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AMERICA TO BE LEADING SEA POWER AFTER WAR Wilfred Jessup, Richmond Attorney in Fleet Corporation Work, Sees Return to Former Maritime Glory. IS ON BRIEF LEAVE The United States will be the leading maritime nation after the war, according to Wilfred Jessup, Richmond attorney, who is in the legal department of the Emergency Fleet corporation. Jessup arrived in the city TuesSay evening from Washington and will remain until Sunday. "With the exception of the possible taking over of the railroads," said Jessup. "the present shipbuilding program is the greatest business enterprise the United States ever has un dertaken. It will mean a wonderful stimulus to industry after the war. The national help given the shipping Industry will give us the place among oatlons we held before the civil war. I believe there will be a million more men employed on board ship when Ihe war is over." Work at Fever Heat. The men in charge of the shipbuilding program have shown wonderful efficiency. Jessup said Wednesday. The extraordinary weather of the past winter and the fact that practically every wooden shipyard in the United States had fallen to ruin, caused a necessary delay in getting the work started, but they are now working at fever heat, he states, and there will be no complaint concerning the carrying out of the program. "We can't get timber from the west to the eastern coast in a single night," he pointed out, "and there have been unavoidable delays. There has been some criticism.' but I think it came chiefly from people whose intentions I were good, and who were anxious to see the thing through as quickly as possible. And there were some who criticized from pure ignorance." In Charge of Labor. Jessup has been placed in charge of the machinery and means of keeping In touch with every man of draft age who is employed in shipbuilding work Men who have been given deferred classification In the draft in order that tbey might go Into the shipyards, and the men in the national army who are discharged in order that they may engage in shipbuilding, are under the direct supervision of the department. Monthly reports from over 300 corporations who are engaged in work for the shipbuilding program, are required, and close contact is maintained with every draft board over the United States. It Is the plan of the corporation to maintain staple labor conditions, and for that reason the men who are discharged, or leave the work voluntarily, are not re-employed for a period of thirty days. The local boards are notified that be is no more under the deferred call, and he may be called into military service before he can be re-employed in the shipyards. There are 40,000 men of draft age engaged in the government shipyards, according to Jessup, end before the Hummer Is over, the number probably will be doubled. Little difficulty is experienced In obtaining men, he states, as the pay and labor conditions are attractive to men who have been called into service. THE WEATHER For Indiana by tha United States Weather BureauProbably rain late tonight and on Thursday. Colder Thursday. Today's Temperature

Noon 45 j Yesterday f ' Maximum 37 Minimum 26 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Increasing cloudiness. Rain tonight or Thursday. Colder Thursday or Thursday night. General Conditions The great storm of Monday has passed over the Atlantic and has caused gales from 60 to 70 miles an hour over eastern states. Another storm has made its appearance over the middle west and extends from Canada to the southern states moving eastward and will probably cause unsettled weather with rain by Thursday at the latest and may arrive tonight.

Speech of IvONDON. Feb. 2t The newspapers see little hope for peace in the speech of Count Von Hertling, the imperial German chancellor. . "With what faco, one wonders, can Count Hertling, who is old and religious, get up in the Reichstag and declare that his heart bleeds for humanity an! profess his sympathy with President Wilson's appeal for justice, forbearance and respect for national rights at the very time when he is publicly engaged In one of the most cynical and callous transactions known to history," says the Westminster Gazette. This newspaper rays It Is obliged to say to Von Hertling quite frankly that the mind of peace among the western nations "The mind which 4 seeks peace on aa abiding and honorable ronditlor is every day being

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Announcing Uncle Sam's for Home

To help YOU produce food in YOUR own garden during the coming spring and summer the Palladium will publish a Beries of official, practical gardening directions. This illustrated series, "Food From Your Back Yard," has been prepared by gardening specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture. The articles will be brief, yet complete; interesting, and yet simple enough for a child to enjoy and to apply. While conveying many new ideas to experienced gardeners, these talks will be designed particularly to help those with little or no gardening experience to make the most of their home food plots. They will tell how to handle new or previously cultivated plots, what, how much and when to plant, how to get successive crops and obtain maximum yields. As these war gardens come into production a series of official articles on home canning and drying, prepared by Uncle Sam's home food preserving specialists, will be published. It is suggested that after reading these articles, everyone interested in home gardening and canning cut them out and paste them on cards or In a scrapbook. These clippings will make a thoroughly reliable household guide for the home food producers and conservers of Richmond and vicinity. THE EDITOR.

THRIFT STAMP GETTING TO Thrift Stamp buying in Richmond is becoming a habit. Six weeks ago Thrift Stamps were not a popular "buy" in Richmond; today they are the most coveted form of investment on the market. Six weeks of education, first among the school children, and then all along the line of commercial endeavor, has brought the result that Uncle Sam predicted. No other nation in the world ever gave its citizens, rich and poor alike, the chance to buy such a government security one that combines absolute safety with high returns. Joseph II. Hill, Wayne Township chairman, who has put into the field a most effective organization for gathering the first poll of the city and township outside the corporate limits, it so optimistic that he believes the quota of $500,000 will be exceeded before the end of March. All Banks Have 'Em. All of the banks now have Thrift Stamps for all persons desiring to purchase them; the postoffice is the central agency and the committee is preparing to have stamps on sale at most stores, those in the business district as well a in the outlying parts of the city. A prominent farmer living north of Richmond today purchased from one of the banks, $2,000 worth of war savings stamps, $500 each for four members of his family. They cost him just $413 for each $500 worth, the difference between the purchase price and the maturity value representing his net profit. In addition to the attractiveness of the investment, the stamps are not taxable and the profit is net. The same result comes to the purchaser of war stamps in any sum, and a $5 investment is exactly as good in proportion as $300. The government prohibits any one person owning more than $1,000 worth of stamps. This restriction is made in order that such a good thing may be widely distributed among the people. To Find Out "Slacker" Wayne County Chairman Joseph H. Mills Wednesday morning told high school pupils the "main purpose of the thrift stamp poll is to find out how many 'slackevs' there are in Wayne county. A record will be made Private is Stabbed to Death by a Corporal HATTIESBURG, Miss., Feb. 27. Private Julius Vancamp, of Mishawaka. Ind., died at the base hospital Sunday night from bayonet wounds said to have been inflicted by a corporal because Vancamp refused to do evtra duty. Ordered by offiqers to make the men work the corporal prodded Vancamp with his bayonet. The private resented that and turned upon the corporal who is said to have then stabbed him with the bayonet.

High Cost of House Cleaning May Put Damper on Spring Drive on Dirt by Tidy Richmond Housewives

BY MARY HENKE Richmond housewives may be compelled to give up their spring housecleaning this year, if the high cost of keeping clean continues to mount. Every article used in the upkeep of domestic cleanliness has risen in price, "on account of the war." Brooms last year cost 50 cents. Several years ago you could buy the same kind of broom for 35 cnts. Thi3 year the average broom sells for $1.25. According to grocers the high cost of brooms is due to the fact that the demand greatly exceeds the supply of broom corn. Whether or not broom corn is being

German Chancellor Monument of Hypocrisy, Says Foreign Press

chilled and alienated by the disclosures of the real Germany in her dealings with Russia." "We see every one of the four principles defined by President Wilson to which the German chancellor does lip service," the Westminster Gazette continues, "being trampled undej-foot." The Globe says: "Von Hertling's present duty is to supply the camouflage behind which the real sovereign power of Germany, the great general staff, carries on its operations. How About Russia? "It is Von Hertling's business to entangle some, or all, of the allies in negotiations, as Von Kuehlmann (the German foreign secretary) entangled the deluded Russians, and then Von Hindenburg and Ludendorff, the real sovereign power vM settle the terms

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Special Service Gardeners and Gainers RUYING IS RE HARIT HERE of every man, woman and child and their ability to buy stamps." The registration started in several townships Wednesday. Jefferson township's poll showed a total of 1,921 persons. This township is allotted $38,000. There will be three kinds of agencies in Richmond. First class stations must purchase one thousand dollars worth of bonds outright: second class purchase any amount of stamps, giving collateral security in United States Government bonds or other government security. There will be a number of sale stations where any amount of stamps may be purchased. After Thursday the stamps will cost $4.14 as the price raises one cent each month. February reports close Thursday evening. To Put Poster in Homes Small posters similar to the ones used in the Red Cross membership campaign drive will be placed in the homes where every member owns a Thrift or War-saving stamp. "In ten days' time we have sold $3,000 worth of stamps at the Richmond Casket company. I am anxious for everv Richmoud manufacturer to establish an agency," Mills said Wednesday. Eighteen thousand dollars worth or stamps were sold Tuesday at the Richmond post office. Wayne township must sell $500,000 worth of stamps this year, concluded Chairman Mills. The High school has established an agency. . . ' , - ; - FRUSTRATE PLOT TO BOMB PLANT NEWBURGH, N. Y., Feb. 27. An attempt to blow up machinery in the plant of tha Newburgh ship yards company here today was frustrated but only after a guard had picked up a bomb and hurled it out of danger. It exploded and did some damage but not enough to delay work at the plant. Aerial Mail Service Will Begin April IS WASHINGTON. Feb. 27. Airplane mail service between New York and Washington will be in daily operation beginning April 15, the postoffice department announced today. Eight machines will be furnished by the war department. By arrangement between Postmaster General Burleson and Secretary Baker the aerial postal service will be conducted for one year as part of the aviation training system of the army. The machines will be piloted by army flyers. 4 used to win the war, no one seems to know. But the price is rapidly ascending. Just the same. A broom is not the ordinary implement of the house it once was. It has value, and is treated with care accordingly. So also the unaesthetic mop. Last year a mop sold for 50 cents. Now it costs 75 cents. The high cost of cotton has done this, the grocers say. Soap has risen from 5 cents to 7 cents a bar. Animal fat is used in making soap, and animal fat is much in demand for the soldiers in France, so soap costs more than it did before the war. Cleaning powders have shown the and policy on the admirable principles of Brest-LitovsK. The Evening Standard, in an editorial treats the chancellor's address as follows: "When the German chancellor speaks peace, we know what kind of peace he means. We have seen a specimen of it in the case of unhappy Russia." This newspaper then parallels exerpts from Von Hertling's speech and the report of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, on the attitude of the American working men as regards a conference with German labor, and adds: "This clear vision of the American people, labor included, sees that the only effect of a conference with the German people in their present mood will be a weakening of our moral case, the enfeeblenicnt of the national

HERE'S CHANGE FOR SELECTS TO PICK JOB

Here Is a chance for selected men to enlist and choose the branch of the service and the training camp they desire. The war department has thrown the way open to registrants to enter any one of four branches of the service. These branches are: Coast Artillery, Columbus, O., barracks. Spruce Production, Aviation Section. Vancouver, Wash., barracks. . Infantry, Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C. Medical Department, Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. Sheriff Carr. chairman of the Richmond army board, Wednesday an nounced the war department poncy which makes enlistment possible and issued tne rouowing siawmcm.. j "Under this plan it is possible for physically qualified men in the draft j to select the brancn or service wcj desire and to pick the training camp which they like best. Men who have passed the examination and been placed In the limited service section are not eligible for enlistment. "This offer probably will be closed soon. We have been advised to enlist as many men as possible by the middle of next week and we should like to send a class of 100 or more by that time. "For men in the first call this is a golden opportunity to select the branch which appeals , mpst to them. They will be going a few weeks earlier than if they wait for the can dui tne auvoutoroa mm-a than make up for that. Men in deferred classes may enlist if they will waive their classification and i tha. iafai-rori finsftifloation is due to dependency, get a waiver from their dependents. Aii v.o ia noi'Msnrv tn take advan tage of this offer Is for the registrant to appear at the army board office and be inducted into the service." Appoints Committee for Liberty Drive v' third Liberty loan drive will start April 8. Chairman Seeker expects to nave everyxnins m readiness so the drive will start with a vim. ! . Tvrnior nt the executive commitAA V- MB - tee are Demas S. Coe, Lawrence Han.ai. Mni w Harris. J. E. Hansel, Jraad Mrs. Charles pruitt., Edward H. Harris was mace city cnairniaa Wednesday by chairman seeker, uemas S. Coe is chairman of the public ity committee. Chairman Seeker, Eawara . Harris and Demas Coe will go to Chicago MQivh ft tn attend a conference of Lib erty loan officials from Indiana, Iowa, Michigan ana Illinois, i ne meeuns is called by the federal reserve bank. BEGIN CAMPAIGN FOR SOLDIER FUND A campaign has been started by the Travelers Protective association, Post C, to raise funds for randy and tobacco for the Indiana it mbers, and sons of Indiana memberb, who are in the trenches in France. The movement was first taken up by the Indianapolis division Post B anad was called to the attention of the Richmond post at its regular meeting. The response was so enthusiastic that a committee was appointed to solicit members. President Highley appointed the following committee: John Zwissler, A. H. Rice, R. O. Allen, O. D. Bullerdick, O. H. Little and J. J. Harrington, Jr. same increase in price. Ammonia is one of the constituents of the average cleaning powder, and ammonia also is needed "over there." The small box of powder that used to cost 5 cents, now requires 2 cents more. Practically everything used by the housewife in keeping her home clean has risen in price. Some of the women, who are trying to do their bit are worried about it. They are willing to win the war in the kitchen, but they do not see, under the circumstances, how the kitchen is which the war will be won, is going to be as clean as it should be. wills," the discouragement of armies and the embarrassment of governments." The Star says that at first blush Von Hertling's speech seems to suggest that Pharaoh's heart is not quite so hard as when last he spoke. It adds that Von Hertling is trying to drive a wedge between the British and American people, and says the proper counter to this attack is to "Wilsonize" England's peace alms and compel the government to 6 peak in the language of President Wilson. Judged by Acts. As far as the British public is concerned the mild words of Von Hertling fall upon almost deaf ears. A few weeks, even a few days ago, their reception would have been different, but German speech is judged here by German acts. - .

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Madame Phillipe Barbier. Madame Phillipe Barbier, wife of Lieutenant Barbier of the Belgian legation in Washington enjoys the distinction of being the only woman at the legation So that she is the hostess of all the legations social affairs, presiding at those of the six bachelors of the legation as well as those given by her husband and herself.

DRAFT APPEAL IS PREPARED The army board clerical staff Wednesday waa preparing the appeals to be made by the board and appeal ageat-to President Wilson in behalf of the forty recently married men who were placed in Class One by the district board. The appeal, which must be accompanied by an affidavit of the. registrant, will be sent out soon. It will be signed in each case by Chairman Carr, Clerk Kelly, Dr. F. W. Knieger and Appeal Agent Foulke. Following is a copy of the letter of the board which will accompany each appeal T jRichmond, Indiana. His Excellency, the President, Washington, D. C. -Honorable Sir: The undersigned, members of local board No. 1 of Wayne County, Indiana, and the Government Appeal Agent of said board, hereby certify that, in their opinion, this case is one of great and unusual hardship, in this, to-wit: That this man who has contracted ennA faith, not hastily, but in pursuance of a long previous engagement, ana not wua tne inm..ott trioTir nt ovnrtincr military service. will be forced to leave a dependent wife without support n mauctea imo niiuorf cATHrlrp. and we. thereUliuwii J v- - " . fore, recommend a reconsideration of this case, and the said Local isoara retha flnvprnment ADDeal Agent to join in this certificate and recom mend such re-consideration, wo roil attention to the fact that out of over fifty (50) cases of de ferred classifications Dy tnis iocai nnsnt ovwv rasp was reversed on - - - appeal, apparently without regard to the affidavits and other testimony showing the good faith of the marriage. 2200 Pounds of Twine are Lost in Fire Twenty-two hundred pounds of binder twine were destroyed by fire of unknown origin Tuesday morning on the second floor of the Irvin Reed hardware company. Very little damage was done to the building, the fire department arriving in time. The loss in twine is estimated by the Irvin Reed company at $550. 4ii Hctniis of the new war against helpless Russia rob German statesmen of their stock in trade the plea that German is waging a war of self-de-The British press is virtually unanimous in the belief that the whole eastern situation has been cleverly arranged and plotted with a view to bringing eastern and central Europe under German domination, and for the vital immediate purpose of getting food from the Ukraine. The' most important newspapers which learn toward peace by negotiation, notably the Westminster Gazette, and the Manchester Guardian, seem to have undergone a change of outlook as the result of the events of the past week, while the Daily News today, although condemning the entente for aiding Von Hertling's argument . that

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Mother of J. M. Lontz Dies at Hagerstown HAGERSTOWN. Ind.. Feb. 27. Mrs. Mariraret Lontz. widow of Harry Lontz, died Wednesday morning at 7 o'clock. Her son, John M. Lontz, and grandson Harry Lontz of Richmond were at her bedside at the time of her death. She has been a resident here for many years. Mrs. Lontz was a prominent member of the Christian church. She was an honorary member of the History club. A daughter, Mrs. William H. Porter and a son John. M. Lontz of Richmond, survive. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home of her daughter. 30 BELIEVED LOST, VESSEL FOUNDERS wAswTVfiTON. Feb. 27. Thirty of ficers and enlisted men of the naval tug, Cherokee, are believed to have been lost when the vessel foundered yesterday morning in a fierce gale off Fenwick island light ship, 22 miles from the Delaware capes. Ten survivors who got away on the first life raft were safely landed; four other men got away on another raft, but two were washed overboard and drowned and the other two died probably of exposure. The four bodies were taken into Philadelphia. The navy department later made public the names of the ten survivors landed at Philadelphia. They are L. P. Ackerman, seaman; seaman; C. E. Barker, chief machinH. P. Poynter, fireman; R. J. Hall, ists mate; R. A. Kozeck, fireman; P. H. Warmack, fireman; A. A. Wailim, oiler; E. L. Cudgel, fireman; and B. F. Brumfield, radio electrician. One report to the navy says that ten survivors already have been landed at some point on the coast. The tug is supposed to have foundered in the heavy gales of yesterday. Later the navy department was advised that incoming ships were carrying four bodies to Philadelphia and that the ten survivors previously referred were the only ones known out of the complement of five officers and thirty-five enlisted men. John Kelsey Promises to Support Family . r John Kelsey of Cambridge City, who has been in the county Jail for failure to support his wife and children, was released on bond Wednesday on condition that, he return to his home and take care of his family. the entente and not German is the real obstacle to peace because the allies have not jointly formulated war aims, says in effect that no hope can be drawn from the chancellor's speech. MONUMENT OF HYPOCRICY PARIS, Tuesday, Feb. 26. The French - press generally considers Chancellor von Hertling's speech as simply a continuation of Germany's ef forts to create differences between the j allies. "Von Hertling talks hypocritically about peace," says the Petit Journal. "The speech, is a - monument of hypocricy," Ia Liberte exclaimed. The consensus of opinion in official and diplomatic circles, concerning Count von Hertling's speech is that It is a "war speech," not a "peace speech." .,'

GERMANS TRY TO WIPE OUT U.S. SOLDIERS RV GASSING Flaming Gas and Gas Shells Kill Three Soldiers, While Nine Suffer Seriously from Effects of Attack.

GERMANS REACH LUGA (By AocJated Press) Artillery bombardments on the western front have increased in intensity, especially in the Ypres sector, along the Chemin Des Dames and on both banks of the Meuse. On the American sector northwest of Toul, tho Germans have attempted unsuccessfully to wipe out the Americans with flaming gas and gas shells. Three American soldiers vrere killed in two such attacks and nine suffered seriously from the effects of the gas. The American artillery is shelling the enemy positions heavily. No official recognition has yet been taken of Cfcf-ncellor Von Hertling'a speech. It is regarded in Washington. London and Paris as a war speech and cot a peace statement. The chancellor's purpose, an official of the French foreign office says, was to separate the entente allies, stimulate peace talk and impress Germany and the outside world with the notion that the military caste had lost its power. Belgium, it is declared, hardly will answer the chancellor's peace hint. German submarines have not let up in their campaign against Spanish, shipping. The steamer Neguri of 1,859 tons, is the latest victim. She is the fifth Spanish boat to be torpedoed within five weeks. Continue Onward March. Although Chancellor Von Hertling has declared Germany's intentions in the east were not aggression or aggrandizement, German military authorities have declined to grant an armistice on the Russian front in view of the Bolshevik! offer to accept peace and the German troops continue their onward march. The Bolsheviki are now the hands of the invaders. It is rumored that the Germans have reached Luga, midway between Pskov and' Fetrograd. This is unconfirmed as is a report that the enemy lias advanced to a pom half war between. Luga and Pskov. Meanwhile, . the street fighting in Pskov goes on, the city changing hands alternately. Workmen and troops from Petrograd and troops from Moscow are being sent to check or stop the advance on Petrograd. Women and men are busily building trenches and defensive positions around Petrograd. The Bolsheviki government, it is declared. ill retire to Moscow if the Germans take the capital. Disagreement in the council of workmens' and soldiers' delegates is reported and it is added that foreign minister Trotzky will quit the government. A provisional government has been formed Li Esthonia with headquarters at Reval and the independence of Esthonia has been proclaimed. Chancellor Von Hertling said that Germany would give self-government to Courland and Lithuania but it is rt ported from Switzerland that a Saxon prince is to be made king of Lithuania, which will be united to Saxony. RAIN AND COLDER WEATHER IS COMING Richmond's brief spell of pleasant weather is due to be at an end Wednesday night or Thursday, says Weatherman Moore. Moore predicts rain ( Wednesday night and a drop in the ' temperature Thursday. This change will be due to a storm which is passing over the Middle West from Canada to the southern btates. The storm of Monday has reached tho Atlantic. It caused gales of from 60 to 70 miles an hour on the seaboard. Addie Gray Charges Husband Deserted Her Abandonment is charged in the suit for divorce filed in circuit court by Addie Gray against Frank H. Gray. They married April 28, 1913, and the complaint alleges that Gray deserted his wife the following January. The plaintiff asks the restoration of her maiden name, Addie B. Mason. A high official of the foreign office informs The Associated Press, that the aims of von Hertling's oration were three fold. First, he desired to create a division between the allies, especially between the Anglo-Saxon group and the Latin, group. Second, he wanted to stimulate peace talk in allied and neutral countries in an effort to bring about another "Brest-Litovsk." Third, the chancellor's manoeuver was expected to impress public opinion in Germany and abroad that military officials do not rule in Germany, but that the diplomatis and politicians have the upper hand. ' . . Failed to Understand. "Count von Hertling has failed to understand President Wilson's speeches," this official said. "He has interContinued On Page Ten-J