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VOT. YT TTT VO Q Palladium Consolidated U. S. TROOPS ARE NOW IN SECTOR ON AISNE FRONT Sammies Enter Famous Chemin-des-Dames Sector on Aisne Front on One of the Darkest Nights. CAPTURE ONE HUN WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Feb. 22 By Associated Press. In a patrol fight, Americans, from units under instruction in the famous Chemin-des-Dames sector, killed one German and captured another. One American was slightly wounded. This is the first time it has been permitted to reveal the fact that new American units have entered the line. The troops have been there for some time, suffering casualties but their presence was kept secret until it was certain the enemy knew they were there. Details of the patrol fight are as yet unavailable, beyond the unofficial report that the prisoner taken was captured single handed by a young American from one of the New England states who, during the engagement, dropped into a shell hole on top of a German hiding there and later brought him in. The American forces entered the line on one of the darkest of nights through shell-pitted region dotted with shell wrecked towns. The French general commanding the sector, a hero of the Marne, greeted them as comrades in arms and kissed the American flag. Previously it was known that American forces were holding a section of the front in French Lorraine, east of St. Mihiel, and last weeks' reports told of American batteriesc in active service in the Champagne. The Chemin-des-Dames where they have now appeared is on the Aisne front the furthest point west at which American troops have been reported. This sector is well towards the left flank of the French line, the British having been reported recently to have taken over an additional sector of the front south of St. Quentin probably as far as LaFere. ;' The British in their onward march lu Palestine have entered Jericho, fourteen miles northwest of Jerusalem and have further extended their advance northwest of the latter city. Possession of Jericho gives General eral Allenby commander of a net work of high roads, radiating from that town and opens the way for him to penetrate northeastward in the region immediately north of the Dead sea. across the valley of the Jordan to Amman, on the Damascus-Mecca railroad, between 25 and 30 miles dis tant. One in Hospital and One in Jail, Result of Fight Over Game John Beach is in jail, awaiting trial in circuit court, and James Temple is in the hospital, as a result of a fight between the two men which followed a game of pool The quarrel began in the Grand saloon late Thursday night when each accused the other of cheating. They were ordered from the saloon, and Boach went outside while Temple remained in the saloon to take several more drinks before venturing out. When he did come outside Beach hit him over the head with a beer bottle, and during the struggle which followed, struggle which followed, both fell underneath an automobile standing at the curb. As they fell. Beach drew a knift from his pocket, and cut Temple about the neck. The men were separated by Jerry Lake, who obtained the knife before Beach carried out his threat to kill his antagonist. Temple was taken to the hospital, where it required eleven stitches to close the rut on his neck. Physicians state Friday morning that his condition was serious, but that he would probably recover. Boach was arrested by the county officers at 4:30 o'clock Friday morning on the Boston pike, three miles south of Richmond. THE WEATHER For Indiana By United States Weather Bureau Partly cloudy and somewhat warmer Friday and Saturday. Today's Temperature Noon 28 22 5 Yesterday Maximum Minimum For Wayne county by W. E. Moore Weather Bureau Fair and warmer Friday and Saturday. General Conditions The Canadian cold wave which has controlled the weather east of the Rocky Mountains for the past 48 hours, has slowly settled toward the Gulf of Mexico and is losing energy. It is much warmer over the Rocky Mountain plateau due to an extensive area of low barametric pressure moving into the United States from the Pacific ocean. Temperatures will moderate generally over the Ohio and Mississippi valleys as this western storm crosse the Rock-1e.

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1907 Yes, "G. M." the Law Closes Our Liquor Parlors One Whole Day Every Week Editor of the Palladium: Will you please state in your paper what the law is In the city regarding drinking and gambling also as to Sunday closing of saloons, for the benefit of one who has just come to town. G. M. Yes there are. "G. M." Someone who is a thirst for knowledge or something else, wants to know, through the columns of the Palladium, whether there are laws in Richmond that affect drinking and gambling, and the Sunday closing of saloons. Chief of Police Gormon says there are. He says he has tnem on tne statute books to prove it, and if the interested party will hie himself to police headquarters, he can see them for himself. He says moreover, inai if said interested party knows anybody who is violating these laws, and i wiliiner to file an affidavit against them, he will be glad to take action at once, in accordance to tne statutes, against the violaters. 1 75 WORKERS ENROLL HERE Labor Enroller Robie has listed 175 men for government work since Ihe office was opened in the Commercial club rooms February 10. Most of the enrolled men are carpenters, painters and molders. Skilled machinists are needed for the shipbuilding work and all men who know this line of work are urged to enroll. Robie is anxious to secure a man in each factory in Richmond to help recruit workers. The office will be open Friday night. 200 Are Expected at Meeting of Odd Fellows Whitewater lodge of Odd Fellows at its annual roll call meeting tonight, is expecting an attendance of more than 200 of its membership. One of the features of the patriotic program will be the presentation of a service flag and a roll or honor containing the names of the members of the lodge who are in some branch of military service at the present time. The Victory Quartet, will sing and Secretary Albus of the Commercial club will deliver a patriotic address. NINE PERSONS BURN TO DEATH .TJEABOPY, Mass., Feb , 22 Nine persons, all members of the family of Morris Miller, lost their lives in a fire which destroyed the Miller home near here early today. Reuben Sillier, a boy of 19. who was employed on a neighboring farm was the only member of the family who escaped. - The blaze was discovered by a neighbor and when firemen arrived, the house was in ruins. Miller, his wife, and seven children ranging in age from 20 years to a baby girl of 2 months, fell victims to the flames. Parties Join Hands to Push Liberty Drive INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. 22. The Democratic and Republican parties joined hands today officially to assure the success of the next Liberty Loan in the state. Charles A. Greathouse, state chairman of the Democratic party and a member of the federal aid to state vocational education commission, shook hands with Will H. Hays, state and national Republican chairman and former chairman of the state council of defense in an agreement by which the active working organization of the two great parties in Indiana will meet in Indianapolis on March 5 and take direct and active steps toward co operating in the sale of Liberty Loan bonds. John L. Rupe Heads ' Building Association At the annual stockholders meeting of the Masonic Building association Thursday, John L. Rupe was made president; Leroy Brown, vice president; John E. Peltz. secretary and Samuel Gaar, treasurer. The board of trustees named at the meeting is composed of John E. Peltz, Samuel W. Gaar. Leroy E. Brown, Luther Bruce, Bert Russell, Mason Byer, Charles E. Marlatt. Elwood Morris, John !. Rupe and Theodore Hill.

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. The next two months will be the most critical period with regard to food that the United States has faced since entering ihe war. This was the statement of Herbert Hoover, yesterday. United States Food Administrator. Earnest cooperation Js called for. In making the disclosure the Food Administrator declared that the situation is the most critical in the country's history and that in many of the large consuming areas reserve food stores are at the point of exhaustion. Blames Rail Congestion. The entire blame is put by the Food Administrator on railroad congestion, which, he says, has thrown the Food Administration far behind on its program for feding the allies. The only solution he ses is a greatly increased rail movement of foodstus, even to the exclusion of much other commerce. It was evident yesterday that the Railroad Administration was inclined to resent Mr. Hoover's blame of the

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1 WASHINGTON AS WE KNOW HIM BEST AND AS A VIRGINIA COLONEL 'i JJj j '

On the lett'is the George Washington we know the Washington we visualize when the father of his country is mentioned, the Washington immortalized by the pens of artists since the Revolution. It breathes his strength, his gentleness, his kindliness. On the right is the earliest, life portrait of George Washington. It shows him as a Virginia colonel before the war. He was forty years old when the painting was made by Charles Willson Peale. The portrait was begun May 20,

State Prohi Chief "Possibility" of "Wets7 in Dry leaders have made no definite J .... .i. - 1 I plans for action in tne proniDiioin iaw test suits, Raymond Schmidt, chairman of the state prohibition committee, said Friday. Mr. Schmidt came to Richmond to address the Wayne county prohibition rally at the court house. "We may just let the suits stand as thev are in Evansville, and force-the wets to file suit lor an injancuon wi every county wuere uuc utoncu, u the drys may file suit themselves in a favorable county in order to make a test of the state law,"- he said. "We have some hopes of a majority in the supreme court, if the case should be appealed by the losing side in Evansville." The dry leader conceded that there Kisses Were Worth $10 Each Says Wife, Who Charged Hubby for 9 em ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Feb. 22. Louis J. Salveter. former director of the RiceStix Dry Goods Company, who alleged that bis wife charged him $10 a kiss on their honeymoon and $500 to become reconciled after she had deserted him twice, was denied a divorce in court here today. Mrs. Salveter admitted thai she charged her husband for each of the 16 kisses she pave him on their honeymoon, but said: "He offered me the money and I saw no reason why I should not take it." Mrs. Salveter testified that after they had become reconciled, following their first separation, she was called out of town by the illness of relatives, and while she was gone her husband entertained six nurses in their home, and made love to each of them. She said she had been doing all of the work in their apartment, and that she complained once -when they were at the breakfast table. That angered Salveter, she said, and he cursed her. She threw a glass of water on him. Mrs. Salveter said that when they were on their honeymoon, on their way from New York to Chicago, Salveter cursed and slapped her, forcing her to run out of the drawing room. She said he pursued her and continued to slap her, compelling her to jump from the train. Mrs. Salveter is Salveter's third wife. The present Mrs. Salveter former was his private secretary. (railroads. Director General McAdoot j declared he was ready to provide every i transportation facility for expediting food movement. The Railroad Administration, he said, had sugested that farmers be urged to release grain holdings that large numbers of available cars might be utilized in moving them. Cereal exports to the allies, Mr. Hoover s statement says, will be 45,000,000 bushels short by the end of February, and meat shipments also are short by far of the amounts promised. Price Margin Is Widened. Inability to move "the crops. Mr. Hoover sets forth, has suspended the law of supply and demand, and has created a price margin between producer and consumer wider than it ever was before. . A large part of the corn crop is about to spoil because it is not moving to terminals for drying. The percentage of soft corn of last year's crop, all of

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Concedes Victory For Suits Testing Law was a possibility of a supreme court t Tn3nA iUnl wir-vll 1 A Trill tlio decision in Indiana that would kill the present "dry" law, but said that as far as having any effect on the ultimate adoption of prohibition, it would be like trying to "dip dry the ocean with a dipper." Displeased at Action. Mr. Schmidt stated that AttorneyGeneral Stansbury had expressed disDleasure with the way the suit was cuiiuuvihu uy riuatn;utin u. o. born in Evansville, who was the only defendant to the suit when the last ruling of the court was made declaring the state dry law unconstitutional. The failure of the prosecutor to follow Stansbury's advice and ask for change of venue to a more favorable county than Vanderburg, was one reason for the attorney-general's indignation, according to the dry leader. According to Mr. Schmidt, Osborn declined an offer of the dry federation to give him legal assistance in defending the suits, stating that he wished to handle them himself. Proposes Merger of Parties The proposed merger of the Prohibition party with the new National party organized in Chicago in October, 1917, was presented thn Wayne county Prohibition organization at its meeting at the court house by Schmidt. Mr. Schmidt pointed out in proposing the merger, that the old prohibition party would have fulfilled its main purposes when the country adopted nation-wide prohibition and suffrage, and that it should adopt a broader reform platform, such as that offered by the National party. "It won't, be any more necessary to have a prohibition party twenty years from now, than it is necessary now o have an anti-slavery party," the state chairman said, "because by that time prohibition will have been adopted by every state in the union." The members of the county organiContinued on Page Four. Centerville Lodge Will Celebrate Anniversary Evelyn Rebekah lodge, No. 322. of Centerville, will celebrate its anni - versary Tuesday, February 25. with a program and social. Refreshments will be served. Members of the Centerville lodge and all visiting Rebekahs are invited. Single members are permitted to bring one friend. Critical in saved, is the largest ever known. Estimates place the amount as high as a billion bushels. The cost of grains for feding live stock has increased to such an extent by reason of transportation difficulties, Mr. Hoover says, that feeders are confronted with the prospect of serious losses. Dairying interests, too, he declares, are hard hit. Potatoes, the Food Administrator declares, are spoiling in the producers' hands, while consumers have ben supplied only from sumer garden crops and stores carried over. Short 45,000.000 Bushels Mr. Hoover's statement follows: "In response to many inquiries I beg to say it is true that since the first of December we have fallen far behind our agreed food1 program with the allies. By the end of February we will be short 15,000,000 bushels in cereal products which we undertook as our share of their supplies. We; will also be short of the amount, of j meat and pork products that we were I

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The uniform Washington wore as a colonel contrasts quaintly with the lrfcuVi nf iciis ThP nine coat, had scarlet facings and the vest was of scarlet,

as were the breeches. And from shoulder to hip stretched a purple sash or

scarf. The silver gorget, suspended from a ribbon around his neck is pre served in the cabinet of the Massachusetts Historical society.

I IJ S DIES SUDDENLY John R. Hawkins, 70 years old, for more than 2 years an employe at , Glen Miller park, died suddenly Friday morning at his home, 302 North Eighteenth street. Hawkins was feeling well early Friday morning and swept off the sidewalk. At about eight o'clock he was attacked with heart disease and died immediately.. ,lle has been employed in many capacities in the park; for the last 25 He is survived by-his widowr Mrs. Christinia Hawkins, and seven daughters, Misses Mary. Ida, Alice. Sadie, Susan and Edna and two grand children. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at his home. Rev. J. F. Propst and E. D. Stegall will officiate. Burial will be in Earlham cemetery. Friends may call at any time.

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French Ambassador to U. S. Extols Memory of Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 The memory of Washington was extolled by M. Jusserand. French ambassador, and Senator Warren G. Harding, of Ohio, in addresses delivered at a commemorative mass meeting held here today, under the auspices of the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution. "Everybody," said M. Jusserand, "knows the unanimity of feelings of all French people who ever met Washington; how, during our revolution French citizenship was bestowed on him as being "one of the benefactors of humanity," and how, when he died, the French nation went into mourning, officers wore crape, and. our flags flown at halfmast. Washington is Model. "To conduct, oneself well is a harder task in days of gloom and anxiety. In both, Washington stands a model. Tip knew all the trouble which mav result from delays, mishaps and mis management, but never thought of a i patched-up peace.' 1 The ambassador said that Frederj ick the Great, won. while entertain - jIlg American envoys sent during the revolution to arrange a commercial treaty, wrote his brother, Prince Henry, that he intended "to drag out negotiations so as to take the side for

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to deliver. This deficiency is due solely to the railway congestion since that date. The Railway Directors, since coming into control on January 1 have made efforts to find remedy, but during the month of January the weather was insuperable, and, although progress has been made since the fifth of February, the situation is the accumulation of three months delays. "The next 60 days will be the most critical preiod in our food history. The simple fact is that the problem goes far deeper than supulies to the allies. During the last three months we have far fallen behind in movement of foodstuffs from the fanners to the consuming and storage centers. Up to the first of February less than 50 per cent of the normal ratio of corn has been moved, less than 80 per cent of the oats and less than 60 per cent of the potatoes. From November 4 to January 1 we were short in the usual movement of grains and grain products into the terminals alone by over 120,000 carloads over 120,000,000

in ten da vs. It is now in the collec Although Washington paid only 18 Meatless Days in U. S. Have Savr1 140,000,000 Pounds of Beef, 'Tis Said WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. Meatless days in the United States have saved 140,000,000 pounds of beef in four months, the food administration anI nnnnwi! toriav Durtne this neriod ir-ft0n.o00 ounds of beef were exported to the allies together witn 400.000.000 pounds of pork products. The figuies were made public in a statement explaining why the food ad ministration refused requests of cattle and sheep growers to remove beef, mutton and lamb from the conserva tion mips wuh reeard to meatless davs. The administration again de clared that meatless day was estab ltsntd forlfce "purpose -of "enabling the United States to feed the allies by saving on meat consumption The announcement 'concludes: "If the many people who have assisted us in the accumulation of exportable stocks ' of meat products during the last three months could receive the expressions of gratitude with which these shipments are now being received in Europe among the allies, they would feel amply rewarded for the sacrifices." which fortune shall declare herself." He described as a German invention the story that Frederick had presented Washington with a sword bearing the inscription: "From the oldest general in Europe to the greatest in the world." Referring to the present war, Mr. Jusserand declared: "The fight is on. As we shall no more desist than Washington did even at his most perilous hour, the result is certain. The work must be done so that it may not have to be done again. in this we are all of us with you whose j enthusiasm, va'.or, resourcefulness and inexhaustible generosity brings us such cheer and comfort." Perils Have Increased. Senator Harding declared that the time had come to apply the ma!ms contained in Washington's farewell address concerning the pernicious effects of internal dissension in a national emergencj-. "In .our mighty development we have added to the perils of which j Washington warned." asserted the j senator. "The danger has not been in j party association, but in party appeal j or surrender to faction. "Our growth, our diversification, our nation-wide communication, our Continued On Page Ten. bushels, and this further aggregated by similar shortage outside the terminals. . Part of Corn Crop Spoiling "Furthermore, this year we have the largest perventage of soft com in many years and, though we have a j record crop of coru, a considerable portion of the soft corn will be lost by spoiling unless it can be moved in the next 60 days to the drying terminals. The least amount of crain that must be loadel for the next 60 days is 8,000,000 bushels per day and we have not yet attained that. Less than this will solve neither the allied nor our domestic situation. "We have about 130,000 carloads of potatoes on November 1 which should have been moved from the principal producing centers and up to the first of February we have moved about 28,000 carloads, while we should have moved over 50,000 in this period. The result is that potatoes are piled up spoiling in the producers' hands, and (Continued on Page Four.

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Will RESTORE MONARCHY IN RUSSIA, SAY BOLSHEVIKI Germany is Advancing Into Russia to Restore Privileges of Capitalists, Bolsheviki Proclamation Says. GALLED TO RESIST (By Associated Press) Germany is advancing into Russia to restore the monarchy and the privileges of the land owners and the capitalistic classes, the Bolsheviki govern ment in Petrograd declares in a proclamation to the people and it calls upon them to resist the German armies and defend the republic "to the death." All Russians must cooperate in the defense, the Bourgeois class with com pulsion if necessary, the official com mander declared. Petrograd has been declared in a state of seige. Explicit instructions are given the peasants and workers to take all measures to prevent valuable property from falling into the hands of the Germans. Railroad rolling stock aud food supplies are particularly mentioned. Everything must, be done, the people are adjurred, to keep German militarism from crushing the working classes in Great Russia and the Ukraine. Will Receive Report WASHINGTON. Feb. 22. The American general staff is watching the new German sweep into Russia with little more than academic interest, quite convinced that Russia is no longer a military factor to be considered and that the situation has little bearing, for the present at least, upon the other battle fronts. Large captures of military stores bear little relation to the equipment of .troops on the Italian or west front, officers here say, as the guns and rifles captured can be of use- only as long as the ammunition supply captured with them holds out. Observers both here and in Russia, it is understood, are satisfied that as the German drive continues. It will meet with more resistance. The greater the distance the Germans advance the more effective would be that resistance, the military experts say, since it would require great numbers of the troops to- maintain the German transportation lines and give the best, opportunity for guerilla warfare. Eventually they think the vast extent of Russian territory and. the great population will form a more definite movement of resistance. The government will receive a detailed report from Brigadier General Judson, who has just returned from duty at the American embassy in Petrograd. The turn of events in Russia in the view here, swings upon the object of the German high command in renewing operations. The capture of war material from an unresisting foe is considered of no great importance and the capture of thousands of prisoners is regarded as an added embarassment in many ways. The taking of Petrograd. it is conceded might be desirable for its effect in Germany and particularly in Austria. Schools and College Honor the Memory of George Washington Washington's birthday was obsrv ed in Richmond public school Friday with appropriate exercises. Rev. F. A. Dressel of the First Engj lish Lutheran church in an address on Ueorge wasnington at tne iiign school chapel drew a number of lessons from the life of Washington which may be applied to the present day. "We must all hang together. This is a fight oT every man, woman and child in the "nited States. There must be no question concerning the loyalty j of every stnte in the union. "This is no time to piay politics. It is the time to win the r.ar. There is only one party and that is the American jiarty. "Cheer the boys always, every where. Be Americans. Le; every man and woman stand behind the country that has protected them,"' said Rev, Mr. Dressel. There were patriotic numbers by the orchestra and community song were sung. Professor Harlow Lindley of Earlham college spoke to the students of the Junior high school on the life of George Washington emphasizing hit industrial life as a farmer and agriculturalist. The orchestra, under the direction of Miss Edna Mariatt, play, ed patriotic numbers. The birthday of the nations' first president was also observed at Earlham college chapel. Rev. Charles M. Woodman of West Richmond Friends church addressed the students on the life of George Washington. "America" and "The Sta Spangled Banner" were 6ung by tha students. Kennepohl Candidaate for Commissionei B. A. Kenepohl announced Friday that he would seek the Republican nomination for county commissionei from the western district at the com ing primary. Kennepohl was formerlj identified with the city administration