Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 93, 28 February 1918 — Page 1

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SEE PLOT TO GET CONTROL OF PACKING INDUSTRIES Speedy Legislation Is Request ed in Congress to Lay Bare i Confidential Files of Great Meat Packers. FELONIES ARE CHARGED WASHINGTON. Feb. 28. Special and speedy legislation to lay bare the ronfidential files of the great meat packers and disclose what government Investigators believe will show plans to take complete control of the meat industry was asked of congress today by the federal trade commission. On recommendation of Francis J. Heney, special consul conducting the commission's investigation, who has been restrained by court orders from taking further papers and also from using those already seized by his agents, the commission laid the facts before congress and asked for action. Charging that Henry Veeder, counsel for the packers, is still the. custodian of many papers which have been used as Instrumentalities in the commission of felonies, Mr. Heney asked for a supplement to the espionage law to facilitate the government inquiry into the industry. Specifically. Mr. Heney asks that congress amend or t upplement the espionage act so that the "decision of a judge who Issues a search warrant shall be conclusive upon the question of the existence of probable cause, and that a summary proceeding already provided by the statutes . for the determination of the question of whether the property seized under the writ was used for the commission of a telony shall likewise be conclusive for the purpose only of enabling the court to retain such property In the custody of the law until the purpose of the seizure shall have been served." The action of the appellate court in issuing the stay, said Mr. Heney preented the government from even examining papers already In ltd possession and which a federal district court had found had been used "as he means of committing felonies by Swift and company, and other corporation?." Clem E. Kehlenbrink Gets Government Post Clem E. Kehlenbrink, manager of the service department of the George W. Davis Motor Car company, has received a call to report in Washington as soon as possible as expert cost accountant iu the finance division of the army ordnance department. After a period of instruction in Washington, he will be assigned to duty in one of the plants working on government contracts. Kehlenbrink formerly was with the M. Uumely company, closing up the affairs of the Richmond plant. SELL $10,000 IN STAMPS There were $10,000 worth of War and Thrift Saving stamps sold at the :i05toffice Wedne&day. 'i sent in another order for eight thousand stamps Wednesday evening.-' said Postmaster neck. 1 THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Rain thii afternoon and tonight. Colder in central and south portions. Friday partly cloudy. Today's Temperature. Noon 4 :.' Yesterday. Maximum 46 Minimum 25 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore 4 Partly cloudy and unsettled tonight nd Friday. Occasional rain this afti moon and tonignt. Colder tonight. General ConditionsThe southwestrn Morm is causing rain over Indi-j ana, Ohio and Illinois ana is moving. rradually eastwards. The storm of Monday night which is now crossing i he Atlantic, caused an S4-iuile gale in New York city. It is snowing over the west but there is no severe cold wer.ther in any portion of the United State at present. It is very cold, l-owevcr, in Alaska being 26 below at NtT.nv where it was above freezing a t-w days ago. Surprise of By ARTHUR RANSOME iu '! !:; New York Times. PETROGRAD, Feb. 22. (Delayed.) The inner history of the last few days is a history of the struggle between two tendencies in the government and their supporters. The surprise of the German attack upset Russian calculations, lining's view bed always been that peace should have been signed at Brest-Lltovsk. He believed their best plan was to preserve as fas as possible the revolution in Russia itself, to keep it alive until continuation of the war In western Europe Ehould bring other nations to join Russia In revolt. Trotzky. on the other haDd, worked in the belief that the western revolution was much nearer. Hence his conK!stnt po!icy at Brest-Litovsk based on tbu belief that Germany would be ur.able to take the risk of further military operations.

Palladium to Instruct Recruits in Army of Gardeners and tanners

Nearly everybody In Richmond is going to have a back yard or vacant lot garden this season. Everybody will have a garden in their back yards Whose "back fence isn't nailed to their back door," as City Gardener Murphy puts it. The rest 'ill have vacant lots under cultivation. For, this reason nearly everybody in Richmond will be interested In The Palladium's special service for home gardeners and canners. This service is furnished by the U. S. Department or Agriculture. It will be a regular feature of The Palladium. The second of the series is printed on another page in this issue. Thus. The Palladium becomes the official War Garden organ of Richmond. If you have a garden you need The Palladium. If you have The Palladium you'll be more likely to have a garden. MURPHY TO HAVE PLOWING BLANKS City Gardener Murphy will be at hi3 office in the Commercial club rooms from 4 to 6 and from 7 to 8 o'clock each afternoon and evening, commencing Friday, March 1. He will be ieady to give advice on any subject connected with gardening to anyone who may apply. Blanks will be ready Friday for applicants who wish to have their gardens plowed free of charge. Applicants will be required to give some information, including address, location and approximate size of their garden spaces. Murphy suggests that all applicants be provided with information on the size" of their gardens before applying. Applications may be made in person or by a telephone call. Employment of County Agent up March 9 A meeting of the county council for the purpose of considering the employment of a county agent, will probably be called for Saturday, March 9, by County Auditor Bowman. Auditor Bowman has communicated with the members of the council and five have expressed themselves as in favor of the employment of a county agent. Mrs. Druitt Chairman of Woman's Loan Drive Mrs. Charles Druitt is chairman of the woman's part in the Liberty loan drive for Wayne county, April 8. She was appointed by Mrs. McCuIlough of Indianapolis, state chairman, upon of the recommendation of Miss Meb Culbertson. Army Aviator Fatally Hart When Plane Falls LAKE CHARLES. La.. Feb. 28. Lieutenant William L. Magill, of Jersey City, a member of the army aviation corps was fatally injured and Lieutenant Telland L. Colman, of the marine corps, was slightly hurt when their airplane fell 250 feet lata yesterday, according to information received today at Gerstor field. Lieut. Magill died soon after at the field hospital. $5,000 Heart Balm Mother Sas George E. Toschlog. Richmond machinist, against whom was assessed damages of $5,000 by a Cincinnati court in a breach of promise suit, declares the case is a frame-up. The suit was brought for $10,000 by Miss Margaret Bergen, 416 Broadway. Cincinnati, a trained nurse. It was not contested. Toschlog lives with his mother, Mrs. Mary Toschlog. at 444 South Eighth street. He works at the Natco factory. Miss Bergen claimed that Toschlog I had courted her for eight months and in February, 1 917. promised to marry her. She testified that in April. 1917. he wrote ber he would be unable to marry her and that later he met her and told her that his mother objected and that, inasmuch as she was worth $30,000 and be was her only heir he preferred to obey her. Mrs. Toschlog Thursday denied she ever had opposed her son's marriage. She says the facts are greatly at variance wiih what the nurse said.

the German Invasion

Seven days' notice before closing the armistice would have allow ed a change from Trotzky's policy to Lenine's. The seven days was not given, and the Government was suddenly faced with a German advance at the moment when it had practically no forces with which to meet it. With the view of saving what was left of the revolution, Trotzky, after hesitation, went over to Lenine's side in the discussion, and a telegram was sent The urgency was such that there was no time to call a meeting of the Central Executive. Storm of Indignation. As soon as the news of the telegram of capitulation was published thers was a treble storm of indignation. Tho opposition parties, of course, seized upon it for politicaf ends, and illogically attacked the Government for trying to conclude peace and at the same time for having failed to conclude peace.

RICHMOND,

SELECTS WHO ENLIST WILL GO THURSDAY Armv Board Besieged by Men Who Want to Pick Branch of Service. Those selected men who take advantage of the war department's new poiicy and enlist at the army board will be sent to their posts next Thursday. They must have their application on file with the board by next Tuesday night. Offices of the army board at the court house were crowded Thursday morning with registrants who sought information concerning the branches of the service for which they are eligible. Wednesday evening Chairman Carr and Clerk Kelly of the board were besieged with registrants. Carr says he answered at least 50 telephone queries and he talked to two men out of his bedroom window after he had retired Wednesday night. Expect at Least 1C0. The army board officials expect at least 100 and possibly 200 registrants to take advantage of the opportunity offered to enlist in one of four branches of the service and. virtually, to select the training camp desired. All that is required of men in the first class is for them to signify their desire to enlist and designate the service. Listing their name is sufficient for inductio n In the case of men placed in deferred classes on dependency grounds signature of dependents to waivers is required also. Seven men in Class One were accepted by the medical examiners Wednesday. They were men who were unable to be examined in their turns. They were: Robert Ewing. Harry L. Hensley, Clarence Zeyen, John J. Haramy, Charles Lanning, Leonard Rhodes and George Withers. Those rejected were: Chalsey Sheffer, Edwin Habighorst, Homer Updige, Strolher B. Eales and Leon Wilson. BENEDICTS MUST SIGN OWN PLEA All married men who were placed in Class One by the district board and who desire to appeal to President Wilson must appear at the army board offices in the court house by Saturday evening and sign their appeals. The appeals, accompanied by the letters of the board and Appeal Agent Foulke, will be sent to Washington next w'eek. Action may not be expected for some time, however, as there is a heavy press of business before the President's appeal board. Unless the registrant signs his appeal none will be made. Six Richmond Men on State Liberty Committee Six Richmond men are appointed by Will H. Wade, Vice-Director of the Indiana Liberty -Loan Campaign, on the general committee to promote the third issue. They are: John L. Rupe, S. W. Gaar. Edgar F. Hiatt. Rev. Somerville Light, 5. G. Matthews and A. D. Gayle. Given Nurse; Woman Jilted Son Went to See Priest "She came to Richmond. I think it was early last summer and she and Eddie went to see Father Roel! about their marriage. They came back to the house and Eddie went. I think to work. Soon after, she left. I stood at the door and said 'Good-bye, sw eetheart.' Then she said: 'Mrs Toschlog. tell Eddie T don't want to marry him.' I told him and he said all right." said Mrs. Toschlog. Toschlog says Miss Bergen refused to marry him and that she sued him for the purpose of holding a judgment over him if he ever came into his mother's estate. Mrs. Toschlog is reputed to own several Richmond properties and to be moderately well-to-do. Toschlog is 33 years old and his mother says Miss Bergen appeared to be considerably older. "She is an old maid." she said. "I don't see how she can lis so. She told my boy she had lots of fellows on her string when he was courting her." The war party in the Soviets attacked the government for weakening, holding that once they had refused to sign the German terms they were weakening the moral strength of the revolution by afterward agreeing. Radek, the editor of the official Bolshevist paper, who attended the peace conference, and alii with him, were gladly preparing to' fight till death, confident that in so doing they were best serving the international revolution, when, without their knowledge, the ground was cut from under their feet The next stage was one of fractional meetings in which the peace arguments, gradually gained ascendancy. It is noticeable that the soldiers, almost without exception anti-war workers, favor fighting. Had Base for Belief. Meanwhile no answer has arrived

IND., THURSDAY EVENING,

'TWAS OF "MILITARY ' Dormitory o PARIS, Feb. 28. A recent photjgraph of the dormitory of a children's hospital wrecked in the Germans' latest air raid over Paris describes more accurately than any words the German idea of military "glory." Fortunately the 200 children in the hosDital were able to escape before damage was done. Had they not been j Four Odd Fellows for Over 50 Years Respond to Woodward Roll Call John F. Davenpart, Philip Schneider. F. White and Henry Hawkins, members of Richmond Woodward Lodge, Odd Fellows for more than fifty years, attended the annual roll call meeting Wednesday evening. Grand Secretary Leedy, of Indianapolisj and Grand Master Duepree, of Franklin, were the speakers. T. R. Jessup, Past Grand Master, and a member of Woodward Lodge, was present and made a brief talk. Leedy has served as Grand Secretary for 22 years. He was elected in 1895. At one time he was president of the Indiana Newspaper Union and resided In Logansport. One hundred and' twenty-five members responded to roll call. Dancing, cards and refreshments were also features. SLACKER BILL GOES TO SENATE WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 The alien slacker bill, barring from citizenship and authorizing the deportation of aliens of draft age who claim exemption .from military service was transmitted to the senate today after having been passed by the nouse last night by a vote of 244 to 21. The bill also authorizes the drafting of aliens for agricultural and manufacturing work. The state department, which has signed draft treaties with Great Britain and is completing signing treaties with France and Italy, opposes the alien slacker bill on the ground that it might embarrass the United States in its negotiations. ' Annual Meeting of Commercial Club March 1 1 At a meeting of the board of the directors of the Richmond Commercial club Monday evening President Lcntz j will read his' report, i Nominations for officers of the board i will be presented and voted on The j annual meeting of the entire club i membership is Monday evening, March II. EDNA MILLER DIES C ENTER VTLLE. Ind. Feb. 2S.Edua Miller. 20 years old, died Thursday morning at her home here. She is survived by her mother, Mrs. Frank Lashley. two sister? and one brother, j Funeral services will be conducted j Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at! Christian church. TALKS ON CONSERVATION Miss Nina Short, county director of) domestic science, talked on "Food; Conservation" before the Red Cross; club at the home of Mrs. Titman on j New Paris pike Thursday afternoon. I

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of Russia Upsets All Plans of the

from the Germans, and news comes from place after place along the front pointing to an easy German advance. That there was some actual base for the belief of Trotzky and others that the Germans would not dare advance is shown by the news that one German regiment shot forty-two officers when ordered to advance. It is reported from Arensburg that an eyewitness saw there seventy Germans with bound hands under strong convoy who had refused to advance across the ice to Verder. It is further reported from the front that tha enemy is advancing in groups of 100 or 200 men of various regiments, suggesting that the Germans are compelled to use volunteers, being unable to depend on regular units. However, it is reported from Dvinsk and other places that the Russians offered only the slightest resistance and

FEB. 28, 1918

IMPORTANCE" TO

HUN TO BOMB FRENCH TOTS' HOSPITAL

f children's hospital in Paris after German air raid.

well drilled for air raids from the Huns I it is unlikely that many of them would! nave survived, me Dunaing useu ia ,

the" raiding planes were quite accurate-! ruins of this hospital for small chillv dropped on the dormitory of theidren. Instead of spreading terror, hospital and it is no fault of the boches however, the recent raid, like ail other that they were unable to return home j such German barbarities, has only with a nrnnrl stnrv of a glorious Vic-i more firmlv established the French

tory. 144 PERSONS STILL MISSING LONDON, Feb. 2S The British hospital ship Glenart Castle had 182 persons on board, it is stated unofficially, when she went down Tuesday in the Bristol channel. Three parties, aggregating 36 have been landed at Swanses, Milford and Pembroke. None of the others have been heard from. The missing include about seven female nurses. Survivors of the Glenart Castle landed at Swanses, declared the ship was torpedoed by a submarine. No submarine was seen by them, but a dim light was seen on the surface of the water before the ship was shaken by an explosion. - Four Soldiers Caught Asleep in Trenches, Sentenced to Death WASHINGTON. Feb. 2S. Four American soldiers caught asleep while doing sentry duty in the first iine trenches have been sentenced to death by General Pershing, although he has authority to carry out the sentences, has referred their case to the war department for review. Cafes Added to State Loan Advisory Board INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 28. Mrs. Alice Foster MoCulloch. of Ft. Wayne, chairman of the Woman's Liberty Loan Committee in Indiana, announced today through the state publicity headquarters here, that Mrs! George Bass, of Chicago, secretary of the National Woman's committee, w ill be one of the speakers at the state-wide liberty loan conference for women to be held here March 6. Fred A. Sims, of the Indiana ?tate board of tax commissioners and former secretary of state, alo will speak at the conference. "While the conference," reads Mrs. McCulloch's announcement, "is primarily for the county and township chairmen of the state wide Woman's committee, we are eager that all women interested in this phase of war work attend." Will H. Wade, vice director of sales for Indiana: Walter S. Greenough, vice chairman of publicity, and other state workers went to Delphi today for the purpose of straightening out a tangled organization in Carroll county. George L. Cates. of Richmond, has been added to the rtate wide advisory committee, it was announced this morning. SEEKS LEGAL CONSENT Mary Arminta Ross has filed a petition in circuit court for permission to convey 203 acres of land in Eoston township without the consent of her husband. Frank Ross. who. xhc petition states, has been adjudged insane. retired without destroying materials and supplies. As time went on and there was still no answer from Germans, the war party succeeded in persuading Lenine that if the Germans continued to advance, a fight to a finish wa3 the only policy which would not harm the cause of the revolution. I met Radek yesternight, in the Smolny Institute. He .was in a state of real joy after being broken-hearted at the capitulatory telegram. He said: "The situation has much improved." I asked him. He said: "We are going to fight, and if we go down fighting, the cause of the revolution -is savei." ' ; This decision, if taken. i3 largely due to the rer?o"al influence and eloouence cf this one man. a little shorsighted. eager creature of pure intellect and courage.

If there w ere waDted any evidence to show the contemptible inhumanity

. th wh ,t tt.n.,iH b had in the ! determination of victory. Have Hares Instead of r a f r n Of MlSS Meb LulbertSOn Miss Meb Culbertson, secretary of the Wayne County Council of Defense, has suggested to Mayor Zimmerman that the moukevs burned in the recent fire at Glen Miller be replaced with 1 Belgian hares. Th harps could be raised for food, she says, and would be equally as appropriate an entertainment for the children. Dr. Zimmerman has the plan under consideration. Miss Culbertson savs the cost of buying monkeys and obtaining the particular sort of food they need is high and they produce nothing of intrinsic value. She objects to using the green house at the park for raising flowers. "We need thousands of cabbage and tomato plants this spring for people who haven't the money to buy them and it would, be much better to use the green house for this purpose than to grow- exctics, which cost a great deal as well," she said. Miss Culbertson is in favor of turning loose flocks of stieep and goats to, browse in the park and add to the meat supply and. in the case of the j goats, of the milk supply. ( POLL OF CITY AND ! TOWNSHIP BEGINS

I future peace of the world. SecretaryMore than three hundred men and Balfour declared that Germany chang

women Thursday began the work of making an accurate poll of Wayne i township, including the city of Richj mond in behalf of the government's : thrift stamp campaign. In most of the wards the field men jheld meetings Wednesday night, polling books were given out and plans

made for assigning to eacn poll taKeriKrau is iiru iu ue me icmuu vu

p single square block. The work must 1 Itr VJU1IJ JJir-iTU cimu 111 Ltjr: uiiuo ui v sept H. Hill, township chairman, by Wednesday night of next week. The work of establishing selling Rgencies in all parts of the city also, is j to be taken no immediately, and it is anticipated that practically every j more handling merchandise in Richmond will soon qualify as a first-class Hgency. A? iuickly j;s they are es- ! fahlishpd thev will be announced i through the prcb by the towuhip

jchpirraan. ouwma.mr-. i The demand for thrift stamps and j I savings certificates still continues at ! - jthe postoffice and the banks. The j lUTS. Margaret LOmZ 10 i school children, probably, have had p BZJ EVAt much to do with the increased sales De DUnea TTiaay j during tne last week. Not onlv are ' ! thev buvir.g thrift stamps themselves HAGERSTOWX, Ind., Feb. 28 Funibut their enthusiastic work in behalf I eral services for Mrs. Margaret C.

'of the government's campaign has re - suited in thousands of sales. PUT LICENSE NUMBERS ON MENU CARDS, SAYS GILBERT I Wayne County Administrator Gil i bert Thursday announced a ruling of ! the food administration which requires j all hotels and restaurants holding ! takers' licenses to display the license; ; numbers on their menu cards. j All day yesterday there were violent party meetings, ending up with meetings of the Petrograd Soviet and of the Executive Committee. In the Petrograd Soviet Zinoview defended the capitulation telegram, which, he said, was justified by the resolution of the third Assembly of Soviets and by the impossibility of offering successful physical resistance. Meeting of Central Executive The actual meeting of the Central Executive opened at five minutes past 3 this morning. Sverdlov read the full German terms quickly and perfunctori ily. They had already been read many I times during party meetings, but I am convinced that not half the members t present realized tbelr full significance. J Trotzky was not present. He bad saci rificed his position when, over-jaer-! suaded by Lenine, be put his csme to 1 the telegram offering peace.; which

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60 AMERICANS POISONED IN GAS ATTACK BY GERMANS Majority of, Those Affected Are Not in Serious Condition - Twenty-seven Hun Airplanes Cross American Line. SLAVS CHECK ADVANCE RERUN. Feb. 2S. (British Admiralty per Wireless Press.) Germanv'a military operations on the northern Russian front are taking their normal course the German general staff announced today. Another Esthonians regiment has placed itself under command or the German staff. In Minsk the Germans captured 50,000 rifles and 2,000 machine guns. WASHINGTON', Feb. 28. No further word from Ambassador Francis as to his plans for leaving Petrograd had been received here early today and Secretary Lansing when asked about un-officlal reports that the ambassador and some of the other embassies hael J departed, declared the state depart ment had no information whatever. Ry Associated Pres The American sector in France on V ednesday azain was subject to an at tack by gas shells which had little ef atfeet. Tuesday's two gas attacks caused five deaths and the poisoning of about j CO American so!diers. The majority of ; those affected by the gas are not in j a serious condition. German airplanes are still active over the American I front, 2. having crossed the line, Wed nesday. Aerial and artillery fighting on the British and French front is most severe. Eighteen German airplanes were brought down by the French and British airmen and guns, while Berlin claims to have accounted for fifteen entente machines. German air dromes, railway junctions, and other military targets continue to be bombed by allied airmen. No Base for Peace. No base for peace is found in the speech of Count von HerUlng by A. J. Balfour, the British secretary for foreign affairs. In making the first official reply to the German chancellor in the house of commons he rejected th German suggestion concerning Belgium and 6aid that the chancellor's professed acceptance of President Wilson's four principles was only "Hp service." There was nothing to indicate that diplomatic conversation with the central powers In their present frame of mind would bring a lasting peace. To undertake negotiations unless they would lead to the righting of the two wrongs committed by Germany would be "the greatest crime" against the ed her policies to suit, her needs and that von Hertling offered no new proposals. In their advance into Russia the Germans are meeting with more resistance and apparently they have been unable to make much headway ! toward Petrograd from Pskov. PetroJ V ,1 . V ,ii V 1 1 ...II 111. British shipping losses for the week show an increase over the previous period. Eighteen merchantmen, fourteen of more than 1600 ton, were sunk by submarines or mines as compared with 15. including 12 of the large tonnage, the week before. France and Italy lost no ships of the large tonnage and France only one vessel of less than 1600 tons. Another Spanish ship. the sixth in five weeks, is reported to , liaVP b.en torpedoed by a German ! Lontz, 82 years old who died Wednesday. will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home of William H. Porter. Mrs. Lontz was the mother of Mrs. William H. Porter and John M. Lontr of Richmond. She has been a resident of Hagerstown for many years. She is a mem ber of the Christian church and an active member in the History club. Friends are requested to kindly omit flowers. Bolsheviki was a negation of his whole policy. His authority was so weakened by that step that even If he had been present he would have been merely a prisoner behind Lenine's chariot wheels and would have had to vote against himself. There was silence in the hall, such a silence as In court when the Judge is about to pass the death sentence. Lenine came confidently to- th tribune, and In a fifteen minutes' speech gave a relentless, unrbetor leal statement of his position. Ho insisted that Russia could best serve the world revolution by preserving as much as possible and strengthening the Soviet Government and keeping It in exl?t- ! ence-u"ntll the opposing groups ef thu L fighting powers should reach exhausjtion and resulting recolution. He laid stress on the impossibility of resistContinued On Page Five.J