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7 it&J-. CAIPAOTO RAISE $3,000 FOR SYRIAN FOND PLANNED City-wide Canvass to Begin Friday and Continue Saturday - Teams Picked at Dinner. TO OBSERVE TAG DAY A four-day campaign will be started Friday by the Armenian and Syrian relief committee of Richmond for $3,000 to feed the thousands of starving peoples of Western Asia. Final plans and teams were selected at a luncheon of the committee held in the Y. M. C. A. Wednesday night. Speakers also told of the horrible conditions of the peoples in the Bible lands, the thousands of Armenians who have teen massacred and thousands more -who today are threatened by starvation and death or absorption into the ranks of Mohammedanism. There are 400,000 little children alone, to say nothing of the thousands of adults, who face these conditions. Faith Is Not Issue. "Faith does not enter into the aiding of these Christian peoples," Dr. Mead A. Kelsey, director of the campaign and executive secretary of the relief society in Indiana, said. '.'If a boat with 400,000 orphans, capsized in the middle of a river, help would be rushed to them from shore at once in an effort at rescue. No one would stop to consider their faith." While the active campaign for the raising of the money is not to begin until Friday some of the workers immediately started to work Thursday. There has been $500 already raised by voluntary subscription and it is hoped to add $3,000 to this amount. While cash payments will be solicited, it Is hoped that every contributor wil stipulate an amount to be paid monthly, beginning the first payment on December 1, for six month. It is Continued On Page Seven. J THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Probably rain Thursday. Friday fail.

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POLE WINS FAME IN AIR FIGHTING LIEUT. BORZECKI Ueut. Borzecki is one of the new "aces" In the French aviation corps. He is one of the many Polish volunteers now fighting with the allies. THREE SHIPS SUNK PARIS, Nov. 29. Three French steamships of more than 1,600 tons and one less than that tonnage were sunk by submarines or mints during the week ending Nov. 25.

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President Passes Day Quietly; Men in Uniform Throng Capital

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. Prosecution of the war was temporarily laid aside today while Washington observed Thanksgiving day and made it an occasion for city-wide hospitality for thousands of soldiers and sailors. Hundreds of private homes were thrown open to the uniformed visitors from neighboring camps and many religious and fraternal organizations held entertainments in their honor. President Wilson spent the day quietly. He made no engagement? during the day, except to attend union services in the morning at the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal church where Bishop Wm. F. McDowell preached. The president planned the usual motor ride later. After the church .service, the presi dent surrounded by members of his household, enjoyed a Thanksgiving dinner at the White House, prepared, it was stated, in accordance with the rules advocated by Food Administrator Hoover. Has 40-Pound Bird. ; The President's -turkey; this year, a

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God Jbr iKe reat blessing cf oe preparea to answer me GERMANS SET FOR PARLEY (By Associated Press) Efforts of the Russian Bolsheviki government to arrange an armistice have met with the approval of the German authorities on the eastern front. The Germans have set next Sunday as the date for a conference to negotiate an armistice. The Germans accepted the Russian proposition within a few hours after Bolshevik! emissaries had visited the Teuton side. The allied diplomatic representatives In Petrograd It is reported, while not recognizing the Bolshevik! government, will acknowledge receipt of the proposals from the .Bolshevik! leaders as though they came from individuals. Speaking for Great Britain, Lord Robert Cecil declares that the allies are considering the issuance of a statement for the guidance and warning of the Russians as to the serious results that are likely to follow if a separate peace is concluded. Pcpe Is Not Active. Pope Benedict is not preparing a new appeal toward peace. This is announced by Cardinal Gasparri, the Papal secretary of state, who says that the Pope's desire for a just, Christian and durable peace remains unchanged. On the Bourlon-Fontaine Notre Dame line. The British and Germans continued their desperate struggles, the British trying to advance eastward toward Cambrai and the Germans atforty pounder, came from the Kentucky farm of South Trimble, clerk of the house. All the cabinet members were in Washington today, except Secretary Wilson, who is in the west, and they observed the day quietly at their homes. Diplomats, including those from north and - South America and high officials and jurists, attended the annual pan-American . mass at St. Patrick's church at. which Cardinal Gibbons gave his blessings. Thanksgiving services were also held at numer ous . other churches throughout the city. Practically all government departments, except those which it wa absolutely necessary to keep open were closed and business throughout the day was suspended. At the Y. M. C. A. headquarters, II was estimated that there would be 20,000 soldiers in the city before the day was over. Mrs. Samuel L. HH1, purchased the entire lower floor at i downtown vaudeville theatre for one performance and had it reserved for , men in uniform.

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e c NEXT SUNDAY WITH RUSSIANS tempting to hold them up with strong counter attacks. Positions along this line have changed hands repeatedly in the furious fighting, and German efforts to gain the dominating elevation of Bourlon Wood have failed. Elsewhere on the western front, there has been strong artillery activity. The crisis in Italy has passed, according to Major General Maurice of the British war office. The Germans in that region have not attempted any new attacks in strength, their latest efforts apparently lacking the vigor of those earlier in the week, against the Italian defenses between the Brenta and Piave. ALLIES HERE SEEKING MEN Attired in the picturesque uniform of the Scottish troops, Captain A. L. Brown, of the Canadian "Black Watch" regiment, was in Richmond Wednesday calling upon British subjects of military age to urge them to enlist in their country's service. Captain- Brown found fifteen young Britons and it is probable that the majority of them will enlist in the British army. Captain Brown made the trip to Richmond in a gaily decorated automo-, bile and was accompanied by an American officer, Lieutenant Whitacre, and by a French officer. Captain Henri Hay. These uniformed representatives of the three great allied powers attracted much attention while in this city.. ... Captain Brown states that since congress recently authorized the recruiting of allies subjects within the United States Great Britain has recruited almost enough men in this country to compose an army division. These men can enlist either in the British or the Canadian armies. - British subjects residing In Richmond can enlist in ttheir country's service by calling at the local recruiting office of the United States army. The machine in which the three officers traveled was decorated with the flags of the United States, Great Britain and France. 253 MILLIONS SUBSCRIBED. TORONTO, Ont, Nov. 29 With a number of provinces still to be heard from, subscriptions throughout Canada to the $300,000,000 Victory loan today totalled $253,514,000. Enthusiasm is still running at fever heat the country over and it appears virtually certain now that the majority of the provinces will exceed their objecUves by large amounts.

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w&airn,uur m air,cuiu. mail ! reigrt among all the Entre Nous Puts Ban on New Year's Feast as Economy Measure The Entre Nous club, a social organization of Richmond, for the first time since its organization many years ago, will not serve an elaborate dinner on New Year's evening. The action was taken at a meeting of the officers -of the club Wednesday night, as a food conservation measure. All of the members of the club are heartily in favor of the patriotic elimination of the annual feast. As has teen customary in the past an elaborate dinner is served on the evening of New Year's day for about 200 men. More than 100 pounds f sugar are usually used in the preparation of the dinner. "We feel that it is our duty to do away with this custom now that the government has called upon the people to conserve food," Secretary Stieet of the cjub said Thursday. Instead a light lunch will be served. American Uniform Overcoats in France Are Being Shortened WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, (By Associated Press), Nov. 23. The uniform of the American soldiers is undergoing a further change. It is a small one made necessary by conditions. A large number of troops have turned in their long overcoats to receive in exchange coats of the same material but much shorter. The new ones strike them above the knees while the old ones issued-in the United States usually hit them at the ankles Because of the perpetual mud, it was found the long coat soon became caked and heavy. They flop about the legs of the soldiers hindering the free movement of the wearers. Many of the troops who have not received the new coat have shortened the old ones ENGLISH ORGANIST TO GIVE RECITALS Gatty Sellars, the noted English organist who appeared in recitals in Richmond last year at First Presbyterian church, has been secured by members, of the congregation, for a re turn engagement He will appear here in three recitals, Saturday, December 8, at 8:00 o'clock, Sunday, December 9, in the afternoon at 3 o'clock and in the evening at 8:30 o'clock. No admission will be asked but a silver offering will be taken after each recital. -

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gur nv5, we win arnvt nUfris cf.wprMn America's Gifts to Allies Are Veiled, Declares Northcliffe PARIS, Nov. 29. In discussing the inter-allied conference in an interview in the Petite Parisien, Viscount Northcliff says. "The unity of control which will issue from this' conference is essential for more than one reason but especially because It will permit the allies tc use to its full extent the general abundance of resources which the vast trans-Atlantic republic places at their disposal. "Importance of American invention only appears as yet but indistinctly and veiled to the eyes of Europe. It is too difficult to imagine what is happening 5,000 kilometers from here." Viscount Northcliffe described the enthusiasm that he said he had wit nessed through the breadth and v.-idth of the United States. EDWARDS IS MADE FIRST LIEUTENANT Chester H. Edwards, who has been in training at Fort Benjamin Harrison, is another Richmond man to receive a commission. He was made a first lieutenant. Mr. Edwards,' whose home is in Modoc formerly was chemistry teacher at the Richmond High school.

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Congressman Elliott to Return to Capital City Last of Week

Congressman Elliott, of Connersville will leave for Washington Friday to be present when the new session of congress is opened next Monday. Mr. Elliott anticipates the impending congress will be one of the most ac-J uve in tne nistory or the country. War conditions entail extra, wnrt far gress and at the expiraUon of the brief uonstmas recess the lawmakers will probably be kept at their labors until next October, only adjourning then to permit the members to make pre-election campaigns. The congressional elections will be Tield next November. war nas Drought the American peo ! pie in closer .relattona with their con- . gressional representatives than ever before, for - practically - every , inxport

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THANKSGIVING IS OBSERVED REVERENTLY IN RICHMOND Churches Have Services and Business Houses Are Closed in Accordance with Day's Spirit. UNION MEETING HELD The first Thanksgiving day since the United States entered the war was observed more reverently than- it has been "in the past The day, traditionally a day of peace and plenty, took on a more serious aspect, and the observance in the various churches of Richmond wera of a more serious nature. - In many of the churches Thursdaymorning the pastors offered prayers for the success of American and allied arms in Europe, and that the war might soon be brought to a successful conclusion. Inmates Get Dinners. All stores, banks and saloons, city and county offices were closed in observance of the day. Thanksgiving dinners were served all inmates of county and city institutions. First English Lutheran church, which held its services Wednesday night, was filled. Rev. F. A. Dressel, Continued On Page Ten. ant law passed by the recent special session, directly affected nearly every family in the country. As a result the duties each member of congress must now assume are of a stupendous nature. Each day congress will hold protracted . sessions and . in addition the congressmen and senators must care for enormouly increased office work. -In addition to handling the usual-routine affairs of a congressional - office, ' such as pension matters and the distribution of government publications called for by constituents, the -member of congress these days must advise hundreds of men and women residing in - his district on questions which, are the outgrowth of tbo toxw j