Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 315, 15 November 1917 — Page 1

HM0N1 PALLADIUM VOL. XL1I..NO. 315Svrt.ri,o7Sun-Tele,tram RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1917. SINGLE COPY. 2 CENTS

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TWO-THIRDS OF TERRAIN CAPTURED DY "Y"SOLDIERS Total of $12,816.58 Raised In

First Two Days of Red Triangle Campaign in Richmond. REFUSALS REPORTED The War Fund Army which is now bombarding the city will have "Hit" about 2,000 citizens of Richmond by Friday evening when the campaign closes. There will be thousands who have not been seen, not because they were overlooked but it is impossible for this army of business men to see everybody personally. In order that every citizen will hare an opportunity to give to this important fund, special plans have been made to take care of these on Saturday. Headquarters at the Commercial club rooms will be open to receive subscriptions and better still, the committee has ac;epted the offer of the mothers of oldier boys in the service to aid In securing the money for the welfare of their boys. They readily accepted the plan proposed by the committee, which is as follows: Mothers will be stationed at strategic points on the downtown streets, with subscription blanks and cash registers to receive volunteer subscriptions and cash for this fund. All cash contributions will be rung up in the cash registers and subscriptions with deferred payments v.ill be turned into headquarters for collection. We know the mothers will be glad to ring up your contribution, and in fact it will be a special privilege to offer this to the mothers who have offered their sons to protect our country. The Khakl-clad boys In the service are watching us, shall we add saddness to their hardships by our indifference? Here is an opportunity to express ourselves. Will we do It? JAMES A. CARR, GEORGE E. SEIDEL, H. R. ROBINSON, HOWARD A.5 DILL, FRED J. B ARTEL, Executive Committee. A total of $12,816.58, or two-thirds of the territory in Wayne township has been taken by the two armies of Y. M. C. A. workers, for the benefit of American soldiers. The drive which started Wednesday morning will continue until Saturday night and It is believed the entire territory will be taken. Approximately $5,000 more must be raised in Richmond. At noon Thursday 'the two armies met at luncheon in the Y. M. C. A. building and officers and soldiers reported on the progress being made. About $1,000 Short. The report fell about $1,000 short of the first day's report. Reports showed that a total of 5,873.75 was raised on the second day's drive. - Persons refusing to donate to the cause, who are financially able to contribute, will be reported to the Wayr' County Council of Defense unless" ney have an unusually good reason for not giving. "Its time for every person to show their colors," the officera and soldiers of the two armies say. Several prominent business men of Lichmond. although able to give, have refused because they are "too poor" they say. according to report received at headquarters. One man, who has & son in the army told the workers to let the soldiers shift for themselves." , Butcher Talks Poorly. A certain East Main street butcher, refused to subscribe, although he is able to contribute, and is said to have niade disloyal utterances. Mrs. Paul Comstock, wife of Major Paul Comstock, who is now in Louisville, sent a check for $30 from Louisville. ' Although my temporary home is in Louisville, my real home Is in Richmond and I want my contribution go in with that of my friends," she wrote. Mrs. Comstock praises the work of the Y. M. C. A. in Camp Zachary Taylor, where Major Comstock is stationed. A number of large subscriptions were made Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Shirk sent their check for $500 to headquarters of the armies. Mr. an Mrs. William Dudley Foulke conContinued On Page twelve.

Tale of How American

NEW YORK, Nov. 15. The New York Times Baid : i An evening of candid, serious discusslon of the war kept the largest group , ever gathered at a dinner o the Cana-! dian Club clustered about the tables at the Hotel Biltmore until late last night cheering the term "cohesion," oft applied by the speakers to a program of more intense co-operation among the Allies; listening with close attention -as John R. Rathom o The Providence Journal narrated the whole history of German plots in America and told a fascinating modern detective story of how American newspaper reporters had time and again outwitted the costly and elaborate German Secret Service.

"Rope Cure ' Urged For Traitors by Former Governor

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. Former Governor Samuel M. Ralston, of Indi ana, suggests the "rope cure" for traitors and expresses the opinion that the sooner the authorities administer the cure the better it will be for the country. Mr. Ralston, who is here on business before two of the departments, said today: . "The overwhelming majority of the people of Indiana strongly is support ing our Government's war policy. Indiana, as a state, will make any sacrifices that she may be called upon to make in support of the Federal Administration in so far as the same have to do with the war In which our country is involved. "While this represents the feeling of the people In general, it nevertheless is a regrettable fact that we have some people who prefer to remain silent on the war situation. I think it is pretty generally understood that a man who is not talking in support of our Government really is in sympathy against it. I think the time already is here when persons guilty of treason. should go to the gallows. "There is no half-way ground to take. A man either is for this country or he is against it. If he is for it he is a partiot. Otherwise he is a traitor and should be dealt with accordingly. This country is sending the pick and flower of its young manhood to the trenches, and he who remains at home to fire upon them from the rear deserves no better fate than to swing at the end of a rope." DIPLOMATIC DEAN DIES IN CAPITAL WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 John W. Foster, former minister to China, dean of the American diplomatic corps, and father-in-law of Secretary Lansing, died here today after a long Illness. He at one time was secretary of state. The Immediate cause of the venerable diplomat's death was an asthmatic trouble, although his advanced years and failing health had given his family great concern for more than a year. Funeral services for Mr. Foster will be held here Friday and the burial will be at his old home, Evansville, Ind. TWO INDIANIANS IN CASUALTIES WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. A revised report from General Pershing today on the German raid on American trenches, November 2, put the killed at three, the wounded at eleven and the missing at 11. The first report was three killed, five wounded and 12 missing. In the new list among the wounded appears Private Louis A. Diefer, mother Catherine Diefer lives at Sullivan, Ind., and among missing Private Hoyt D. Decker, nearest relative W. F. Decker, Vincennes, Ind. First Lieutenant William H. McLaughlin i3 added to the list of wounded. Private William P. Grigsby, whose father lives in Indianapolis previously reported a prisoner in the hands of the Germans, is among the wounded also.

Americans Rout Raiding Huns When They Fall Into Ambuscade

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Wednesday, Nov. 14. (By The Associated Press.) A number of American soldiers have been killed or wounded in the recent shelling of the American trenches by the Germans. One shell which dropped into a trench caused several casualties. The American artillery fire has been heavy recently and there is good reason to believe hat it has accounted for a considerable number of the enemy. GERMAN FORCE TWICE N AS LARGE AS AMERICANS American soldiers have carried out a successful ambush of a German party in No-Man's Land on the western front, killing and wounding a number of the enemy, while German shells have caused a number of casualties in the American lines. An American patrol one night recently lay in the mud in wait for an enemy party for which they had arranged an ambuscade. A German de The diners gave rousing pledges of better things in the future to Lieutenant Bruno Roselli of the Italian Army when he frankly accused the Allies in i general of having left Italy too long unsupported and the United States in particular of having sent the Italian Commission away empty-handed whenj ii came iiere ut gguig uuseiusmy ior coal and for steel. Stone Pases Lie A boundary-less America was the theme of other speakers, notably of Melville E. Stone, General Manager of The Associated Press, who paid his respects to "a certain Bolsheviki editor" who, he said, had labored hard to keep the American people from uniting and to whom he passed the direct

HOARDING OF SOGAR CAOSES FAMINE HERE

Farmers and City-Dwellers Lay In Stock By Barrels Cambridge Hit. The sugar supply of Wayne county has practically been exhausted. Over one-half the retail grocery stores in Richmond are wltohut sugar and the three Richmond wholesale grocery stores have no sugar. Cambridge City Is without sugar and a similar condition exists in Boston, Ind. Other Wayne county towns have very little sugar. Hoarding to Blame Hoarding of sugar on the part of a number of householders, both In the towns and in the rural districts, has had much to do with bringing about the county's sugar famine, according to statements by representatives of Richmond jobbing concerns. A large number of farmers, it is stated, have purchased sugar by the barrels in recent woeks, while quite a number of residents of Richmond and the other towns have been busily engaged in purchasing all the sugar that they could obtain. In consequence of this abnormal sugar buying the market supply was rapidly depleted. Although the government encourages the householder who conserves his supply of perishable eatables the rule against the hoarding of such staples as sugar and flour applies the same to individuals as It does to dealers in foodstuffs. Only a few days ago H. E. Barnard, state food director Indianapolis, issued a statement requesting that reports be made to him of all individuals and busines concerns who have been hoarding staple foodstuffs. Out Several Days. "We have ben completely out of sugar for several days," said an officer of a wholesale grocery, Thursday. "We had a carload of beet sugar from California on 'October 20, but up to the present time we have been unable to locate it" Under a recent ruling of the Unit ed States Food Commission this section of the country can use only beet sugar until the new Cuban cane sugar crop is marketed, some time after the first of the year. Regulations of the food control commission also provide that dealers in this section of the country must secure their supplies of beet sugar from the western slope refineries although one of the largest beet sugar manufacturing concerns is located in northern Indiana. This refinery ships its supply to the east, which part of the country also secures cane sugar. Art Lovers Appeal For Italian Relics GENEVA, Nov. 15. The emperor and empress of Austria-Hungary are appealed to by the Journal De Geneve to save Italian art treasure in a petition which it is circulating among art lovers in Switzerland for signatures before forwarding to Vienna. The appeal describes the treasures as the common patrimony of civilized humanity. Damage to them, it says, would cause profound sadness to the whole world and bring unanimous reprobation. tachment of more than twice the size of the American party fell into the trap. The enemy troops were surprised and did not stop to fight, scurrying away with their dead and wounded. The Americans suffered no casualties. Shell Trenches Heaevily. "Artillery firing on the American sector is becoming more active and the Germans have been shelling our trenches heavily. A number of Americans have been killed or wounded, one shell which dropped into a trench, causing several casualties.' American artillerymen also have been belaboring the Germans strongly and it is believed thoir shells have claimed quite a few victims. Austro-German attempts to cross the Piave have been foiled generally by the Italians and the party that crossed at Zenson has not been able to debouch. Several attempts have been made to cross the river between Zenson and the Adriatic, but only in the marshland on the coast, have the Germans been.

Reporters Outwitted Agents of Costly German Secret Service

lie for asserting that this was Eng-1 land's war. Canada, without financial or political obligations, he said, had herself been" among the first to prove that it was a war of civilization, and he begged the Canadians in this country to aid in the task of teaching "this country, not yet awake, that this war, though now 3,000 miles away, will be at their door if the Gernians win." Oscar S. Strauss told of a medal struck by the Germans to commemorate the sinking of the Lnsitania, which was inscribed upon one side with a pretended American motto: "Business over all." He asserted that we will show her that America is ready to dedicate her last dollar and

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Leon Trotzky (insert) haranaguing crowd and Bolshevlkl demonstration in Petrograd.

VILLA FORCE HOLDS TOWN PRESIDIO, Tex., Nov. 13. Francisco Villa's forces today are in possession of the Mexican town of Ojinaga, having captured it last night after a two hours' battle with the Mexican federal troops who finally fled to the American Bide pf the Rio Grande and surrendered to the United States troops In command of Capt. Theodore Barnes. "- - - General Juan Espinosay Cordova, who was in command of the Mexican federal troops said the fighting was hand to hand in the streets of Ojinaga and that many on both sides were killed. The Mexican federal troops who crossed the border and were interned in the Presidio army camp numbered 300. The rest of the Ojinaga garrison, estimated at 200, are missing and are supposed to have been killed or captured. Has 1,000 Followers. Villa troops under command of Martin Lopez are said to have numbered close to 1,000. Mexican history repeated itself last night, as just four years ago, Villa took Ojinaga by assault from the Huerta federals. General Cordova wept as he surrendered his silver-mounted sword and pistol to Capt. Theodore Barnes, and the spirits of the entire Mexican command were broken. Villa was not definitely located although he was reported to have been seen yesterday. The report stated that he was wearing a full beard and was mounted on a big white mule. One of two Americans who operated machine guns for the federals was killed in the battle. The other American disappeared and it is believed he escaped across the Rio Grande. Two assaults were made on Ojinaga yesterday morning by the Villa forces, but they were both repulsed by the garrison defending the town. BANDIT CHIEF ORDERS ONE OF HIS GENERALS SHOT PRESIDIO, Tex., Nov. 15 Report which was current yesterday that Villa had executed Martin Lopez, commanding troops in the Villa attacks on Ojinaga yesterday, were substantiated today. Villa, according to the reports, was angered at Lopez's failure to press home the first attack upon Ojinaga early yesterday -and had ordered him shot. It was estimated today by Mexican Consul Cosine at Bengoechea that more than 200 were killed on both sides. The government forces suffered the heaviest loss because of the. wounded being executed after being left behind. The Mexican commanders claimed to have been short of ammunition, but they brought over the border thousands of rounds. her last man that she may hand down I to her children's children the libera- j tion bequeathed to us by the fathers I of the Republis." j Other speakers who stressed the pa-! triotic note to the intense approval of, their hearers were Major Ian Hay! Beith, soldier and author, and Sir. ueorge Keid, former premier of Australia. Tribute to Reporters. Mr. Rathom's recital began with a tribute to the unflinching honesty and the persistent keenness of the American reporters who had fought the long battle against tremendous odds in the form of an organized and elaborately financed German Secret Service in this country. His hearers seemed

Extremists Rally in Petrograd

Rides Through Richmond on Ox Cart Seventy -Eight Years Ago; Now He Comes in Automobile

William A. Moore, veteran of the i Civil war and 90 years old, who rode through Richmond seventy-eight years ago behind a team of oxen, Wednesday rode into Richmond in an automobile. Mr. Moore was 12 years old, when with his parents, he went through Richmond from Ohio and finally settled in Brazil, Clay county, Ind. Those were the days before travel was by train and the party was slow in moving through Richmond, then only a hamlet. Mr. Moore can't understand how his folks failed to settle here instead of the "hills of Clay county." Although only 12 years old when he first saw Richmond, Mr. Moore, now 90 years old and in good health, remembers his impression? of the town and how he wanted his folks to settle here. He Can't Understand. "I can't understand why we didn't stay in this beautiful country instead of going down in those hills," he said Thursday, when seen at the horns of his son C. R. Michaelree. 1412 North C street, where he is visiting. Mr. Moore at the outbreak of the Civil war, volunteered and was a member of I company, 21st Indiana infantry. After two years of service he was given an honorable discharge when it became necessary to amputate his left leg. "If the young men of these clays would volunteer and go out and shoulder a rifle like the men did at the outbreak of the war, the Germans would soon be whipped," he said. "The Even Shakespeare Wrote of Camouflage NEW YORK, Nov. 15. Camouflage is ages old, Maximilian Toch, advisor to the United States government in the art, told a meeting of artists and architects here last night. "It saw its birth in the- day of the ancients," he said. "You all know how the Greeks captured Troy by the strategy of concealing warriors in the wooden horse," he said. "Shakespeare wrote of camouflage, too, in Macbeth. Confederate soldiers in the Civil War were caraoflaged by their uniforms of grey that blended with the dust of highways, Mr. Toch explained. The navy department engaged Mr. Toch at the outbreak of the war to lessen the visibility of important naval stations. The artist explained that since then he and a staff of fellow workers have been making visible objects as nearly invisible as possible. He said one important center was camouflaged only after sixty experienced men had worked four weeks. amazed at times, and at others they laughed and applauded uproariously as the speaker told how again and again the Teutons had been outplayed at their own game and how again and again official denials of spy revelations had been replaced sooner or later by official confirmation of the disclosures. Time and 8 gain he tried to sit down, but from all came cries for more. The part of his recital that won the greatest applause was the tale of how the Providence Journal got a man into the offices of the Hamburg-American steamship offices in New York City when those offices wre teeming with unneutral activities and were guarded with the utmost cunning the Prussian

These pictures, just received from TT Petrograd, show how the Bolshevik!

seditious doctrines in the capital by the Kerensky government. Kerensky felt that he was not strong enough to suppress anarchistic and pro-German demonstrations.

men now aren't like they were In the Civil war. Now they try to escape carrying a gun." Passes Up "Fancy" Food. Mr. Moore has enjoyed unusual good health he says. He has been ill only once in his life and that was last November. He attributes his condition to eating wholesome foods, Instead of the "fancy" kind most people eat now, and keeping regular hours. "Young people live too fast nowa days. That's why they don't live as long as the people used to. Instead of eating plain wholesome foods they eat the fancy kind, and don't sleep half the time." Mr. Moore has four grand-children and three great grand children. SOCIALISTS TO HIT GLEMENGEAU BULLETIN PARIS, Nov. 15. Former Premier Clemenceau has agreed, to form a new cab'"t. iARIS, Nov. 15 The situation growing out of the resignation of the Painleve ministry is as yet most indefinite. The outstanding fact, which is a new feature of a ministeral crisis, is the grouping of the party of the Left The United Socialists, Socialistic Radicals and Socialistic Republicans. This action was taken on the initiative of the unified socialists with the view to common action in the solution of the crisis. The Figaro says the move is intended as "organization of a barrage Ore against Clemenceau," who is the favorite for the premiership. U-BOATS SINK ONLY ONE SHIP (By Associated Press) Germany's submarine campaign apparently is losing its effectiveness as British losses during the past week were only one ship over 1,600 tons and five under that weight. This was the poorest week the submarines have had since, the beginning of ruthless warfare in February. The lowest previous week was that ending on Nov. 4, when 12 vessels, including eight of more than 1,600 tons, were lost. The best week for the Germans was that fond ling April 22 when 55 vessels 40 of more than 1,600 tons and fifteen of the lesser category were sent down. sleuths could devise. He told how the newspaper sent one of Its young men to Lima. Ohio, and how from there the reporter wrote to the steamship commander saying he was the son of German parents, true to the Fatherland, and therefore wished to send warning that he had learned the Providence Journal was plotting to put a man into the Hamburg-American offices as janitor. . Visit Is Wade. The reporter said he learned of the plot through a "loyal" telegraph operator in Providence, who heard it from a Providence Journal operator. Within a few days the Hamburg-American offices actually were visited by a man who asked for the job as janitor. He

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DEAR RUMOR PETROGRAD IS Report Comes From Finland That Capital Is In Flames Extremist Issues Proclamation. STORIES ARE VARIED BULLETIN LONDON. Nov. 15. Two thousand persons have been killed in -street fighting in Moscow up to noon today, according to reports brought by travelers arriving at the Russo-Swedish frontier, as forwarded In press dispatches from Stockholm. LONDON. Nov. 15. According to press reports from Stockholm travelers who arrived yesterday evening in Haparanda, Sweden, from Finland say rumors are current that Petrograd is in flames. (By Associated Press) Although Petrograd has not been In communication with Nyasted cable station in Finland for several days, reports from Scandinavia persist that Premier Kerensky has gained control of the capital Reports come also from Sweden that the Bolsheviki maintain their hold on Petrograd and are preparing for a stout resistance against the forces of Kerensky and Generals Kornlloff and Kaledines. In Moscow the Bolsheviki apparently have been overpowered, an unofficial report received in Copenhagen, being to the effect that General Kornlloff has taken the Kremlin, where the Extremists were besieged several days ago. Another rumor says that Siberia has announced its independence and proclaimed former Emperor Nicholas as emperor. EXTREMISTS STRONG ENOUGH TO HOLD CAPITAL SAYS CHIEF STOCKHOLD, Wednesday, Nov- 14. Lieut. Col. Mouravieff. commander of the forces defending Petrograd, according to an undated dispatch from Haparanda to the Dagens Myheter, has issued the following proclamation: "Kerensky has circulated a false rumor that the troops in Petrograd have gone over voluntarily to the provisional government The trops of the free Russian people are not retiring and are not surrendering. They only have evacuated Catchina in order to avoid useless bloodshed and ta" e a defensive position nearer Petrograd. The position now is strong enough to resist forces ten times as strong as Kerenskys. Our troops are in the best of spirits. Order and calm prevails in Petrograd. "Beside the cruiser Aurora the war ships Sarga and Svobody, the training ship Afrika and six torpedo boats of the Baltic fleet have arrived from Helsingfors and anchored In the Neva near the Nicholas bridgehead, in the center of Petrograd, whence they can bombard the entire capital. Their crews are made up of Bolshevikis." DQNT NM5TE. THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Partly cloudy tonight. Friday fair. Slight change In temperature. Today's Temperature. Noon 8T Yesterday Maximum 53 Minimum 23 For Richmond and Wayne County, by W. E. Moore Cloudy, followed by clearing weather tonight. Fair Friday. General Conditions Weather. generally fair over the middle west except for foggy conditions over the central states. This fog cloud will clear tonight and will be followed by clear weather. There is no cold weather of consequence within the limits of observation. was taken into the private office and there was grilled by the head of the company's secret service and other officials. He broke down and confessed he came from the newspaper office, and was thrown out without ceremony. .The youth out in Ohio wrote again a few days later, saying that having heard nothing, he wanted to apologize for having alarmed the steamship officials needlessly. With "boyishcandor," he added that he wanted to come to New York to make his fortune, and wondered if the line appreciated his attempt to help the Fatfiei land sufficiently to give him a temporary job. , -.. , '-' -. The Hamburg-American' wired back Continued On Page Ten.l

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