Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 35, 22 December 1917 — Page 1

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ICRUPP PLANT AT ESSEN IS REPORTED Tl BE BORNiN! Workmen, Arriving in Holland, Said Great Gun Factory Had Been Ablaze 24 Hours. CAUSE IS UN MAASTRICHT, Holland, Friday Dec. 21. British Admiralty per Wirelens Press. Workmen from Essen, Germany, say that the Krupp plant, the great Germany 'munitions establishment, has been ablaze for 24 hours. The great Krupp munition plant at Essen, Germany, was reported in flames today. The fire had been raging for twenty-four hours when reported by workmen arriving from Espen, according to a wireless dispatch from Maastricht. Holland. No further details were given nor was it Indicated whether the lire was duo to an entente air attack or to J other causes. BAKER HAS PLAN WASHINGTON', Dec. 22 Secretary Baker has a plan to permit farmer boys In the army, to return to tlvnr homes at periodical intervals to assist In crop production. He outlined it today to a delegation of New York farmer! who protested against conditions created by the scarcity of labor. He Also Serves Who Joins the Great RED Jf ACROSS THE WEATHER For Indiana by Unitfd States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Sunday. Not so cold Sunday. Today's Temperature. Noon 33 Yesterday. Maximum 43 Minimum 26 For Richmond and Wayne county by W. E. Moore Fair tonight and Sunday followed by increasing cloudiness. General Conditions There is no storm of consequence in the United States but a small storm hovers over the northwest. Elsewhere it is mostly fair. No severe cold weather is in pight. Zero-line extends along the Canadian border, but it is somewhat warmer than the average. .

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Bavis and His Backers to Play Santa Clans to Rest of City; Incidentally9 Alfred Gets Job?

A devoted band of prominent citizens of Richmond, having caught the Christmas spirit, are preparing a gift for the other citizens of the city. They are planning to start, shortly after the first of the year, a Bureau of municipal research, the chief executiveship of which will be offered to Alfred Bavis. retiring president of the board of works of tine Robbins' administration. Preliminary steps for the organization were taken at a meeting Friday night by Messrs, Bavis. William Dudlev Foulke. Stanley Hayes, Pettis i Reid, Will Kelley, Dr. Charles S. Bond and N. C. Heironimus. It is understood that to this imposing array of brains and wealth backing Bavis. wil be added the personality of William Bond, the retiring city attorney. According to a statement made by Mr. Foulke Saturday morning the new organization is being formed check up on the incoming Zimmerman administration, the aforesaid Zimmerman

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Leaders' Dengritct'atSptrit of Workers, Which Put City Over. Gratification at the interest shown in the effort to get 10,000 members in Wayne county was expressed Saturday by the leaders in the Red Cross campaign. Although Richomnd has more than its quota of members the committee is anxious that a larger number of memberships be enrolled by Christmas eve in order to overcome any deficiency which might arise in the county. The ideal weather Saturday helped workers in the county as well as in Richmond. ' Several Telephone 'Em. Several persons were not content to wait for solicitors but telephoned their memberships to headquarters. The increasing number of Red Crosr flags in the windows shows how general the response has been. Saturday afternoon a mass meeting for all women of Richomnd and workers in the campaign was held at the First Presbyterian church. Patriotic numbers and informal ta.lks by member of the teams and thir captains were made. Reports of the number of white ster banners in each district were made by the captain? and lieutenants. Among firms in Richmond displaying white star flags are: Nicholson Printing company, John L. Rupe, Mack Parris, Haner and Rohlfing, The Globe, Fred Grothaus Furniture Store, Thistlethwaite Drug Store. Wayne Tailoring company. Fulghum Victrola Shop, Ackerman Dry Goods Store, Jordan, McManus. Hunt and Waltermann, Greek Candy Store, Palladium Printing company. Greek Chocolate Shop, Boston Store, B. and P. Shoe Store, Kennedy Clothing Store and Romey Furniture Store. being none other than the famous "Doc." who so roundly defeated Bavis at the polls in November. - According to a seasoned old political observer, the new bureau cleverly is being organized to provide a job for Bavis and a rallying place for his gang 'for ' the next four -years until time for another - city election rolls round. , The game observer declared that "checking up on the Zimmerman administration" would amount to nothing more nor less than a recrudescence of the famous to-be-continued-in-our-next articles from the trenchant pen of the redoubtable Bavis, in wtxch any and everything Mayor Zimmerman does during his term will be lam basted good and plenty. Said lambasting being necessary in order to provide the proper setting four years hence for a heroic comeback to political power and prestige by Bavis and his gang. .. .

Neutral Sailors Used to Bear Messages Written in Code and Invisible Ink to Foe, Uncle Sam Finds

WASHINGTON. Dec. 22. An extensive traffic in written communication to Germany, Austria and the northern European neutrals, involving use of invisible ink and code systems, has been discovered and stopped by customs officials within the last few weeks, treasury officials disclosed tq-j cray. """The traffic,, it' was disclosed, "was carried on largely by Swedish ships and marine men. Scores of uersohs are now under surveillance and a number of arrests probably will Je made soon. Evidence that the channels of communications have been open ever since the United States entered the war has been uncovered and officials suspect that. Alfred Underhill. of water main fame, in city, court Saturday morning, pleaded not guilty to a charge of selling bad meat and was released on a $500-cash bond, furnished by him. The penalty on the charge is a fine not to exceed $500 and costs or a jail sentence of not more than six months. Both may be given under the law. Underhill. in city court, also requested that he be tried by a jury. And he didn't want Mayor Robbins to sit as judge- in the cose he said. A special judge, will be appointed by the mayor to bear t.hi ease, which was set for next Thursday.. Underfill was arrested on the complaint of Clifford Gwin. Ill North Twentieth r-treet. City Food Inspector McKinlry was notified and had the meat examined by two veternarians of Richmond and a government inspector. It -was found to be impure, they charge. Gwin had placed the meat aria kitchen table, without unwrapping it. when he reached his home. A neighbor woman, who visited there, said she thought there was some dead animal around the house. Underbill offered to return the money when he was telephoned to. concerning the meat. He v.-as arrested instead and taken to police headquarters. When Underhill opened his meat shop on East Main street. The Palladium refused to accept his advertisements on the grounds that it was undesirable. Since that time the notorious butcher has subjected officials of the Palladium to many mean annoyances. White Christmas isf Not in SightMoore Richmond will not have a ; white Christmas according to present weather conditions.. Weather Forecaster Moore said Saturday. However, something might appear the firat of the week, tending to change his prediction. V ' No severe cold weather is in sight, either, the rweather man said. Rain and.possibfy a light enow, which will melt as it "falls, may come some time Monday lie said. Generally fair weather is predicted for Sunday. :

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much of the information which the German government is known to have received concerning war preparations in America have been transmitted under a well organized scheme directed b: subjects of neutral countries as

sisted by some Americans, 20 Percent in Code. TwrtafV 'oefcent of the letters' writ ten in' the "United States or on ship board and heretofore sent to Europe by messenger or by a member of the ship's crew, have been found to bear messages in invisible ink, or to contain code or cryptic phrases suspected of holding hidden meaning. The discoveries were made by customs officials after having carried out a strict investigation of ships, their KAISER OUGHT TO HELP CHICAGO. Dec. 22. Socialists today began the work of raising a fund of $1,000,000, with which-to conduct 191S congressional campaign and to defend members of the socialist party who have been accused by the government of antiAmerican acts and utterances. Plans for the campaign were made last night at a meeting of the national socialist executive commit, tee. Among those who attended the meeting were Morris Hillquit of New York, and Victor L. Berger of Milwaukee. James Dillon, savings teller at the Second National bank, Saturday was appointed by Dr. W. W. Zimmerman, mayor-elect of Richmond, superintendent, of the municipal light, plant, for the next four years. C, A. Kleinknecht, the present superintendent of The plant, will be retained until Feb. . - Ed Inderstrodt, appointed city marker, master and food inspector, has resigned. Dr. Zimmerman has appointed Tom Butler, a blacksmith, to the position. He will succeed George McKinley. Masses Are Starving Says German Paper LONDON, Dec. 22. According to a Jleuters dispatch from Amsterdam, Vorwaerts of Berlin, in a plain spoken attack on the system of Herr Von Waldow, the German food controller, J declares that great masses oi uerman people' not 1 only are hungry but are literally starving. The paper adds that agricultural producers and rich residents in towns are living in plenty, as hoarding is no longer prohibited. "Every war profiteer and millionaire," says the paper, "has his kitchen and foliar full of ham and ba4in. the I middle class ekes a precarious existi ence, spending all it possesses on food, J but forty millions of the masse are i tarving and are unlikely to'sit silent.

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crews and cargoes, and the dangerous nature of many communications found on ship board wras immediately discovered. Before incoming ships were permitted to dock crews were mustered and their clothing and other personal effects examined carefully. Shore leaves were givett only by special license and every precaution taken to insure against secret passage of letters from the vessel to shore. This action, taken suddenly without notice to the crews caused the discovery of many letters which theretofore had been successfully concealed. These were subjected to examinations by chemists and code experts and one in five was found suspicious.

IDES DEMAND WAR WITH HUM

(By Associated Press) The publication of telegrams sent by Count Von Luxburg, former German minister, to the Berlin foreign office has resulted in riots in Buenos Aires, where crowds of people assembled and demanded a rupture of relations with Germany. A mob in the Salle Florida was dispersed after a fight with mounted police. Guards again have been stationed around property owned by Germans in the city and police are guarding the office of La Union, the newspaper for which Count Von Luxburg obtained a subsidy. Congress is expected to insist upon s.n explanation by the government of the conditions revealed in the Von Luxburg telegrams. HUNT WINS OFFICE PHEONTX, Ariz., Dec. 22. The Arizona supreme court today seated G. W. T. Hunt as governor of Arizona. Hunt contested the election of Governor Campbell, who now holds the office. Hunt is a democrat. flY REFUSED T NAVY WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 The government's reluctance to adopt the Lewis machine guns was described at length today by E. F. Bories, manufacturing head of the Savage Arms company, testifying at the senate military committee's investigation of the shortage on army supplies. When the Mexican border trouble began, Mr. Bories said he offered 5,500 Lewis guns to the war department but got an order for only 350 to use British ammunition. Before the United States entered the war he offered Lewis guns to the war department and was refused orders but got them from the navy department, Mr. Bories said. "I went to the war department m February," he continued, "but they

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IF TERMS TROTZKY. Bolsheviki Foreign Minister Says Kaiser Must Be Fair, Lending Color to Rumors of Peace Obstacles. DELEGATES RECALLED PETROGRAD, Dec. 22. Leon Trotzky, the Bolsheviki foreign minister, in addressing the council of soldiers and workmen, declared that if the German emperor offered "offensive" peace terms the Russians would fight against it. "We did not overthrow czarlsm to kneel before the kaiser," he declared. Continuing, he said: "But, If through our exhaustion we have to accept the kaiser's terms we would do so to rise with the German, people against German militarism." REPORT AGAIN OUT THAT RUSSIAN DELEGATES LEFT LONDON, Dec. 22. The report is reiterated today that the Russian delej gation to the peace conference at Brest-Litovsk has been recalled because the Germans would not accept the Russian terms. It is the Daily Mail's correspondent in Petrograd ' who now makes this declaration in a dispatch filed on Thursday and just received. COSSACKS AND UKRAINIANS REPORTED TO HAVE MERGED Opposition by the Ukrainians and the followers of General Kaledines to the Bolsheviki movement, together fContinued On Page Sixteen. LEWIS GUNS, PURCHASED would not do anything until after the tests ordered for May (when the new Browning gun was adopted.) The navy department also did not want to place any order at that time until after the war department tests but did order some gun mounts. .. "After war broke out we again offered guns to the- war department and were told again the tests would ba awaited. The navy department and marine corps, however, ordered a special test. They did not want to wait for the war department test and, we had a test for he navy April 5. It was successful, Admiral Earle and General Barnett stated. The test was so successful that the navy ordered on April 20, 3,500 guns Inside of three weeks. . t-

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