Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 313, 13 November 1917 — Page 1

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WAYNE SECTOR TO BE UNDER FIRE 1 FOUR DAY CANVASS Two Armies of Y. M. C. A. "Soldiers" Are Eager To Get Started On Campaign To Raise $25,000. STARTS WEDNESDAY Two armies of Y. M. C. A. workers, under the command of James A Carr, are mobilized, "in camp" and eagerly awaiting the order to begin the fourday drive, for $25,000 for the welfare of the men in the Red Triangle huts. The order to advance will be given promptly at 9:30 o'clock Wednesday morning by Commander-in-Chief Carr. The army of the selected workers will be commanded by General Dill, and the army of volunteers will be commanded by General Romey. Five companies are In each army. The drive will end Saturday night and it is hoped that it will be more than victorious. Richmond's apportionment of the $25,000 fund to be raised throughout the county is $16,568 but It is hoped that this amount will te over-subscribed. Part of National Drive. The campaign here is part of a nation-wide campaign to raise $35,000,000 for the welfare of soldiers, to safeguard the various training camps that the home ideal in the hearts of the soldiers will not be lost and to provide wholesome recreation for them. The "soldiers" will cover the entire city during the four days. Everyone will have a chance to show he is willing to support the boys in the army. 1 he entire county will also be covered by township workers. The workers will meet in the association building Tuesday night for final instructions. Each day of the campaign the "soldiers" will meet at luncheon in the "Y" building and report to their chiefs. "Cash Register" Day. Saturday will be "cash register" day, according to plans being made by Secretary Albus of the Commercial club, and Charles Thomason. Mothers of soldiers will be asked to take charge of cash registers along Main street, and money donated by pedestrians ...will be rung up. Sub-r"-'"i''.!X.v .'i'1'a" iti also be furnished. I Complete plans have not been v-orked cut however. A large thermometer will be erected on Eighth and Main streets, according to plans, the red liquid showing the progress being made in the campaign. The quota of all counties in the dis trict is $54,000. Henry county's quo- j ta is $10,500; Fayette county's quota! is $6,000; that of Hancock county is j $8,000; and Union county $4,500. The quota of the entire state is $1,000,000. GERMANS TAKE RELIEF SHIP AMSTERDAM, Nov. 13 The Belgian relief steamer, Haelen, from Montreal for Rotterdam, has been taken Into Swlnemuende for undisclosed reasons, according to the Telegraaf. In view of the prevailing danger of famine In the unoccupied district of Belgium, the capture of the Haelen Increases the acuteness of the situation. LONDON, Nov. 13 The Belgian relief commission states that the steamer Haelen was taken Into Swlnemuende for examination, the German government reserving the same right as the British to examine vessels. The commission expects the vessel shortly will be released. THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Cloudy tonight, Wednesday probably fair; slight change in temperature. Today's Temperature. Noon 48 Yesterday Maximum- 43 Minimum 37 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy, but mostly fair tonight and Wednesday. General Conditions The storm over the far south has been causing heavy rains south of the Ohio river and mist and fog over the lake regions. The storm is moving eastward and Is being followed by mostly fair weather. Another storm over the far northwest is causing rain west of the Great Divide. Temperatures will be around freezing or below tonight, but there are no immediate prospects of any severe cold weather.

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Pity the Poor Coal Miner; Some Make Only $75 Weekly BRAZIL, Ind., Nov. 13. The coal miner has come into his own In the matter of wages according to the pay received by several hundred miners In this region last Saturday. The banks had to obtain an extra number of $50 at the request of the operators. The average pay of the miners was $80 for two weeks, while scores made as much as $150 for the same period. The next pay roll will be even larger. Troops Guard Body of Former Monarch HONOLULU, T. H. (Delayed Nov. 12) National guard troops of Hawaii have taken charge of the body of former Queen Liliuokalani because of a threatened Will contest. She died Sunday. Control of the body was demanded by John F. Colburn, who declared the former monarch in a will dated Aug. 29, 1917, appointed him executor of th4 estate, making many changes in the disposition of the property. Believe Jackie Was Enticed to Death CHICAGO, Nov. 13. Detectives today followed various clews in their efforts to discover the murderer of John A. Becker, a bluejacket from the Great Lakes Naval Training station, who was fcund dead in a downtown office building Sunday, with all evidence, pointing to a struggle before he succumbed. A search Is being made for a girl, who, it has been learned was the recipient of several telephone calls from Becker on the night of the tragedy. A clerk in the store where the calls were made has identified the body as that of Becker who in speaking to the girl said: "I have got what I told you I would get for you Meet me at 6:30 at Washington and Jefferson streets." The police in following this clew are working on the theory that Becker was enticed to the building in which he was murdered by a woman'and was followed by a man claiming to be her husband who demanded money, Becker's refusal causing the fight which resulted in his death. Picketers Include Wife of Member of i drift ' Commission WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 Mrs. William Kent of California, wife of a member of the federal tariff board and former representative in congress, was one of a party of thirty-one members of the woman's party held for trial In the police court today on the technical charge of obstructing traffic in front of the white house. Judge Alexander Mullowney of the court, is getting used to the procession of white house pickets and when forty-one of these who had flaunted the banners Saturday, appeared yesterday he found them guilty of traffic obstruction but suspended sentence. Today 31 more were called up as the result of renewed picketing, and 27 of the 31 had been in court before for the same offense. Thanksgiving Dinner Arrives in France (By Associated Press) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Monday, Nov. 12. A large shipment of turkeys, mince meat, cranberries, nuts, raisins, oranges and sweet potatoes for the Thanksgiving dinner of the American soldiers has arrived in France. It will be distributed among the various instruction centers and villages where the troops are billeted. Other shipments will follow. New Jersey Governor Plans War Bonuses For State Workers TRENTON, N. J., Nov. 13. Governor Edge and the state house commission are considering a system of bonuses to be paid for the duration of the war to state employes whose salaries are inadequate to meet the soaring living costs. Since it was feared the lowering of salaries at the end of the war would be difficult under civil service regulations, increases in pay were not considered, it being thought the bonus system would prove more practicable. Richmond Has Three Rainbow Soldiers There are Jhree Richmond boys in the Rainbow division which has arrived safely in France, it became known Tuesday. The third man with the "rainbow" soldiers is Owen R. Webb, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore J. Webb, 130 North Seventh street. He is a corporal In Battery E of the 150th field artillery. Webb was transferred into the battery, at his own request, from D company of the first Indiana infantry after he returned to Fos Benjamin Harrison from the Mexican border.

RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING,

SERVANCE OF MEATLESS DAY GENERAL Only One Restaurant Fails To Comply Markets Report Smaller Sales. Another "meatless" day came to Richmond, Tuesday, and at . noon George McKinley, city food inspector, was able to report a more noticeable general observance of the Hoover meat conservation policy. Practically every hotel and restaurant was visited by Inspector McKinley Tuesday forenoon. With one exception the managers of thesis eating places reported to McKinley they had arranged meatless menus. The one exception was Samuel Arnold, who conducts a restaurant on Main street, between Fourth and Fifth streets. Did Same Last Week. Arnold informed McKinley that he had served meat at breakfast because he had not been able to secure fresh eggs. Last Tuesday, McKinley states Arnold also served meat for breakfast and had also - announced at that time that he had done so because he could not procure fresh eggs. "I have been informed that some of the private boarding houses have not been observing Tuesday of each week as a meatless day. My duties are so numerous that I have not had the opportunity of calling at every public eating place in the citv. and I have talked with only two or three women j who conduct boarding houses. I am sure that they can be brought to understand that the meatless day order applies to them as much as to anyone else," McKinley said. A few saloons have also not been observing each Tuesday as a meatless day. One saioonist who was selling roast beef sandwiches Tuesday morning was questioned by McKinley. He told the inspector he had forgotten that Tuesday was meatless day and assured him that in the future he would strictly comply with the conservation order. Similar pledges have been obtained from the other ealoonists who served meat Tuesday. Foreigner Curses Her A woman who conducts a boarding house complained to McKinley that some of her boarders Insisted on having meat served to them every day. She said that last Tuesday a man who spoke with a pronounced foreign accent cursed her because she served no meat He told her that when he came to America he thought it was a ! "free country." He their told her. he j mieiiaea w pur.cna&ftv jome, smoked. oauoago o.l a. meai marKet ana cook his own dinner. "Some restaurant patrons have also complained over the meatless dav or der, but, restaurant men inform me, I me Dig majority or the people are giving the restaurant owners every encouragement in the observance of the Hoover plan," McKinley says. Jacob Llchtenfels, proprietor of one of the largest retail meat stores in Richmond, informed Inspector McKin . , . - ., ; ley he would be willing to enter in r an agreement with other retail meat! aeaiers 10 ciose an tfie meat stores in ! the city every Tuesday. Lichtenfels also informed; McKinley his sales were reduced each Tuesday over fifty percent, and similar reports have been made by other, retail meat dealers. ' CHURCH IS AFTER EIGHTY MILLIONS Richmond Methodist churches will be called upon to do their share in the raising of an $80,000,000 fund in the United States within the next five years to spread Methodism to all corners of the earth. The campaign for raising the additional money will probably begin the first of next year according to Rev. R. L: Semans, pastor of First Methodist church. How much Richmond and this district will be required to raise has not been decided. The money will be raised for the Boards of Home and Foreign Missions. Thi3 will , mean that the churches will be required to raise $16,000,000 yearly for the next five years, In place of $6,000,000 they have raised in the past. The additional money is necessary to meet conditions arising out of the war, Rev. Mr. Semans said. However, me campaign ior uie raising or mis TTIrtTIAT. mill Vl n n llll Ksfn.n Ann. I tiiuiij, " n mriwic tarnpaigns ior raising money lor tne government and various other forms of government work, he said. GERMANS MAKE EFFORT TO (By Associated Press) ; Powerful efforts are being exerted by the Austro-German invaders in northern Italy to pierce the Italian front in the eastern Trentino by breaking forward to the plains from the Sugana valley outflank the Italian line on the lower Piave, protecting Venice. Berlin's official report today claims some successes for the Teutonic armies In this attempt They took Mont Longara, north east of Asiago, and further to the northeast" made headway between the Sugana and Cismon valleys storming the defensive works In their area. The fighting here obviously Is of a desperate nature and the Italian forces

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NEW YORK, Nov. 13 The Y. M. j the cross on the flags of the CrusadC. A. plant in France today, those itrs of an elder day. As those brave

huts and canteens scattered from Paris, where Mrs. velt, Jr., and Mrs. Theodore RooseVincent Astor are our soldiers with personally servmj tea and cakes when they are back on leave, clear to the lighting line, so close that the Red Triangle huts are hard by . the forests where the tree trunks have been cut off by German shells, has cost to date something like $1,800,000. ' That is. France alone, and takes into no account the far-flung line of the Red Triangle which ex-

tends over the Italian Alps, into Mes- i ons that haul supplies to our soldiers opotamia, along the historic fields of j at the front. the Holy Land or across the Mediter-j But-the stupendous work of caring rahean into the desert sands of for millions of men, men on the BritEgypt. ji?h, the French, the Italian, the RusAnd this is only the beginning; fori sian and on our own battle line, needs as the war advances so must the Red ! the support of those at home. Thus Triangle advance, even as advanced jit is that a campaign, ardently endors

Tumulty Lives and VJashington, The Chicago Tribune prints the fol-1 lowing editorial under the heading "Myth-Making in War Time" : Mr. Tumulty, private secretary to the president, is alive and well in Washington Remarkable, pot to say creepy? , Only the other day he .was arrested as a German bpjV tried, convicted, and shot. Hundred of .perfectly sane Americans believe it. Kerensky delicate, puny, and a T. b slipped out of Petrograd last week. hid no one knew where, and defied detection when, most wanted. Again remarkable! He is Lord Kitchener. Somewhere In France American troops have arrived without the loss of a man. Wonderful! Outward-bound transtinrts lnnrtpil tn the Ernnwnlps with ' " ' ' American troops have been sunk by j the half dozen. People tell this with! a straight face. Early in the war a large Russian army took ship at Archangel, landed on British soil, and crossed Scotland and England by train. That army was seen. There are people in England who still believe that it was seen. Twenty years ago or thereabout a distinguished theologian brought out a book called "The Gospel for an Age of Doubt." It is now gathering dust on a top shelf, for ours is no longer an age of doubt. It can swajlow anything and lick its chops. It can set going the most fantastic rumors that Mr. Tumulty has been shot, that Shoots Girl Mate While in Embrace, Then Kills Self NOBLES VILLB, Ind., Nov. 13 Everett Bell, 29 years old, shot his 17-year-old wife and then killed himself with the same weapon. It was believed today that Mrs. Bell would recover. The couple have been married since last March and have frequently separated. Bell, it is said, went to the home of George Semans, stepfather of Mrs. Bell, where the young couple has been living, and asked his wife to accompany him for a walk. She refused and later went into the coal shed to get a bucket of fuel. While in the shed Bell, it is said. tooK his wife in his arms, and while - -.1 J Z 1 ' . 1 . . . , uuiumg uer wiui nis leit arm drew a revolver and shot her. He then turned the gun on himself the bullet piercing his heart. DESPERATI FLANK IT have shown themselves in a mood of determined resistance. In the Asiago area, last Saturday, for instance, two peaks in the same defensive zone as Mont Longara were captured by the invader but afterwards were retaken by the Italians in resolute counter attacks. Between the Cismon and the upper Piave valleys the Italian line is strengthening out to- virtually an even line for the connecting link between the Piave and Trentino front It is apparently in this . process that the town of Fenzaso, about five miles west of Feltre which was reported Sunday by the Teutons, and an equal distance east of the Sugana, has been given up to the Austro German advance. .

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NOVEMBER 13, 1917.

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canteen in Paris. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., is at the extreme right.

knights went forward at the call of j duty, so have the Y. M. C. A. secre- ! taries, ! angle. the knights of the Red Tri gone tort li, and trom private j and general, from whole man and wounded man, has come the testi mony that war would have been a direr hell without this wonderful benefaction. v "Homes away from home" that has been the motto of the Red Triangle, which is conspicuous on every Y. M. C. A hut and on all the wagis Well in Despite Vild Tales Kerer.sky is Lord Kitchener, that our j irst line trenches in France are manneu oy troops aireaay arownea, inai i the Red Cros3 is an organization of ! grafters, humbugs, and thieves, that j whenever our forces suffer a reverse j Tae war department ' conceals it in ns cneeK uise a . aamasK worm. it begins to appear that the a.ge of doubt, it there ever" was such a thing, released enormous masses of credulity which are now seeking investment on the smallest provocation such, for instance, as the arrival of gossip at fourth hand, moro or less in the stvle ' of "I seen a man that seen a man that j said he seen the devil." Andrew Lang j wrote ' Myths and Myth Makers" and devoted the entire volume to the ancients. It was most unjust. When j it comes to myth making, antinuitv i ho nnthir.., ' ' 1 1 - uvuilUb WU llIUUCllilLV. VILLA EXPECTED TO STRIKE TOWN PRESIDO, Tex., Nov. 13. Francisco Villa is again expected to attack the border town of Ojinaga opposite here, and tonight has been, set by Mexican officials here and in Ojinaga for the attack. Following a conference of his chiefs at Maijoma, 65 miles southeast of Ojinaga yesterday, Villa and his forces were reported to be moving in the general direction of Ojinaga by way of La Mula Pass. This was not confirmed although patrols were sent out late last night from the federal garrison across the river to explore the country as far as La Mula Pass for any signs of the Villa column. Couriers from Villa's main command approached the border last night and held conferences with Villa agents ! from the American side of the river. Mexican officials here believe Villa is in command of tho troops in person and that Nipolito Villa, his brother, is with him. The purpose of the Villa movement into this district now is believed to be two-fold-. One is to obtain ammunition in exchange for silver bullion, seized by Villa and the other, to meet Hipclito and agents of Felix Diaz to consider joining the new revolutionary movement against Carranza and his government. TOUGH ON HIM "Will you sign a pledge to observe each Tuesday as a meatless day?" ... City Food Inspector McKinley put this question to a man who peddles "hot dogs" for a living. The "hot dog" merchant signed the pledge, then burst into tears. "Have I said anything to offend you?" solicitously inquired McKinley. He was told that he had not. "Then why are you crying?" the inspector asked. "Because I have so much hard luck," sobbed the "hot dog" peddler. PRESIDENT RESUMES DUTIES WASHINGTON. Nov. 13. Fresh from a flying trip to Buffalo, to address the opening session of the American feredation of labor, convention, President Wilson resumed his duties at the White House today. On his return trip last night he shook hands with the crowds at several stations but made no speeches to them.

ed by President Wilson, has been started by the national war council of the Y. M. C. A. to raise before November 19 the sum of $35jDOO,000, called for by a budget made by patriotic experts, men who are going to Bee that every penny subscribed is used

! for the purpose for which it Is do nated. General Pershing, the American commander; Sir Douglas Haig, the British commander; General Petain, commanding the French these combine with President Wilson in recognizing the need which the Y. M. C. A. appeal seeks to allieviate. The demand for this fund is great. It calls for about 35 cents from each man, woman and child among the stay-at-homes in America. It means comfort, happiness, strength, morality; a reminder of home and the liberty for which this fight is being waged to the brave soldiers at the front. ROTARY CLUB GETS QUOTA The Richmond Rotary club at Its luncheon Tuesday at the Hotel Westcott raised its quota, $3,300, for the War Relief Campaign- . The amount received at noon Tues day from "the campaign "which started Friday was, $3,522. 45.s" After the luncheon Chairman J. H. Mills asked for Individual pledges; $478.50 being raised in this manner, making a total of $3,000.95. ' The remainder -oi the amount was guaranteed by Chairman Mills and he suggested a committee of ten men visit Connersville and Liberty Tuesday afternoon and ask for more contribi tions. Later a call was made to every man present to subscribe $5 apiece which was responded to by 60 men. Included in the amount raised by noon Tuesday was $76 from Cambridge City, $19 from Winchester and $33 from Fountain City. Secretary Wilson received a telegram from Elwood McGuire and Charles McGuire, who are in Colorado Springs, in which they signified their intention of giving $100. Omar Hollingsworth contributed $50. Mother of Soldier Killed in France Willi Be Given Home EVANSVTLLE, Ind., Nov. 13. More than $1,500 has been raised here to buy a home for Mrs. Alice Gresham Dodd, whose son, James B. Gresham, was one of the first three Americans to be killed on the firing line in France. Gifts have been received from five states. The city will erect a tablet in the front yard of the home' as a memorial to Gresham and a tablet will also be erected there for each Evansville boy who may fall in action. The home will be known as the Gresham memorial home and will be built on a lot donated by the Evansville Real Estate board. Mrs. Dodd will occupy the home, during her life and after her death it will be turned over to the city. . A large flagstaff will be placed In front of the home and Mrs. Dodd will have the privilege of raising the Stars and Stripes in the morning and lowering the flag in the evening in memory of her dead son.

People in Northern Cities in State Warned Against Riots

HAMMOND, Ind,, Nov. 13. Similar conditions exist in the Calumet district, which includes the cities of Hammond, Gary and East Chicago, and environs, which caused the recent riots in East St. Louis according to Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, who with other members of the state board have been investigating conditions here. Dr. Hurty warned the people in the district that a battalion of soldiers could be landed In the district within three hours time and martial law established in the cities. "It means fire, murder and disgrace, all because the local authorities do not have the proper control," he said. "I

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EXTREMISTS HAVE ROUTED THEIR FOES, THEY CLAIM Communication Issued By Commander la Chief of Rebels Says Kerensky and Korniloff Are Defeated. OTHER REPORTS DIFFER LONDON, Not. 13 The complete defeat of Premier Kerensky and General Korniloff is announcedin a Russian communication received here by wireless. The announcement follows: "Yesterday after bitter fighting near Tsarkoe-Selo the revolutionary army completely defeated the counter revolutionary forces ot Kerensky and Korniloff. "In the name of the revolutionary government I order opposition to all enemies of the revolutionary democracy and the taking of all measures necessary to effect the capture of Kerensky. I alBO forbid sirnilax adventures which are endangering the success of the revolution and the triumph of the Revolutionary army. (Signed) Mouravieff, Commander-in-chief of the forces acting against Kerensky." KORNILOFF ENTERS CAPITAL' VICTORIOUSLY, REPORT SAYS STOCKHOLM, Nov. 13. General Korniloff has entered Petrograd where the entire garrison except the sailors went over to his side, according to a Petrograd dispatch to the Social Democrantan under Monday's date. KERENSKY ORDERS ALL UNITS OF ARMY TO QUIT REBEL3 WASHINGTON. Nov. 13. A cablegram received here today from Petrograd via Paris says the Slovo, organ of the Popular Socialists in Russia, publishes a ukase by Kerensky dated from Gatchina, announcing his arrival at the head of loyal troops and ordering all units of the garrison who had Joined the Bolsheviki to return immediately to their duties. PETROGRAD STILL IN HANDS OF REBELS ON SUNDAY PETROGRAD, Monday, Nov?Tt. Petrograd was still in the hands of the Bolsheviki today after desperate street battles on Sunday in which a handful of brave military cadets was killed or captured by Bolsheviki forces upon whom the cadets inflicted considerable losses. Meanwhile the city awaits anxiously the coming of Premier Kerensky who is reported to be nearing Petrograd, but seems to have his headquarters at Gatchina, The new Bolsheviki government, headed by Nikolai Lenine and Leon Trotzky Is having anything but any easy iime in controlling the city as the committee of public safety,' which Includes all the elements opposing them, Is seeking to establish a new socialist government They continue to placard the streets with demands that the Bolsheviki "realize their folly and consent to lay down their arms and await the coming of Kerensky." Most of the ministers of the Kerensky cabinet who were captured after the eight hour battle near the winter palace last Wednesday night have been released from the fortress of St. Peter and St PauL Mr. Terestchenko and A. I. Konovaloff are still behind the prison walls as are the inllltary cadets captured in the battle at the telephone exchange on Sunday. Agents of the committee of public safety have gone to Gatchina in an effort to effect a compromise with Premier Kerensky on an all-socialist government. There are conflicting reports from Moscow and other large cities. The Bolsheviki repore officially that Moscow is still in their hands, although a telegram to the committee of public safety on Sunday said the Kerensky adherents there had driven the Bolsheviki into the Kremlin, where they were besiged. Among the reports heard is one indicating that Lenine and Trotzky are aboard the cruiser Aurora and are directing operations from that place of safety. The scenes on the streets to day were similar to those of la6t Thursday when the people quietly transacted their business as though no bullets had disturbed them. PATROL BOAT FLOATED A PACIFIC PORT. Nov. 13. The United States patrol boat which went ashore last night on the sand flats In the harbor, of this port during a heavy fog was floated a few hours later. The ship was undamaged. believe the military authorities would seize this region and place it under martial law at the first sign of rioL Cabarets attended by whites and blacks of both sexes, the inability of the cities to house the colored colony, which has doubled in the last year, end bad housing and sanitary conditions were the high lights In Dr. Hurty's report, which also told of one two-roomed tenement where a man, his wife and six children live with a half dozen boarders; a cow and geese. A pig was butchered in the kitchen at the time the inspection was made. The report also show how one bed suffices for three men at a time, three shifts a-day. ,