Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 40, 28 December 1917 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, DEC. 28, 1917.

UNION SERVICES FOR PRAYER TO BE UNDERTAKEN Richmond Protestant Churches to Conduct Four Meetings Next Week.

The program for the week of prayer to be observed In Richmond Monday, Tuesday. Thursday and Friday evenlugs of next weak, was announced Thursday afternoon at a meeting of the Evangelistic committee of the Ministerial association at the Y. M. C. A. The observance of the weeR Is In accordance with a request of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. The meetings will be held In the Reid Memorial church at 7:30 o'clock and will be open to the public C. F. Hut chin s will have charge of the song service. Ministers whose churches are affiliated with the Ministerial association will be the speakers. The program will be as follows: Monday Evening Rev, J. S. Hill. Reid Memorial, leader: Charles M. Woodman. West Richmond Friend? church. "Thanksgiving and Confession." (For the unnumbered mercies of the year now closing despite the awful antagonism of war, for the ever widening circle of brotherhood In Christ.) Tuesday Evening Rev. H. L. Overdeer, Grace M. .. leader; Rev, J. J. Rae. First Presbyterian, speaker; "Ths Church Universal One Body of which Christ is the Head." Wednesday Evening Rev. E. E Davis, Second Presbyterian, leader: Rev. F. A. Dressel. First English Lutheran, speaker: "Nations and Their Rulers." Prayer, "That the purposes of God in Christ may be sought and known among nations, that. In the development of their national ideals, the nation may find Christ. That effort for the establishment of lasting peace among nations may be divinely guided That reconstructions may bo considered and effected with due regard to the word of God and the things which are eternal. That the burdens of rulers and those who may influence public opinion maybe laid upon thehears of Christians everywhere. For smaller nations sorely troubled and suffering through war. For all servants of the community." Thursday Evening Rev. John R. Webb, East Main Street Friends, leader; Rev. R. L. Semans, First M. E., speaker, "Families, Schools, Colleges and the Young." Friday Evening Rev. F. W. Rohlflng. St. Paul's Lutheran, leader: Rev. L. E. Murray. First Christian. "Home Missions." Woman Tried to Hide Smallpox Case in Hoase A few cases of smallpox still are developing in Richmond but the total number is very small now, says Health Officer Smelser. Dr. Smelser Thursday found a woman who was hiding a case of smallpox in her home. The victim was the daughter of the house. Tha mother had requested relatives and other members of the family to say nothing about the case. Such instances and a few violations of the quarantine laws prevent the disease from disappearing entirely. Farmers Are Asked to Raise Sheep to Help Relieve Wool Famine Wayne county farmers are to be appealed to by the Council of Defense to help relieve the nation-wide shortage of wool. Defense Chairman Churchell Thursday was asked to enroll the names of all Wayne county farmers who are able to handle from five to 200 ewes to be deliverd in April or May. They will be furnished at their usual cost and will be approved by the state veterinarian's department and an agent of Purdue university. Pettis A. Reid. of Richmond, has been prominent in the work of 6heep conservation. Rohe, Mssing Since September, in Navy News that Elmer Rohe, Richmond boy, who disappeared in September. wm serving in the navy, came as a Christmas gift to his relatives. Rohe is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Rohe, living on the National road, east. Rohe had been employed in Indianapolis prior to his enlistment in the navy. Baffled In his attempt to gain entrance into the officer's training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, because of his age, he joined the navy. From September until a few days ago his relatives did not know what had become of him 'afid every effort wr.s made to locate him. Rohe, however, wanted to surprise his parents and waited until be was comfortably established, in camp and had gotten one promotion before telling them. His relatives were not opposed to his enlisting, however. -We're all proud of him." George H. Rohe, member of the firm of Bartel and Rohe, who Is a brother, said Friday. The young sailor Is now corporal of the "seaman a guard and is in charge of about 6ix men. He is stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Training station near Chicago and expects to soon see active service. Wooden Ship'Program Is "Complete Failure it WASHINGTON. Dec. 28. The wooden ship building program was pictured as an almost complete failure today by Rear Admiral F. A. Bowles, assistant rononl manager of the emergency immnniinn tt!fvlncr At the sen ate commerce committee's " investigation of snip building.

Belated Christmas For Cavalrymen Who Drove Off Bandits

MAREA. Tex.. Dec 28. Col. George T. Laagaorne's cayalry troops will enJoy a belated Christmas dinner today. At each officer and soldier, mess will be read CoL Laagaorne's order praising the men of the cavalry command who participated In the pursuit of the Mexican, band which raided the Brite Ranch store and postoffice killing three civilians on Christmas eve. After killing or wounding or driving into the mountain the entire bandit band the cavalry troops returned to their outposts along the Rio Grande last night to resume the routing of their patrol duties. With the killing of the IS bandits, the wounding of as many more and the pursuit of the remaining raiders far into the Mexican mountains, the Big Bend district passed a quiet night last night for the first time since Christmas Eve. For 96 hours every soldier and practically every able bodied civilian had been on constant duty, sleeping on their arms, ready for instant action. TWO ATTORNEYS TAKE WAR JOBS Wilfred Jessup, widely known in Indiana as a corporation attorney, left Thursday for Washington to assume his duties in the emergency fleet corporation of the shipping board. Attorney Jescup was appointed some time ago. It is understood that a Philadelphia attorney and Mr. Jessup wi'J be at the head of the legal department of the shipping board. Frederick G. White, member of the same law firm as Mr. Jessup will leave Thursday nigbt for Washington. He has been appointed to the approval section of the signal corps. Neither Mr. White or Mr. Jessup will sever bis connection with the law firm. Mrs. Jessup and Mrs. White will remain in Richmond. $5 BUSHEL FOR SEED IS ENOUGH LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 28. "Corn growers who ask more than $5 a bushel for their seed corn will be classed as profiteers by the government," declared Professor G. I. Christie, state food director, today. This practically means that a maximum price of $5 a bushel has been placed by the government on this seed, because profiteering will not be tolerated federal authorities have decreed. As the result of a recent conference between Director Christie and the secretary of agriculture, it was anticipated that some farmers would ask high prices for seed corn. "Unusual or exorbitant prices will not be the order In Indiana," said the director. "It is the feeling of the government heads that good seed , corn should retail to the farmers at a price not to exceed $5. I received word only this morning that one former in a neighboring county was demanding $4 a bushel for old corn as it came from the crib. This is not only an exorbitant price but it is unpatriotic for anyone to demand such returns. Old corn has a market value of $1.80. To market this and secure other feed of equal value, the farmer might claim 15 or 20 cents a bushel. For Inconvenience, labor and time in dealing with individuals, the farmer might ask an additional 60 cents. The government will expect the farmers to be reasonable in the depenging of their products Just as they are expecting bakers, grocers and all others to be." HENCH SPEAKS AT MEMORIAL SERVICE Annual memorial service for tbe Sol Meredith post, G. A. R., and the Woman's Relief Corps were held Thursday night in the post rooms at the court house. Samuel M. Hench, of Ft. Wayne, commander of the Indiana department, and John L. Rupe. eulogized the twenty-one members of the post who have died within tbe last year. Vacant chairs representing the twenty-one members were draped with flags with a laurel wreath on each one. The army record of each of the comrades was read and following each reading, taps were sounded on a muffled drum. The woman's organization held their service first. Five readings were made by Mesdames Minnie Hall, Nancy Hazelton, and Ruby Smith on the five members of the Woman's Relief Corps who have died. TWO JOIN ARMY, ONE JOINS NAVY Two men have enlisted recently at the Army recruiting office and one at the Navy office. Gordon Borton, 232 Maple street, West Richmond, and Vernon Eubank. Richmond, left for Indianapolis Wednesday morning, to take the Army examination. William G. Rikhard, 3 Laurel street, enlisted in the Navy Thursday morning with Chief Gunner's Mate Goldfarb, recruiting officer. Rikhard will leave sometime in January to take his final exams. MARSHALL WILL 6PEAK NEW YORK. Dec. 28. Vice President Thomas R. Marshall, and Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, will be the principal speakers tonight at the eighty-ninth annual convention dinner of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Secretary Baker is a former president of the fraternity and Vice President Marshal has been a member for many years.

"M ARSE HENRY" SENDS CHEERIO BOYS JUAYLQR Characteristic Greetings of Season Written by Famous Editor.

Henry Watterson. "Marae Henry." famous Louisville editor, was cho6en to express Christmas greeting of the middle west to the soldiers in the Lincoln division, encamped at Camp Zachary Taylor. Here is a copy of the greetings he sent to each man in camp: THE COURIER JOURNAL LOUISVILLE Gentlemen of the Lincoln Division! Soldiers of the American Uunion! As Santa Claus desigate of the President of the United States, of the Red Cross society and of "The Old Lady At The Corner" I shall speak, in transmitting these Christmas hearttributes from many mid-Western homes officially as a Saint; but, as your comrade older in service, your fellow-oountryman and fellow-citizen let me speak personally as a man. You have taken the field with the generous unreflecting ardor of youth. With some of you it is devotion to tho cause; with others the spirit of adventure; with all that sense of patrio tic duty, which, as a blessed legacy and birthright, God has implanted in the bosom of each loyal eon of the soil. Presently you will cross the ocean and come upon a land made to all seeming for mortal delectation tor merry song and dance and careless gayety yet war-worn, woe-clad, bloodstained because of nearly four long frightful years resisting invasion, defending its own, and whilst fighting for world peace, "fighting for France." Take it to yourselves, dear lads, what that means to the French people, what, the situation reversed, it would mean to you, and, when you get there, recall that the situation was reversed; that except for France the American Union would not now exist, and, the case thus simplified, doubt not the issue or the result. No foe can stand against you. Angels keep you company. Heaven smiles upon you. Beneath the tri-color. twice expanded, you march to the blended music of "The Star Spangled Banner" and "La Marseillaise"! It goes to my heart that all of you will not return. But I have been a soldier myself and full well I know the soldier's end of it. It is required that no one of us has more than one time to die. Each man-at-arms with his rifle takes his life in his hands. Happy he who falls upon the field of glory for he shall learn how sweet it is to die for one's country. "Not man, nor monarch half so proud As he whose flag becomes his shroud." Good luck and God bless you, dear boys! You are going on a man's errand in the service of Humanity and Freedom. Never was war more Justified, never call to battle less selfish and sordid. Above you shine the twin stars of Bethlehem and the Republic your banner carries the name of Lincoln the dear ones at home follow you with tender, brightening eyes. They love you and are proud of you, wholly sure that you will make good. The past of your country is secure. Sons and grandsons of heores, the future is with you! Let your word be "Over the top" and "On to Berlin," not forgetting the pious adjuration "To Hell with the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs!" With never a fear and Christmas cheer, Affectionately your friend. HENRY WATTERSON. Christmas Eve, Nineteen Seventeen. Christmas Day Sad For Germany's Poor GENEVA, Dec. 2S. Features of the German Christmas, according to news from across the frontier, were women and children openly begging in the snow-covered streets for food to appease their hunger, and riots in some of the towns. Only the rich enjoyed a good but ordinary dinner, and for this they paid high prices, as much as $50. Most of the churches In Germany were closed owing to lack of coal. ALBUS HONORED BY DEFENSE COUNCIL Secretary Albus has been made a member of the speakers' bureau of the State Council of Defense. Word was received Thursday by the secretary from J. J. Pettijohn of the educational committee of the council, notif ying him of his appointment. Thousands of Copies of Books Seized in Raid onl.W.W.Room CHICAGO, Dec. 28. Some of the results, of the recent raid of the head-, quarters of the I. W. W. here were made known by federal officials today. Among the tons of literature seized were 50,000 copies of "Sabotage." a book by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn of New York, now under indictment for conspiracy against the government. Thousands of copies of another book called "Sabotage," by Emll Pouget, were seized. Vast quantities of stickers inscribed "Dont be a soldier be a man," new I. W. W. song books and plates from which they were printed also were taken. The Michigan Central railroad today sent warnings to all points on its lines giving notice of an alleged "I. W. W." plot to destroy grain elevators during the holidays. As a result special police have been detailed to guard every grain elevator in Chicago.

Kaiser Left Hour Too Early to Get Caught by Raiders GENEVA, Dec. 28. The German

Emperor, returning with bis staff from the Verdun front, had a narrow escape during tbe reprisal raid of a British air squadron on Mannheim Christmas eve, according to a dispatch from Basel. Only about an hour earlier the Em peror's special train left the station, which was partly destroyed by several bombs. A section of the tracks was torn up, cutting communication north In fact, the Emperor's train was th? last to leave Mannheim, and no trains arrived at Basel yesterday from that city. Two bombs fell on tbe palace and one on the suspension bridge across the Neckar River, both structures being badly damaged. An ammunition factory In a north ern suburb was blown up. Few per sons were killed here, however, as the employes were having a holiday. A considerable number of persons were killed or injured within the town and several were blown into the Rhine. NO FURTHER CALL UNTIL FEB. 1 5 The sixty-five Richmond men who have been certified for military service, under the old draft regulations, and who have been awaiting to be ordered into training, will not be sent to training camp before February 15, if they are sent at all, under a new ruling received by the Richmond selective army board Friday. The men may get the benefit of the new draft regulations and be classified to their status in civil life according the new ruling, if the draft machinery is delayed and all classifications are delayed until after February 15. V Tbe ruling means that the sixty-five men here will be required to fill out questionnaires as are all other registrants. However, the men will not be classified unless the classification of all men has been completed before the next call for deferred percentages of men from the original quota is made. UNDERHILL WILL GET JURY TRIAL Alfred Underhill, of water main fame, will be tried next Monday by a jury in city court on a charge of selling impure and tainted meat. The case was to have been tried Thursday but was continued on the motion of Undehill for a jury trial. The notorious butcher is alleged to have sold impure pan sausage to Clifford, 411 North Twentieth street. A neighbor of Gwin's thought some animal was dead around the house when she vl3ited there shortly after Gwin had brought the meat to his home. Underhill, in court Thursday, also claimed that Mayor Robbins was prejudiced against him and asked that a different judge be appointed to hear the case when it comes to trial. Mayor Robbins appointed William Marsh, justice of the peace, special judge to hear the case. Underhill agreed to the appointment of Marsh as did Pros ecutor Strayer. T. P. A. TO HAVE BENEFIT DANCE Members of the T. P. A. and their friends are invited to attend a warfund benefit dance at the Coliseum Fri day night. A part of the proceeds will go to ward the Red Cross and a portion to other war funds. Soldiers and sailors in uniform will be admitted free. ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH COLLECTS $500 Offerings were taken Tuesday In St. Andrew's and St Mary's churches At the St. Andrew's church $500 was received for the maintenance of the orphanages at Terre Haute and Vincennes. The St. Mary's offering will be announced Sunday in the church. MEMBERS OF Continued From Page One-l recommendations for guaranteeing the roads a net earning equivalent to the avera-V3 cf the last three years, the government will be obligated to the extent of $918,424,885, the average annual earning of al the roads for the three years ending uJne 30 last. Under his dual duties assumed today, Wm. G. McAdoo will spend half his time in his officev in the treasury building as secretary of the treasury and the balance of the working day at new headquarters to be established in the interstate commerce commission building as director-genral of railroads. He expects, to work out some schedule of office hours to fit both functions. Possibly, Mr. McAdoo will be director-general of railroads in the morning and then ride down Pennsylvania avenue to tbe treasury and be a cabinet secretary in tile afternoons. NO CHANGE MADE IN OPERATION OF PENNSYLVANIA HERE "When the government took over the railroads at noon Friday there was no change in tbe Richmond division' of the Pennsylvania. Chief Clerk Green said Friday. ."Things will go on just as they have been going on." i

ANNUAL DINNER CALLED OFF TO CONSERVE FOOD Other Methods of Raising Mony to Be Used Three Carloads of Coal in.

CENTERVILLE. Ind.. Dec. 28. Other methods of raising funds for the maintenance of Bryant's Cemetery will be employed this year than thfe usual New Years dinner at the town hall. Tbe abundance of food donated for that day will be conserved in homes for a longer period of time. The election of officers was held at Emma Kitterman's home Wednesday afternoon and all old officers retained. Santa Claus came to Centerville and left the best gift three carloads of coal which he put into the Dunbar coal bins for Centerville sufferers. News of the death of George Cramer at Camp Shelby. Miss., of pneumonia, has reached this place. Mr. Cramer's parents reside east of Centerville. Mr. Cramer owned property on Plum street, just back of William Welfer's residence and had moved and was remodeling a house there when be was called to service and was compelled to leave it unfinished. Evelyn Rebecca Lodge of Centerville will have degree work next Monday, after which they will enjoy a Watch party. A New Years grab bag will be prepared and every member is requested to bring a gift. Eastern Star Installation services will be held in the chapter room Friday evening. Officers as follows will be Installed: Worthy PatroD, A. M. Barr; Worthy Matron, Mrs. A. M. Barr; Assistant Matron, Mrs. D. O. King; Secretary, Mrs. Irene Parott; Treasurer, Frances Fender; Conductress, Bernice Beck; Assistant Conductress. Mrs. Cora Conkle; Chap., Mrs. Walter Cook; Warder, Mrs. Ada Tice; Pianist, Mrs. Mabel Clark; Ada, Edna Pike; Ruth, Mary Schsll; Esther Edith Burris; Martha, Bessie Buhl; Electa. Alice Wright. William Paxton and wife entertained the following to supper Christmas night, James Marshall, Charles Black and wife and son John, and Mrs. Emma Thomas, of Richmond, Robert Pet ty of Hagerstown, Earl Chamness, j wife and baby, Anna, Ira and Ernest Black of this place. Prof. Leo Tehon of Champaign, IJi," was the guest of Prof. Forest Kempton at the home of his parents here for a few days this week. Mrs. Hattie Borton was the Thursday guest of her niece, Mrs. Carrie Hort. Alice Medearls and Mrs. Myers are spending the week with their brother and other relatives in Indianapolis. Howard Meek and Paul Mathews were among the lucky number of soldier boys who were permitted to spend Christmas at home. Mrs. Brown of Greensfork, is here for a several days' visit with her daughter, Mrs. Bishop, on Plum street. Mrs. Stella Legg entertained Prof. Alfred Hall and wife of Dublin, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Green and Miss Inez Martin of Richmond to dinner Wednesday, i Court Records John Kress, 21 years old, porter, Richmond, to Mamie Porter, 20, domestic, Richmond. Ralph Leroy Holmes, 19 years old, farmer. Fountain City, to Mabel Lucile Penwell, 16, housekeeper, Richmond. Frank I. Hale, 25 years old, clerk, Richmond, to Blanche A. Plummer, 21, teacher, Richmond. Liberty Feet Are Being Developed by American Army WASHINGTON. Dec. 28. The American army at home and in France is rapidly developing liberty feet on which to march to victory. Under tbe hard work of military trainlns, soldiers' feet are expanding in length and wjdtb and some part of General Pershing's forces will do their work in number 13 and 14 shoes instead of tbe- old maximum number 12 of the regular. At his recommendation these two new big sizes have been added to the quartermaster's stock. A review of the army shoe situation issued today by the war department shows that 32,359 men examined by medical officers only fifteen percent were found to be correctly fitted with marching shoes. The following reasons for misfits arc assigned: "Inclination of men to choose shoes too small; faults in methods of supervision of fitting; insufficient numbers of larger and narrower sizes; incorrect markings of sizes by manufacturers." City Statistics Deaths and Funerals FULLE Mary Ellen Fulle. infant of Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Fulle, 515 South Eleventh street, died Thursday at the home. She, is survived by her parents and six brothers and sisters. The funeral services will be conducted from tbe home, Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. A. L. Nicklas will officiate. Burial will be in Lutheran cemetery. Friends may call at any time. The Turkish language, although spoken in many dialects, is so unaform in plan that any one who rpeaks Ottoman Turkish can be understood while traveling from European Turkey through Asia Minor and Central Asia. The Quinine That Does Net Affect Head Because of its tonic and laxative effect Laxative Bromo Quinine can be taken by anyone without causing nervousness or ringing in the head. There Is only one "Bromo Quinine." E.-W. GROVE'S signature is onbox. 30c.

Red Cross Bandages Received at Depot, Poisoned by Spies CLEVELAND. Dec 28. A plot to poison Red Cross bandages and spread wholesale death among the soldiers of America and Its allies has been exposed and frustrated here. Revelations of the conspiracy were made today when it became known that department of Justice agents were hunting the perpetrators of the deed. Three thousand four hundred surgical dressings, rolled by patriotic women in Toledo were Infected with a mysterious greenish poison while in transit between Toledo and Cleveland. Immediately every one of the 3,400 bandages were burned and every effort was made to keep the matter secret. The poisoned bandages were part of the periodical shipments received at the local headquarters of the lake division of the Red Cross headquarters in other cities in the division, which comprises Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.

PEACE TERMS Continued From Page One. counted for eleven of 33 attaching enemy machines, while emerging unscathed. German bombs and shells have brought death to three American soldiers in France. Bombs dropped on a camp resulted in the killing of two soldiers. A German shell, which dropped near a party of American engineers workirvs in trenches on the French front Christmas Eve. killed a corporal of engineers and wounded a private. Bolsheviki soldiers in Petrograd have seized all the private banks in the city, including the branch of the National City Bank of New York. R. R. Stevens, the manager of the branch, was arrested but was released later. GRIP FOLLOWS THE SNOW LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets taken in time will Prevent Grip. E. W. GROVE'S signature on box. 30c.

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PERMANENT WAR BOARD FORMED AT HAGERSTOWN Of ficrs Elected to Help Coordinate Work Oranges for Christmas.

HAGERSTOWN. Ind.. Dec. 28. A permanent war board, to have charge of soliciting funds in Jefferson township for war work, was organized at a meeting Thursday night. The organization will be part of the Wayne county organization and will be in charge of all campaigns. Leslie B. Davis was elected treasurer and Fred Murray secretary. Two chairmen from each of the voting precincts were elected. II. E. Endsley and David Hoover were elected in the First precinct; James Knapp and Moses Keever for the Second precinct; A. E. Smith and Robert Alien for the Third precinct. Dr. Frank McKinnon had oranges served at the Christmas dinner at his home which were grown on a tree in the living room of his home. The tree developed from a slip planted three years ago. It now has both green and ripe fruit hanging from its branches. The fruit i3 of the seedless variety and of excellent flavor. Sergeant Walker Kidwell, Hagerstown boy, who has been in training at Camp Grant, Rockford. III., has been appointed to the officers' traing camp at Leon Springs, Tex and will go in training to become an officer soon after the first of the new year. He has been visiting his wife and parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Kldwell, here. Bell-ans Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Druggists refund money if it fails. 25c