Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 70, 1 February 1918 — Page 1

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GERMAN HERE IS COMPELLED TO KISS FLAG HE DEFAMED Fred Burkhardt, German Subject, Shows Loyalty When Brought Before Government Agent Here.

HE CURSED COLORS Fred Burkhardt, German subject, who has lived in the United States since 1880, showed his love of America by kissing the American flag Thursday afternoon. He did not kiss the American flag, in token of his esteem for the country in which he has resided nearly two score years, until he had been compelled to do bo by a government agent. Burkhardt Is a concrete worker and lives at South H and Nineteenth streets. Recently lie was told bat all alien enemies who were registered Feb. 4 to 9 would be required to kiss the flag. He told William A. Kirchenbauer, S04 South Fourth street, a brewer at the Minck brewery, what he had heard and added he would never kiss the American flag. He then cursed the flasr heartily. Kirchenbauer says. Kirchenbauer notified the police, who In turn notified Chairman Churchell of the Wayne County Council of Defense. A government agent, here to Investigate the Metzdorff case, was told of the episode. Burkhardt was called before the government agent and admitted what Kirchenbauer said was true. He then was required to kiss a small American flag in token of hl3 loyalty. After which ceremony Burkhardt explained the curse did not come from his heart, but was an involuntary and unconsidered statement. He also said he laved America, where he has lived for nearly 40 years. Patriotic Women are Given Carrier Bags Many Richmond housewives, patriotic enough to do their own marketing, have been supplied with "carrier bags' by their grocers. Instead of wrapping each article separately the clerk places all the articles purchased in the one bag. This is a saving to the grocers and also helps the customer. Food Administrator Gilbert has called a meeting of all retail grocers for Monday afternoon when the "one delivery a day" plan will be discussed. Commerce Directors to Meet Wednesday On account of the war celebration at the Coliseum Monday evening the Board of Directors of the Commercial club will meet Wednesday evening. Reports of the nominating committee for new officers will be made. Ballots are now being returned by club members signifying teir choice. Twenty-seven nominations instead of 21 must be made as nine directors have retired. THE WEATHER For Indiana, by United States Weather Bureau-"-Generally fair and somewhat warmer tonight and Saturday. Today's Temperature. Noon S Yesterday. Maximum 15 Minimum 3 For Wayne county by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy, but mostly fair tonight and Saturday. Slowly rising temperature Saturday. Continued cold tonight. General Conditions The great cold wave still continues over the north and central states and over part of the southern states. Temperatures range from 20 to 40 below zero over plain states and northwest. Storm over the Rocky Mountains remains practically stationary, being held in check br a great cold wave.

Either We or the Power of the Bourgeoisie in Eur ope Shall be Destroyed, Says Trotzky

PETROGRAD, Jan. 28, (Delayed) Foreign Minister Trotzky left Petrograd for Brest-Litovsk in ,the early hours of the morning after replying to such criticism as there was in the debate of the all-Russian Assembly of Soviets on the peace negotiations. He took with him the knowledge that he had succeeded in getting his policy not only approved but also understood by all but a small handful of the representative Assembly. The feeling In the Assembly was very curious. Kameney began with a speech which struck the same note as had been struck by Trotzky the previous day. though -in a lovnr key. lie emphasized throughout the new grouping of forces in the world struggle, which he said was ceasing to be a struggle of one imperialistic group

COAL DIRECTOR HAS KIN HERE

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J. D. A. MORROW Richmond relatives of J. D. A. Morrow, recently appointed to have charge of distribution of all coal for the fuel administration, are pleased over his advancement. Morrow was general secretary of the National, Coal Association, with offices in Pittsburgh. Relatives here are Richard Morrow, a brother, who is a farmer and who lives on North A street, and Dr. Sarah Morrow, an aunt. His father lives seven miles from Richmond on the Eaton pike and William A. Morrow, another relative, lives on the Chester pike. J. D. A. Morrow never lived in Richmond. He was born on his father's farm and is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan university. He was formerly an assistant secretary of the federal trade commission. MEDICAL APPEAL BOARD MEETINGS ARE ANNOUNCED The Medical Advisory Board for the Richmond army district will meet next Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Commercial club rooms. It will meet thereafter each Tuesday and Friday evening at the same hour injhe club rooms. " Dr. C. S. Bond, chairman of the board,, announced the nrneeting' "pfatee and hour Friday. The board sits as an appeal board. All men who have been accepted by the Examining Board at the court house and who are not satisfied with the board's decision may, upon application, be examined by the Advisory board. Their relatives or friends may present the appeal for them. Other members of the Advisory board are: Drs. A. J. Whallon, A. L. Bramkamp, M. F. Johnston, R. A. Chattin and N. S. Cox. The board was appointed two months ago by Provost Marshal General Crowder. PEACE PARLEY AGAIN IS ON (3y Associated Press) The peace negotiations between Russia and the central powers have reopened at Brest-Litovsk. A report from Petrograd says that the first question taken up, concerned the occupied territories which has been a stumbling block since the pourparleys began. A severe blow to the ambitions of the Ukrainian republic, appears to have been dealt in the capture of Kiev, the temporary capital, by the Bolshevik!. The city is said to have surrendered after four shota had been fired. Berlin Strikers Enjoy Opera, Theaters, Cafes AMSTERDAM, Feb. 1. The Kreuzzeltung of Berlin prints an abusive article regarding the strikers, who, it says, are behaving s though on a holiday. Great numbers of them, according to the newspaper, gather at Kempinski's, a famous Berlin restaurant, and It is the class of which the strikers from a part that makes up a large proportion of the patrons of the opera, the most frivolous theaters, the wine shops, moving picture nouses and dance and music halls. againFt another, but in Europe, anyhow, was a struggle of the general proletariat against the bourgeoisie. The alliances formed by various national bourgeois if s for the purpose of the imperialistic struggle had lost their significance in the light of this change both in the Central group and in that opposed to It. x Welcome Austrian Workers "We welcome the rising of Austrian workmen and shall welcome their emancipation from Austro-German imperialism exactly as we shall welcome the escape of the Irish people from the imperialism of England," he went on. "That is the main significance of the Brest-Litovsk negotiations." He read a statement from Austrian social patriots who had at the begin ning of the war supported their Gov

Underbill Now Seeks Remittance of Fine Via Petition Route

Alfred C. Underhill. notorious Richmond butcher, has been circulating a petition addressed to Governor Goodrich asking that a fine of $100 and costs, imposed upon him in circuit court recently, be remitted. The fine, which is a minimum fine for the offense, was imposed by Judge Fox when Underhill pleaded guilty to selling impure meat. A sentence of $500 and costs and six months in jail is the maximum. Underhill has presented his petition to several hundred Richmond residents, including bankers and other business men on Main street, and to county officials and it is understood many men of Integrity have signed the petition. Several county officials signed the petition, it is said. It is considered unlikely that Governor Goodrich will pay any attention to the petition, inasmuch as Underhill pleaded guilty to the offense. Comforting to Alf. However, Underhill is said to derive much comfort from the fact that so many reputable residents of Richmond have signed the petition, which attests to his good character. He will Garrett is Champion War Stamp Salesman of Richmond Office Selling of 496 war saving stamps since January 3 is the record made by Herbert Garrett, a Richmond mail carrier. Garrett has sold more war saving stamps than any other carrier in Richmond. The stamps are valued at $4.12, making the total of his sales $2,043.52. Fred Stauber comes second, having sold almost 300 stamps. Postmaster Beck said all the carriers have done splendidly in selling the war and thrift stamps. Nearly all the stamps sold in the county have been disposed of through the Richmond postoffice. "If the county was thoroughly organized the Richmond office would rank among the first In the state when it comes to the sale of war stamps," said Postmaster Beck. Farmer Sent to Jail for Failure to Have ' Children Vaccinated Cyrennus Wicker, farmer residing on the Boston pike, is serving a term in the county jail for refusing to have his children vaccinated, thus keeping thenrbut of school. He was fined $1 and costs, a total of $11, and was forced to serve out in jail, when uable to pay. Mayor Zimmerman withheld ;commrrrwnetfneasessed the fine n "city court Friday morning. MAY POSTPONE REGISTRATION Chief of Police Gormon believes that the registration of German alien enemies, which has been planned to start February 4, will have to be postponed. In Indiana it is estimated there are 45,000 German alien emenies, but the government has been able to furnish only 6,000 registration blanks, owing to the volume of printing piled up at the printing department at Washington. Three thousand of the 6,000 blanks furnished the state were taken by Indianapolis, and the other 3,000 by Fort Wayne. Should the government fail to send another supply of blanks, there will be do other way but to postpone the j registration here. Rising Temperature is Predicted for Saturday A rising temperature Friday and Saturday is predicted by Weather Forecaster Moore. The weather prophet sees no -sign of a break in the cold spell which has been visiting the entire middle west for the last several days. Friday morning the temperature was at zero at 7 o'clock. A breeze from the east made the weather seem colder. Thursday morning the temperature was 4 below zero. A year ago Thursday It was 66 degrees above zero. GOVERNOR INDUCTED RICHMOND. Va., Feb. 1. Gov. Davis was inaugurated today, succeeding Henry C. Stuart. Plans for a parade and outdoor ceremonies were abandoned because of the weather. ernment, which showed that they now realized that the Russians and Germans could not come to terms, not because they were Russians opposed to Germans, but because they were Social Democrats dealing with landowners and bourgeois. The Brest- Litovsk negotiations had shown the working classes of the Central Empires that their own Interests were being opposed by their own Generals, and that they had to choose between war with Russia and peace with Hoffmann, or peace with Russia and war with Hoffmann. "Our victory will be the victory of German democracy, and German democracy knows it," he continued. All Against Germany's Terms Martov and others of the bitterest opponents of the Bolshevikl followed, and while criticising details in the

use the petition as a testimonial to his worth as a citizen. Men who have signed the petition give as their excuse that it was the easiest way out of an unpleasant situation. Prosecutor Strayer is displeased at the action of a number of the signatories to the petition. "These men have testified in the petition that Underhill bears a good reputation and is a man of good repute in the community, when as a matter of fact he is a barriter, having been in court atl east 70 times In Wayne county, and a disreputable citizen," said Strayer. '

GROCERS MUST COMPLY WITH FLOUR RULES Food Administrator Gilbert J Issues Warning to Wayne i Grocers Who Have Failed. Food Administrator Gilbert Friday issued a warning to Wayne county grocers who have not been complying I with the regulation covering the sale of wheat flour. This rule, which became effective" Jan. 28, prohibits grocers selling wheat flour unless they sell, at the same time, to the same customer, an equal j amount of flour substitutes. Subeti-1 tntes recognized by the administration are pancake flour, corn meal, beans, rolled oats, rice, hominy, etc. "The grocers have not been observing this order, which has the effect of a law," said Gilbert, "and if they do not they will be facing a heavy penalty. Just this morning I took a sack of flour from a grocery delivery boy, who was carrying it into the home of a neighbor. His employer said he had read about the order in the papers but was waiting for instructions from me. Wives' Co-operation "I should like to urge on housewives and other purchasers of food that they co-operate with the government and with thefood j administration Jtqr re? framing from- asking the grocers to violate this law. It Is often embarrassing to a grocer to deny the request of a profitable customer." Gilbert issued a statement urging on all patriotic citizens the necessity of j observing all food laws In the proper! spirit. "We must realize that it is a patriotic obligation to keep the food regulalations willingly. We are a republic and have been accustomed to doing as we pleased for a long time. We still can, provided we get the vision that we all muBt do what we can to helpi win' the war," he said. j The food administrator also called! attention to breaches of the meatless j and wheatless rules by Richmond i boarding houses. xucoc viuiaiuig, ii iv u chit luc UiUSi persistent, should be dealt with severely," he said. FIRING ARATES AFTER RAID WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. Jan. 31, (By The Associated Press) innditions were quiet on the American sector all day today because of the fog, which tonight showed no sign of abating. Beyond a few shots from both sides at registered targets, there was very little artillery firing, There was virtually no infantry activity. Additional details of yesterday's raid show that only the heroism of the platoon in the trenches nearest the listening post raided prevented the enemy from entering the trenches and perhaps, capturing prisoners. As soon as the barrage fire lifted the platoon came out of its dugouts and stepped to the firing platforms. Their rifle fire held off a superior number of Germans who tried to approach. When the enemy saw that the Americans were determined to hold the position, they withdrew Into the fog. Later a number of bloody enemy rifles and other equipment were found beyond the American positions. - management of the negotiations, agreed that they have been of tremendous service in making the position clear to democracy throughout the world. All were unanimous in refusal to accept the conditions now offered by Germany. There was less unanimity on what was to be done, some delegates insisting on the physical impossibility of fighting. Last night occurred the culminating moment of the tension of the preceding week. The report on the peaco negotiations, which had been held over from day to day for reasons of policy, affecting not merely Petrograd but also Brest-Litovsk, Kiev, and Vienna, was definitely announced. The session opened with the announcement that Spirldonova would speak from the Peasants. All the gueEts' seats

MONDAY'S CLOSING ORDER

The following are the exemptions under the Government ruling: OPEN UNTIL NOON Retail and wholesale Grocers and Fruit Dealers. Retail and wholesale Meat Dealers. Retail and wholesale Bakeries. Barber Shops. Grain and Feed dealers. OPEN ALL DAY Restaurants and Hotels except Bars and Cigar Stands. Coal Yards and Fuel Handling Agencies Including Gasoline filling stations. City and County office buildings. Post Office. Drug StoreB until 8 p. m. (for drugs only). Telephone and Telegraph offices. Street Car and Railroad Offices. Schools. Laundries. Repair Shops including garages (for repairs only). Florists (to take care of Funeral Orders only). News Stands (for Newspapers and Periodicals only) Offices of Physicians and Dentists. Plumbing Shops (for repairs only). Optical shops. Newspaper offices. Hospitals and Sanitariums. Theaters and Dances will open on Monday, but close on Tuesday. Bowling Alleys, Billiard and Pool Rooms and where cigars and . tobacco are sold in connection with these businesses, open Monday, but close completely on Tuesday. Manufacturing establishments which are exempt by special permit from the Government. Lodges whose regular meeting night is on Monday. Anyone engaged in unloading Incoming freight cars for any business. Flour and Feed mills. Creameries. Horse-shoeing and Blacksmith shops. Red Cross rooms. Club Rooms may remain open and sell Food and Cigars only, but will close all day Tuesday. (No intoxicating liquors sold Monday.) All business bouses and offices not herein mentioned are required to close all day Monday.

Monday is fuel conservation day and the Government closing order Is for the purpose of saving all the fuel possible one day each week. The word fuel is intended to cover everything used for producing heat, light and power, including coal, coke, wood, oil, charcoal, natural gas, gasoline, kerosene, alcohol, etc. The government has requested that the spirit as well as the letter of the law be strictly observed. That all business houses which are required to close under the ruling use just enough fuel to keep the temperature above freezing. A special request is also made that all unnecessary rooms in residences and business buildings be cut off from heat whenever possible. Under the Government ruling in office buildings which have physicians and dentists' offices, heat cannot be furnished to other offices In the same building. The police department will keep watch on club rooms to see that no intoxicating liquors are sold on Monday and that the entire closing order will be strictly observed.

Daniels Tells 300 New Officers Ideals of U. S. Navy at War

ANNAPOLIS, Md., Feb. 1. The United States naval reserve force, now embracing 69,000 men and 7.S00 officers, "is larger than the regular navy when war was declared and three times ae large as in the Spanish-American war," Secretary Daniels declared today in addressing the-speclal graduation class of 80S reserve officers at the naval academy. "This is a wonderful record for a service authorized eighteen months ago," the secretary continued, "and its creation has made possible many phases of the diversified work the navy has been called upon to do." Mr. Daniels told the young officers, who have successfully completed the prescribed fourteen weeks course that when they left Annapolis today they would find important assignments awaiting them and their achievements would depend upon themselves. The Ideal of the navy In war, the secretary said, was contained in Benjamin Franklin's order to the navy's first captain, John Paul Jones to show at all times a "tender regard for noncombatants." "If you wish to find the difference in America's method of warfare and Germany's it is embodied in Franklin's instructions to Jones," Mr. Daniels said. "For the American regards was as a tragedy." Much of the secretary's address was taken up with a recital of the brilliant achievements of the American destroyer flotilla in the war and the bravery of American gun crews aboard merchantmen. "Read the story of the Cassin," he said, "which, though struck by a torpedo and seriously crippled, refused to return to port as long as there appeared to be a chance of engaging the submarine. The whole country was thrilled by the account of the exploit of the Fanning and the Nicholson in destroying a German submarine and capturing its entire crew. The BritWant "German Measles" Called "Liberty Measles" CAMP DIX, N. J., Feb. 1 Contending that it sounds unpatriotic to have German measles, the soldiers at the cantonment here who are suffering from the much abused malady have started a movement to change the name of the disease to "liberty measles." Camp Surgeons who have heard the gibes and jokes aimed at their patients are so sympathetic it was said last night, they might make an appeal to Washington to have a new brand of measles officially designated. throughout the building had been given to members of the Peasants' Assembly, so that Trotzky when he finally made his report, spoke not to the Soldiers and Workers only, but also to the Peasants' Assembly, which, in spite of the prognostications of the anti-Bolsbevlkl has an overwhelming majority, and supports the action of the Soviets In sweeping away the Constituent Assembly. The Peasants Assembly perfectly understands that the Constituent Assembly intended to step backwards, not forwards. . Sing "Internationale" vAfter Zinovlev had welcomed the Peasants there was singing of the "Internationale." Then a moment's pause and Trotzky was at the tribune, and when the roars of applause had ended, he began Quietly and clearly

ish admiral in commending the officers and men said: "Reflects Credit on U. 8." "'The whole affair reflects credit on the discipline and training of the United States' flotifla. "The first officer lost In the present conflict, Lieut. Clarence C. Thomas, after the Vacuum was sunk, cheered his freezing men as they were tossed about in an open boat, far from land, and he at last perished from cold and exposure. After the Jacob Jones was sunk, Lieut. (Junior grade) 9. F. Kalk, though weakened by shock and exposure, swam from raft to raft, to equalize the load and keep afloat the men who were awaiting rescue and in the night before succor arrived, perished. "Let us not forget those two gunners of the Antilles, who stood by their guns until it was too late to escape. The contest of the Silver Shell, which

sent down the submarine which attacked it; of the moreni, on which the men stayed at their guns until the flames flared up to the top of the smokestacks; of the Campania, whose gunners fought for hours until their ammunition was exhausted; of the J. L. Luckenbach, hit nine times and temporary disabled, fought a submarine for four hours before a:;4 arrived and later managed to reach ?irt ander her own steam; of the Armeni! uzd a number of others are notable e-aaagii to be recorded in naval history." FOE SURPRISED AGAIN BY LATINS (By Associated Preas) The Italians, following up their saccesses on the Asiago plateau, made another surprise attack early yesterday and pushed their lines out from Monte Di Val Bella to the head of the Telago valley. Later in the day the Austrians gathered their forces again and made another effort to drive the Italians from the Val Bella heights. They wee unable however, even to reach the defensive lines, leaving the Italians secure In possession of their newly won positions. New Italian positions west of the Frenzels valley have been extended. Berlin says that new Italian attack: near Asiago have been repulsed. his exposition of the history, method, i aims, and results of the peace negotiations. He pointed out that the I Allies had two and one-half months in j which they could have coine in. He pointed out that Kerensky's repeated ! efforts to move the Allies toward peace had proved absolutely fruitless. The object of the conference was to make the actual obstacles to peace clear, 'not only for the peoples of the hostile countries, but also for the Russian people. He pointed out how the Germans by presenting an ultimatum in the form of a refusal to continue the discussions anywhere but at Brest-Litovsk hoped to make the Russians break on an excuse which would cloud the issue for the German working classes. He touched on the weak point of the.

MARTIAL LAW DECLARED IN FOE CITIES; STRIKEGROWS Hamburg and Bremen Under Military Rule Movement Spreads Widely Since Monday, Reports Say, BLOODSHED IN BERLIN

(Br Associated Pre) Declaration of martial law In ih4 great ports of Hamburg and Bremen and a lack of definite news concerning; ' the progress of the strike movement In Germany Indicate the possibility that the authorities have taken stern measures to deal with the discontented workmen. Belated report, however, showtha the movement has spread widely sinoa Monday. Some correspondents In Hoi land believe that the situation has grown worse owing to the efforts of the German government to minimize the importance of the strike and tha scarcity of sews. While a report from Copenhagen says that all the socialist leaders have been summoned to Berlin to discus political questions, advices received ia Amsterdam are to the effect that Chancellor Von Hertling. following the ex ample of Minister of the Interior Wat raff, refused to eee a strikers delegation. V Fatal Clash In Berlin In Berlin there has been a fatal clash between the strikers and tbs police and minor disturbances are reported to have occurred In other sections as well as in the suburbs of the capitol. The Berlin press says the movement in Berlin has reached a climax and that It is losing Its effective, ness. Reports received at Amsterdam from other Industrial sections, say that the strike Is not getting full support. More than 700,000 workers havj been reported on strike to Berlin. There are reports of new strikes in the Dortmund mining district and In Danttig and Munich, while it is said thai the strikers in Nuremburg. Bavaria, have returned to their tasks. Military operations on the western front are still of a minor character. On the front between Asiago and tha Brante, the Italians persist In their attacks, although not In such a larga scale as earlier In the week. SEVERAL BERLIN PAPERS SUSPENDED BY STRIKES LONDON, Feb. 1. Little fresh information on the strike movement ia Germany had come through early today and virtually all the news in the morning papers here has been delayed in transmission. None of the Berlin newspapers of Wednesday's date has arrived in Amsterdam and several of them are not printing owing to strikes among their employes. Delegate representing the strikers, according to Amsterdam reports, attempted to interview Chancellor von Hertling, but he refused to see them, as had Herr Wallraff, minister of the interior. The actual situation Thursday is extremely vague. The scarcity of news induces some correspondents in Holland, to assume that the situation has grown worse, but they warn against attaching importance to the strike movement as far as the army is concerned. The Berne correspondent of the Dally Mail, deprecates a too ready assumption that the strike will have serious effects in Germany. He says no strike or revolt in Prussia can be taken seriously until 1ft. has won its spurs. Population Mechanical. "The mind and moral will of the whole population has been made to effectively mechanical by a century of military drill. It must be remembered too, that strike funds are almost nonexistent in Prussia for although the workmen have been earning high wages, they have virtually been compelled to subscribe nearly all to the war loans and get no interest. Newspaper opinion in London regarding the strike is divergent Some papers Incline to the belief that the strike really denotes the growing strength of a democratic spirit in Germany, while others favor the view that the whole thing, to a great extent, has been engineered by the government for its own purposes. The Daily News, while accepting with reserve the more extravagant accounts, thinks it is obvious that there has been spread into Germany and Austria some measure of the spirit which dethroned the Russian emperor. It adds: - Continued On Page Three. Russian side, namely the delegation from the Ukrainian Rada. "We asked them, like ourselves, to hold no unpublished conversations with the enemy." he explained. "They said they would consult Kiev before answering. That answer we have never received in spite of repeated repeated requests." Thomas Deceived. He read a telegram showing that AW bert Thomas (former French Minister of Munitions) even today believes that the patriotic Rada is going to save Russia from making a separate peace, when, as a matter of fact, the Rada is concluding a separate peace Itself. Then, after mentioning three distinct tendencies in Germany, he said that the main point on which the discuss. Continued On Page Two