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VOL. XLTTI NO Q1 Palladium and Sun-Telegram illj.., WU. 1 Consolidated 1907 RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING, FEB. 26, 1918 SINGLE COPY. 2 CENTS

DEFENSE OF PETROGRAD IS REING RUSHED RY ROLSHEVIKI

Whistle Summons Workmen and Soldiers to Digging Trenches to Protect Capital Before Germans. RED GUARD MOBILIZED PETROGRAD, Monday, Feb. 25. Blaring sirens awoke sleeping Petrograd last evening, signifying to the inhabitants that the Germans had entered Pskov. The blast of the whistles also served as a summons to begin digging trenches for the defense of the capital. The district Soldiers and Workmen's Council of Petrograd was informed over the telephone at midnight that small German detachments had taken possession of Pskov and were moving toward Petrograd. A general mobilization of the working men and working women who are supporting the council was ordered. every one being directed to report to the Smolny institute, the Bolshevikl headquarters. Motor cars were requistioned and the tram car3 were kept running all night, filled with soldiers and members of tht Red Guards who were dispatched to the various railway stations. BOLSHEVIKI WORKMEN ARE MOBILIZING IN BIG CAMP LONDON', Feb. 26. The Bolshevikl headquarters have been transferred from the Smolny institute in Petrograd to a military camp, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Petrograd dated Monday. At this camp, the dispatch reports, the workmen of the city are assembling en masse, carrying red banners and fighting detachments are being formed continually. It is reported that the Council of People's Commissioners, which forms the Bolshevikl governing body, has decided to remain at the Smolny institute, although the military activities have been shifted elsewhere, the dispatch adds. SOAP BOX TRAINING DOES NOT FIT TO GOVERN, SAYS CRANE WASHINGTON, Feb. 2C Charles R. Crane, of Chicago, a member of the American mission to Russia, a White House caller today characterized the collapse of Russia as a catastrophe but pronounced the peace agreement with German as wholly ineffective. "Trotzky and Lenine," said Mr. Crane, "have shown the world that six months practice on a soap box on the east side of New York does not fit to govern an empire. The peace agreement might as well have been signed In New York in so far as its effectiveness is concerned." INDIANA SOLDIER BEATEN TO DEATH HOUSTON. Tex.. Feb. 26. Beaten to death, evidently lor the purpose of robbery, the body of Clyde E. Scott of Battery C. 13:?d Field artillery, was found in the railroad district of the city. Scott enlisted vt Falrmount, Ind. Wednesday Last Day for Aliens to Get Cards Aliens who registered at the police headquarters have until Wednesday to get theii' identification cards. Chief of Police Gormon said Tuesday that all registered aliens must come to police headquarters at once an .get their cards. Husband Forced Her to Support Self, She Says Madge Mensley filed suit for divorce from Lloyd Hensley in circuit court Tuesdav. charging that her husband forced her to work to support herself, und abandoned her without cause. The plaintiff atks the custody of their nno child. Harle.v. 3 years old. The couple w as married March 23, 1914 and Feparated June 25, 1916. THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Wednesday. Warmer Wednesday. Today's Temperature. Noon 34 Yesterday. Maximum 61 Minimum 32 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly clouciy but mostly fair tonight and Wednesday. Rising temperature Wednesday. General Conditions The center of the great storm passed through Richmond at 5:30 o'clock Monday evening at the rate of 60 miles an hour, and is now in the eastern states. The weather is generally fair excepting over the east. Temperature Is rising in the West, although it is still cold in western Canada, and below zero in the province of Alberta. The temperature is above normal over the Rocky mountains.

18-Year-Old Cambridge City Yoath Shoots His Head off With Shotgun CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., Feb. 26. Henry Smith, 18 years old, carried out a threat made many times and shot his head off with a shotgun Monday evening about 8 o'clock. His body was found at 11 o'clock by his father, William Smith. The suicide occurred in the rear of Smith's home, which is just south of Cambridge City. Young Smith had threatened to take his life often when in fits of despondency and his parents believe it was while in one of these periods that he killed himself. He was apparently in good health. He left no word of explanation. He was employed on the railroad.

REGISTRATION TO BEGIN MARCH 8 Registration of Wayne county voters will start March 8 and continue until October 7 at the court house only. This registration, the time for which !s established by law, is for the general election next fall. Demas Coe, president, Lawrence Handley and M. W. Kelly, county clerk, have been appointed to the registration board. They constitute the election commission and their duties In the registration wi!l be light. A chief clerk and a deputy clerk will be appointed soon to have charge of the registration. They will be se lected from the two major parties by the county chairmen and will be appointed by the county clerk. They will sit at the court house during the registration period and will be paid at the rate of $4 a day, probably. A suggestion issued recently by an election commission appointtd by Governor .Goodrich that the registra tion commissioners act also as chief and deputy clerks will not be followed in Wayne county, according to Clerk Kelly. The suggestion was made on the theory that it would cut election expenses throughout the state. Inasmuch as the fees paid to the registration commissioners ere merely nominal no expense would be saved in Wayne county and tbe present commissioners would be unable to serve as the registration would ' consume their entire time. Wife Rejoiced at the Funeral of Husband ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Feb. 26. "Thank God, I'm free. I hope to be paralyzed If I ever marry again," Mrs. Jennie Ruth Kinser exclaimed -when her husband, Thomas W. Kinser, of Terre Haute,- Ind., died.- Recording to a depo-i sitlon filed by Kinser's brother, WilBon L. Kinser, of Terre Haute, in Court here today, in the suit to oust Mrs. Kinser as executrix of the estate of her husband, estimated at $400,000. The deposition alleges that the widow seemed to be rejoicing at the funeral of her husband. Miss Alma Gessner, a maid formerly in the Kinser home, deposed that when Kinser remonstrated with his wife for being too friendly with other men Mrs. Kinser broke his glasses, armed herself with a revolver and threatened to kill him. Sent to Prison for Passing Bad Check O. S. Clark, 31 years old, was sentenced to the state prison Tuesday morning by Judge Fox for a term of one to five years, and was given a fine of $100, for passing a fraudulent check on the Second National bank. The warrant against him charged that he had signed the name of J. O. Edgerton to a check for $5, and had endorsed the check with the name of the Quigley Brothers. Will Appeal Cases Benedicts William Dudley Foulke, government appeal attorney for Richmond, will appeal to President Wilson the cases of 40 men married since May 18 who were placed in Class One of the draft by the District board. Each appeal will be presented sep arately and upon its merits. In the cases of twelve men who had contracted late marriages no appeal ,is possible because the District board was unanimous in placing them in Class One. These men are: Walter G. Elstro, William E. Riley, Vernon L. Horn, Howard Paul Meyer, Charley Woodson, Hugh R. Ross, Homer W. Ramsey, Leon F. Nelson, Earl Alfred Kinley, Timothy Baldwin, Jr., Cecil J. A. Maibach and Charles A. Landwehr Folke issued the following statement respecting the appeal: "Rule 5 of the general classification rules provides: "On May 18, 1917, every person sub

Mere Man Has Knitting

By MARY HENKE Is a man's superiority manifested when he knits? Richard Strohm, 408 North Thirteenth street, who has gained some prominence as Richmond's first man knitter, claims that it is. He has acknowledged, "regretfully" that Mrs. Strohm will never show the talent for the art of knitting that he has. When he permitted her to knit a row on a scarf which he was making, she dropped two stitches and picked up three, and he had to ravel it all out and do it over again, Mrs. Strohm says.

THESE BOCHES ARE HAPPY THEY'VE JUST B'EEN CAPTURED IN TRENCH RAID

The boches are happy they're prisoners. Trench raids by the French result generally in the capture of valuable prisoners. This French official photo shows the result of a raid. A squad of German prisoners is being brought into one of the wire-enclosed camps after a night raid.

$10 ,000 Received for Thrift and War Stamps There was a rush for Thrift and War Saving Stamps Monday at the Richmond postoffice. Ten thousand dollars worth of stamps, including checks from district postoffices, Were received by Finance Clerk Sprong. Postmaster Beck sold $3,000 worth of stamps after 6 o'clock. "We received 8,000 War Stamps Tuesday morning and have been notified that more are on the "way," said Sprong. MAN AND WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 26; Frederick Uncell, 70, pioneer resident of Terre Haute, an old time river captain, was burned to death In his home early Monday. Grace Watts, 26, Uncell's granddaughter, also was burned to death. It is believed Uncell started a fire in the kitchen range and that sparks from a burning chimney set the roof ablaze while the aged man lay down for an after nap. Commercial Club to Help in War Industrial Work in The Commercial club will co-operate with Vocational Director Carman In the "War Emergency Industrial work. Men employed in factories who need short intensified training in blue-printing, reading, shop processes, or any other training may receive training either at the factories or in the high school shops and drawing rooms. The school bears the expense of a teacher. If possible an expert workman from the shops will be secured. The training will be made to fit into the industry concerned in as practical and helpful way as possible. of 40 Richmond to President Wilson ject to registration had notice of his obligation to render military service to his country. The purpose of the Selective Service Law was not to suspend the institution of marriage among registrants, but boards should scrutinize marriages since May 18, 1917, and especially those hastily ef fected since that time, to determine whether the marriage relation was en tered into with a primary view of evading military service, and unless such is found not to be the case boards are hereby authorized to disregard the relationship so established as a condition of dependency requiring deferred classification under these regulations." "There was a considerable number of registrants who claimed deferred classification on account of marriages contracted after May 18, 1917. The local board determined in pursuance Continued On Page Ten. She concedes that her fiasco on that occasion has given her a heightened opinion of her husband's accomplishment. In the old days the young husbands sat about and held the yarn for their wives, and knitting was always considered a feminine pursuit. Now, In the new order of things, the husband is teaching his wife all the important stitches, and Is a patient instructor in the art of knitting. "All the knitting I know I learned from my husband," Mrs. Strohm said Tuesday, Mr. Strohm has knitted a sweater

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ARTILLERY DUEL QN U. S. SECTOR MOREJTENSE Germans Bombard Americans with Gas and High Explosive Shells. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Feb. 25 (By the Associated Press). The artillery duel in the American sector northwest of Toul grows more intense daily. The Germans fired a hundred or more shells during the last twerty-four hours and late this evening began to bombard violently some of cur batteries with gas and high explosive shells. The American artillery has replied constantly doing most effective work against the German front line trenches his battery positions and wire entanglements. Numerous enemy working parties also were shelled. Beyond observation by balloons there has been no aerial activity owing to the low clouds and rain. American machine guns last night and this morning fired many thousand rounds in the rear of the German positions where marked movement of men and material progresses. The enemy tried unsuccessfully to hinder the American patrol work by hurling new and powerful flares Into the American wire entanglements. All Volunteered. Details of the Franco-American raid in the Chemin-Des-Dames Saturday show that 26 picked American soldiers participated, after every member of the party had volunteered. The Americans moved forward eagerly to attack behind a barrage fire, the first time this had been done by our troops. Some of the Americans made captures and others chased Prussian troops through the trenches as far as 750 metres, going beyond the objectives sought. The raid had been planned carefully and rehearsals were held the day before. The barrage fire began at 5:30 o'clock in the morning and continued until 6:35, guns of all calibres taking part. The Americans among the 100 In the attacking party were surprised at tne precision with which the French shells fell and went a little faster than they should have and were with in 30 yards of the dropping shells when they reached the enemy lines. Relief had just been completed in the trenches and officers were making the rounds. The Germans took shelter in j a dugout, roofed with rails and sand bags. A French shell made a direct hit and the enemy scattered about the Continued On age Ten. Seek More Richmond Men for V. S. Work Wayne County must enroll more men for government service and assist The state in reaching its quota of 10,847 men. Enroller Robie received a telegram Tuesday from state director of the United States Public Service Reserve that Indiana now has enrolled 9,387.

Crown-His Wife Admits Ifs True

for the Red Cross, and has completed several scarfs, and is now working on a helmet for his brother, Jacob, who Is in the service at Camp Pike, Ark. His work as a railroad machinist has helped him to become an expert knitterf Mr. Strohm believes. A little carelessness on the part of a machinist in the railroad" shops may mean the loss of thousands of lives, and he learns to attend carefully to every detail of his work, This carefullness he applies to his knitting with the result that his work Is perfectly done, and exceeds in eareful workmanship that turned in by

Hays, in Washington, on Trail of "Harmpny

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. Chairman Hays of the Republican national com mittee, came here today to meet party leaders at the Capitol for the first time since his elevation to the leader ship and seek to bring about closer harmony between the national committee and the congressional committee. The latter for some time has worked independently of the national commit tee and there is some dissent to the plan. Representative Woods of Iowa, chairman of the congressional committee, is understood to favor continuing separate effort. An informal reception to Chairman Hays will be given tonight by the Republicans in congress. GALE SWEEPS METROPOLIS NEW YORK, Feb. 26. New York and New Yorkers Btaggered today under the force of an 80-mile gale that blew cut of a clear sky. People on the streets were picked off their feet by hurricane blasts, tin roofs were ripped off, bill boards, chimneys and trees blown down and some ships torn from their moorings. In the caniKms of the skyscraper district the gale cut queer capers, lashing itself into whirlwinds, or blowing to powerful gusts seemingly from all directions at once. Pedestrians were blown about almost helplessly, while hats were snatched from their heads i and carried skyward. Two girls trying to get by the Wool worth building were knocked down and injured so severely that they required hospital treatment. The front wall of a three-story building in tbe downtown district collapsed but no one was hurt. The gale followed a heavy rainfall during the night and continued with slightly diminishing force for several hours. Otherwise it was a balmy spring day. although the weather man promised cold before tomorrow. One of the more serious features of the gale was the interruption of telegraph service on account of the blowing down of poles and wies outside the city.

Richmond Will Be 100 Percent War Garden City This Season

Richmond will be a 100-percent war garden city this season, says City Gardener Murphy. Last summer there were 2,200 war gradens back yard and vacant lot in Richmond. . This summer he expects every available lot and back yard to be under cultivation. This, lie believes, will provide 2,500 gardens. Last season 88 percent of the public school children had war gardens. This season Murphy say3 98 percent of the children will have gardens. This increase In gardening Interest is due to three causes. They are: njany women who have not had occasion to acquire that application to detail. Mr. Strohm took up knitting several week ago, when he was ill at his home with bronchial trouble. It was a great shock to his friends when he first flourished his knitting needles at them, , and he had to stand a great deal of good-natured teasing. They even called him "sissy" and "granny," and inquired patronizingly about "his knitting." But he persevered, and they have since shown an interest in his work that encourages him in the hepe that

GERMANY READY TO DISCUSS PEACE ON WILSON'S TERMS SAYS GERMAN CHANCELLOR Von Hertling Declares General Peace Gin Be Discussed on Basis of Four Principles Laid Down by Wilson Officials at Washington Say Speech Is Calculated to Create Discord.

(By Associated Press) Germany, through her chancellor, Count von Hertling declares that a general peace can be discussed on the basis of the four principles laid down recently by President Wilson. However, the chancellor's acceptance was followed,by the statement that the principles must be recognized by all the states and peoples which stage, he said, had not yet been reached.

GERMAN PRIZE GOES ON ROCKS COPENHAGEN, Feb. 26 The Spanish steamship Igotz Mendi, with a German prize crew from the Pacific ocean on board, is ashore near the Skaw light house. Two of the prisoners aboard are Americans. The prisoners were taken from six ships which had been sunk. Several of the prisoners had been aboard the vessel for eight months while she cruised in the Pacific ocean. Twenty-two persons including, nine women, two children and two Americans have been landed by life boats from the Skaw. The Danish authorities have interned the German commander. The German prize crew refused to leave the ship. There had been an epidemic of beri-beri and scurvy on board the vessel. CAPTURED IN INDIAN GULF BY GERMAN RAIDER WOLF LONDON, Feb. 26. The steam ship Tgotz Mendi, according to a dispatch from Copenhagen to the Exchange Telegraph company was captured by the German auxiliary crniser Wolf nine months ago in the Gulf of India. The German navigators who were placed aboard had been following the Wolf ever since. All the .prisoners who had been held on boaro the vessel, the correspondent adds, have been taken ashore. New York's Lightless Nights are Cut Down NEW YORK, Feb. 26. There will be only two 'lightless nights' a -week in New York state after March 1 and no restrictions in the nse of heat and light in office buildings under orders issued by A. H. Wiggin, state fuel administrator. The ban will be lifted because of the steadily increasing coal supply. Snnday and Thursday will be the nights which will be lightless hereafter as a conservation, measure. Gilbert Announces Proportion of Flour Four parts of wheat flour and one part of substitute is the proportion which hotels, clnbs, restaurants and all other public eating places mnst follow when baking bread or rolls. This proportion is established by the food administration and Connty Food Administrator Gilbert announced it Tuesday. v Gilbert also announced that mills and jobbers will be permitted to ship flour to their regular trade with proper regard to all food regulations. The steadily increasing gravity of the food situation; Superior organization and effective propaganda in the public schools, and, Success of the war gardens of last season. The fact that the Commercial club is to pay for plowing the gardens may also be a contributing- cause of garden interest. Among adults the garden interest is intense. Available vacant lota are hard to find and this is the last of February, Very few households In Richmond but are planning kitchen gardens. he may sometime win some converts to the legion that is knitting socks for the soldiers. Lack of time is the main drawback to his knitting, Mr. Strohm finds. Unlike travelling salesmen, politicians and firemen, who have taken up the work, he has little leisure time, and he cannot complete the amount of work he would like to do, he says. Mr. Strohm was born In Germany, but that fact has made him just the more enthusiastic toward his knitting work. "I d rather work for the Red Cross than for the kaiser," he 6ays.

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the .chancellor said, adding that the tribunal of the world is prejudiced against Germany which declined to be judged by it He insisted that the entente war aims were stOl imperialistic although admitting that the President's message Is a "small step" toward peace. Chancellor Von Hertlfng voiced no great change in German's attitude toward the question which entente statesmen have declared to be fundamental. He did not go into great detail concerning Germany's conduct toward President Wilson's proposals. The abject surrender of Russia was gloried in as leading to peace on the eastern front and a bint was thrown out to the Belgian government to enter into separate negotiations with Germany. The problem of Alsace-Lorraine continues to be held as having no international aspectHuns Continue Advance. Meanwhile, although Russia is ready to conclude peace, the Teuton conquest of her territory goes on apparently unimpeded. RevaL the Russian naval base on the southern coast of the gulf of Finland, and Pskov, 175 miles southwest of Petrograd, have been occupied. The rapid German advance continues along the line southward, espedarfy In Volhynia and the Ukraine. In Siberia, the situation ts very serious and Japan Is reported to be preparing to intervene there very soon. The non-Bolsheviki forces there have to contend not only with tbe Bolshevikl but also against released AustroGerman prisoners. Activity on the western battle fronts is still confined to raids, artillery duels and serial fighting and bombing. There has been an Increase in the raiding operations along the Piave river, to Italy, but no change In position has occurred. The artillery duel In the American sector in France is still Intense. "Wo FT' Returns to Port, Another German raider, the Wolf, has arrived In port after harassing entente merchant vessels In the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocecns. The total number of vessels destroyed by the Wolf has not been disclosed, but the loss of eleven, three of them American, In the Indian and Pacific oceans is assumed by the British ad miralty to be due to her actrrftiea. Unable to break the British cordon, around the North Sea. the Wolf slipped into the Austrian port of Sola an the Adriatic She brought 409 pri oners and a -valuable cargo taken fronx, her prizes. A second auxiliary cratse? which the Wolf equipped, -was ssmSr by her crew which was captured by a British warship last February. Whila the Wolf was gone IS months, she aj. parentty dfd not dk as great damapv as her more famous sister ship. tcv Moewe, which carried oat to raids ln ' the Atlantic in 1915 and 13I&. President Is Retfeeat. WASHINGTON. Feb. 96. German. Chancellor von He-Ding's speech tc, the Reichstag- was carefully etndSed" today by President Wilson and state department officiate without any official Indication of how It was regarded or that It would be made the base, for a further step in the president's custom of discussing the subject or peaee in the open before Congrats. Intimations that the president would make tt the occasion for another aK dress immediately found no official Bupport. Other officials who read the chancellor's address carefully thought it served to emphasize a point made by . President Wilson in one f his earlier addresses dealing with the peace alms of the powers that while the central ' powers appeared to accept the general broad altruistic principals for which the entente allies and America were contending, when it came to the arrangement of details, the central pbwers appeared reluctant to apply those principals. They noted particularly von Hertling's references to Ireland, India and Egypt and regarded them as calculated to create a discord between ths entente allies and conttnue a deception of the German people who apparently believe the military party is willing to make peace without, annexations and indemnities. U. 5. Has Best Machine Rifle in World, Claim WASHINGTON, Feb. S. Tbe Browning : machine rifle, adopted for the American army in France and declared by ordnance experts to be the greatest weapon of its kind yet developed is now being turned out in three factories, -Secretary Baker an-, nounced today and -more than 100 already have been delivered. The gun will be put to an exhibition demonstration on a range here tomorrow. Deliveries will continue in increasing numbers and the department estimates that high production mark wiil be reached in June when several thousand will be turned out each, week.