Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 36, 24 December 1917 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, DEC 24, 1917

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FOE STRIKES BREMTA LINE

(By Associated Press) Checked In their attempt to drive through the Italian flank east of the Brenta by the brilliant feat of the Italians last week in re-capturing the Asolone heights, the Oermans have now switched their attack to the Brenta west bank.

Striking suddenly yesterday In this quarter they crushed through the Italian lines on the Asiago plateau in the Ticinity of Buso, where the Frenzela valley affords a route through the Brenta valley. . . J Had they succeeded in driving southeast down the Frenzela valley to the Brenta and Balstagna. three miles distant, where the valleys submerge the Italian line of both sides or the Brenta would have been in serious straits. The Rome war office, however, reports the enemy checked. A counter stroke is proceeding with satisfactory results the Italian statement declares. - On the lower Piave the enemy has suffered a reverse at the point where he had driven his line near to Venice. The Italians In this sector carried out an operation yesterday as the result of which the enemy group which had sought the old Piave river, wtre ousted from their foothold on the west bank, and thronw back to the easterly side of the stream. Raiding operations by both sides are being continued on the Franco-Belgian front and there is considerable aerial activity.

LYNN, IND.

Misses Madge Mann and Esther Phillip are home from Terre Haute, where they have been attending school Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Gray of Farmland, spent Saturday night with P. D. Gray and family Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shade left Friday for Winter Haven, Fla., to spend the winter.... Mr. and Mrs. Howard Longfellow, who have been In Jackson, Fla., are here visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Hiatt Mr. and Mrs. Newton Reed and son Ed, attended the funeral of a relative at Greenville, O., Saturday. . . . .Mr. and Mrs. Earl Robblns of Dayton, O., are home to spend Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. John Cooper.... The funeral of Benjamin Hollingsworth was held Sunday morning at the Friends church. Burial was at Quaker (Lynn) cemetery Several Lynn soldiers are home to spend the Christmas vacation with their parents and Mont Bowen of Camp Taylor, and Joan Cox of Camp Shelby.

Socialist Paper in Berlin Closed For Hitting Food Ruler AMSTERDAM, Dec. 24. The Berlin Socialist newspaper Vorwaerts has been obliged by the government to suspend publication for three days. - Vorwaerts, in a recent article, attacked the system of the German food controller, Von Waldow, declaring that great masses of German people

were not only hungry but were literally starving. It also accused the "war profiteers and millionaires" of hoarding great supplies of food.

HARRY M'LEAR MADE CORPORAL

Harry McLear, son of Mr. and Mrs. George McLear, National Road East, who is in the Rainbow Division in France, writes to his parents that he has been made a corporal. "I am feeling great and like it fine. The government is doing everything within its power to make it comfortable as possible for us," he writes. He had been an orderly at regimental headquarters since the middle of October. Of his promotion he writes: ' It surely was a big surprise to me. I wasn't really expecting anything like that at all, but now that I am started I am going to keep right an going." He describes his Thanksgiving dinner and the minstrel show afterward

in glowing terms. A 210 gallon hogs

head of cider was opened in the afternoon for his regiment. He wisheB all his friends and acquaintances a happy holiday season.

DAIRYMEN

' A meeting of all retail dairymen of Wayne county is called by Food Administrator Ed. J. Weidner, Wednesday night at the Commissioners court room at the court house. The nature of the business to be taken up has not been announced.

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SIMMONS CASE IS DISMISSED

An investigation of the case of Mrs. Julia Taylor Simmons by Frank T. Strayer, prosecutor, showing a , misunderstanding, led to the dismissal of the case in the Wayne County Circuit court Monday, the bankers not desiring to push it. ' Strayer found that Mrs. Simmons had gone to a bank at Moore land, Ind., asking to give ber note for $200. The bank agreed to do so, with the under

standing that she get her mother's

signature on the note as security. The banker gave her a check book, which led her to believe that she could check on the account, so before getting her mother's signature she wrote a check on the Mooreland bank through a Richmond bank. Upon presenting the note to her mother she refused to act as security. She was brought here by Sheriff Carr, who went to Buffalo, N. Y, with requisition papers from Governor Goodrich to bring Mrs. Simmons to Richmond.

18 Percent of Ships - on Way to Water i WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. The government shipbuilding program on Dec. 1 was 18.2 per cent on its way to completion, as exposed today in an analysis of statistics supplied by the shipping board to the senate commerce

Investigating progress of

committee

the work. ' The program, calling for 8,246,308 tons of shipping, is divided as follows: Wood and composite vessels, 427 of 1,561,000 tons, 10 per cent, completed; requisitioned steel ships, 431 of 2,966,008 tons, 39 per cent, completed; contract steel ships, 627 of 3,638,400 tons, 4 per cent, completed. The percentage of completion as

given above does not take into account the construction of new shipyards in Which many of the vessels wlll.be built, or work done toward obtaining engines, boilers and other equipment. . . Of the ships contracted for, four have been launched, two steel and two wood.

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8TRJKE AVERTED.

SAN FRANCISCO, " Dec. '24. A threatened strike of 10,000 metal trades unionists engaged in industries other than shipbuilding was Imminent here, according to officials of -the Iron Trades council, 'when fourteen of the thirty-five foundries that would-have been affected by the walkout' granted demands for a 10 per cent, aditional wage increase.

GOAL OUTPUT EXCEEDS 1916

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. While several sections of the country actually are suffering for want of coal, mines producing bituminous coal turned out more during November than in any month in history, with one exception, the geological survey reported today. These mines are practically one month ahead of the 1916 production, and if the present output is maintained production this year will be 9 percent in excess of last year. The average daily production, the report says, was 1,872,000 tons and it was attained through the increase in the output in Illinois, Indiana and western Kentucky. Much of the increase In Illinois and Indiana is attributed to the fact that the miners had just returned from the strike in effect during October. The year's output to Octoberl, is estimated at 602,910,000 tons.

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Greetings Folks

The joyous day of Christmas is almost here Christmas the day that gladdens life and puts us all in the happiest of moods. Christmas the great festival day for all humanity and on this Christday day may you be gladdened with gifts and good cheer is our Xmas wish for you and to all we wish a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year.

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