Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 114, 25 March 1918 — Page 10

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BRINGING UP HAVEXOO VALKINWELL THE THE TIME? J REQUIRES $2,500 FOR LIGHT PLANT .Tames Dillon, superintendent of the Light Plant announced Monday to the hozrd of ".vorks, that he would need an appropriation of $2,500. . Dillon said that. owing to bills amounting to $1,800 which were con tracted during the last administration only $1,200 remained for the expenditure on the light plant, of which $600 -.vould be used in' repairing the turbin. ' The board of works referred it to the city controller to.be brought up at the fifxt council meeting. ' The board Instructed City Engineer Davis to have a sewer cleaning machine sent to Richmond for demonstration. The cost of the machine according to the engineer wiH be $1,500 Including demonstration. Burkhart Gets Contract. TJanlel Iturkhart was awarded the contract of cementing the ailey between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets running from A to H street. The petition of I), t). Hodpm opprpie a gasoline dispenser at National road was approved. to 301 1 The clerk as instructed to obtain bids for the neater at hose house No. , 1The board authorized the clerk to write the Joseph Lay company of Ridgevillc. Ind.. and get the prices for fibre for the street sweeper. Johnson brought up the matter of the bad condition of the drives at Glen Miller. It was referred to the street department. Mrs. George Geyer Holds Record for Making Shirt Mri. George Geyer of North 'Sixteenth street, holds the record at Red Cross headquarters for the speed with which she completed a hospital nhirt for the hospital supply department. Mrs. Geyer completed the entire shirt in an hour and fifty-five minutes. The . previous record was two hours.' TEACHES WOUNDED OFFICERS OXFORD. England. March 23. An interesting experiment Is to be made at Oxford University in establishing short courses of instruction for wounded officers unfit for military dlity for four months or more.

SPELLBINDERS OF BOTH PARTIES START CAMPAIGN IN WISCONSIN

Above Senator Watson of Indiana and Vice President Marshall. Below Senator Sterling of South Dakota and Governor Cox of Ohio. With the special senatorial election in Wisconsin at hand, both the Republican and Democratic parties have started the most vigorous campaigning l in that state. Bending a larg9 number of campaign orators. The Democratic ; spr akrs will include, among others. Vice President Marshall and Governor ',Cox of Ohio, while the Republican speakers will include Senators Thomas J. ' irtcrJIn of South Daliota and James E. Watson of Indiana. -

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- 1 STOPPED N PARK TO WATCH , MURRAY Jack Curtis, Triangle character man, who has an important role In the latest Triangle release, "The Hard Rock Breed," which will be shown at the Murray theatre tonight and Tuesday had ftie scare of his life during the filming of this picture at the quarries of the Colton Cement company. , Alia Axiom, the great Hindoo seer, crystal gazer and mind reader will be the attraction again this week. Ask him anything; he will tell you. Some of the most remarkable things have been foretold by this wizard during his stay here a great many of them, having already come true as predicted, j MURRTTE Shakespeake and modern life are linked together in "The Mad Lover"! featuring Robert Warwick and Elaine! Hammerstein, which will be shown atj the Murrette theatre today. WASHINGTON 'Jack Spurlock Prodigal" at the' Washington Monday . and Tuesday. jack Spurlock (George Walsh) is a Harvard student. One night he goes out and he returns with a large black Crown Prince Still Free Despite Story of Capture A story ran rife about the city Sunday night to the effect that the allies had succeeded in halting the German advance and had captured 120,000 Huns including the crown prince. The story gained general circulation throughout this section of the state, and numerous calls were received at the Palladium office asking 1f the report were true. It was with regret that the truth of the story has to be- denied. The Associated Press declares that the report has no basis on fact, and is nothing more than an imaginative yarn probably started originally by some railroad operator. LIMITS USE OF HORSES NEW YORK. March 25. No person in the province of Brandenburg of which Berlin is the capital will be permitted to keep horses for other than commercial purposes after March 1, according to an order issued by the high command says a Berlin dispatch of February 2 published in German newspapers received here.

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EAT OUT Or ME HANObear. The next morning the bear I walked into a classroom and swatted; the professor on the jaw Five minutes later Jack Spurlock was not a Harvard student, neither was he in good standing with his father, who owned a chain of grocery stores throughout the United States. Father made Jack take a lowly job in one of his stores. Jack bought so many carloads of onions that the Spurlock employes went on a strike, and Jack lost, his job. Belgian General . . ... . . Honored by Petain General Ruquoy is the chief or staff of Belgium's small but heroic army. General Petain of the French army, recently conferred upon him the grade of grand officer of the Legion of Honor. MISS CULBERTSON RECEIVES CARD FROM ELLA WILCOX Miss Meb Culbertson, chairman of the woman's department of the Wayne county council of defense, has received a postal card from Ella Wheeler Wilcox, which states that the famous writer has almost reached France. "We had a glorious voyage," wrote Miss Wilcox. "The experience was wonderful." GOLDFARB LEAVES SATURDAY M. B. Goldfarb, who has oeen in charge of the navy recruiting station here, has received orders to report Saturday at Norfolk. Va.. '.vhere he will be assigned to sea duty. Mr. Goldfarb will be succeeded here by William E. Aldcn, who will arrive in Richmond Thursday. NEW FRENCH Continued From Page One. centered on withdrawing as occasion requires and permitting the enemy to wear himself out before tiie British defense. - Sunday the fighting forces in the north reached the old battle field of the Somme from which the Germans retreated a year ago. Again Bapaume and Peronne are the centers of the most bitter fighting. Bapaume is the key position between Arras and Albert and Berlin reports that a "gigantic struggle" is being made for its possesion. . . . - ' - i Deny Capture of Bapaume. The capture of Peronne is claimed by the Germans, but heavy fighting is laKing piace norm ui il auu suuiu.ani along tne somme river, lseiween eapaume and Peronne, the Germans have reached the Traneloy-Combles-Naure-pas line, where they are held up by the British. On the southern end of the great battle line where the sanguinary struggle has not halted for" many hours, the Germans have reach Chauny, an important pofnt on the Oise river southwest of La Fere. Here however, their advance has not been so great as directly west of St. Quentin, where they

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FP PLAVHM& - Johnson is Fined $20 for. Assaulting Smith Harry Johnson charged with assault and batterv aeainst Orra Smith of Hagerstown, was fined $10 and cost3 with five days in the county jail, in j Police court, Monday. Authorities of Edtnore. Mich., sent word to the police department that Johnson was wanted there, on a charge of forging a check. Johnson assaulted Smith at the C. and O. depot Saturday night and without any reason attempted to start a fight. The fight arose from the fact that Johnson who was drunk was having an argument with another man on the outside of the station and Smith intervened and later Johnson walked up to Smith in the station and struck him. Both men were taken to police headquarters, Johnson being held for trial, have progressed more than ten miles. The British and French battle lines meet near Chauny and the French lines along the Chemin des Dames and eastward toward Rheims would be rnA Paris. But Compiegne is a good 20 miles southweast of Chauny. Bring Down Airplanes. The intensity of the struggle is shown by the official announcement that British aviators on Saturday brought down fifty-four enemy machines. The British lost only 9. In addition to carrying out their work in the fighting zone, British airmen again have dropped bombs successfully on Mannheim, Germany. Berlin claims that Franco-American detachments aided the British in thei fighUng Saturday but the identity of the American units has not been learn- . ... ., . . . It is posS1ble that American and French troops from the Chemin des Dames sector have moved up to the r!c , r,nrth f it hn r r,hahl that American engineers with the British army were concerned. American engineers have again been In the throes of fierce conflict in which they have done excellent work in transportation. Berlin also has announced the capture of Ham. between Peronne and Chauny and claims that the number of prisoners has increased to 30,000. There has been little except artillery fire activity on the remainder of the British front and on the French and American sectors. The German artillery fire has been violent along the Chemin des Dames, in the Champagne, northeast of Verdun and in Alsace. ATTACK BRITISH RIGHT FLANK Germans Use One Division for Every 2,CC0 Yards of Attacking Front. BRITISH ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE. Sunday, March 24. By The Associated Press.) The main thrust on the Britishf right flank by the Germans Thursday morning was south of St. Quentin and the enemy used a division for every 2,000 yards of the front, there being approximately one German division against a British battalion. The purpose of the attack here was to capture Urvillers and Essigny Le-Grand and thereby acquire high ground for a further advance. It is now possible to give more details of the early stages of this and other f'ghts. On the extreme right of the British arm', the enemy crossed the river Oise at two places. One bony of troops came out of La Fere and swung north, while, another army crossed at Moy and turned south to form a Junction with the La Fere group. Throughout the day. the battle raged in the lowlands about the Oise. dJ&slk 66 Also Shows Continuous 1 :45 to

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At Vendeuil, a group of British held out until 4 o'clock Friday afternoon. A little farther north the Germans stormed Urvillers and Essigny. Just west of St. Quentin, the British were forced to fall back, but throughout the day they clung to the Holnon Wood, a little northwest of the city. South of St. Quentin, a number of strong British redoubts made a gallant defense and it was nightfall before the last of them, with their machine gunners, had been reduced. The end of the first day found the British behind the St. Quentin canal. Press Back British. Friday morning the enemy renewed his assault with increasing vigor, and after desperate fighting in the region of LaFere. succeeded in getting across to the British side. Further north, the British also withdrew trom the Holmon wood. The Germans then drove at Ham, which had been cleared of civilians, and Saturday morning, after obtaining a crossing of the canal, drove southward into the British positions. , In the other main theatre of operations between Arras and Rapaume the Germans made their first drive against the high ground between the I Coiel ana senoee rivers, i ne uerman I preliminary uomunruuieui was British eight to one in some cases. New Britjsh Line. Early the Germans attacking southward into Bullecourt arid the British withdrew to a line covering VaulxVrancourt, Norchies and Baumets-Les-Cambrai. The hottest and most dis puted point was Mory which the Germans occupied only yesterday. During Friday the Germans overran J St. Leger, Vaulx-Vrancourt, and Henin. One company of machine gunners on Henin Hill held up the German ade farmed ranks, eThe Germans have been.bringing up artillerv in the most able manner be- , fa k and have been fuU use f arm as the ad. I "'". tiT1Q, VaDCe Continued. The smmm Old Colony Pattern Thit pattern combines the dignity cf the elder craftsmanship with the beauty oi modern skill and improved methods. ine nnisn is gray, wim bowls, tines and bevel edges of the handles bright. lS47 ROGERS BROS is the only bnd of silver pWte with in thchuheof 70 yean. We carry a good lne of this funou tiKerwai. Haner's Store 810 Main Street

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A LOVE AKD SELFISH HI? HAD LIVED, esntcat with fcla doca and ma, then ska earn Into fcla life, a bricat Jewel that he thoo-at he could lay away to admire In hla lelanre aaoasenta. bnt her wsasa's heart craved more and like the mad Othello dark aspteloa fell upon him. Robert Wrwick WITH ELAINE HAMMERSTEIN IN 'THE MAD LOVER" Filled with dramatic moments, swiftly moving to its climax and tinted with charming episodes of romance and heart appeal, this original story gives the screen's most popular romantic actor the greatest role of his career. .

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