Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 24, 10 December 1917 — Page 1

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RICHMOND IS STILL HELD IN GRIP OF KING WINTER No Prospects of Relief Within Next Few Days From Below Zero Weather, Say Weather Prophets. ,

AT 14 BELOW MONDAY Richmond was. still held In the grip of -the cold wave Monday and no relief for several days at least was In sight, according to predictions. The weather is not only the coldest December weather ever experienced, cut Is as cold as has been experienced In many years during the entire winter. . While there is no Indication of . warmer weather for several days at least. It may moderate s'.ighlly to cause more snow. The probability of a snow storm for Tuesday Is predicted by Weather Forecaster Mcore. -To Fourteen Below Sunday the temperature fell to tour teen below zero for tha coldest mar cf the day and according to Weatner man Moore the same mark was set Monday morning. The minimum tem perature for Sunday wa3 eight below zero. : Attendance at churches was re duced greatly. - Between 2 and 3 o'clock Sunday af ternoon the temperature bad steadily climbed until it reached the four above mark, the highest mark registered Uur ing the day. The lowest mark was set at about six Monday morning, out climbed during the day. No hope for , thawing weather for several days tit least Is held out. While the sale of coal In Richmond has been limited to, one ton a family, much suffering has ben caused, it Is : believed by the coal situation. ; Appeals Are Received. Many families are without coal and much suffering has been caused, it is vation army and the township trustee. The entire country, east of. the Rocky Mountains, and the entire state of Indiana is held in the grip of the ! cold -wave, and temperatures - have ranged betwen ten to thirty below zero. . The government - thermometer r at . the , Richmond . pumping station at n'odn '.Monday registered two above zero. Many thermometers In Richmond, however, remained at the zero V mark, and belw, ' The Vaille school .was dismissed for the morning Monday because of inade- ; quate heat in the building. The building was heated in the afternoon, however, and . the pupils returned to the school. - No other school buildings were dismissed. OHIO'S WEATHER COLDEST ON RECORD SINCE 1880 COLUMBUS. O.. Dec. 10. With temperatures ranging from 2 to 8 below zero In all sections of the state, Ohio today experienced the coldest weather since 1880 when the mercury dropped to 12 below. Three deaths at Cleveland and three at Springfield were reported due to the excessive cold. The coal BhortContlnued On Page Fourteen. REMEMB THOSE IN NEE I? THE WEATHER For Indiana by ' United Statss Weather Bureau Fair, continued cold tonight and Tuesday. Today's Temperature. Noon 2 above. Yesterday. Maximum 4 above Minimum 14 below For Wayne County, by W. E. Moore Fair tonight and Tuesday excepting possibly a local snow storm. Continued cold General Conditions The great cold wave holds the country In its grip east of the Rocky Mountains and is sweeping southward to Florida. Temperatures range from ten to thirty below zero east of the Rocky Mountains. At Richmond It was fourteen below zero Sunday morning and the same Monday morning. There Is no sign of warm weather for ceveral days although it may moderate enough to cause more snow. "Blackest WASHINGTON, Dec 10. Some of the blackest pages in all history, comprising a documentary record of "deeds that make one despair of the future of the human race," are found In a book named "German War Practices," which has just been issued at the government printing office by the committee on public information for free distribution. It is edited by Prof. D. C. Munro of Princeton, and other scholars. The dumfounding evidence which this book presents to the jury of mankind is drawn mainly from German and American sources, . and Includes official proclamations and utterances of the responsible heads of the imperial government, letters and diaries

Miss DeCamp Will Not Condemn Man Who Kept Her a Prisoner

EATON. O.. Dec. 10. Miss Minnie DeCamp, who was imprisoned for sixteen years on the fifty-acre farm of Jacob Schmick, bachelor farmer, does not eondemn Schmick for subjecting her' through Instilling fear In her mind. ' "I never condemned ' him while he was alive and I will never condemn him now that he Is dead." Attorney E. P. Vaughan, who represents her, sayB she told him. ' - Miss Decamp lived pn the fifty-acre farm, five miles north or Eaton, owned by Schmick. Fear that exposure would mean arrest and disgrace kept her imprisoned on the farm. That fear was Instilled by Schmick, she told attorneys.' Doesn't Use Freedom. Miss Decamp free to come and go as she likes since November 23, for the first time In nearly seventeen years, Is now so nervous that she does not leave the place she Is living. ' She doesnt want to see anyone and row is even afraid, for some unknown reasn. t visit the office of Attorney Vaughan, who is preparing her legal claim against Schmick's estate. It is believed she is still afraid she will be arrested for living with Schmick although Prosecuting Attorney Saylor has assured her that no action will be brought against her. Schmick, who died on Thanksgiving day, about a week after Miss DeCamp left her imprisonment, left no will so far as has been found. A Mysterious Chest. Mystery surrounds a large wooden chest in his home, however, as a will may be found in it. No key has been found to the chest and it Is securely FOE MASSING BIGGEST ARMY WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. Germany has massed on the western front her greatest army of the war, Secretary Baker declares, in his weekly war review made public today. To meet this menace' the United States must speed up its military preparations, the secretary adds, with a warning that the enemy is preparing to put into execution in France plans he has been maturing since the defeat of the Russian armies at. Tannenburg early in' the war. The peace negotiations with Russia have permitted the massing of men on the western front; for that purpose. ' '. - . JiThe Unite States - must stand squarely, behind our soldiers." the sec retary- says. "It is not sufficient to prepare to fight; we' must prepare to win." . . The review asserts the German conut er offensive on the Cambrai front has been successful in winning back less than one-third of the territory captured by General Byng. The statement also notes that American, engineering troops "exchanged shovels for rifles,"" fought "off the enemy side by side with the British." .

ARREST OF ALL GERMANS IN HALIFAX IS ORDERED

HALIFAX. Dec. 10. Wholesale arrests of German residents of Halifax were begun by the police today. This action was taken under instructions from the military authorities. ' Revised figures were Issued today regarding casualties resulting from the explosion as follows: Known dead. 1,200; unaccounted r, 2,000 ; dead which have been Identified, 900 r wounded, 8,"000; homeless, 25,00c. Daybreak today found Halifax rapidly emerging from the eh?OB into which the city was plunged by tho explosion last Thursday. Fair Weather Helps The successive 3now and ram storms which followed tho disaster greatly hampered all etforts to allevV ate the suffering of the thousands of injured and homeless people, but the return of fair weather yesterday "made pcssible more systematic work. All relief agencies now have been co-ordinated. Enoug'n dortors ani r.urses have reached the city to take care of the hospital -duties. A considerable Quantity of supplies already has arrived and more are on the way. so that the danger of famine has been averted and 'here is ampie clothing for all. These supplies must j be carefully conserved, however, and i the authorities today were doing their i test to enforce the requests pubusnea yesterday that non-residents not here cn urgent business should leave the city and that others should not come here for the present. The work of repairing the innumer Deeds of I of German soldiers, quotations from German newspapers and material ? J M . 1 .1-1 IV. uranu iruui una aiwiiives ui tue Dime Department which lay bare the story of inconceivable German atrocities. The purpose of the book is to show that the system of f rightfulness, itself the greatest atrocity, is the definite policy of the German government, so sinister that German soldiers have themselves at times revolted. Individual acts of wanton cruelty and barbaric destruction are cited only to illustrate the operation of the remorseless system. Horrors on Horrors. The book supplements the Bryce report,, which was the first official survey of the path cf horror, ruin and

locked. The chest will be opened In a day or two by the probate Judge and the appraisers of the estate when the inventory is taken. According to Attorney Vaughan, Miss DeCamp has said that, there is no will in the chest, and it contains Schmick's mother's wedding "outfit" as he called it. Attorney Vaughan said Monday that Miss DeCamp's claim against : the estate would not be for the entire amount left by him. He said he is still undecided when the claim will be filed or what the claim will be. : "The calm will depend on what can be proven in court," he Bald.

FORMER SOCIAL LEADER JAILED FOR BAD CHECK Mrs. Julia Taylor Simmons, who, at one time, was prominent in social and religious circles of Richmond, was in the woman's jail Monday, in lieu of furnishing a $2,000 bond on a charge of passing a fraudulent check for $244. Mr3. Simmons was brought to Richmond Sunday afternoon by Sheriff Carr from Buffalo, N. Y., where she was located by detectives of the Dickinson Trust Company where she is alleged to have cashed the check. Mrs. Simmons, who is the daughter of the late Dr. James Taylor, who was a prominent physician in Richmond, told Sheriff Carr that she had no idea that she was violating the law. She admitted passing the check and said she thought her step-mother, Mrs. Martha J. Taylor, who now lives in Indianapolis, would cover the amount of the check. Mrs. Simmons was unable to furnish bond and was sent to jail. It has not been decided when she will be arraigned in court. The check was cashed at the Dickinson Trust company on August 18, last, drawn on the Farmers Bank of Moorcland and it is alleged she had not funds to meet it. According to information received by Sheriff Carr, Howard E. Snell, of St. Johnsville, N. Y.. a cousin of Mrs. Simmons is on his way to Richmond to furnish bail. German Agents to Blame tot , aetiing Libertys Below Par WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. Forced sales by German interests were charged with responsibility for the selling of Liberty Bonds below par by Secretary McAdoo in an address today before a conference of about 100 representatives of Liberty Loan committees from all parts of the country. - able damaged buildings was well under way. Lumber, glass and other building matrials are needed in great quantities. CARGO OF MUNITION SHIP IN HALIFAX HARBOR FIRED HALIFAX, Dec. 10. The deck cargo of the British steamer Picton, laden with munitions, caught fire last night and only the quick and courageous work of a Halifax company of riflemen prevented another big explosion in the harbor. . The men aboard the ship threw the burning car,go overboard and checked the flames berore tney coma spreaa to the hulls. The vessel was taken to sea today and sunk. - CREW OF BELGIAN SHIP TELLS . HOW BLAST WAS CAUSED HALIFAX, Dec. 10. Members of the crew of the Belgian steamer Imo assert that the French munitions steamer Mont Blanc was to blame for the collision which caused the terrible explosion last Thursday. Employes of Pickf ord and Black, agents of the Imo, who have been providing the crew with clothes and other comforts, made public today the stories told them by the seamen. Their vision of the tragedy follows: "The Imo was proceeding down the harbor toward the sea when the Mont Blanc was seen coming toward her. apparently 6teaming for the Bedford Continued On Page Seven.

History" Shown in New Proofs

death left by the German army on the lands of innocent and defenseless people. The book is supplemental also to the official reports by the Belgian Commission . and the French minister of foreign affairs, and it reveals more of the damning German war' philosophy as expressed in the German white book and various official utterances, extenuating revolting crimes on the grounds of expediency and the advancement of that "kultur" which now mocks Its own name throughtout the civilized world. The humanity of German soldiers was so torn by the system of brutality that they cried out in letters to Ambassador Gerard, one expressing his protest against the slaughter of the Russians in the Maurian

LONDON, Dec. 10. Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, announced in the House of Commons today that Jerusalem after being surrounded on all sides by British troops had surrendered.

(By Associated Press) The capture of Jerusalem by the British forces marks the end, excepting two brief Interludes, of more thai: 1.200 years -possession cf ne seat cf the Christian religion by the Mohammedans. For 073 years he Holy City has been in undisputed ownership o; the Turks, the last Christian rulei of Jerusalem being the German emperor, Frederick II, whose shnrt-lived domination lasted from 1229 to 1244 Apart from its connection with the campaign being waged against Turkey bv the British in Mesopotamia, tue fall of Jerusalem was t"e definite collause of the long proaracted efforts of the Turks to capture the Suez canol and invade Egypt. Almost tho first n-.ove made by Turkey after her entrance into the war was a campaign against Egypt across the Great Desert of the Sinai peninsula. In November, 1914, a Turkish army, variously estimated at trorr. 75,000 to 250,000 men, marched on the Sues canal and succeeded in reaching within striking distance of be great artificial waterway at several pofnts. For

Richmond Women Gave Sweaters To Ten Men Lost on Jacob Jones

Ten of the sailors who perished en the United States Destroyer Jacob Jones, when it went down, possessed sweaters which had been knitted by Richmond v omen. One of the survivors also owned a Richmond-made sweater. Last fall Mrs. Robert L. Study, while returning from Cincinnati with her mother, met William Graves, a petty officer of the Jacob Jones, who told the women how the sailors needed sweaters. ' Ha said when sweaters were distributed there were not enough to go around and that eleven of them had to go without. The names of those who had no sweaters he gave as follows: George Pote, Archer Leedy, D. R. Carter, Harry Favreau, Joseph Mendes, Doc Kearney, Emmett Smith, Adolph Phillips, G. C. Merkle. John Cooney and Fred J. Gear. D. R. Carter is the only reported survivor of these eleven men. Made Personal Gift. Mrs. Study Immediately started a movement to supply these sailors with sweaters, giving women the names so it could be made a personal gift. The name of Graves, who said his Called Out of City to Attend Funeral Third Time in Year For the third time within one year Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Buck, of Richmond, have been called out of the city to attend the funeral of a close relative. They received word Sunday of the death in Cincinnati of Miss Delia Clough, of Harvard, Mass.; an aunt of Mr. Buck's. They left Monday to attend the funeral, which will be held Tuesday. One year ago they, were summoned to Cincinnati by the death of Mr. Buck's father, Dr. J. B. Buck, a prominent physician and Mason. TEXAN IS NOMINATED WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. Thomas B. Love, of Dallas, Texas, was nominated to be assistant secretary of the treasury to fill, one of the new offices created by the war. lakes and swamps by saying. "There is no God, there is no morality, and no ethics any more; there are no human beings any more;, but only beasts." The illuminating . reports . of Brand Whitlock, minister, Belgium, tell of miseries inflicted upon the Belgian people, Mr. Whitlock saying: "One is so overwhelmed with the horror of the thing itself, that it has been, and even now is, difficult to write calmly and justly about it." Hoover's Harrowing Tale. Herbert Hoover, writing for thi3 book of his experiences In Belgium, says: "The sight of the destroyed homes and cities, the widowed and fatherless, the destitute, the physical misery of the people but partially

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months bitter fighting took place, the canal being defended by , an AngloEgyptian army aided by Australians and New Zealanders and French and British forces. -The Turks were defeated and have been driven back steadily since. In sentimental and romantic aspects the capture of Jerusalem far exceeds the fall Of fable-crowned Bagdad. The modern city of Jerusalem contains about 60,000 inhabitants ar?d is the home of pestilence, filth and fevers, but in historic interest it naturally ! surnasses to the Christian world all ether places In the world. Since the days when Joshua wrested it from hands of Jebusites, to make it the capital of the Jewish race,1 Jerusalem has been the prize and prey of half the races of the Vorld- It bas passed successively into the hands of the Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Persians, Arabs, Turks, the motley crowds of the Crusades, finally td fail before the descendants cf that Richaid the Lion Hearted, who strove in vain for its possession more than 700 years ago. .. ' home was in Chicago is not given in the ship'6 crew. Mrs. Study says it is possible that he was not on the ship, a he was expecting then to be tranferred to a larger ship soon. Mrs. Lewis Reynolds, Mrs. Omar Murray, Mrs. Study and Mrs. Joe Hill were the Richmond women who knitted the sweaters. COLD CLAIMS ONE VICTIM Joseph Burns, a laborer employed by the Pennsylvania railroad company, is believed to have frozen to death in the blizzard which struck Richmond and Wayne county Saturday night Burns was found lying beside the railroad tracks near Pershing, Ind., early Sunday morning by a west bound Pennsylvania train crew. No evidence that he had been murdered or that he committed suicide was found. He was taken to the Wright Bros, morgue of Cambridge City. Burns was seen intoxicated in Cambridge Saturday night, and according to evidence obtained by Coroner Morrow. who is investigating the case, was refused drinks because of his condition. Only a slight scalp wound, on his head, was found and there were no marks on his neck. Coroner Morrow does not telieve, from evidence he has obtained, . that he was murdered but thinks that be froze to death in the blizzard. - It is said that Burns has received his wages Saturday morning. No money was found on him by Conductor Esky of the train crew who picked him up. It may be necessary to hold an autoposy over the body. INTEREST RATE BOOSTED WASHINGTON. Dec. 10. The federal farm lean board announced an ii crease in interest rate to farmers fron five to five and one-half percent. nourished at best, the deportation of men by tens of thousands to slavery in German mines and factories, the exuetion of men and women for paltry effusions of their loyalty to their country, the sacking of every resource through financial robbery, the fattening of armies on the slender produce of the country, the denudation of the country of cattle, horses and textiles; all these things ve had to witness, dumb to help other than by protest and sympathy, during this long and terrible time, and still these are not the events of battle heat, but the effects of a grinding heel of a race demanding the mastership of the world. All these things are known to the world but what can never be known is the dumb

m COAL FOR HOMES WHICH HAVE PLENTY Fuel Controller Bates Also Orders Dealers to Limit Sales to One Ton. Richmond families who Jhave coal in their bins will not be allowed to purchase more until their present supply is nearly exhausted, under orders issued Monday to retail coal dealers by County Fuel Administrator, Bates. ' No persfiKMrtn be allowed -to purchase more tnsa one xon or ccai at a time. ' '.V'V'-...'; ' ' . " -This acMon was taken by the fuel administrator to prevent a possible coal famine and resultant suffering as the supply of coal in Richmond is not expected to last more than two weeks with the added demand for coal cause 1 by the gas shortage. Gas Still Low Richmond's gas supply was still at a low ebb Monday and many families were unable to cook on gas stoves. the administrator said. The supply was far below normal and was little tetter than it was Saturday There is less than 2,000 toss of coal in Richmond coal yards and it is believed that this supply soon will be exhausted with the increased demand caused by the gas situation. Many persons in the city have a sufficient supply to last them several weeks or icnger but despite this fact have been ordering more to make up for what already been consumed. These persons will not be allowed tJ purchase more coal until they show that their supply is exhausted. Says Tie Unpatriotic Mr. Bates characterizes the action of these persons who attempt to keep their bins filled at all. times while ethers must go without any coal as most unpatriotic and deserving the ut most condemnation. N. H. Johnson, manager of the Rich mond Light, Heat & Powe Company, taid Monday that if pas consumers used gas for cooking purposes only the supply would be adequate. Mr. Bates was informed fcy officials of the Loaran Gas Compary, which Supplies Richmond and a number of other cities in eastern Indiana, with natural gas that an adequate supply would be flowing through the mains by Monday morning. The officials said that all industries on the lines would be cut off with the exception of one concern in Dayton, which is working on government contracts. However, the situation was little better than it was Saturday or Sunday. ARMISTICE SIGNED BERLIN, Dec. 10. Military officials of the Central Party have signed an armistice with the Russian and Roumanian armies on the Rumanian front betwten the Dniester river and the mouth of the Danube,-the war office officially announced today. of German agony of the people, the expressionless faces of millions whose souls have passed the whole gamut of emotions. And why? Because these, a free and democratic people, dared plunge their bodies before the march of autocracy." Frederick C. Walcott's description of devastated Poland comprehends the monstrous woes inflicted by the Prussian system upon those defenseless people. ; In a statement prepared for the book. Vernon Kellog said: "i went low Belgium and occupied Frar ce a neutral, and I maintained - whllf - there a steadfastly neutral behavior, but I came out no neutral. 1 went in also a hater of war, but. I came cut a more ardent hater of war; but, aiEO I came

MEW REVOLT BREAKS OUT IN RUSSIA; RAISE ARUES Generals Kaledines, Korniloff and Dutof f Waging War on Boshevik Dements in the Nation. MANIFESTOlS ISSUED

By Associated Press) Civil war has broken out in Russia and the Bolshevik! regime apparently will be put to the test. The Petrograd government has issued a proclamation announcing that Generals Kaledines, Korniloff and Dutoff have begun a re-' volt in southeastern European Russia." The Bolshevik! announcement de dares that the Constitutional Demo, crats are assisting the hetraan of tho Don Cossacks and his fellow military leaders, who are said to aim at cutting off food supplies and in seizins: power from the Black nea to the Ural mauntams, as well as in the Caucasus. Bolshevikl troops have, been ordered to take the field against the counter revolutionists. - . Gneral Kaledines is said to be collecting his forces and it is inferred that their objectives Inclode Moscow, General Dutoff is leading tho revolt in the province of Orenburg and is nceavoring to cut the Trans-Siberlal railway at Tcheliabinsk. Two towns in the Caucasus are besieged by forces under General Karauloff. Extremists Arrested In Orenburg the Bolsheviki leaders have been arrested and the soldiers under them disarmed. In the new Ukrainian republic the middle class is reported to be assisting Gereral Kaledines in opposition to the workmen' and soldiers' councils. The proclamation of the Bolshevikl denounces the Constitutional Democratic party and its leaders, including Michael Rodzlanko, the former president of he duma, and Paul N. Milukoff, tae former foreign minister. It had not been unexpected in the European capitals that a strong effort would be made to oust the Bolshevikl from power. For some time Genera! Kaledines has been gathering bis forces in the Don region, . whre be has been joined by former armv officers end leaders of the old provisional gov emment, ' and has ' been reported . to hold most of. Russia's- food"aadh6 probably controls the Don coal region and a great portion of the srain growing territory around the Black and Caspian seas. LENINISTS CALL ON PEOPLE TO HELP CHECK UPRISING LONDON. Dec. 10. The counter revolt in southeastern Russian, under the leadership of generals Kaledines, Dutoff and Korniloff, apparently is aimed at seizing the authority in that region and in cutting off food supplies from Siberia. According to the proclamation of the Bolshevikl government. General Kaledines forces are menacing Ekaterinoslav, Kharkov and Moscow. la the province of Orenburg the Eolsheviki have been, overthrown by General Dutoff. Tcheliabinsk, an important railway center in northeastern Orenburg, is besieged by General Dutoff's troops. In the Caucasus General Karauloff is attacking Tchechenrev and Ingusher. Calls 'Em "Enemies of People." The proclamation says that the "enemies of the people" have undertaken a last attempt to destroy the cause of peace and says that the constitutional (Continued on Page Twelve.) Car of Coal Seized by New Parts Folks When Fuel Runs Out NEW PARIS, Dec. 10. New Paris citizens, including the postmaster, their supply of coal exhausted and their houses cold, Sunday seized a carload of coal which had been stand ing on the tracks for ten days. Twenty-five tons were distributed Sunday, and records of the sales kept. Monday, Frank Miller, the village marshal, was in charge of the distribution of the fuel and only one ton a family was allowed. A record of the sales is being kept by L. J. Reld, NewParis merchant, and , the owners of the coal will be reimbursed. The car contained seventy-five tons. Numerous families Sunday wer forced to stay in bed all day because their houses were cold. The coal famine has been very severe here and Sunday the car of coal which had been standing on the tracks for tea days was raided. Atrocities cut with ineradicable conviction, again that the only way in acich Germany under its present rule arid In its pres. ent state of mind can ba kept from doing what it has done :-s by fores ot arms." - - - ' The book gives excerpts from th diaries of German soldiers, of which these are specimens: "in he night of Aug. 18-19 the village of Saint-Maurice was punished for having fired on German soldiers- by being burned to the ground by the German troops. -The village was surrounded, men posfe ed about h yard from one ar other, to that no one could get out. Then tho Lhlans get fire to it house by house; neither man, woman nor child couhj - ' Continued On Page Nine.