Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 323, 24 November 1917 — Page 1

Uni VI II Mn 27 Palladium Consolidated SUIT TO TEST DRY MEASURE EXPECTED BY BOTH SIDES No Surprise Was Caused In Richmond Over Fight On Prohibition Law In State Drys See Victory. WETS ARE HOPEFUL Neither Richmond liquor dealers nor temperance advocates were surprised when they learned today that a brewing company at Evansville and a saloon keeper In that city had filed suits to test the constitutionality . of the state-wide prohibition law, which becomes operative April 2. next year. It has been generally understood here for some time that a test case of the prohibition law was to be made. Dry leaders who were questioned today expressed the belief that the efforts to kill the prohibition law would be of no avail, asserting that numerous attorneys held to the opinion that uch a law could be enacted under the police powers given to the state by the ' constitution. Many Are Optimistic. There are some Richmond liquor dealers who share the same view, while quite a number of them express the hope that the law will be declared unconstitutional. Representatives of the liquor interests point t- the fact that about 1855 a prohibition law, equally as drastic as the one recently enacted, was declared to be unconstitutional by the supreme court of the state, and, they argue, there has been very little change made In the state constitution since that time. The Minck Brewing company, which T'ould be the most vitally affected of vany business concern in Richmond should the state go dry, has completed all arrangements for the manufacture of a non-intoxicating beverage after next April. Carson Meeks Doing His "Knit" All Right Centerville friends of Carson Meek, a pioneer resident of that town who is spending the winter In Los Angeles, California, have been Informed that Mr. Meek has joined the knitting squad of the Los Angeles Red Cross chapter and goes, to the. headnuarteRS or that organization - eaHytO ACT his bit. knitting socks for the soldiers. It is said that he Is as expert at knitting as any woman member of the Red Cross, and is a great favorite with all of them. Mr. Meek was taught to knit by his mother when he was a small boy. Uncle Sam Cares For Sailors' Families The government now makes ample provision for the married man who responds to the call to the colors. The government pays the wife of a man who enlists. In any branch of the service. $15 monthly in addition to what the soldier or sailor receives. Twenty-five dollars is paid the wife who has one child and $32.50 for a wife and two children. For each additional child over two $5 is paid. This pay to dependents is additional to what the man receives In the service. The lowest wages paid in the navy now is $35.90 for seaman, second class, and $30 for a private in the army. Recruiter Goldfarb of the Richmond navy station Saturday received orders to recruit blacksmiths, coppersmiths, pattern makes, raolders and machinist's mates, second class. Firemen are also wanted. War Refreshments For Church Members A smoker for the men members of St. Paul's Episcopal church will be held next Monday evening at the parish house. Matters of general and of church Interest will be discussed. "War" refreshments will be served and there will be a musical program. All men who are members of the church are invited to attend. THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weather bureau Fair tonight and Sunday. Continued cold. Temperature Today. Noon ...2S ...30 ...20 Yesterday. Maximum Minimum For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair and continued cold tonight. Fair Sunday. General Conditions A" severe storm is raging over the Atlantic coats from Maine to Florida. Blizzards raging over the New England states and heavy rains over the south. Cold wave from the Province of Ontario, Canada has moved due southward and zero weather prevails over the lakes. Temperatures was 12 above zero Saturday morning. Warm weather continues in the northwest. Sixty degrees at Medicine Hat. Temperatures will be low tonight protably going below that of Friday night.

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HOT UNIONISTS AGAIN HONOR GOMPERS BUFFALO, N. Y., Nov. 24. Samuel Gompers was re-elected president of the American Federation of Labor at the closing session of its thlrty-sev enth annual convention here todjiy. DESTROYED GETS U-BOAT WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. Definite news of the destruction of another German submarine by American destroyers reached the navy department today in a cabled report from Vice Admiral Sims. The submarine, damaged by a depth bomb, went down with all on board after a destroyer had attached a line ?nd was attempting to take her in tow. Two destroyers took part In the act ion. One, sighting a periscope at four hundred yards, headed for and dropped a deadly bomb. Soon afterward the submarine came to the surface with no sign of life aboard. The second destroyer steamed up and attached a line but the TJbcat apparently shattered by the bomb, went to the bottom. MINISTER GIVES HIS POSITION The County Council of Defense today obtained an explanation from a local minister regarding his stand on food conservation pledge cards. The Council submitted the following: "The statement made was not that the enforcement of the food conservation principle is un-American, but that the use of coercion or force by individuals is wrong, since this is a voluntary plan. The minister in question states that under the circumstances the food conservation principle is cor rect, and that he and the members rs of it in his congregation are working for a systematic way. BRITISH STORM ANCIENT MIZPAH LONDON, Nov. 24. The site of ancient Mlzpah, 5,000 yards west of the Jerusalem-Nabulus road, has been stormed by the British, the war office announces. British mounted troops, which had advanced northward, were forced back by the Turks. The town of En-Nehi Sanwil, about five miles northeast of Jerusalem is generally believed to have been the site of the ancient town Mizpah, the famous city of Benjamin. Michigan Operators Named by Garfield WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.--Mlchlgan coal operators were warned by Fuel Administrator Garfield today that the government will take over and operate their mines if they carry out their threat of refusing to sell coal at the government's fixed prices.

Large Audience Sees Suffrage

Play, But No Men Are" Present

Three of the j'oung women who took part in the suffrage play given Saturday afternoon at the high school auditorium, under the auspices of the Richmond branch of the Woman's Franchise League, stepped before the footlights clad in masculine attire and were the recipients of an ovation. It was a large audience that saw the play, and an appreciative one, but not a man was present. J. T. Giles, superintendent of schools, and Frank Albus, secretary of the Commercial club, had each expressed a desire to attend the play but were promptly informed that only women were to compose the audience. "We have Invited our audience and you gentlemen are not on our invitation list," it is reported Prof. Giles and Mr. Albus were informed.

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RICHMOND, IND., DIPLOMATIC SECRETS OUT PETROGRAD, Nov. 23, Friday The text of certain confidential communi cations between the Russian foreign office and foreign governments were published today by Bolshevik! and so cial revolutionist newspapers at the Instigation of Leon Trotzky. the Bol sheviki foreign minister. Trotzky says the documents are those of the "Czaristic, Bourgeoic and coalition governments" and from them "the Russian nation and all nations in the world must learn the truth of the plans secretly maue by financiers and traders through their parliamentary and diplomatic agents." German and Austrian politicians. Trotzky declares, may try to make capitol out of these documents, but he warns them that when the German proletariat by means of a revolution secures access to their chancelleries they will find there documents which will show up in no better light than those now published. The documents published by the Bolshevik! include secret treaties and telegrams sent by the Russian foreign office, ambassadors abroad and ambassadors in Petrograd, the correspondent in Petrograd of the Exchange Telegraph company, reports. In all seventeen documents were published. Two A viators Fall 2,000 Feet in Ocean and Escape Injury PENSACOLA. Fla., Nov. 24. One aviator was killed and two others narrowly escaped serious injury during qualifying flights before an official inspection board at the naval airplane station here late yesterday. Herman Bose, of New York, while piloting his machine at an altitude of two hundred feet lost control of it as he attempted a landing. The machine plunged into Pensacola Bay, pinning Bose beneath it in four feet of water. Bose was a first-class quartermaster in the naval service and his death was reported to Washington. Another airplane with two occupants plunged from an altitude of nearly two thousand feet into the bay. The occupants were uninjured. Grand Officers of V. C. Tl to Conduct Membership Drive . Grand oificdrs--ef-h- United - Commercial Travelers will be in Richmond next Saturday to conduct a member ship drive for Quaker City Council. The officers who are expected are: Charles F. Pichon, grand counsellor, end E. H. Kolb, grand secretary, of Fort Wayne, and members of the grand membership committee as follows: W. A. Hendricks, of Lafayette; N. O. Allen, of Fort Wayne, and C. F. S. Wiyte, ff Fairmount. Members of Quaker City council are anxious to recruit its ranks up to full strength and especially to fill gaps caused by the war. Social features for entertainment of the officers are being planned. it Liberty or Death 99 Flag is Unearthed NEW YORK, Nov. 24. Revolutionary war relics in the shape of a uniform coat, such as was worn by the Continentals, and a "liberty or death" flag have been unearthed by workmen who are demolishing the oldest house at Dobbs' Ferry, New York. The coat and flag were found in a secret recess between the floors and are In a good state of preservation. It is believed that they were hidden after the battle of White Plains. RAILROAD POOL PLA1 DISCUSSED WASHINGTON, Ncv. 24. A plan for pooling the entire railway equip--ment and traffic of the United States was taken up at a conference today between government officials and railroad heads. Congestion has reached a stage, it is realized, where radical measures must be put into force if the country's traffic Is to be moved Reporter Barred Too., A newspaper man also requested permission to attend the play and it was broadly hinted to him that his presence was not desired. "But," remonstrated the scribe, "the high school auditorium Is a public assemblage place and " "Of course you would, technically, have the right to be in the auditorium when the play was given, but do you want to go some place where you are not wanted?" Interrupted one of the principals of the cast. That silenced the reporter's batteries. It was hinted that the . fact that three of the actresses had to wear trou had to wear men's clothes was the impelling motive for the issuance of the "no men wanted" ban.

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portant reason for the greatest allied victory of the year against the Hindenburg line in northern France. This has been the most brilliant success of the powerful land monitors whose holes torn in the lines of the foe prepared a way for the infantry attack and permitted an advance through an almost unresisting foe with the very slightest losses to the British.

RUSSIAN ENVOY AUTHORITY WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. Ambassador Bakhmeteff. of Russia, formally notified the state department today that the embassy does not recognize the authority of the extremists now in control of the foreign office at Petrograd. Three of the chief officers of the Russian embassy here resigned today to avoid .having further relations with the Bolsheviki leaders now controlling the Petrograd foreign office. Tliey are C. Oneu, counsellor; John SnookJne, first secretary, and S. DeMohrenchildt, second secretary. In a letter to Secretary Lansing, following the resignation of three of the chief officers of the embassy to avoid having relations with the Bolsheviki, the ambassador said, the Bolsheviki government was not representative of the true will of the Russian people and that ' he would not recognize that, or any similar government which would lead the country into non-participation in the war. " ' " - The ambassador said he considered

Try Prize-Winning Slogan For Indiana on Your Piano

INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. 24. Here It is, now, all together "Reduce the Eat in Wheat and Meat, and Toot the Tute in Substitute." This merry and musical slogan got the $25 prize otfeved by the advertising department of the food administration for the best conservation slogan written by somebody in Indiana. The author is Mrs. E. E. Noel, 640 North Keystone Avenue, Indianapolis. While the slogan was submitted in pen and ink, Mrs. Noel must have composed it originally on her piano or on her ukejele or perchance on a tenor drum. At any rate, Mrs. Noel's reputation as a war bard is established, and she will get about two dollars a word for her work a rate to which Irving Berlin and Irvin Cobb have never aspired. The committee of Judges choose this slogan, from the thousands submitted, because It expresses the ideas of the food administration pretty adequately, and at the same time pleasantly, and with persistent and almost aggravating rytbnv It will go round and round in your head if you once get started on it. Try it, and see if you can stop. The committee was composed of Merle - Sidener, Paul Richey, Carl Hunt, Homer McKee and Don Herold, publicity directors of the food administration. Dozens of Good Ones. There were dozens of 'good slogans, so the committee had a hard time to MANY GERMANS ARE REPORTED WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. A flood of letters and telegrams reporting suspicious Germans, the result of President Wilson's , proclamation imposing restrictions on alien enemies, reached the department of justice today and were carefully scanned by agents of the bureau of investigation. Many were from persons who did not understand that the alien enemies regulations applied only to unnaturalized Germans, and not to those of German nativity or birth who have become citizens. i v The investigation bureau's, mail has been particularly heavy for several months since the department of justice issued an appeal to all citizens to report any pereons or circumstances appearing dangerous to the country's prosecution of the war. Persons wrote detailed accounts of their German neighbor's habits of living, and lengthy explanations of their suspicion. These letters are still wel comed, although most of the informa tion they have1 furnished has not been of great value. ' . ,

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tanks tearing a way through the German REPUDIATES OF BBLSHEVIKI himself duty bound to remain at his post and would do so with a competent staff of assistants. While expressing 'the belief that the true spirit of Russia was bound to arise he said it was evident that until conditions changed the embassy could not exercise in full measure its essential duties, and therefore, he had authorized members of the embassy to find other fields for their activities. UNCLE SAM TO REGARD RUSSIA AS UNFRIENDLY WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. With official confirmation from Ambassador Francis of the plan of the Bolsheviki government, to propose an armistice between Russia and her enemies with a view to peace negotiations, officials and diplomats here today awaited developments with acute interest. This governments officials explained regard W:e movement for a peace; pact., at Petrograd as almost listing Russia among the unfriendly nations. - decide. All slogans were copied and shown to the judges without the names and addresses of contestants. "Fight the Kaiser in the Kitchen" was almost chosen for first place, because it has a note of belligerency in it which the food administration is anxious to emphazise. But it was finally decided to give this slogan second place It was written by Mildred Morris, 13 years old, 106 Llnwood street This slogan and about a dozen others will be used in food administration advertising from time to time, as well as the winning slogan. Several other slogans were graded by the committee, as follows: SENATORESS AIDS CAMP ACTIVITIES MRS. HELEN RING ROBINSON Mrs. Helen Ring Robinson of Denver, the first woman . to i be elected state senator, Is an executive in the national training camp activities. Her particular work In , relation to the camps is the awakening of mothers of - girls to their responsibilities in present abnormal conditions. INDIANA BANK LOOTED ," DANA, Ind., Nov. 24. Cracksmen, apparently working with an expert hand, looted the First National Bank of - this place some time during the night and escaped with between $5,000 and $10,000 in currency. The rob bery was discovered when officials of the bank opened the institution for business this morning.

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barbed wire entanglements was an im Fred B. Johnson is Promoted to Major Captain Fred B. Johnson, C company. One Hundred and Fifty-first infantry, stationed at Camp Shelby, Miss., has been promoted to the rank cf major and assigned as assistant judge advocate of the division of which his regiment has been a unit. Major Johnson is the son of B. B. Johnson, president of an ice company in Richmond and former secretary of former Governor Samuel Ralston. Major Johnson was an Indianapolis attorney at the time he entered h& army, over a year ago. At one time he was engaged In newspaper work in achmond and Indianapolis. GOLD BLASTS BY MISTAKE t The weather man frankly admitted Saturday that the weather .now in our midst, the coldest for late November since 1903, when the mercury dropped below zero, was really intended for Medicine Hat, and the weather Medicine Hat is now enjoying was meant for eastern Indiana. Just who is responsible for this unfortunate mixup in weather consignments cannot be stated with any degree of accuracy, but it is well enough to blame it on the war. At 7 o'clock Friday evening it was 12 above zero in Richmond, Indiana, the low mark for a twenty-four hour period. Friday afternoon in Medicine Hat, Canada, the home of the wellknown Jack Frost, the mercury registered sixty degrees above zero, in the shade. ' W. E. Moore, weather observer for Richmond and vicinity, reports the present cold weather came to Indiana directly from the frozen shores of Hudson Bay, a real Arctic coal-man's delight. Moore expects no moderation in local weather conditions before Monday or Tuesday of next week. DESERTER GETS DEATH PENALTY WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 Sentence of death before a rifle squad has been imposed by court martial upon an enlisted man of the American army in the-United States on his conviction of desertion with the intent to join the enemy forces. It was learned today at the war department, however, that officials here are not satisfied from the evidence adduced before the court that intent to join the enemy was established and the trial court has been asked for additional-information to clear up this point. . The soldier In question is either of German birth or descent, it is understood, although the details of the case including the name of the prisoner were withheld. The sentence of the court martial will not be executed until approval from Washington has been received because the desertion was not in the face of the enemy.

Old-fashioned Spinning Wheel M ay Again Com Into Its Own

Are there any old-fashioned spinning wheels in Richmond or Wayne county? Mrs. William Dudley Foulke,- prominent Red Cross worker in Richmond wants to muster the old spinning wheels of bygone days Into service of Uncle Sam." - - The spinning wheeL which was once in nearly, every other household in the country, may again come into its own," as a result of the war. Owing to the scarcity of yarn Red Cros3 workers are handicapned in

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BYNG STILL PUSHING IH ADVANCE ON CAHI3RAI Steady Drive On Objective Now Being Prosecuted By British Who Are Near Village. GROUND IS TAKEN fBy Associated Press General Byng has settled down to u. steady push against the German lines west of Cambrai. after his recent rapid forward dash, and has made substantial progress along a front of nearly six miles. Incidentally, it is now announced that more than 100 guns were captured by the British during this offensive, including numerous heavy pieces. The British pressure is now being mainly directed northward on the east and west line running between Fontaine and Queant. The apparent object is not only to carry the encircling movement about Cambrai further to the north and east, but to drive in behind both the former Hindenburg line, as it bears off to the northwest, and the Queant Drocourt switch, thus rendering the latter useless as a secondary line of defense against an attack from the west. Valuable Ground Taken. In this operation valuable hlgn ground around the dominating Bourlon wood, to the west of Cambrai, was taken yesterday and progress was made further west on both sides of the Canal DuUord, near Moeuvres and Queant. Additional ground also was gained in the neighborhood of Bullecourt. The Italian front is still holding firmly although its defense is costing the Italians heavily in men. There were further efforts by the AustroGerman masses to break through to the west end of the line between Asiago plateau and the Brenta but General Diaz's troops successfully withstood all these thrusts. Piave Line Intact. The Piave river line remains intact and apparently the enemy efforts to force it, are no longer serious, although Rome today reports breaking up by artillery fire of hostile attempts to lay pontoons. v In the important mountain front between the Brenta antf the Piave the struggle is still a desperate one. ' No further" progress is claimed by Berlin in this sector. On the contrary the Italians have been counter-attacking heavily, although Berlin declares without success. New York's Turkey is Lower This Year NEW YORK, Nov. 24. War conaverage New ditions will make the workers Thanksgiving dinner cost more this year than it did a year ago, but the principal article on the bill of fare, the time-honored Turkey, will be a trifle cheaper. Under an agree ment reached between federal, state and city food authorities yesterday, cold storage turkeys will not cost more than 37 cents a pound and will be as low as 2S cents. Nearly half a million pounds of frozen gobblers are In storage here. If dealers seek to charge more than the maximum price, prospective purchasers are asked to notify the city market commission. The prices will obtain only until Thanksgiving. Cranberry sauce, pies and puddings will not be so plentiful, largely an account of the shortage in sugar. Vegetables and other accessories are slightly higher than they were last year. District School No. 10 to Have Party An entertainment will be given Wednesday evening at District school Number 10. Several playlets will feature the program. Patrons and pupils of the scIrol are Invited. The teachers are J. G. Starr, Ralph LaMott, Miss Aleita Simmons and Miss "Thornton. CUBANS ARE REVIEWED HAVANA. Cuba, Nov. 24. One hundred men of the Cuban army, selected to go to the United States to receive instructions in the handling of heavy artillery, were reviewed by the chief of staff yesterday. The men are expected to embark for an Atlantic port in a very short time. making socks and other articles for Uncle Sam's soldiers and sailors. It is believed that the spinning wheels wiH greatly alleviate this shortage of yarn, if there are any spinning wheels and persons who know how to cord and spin wool. . ..- ' Mrs. Foulke promises to supply the. fleece for cording and spinning to any person who has a wheel and knows how to operate It. Any person knowing how, even though they . do not own a spinning wheel, are asked to communicate with Mrs. Foulke.

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