Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 151, 7 May 1918 — Page 1

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VOL. XLIII., NO. 151-

Palladium and Sun-Telegram ' Consolidated 1907

RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING, MAYJ, 1918

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VOTE LIGHT THROUGHOUT COUNTY AND CITYJOOAY Is Estimated that Total Vote in Richmond Will Amount to 1500, One-fourth of Entire Vote.

WAR MAY BE CAUSE

Indications at noon Tuesday were that a light vote would be polled in Wayne county at the primary election. About 750 votes were cast by noon In the Richmond precincts. It was estimated that the total vote in Richmond would amount to about 1,500. This is about one-fourth of the entire vote in the city. It is believed that less than ofca-tUrd of the normal vote would be polled. , At some of the precincts there were no Democrats to serve as judges, clerks or sheriff, and in several of the polling places were not opened for two hours or more after the regular time because of the lack of Democratic officials. More than one-third of the total vote that probably will be cast throughout the county, was in the ballot boxes by noon, officials of the board said, the vote being very light in all parts of the city and county. The lightness of the vote is attributed to the war by some political leaders who said that the attention of the country could not be diverted to the primary election. Very few candidates could be found working at the polls during the morning hours, and if any of them were active they were probably working among the country and small town precincts, permitting the city vote to take care of itself. There are no contests of any consequence excepting on the Republican ticket for nomination for county clerk, auditor, assessor, and Wayne township trustee. The vote throughout the county also was very light, with one or two exceptions. The vote will be far from normal, however, all over the county. Many hundreds of voters are stationed. ti training camps or are in , France with the American expeditionary forces. Very few of these 'men have taken advantage of the absent voter's law, and it is said that less than 100 of them cast their ballots before leaving, or have done so. since the law became effective. This vote will have no effect on the ultimate results. The total vote in Wayne county will probabl be between 3,800 and 4,500, it is estimated.

Military Duty for All Australians Fit to Serve (By Associated Press) LONDON. May ".The Australian military authorities, says a dispatch from Sydney to the Dally Mall, have decided to stop employing at home service, Australians fit for service abroad, and as a result of two years of public agitation, a rigorous combing cut is under way. Every man who has not seen active service is undergoing medical examination and those Dhysicially fit who joined for general jervice will be sent abroad. The action of the authorities, .'he lispatch adds, Is approved generally, is it tends ' to remove a condition which prejudiced recruiting. 11 Lost WhenU.S.Ship Tyler is Sunk Off France (By Associated Press) NEW YORK. May 7. The American steamship Tyler, formerly an Old Dominion freighter has been torpedoed and sunk off the French coast

recording to information received in marine circles here todny. Eleven

members of the crew were killed or

drowned.

"Send Me Some Anti-Vermin Dope9' Writes Richmond Boy From France

Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Webb. 130 North Seventh street, have received a letter from their son. Sergeant O. R. Webb, who is serving in France with Battery E. of the 150th Field Artillery, describing his experiences with the American forces at the front. The letter follows: "It is almost like summer here; everything seems so full of life that war is out of place here. I am well and in the pink of condition. "You ought to see soma of the engines of war they have now and hear some of the 2.10s bursting around you. Though on the whole, it has such a series of, thrills each day for you that I believe all the liking for adventure will have left me if the war lasts two or three years but it won't. I didn't

come over here for adventure, but I found It all the same. , t "I euppo.se my kid brothers have been running off to go swimming by now. Well, I've been In already; that is my only chance for a bath now. But the vermin are plentiful here on the front. I would'break ice to- go bathing, to get rid of them. I wish you would send some kind of anti-vermin dope, as you can't buy it here at the front, and I believe the 'cooties,' as the boys call them, will hatch faster in warm weather. "I was made a sergeant the first of the month. I feel pretty foxy today, as I have a big American cigar stuck in my mouth. I got it from a pal that got a box."

SINN FEINERS CONTROL FIGHT AGAINST DRAFT Ireland Swept on Flood of Nationalism Church Raising Defense Fund. (By Associated Press) j LONDON, May 7. Ireland remaned remarkably quiet .says the Dublin correspondent of the Daily Mail in re porting on conditions there incident to the anti-conscription campaign. "Although the church is raising." ho adds, 'enormous 'national defense fund," which is ostensibly being collected to fight conscription, it apparently does not prefer to accept responsibility for the manner in which the money is spent and control of the fund has passed into the hands of the Sinn Feiners. The lists of names of men who signed the anti-conscription priests is said to be in the hands of Sinn Feiners as a basis for a registration system. Conditions appear daily to be growing worse as nationalism is being spread further along on the Sinn Fein flood. Moderate men of the Irish convention haye faded out of public recognition and it Is quite obvious that whatever are the government's home iule proposals they will be rejected contemptuously by the bulk of the country and denounced more passionately than was conscription. "The shortage of silver continues very acute, and difficulty in making change has almost paralyzed business in some towns. Postage stamps are being used in the midlands and in the west instead of coin. The bank of Ireland has received In the past three months a supply of silver five time greater as compared with the same period in previous years, but as long as the hoarding continues, all efforts to meet the shortage probably will be futile." POPE WILL NOT INTERFERE. (By Associated Press) DUBLIN, May 7 Denial that the Irish Episcopate is influenced by the Vatican in opposing conscription, was made in a speech at Thurles. Monday by the most Rev. John liarty, archbishop of Cassel. All talk about any action by the pope, he said, arose in the imagination of some English bigots, who had attempted by a cry of "no popery" to intimidate the Irish bishops. Ehe English Catholic union, he added, talked of appealing to the holy see, but it did not represent nil the Catholics in England. Archbishop Harty continued: "If they appeal to the holy see. It is not the Irish bishops who will suffer." The Irish bishops had interferred in the conscription issue, he declared because conscription raised morale and religious questions.

. S. Steamer Victor in Fight With Submarine (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. May 7. A fight between the Ameiican steamer Tidewater and a German submarine on March 17, in which the submarine was defeated and perhaps sunk, was reported today by the navy department.

THE WEATHER

For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Wednesday. Ccolcr tonight. Today's Temperature. Noon "5 Yesterday. Maximum '9 Minimum ' 52 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore: Mostly fair tonight and Wednesday preceded by unsettled and cooler tonight: General Conditions The lake storm which ' caused the rain of last night from Canada south to the gulf has moved to the eastern lakes and will pass away beore twenty-four hours. Cooler weather following the storm, but will not be severe on account of low barometric pressure over the Rockies. Very cold weather covers Alaska, 2 below zero at Nome. Indications are for fine growing weather for the next few days in this district.

Government Control of Railroads Raises Wages (Hy Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. May 7. Govern ment ownership of tailways has resulted in increased wags in all the countries where it has beon tried, the bureau of labor statistics lias found in an investigation. Great Bri'ain. Franco, Russia and Italy preceded the United Stages in government ownership and all -except Great Britain had taken over the railways before the war. In all four' countries wages increased with or shortly after the state acquired the roads. Hours of labor also were shortened.

Call Issued for 4,060 Selects to Leave May 20 (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 7. A requisition on all states except Arizona, Delaware and Vermont for 4,060 specially-qualified draft registrants to go to camp May 20 was sent out today by Provost Marshal General Crowder.

Will Send Wine to French Artillery Men (By Associated Press.) FARIS, May 7. The municipal council has decided to send several cases of good wine to the French artillery men, who are counter-attacking the German long range.

U. S. AIRPLANE PROGRAM UNDER HEAVIER FIRE Military Inquiry into "Entire Affair Is Demanded by General Squier. . (By Associated: Press) WASHINGTON, May 7. Investigation of the aircraft situation swiftly began taking shape today both in the department of justice and in congress. Attorney General Gregory acting as President Wilson's director began planning the investigation which is to disclose if there had been malfeasance or misuse of the great $C40,t)00,000 appropriation. At the same time Senator Chamberlain of the senate military committee, announced to the senate in vigorous terms that the committee proposed to have a thorough-going inquiry of its own in which he declared it would attempt to locate the personal responsibility. He promised the senate there would be "no whitewashing." The aircraft subject came up as soon as the senate convened. Stirred by published charges culminating yesterday in the President's order to the department, of justice, senators at once began demanding congressional inquiry. ' ' ' ; ' '', ; ;. In making his announcement Senator. Chamberlain declared there had been something radically wrong with the whole program. . '- New charges of a sensational kind in connection with aviation being brought forth daily Senator Chamberlain continued. . "These charges are coming to me and other members of the committee every day" he said. "This committee is determined to do whatever is necessary to help win the war." Senator . Vardaman, Democrat, of Mississippi, asked how many . American planes were abroad and Senator Chamberlain replied that not one American built battle plane had been sent there, although American materials in large quantities had been shipped for assembling. "Our people ought to bo informed." the senator proceeded, "of the truth of the situation and they never have been." Senator Chamberlain said the committee had even more important information which it was deemed wise to publish and said he had received a letter from one of the cadets drilaring their morale had beeu "absolutely destroyed by failure to receive training." Authorities ho said, now are arranging to "protect them against optimism of the aircraft board."

GEORGE W. RELLER DIES SUDDENLY

George W. Reller, 63 years old, died at noon Tuesday from a stroke of apoplexy at 10 o'clock, lie had been In poor health for about a year. Hewas on his way to the home of his son when he was stricken. Reller had been employed at the Richmond factory of the American Seeding Machine company for twenty years. He was foreman of the foundry for many years, and more recently had charge of the stock room. He was born at Reading, Pa. A son. Will Reller, and a daughter. Miss Mabel Reller, survive. His wife died about nine years ago. Funeral arrangements were not completed Tuesday.

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SCHOOL TEACHERS TO GET INCREASE

Teachers in Richmond schools will probably be granted an increase in salary at the next meeting of the board of education, City School Superintendent Giles said Tuesday. The amount of the increase has not yet been determined, Mr. Giles stated. The increase" has been made necessary by the rising cost of living, according to the superintendent, and by the fact that larger cities are offering inducements to teachers to accept positions. It has been considered advisable to offer the teachers now employed in the Richmond schools, a salary increase, rather than face a shortage in instructors next year. . The average pay for elementary

teachers in the Richmond schools is a

little over $800 a year, and high school

teachers receive about $1,000 a year. The board of education granted a yearly increase of $30 to the teachers

last year.

NIGHT AND DAY ON NO MAN'S LAND I 1 I ' l ' - ' - & ' ... I J'. L I J, . ;?"? - Itr y''- - 'r&tvJTiJ5 v

Shells bursting over barbed wired battlefields and British bringing in wounded comrades. There is something almost beautiful about the battlefield at night. The shells bursting in air afford a more splendid and a more awful spectacle than any Fourth of July fireworks Americans have ever seen in their own country. But in the daytime, as the lower photo shows, the battlefield presents a scene of ugliness and dlssolation. In the photo, taken on the Ypres front, British soldiers are seen bringing back a wounded comrade after a successful trench raid.

DENY REPORTS THAT BOLSHEVIK ARE OVERTHROWN

Russians Now Compelled ' to Fight Anarchists Soviet Administration Modified. (By Associated Press.) LONDON, May 7. According to news received from Russia through independent Swedish and Dutch channels as forwarded from Christiania in a dispatch to the Times, rumors of the overthrow of the Bolsheviki government which have been current recently are unfounded. They probably are due to the fact that the soviet administration is now moving in the direction of greater modifications. The council of national commissioners is now being compelled to fight the anarchists, says the dispatch, just as Kerensky's government had to fight the Bolsheviki. Leon Trolky, minister of, war and marine is advocating compulsory luhor, resulting In friction with the anarchists. Next to tho establishment of the new army, the dispatch continues, tho most reassuring feature is that officials of the Kerensky regime are resuming work. This has. resulted in. restoration of order to a remarkable degree, especially in the distribution of foodstuffs. Many things which no amount of speech making could formerly induce the people to do, are now being done under the inspiration of steadily growing hatred on tho part of the Russian nation for the German oppressor.

British Casualties for Last Week Total 38,691 ; 499 Officers Killed

(By Associated Press) LONDON, May, .7. British casualties reported during the week ending today reached a total of 38,691. ' ' Of -this- number :,555 officers 5 and men were killed or died of wounds, and 32,136 were wounded or reported missing, The casualties were divided as follows: ' Killed or died of wounds, officers, 499; men 6,056; wounded or missing, officers 1,859; men, 30,277. British casualties reported during April starting with low figures In the first week began to mount rapidly thereafter, so that the total for the month reached 52,475. The returns from the heavy fighting against the

German offensive in late March and !

April are now apparently in full flow. Figures for casualties reported for several weeks have not been made available with anything like uniformity but it appears probable that those reported during the current week are the heaviest in any single week of the fighting. In the days of the Somme battle of 1 910 however,, the losses reported in August average 30,000 per week and an average of more than 25,000 has been reported in several months.

Physicians to Meet All Wayne county doctors are urged to attend the meeting at the Commercial club rooms Tuesday night at which the need of physicians for army service will be dis-i cussed. The meeting is of viJ tal interest to doctors. The call for doctors is urgent and pressing. The prestige of Wayne county djactors is at stake.

Women Members Admitted to Executive Committee by Tammany Hall Heads (By sso'iateJ Press.) NEW YORK, May 7. Tammany Hall established a precedent today by admitting women as members .of its executive committee. The new members were chosen after .consultation with women who have shown an interest in the party. After the fall primaries, the women members of the committee will be chosen from the regularly elected women members of th general committee from each assembly district. There will be an eual number of 'men and women chosen. .' ; . , The newly elected women were admitted to the "wigwam' in Fourteenth street today and took part in a discussion as to the best way to obtain enrollment of women at the primaries. .

GERMANS FINALLY ADMIT SUB RAID

fTJy Associated Press) LONDON, May 7. That the recent British attack on the German submadine base at Zecbrugge was successful is admitted by tho Frenkfurter Zeitung in commenting upon the affair. The newspaper urges that the German navy take measures to deal "with an antagonist of remarkable boldness." "It would be foolish to deny" it says, "that the British fleet scored a great success through a fantastically audacious stroks in penetrating into one of the most important strongholds over which the German flag floats. "However unpleasant it may be, we must frankly admit that the enemy ships actually entered the port of Zeebrugge. That being so. .there is no reason why they should not achieve a similar feat at other times. It therefore behooves our navy command to be alert, for we have to deal with an antagonist of remarkable boldness."

More Books Wanted for War Service

Another call for books for the war service libraries in the United States and France, has been Issued by the American Library association. Richmond and Wayne county persons wishing to contribute are to be placed in the army posts, cantonments, camps in France, naval stations and war vessels." - The best books of poetry, fiction, and science are wanted. Worn-out books or out-of-date books on science or , technology are not desired. AH books, should be clean and well-bound. If persons prefer to contribute money, they may leave the sum they wish to contribute at the Richmond library, and the books will be purchased for - the camps ; by, the American Library association..

SOLDIER TRUCK DRIVER KILLS HIMSELF HERE ..jr,..: y, ;; f Baxter Robertson, Apparently Despondent, Sends Bullet Through His Heart. Apparently despondent, " the cause unknown, Baxter Robertson, 22 years old, soldier truck driver, took his life Tuesday morning by sending a bullet through his heart. Robertson was a member of the company, driving the Liberty trucks through to the coast. The trucks entered Richmond late Monday evening from Indianapolis and camped at Athletic park. At C o'clock when . reveille was sounded Robertson was absent but nothing was thought of It even though this was his first non-appearance. Captain Boylan, the officer in. charge, said that about 8 o'clock a shot was heard -in the neighborhood of the trucks on Main street. The entire company was aiding in getting the trucks out of the park where they were having difficulty, in moving them through the mud. Robertson was with the trucks on Main street. He killed himself with a 22 automatic. The body was removed to an undertaking parlor. Several of the men of the company had heard him make statements that he wished he was not living but they were never taken as Serious. At Chicago, while out in the rain, he was heard to say, "T wish I would take pneumonia and die." About a month ago he said to a member of his company that within thirty days he would not be living. Robertson lived at Zebulon, N. C, before enlisting in the army, June 14, 1917. Captain" Boylan reported his death Immediately to Washington D. C.

WAYNE DOCTORS TO MEET TONIGHT

Dr. Captain H. J. Ware, of the medical reserve corps at -Camp Taylor, will deliver the principal address Tuesday, night at the meeting of Wayne county physicians to be held in the Commercial club rooms. The meeting will begin promptly at 8 o'clock and every doctor' in Wayne county is expected to attend. The Wayne county council of defense will have charge of -the meetin. Dr. W. W. Zimmerman will preside. The need of doctors for the medical reserve corps of the United States army for service in the training camps and abroad will be outlined.

Dr. A. L. Bramkamp is Accepted for Service Dr. - A. L. Bramkamp, , 17 South Eighth stret, has been notified that he has passed the examination for admission to the United States medical corps. Dr. Bramkamp enlisted April 27. He has been at Harvard University for the last week taking a post graduate course in medicine.

HUN HORDES . STILL HELD IN CHECK BY THE ALLIES it Artillery Fire Is Intense in Flanders and Picardy Resumption of German Attacks About to Begin, Is Belief. AMERICANS GASSED

BULLETIN (By Associated Press) SAN JUAN, Nicaragua, May 7 The Nicaraguan congress today declared war on Germany and her allies. (By Associated Press) BRITISH ARMY HEADQUARTERS in France, via Ottawa, May 7 There was a terrific bombardment of two hours duration last night in connection with two raids. One waa carried out by the enemy and was unsuccessful, the other was by the Canadians southwest of Arras. The Canadian raiders reported that many Germans were killed or wounded in hand to hand fighting and great destruction was wrought in the enemy's defensive work. Heavy . rains are rendering the ground very bad for fighting. Undoubtedly the enemy is preparing for another violent blow but the British are ready to meet it. (By Associated Press) PARIS, May 7. Active artillery fighting occurred last night on both sides of the Avre, on the front southeast of Amiens, the war office announces. "The artillery on both sides was active north and south of the Avre. A German raid against a email French post near Hangard was repulsed. In the same region we carried out a local operation and brought back prisoners. "There is nothing to report elsewhere on the front" Germany's, hordes are still held Incheck. Neither in Flanders nor in Picardy, nor along the important Arrassector has the enemy renewed his attacks in force, and he has not reacted against, the gain, made north of the Somme by the Anstralians in which more than 200 prisoners were captured. Intense Artillery Fire. On both battle fronts, however, the artillery fire has been most intense and the German attack cannot much longer bed elayed if the enemy hopes to take advantage of whatever damage has been done to the allied positions by the . heavy bombardments carried out by his gunsrtnee the repulse north of Mt- Kemmel more than a week ago. The greatest German artillery activity has been on the northern half of the Flanders front and south of the Somme to below the Avre in Picardy. American troops in their positions south of the Somme have been subjected to intense artillery fire, the enemy using more than 15.000 shells, mostly gas, In a short period. There have been no signs of a German infantry attack against the Americans who confidently await the first signs of reawakened activity. A large part of the southern end of the important Arras sector has been taken over by Canadian troops, who also are being visited 'by a storm of German shells. French generals believe the Germans may attadt simultaneously on the Flanders, Arras and Amiens fronts in an effort to push the allies back in one mighty blow. The hill positions, however, are held by the allies and their guns dominate the Germans all along the lin. . The Austro-Hungarian blow against the Italian front has not developed. Rome reports only moderate artillery fire along most of the front from Switzerland to the Adriatic and no infantry activity. The Austrians, however, may be waiting for the most favorable moment, probably the renewal of the German drive in France. Today, May 7. is the third anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine with the loss of 1,275 lives.

FAVORABLE REPORT ON OVERMAN BILL

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 7 The Overman bill granting broad powers to the President to reorganize and co-ordinate government department was ordered favorably reported to the house today by the judiciary committee by a vote of 15 to 1. An amendment by Representative Walsh, republican, of Massachusetts, to exempt the Interstate commerce commission and the federal reserve beard was defeated 12 to 6. Another proposal to change the language of some sections was defeated without a record vote. Chairman Webb announced efforts would be made to bring the bill to an early vote. '

Liberty Jollification at Williamsburg Tuesday A Liberty loan jollification meeting will be held at Williamsburg Tuesday evening, when the flag will be presented to Green township for exceeding it3 quota in the third Liberty loan drive. Miss Sarah Hill, a fourteen-mlnute woman, will speak.