Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 14, 28 November 1917 — Page 1

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BOLSHEVIKI DELEGATES TALK PEACE WITHJENEMY Representatives of Radicals Received Behind Lines By Germans -Told Foe Seeks Armistice.

REDS REPRESENT FEW PETROGRAD, Nov.. 28. The Germans have set December 2 for a conference for negotiations of an armistice. PETROGRAD, Nov. 28., Representatives sent by Ensign Krylenko, the Bolshevik! commander In chief of the Russian armies, have been received In the German lines and Informed by the German commander that the Germans have officially consented to im mediate negotiations for an armistice on all fronts of the belligerent countries. (By Associated Press) Germany has consented to negotiate Immediately for an armistice "on all the fronts of the belligerent countries, according to a Petrograd dispatch reporting on the outcome of the visit by a Bolshevikl military delegation to the German lines on the Russian front for negotiations with the German military authorities. The Bolshevikl formula has been the proposal of an armistice to all the belligerents with a view to the conclusion of a general peace. The proposal has fitted in well with the admitted German desire for achievement of "peace by agreement" as indicated in tie 1916 peace offer and In the German reply to Pope Benedict's peace note as well as in the Reichstag resolution of last July. The Entente governments and the United States on the other hand have shown no disposition to negotiate while the "free peoples of the world continued to be menaced by a vast military establishment, controlled by an irresponsible government," in the words of President Wilson's allusion to the German war machine in his reply to the Pope. The Bolshevikl armistice propositions were submitted to the embassies In Petrograd but so far as has appeared they have-not been replied to b the receptive government. Whatever the ultimate results of these negotiations, it seems clear that at present the Russian negotiators are representative of only a fraction of Russia. General Krylenko, nominal com mander in chief by Bolshevikl decree, whose representatives have crossed to the German side for the parley, has been unable to take over the actual command of more than the northern Russian armies. Communications between north and south Russia has been cut off and General Dukhonin, the de facto com mander of all but the northern forces whose headquarters are at Mohilev, Continued on Page Eight. THE WEATHER For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Cloudy tonight. Probably rain in extreme south portion. Thursday fair, slightly warmer in north and central portions. - Yesterday Maximum . . 40 Minimum 28 Today's Temperature. Noon .. 3S For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Possibly clearing this afternoon or tonight. Thursday fair and moderate temperature. .Above freezing Thursday all day. General Conditions The cold wave which now covers the eastern states is slowly moving out to 6ea. All November records for low temperature were broken in Canton, N. Y., where it was 16 below zero. It Is raining in the south and east but is clearing in the middle west.

Soldiers Have No Occasion to Write "Blue"

Richmond and Wayne county men, who are In the llst infantry regiment at Camp Shelby, Miss., are under quarantine for measles, according to a letter received by The Palladium from Lawrence Hoover, Richmond boy who is a member of M Company, 151st infantry. The men are kept within "regimental bounds" to protect the other soldiers nearby he says. It is not serious, however, and the men who have the measles are getting the best of medical attention..

TATIANA ROMANOFF ON WAY TO AMERICA

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v CA. Miss Tatlana Romanoff. Miss Tatiana Romanoff, who used to be a grand duchess, and is the second daughter of the ex-Czar of Russia, has escaped from Siberia and will soon arrive In the United States. This picture of her was taken while she was on Iyer way with her parents to Siberian exile, and shows her in the plain dress of a poor man's daughter. BEGIN DRIVE FOR NAVY RECRUITS A drive for fifty navy recruits from the Richmond district was launched Wednesday by Recruting Officer Goldfarb following orders from Washington, that the navy department expects to recruit 20,000 men before Washington's birthday, next February. Eight hundred men must be raised throughout the state and fifty in the Richmond district which Includes Wayne,' Union and "Randolph 'counties. Most of the recruits must be gotten before December 15, the time limit for the enlistment of men who are registered under the selective service law. The campaign will be for apprentice seamen. Grace Smith First Woman in Wayne to be Admitted to Bar Miss Grace Smith, deputy county clerk, was admitted to the bar Wednesday. UUiKU 3 141 OL VT UUIOU All Wayne County to be made a member of the association. The announcement gave Miss Smith a complete surprise as she was unaware of their intentions. Miss Smith, blushingly said, "I sure ly appreciate the honor. I was more than surprised for I hadn't any idea my lawyer frieftds intended conferring this honor on me." 2,000 OFFICERS ASSIGNED WASHINGTON. Nov. 28. Regimental assignments of more than 2,000 provisional second lieutenants of the regular army appointed from the officers' reserve corps graduates of officers training camps or the ranks of the army, were published today by the war department. Some go to army service school for the coast artillery training camps.

Means Defense to Try to Prove Death of Widow Was Accident

CONCORD, N. C, Nov. 28. One line of the defense of Gaston B. Means on trial here for the murder of Mrs. Maude A. King was indicated today in the cross examination of the state's first witness, M. F. Richie, a hardware dealer. . The question asked by Means' atr torneys indicated they expected to show that the wealthy widow whose sensational death aroused three states was killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol dropped on the ground. Richie told of having sold a small Beginning, Sunday the Richmond and Wayne soldiers expect to get their first chance to use a rifle on the rifle range, about seven miles from the camp proper. It will be their first practice with real army rifles. Most of the men have been issued rifles and several suits of clothing, he says, and it will be the first time the Richmond boys have had to demonstrate their experience with a rifle. To Camp on Rifle Range. The men will camp on the rifle range, which is several miles from

Men Folks Taking Up Knitting; Salesman Purls in Ante Rooms; Richmond Firemen At It Too

Advice to traveling salesmen, by i "Learn to knit and obtain quick and increased orders. . Mr. Hernly is a representative of a large kitchen cabinet manufacturing company In Newcastle, is well known in Richmond, having at one time at tended Earlham college, and is the son of the late Charles Hernly, one of the best-known Republican leaders in Indiana. Makes a Statement. In the presence of reliable witnesses Mr. Hernly made the following statement while in Richmond, Tuesday: T learned to knit at a Northern Michigan resort last summer; had to dp something to pass away the time, and within a short time was a confirmed knitting fan. Even knitted socks for the soldiers on the train on my return home. Now I carry my knitting wherever I go. In an Illinois town the other day I went to the office of a customer and found him busy. I took out my knitting and got to purling. In a few minutes my customer came into his office to dictate a letter. When he saw what I was doing you could have knocked off his eyes with a stick. ' 'Here, what the Sam Hill are you doing,' gasped my astonished customer. "Putting the finishing touches on a sock," I replied. Bought to Stop Needle. "Acting as though he were afraid some other person might enter the office and catch me operating a pair of needles my friend said, with real agiDudley Hughes is Back in A merica; Can Commissioned Dudley Hughes, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. William Dudley Foulke and Mrs. I. N. Hughes, and who has been in France in ambulance service returned to New York, Monday and is with his parents. Rev. and Mrs. Stanley Hughes at Newport. Mr. Hughes does not know how long he will be in this country. Burton J, Carr, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Carr, who has been in Washington since Saturday, has been made first lieutenant of the Gun Division of the Ordnance Section of the Army, and began his duties Tuesday. ( t r ES ru take It with "A" m e, ""'a nd like thousands of others now busy buying Christmas gifts, she did. , She was "doing her bit, for the deliveryman from that particular store from her particular district has joined the colors and soon will be in France. What an inspiration! To think that every chauffeur we help to release by shopping early and carrying parcels is a potential truck driver for an ambulance In France! William Stahr is on Defense Council William Stahr, merchant of Hagerstown, Ind., Wednesday was appointed a member of the Wayne County Coun cil of Defense to take the place made vacant by Frank Wissler, who is in the army. Mr. Stahr took up his duties at once. Wissler is stationed at Camp Funston, Kas. NAME ALASKAN DIRECTOR WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. Royal A. Gunnison, of Juneau, was appointed federal food administrator today for Alaska. automatic pistol and a rifle several days before the tragedy to Gaston B. Means, Mrs. King's business agent, who is on trial charged with killing her near here, last August. The state had brought experts here in an effort to prove the woman could not have accidentally shot herself. On cross examination Richie stated that if "dropped hard enough an automatic pistol, of the pattern that killed Mrs. King might have been discharged. Richie added, however, that be had "never beard of such a thing happening." the camp, proper, for a week. It means extra money to the men qualifying as an expert rifleman. Many Richmond mothers , and friends of men in the camp have been receiving "blue" letters while in reality there is nothing to be "blue" about in the camp. Hoover writes. . "We have plenty to eat, have several suits of clothing, our tents are well heated and we are rapidly making 'brothers' of many soldiers," Hoover says. "What more can a man want?"

tation: 'Here, you stop that and get out your order book. I'm busy but I'll take off a few minutes for you.' Then he gave me a nice order, and to his very apparent relief I folded up my

knitting and retired in good order. "And, believe me, that's not the first time I got quick service and a big order out of a customer by flashing my knitting on him." Members of the Number 5 Hose company, Richmond Fire department, are also becoming knitting fans and all the work they will do will be for Uncle Sam's Jackies and Sammies. A knitting machine is to be present ed to the members of this company, including John Brusher, W. M. Kinney, J. L. Goehner and H. E. Williams. It is expected the members of the other fire department companies will also volunteer their services as knitters. WAR RATIONS SEEN UNLESS PEOPLE OBEY McKinley Warns That Food Cards May Be Used Richmond. in Richmond and Wayne county will probably be placed on "war rations" within the next six months if the people of the city and county do not willingly aid the government in the conservation of food, in the opinion of George McKinley, city food administrator. "Many people in Richmond and Wayne county do not yet fully realize the great importance of the conservation of food," the city food director said Wednesday. "If they do not now aid the government In every way possible, they may be forced to later on." To be placed on "war rations" would mean that every housewife would be required to get permission from some one in authority for the purchase of certain kinds of food, such as white bread, sugar and meat. A certain amount of each would be allbwed for a certain period of time and none of the prescribed foods could be yurhased witberut cards.' Many of the warring nations prescribe what and how much food every person is allowed. War On Waste Called. Food Director McKinley Wednesday issued an appeal calling upon the families and clubs of the city to war on waste on the annual feast day. Thanksgiving. People are urged to eat plenty of turkey, chicken or ducks or rabbits and to throw absolutely nothing away. If more is prepared than can be used on Thursday It should be used on following days. Nothing, no matter how small a quantity, should be wasted. Clubs of the city are especially called upon not to serve elaborate dinners as has been the custom with many in the past. The 60,000 pounds of beet sugar, received here last week, is nearly exhausted and many grocers are again without any kind of sugar, according to information received by McKinley. More beet sugar has been ordered by wholesale grocers and Is due to arrive soon however. NEW FOE DRIVE ON ITALY SEEN WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. Great activity among the Austro-German divisions all along the Italian front and reported in official dispatches from Rome received here today are declared to forecast a still greater offensive in the northern sectors, with elaborate preparations for a mighty effort to breakthrough. ITALIAN BATTERIES ARE ACTIVE ON ASIAGO ROME, Nov. 28. "On the Asiago plateau and on the middle Piave" says today's Italian official statement, "our batteries in co-operation with bombardment flights have carried out concentration of fire on enemy troops massed and in movement." ALL TIN COMMANDEERED WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. Protests by canners against government commandeering of tin revealed today that the navy department has commandeered all tin in New York ware. houses. ' "They don't look very 'blue' when they line up for mess. And we can eat all we want too. All of us are allowed second portions of anything we want. ' , ,:v .- ''Some people have written many of the boys, here saying they can't understand why the boys in Camp Taylor are allowed to return to their homes at regular Intervals while those in Camp Shelby can not return. ."The reason for this is," Hoover says, "that Camp Shelby is much farther away from home than Camp Tay-

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Miss Edwlna Glenn and her fiance, Capt James A. Garfield. The engagement of Miss Edwina Glenn, daughter of Gen. and Mrs. E. F. Glenn, to Capt. James Abram Garfield, son of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Garfield and grandson of James A. Garfield, former president of the United States, has just been announced. The romance between the young folk began when Miss Glenn lived at Fort Benjamin Harrison, near Indianapolis, last summer, while her father was in command of the post and Captain Garfield was a member of the officers' training camp there.

BYNG MAKES SOME PROGRESS IN STRUGGLE FOR CAMBRAI

(By Associated Press) As the British press toward Camera! from the west they encounter more stubborn German resistance. Heavy fighting is in progress toward Fontaine Notre Dame, less than three miles from Cambrai, and near the village of Bourlon, about one mile northwest of Fontaine. Both these villages were occupied by the British last week .only to be lost in the face of strong German counter-attacks. General Byng's men, laweverp are making progress against the strongly reinforced enemy, from whom more than 500 prisoners were captured Tuesday. BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE. Tuesday Nov. 27. Desperate and sanguinary fighting has been waged in and about Fontaine Notre Dame since dawn today, when the British again attacked the stronglyheld village. Shortly after nine o'clock it appeared that the assaulting infantry had stormed its way through the village in the face of tremendous machine gun fire both from the houses of the hamlet and from La Folie wood, to the southeast Five hundred German prisoners were taken In the early hours of the fighting. Late this afternoon the Germans hurried up two new divisions and threw them in for a counter attack along the Fontaine Bourlon wood line, he fighting .which followed in Fontaine was even more bitter, if possible, than that which occurred in the first rush through the ruined hamlet. At latest Richmond and Wayne county soldiers who are in the city Wednesday and Thursday will find a royal welcome awaiting them at the Elks home. All the soldiers in the city, whether they are Richmond or Wayne county boys or not, are invited to take advantage of the offer of the lodge. There will be members of the lodge to welcome the Sammies, who have responded to their country's calL And there also will be a big luncheon awaiting them. The lodge will keep open house for the men Wednesday night, all day Thursday and Thursday night. Ideal Thanksgiving Seen by Weatherman Ideal weather was predicted for Thanksgiving day by Weather Forecaster Mocre Wednesday. There is no indication, he said, of a white Thanksgiving day and the temperature is scheduled to climb near the fifty degree mark, an unusually high mark for this season of the year, the weather man said.

Letters Home, Declares Hoover

lor and it would take much more time to make the trip. Men in Camp Taylor are off on Saturday and Sunday and can easily go home over Sunday and return to camp Sunday night on time. "We are up against a stiff preposition and we cannot afford to lose ten or fifteen days on account of furloughs. We want to get ready as soon as possible so when the call comes we will be in line shape to deliver the goods. "Some of the boys claim to have fiat feet while in reality it is cold feet "It would be a very nice thing to be

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3C Ms reports superior numbers of enemy infantry had pushed the British back throuzh the vilaee araln tr th wst of the outskirts, but the battle still continued with unabated fury. Holding Heavy Attack. In the meantime, the British line running aiound Bourlon wood to the northwest was sustaining a heavy assault. The enemy appeared to be determined to regain this Important position if It were humanly possible. The whole front from Fontaine to Bourlon village .waa the .ecen of fierce fighting, which at many ?taees was at close quarters. The British line about Bourlon wood is still intact. The attack on Fontaine Notre Dame was begun with the assistance of a very heavy artillery barrage and throughout the morning the ' British gunners maintained an intns fir against the German positions there. Special Wire Runs Between Pershing's Office and London LONDON, Nov. 28. A special telegraph wire connecting General Pershing's headquarters in France with the American military headquarters in London was installed today. The first message sent by General Pershing to Walter Hines Page, the American ambassador, said: "Greetings and best wishes from the American army headquarters in this, the first message over the military line to London."

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War Taxes on Parcel Post Mail Effective Saturday

War stamp tax on parcel post mall becomes effective December 1. Postmaster Beck said Wednesday the following regulations must be observed: Upon every parcel or package transported from one point In the United States to another parcel post on whfch the postage amounts to 25 cents r more there shall be paid a tax of 1 cent for each 25 cents or fractional part of 25 cents charged for such transportation. This tax shall be paid by the consignor. The tax on fourth-class matter referred to In the preceding paragraph is not applicable to parcels on which the postage is less than 25 cents. On a parcel subject to exactly 25 cents postage the tax is 1 cent. On parcels on which the postage amounts to 26 to 50 cents the tax is 2 cents, and so on. Insurance and collect on delivery fees, the payment of which is evidenced by stamps affixed to parcels. do not constitute 'postage' and are not calling on some, girl on Sunday night but it wouldn't be so nice to have the kaiser visit us later on. Later on there isn't a one of us that wont be proud he served in Uncle Sam's grand old army. A "big feed" is slated for Thanksgiving day, he says. Besides this the soldiers' football team, made up of college men, will pit its strength against the Purdue university team. "Each regiment has its own canteen and one can buy most anything he wants from a bottle of pop to a wash-tub. Most of the boys nave found

TELEGRAPHERS ON RAILROADS ALL ASKING HIGHER PAY Baltimore & Ohio Operators Present Strike Demands to Company Through Indi-

iduals. SHORTER DAY SOUGHT WASHINGTON, Not. 28 Mediation of the strike demands of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad telegraphen today that railroad telegraphers have asked Increased wages and eight-houz day and pay for Sunday work. Tha demands have been made by the men. of the Individual systems and not by the Order of Railroad Telegraphers as a whole. H. B. Perham, president of Union, and the men's strike committee, con ferred here yesterday with G. W. W. Hanger of the board of mediation and conciliation, who today went to Baltimore for a session of the mediation conference with J. M. Davis, vice president of the board. Other conferences will be held here later in the week. Strike demands of telegraphers on the Burlington and Illinois Centrar wcic aciucu iai. weeii mrougn uieaiation by Mr. Hanger and Jubitration previously composed the uitlerences ol the Rock Island am, its operators. In all three casps the men were given increased wages, pay for Sunday overtime and a reduction in the hours oi labor. About 2,300 men are involved in th demands made on .the Baltimore and Ohio. Cambridge City "Man of Mystery" is Dead CAMBRIDGE CITY, Nov. 28. Jack Walsh, for a year a "man of mystery" to residents here, is dead of neuralgia of the heart. Walsh, who waa a barber employed by John . Clark,' came to Cambridge City a year ago, from where, no one here was able to learn from him. Always he was reticent concerning himself and never did he speak of any relatives or of a former home. One thing he did claim, however, and that was he had fought for Uncle Sam in the Spanish-American war. He never told anything else about himself. The body Is being held at the Wright undertaking parlors, pending an investigation to learn the names of relatives or friends who may give directions as to the burial. All Militants in Jail Are Released WASHINGTON. Nov. 28. All mili-. tants of the women's party who re mained in jail after yesterday's release of the hunger-striking 22 vers released today. This entirely cleared!, the jail and workhouse of the women; Imprisoned for picketing the Whit$ House. to be considered In ascertaining th amount of the tax due to be paid. Parcels will not be accepted for mailing unless both the required posts age and tax are fully prepaid. Special Internal revenue stamps shall be used to pay the tax; postage stamps are not valid for this purpose. Postage stamps will not be counted la payment of the tax, nor will Internal revenue stamps be counted In payment of postage The Internal revenue stamps affixed to parcels In payment of tax must be canceled by the sender placing or causing to be placed thereon his written or stamped Initials, together with the date on which the stamps are attached or used. In no case, however, should sender cancel postage stamps affixed to parcels; such stamps must be canceled only by postal employes. The special internal revenue stamps to be used In payment of the tax on parcel post parcels may bo obtained at the Richmond postoffice within a few days. that they are able to save half or more of the J30 they receive each month. Some of the boys have purchased Liberty bonds and some have taken out insurance while others send some of their money to their mothers. "The boys axe a happy bunch on the whole and the men who are quartered in the same tenU are like brothers to each other. . "We also have a fine bunch, of officers and. they are more like fathers to us than mere Taigher-aps and wa are proud that we are serving des, old Uncle Sam."

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