims. - A detailed report from Admiral Sims is being awaited by the department Miners Change Mind After Deciding to Go Back to Work TERRE HAUTE, Oct. 18. AfteT voting at a mass meeting last night to return to work today, miners employed in the Clinton leld, Glendale, and other local mines, changed their minds this morning and the local situation is said to be graver than ever. Two new strikes nre reported at Sullivan, 'due to local conditions.

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Sugar Prices Expected to Drop

When County Richmond and Wayne county soon will be on. a beet sugar diet. Beginning the first of November, Richmond grocery Jobbers have been notified by the Federal Food Control board, the middle west will be- deprived of cane sugar until the new , Cuban sugar crop" Is marketed, some time after the first of next year. This section of the country 1b to be sup plied, in the interim, with beet sugar from the producers in Michigan and northern Indiana and northern Ohio. - Thls means that when the present supplies of soft, powdered and loaf sugars in Wayne county are exhaust ed there will be none of these varieties available until the next crop of cane sugar Is harvested, because only granulated sugar is made of beets. Must Have Licenses. Richmond jobbers have also been notified that on and after November 1 they will be obliged to procure federal licenses to, handle sugar. Each license will be issued by the Food Control Commission for a period of one month. To secure a renewal of license the Jobber must submit a complete list of hiB sales and the prices obtained during the period of his expired license. If the commission is satisfied, after examination of such report, that the Jobber has made his sales at author ized rates and has made no effort to hoard his stock, than his license Is re newed for another thirty days. Under the ruling of the Food Con trol Commission the jobber will be able to secure beet sugar from the producer at a price one and a half cents a pound less than recent prevail ing prices and the jobber is permitted to sell his sugar at a profit of a quarter a cent per pound. Price Is Unregulated. No price regulations for the retail ers are attempted. The Commission anticipates that by regulating prices France Must Come and Take Alsace, Says Kaiser Will LONDON, Oct. 18. The correspondent of the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger, who was permitted to travel on the train which took Emperor William to the Balkans and to lunch In the restaurant car with the emperor, says a dispatch to the Daily Chronicle from Amsterdam, send the following to the newspapers. "His majesty sat down to the table with the observation that he had read Prof essor ' Palnjeve's first speech as French premier. - '4 f y',iJfWt'iW.' "So M,Painleve wants Alsace-Lorraine, does he? exclaimed the emperor. 'Good but he must come and take it." .- The emperor then treated the company to a eulogy of the late King Carl and Queen Elizabeth of Rumania, whose good work, he said, has been undone in a few minutes by the hunger fqr gold and power of certain agitat ors." "At the conclusion of lunch which consisted of meat and fish courses, and bread and cheese, about the same as might be served in a middle class household, the kaiser said: It is unworthy of any German to live well when even the best people go without things. What we have of foodstuffs is common property which by just di vision is sufficient to keep us alive for an unlimited time and which permits us to await final victory with calm Who takes more than his share sins against those who serve the fatherland.'" Oil If CD DDAIQCQ uniii.il nniOLO nFFFfJxF RflflRn, Wkl bllVh WVI1IIU INDIANAPOLIS, Oct 18. Emphasizing the importance of the defense organizations, indorsing their work and appealing to the people for a greater support, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, addressed the following letter to the Indiana State Council of Defense which was received today: Will H. Hays, Chairman, State Council of Defense, Indianapolis, Ind. My Dear Mr. Hays: The Council of National Defense and State Councils with their local safety organizations represent with the governors of the several states and the organizations administering the draft law the normal lines of communication and co-operation between the National Administration and the people. In this time of emergency no one conversant with the conditions and the difficulties here can be other than wholeheartedly appreciative of the continuing counsel and ungrudlng efforts that have come to the common cause through all of these agencies and no one word of mine which can Mistain or which can help to sustain or strengthen the national, state and local institutions of the councils of defense will remain unspoken. The work of the Indiana Council has been particularly gratifying. More power to you. With best wishes, cordially yours, NEWTON D. BAKER, Secretary of War and Chairman Council of National Defense. In this connection the State Council authorized the following: The Indiana State Council la giving the letter to the, public in the hope that it will serve to stimulate inerest in the work he council has underaken and arouse a more popular interest in the measure which the president, the council of national defense, the war department and the state government deem essential to winning the war.

Goes on Beet Diet

for the jobbers and producers, competition will regulate the retail price. Richmond jobbers anticipate that there will be a drop in the retail price of beet sugar after the first of next month. The beet sugar manufacturing concerns will begin their making of sugar from the new beet crop in about two weeks and. it is said, there has been a satisfactory beet crop. Prices on cane sugar have been es tablished for producers and jobbers, to become operative November l, and for that reason local jobbers are making no effort to replenish their stocks of soft, powdered and loaf sugars, for the price to be established for the same will be lower than prevailing prices, and orders sent in now for such sugars could not be delivered in Richmond much earlier than the first of next month. NAVAL CLASH ON IN GULF PETROGRAD, Oct 18. A naval battle has occurred in the Gulf of Riga between Russian and German battleships, the war office announces. The Russian battleship Slava, was sunk. The Slava sank as the result of being hit several times beneath the water line. Nearly all the members of the crew were saved by Russian torpedo boats. BRITISH INFANTRY HELD IN TRENCHES WHILE GUNS WORK Field Marshal Haig is still keeping1 his infantry in their trenches on the Flanders front while the heavy bombardment of the German lines con-, tlnues. His report today throws little additional light on the probabilities of an early resumption of the British attack, mentioning merely the points on the front where the German's reciprocal fire. waB smartest and reporting a successful British raid on the Arras battle front near Gaverelle. There has been Infantry fighting on the French front, although apparently not on a large scale. The Germans attacked northeast of Verdun near Bezonvaux but met with a repulse. The artillery battle is still spirited In much of the Verdun area and on the Alsne front along the Chemin-des-Dames. Air fighting between French and German machines has been unusually intense in the last few days and today's Paris statements , Indicate little let ud in the marked, activity, on both tsiaes. " S6--fwr IcthlGr weeBr 'Sd Geifman iuaunmes nave oeenunven -aowa uj the French, Bomd of them destroyed and some of them badly damaged. The Germans have picked the town Of Nancy as the particular objectives of the latest bombing raid. They visited it again in force last evening, 30 machines taking part on the attack. Some casualties among the civilian population are reported. French air men carried out numerous raids on enemy objectives. GERMANS TAKE 10,000 IN FIGHTING ON OESEL ISLAND BERLIN, via. London, Oct 18. The Germans have taken 10,000 prisoners and 50 guns on Oesel island, the war office reports. The Russian naval forces in the Gulf of Riga have been trapped by the Germans, according to the announcements. It says German naval units are lying in the eastern portion of Kassar bay north of Oesel Island, and are barring the passage westward. Domestic Science Club Orders Bond The Domestic Science association is he first Woman's club of Richmond to purchase Liberty Bonds. -At the meeting of the association held Wednesday afternoon at the Westcott plans were made for the purchase of $300 worth of bonds. A report- of the day nursery was made showing during the last year 2,000 children were received. There have been many donations including 18 bushels of potatoes. Because of the increased attendance at the nursery other donations will be appreciated at any time. The president Mrs. Elbert W. Shirk, was made delegate to the State Federation of Women's clubs which convenes In Fort Wayne next week. COLD WAVE WILL STRIKE TONIGHT - A cold wave which will send the temperature below the freezing mark ia predicted to strike Richmond and Wayne county before midnight Thursday. ' : , - Rain is scheduled to strike first to be followed by snow flurries. The temperature may drop as low as twentyfour degrees according to the weather forecaster. Snow squalls here and in other parts of Indiana are not expected to equal those in Montana, however, where the snow is from one to six inches deep. . C. S. OFFICERS NOT PERMITED TO IMITATE BRITISH OFFICERS WASHINGTON, Oct 18. The "Sam Brown" leather belt with its strap over the shoulder, worn by some American officers In imitation of the British and French, officially has been put under the ban by the war department

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MISSOOROTHY CROSBY CHICAGO, Oct. 18,,-Dorothy Crosby, who tried to leap to death Sunday night from the second story apartment of Hugh Tilllngberg at the Bismarck Hotel toft her story to Judge Uhlir in ; the Morals Court yesterday. '. ' ; '- - , .' ' ' .. ; . . "I will "aslc First Deputy West brboTr' and'Secbnd Ueputy Furfkhouser tomorrow to tftake a sweeping Investigation of some of Chicago's leading dancing places which" Miss Crosby named," the judge declared. "If her story is true I will ask revocation of licenses at once. "Her charges are startling. They indicate that these so-called dance rooms are places of meeting for rich and immoral young men, where women are the pawns in the game. Among the places Miss Crosby mentioned were Colosimo's and Freiberg's. State's Attorney Hoyne began an investigation of his own. Miss Crosby, whom the police pulled from a window ledge, said that "Judge Adams", introduced her to the "Bluebird Room." She Identified "Judge Adams" as Joe Bertsche, brother of Barney Bertsche, who was named in the graft investigation which sent former Chief of Detectives John J. Hal pin to the penitentiary.

TEBBETTS QUITS POST AS MISSION BOARD SECRETARY

George H. Moore, chairman of the American Friends Board of Foreign Missions, In addressing the Five Years Meeting at the forenoon session announced the retirement of Rev. Charles E. Tebbetts ' as general secretary of that board. ' Moore also announced that Tebbetts would be succeeded by Ross Hadley of Richmond, who has been assistant secretary for the last two years. Rev. Mr. Tebbetts has resided at Whittier, Calf .j for the last year and as the general offices of the foreign mission board are located in Richmond he has found that it would be impossible for him to continue to devote his entire time and attention to the work. Christ Only Hope. One of the most interesting addresses the meeting has yet heard was delivered by Rev. Mr. Tebbetts Wednesday morning. He discussed the war and its causes and declared that no other hope now remained to the world except Jesus Christ. The' world war is not accidental, in the opinion of Rev. Mr. Tebbetts. It is the natural result of the evolution ol the most complex civilization in the world's history, the speaker declared. He said a complete missionary propaganda both abroad and In this country was the one vital need in this most critical period of world history. National and racial antagonisms and commercial expansion were the three principal causesof the world war. Rev. Mr. Tebbetts declared. Change In Lifetime. He pointed out that a complete Industrial revolution has taken place in Guilty Clubs Must Buy Liberty Bonds FREEPORT. 111., Oct. l?. Federal Judge . A. L. Sanborn imposed novel sentences upon the Germania club and Owls ' Nest of Rockford today when the organizations pleaded guilty to selling liquor without paying a government tax.In addition to fining the Owls Nest $100, Judge Sanborn ordered it to purchase $200 in Liberty Bonds. The Germania club must buy 500 worth of Liberty Bonds and pay a $100 fine. '

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the world during the lifetime of that veneraDie member of the Society of Friends, Timothy Nicholson, and. h asserted, that world has now passed into Its most complicated civilization. With industrial revolution has come commercial expansion, which in turn developed more Intense racial and no tional antagonisms and class hatred. since. lwo all the great inventions which have revolutionized civilization have been developed, and there has been a steady increase in the world's population. Industrial centers have recruited from the scattered communi ties for trada expansion purposes. A strike was unknown in Timothy Nicholson's boyhood. Today they are of common occurrence," said the speaker. He also pointed out how modern inventions have broken down century-old racial barriers and have brought the nations of the world close together so close that the Chinese laborer working for five cents a day is Continued On Page Twelve. ROSS TO HAVE WORK IN FRANCE Henry C. Ross, of Boston, Mass., after a brief visit with his mother, Mrs. William H. Ross, of North Tenth street, left Thursday morning for the east and will sail shortly for France as secretary to Bishop John N. McCormlck of Grand Rapids. Bishop McCormick goes as the representative of the War Commission of the Episcopal church and will spend several months in France and England studying war conditions. . DOUBLE WEDDING OF BROTHERS SOLEMNIZED A double wedding was solemnized today at 1 o'clock when Homer Hibler of Ft Wayne and Miss Louise Bearmaan of this city and Forrest-Hibler of Ft. Wayne and Miss Emma Finze vere married. The cererdony was performed by Rev. H. L. Overdeer. Both couples will reside in Ft. Wayne where the . two brothers are machinists'." ' ;

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PROGRESS ON FLEETS OF FOE ALLIES German Soldiers Refuse to goi Aboard U-boat Austrians : Fight Teutonic Sailors at : Pola. BASE TO BE MOVED AMSTERDAM, Oct. 18 A mutiny among German soldiers, at the Belgian port of Ostend, who refused to go on board submarines Is reported by the Belgisch Dadblad. The newspaper says an officer was thrown Into the sea and that 30 mutineers were removed In haudcuffB to Bruges. WASHINGTON. Oct. 18. Official diplomatic dispatches received here today report mutinies to be in progress in the Austrian navy and clashes be tween Austrian sailors and crews of the German submarine fleet at Pola in which officers on both sides have been killed and which resulted In decision to change the base of the German flotilla. Despite the attempt of the Austrian admiralty to suppress the news, it reached here today coming by way of Berne. The Austrian crews are said to have revolted under ill treatment of officers and bad food while the clash with the German submarine crews was caused by the overbearing conduct of the latter. HALF OF LOAN QUOTA IS IN WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. Approximately $1,50U,000 or one-half of the

minimum quota of the Liberty Loan""""! has been subscribed today, treasury

officials, estimated on the face- ol-u-" official report from v the twelve federal reserve banks.

BAKER SPURS CLEVELAND TO BUY HALF OF QUOTA CLEVELAND, Oct. 1'8. Under the renewed impotus given the campaign by several stirring addresses of secretary of War Newton Baker In support of the Liberty Loan, Cleveland's subscriptions were increased by $6,000.000 during the 24 hours ending at noon today, bringing the total to $29,313,200, nearly half of the minimum quota of $60,000,000. The fourth federal reserve district has now reeached a total of $105,000,000, more than one-third of the minimum quota of $300,000,000. Pig Brings $2,200 at Sale, Setting Record For Wayne What is believed to be the highest price ever paid for one pig In Wayne county was paid for a six months old Poland China pig at the semi-annual stock eale on the Jones and Pike farm north of Centervllle Wednesday. One pig was sold at auction at the sale for $2,200 and a litter of six pigs sold for $5,430. Fifty head of hogs were sold at the sale and more than $17,000 was paid loi the stock. One pig 6ix weeks old was sold at auction for $150. The highest price ever paid for a hog at the farm was $6,600 paid for a two year old boar, sold several weeks ago. Banker Worked While Seriously Injured LIBERTY. Ind., Oct 18. William Morris, president of the Union County National bank, worked for two months i with a dislocated shoulder and a brok- -en shoulder bone. ' He was Injured when he fell Into a cellar In a Richmond fish market. At tending physicians thought he would soon recover and that no bones had -been broken. Morris was continually troubled with the injuries and went to Cincinnati where physicians discovered the broken bones. He was operated on in a Cincinnati hospital and it is believed will recover, although his right arm may be rendered helpless. CHRISTMAS TREE CROP IS SHORT There will be few Christmas trees in Richmond this year. Old Mr. War has helped to frighten away another little sentiment which1 make life worth while, . " The dearth of pine trees Is said by, dealers to be due to two reasons. .The first is that fires In the northwest have laid waste a vast area of promising trees and the second Is that tonnage cannot be diverted to bringing trees from Norway and Sweden,"..