Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 53, 12 January 1918 — Page 1

BIGHMO P A. VOL. XLIII NO fil Palladium and Sun-Telegram AljUl.t,XNU. conolidatd 1907 RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JAN. 12, 1918. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

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RUSSIA WILL CONTINUE HER NEGOTIATIONS WITHTEUTONS That Is Her Answer to German Demands that Conference Be Held at Brest-Litovsk.

TO RAISE A NEW ARMY By Associated Press) Russia will continue negotiations at Brest-Lltovsk for a separate peace. This is her answer to the German demands that the conference remain there and the declaration of the Central Powers that the peace proposals of December 25, insofar as they affect ed Russia's allies, had been withdrawn. The decision of the Bolshevik! government to continue the negotiations with the Central Powers was announced by Leon Trotzky, the foreign minister, when he replied on Friday to the German declaration after he had obtained an adjournment to consult with his colleagues. It was Trotzky who demanded that the conference be transferred to neutral soil to get away from the German environment at Brest-Litovsk. To Raise New Army. Ensign Krylenko, the Bolsbeviki commander-in-chief, has begun a campaign to raise a volunteer army, the new force he says, will be used against the Bourgoisje of Russia and against the Germans If negotiations fail, but also to liberate the proletariat of other continental European countries. Bolsheviki troops have been defeated in the province of Tchernigov by the Ukrainians after severe fighting, but have occupied railway stations in Eouth central Russia. Prance will not Join in the peace conference at Brest-Litovsk, Stephen Pichon, foreign minister, has announced. She also will have no peace negotiations with the enemy until they make direct proposals. The French government has refused to Issue passports so that French Socialists might go to Petrograd. 'There has been no break in the monotony on the fighting front on the west. ' Raids hve taken place south

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Plave rivers. WAR WORK BOARD IS APPOINTED Mrs. M. E. B. Culbertson, chairman of the Woman's War Work of the Wayne County Council of Defense has appointed members of the new executive committee as follows: Enrollment of women's service, Mrs. Elbert Shirk; food production, Mrs. C. R. Scott; home economics,- Mrs. Paul Ross; child welfare, Mrs. Edgar Hiatt; health and recreation, Miss Rose Dougan; food administration, Miss Elsie Marshall; Liberty Loan, Mrs. Albert D. Gayle; maintaining social service agencies. Miss Flora Mae Green; war mother work, Mrs. A. W. Roach; educational propaganda, Miss Mary A. Stubbs; Red Cross and allied relief. Miss Margaret Starr; publicity, Mrs. Howard A. Dill. The advisory board appointed by the chairman when the wark first started in Wayne county will be retained and is composed of Mrs. Paul Koes, Mrs. A. W; Roach, Mrs. Elbert Shirk and Miss Elisie Marshall. SERBIA GETS TWO MILLION . WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. Total credit to the allies was raised today to $4,238,400,000 when Secretary McAdoo authorized a loan of two million tc Serbia making Serbia's total six million. THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Sunday, fair, continued cold. Today's Temperature. Noon 11 below Yesterday. Maximum 23 Minimum .2 below For Richmond and Wayne County by VV. E. Moore Partly cloudy and continued severe cold tonight and Sunday. The southwest gale will shift to the northwest. General Conditions The gTeat cold wave is moving rapidly eastward and l:as reached Pennsylvania. It extends southward to Florida and unusualy cold . weather prevails in the south. Twelve above at San Antonio, Tex., and eix below at Amarillo, Tex., and the same at Oklahoma City. ThlrtyJour below in parts of South Dakota. The mercury dropped to ,twenty-flve degrees below zero at Richmond, one degree colder than any previous record of the winter. High winds made it feel much more severe. The storm which brought the cold wave originated over Texas and pulled cold wave southward from Medicine Hat. Destructive tornadoes occurred in Georgia and Mississippi. An unusual phenomenon which occurred In Richmond during the blizzard was an electrical storm without audible thunder.

FINNISH ENVOY IS BUSY AT CAPITAL

A ' -Sc &s?r ' Dr. K. Ignacius. The commissioner from the new republic of Finland, Dr. K. Ignacius, has been busy at Washington through the past two months in his efforts to secure relief and foodstuffs for his countrymen. Dr. Ignacius is also attempting to secure, recognition from the United States for his government. He will soon be Joined by a colleague. BAKER OPPOSES MUNITIONS BOSS . WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. Establishment of a munitions director was disapproved today by Secretary Baker in testifying before the senate military committee, who said the reorganization of the war department is virtually similar to the British munitions purchasing assistant. PNEUMONIA TAKES MRS. HEITBRINK Mrs. Mary Ellen Heltbrink, 79 years old, died Friday afternoon at the home 518' South Thirteenth street of pneumonia. She has been an invalid for the last three years. ,. Mrs. Heitbrink, who .was born to Germany, came to Richmond when she was 24 years old.-r t She had been an active member of St. Paul's Lutheran church for many years Just a year ago next month the Heitbrlnks celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. She is survived by her husband, G. H. Heitbrink, two daughters, Mrs. Mary Pilgrim, of Hamilton, O., Miss Caroline Heitbrink, of Vaile school, and three grandchildren, Ellen and Marie Pilgrim and Mrs. Leonora Schwab, of Hamilton. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon from the home. Friends may call any time after Sunday noon. STORES TO CLOSE A number of Main street stores will be closed tonight. Most of the dry goods stores will close at 6 o'clock. This is done because few persons will be out and also to save fuel and light. North Dakota Schools Drop German Language FARGO, N. D., Jan. 12 Teaching of the German language will be discontinued in all public schools of North Dakota, after July 1, 1918, in accordance with a resolution adopted by the state board of education at a meeting yesterday. School boards and boards of education were requested to authorize elementary and high schools throughout the state to substitute as far as possible classes in French and Spanish. sets Five Years for False Exemption Claim INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 12. Arthur Handlon, Indianapolis. 30 years old, charged with making a false claim for exemption from draft, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment this afternoon by Federal Judge A. B. Anderson. "You are the worst kind of slacker I know," Judge Anderson said. Mrs. Sallie Thompson, who posed in the affidavit for exemption as HandIon's wife, was sent to prison for one year. George Raine, negro, who made a false affidavit for Handlon. received an 18 months' sentence. Carl Pence, negro, who also 6igned an affidavit for Handlon was sentenced to two years. Judge Anderson sentenced. Patrick Long. Indianapolis, to Jail for four months for selling liquor to soldiers. He censured District Attorney Slack for what he characterized as an effort on his part to minimize Long's offense. Slack disclaimed interest in Long's case. S. C. STIMSON ROBBED ' TERRE HAUTE, Jan. 12. One of the many houses robbed here was that of S. C. Stimson, former Judge of the superior court. The robbers obtained about $35. Mrs. Stimson heard the robber approach her bed but made no move until he had left.

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SEVEN KILLED IN TORNADO WHICH WIPES OOTVILLAGE t Twenty-Five Injured in Wind Storm Which Sweeps the Southland, Causing Damage Everywhere.

CAMPS ARE AFFECTED MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 12 Seven persons were killed and 25 injured at Cowarts, Ala., and the entire village was destroyed by a tornado today, a report received at the local office of the Atlantic Coast Line Railway said. Cowarts is six miles east of Dotban. All wires are down in the country hit by the storm. MACON, Ga Jan. 12. A tornado struck Camp Wheeler and Central City Park (State Fair Grounds) late Friday. Great damage has been done at the park. Animals from a circus wintering there are reported on a rampage. All lines to Camp Wheeler are down and the extent of the damage has not been ascertained. One freight train on the Macon, Dublin and Savanab Railroad was wrecked by the storm between Macon and Camp Wheeler. Railroad men say the tornado was followed by a cloudburst. The final message from Camp Wheeler was brought here by a taxicab driver, who said he left the 'camp in the storm. . At that time the corral of the One Hundred and Twenty-second Infantry had collapsed, killing one man. At 6 o'clock a telephone operator at Camp Wheeler informed a Macon newspaper that Divisional Headquarters was safe at that time, but that the storm was continuing. WASHINGTON; Jan. 12. All through the South the camps have been beset for the last few days by a severe storm.' In Memphis today the temperature was at zero, in Oklahoma it was - below, and in the northern part of exas, at Ft Worth and Dallas, it was 6 degrees above. WILL HEAR CASES OF ALIENS MONDAY Hearing of the eighty-one foreigners who want to become American citizens will probably begin Monday. The government examiner, who is to be present at the hearings, failed to arrive in time to start the hearings Saturday. Twelve to fifteen hearings win be held each day. Each applicant for naturalization papers will be notified in time to get two witnesses and appear in circuit court. The notices will be sent out as soon as the time for starting the hearings becomes definite. INDIA CONTRIBUTES OTTAWA, Jan. 12. More than 500,000 pounds sterling was raised for the benefit of the Red Cross in "our day" collections, according to a Reuter, Ltd. dispatch, from Delhi, India, received here. IN CIVIL SERVICE. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. Shipping commissioners at New York, Boston, Seattle and New Orleans today were put under the civil service by President Wilson on recommendation of Secretary Redfield. They were the only ones in the government service not in the classified list. AUTHOR-PREACHER, CHAPLAIN, WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, author, preacher and former U. S. minister to the Netherlands, has been commisB'.or;J chaplain In the naval reserves.- The former pastor of the Brick Presbyterian church, New York City, will have the grade of lieutenant commander. He is speaking at training camps and aboard ships of the navy. Dr. Van Dyke pleads for natioral self-sacrifice as the bit cf th fo'k' at. home who wo'M nelp win the war. He is sn opyo-.-'ni of any premature peace moves o pence talks and reiterates warnings to his listeners not to give ear to peace prattle until the kaiser has been beaten. "The pride, the greed, the ambition, the treachery and the arrogance of Imperial Germany has plunged the world into misery," he says. "That is what we are fighting against, so let us accept no peace that does not mean defeat of the enemy." In a recent sermon in NewTork he cited the coal shortage as ono of the privations with which the folk3 at home must bear and predicted it would react to the spiritual betterment of the nation. "This shortage of fuel is distinctly good for us," he declared. "It shows us how dependent we are upon each other. It makes us go down into our pockets to help others; it reduces our self-complacency, which is only an-,

Five Friends Join Army at Same Time

Seven Richmond - boys Joined the army Friday and will leave for Indianapolis, Monday. Three . who Joined were Richmond High school pupils. They are Elvin Hoerner, 312 North Seventeenth street; Harold Hiatt, 605 South - C street, and Markley Lahrman, 226 Kinsey street. . Benjamin Rost, 100. South Fifteenth and Herbert Bulach, 433 South Eleventh street, joined , the army at the same time. All five are friends. Two negroes, the first to join here also enlisted in the army Friday. They are Theo. Harris, 412 North Eighth street, and Robert Lee, 817 North E street. AMERICA'S AIR FORCE BEHIND MAJOR BISHOP MONTREAL, Jan. 12. Germany will have nothing to fear from the United States air fighting forces during the coming spring, because the American aircraft program is "far behind" Its schedule, according to Major William A. Bishop, winner of a Victory Cross, who addressed the Canadian club here today. He is credited with shooting down 45 German air. craft. Major Bishop characterized as "unfortunate" the advertising which has been given the United States Government's aircraft program. " ' ' He said that while France would find it impossible further to enlarge her airplape fighting forces during the coming half year, Germany, knowing America's intentions, has greatly expanded her flying corps in an effort to gain supremacy in air warfare. Consequently, he declared, during the next few months, Great Britain will have to face the "most terrible time she ever has faced, and especially from the point of war in the air." America's assistance in maintaining allied air fighting superiority, "may be felt" by summer, but during the spring months Major Bishop said "the United States will not be a factor for the Germans to reckon with in the air." FLAG RAISING CALLED OFF Richmond's service flag, which wat to be raised Sunday afternoon , at Eighth and Main streets, Was postponed Saturday because of the Severe cold weather. Announcement of the postponement was made by Secretary Albus of the Commercial club who said that the flag may not be raised until the weather condition becomes favorable. Bands are unable to play when the temperature, falls below the freezing mark, it is said by the patriotic committee in charge of the celebration. WAR-TIME RALLY NEXT THURSDAY A "war-time" prohibition rally will be held at the Nazarene church next Thursday afternoon and evening. J. R. Schmidt, chairman of the state "wartime" prohibitionists will deliver an address on the prohibition situation at the evening session. The rally is open to the general public. Services at Friends Church Called Off Owing to the severe cold weather there will be no services whatever at the South Eighth Street Friends' church tomorrow. MADE NAVY URGES SACRIFICES Dr. Henry Van Dyke. other form of fatty degeneration of the heart. It makes the rich man who 6hlvers in his Fifth avenue home realize that the man who digs coal is really a brother."

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ROBBERS KILL FOUR MEN IN LOOTING BANK AT ARMY POST

Victims Hacked to Pieces by Yeggs Institution in Center of Camp Funston But Crime Was Undetected. CASHIER WILL LIVE BULLETIN CAMP FUNSTON, Jan. 12. Kearney Wornall, of Kansas City, the only survivor of five men who were in the army bank here last night when the institution was robbed, today told the authorities the roibber was an army captain whom he recognized, it was announced this afternoon. It is understood he gave the officer's name. i CAMP FUNSTON, Kans., Jan. 12.-r Military police within the cantonment and officers of surrounding towns and cities today were sercWng for the men who last night killed with axea four men p.nd seriously wounded another in the army bank, on the military it-servation here, ail obtained an omount of money as yet unstated, and several Liberty Bonds. One of the robbers, it is stated, wore the uniform of a captain of the United States army, but officers do not believe a soldier was involved In commission of the crime. The bodies of the men are said to have been literally hacked to pieces. The dead are: C. Fuller Winters, vice president of the National Reserve Bank at Kansas City, Mo. John W. Jewitt, of Springfield, Mo., editor of the Camp Funston Trench and associate owner with his father, H. S. Jewett, of the Springfield Leader. - Carl Ohleson, 19 years old, son of Andred Ohleson, contractor of Kansas City, Mo. JJ. IX Hill, clerk in the bank. Oniy 'One Survive Kearney Wornall, cashier of the army bank, was seriosuly wounded. When the murders and robberies were discovered, Wornall was the only one of the five victims conscious, but he has not yet been able to give a lucid story of the occurrence. The robbery" and murders occured, it is believed shortly after. 7:30 o'clock last night. . A half hour later a sentry heard groans and investigated. Mr. Winters was still alive. He was removed to the camp hospital, where he died' early today.. Immediately a guard was thrown about the camp and all military passes were revoked. No one could go about the camp without being challenged and taken to the guard house. The fate befell several newspaper correspondents, it is reported, who attempted to obtain details. The army bank, a branch of the national reserve bank of Kansas City, Mo., is situated in the center of the big cantonments. It is housed in a small frame build ing and Mr. Winters was at the camp to supervise moving the bank to a larger quarters. DAIRYMEN ARE PROFITEERING A number of Richmond dairymen are not observing the eleven cent rate per quart on milk set at the last meeting of the Richmond dairymen, but are selling milk at twelve cents, said County Food Administrator Weidner, Saturday. Complaints are being turned in to the administrator from all parts of Richmond that' the dairymen are charging a twelve cent rate instead of the eleven cent rate which was agreed upon at the meeting. The dairymen agreed to 6ell milk at six cents a pint or eleven cents a quart and one pint for seventeen cents and three pints for eighteen cents. However a great number are selling at the prices agreed upon and are living up to the agreement to a letter eald Weidner. Red Cross Thanked For Christmas Gift Members of the Wayne County Red Cross sent comfort kits to sailors on the U. S. S. Minnesota for Christmas gifts and the following letter was received at the rooms Saturday: . U. S. S. Minnesota, Kind Friend : I received your Christmas package on board the U. S. S. Minnesota and was glad to get it from you. I thank you very much for the package that you sent me. I did not look for anything for Christmas. uBt I again thank the Red Cross for the package I received from them it was very nice. I wish you a happy NewYear and good luck to the Red Cross. From Clinton Smith, U. S. S. Minnesota, New York Postmaster, New York City, N. Y. Engineer's Division.

PROMOTED TO HIGH POST IN THE NAVY

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Rear Admiral Christian J. People In recently being promoted from commander to rear admiral, Christian J. Peoples has enjoyed a distinction that falls to few of his brother admirals. He entered the navy in 1895 at $2 a day in the construction and repair department and his most recent assignment after conspicuous service has been as assistant to Paymaster General McGowan. FUEL SITUATION WORST IN YEARS INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 12. The fuel situation throughout Indiana is the worst in years it was said today at the office of the state fuel administrator. Appeals for help came in all day. County fuel administrators were authorized in some instances to divert any commercial shipments within their jurisdiction and turn it over for distribution among private consumers who were in actual danger of suffering. Twenty-five cars were thus diverted in Indianapolis early today. Practically all the mines in the state were closed down today due to the weather. There is little chance of them resuming until the weather moderates it is said, and even should they be able to do so the railroads could not move the coal. BLIZZARD PREVENTS SPEAKERS COMING Richmond teachers and few from Wayne County who could get here held institute Saturday at the High echool building. Because of the storm and severe cold weather, Superintendent Graff and Arch Hall, of Indianapolis, did not address the teachers at the afternoon session Professional study for High school and Garfield teachers with joint departmental conference featured the morning sessions and adminiftrative conferences were held in the afternoon. Elementary grade teachers received instructions from Supervisors Sloane Williams and Nohr. The County Institute was held under the direction, of County Superintendent Williams. . First Married Woman is to Be Graduated OXFORD. O., Jan. 12. vvhen Miss Ruth Wenzllck. of St. Louis, Mo., a senior in the Western College for Women, returned from her Christmas va cation, she announced that during her absence she had become Mrs. C. J Abbott. She had no intention of marrying when she went home for the holidays but when she found that her betrothed had been called to the national ser vice well, that changed matters. While there is no rule prohibiting married women from attending the Western, precedent was against it; however Mrs. Abbott was permitted to remain, and in June she will be graduated with her class. She will be the first married woman to receive a Western diploma. Lontz Made Director of State Commercial Body John M. Lontz, president of the Richmond Commercial club, was made a member of the board of directors of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce Friday at Indianapolis. Oscar C. Smith, of Kokomo, wae made president. Thirteen Indian Boys Burned in School Fire MUSKOGEE, Okla., Jan. J2. Thirteen Indian boys were burned to death early this morning in a fire which destroyed the boys' dormitory of the Dwight Indian Training School at Marble City, Okla., forty miles southeast of here. Over 100 boys escaped scantily clad in the bitter cold. British Destroyer is Foundered on a Rock LONDON, Jan. 12. The British destroyer Raccoon struck a rock off the Irish coast on Wedensday and found ered, it was announced officially. . The Raccoon was built in 1910. She was 266 feet long and displaced 915 tons. She was armed with one fodrinch and three three-Inch guns and two torpedo tubes. Her normal complement was 105 men.

CITY IS HELD FAST IN GRIP OF COLDEST WEATHER YET

Richmond Cut Off from Outside World for More Than Twelve Hours by the Worst Blizzard in History. GOAL IS LIMITED No relief is in sight, for several day at least, from the record-breaking cold weather which held Richmond and Wayne county fast in its grip Saturday as a result of the blizzard, unprecedented in its fury, which strucfc Friday night. Richmond was cut off from the outBide world from shortly before midnight Friday until about late Saturday morning. . All traffic .was paralyzed and trains stood still. Interurban cars started running late Saturday morning. The first car from' Indianapolis arrived at noon. City street cars, however, did not start until Saturday afternoon, and all available forces were at work clearing the tracks. Snow drifted to a depth of five feet in some places. Two trains for Chicago and one train for Indianapolis and St. Louis, were held all night in the Richmond yards because of the snow which had drifted to a depth for from five tc eight feet in somep laces. The trains were unable to plow their way througl the snow. No mail was received at the postoffice. Hundreds of dollars worth of damage was done to telephone wires, ac cording to officials of the telephone company. Many wires connecting Richmond with towns in this district were down and many Richmond homes were without service. Lightning But no Thunder. An unusual phenomenon occurred during the blizzard Friday night when lightning was seen in the skies. The lightning begun at 9:30 o'clock and continued for about twenty minutes, according to Weather Forecastet Moore. No thunder was heard, however. " With the coming of extremely cold weather again the fuel situation in Richmond is more serious than it has been at any time during th winter according to Wayne County Fuel Ad ministrator Bates. Sales were being made in half-ton lots- under orders to the retail dealer? Issued by Bates. Only half-tons of coal will be sold, until the weather breaks and dealers are assured of getting their deliveries. Several distress calls were received by the fuel administralnr and rnoush coal for immediate nedi was sent. It is believed that some homes are without coal, entirely. 25 Below at 4:30 O'clock. The mercury, which started rar;dly downward at about 8 o'clock Friday night, had fallen to twentv-five degrees below the zero mark at 4:30 o'clock, oned egree below the lowt previous record of the winter, according to the government thermometer at the home of the weather forecaster. At 6 o'clock Saturday morning th government thermometer registered nineteen degrees below and was slowly rising. The record-breaking cold wathe( will continue Saturday night and Snn day according to Weather Forecaster Moore. The high winds, which gained a velocity of forty-five miles n hour Friday nisrht and Saturday, will baTe diminished by Sunday afternoon. 5t. is believed. The weather may moderate enough to caufe more snow th first part of next week, according to the forecast. While the mercury only fell r-ne degree lower than it has during the entire winter, the hijrh biting winds made it seem much colder. Mall Carriers Held Up. - Rural mail carriers made no attemnt Saturday morninK to pro out on their routes. The road in manv places are nearly impassable, and the raow han drifted to eight and ten fet fn tome places, according to information reeehred by the weather forecaster. S-now clows and all avail ble fore? et the Pennsylvania railroad were at work along the lines Saturday morning clearing the tracks. An e&sthourd train for points between Richmond and Continued On Page Ten. MAY ENLIST IN NAVY FOR WAR Men may now enlist In the nary for the war only, according to information received by Richmond Navy Recruiter Goldfard Saturday. Preference will be -given enlistments as aviation mechanics and electricians. The authorized strength of the navy has been reached says the information received by the recruiter. The number of men now in the nary, however, is not given. - While enlistments win be received every day at the Richmond station in the postoffice. recruits -will be sent to the Indianapolis main station on Tuesdays and Thursdays of each week, under new orders.