Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 305, 3 November 1917 — Page 1

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Minister Reported To Uphold Members of His Congregation Who Won't Agree To Help Win War. OFFICIALS MAY ACT At the headquarters of the Wayne County Council of Defense are hundreds ot food conservation pledge cards. The big majority of them have been, properly filled out by patriotic men and women. There Is quite a stack of these cards, however, on which the word "refused" Is written. That word "refused" indicates that the people whose names are inscribed on these cards have refused to aid their country in its war by guarding against waste of food supplies. On the card which one east end woman refused to sign a food conservation solicitor has written the following report: "Refused. Did not want to have anything to do with Wilson, nor anyone who upheld him." Mother of Officer, Too. Another one of the refused cards bears the name of a woman who is the mother of an officer serving in the United States army. "Husband refused to let her sign," reads the solicitor's report on another card. A school teacher is included in the "refused" list. There is a report concerning a minister who upholds those members of his congregation who refuse to pledge themselves to avoid wasting food supplies. The minister referred to informed a member of the County Council of Defense that he believed those people who declined to pledge themselves to food conservation were acting within their rights. Any attempt at compulsory enforcement of food conservation would be "un-American," this minister, who is a pastor of a south end church, is quoted as having said. It was anounced Saturday that a woman residing in the county who had been appointed to distribute pledge cards In her district returned all of them unsigned because she resented the action of the government In estab lishing a price for wheat which was lower than what the market was bringing. Work Is Progressing. Incomplete reports have1 been received concerning the progress of the w ork of securing food conservation pledges in Wayne county outside of Richmond, but, judging from such reports as have been received, the work in these districts is progressing quite satisractonly. Several members of the Friends church, it is stated, while signing the cards which have been sent to them have drawn ink lines through the words pledging co-operation in food conservation. The pledge on the conservation cards reads as follows: "To the Food Administrator, Washington. D. C: I am glad to join you fh the service of food conservation for our nation, and I hereby accept mem--bershlp in the United States Food Administration, pledging myself to carry out the directions and advice of the food administrator, in my home, insofar as my circumstances permit." Those Friends who have refused to pledge themselves to food conservation have made their cards read: "I am glad to carry out the directions and advice of the Food Administrator in my home, insofar as my circumstances permit." Cuts Telephone Call Short. The wife of a former public official refused to sign a .food pledge card and cut short a telephone conversation when a member of the defense council was urging her to reconsider her action. "I am glad to say that the big majority of people in Richmond have shown no hesitancy in signing food conservation pledges, but there are a number of people who have refused to pledge themselves," 6ald Miss M. E. B. CulContinued On Page Ten. THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and slightly warmer in south portion. Sunday fair and warmer. Today's Temperature Noon . . 52 Yesterday Maximum .' 40 Minimum 20 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair tonight and Sunday. Mild wave Sunday. General Conditions Weather is now fair over most of the United States east of the Rockies. Temperatures have risen through the west and north. Seventy-six degrees at North Plattem, Neb., where the temperature was below 2ero last week and 66 degrees at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. An extensive storm has mp.de its appearance on the North Pacific coast where rain and high winds are occuring. Good weather will continue throughout Indiana during the next 26 to 3 hours. Frost yesterday at New

Company is Made Up of Rschmond Men; Only Three in Unit The 56th company, 14th Battalion, at Camp Taylor Is composed entirely of Richmond men. There are, however, only three Richmond men in the company. And all three Richmond men are non-commissioned officers.

John Hafner is a sergeant in the company; Jim Palsgrove is supply sergeant and Lawrence, "Shorty" Jessup is mess sergeant. On busy days, according to information from the camp, Hafner is out supplies to Jessup and Hafner, while drilling himself, Jim is handing out Shorty is In the mess quarters prepar ing meals for Jim and Hafner. TIS NAVAL CLASH COPENHAGEN,. Nov. 3. A German commerce raider, the Crocodile, and five armed trawlers have been sunk by British destroyers in Scandinavian waters. LONDON, Nov. 3. The admiralty announces that certain British forces have been engaged in the Cattegat, and arm of the North Sea between Sweden and Denmark and that prisoners are being brought in. No further information is yet at hand. Thirty men on the German auxiliary cruiser Marie, of Flensburg, were killed in an engagement with British destroyers, according to an exchange telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen. Service Flag at P. 0. Has Two Stars There's a service flag just above the window near the post office money order department. In the flag are two stars for employes of the Richmond office who are now in the army. One of the stars is for Ernest McLaln, a clerk, and the other is for Paul Druley, a carrier. FT. WAYNE MAN IS LOST AT SEA WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. Twelve men, all the crew of a picket boat of the Battleship Michigan, were lost when their little craft foundered in home waters. Among the lost as announced by the navy department is Joseph J. Schultz, of Ft. Wayne, Ind. In a brief announcement of the disaster today the navy department gave ; no details of place. Presumably the '.a.-t little picket boat was on patrol j duty and foundered in a heavy sea or j met with some accident. Three bodies have been found and inasmuch as all the others are missing the navy department assumes that all were lost. SLAVS AGAIN FRATERNIZING PETROGRAD, Nov. 3. Russian troops In the Vishneff sector yesterday fraternized with the German troops, it was announced today by the Russian war office. Vishneff Is a town on the Russian front southeast of Vilna, and north of the Niemen river. LEAVES HOME TO DODGE SERVICE EATON, O., Nov. 3 To avoid military service, Edward Landis, of Lewisburg, has left his home, it has been reported to the local draft board. The matter has been taken up and referred to the adjutant general and efforts to locate him will be pi'ide. This Is the first case of this nature coming to the attention of the local board. .Landis had been discharged, but the board reversed its action. WILL USE MICHAELIS COPENHAGEN, Nov. The Gfr- j man emperor in b rescript to Dr. i Michaelis, the retiring chancellor, expresses a desire to employ him further in the imperial service. It is understood that Dr. Michaelis will take over another high imperial j office for which his qualifications are j admitted generally. . ! Berlin correspondents report that Count Von Hertling has succeeded in establishing satisfaction in working arrangements with all parties except the socialists and the conservatives. ROBERT KEEVER CHARGED WITH HITTING ABE LEE Robert Keever has been arrested on a charge of assault and battery on Abe Lee. It is charged that the trouble occurred In a North Eighth, street livery barn. It is said that Keever struck Lee on the head with a hammer but did not seriously injure him. No j cause for the trouble is assigned. I Keever will br arraigned in city court j

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IIP BRIDGES IN RETREAT Germans Fall Back While On 13-Mile Front. Before the French Force. Blowing up the bridges as they re treated, the Germans on the Aisne front in northern France, have given up their precarious hold on the Chem-in-Des-Dames and retired to the north bank of the Aisette river along a front of approximately 13 miles, closely fol lowed by the French. This retirement by the German ! crown prince has been in prospect since the recent successful drive by General Petain southwest of Laon, which carried the French to the banks of the Oise-Aisne canal at the westerly end of the Chemin-Des-Dames and gave them artillery domination of a large section of the German line to the east. Distance of Mile. As appears from today's Paris official statement the Germans are now on the north" bank of the Ailette, a maximum distance of a mile back of their previous position while the French have moved up to the south bank of the river. There is no hint in the official reports from either side as to whether a further retirement by the crown prince is in prospect. He was virtually compelled by the superiority of the new French positions, to fall back at least as far as he has. The probabilities seem that he will take up a position in the heights just north of the Ailette, which command the approaches to Laon keystone of the German western front at its southwesterly bend. Get to Raider. British destroyers have put an end to the career of a German commerce raider in an arm of the North sea. Copenhagen dispatches today report the sinking of the raider, the Crocodile, a new vessel of about 1,000 tons, and with a crew of 100 men, together with five armed German trawlers. The engagement took place in the Skagerak between the Norwegian and Danish coasts. f A British admiralty announcement tells of an engagement in the Cattegat, the adjoining arm of the North Sea between Sweden and Denmark. It seems probable that the same encounter as that reported in the Copenhagen dispatches Is alluded to. War Takes Youths, D. Cupid the Old War is causing a shortage of marriageable young men, but Dan Cupid is still doing a thriving business according to County Clerk Kelly. For the second time this week a marriage license was issued Saturday morning to a couple that had passed the half century mark. David Hoover, 63 years old, was given a license to marry Mary Holler, 56 years old, by the county clerk Saturday. Earlier in the week, Isaac Newby, 72 years old, was given a license to marry a woman that was 66 years old. Rain- Hinders Work of U. S. Artillery WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Nov. 3. (By The Associated Press.) A heavy downpour of rain, beginning at noon Friday, hind ered the activity of the artillery in the portion of the French front where the American battalions are on duty, and converted the back areas into seas of mud. No official communication was Issued on Friday, but there has been nothing in the reports to headquarters to suggest any change in the normal situation along the American sector. General . Pershing returned yesterday from a visit to the British front. A party of the American Major Generals has inspected the billets of the first contingent. J20 Students Made Homeless by Fire VALPARAISO. Nov. 3. Two hundred and twenty men and women students were made temporarily homeless and lost the greater portion of their personal effects early Friday night when fire, believed to have been of incendiary origin, destroyed Carboy hall, one of the oldest of the university dormitories. The fire originated in the storage room and spread with such rapidity that several roomers had thrilling escapes, but all escaped uninjured. The dormitory was of frame and three stories hi?h ar.d insured for $12,000 which only partly covers the loss. 3C0 SALOONS CLOSE NEW YORK, Nov. 3. Nearly 300 saloons in three New Jersey towns Hoboken, Jersey City and Weehawken, closed tht-ir doors at midnight last night to stay closed for the duration of the war, following an ordr by A. J. Steelman, assistant United States district attorney. Urder the mandate, Hoboken lost 270 of its 338 saloons. Soon after the United States entered the war. when the war department took over many of the Hoboken piers, military officials endeavored to obtain an order from Washington to have the saloons in the territory closed. Protests by Hoboken officials and the saloonkeepers served to postpone the closing order until vncterday.

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Big Italian guns drawn up on the western bank of the Tagliamento river. Map shows (1) extent of AustroGerman advance, (2) the new Italian defensive line on the Tagliamento, and (3) the Plave river, to which line the Italians may soon retire. While the strong Italian defense line on the western bank of the Tagliamento river is temporarily holding the Austro-Gennan armies in check, it is stated in Rome dispatches that General Cadorna may soon retire to the western bank of the Piave river for the great battle that is impending. The Piave river is thirty miles west of the Tagliamento. On this line, powerfully, fortified and immeasurably more favorable to a permanent defensive, military experts believe the Italian armies would be able to cope both the Teuton forces now pursuing them and with any possible thrust from the Trentino. It is considered likely that Mackensen's second effort that against the Tagliamento line will be like the first, a flanking movement for which the Italian defense of the new line is not entirely prepared. SUNDAY SCHOOLS SET STAKES AT 30,000 PUPILS Wayne County Workers Adopt Slogan For "Go-To-Sunday-School" Day. "Thirty thousand Wayne cocnty people in Sunday school Sunday" is the slogan of Wayne county Sunday school workers for "Go To Sunday School Day," which will be observed in Richmond and Wayne county Sunday. Members of the Wayne county association have been busy for the last two weeks advertising the day and posters are being displayed on the fronts of street cars and on billboards. Small cards have also been distributed throughout the city urging people to attend Sunday school, Sunday morning. All of the churches of the county are planning rally day services and special programs have been arranged for the Sunday schools of many churches. The day is being observed as a part of the world wide movement to instill interest in Sunday schools and Sunday school work. In connection with the observance of "Go to Sunday School Day" churches of the county will also observe "World Temperance Sunday" in their services. A full record of the attendance in each church in the county will be made Sunday afternoon, according to the plans of the association. Superintendents of every Sunday school in the county have been instructed to telephone to the county secretary of the association giving the secretary the complete attendance report of their schools. The attendance mark for Sunday schools in the county has been set at 30,000 and every person in the county is urged to attend. BERLIN, Via London, Nov. 3. The capture of American soldiers by a German reconnoitering party is announced by th? war office. The statement, says that on the Rhine-Marne c-iral, as a resv.lt of a reconnoitering thrust, American soldiers were brought in. Food Shortage in France is Shown F. M. Clevenger of Centerville, has received a letter from a Belgian friend, Emory Joyce, in which he shows the extent of the food shortage in France. The letter states that wheat now sells for $3.00 a bushel; eggs sell at the rate of $1.95 for twenty-five; butter brings' '$1.00 per pound and milk sells for 10 cents a pint.

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NEW TYPE BOAT WITHOUT CREW, STEERED FROM SHORE MAY HAVE BEEN LAUNCHED LONDON, Nov. 3 An attack was made today on British vessels patrolling the Belgian coast by an electrically-controlled high speed, boat. The boat was destroyed. J The "term "electrically-controlled" may mean that the boat Is of a new type without crew, and controlled from the shore by an electric device. Information Route to Kaiser is Found, U. S. Agents Believe EL PASO, Texas, Nov. 3. In the arrest of Ernest LohendorfC, government agents believe they have discovered an "underground" route by which information has been transmitted between the United States and Mexico City for relay to Germany. Cambridge Militia to he Mustered in State Service Soon The Cambridge City militia company will be mustered Into state service within the next week, according to Frank Benn, who organized the company. Tha company will be the first in Wayne county and the second in the state service according to information received by Organizer Benn from H. B. Smith, state adjutant-general. The men will be equipped with uniforms and rifles as soon as they sign the new muster roles. The men will be held for state service only. The Richmond company of militiamen may soon be mustered into state service also, Benn said. Officers of the Cambridge City company are Captain Chapman, First Lieutenant Suier and Second Lieutenant Carlson. Temperature For Year Set New Mark Richmond and Wayne county has experienced colder weather since the first of the year, than was ever experienced during the last forty-seven years, according to Weathec Fore caster Moore. de - greos iover man an omr rfccrti; so far this veai the weather man said. And it was all caused, he said, by the straying from the straight, and narrow path of British Columbia storms. Ideal November weather is predicted for Sunday, with temperatures hovering around the sixty mark. FIRE UNDER CONTROL NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 3 Special dispatches received heie from Shreveport shortly before noon stated that the fire at Oil City, La., caused only slight damage and that it was under control at 11 a. m. The fire started in a tailor shop, the dispatch stated, and burned several small buildings. No oils were burned and the authorities did not believe it was of incendiary origin.

GERMAN IN SCHOOLS HIT INDIANA FLIS, NOT.r8.-::-Rebtlui tions favorfii& the- repeal of the state law providing for the teaching of German in the elementary schools of the state were adopted unanimously here today at closing session of the Indiana State Teachers' association conference. The resolution also recommended that the public school law be so amended that public, private and parochial schools be required to teach all subjects In English. Another resolution recommended that Spanish and French be placed on the same basis as German and Latin in the requirements for graduation from a commissioned or certified high school of the state. GOAL PRICES AT LIBERTY DOWN TQ $5.50 PER TON LIBERTY, Nov. 3. Coal prices have dropped from $6.50 to $5.50 per ton here, since Gilbert Chapin was appointed fuel director of Union county. According to dealers the price will go still lower and probably down to the $5 mark. While Virginia coal has been used generally here, Indiana coal from the mines in the Terre Haute district is now being generally used and people are satisfied with it. Chapin, the fuel director, is a banker. He was appointed by the state fuel director. 4 EATON GIVES BOYS SEND-OFF EATON, O., Nov. 3. To pay a farewell to twenty-nine selective certified for service at Chillicothe, residents from nearly every section of Preble county assembled here this morning, and when the train pulled out of the Pennsylvania station p. crowd of 500 to 600 was present. Business was suspended a couple hours. Patriotic talks were made by Comimon Pleas Judge Risinger and Father Hy!and of the Church of Visitation. Earl C. Armstrong, of Dayton, for ; merly of w est Alexandria, had the distinction of being named first in command over the detachment. With the arrival at Chillicothe of this detachment Preble county will have 13.8 men in that camp. The quota is 162, new short just 24 men. The increment which left today completes tha third detachment, which should have included 65 men, but which was short 20 because not enough eligibles were at hand when the second bunch of 40 per cent was called. . LIBRARY CLOSED EATON. O., Nov. 3. Because of the lack of coal the city library has been indefinitely closed. Local dealers are without a single pound, and no relief

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REPLIES TO CRITICS OF HIS RECORD Republican Candidate For Mayor Tells of Improvements Made During His Terms In Office. BAV1S IS SCORED 'Dr. W. W. Zimmerman, Republican candidate for mayor, answered bis critics before more than 200 voters in the Odd Fellows' hall. Friday night. Alfred Bavis, Citizens' candidate for mayor, again was flayed for his bung ling business ability and lack of judg ment and foresight. The purchase of the light plant. which cost the taxpayers of the city $212,000 was cited as a glaring In stance, by Byram Robbins, of his poor judgment because long after the plant was actually bought, Bavis, who was instrumental in the purchasing of the plant, and other city officials, includ ing City Attorney Bond, did not know that they had bound the city to the purchase and denied that the planthad been bought at alL Will Devote His Time. Dr. Zimmerman, in his address to the voters, pledged himself, if elected mayor next Tuesday, to give the city the best administration it has ever had; to devote as much time as is necessary to the city's needs ; to appoint competent men, regardless of politics, to fill the places of chief of police, fire chief, city controller, city engineer, and on the board of publio works. "I will do everything in my power to give the city the best that is available and when I go out of office there will be no picking or clawing," he promised. Byram Robbins, in a brief talk, declared that if Alfred Bavis is such a tremendous genius in handling business affairs of the city as to bind the city to the purchase of the light plant tor $212,000 without ever being aware of what he had done, he was 6uch a Iff'bis genius" that he should not be entrusted with the position of mayor of the- city, pf sRichmond.' Attorney Robbins reviewed the things leading up to the purchase of the light plant and told of the star chamber sessions that had been held at that time. Bavis is a scribbler and that's all," he said. Passed At Star-Chamber. An ordinance was prepared by City Attorney Bond and Bavis. which they thought provided for a 120-day option to buy the plant. The ordinance was passed, almost without discussion, at a star chamber session of the council, at which Bavis and City Attorney Bond were present. "As a matter of fact the ordinance provided for an option of 120 days to pay for the light plant. The Richmond Light. Heat and Power company, through its attorneys, insisted that the city was already bound to the purchase of the plant, and it was later decided in court that the city was bound. "And Mr. Bavis, whose every act during the last four years, has been done with an eye on the mayor's office, now wants to be mayor. "If the purchase of the plant was a good thing for the city of Richmond, then Mr. Bavis is to be commended on his happy accident for it was only a clean-cut accident that the plant was bought." Dr. Zimmerman was the last sneaker at the meeting, and reviewed the. Continued On Page Twelve. 155 Indictments Are Returned by Vigo Grand Jury TERRE HAUTE, Nov. 3. The Vigo county grad jury returned 153 indictments late Friday afternoon, naming 154 men and an ignoramus. The Indictments name 147 saloon keepers for having slot machines in their places of business during June and July while Virgil Larison and Dewey Chattin were indicted for first degree murder on four counts. Most of the 147 saloon keepers have faced similar charges either in city court are on indictments returned against them before. Every saloon keeper whose case was dismissed In city court on motion filed by Special Prosecutors O'Mara and Piety, it was said, was indicted today. SCHOOL BOARD HOLDS SILENCE

EATON, O., Nov. 3, No action thus far has been taken by the Dixoa township board of education in the case oi Byron Kuth, a teacher in the centralized schools of that township, whos patriotism is under fire. Uncomplimentary remarks upon th Liberty Loan have been credited ti Kuth and called to the attention oi Prosecuting Attorney Saylor., It is also reported Kuth stated h would not serve in the selective army, even if he had passed the physical examination.