Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 86, 20 February 1918 — Page 3
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20, 1918
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MANY WORKERS ARE WANTED FOR ARMY SERVICE
Unnecessary for Men to Have Lxpenence in certain Lines of Work. The ordnance department of the army Is open to the following. class of workers and in addition, men who have liad no previous experience In any of the lines of work specified. The range of the wages In this department depend altogether on a man's ability, ranging from 30 to $61 a month. Orders to enlist men for the following lines of work was received -Wednesday by Army Recruiter Wright: Accountants, auto experts, autotruck drivers, auto repairmen, armature winders, autogenous welders, shell and case assemblers, automatic screw machine operators, bakers, butchers, boiler makers, barrel and cask makers, belt men, blck and tile men, brass melters, chemists, clerks and bookkeepers, confectioners, carpenters, carriage trimmers, carriage painters, cooks, care makers, civil engineers, cupola tenders, draftsmen, drop forgers, dynamo tenderB. electric welders, electricians, electric linemen, electrical engineers, electrotypers, firemen stationery and locomotive), machine shop foremen, foremen (plumbers), freight agents. glazers. gunmakers (rifle and pistol), gunmakers (machine), grinders (tubes, tools, etc.), hydraulic press operators, horsesboers. harness makers, inspectors (cartridge case, cloth, leather, boiler and machinery), ice makers, special inspectors, Jewelry repair men, locomotive engoneers, laundry men. locksmiths, leather cutters, laborers (utorehouse and high grade), machinists, mill foremen (wood), millwrights, machine, woodworkers, moving picture operators, moldera (brass and iron), niter bluers, nickel platers, oilers, optical instrument repairmen, photographers, steel polishers, pump engineers, pattern makers, printing foremen, press feeders, paint shop foremen, painters, paint mixers, punch press foremen, punch press operators, plumbers and plumbers' helpers, packers, riggers, ' sign palntes, switchmen, stenograph: crs. storekepers, solderers. sheet-metal workers, sheet-metal stralghteners, sewing machine opeators (leather and cloth), shoe repair men. steam titters, stationery engineers, stationery firemen and firemen's helpers, typists, typesetters, teamsters, tinsmiths, tent and awning makers, targeters. toolmakers, tailors, telegraphers, vulcanizera. wheelwrights, yardmasters . and masons (brick and stone). , Rav. Ladd. living west of Richmond, left for Indianapolis Tuesday, to take the final examination for the army. 30 000 BUSHELS OF WHEAT FOR MEXICO VI, PASO. Tex., Feb. 20 Between ?,0 000 and 40.000 tons of wheat and flour have been purchased In Chile 8"d Argentina for distribution in Me. ico. according to El Universal, a semiofficial newspaper published In Mexico City, a February 11 copy of which wan received here today. The wheat and flour purchased by agents of the Mexican government, already are being leaded at South American ports nnd nre expected to reach Mexico City by March 15, the newspaper said. Street Cars of Capital May Adopt "Skip Stop" Plan INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. 20. Thf? "skip stop" plan of operating street cars probably will be put into effect on the Indianapolis street railway syntem in the near future. The plan is designed to improve the service by shortening the time in requires a car to make a trip. T inier the new system cars will ftop at every other street only instead of at every street. It not only will sae fuel, the street car mn say. but will decrease the time required for a car to make a trip on its Aine by approximately 25 percent, thus enabling It to carry more passengers In a given time by making more t rips. City officials have indorsed the proposed plan. Alien Enemy May Sve in Coarts Holds Judge INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. 20- Whether nn enemy alien may site ia the s,tate courts was one of the questions presented to a .indue of thf Marion conntv Superior Court riorntly. The court held tbut while a person mi.uht be an enemy alien, yet at tlic sam time he ivi?ht be a peaceful and law abiding person living in this country find as such bad recourse to the courts (o protect his rijhts as such an Individual The quefiion was rniseu by the C. (". C. and St. L. railroad company in 8 damane eult. It filed a plea in aba'enient tc th complaint, setting forth that as the. plaintiff was not a citizen, but was an enemy alien, he had no riant to enter Ilu courts or maintain a suit. The plaintiff's attorneys filed a demurrer to the plea in abatement and it was sustained. The court in making the decision rotated out that, in the particular cae being considered the plaintiff bad been injured before the declaration of war. and filed his suit soon afterward. Attention also was called to the British registration law, under which it had boon held that an enemy alien bo complied with the law was entitled to bring suit or continue a pending suit. Ten Han Planes Attack ' Lone American Aviator WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 Yice-Ad-mirnl Sims advised the navy department that the American seaplane in which Ensign Albert Dalton Sturtevant was lost, is claimed by the Germans to have been shot down in flames. "Apparently this machine was attacked by ten enemy planes," the discatch states.
Letter Received Here Proves That Rumors About Canada Are Lies
A letter received by Rev. J. J. Rae, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, from T. H. Everson. at Oshawa. Ontario. Can., elves the 11b to I rumors that have been current . in j Richmond to the effect -that .while Americans nave Deen conserving looa for the Allies, there has been a wasting of food and coal In Canada. Mr. Everson visited Dr. Rae in Richmond a short time ago. The serious condition with, regard to coal is described by Mr. Everson, who was sent by his town in Canada to the United States to buy-coal. "I have been to Buffalo twice since we were over," . he writes, "and the last time went down into the coal region of Ohio. They did an awfully risky thing when they gave me about
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Sidney Drew. A new one-act comedy starring Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew has the distinction of being the first motion picture to receive the official sanction and indorsement of the American Red Cross. "Help Wanted" is its title and it has been booked for a tour of the entire country. "Help Wanted" has been seen and approved by Henry P. Davidson chairman of the American Red Cross war council, bv Mrs. Wood row Wilson and by Ethan Alleu of the American Red Cross. MURRAY Tonight's two performances will be thy? last opportunity to see the present bfl at the Murray and tomorrow the acts will be changed as usual. For the last of the week "Snooksie" Ta.vlor the singing convent girl and Johnson and Rollison "the rib ticklers" will hold down the boards. The picture tonight and Thursday is Triangle's latest success "The Hopper." "The Hopper," a reformed criminal, innocently commits abduction and tries to restore the child to its parents. He is cornered as a burglar by Muriel Wilton, whose father is an enemy of Talbot, a rival curio collector who lives rext door to him. The Hopper secures his freedom on condition that he rob each of the rivals of antiques. He enters Talbot's house, finds Wilton robbing it, a melee ensues which is followed by reconciliation. MURRETTE Jim Walton, sheriff of El Dorado, finds Joe Malone working an abandoned mine in which he has unearthed a rich vein of ore. Walton has the mine sealed. A traveling quack doctor is in town with a pretty dancing girl who attracts a crowd. Malone recognizes the dancing gir! as the rightful heir of HALF OF ACCIDENTS ARE PREVENTABLE NEW YORK. Feb 20 -The injury of a man in a shop is as important an incident as a man disabled in th? firing line, declared Frederick W. Keough f the National Association of Manufacturers, in an address before the West Side Y. M. C. A. last night, in which he urged that greater attention be given to the prevention of industrial accidents. Fully fifty percent of the accidents in America, which he said, exceed the military casualties in Fu'op. aro preventable. "If the prospective military casualties wore announced sis 555,000 dead and "Ort.000 wounded." Mr. Keough said, "a shudder of horror would thrill the nation. Cut because waste of manpower in industry lias been a commonplace, the annual industrial record is dismissed as an unpleasant necessity and the casualties of peace are received with an equanimity aa astounding as it is unexplalnable." Adding the fire loss of the naiion to the ecouomie loss resulting- from industrial accidents, Mr. Keough estimated that a billion dollars is destroyed annually by carelessness and lack of thrift. 900 SHIP WORKERS FAILED TO REPORT NEW YORK. Feb. 20.' More than V00 longshoremen and dock workers employed by the Southern Pacific Steamship company here failed to report for work this morning, renewing a strike which was under adjustment by the shipping board labor adjustment board. POSTOFFICE WIIL CLOSE The Richmond postoffice will be closed all day Friday on account of Washington's birthday. There will be no delivery but mail will be dispatched, postmaster Beck said Wednesday. '
a dozen blank checks signed by the treasurer of the town, and countersigned by the mayor, and with a letter
saying, "We will honor all oraers ana pay for all coal purchased by T. H. Everson.' "But the situation has. been desperate. Hundreds of homes have been out of fuel that" very cold time, and the mercury dropped to' 30 degrees below. We set up a municipal sawing plant, and cut down a nice hardwood bush the town had near the lake, and have cut down lots of shade trees." Mr. Everson encloses with his letter a church program showing that I l J T U 1 1 U U V .1 V. ....... VJ v. vmv - - I been required to hold union church J and Sunday-school services because of the fuel shortage. the abandoned mine, through her par ents, long since dead, and tells the doctor of the fabulous riches that are within their grasp, and the doctor starts east to interest capital in the property. While he is away Joe seeks to double cross him by marrying the dancing girl, Edith, but Walton, understanding his game, foils Malone's plans and takes her under bis own wing. At the Murrette today and Thursday. WASHINGTON What is probably the bitterest hand-to-hand struggle scene ever enacted before a motion-picture camera, is that which takes place between Bessie Barriscale and Howard Hickman in one of the final scenes of "Madam Who," Harold MacGrath's sensational mystery story, which will mark Miss Barriscale's debut as a star in Paralta Piays. The fight took place under the direction of Reginald Barker, during the filming of the story at. the Paralta studios in Hollywood, California. I-rfist time today. COUNTRY-WIDE HUNT IS MADE FOR HUN SPIES NEW YORK, Feb. 20. Federal agents in this city joined today in a countrywide search for Kurt G. Wilckens, also known as Gus Jansen and Chris Larsen, an enemy alien, who escaped with Ferdinand Kube, a German, from the internment camp at Ft. Douglas, Utah, on Christmas Eve. Since their escape they have been roaming the country. The Federal authorities have learned that Wilckens is a crafty Prussian spy who has masked his operations byposing as an Industrial Worker of the World agitator. Kube also is known to be a member of the I. W. W. Wilckens first came to this country in 1910. under orders of the German General staff. After remaining here a few months he returned home. He was back in America again in 1912, engaged in secret work, and after making his report to Berlin, is alleged to have enlisted in Company A, Eleventh United States Infantry. In June, 1915, after serving nine months iti the army, he deserted, but was captured, court martialed and sentenced to a year's imprisonment at Ft. Leavenworth. Kan. After he was released from prison he went to Arizona, where he identified himself with the I. XV. XV. and fell in with Kube, who is known to have been op the Mexican border watching General Pershing's preparations to pursue Villa and his forces into Mexico. By a presidential order Wilckens and Kube were arrested at Globe. Ariz., and interned at Ft. Douglas. It is said that they were aided to escape by outside help and that they hive been tracked from place to place, but. have evaded arrest. There is a suspicion that Wilckens and Kube. posing as Danes, Norwegians or Hollanders, are hiding in or near this city. Will Next Liberty Loan Bonds Pay 4'L2 Per Cent? WASHINGTON. D. C. Feb. 20 At the close of a conference between Secretary of the Treasur. MeAdoo and members of th advisory council of the federal reserve board it was unofficially reported that the council recommended an Interest rate of 4,,i per cent for the third Liberty loan. Secretary MeAdoo stated that no decision has been readied as to the date when the next loan shall be floated, the amount of such loan, or the rate of interest to be paid on the bonds. Believe Indianapolis Aviator is Captured PARIS, Feb. 20. Herschel McKee, of Indianapolis, an American aviator in the French Escadrille, has been missing since February 10. and is believed to be a prisoner in Germany. He left on a scouting expedition on that date, and last was seen flying at a high altitude beyond the German lines. A heavy gale was blowing at the time and probably forced him to land. , McKee is 2S years 6C, and has been flying for several months. Recently he was proposed for Sergeant. HAROLD BROWN LEAVES Harold Brown left Wednesday for Auburn. Ind., where he has accepted a position as physical director of the Auburn Y. M. C. A. FIRE DOES $5 DAMAGE A fire caused by a short circuit of the electric wires in the alley in the rear of Hull's restaurant, 613 Main street, did S5 damaKe.
Hang This Up . In Your Kitchen
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Red Cross Hog Brings $225 at Sale Near Here A "Red Cross hog" brought $22.1 at the .lones and Pike stock sale, held at their farm north of Centerville Tuesday. The animal was bought by J.A. Gerland of Dayton, O., and the proceeds will be turned over to the Centerville Red Cross unit. Exceptionally high prices were paid for the hogs sold. The total amount paid for the sixty-one hogs sold was $11,970, the average price being $196. The highest price paid for one hog was $625. Stock buyers from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois attended the sale. QUIGG IS APPOINTED Food Administrator Gilbert has appointed William H. Quigg of the Rich mond Baking company as superintendent of the baking division for Wayne county.
Dr. CHARLES F MED
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A Man of Vision and Courage who speaks his mind out, no matter what forces, ecclesiastical or political, are against him He Will Lecture On The Assassination of a Race at the
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JURY CONTINUES
INVESTIGATION The grand jury continued, in ses sion Wednesday, examining the witness summoned to testify concerning the alleged discrepancies and overcharges made by Doctors W. G. Huff man and E. H. Mendenhall, in city smallpox cases. Witnesses have been summoned for every day this week and next. Prose cutor Strayer has announced that other investigations might be made by the jury-. Begin Enrollment of Unemployed Pupils Richmond high school boys who are unemployed during the summer will be enrolled in the Boys' Reserve work, according to Richard N. Study, enroller for Wayne county. Two hundred cards were distributed to unemployed boys Wednesday by Principal Bentley. The cards must bt signed by the parents and returned to the principal. Charles Weeghman Gives $100toLocalY.M.C.A. Charles Weeghman, owner of the Chicago Cubs, and a former resident of Richmond, wired a check for $100 to the Y. M. C. A. Wednesday. Weeghman heard of the recent campaign for the 1918 budget of the Y. M. C. A. and responded. PRESS ACCEPTS GEORGE'S SPEECH LONDON, Feb. 20. A majority of the morning papers accept the statement made in the house of commons yesterday by Premier Lloyd George as a satisfactory explanation and entirely approve of the Versailles agreement and consider the whole incident straightened out. Hostile newspapers continue to be unconvinced and reiterate their sharp criticisms but seem resolved to accept the situation. They express the opinion that no government, crisis is likely to arise at present although they believe the government has been weakened by recent events. Some of the papers which accept readily enough the premier's statement and commend it, nevertheless endorse the regret expressed by former Premier Asquith that the premier had not spoken with equal clearness a week ago. Several support the appeal of Austen Chamberlain that the government sever its connection with the press. Y" POOL STILL CLOSED There will be no swimming classes at the Y. M. C. A. Friday, according to an announcement made Wednesday by Acting Secretary Sen wan. The pool will not be opened until Fuel Administrator Bates gives permission. School
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Members of Richmond Art Association Will Vote on Pictures in Exhibit
Every member of the Richmond Art association will have a vote in the selection of the prize picture in the exhibit by Indiana artists now hanging in the Public Art Gallery. The vote of the high school students and the vote of the pupils in Miss Maue's Art department will be given consideration. At the evening meeting of the association Wednesday, Feb. 27, the prize will be award ed. At a meeting of the board Tuesday it was decided to have Jbe exhibit again next year. An exhibit of American painters will be hung in the gallery in the autumn. The exhibit of Indiana artists will remain in the gallery until March 11. Later an exhibit of pictures loaned by Richmond residents, will be placed in the gallery. NIGHT SCHOOL WILL RE-OPEN MONDAY Night school will open Monday evening at 7:15 o'clock. Principal Carman said Wednesday persons will report in their class rooms and be ready for work. There will be twenty nights of study in the term. A campaign for new recruits will be started Thursday. Persons who wish to register for any work in connection with the night school are asked to notify the principal. Evansville Saloon Men Make Rush for Renewals EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 20. More than 100 applications for saloon license renewals have been filed with the Vanderburgh county auditor since the ruling of Judge F. M. Hostetter on the state-wide prohibition law. Judge Hostetter held the bill unconstitutional in overruling a demurrer to the complaint of Evansville breweries against the law. Local liquor interests feel that victory is now in sight and expect to win in their suit when it comes to trial. They say they have no fear of a Supreme Court ruling. The Evansville Ministers' Association has dratted a resolution "deploring the action of the court in not sustaining the dry law."
Night School Echoes
Miss Grace Woodyard will have charge of the French classes Monday evening at 7:15 o'clock. E. F. Murphy will 6tart series of short courses in garden work Monday. Any person who is interested in gardening should notify Murphy. Spring hats will be made in the millinery classes. Mrs. Clifford Bevington and Miss Ruth Bartel will be in charge. Richmond women may register Monday evening. The telegraphy class will meet Wednesday evening at the Commercial club. Class members will report
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DATE FOR NEXT DRAFT HAS NOT BEEN DECIDED
WASHINGTON'. Feb. 20. Secretary Baker authorized the statement today that no date had been selected for the beginning of the second draft. Various estimates have placed the time between March 1 and June 1. These are declared to be entirely guesses. The government disposition rot to disturb the labor situation particularly on farms, at the planting season Is one of the factors entering into the situation. The provost marshal general's office, it is understood, is disinclined to go ahead with the second draft until congress has perfected the law pending amendments to change the base of apportionment and to authorize the president to call into the military service men skilled In industry and agriculture regardless of previous classification. The remaining increment of the first draft will begin to move forward to the camps beginning this j week. It is probable that next month. local boards may be asked to forward small increments necessary to replace men going over seas, but the expected summons of half a million will be later. PRINCE OF WALES TAKES HIS OFFICE LONDON. Tuesday. Feb. 19 The prince of Wales took the oath and his seat in the house of lords today. Queen Mary and the princesses Mary and Victoria were present in the royal box. The prince wore royal robes and the collar of the order of the Garter. He was introduced to the lords with the usual ceremony. The peers in the procession wore their parliamentary robes. APPROVE PEACE TREATY AMSTERDAM, Feb. 20. The federal council of the German empire, a despatch from Berlin says, has approved the peace treaty with the Ukraine. for work Monday evening at the high school. Persons interested in the commercial department of the night school may register for typewriting, stenography, commercial arithmetic and book keeping. Parents may bring their children to the night school Monday. Miss Constance Bell will have charge of the nursery. Miss Agnes Osborn will instruct members of the practical nursing class.
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