Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 168, 27 May 1918 — Page 1

TE

EICHMONB F AIX ABIUM '

VOT. YT TTT va icq PlW-llum and Sun-Telegram

RICHMOND, IND , MONDAY EVENING, MAY 27, 1918

SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

UHGEMT NEED FOR TAX LAW WILSON TELLS CONGRESSMEN President Demands that Congress Remain in Session Until Bills Are Passed to Meet Cost of War.

MUST PREPARE PEOPLE

(By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. May 27. Just as the German cannons were thundering their herald of the renewed offensive on the western battle front President Wilson today appeared unexpectedly before congress and demanded that, laying political considerations and all others aside, it remain in session until has enacted new war tax laws to finance the growing cost of the war and prepare the country for the burden it must bear. At the conclusion of his prepared address the president pausing, laid his hand over his manuscript and added another precedent breaker to the long list he has established in his dealings .with congress. Following Is the message of the President: Gentlemen of Congress: . , . It is with unaffected reluctance that 1 come to ask you to prolong your cession long enough to provide more adequate resources for treasury for' conduct of war. I have reason to appreciate as fully as you do how arduous the session has been. Your labors have been severe and protracted. You have passed a long series of measures which required the debate of many doubtful questions of judgment and many , exceedingly difficult questions of principle as well as practice. Summer is upon us in which labor and counsel are twice as arduous and pre constantly apt to be impaired by lassitude and fatigue. Elections are at hand and we ought as soon as possible to go and render an intimate account of our trusteeship to people who delegated us to act for them in weighty and anxious' matters that crowd upon us in these days of critical choice and action. But we dare not ro to elections until we have done our duty to full. These are , days when duty stands "stark and naked and even with closed eyes we know it is there. Excuses are unavailing. . We either have done our duty or we have not. Fact will be as gross and plain as duty itself. In such case lassitude nnd fatigue seem neglible enough, facts are tonic and suffice to freshen labor. And facts are these: additional revenues must manifestly be provided for. It would be most unsound policy to raise too large proportion of them by loan and it Is evident that four billions now provided for by taxation will not of themselves sustain greatly enlarged budget to which we must immediately look forward. We cannot In fairness wait end of fiscal year Is at hand to apprise our people of taxes they must pay on their earnks of present calendar year, whose accountings and expenditures Mill then be closed. W cannot get increased taxes unless country knows what they are to be and practices necessary economy to make them available. Deflniteness, early deflniteness. as to what its tasks are to be is absolutely necessary for succesful administration of treasury; it cannot frame fair and workable regulations mAaste; and it must frame Its regulations in haste if it Is not to know its exact task until the very eve of performance. Present tax laws are marred, moreover, by iniquities which ought to be remedied. Indesputable facts, every one, and we cannot alter or blink them. To state them is argument enough. And yet perhaps you will permit me to dwell for moment upon situation

they disclose. Enormous loans freely) spent in stimulation of industry of al-!

most every sort of produce inflations and extravagances which presently make whole economic structure questionable Insecure , and very basis of credit is cut away. Only fair, equitably distributed taxation of widest incidence and drawing chiefly from sources which would be likely to de

moralize credit by their very abundance can prevent inflation and keep our Industrial system free of spoliation and waste. We shall naturally turn, I suppose, to war profits and Incomes and luxuries for additional taxes. But war profits and incomes Continued On Pane Ten.

Bail for Pro-German Is Fixed at One

Hundred Million

(By Associated Press.) NEW YORK. May 27. John J. O'Leary, who was arrested last night in connection with the disappearance of his brother Jeremiah A. O'Leary on the eve of his trial for publication of alleged seditious utterances was today held in $100,000,000 bail when arraigned before a United States commissioner.

M'ADOO RAISES 2,000,000 RAIL EMPLOYES' PAY

Order Effective Next Saturday Means Distribution of $150,000,000 Soon. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. D. C, May 27. General pay increases for nearly 2,000,000 railroad employes were announced today, by Director General McAdoo, effective next Saturday and retroactive to last Jan. 1. carrying out substantially recommendations of the railroad wage commission. The aggregate of the increase probably will be more than $300,000,000 a year, half of which will be distributed within a few weeks as back pay in lump sums ranging from about $100 to nearly $200 eachSome Changes are Made. The director general departed from the wage commission's recommendations in the following particulars: The principle of the basic eight hour day is recognized, but owing to exigencies of the war situation hours of employment are not actually reduced and overtime is to be paid pro rata; future adjustments of pay are to be made on the basis of eight hours. In addition to the ordinary scale of increase, day laborers, employed mainly on track work, are to get at least 2M cents an hour more than they received last Dec. 31. A minimum of 55 cents an hour Is established for the shop trades, including machinists, boiler makers, and blacksmiths. Women are to receive the same pay as men for the same work, and Negroes are 'to get the same as white men for similar employment. All increases now ordered will be determined according to a ' percentage scale, based on -pay received in December. 1915, and -any -increases which have been allowed within that time will be deducted.. In many cases raises in pay in the last two and la half years are about equal to. the increases now approved, and, consequently, those employes will get little or no more.

SINN FEIN DENIES PRO-ENEMY ACTION

(By Associated Press.) DUBLIN, May 27. The Rev. Malachi MacBranan has gien out the following signed statement: - "As a priest and a member of the Sinn Fein executive for the past year, I give you my word of honor that the government's official statement that negotiations have been carried on between the Sinn Fein executive and Germany is a falsehood and that a German invasion wss never discussed by the Sinn Fein executive committee."

Fire Sweeps Detroit Hotel; Loss $200,000 (By Associated Press.) DETROIT, May 27. More than 100 guests at the Hotel Cadillac, one of the best known downtown hostelries in ,the city were driven from their rooms to the street early this morning by a fire which swept through the seven-story annex to the hotel. Tne upper floors of the main building were also damaged. The origin of the fire which for a time threatened to destroy the entire structure has not been determined. A fireman and a porter were overcome by smoke. The loss is estimated at more than S200.000.

THE WEATHER

For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Probably showers tonight and Tuesday. Cooler tonight n north portion. Cooler Tuesday. Today' Temperature. N'oon 87 Yesterday. Maximum 89 Minimum 64 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Thunder showers. Much cooler Tuesday. General Conditions The warm wave continues unbroken south of the lakes, but a cool wave of considerable strength covers the north and northwest.' It Is below freezing on the Canadian border and there is snow in Mcnatna and North Dakota. This cool wave is moving slowly southeastward and tebperaturos will rise over the far northwest within a day or two, which will prevent and extremely cool weather over the district. Thundershowci3 will accompany the cool wave.

War Mothers Sale to Net Several Hundred Dollars

War Mothers will realize several hundred dollars from the White Elephant sale held Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week. A small quantity of goods which was left unsold at the close of the sale Saturday night was to be offered for sale Monday afternoon and evening.

BIGGEST RAIL RATE BOOST IN HISTORY IS ORDERED McAdoo Orders hreiut -te Increase of 25 per cent and Passenger Fares Raised to Three Cents a Mile.

MEETS WAGE INCREASE

(By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 27. To meet wage increases' just announced and higher costs of coal and other supplies, this year, Director General McAdoo today ordered railroad freight rates in the United States raised 25 per cent, and passenger fares increased to three cents a mile from the present btsis of about 2 cents. It is estimated that the program will bring between 800,000,00 and $900,000,000 more revenue to the railroads within the next year. It represent by far the biggest rate increase in the history of railroads. The new freight charges which cover both class and commodity rates become effective June 25 and the passenger-Increase will go into effect June 10. Pullman Rates Same. Issued under authority granted, by the railroad act to President Wilson acting through the director general, the order wiped out all intrastate lower rates effective on either freight or passenger traffic. - -. . Travelers in standard sleeping and parlor cars are required to pay 36 cents a mile in addition to Pullman fares and in tourist sleeping cars 3 cents. Pullman rates remain the same. Commutation and other suburban rates on railroads are increased 10 per cent. Fares on electric interurban lines are not affected. Bootes Rate To Be Raised. Special excursion, mileage, convention and tourist rates, with a few exceptions, are discontinued, privileges such as stop-overs and free side trips are abolished and excess baggage charges are increased. . Both freight and passenger rates on boat' lines operated on the lakes.' riv

ers or coastwise by railroads are to be raised proportionately with the general increases. Export and import freight rates are ordered canceled and the .higher domestic rates will apply to and from ports. j A number of flat increases, instead of percentage additions. , are ordered for coal,- coke, lumber, pre. stone, grain, cotton, live stock, meats, sugar, bullion and other commodities. Existing differentials and rate relationships between various localities are to be preserved so far as possible but many readjustments will have to be made later. All rates are subject to review and correction by the interstate commerce commission, but the president has final authority.

Go Barefoot and Help Fatherland is Latest "Catchword" of Huns

(By Associated Press)

AMSTERDAM, May 27. "Go bare

foot this summer and help the fatheriand," is the latest patriotic catchword to be placarded in Germany.

"In view of the alarming scarcity of

leather, rich and poor alike should dispense with boots and shoes," says an explanation- of the placard in. the

Rheinische Westfalische Zeitung of

Essen. The old are urged to set an example for the young. "Why not walk in your bare feet this summer?" says the Zeitung. "Neither old nor young need be ashamed to walk barefoot anywhere, at home, in the streets, at school or in church."

War Garden Committee Considers Food Production

The War Garden committee of the Commercial club met with City Gardener Murphy Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock to consider plans for In

creased food production in the city.

Mr. Murphy attended the war garden

conference at Indianapolis last week

and was in conference with H. E. Barnard, state food director. He present

ed the results of his conference to the

members of the garden committee Monday.

Owen R. Webb First Richmond Boy Gassed by the Germans

Sergeant Owen R. Webb of Richmond, was wounded and gassed in Franc on May 1, according to a letter received Monday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Webb, 130 North Seventh street. Sergeant Webb was a member of the 150th Field Artillery of the Rainbow division and has been in France since last October. Since March 1 of the present year his company has been fighting with the allied forces in the front line trenches. Apparently, Sergeant Webb was not wounded very seriously, for the letter written to his parents was in his own handwriting and was dated May 6, five days after he was injured. No definite information was given, the letter merely stating that he Had been

wounded by shell fire and also gassed in the eyes. The letter was written from a hospital behind the front lines but its definite location was not given. He said that it was the first time he had been able to write since he was hurt. About three weeks ago the name of Sergeant H. R. Webb was given in the casualty lists, but the address given was in Idaho. Mrs. Webb said she 'saw the name at the time but did not believe it could be her son as his initials are O. R., and the address, of course, would not have been Idaho. Sfce now believes, however, that this wis a mistake in the compiling of the casualty list and that the Webb mentned was probably her son. Owen Webb was 22 years of age. He Is the first Richmond boy to have been wounded In action. I '

: - - ; ; i , ; m ; .. , , . ., Positively Their Last Appearance on the American Stage J ""T nOt fe3 fjft fjg fel) ffi &

French Premier Confers With General Foch on Conditions at Front

(By Associated Press.) ' PARIS, May 27. Premier Clemenceau visited the front ' Sunday . and conferred with General Foch, returning to Paris in the evening. The conference with - the generalissimo only confirmed ' the excellent - impression gained by the premier In' his recent frequent visits to the front, says Marcel Hutln in the Echo de Paris, : ,

STROKE IS FATAL TO REV. 6, H. HILL

The Rev. George H. Hill, former pastor of the Grace M. E. church, died Monday morning at the. Reid Memorial hospital, as the result of a stroke of apoplexy, which he sustained Saturday evening. Dr. Hill came to Richmond from his home in ' Indianapolis to attend the dedication of the new Grace church, and was taken ill an hour after his arrival. He -was a guest at the home of Mrs. Jennie Dunlop, 30 North Sixteenth street, when seized by the attack, and was removed from there to Rsid hospital. Dr. Hill was 78 years old.' He had been in the ministry from 1870 until 1903. He served as pastor of the Grace M. E. church from 1897 until 1900, and resigned his charge here to become district superintendent of the Richmond district, continuing to make his home in Richmond. He served as district superintendent for six year3, and then accepted a charge at North Manchester. He retired from the ministry following the North Manchester charge, because of ill health, and for the last ten years had been making his home in Indianapolis. He had held a number of prominent pastorates in Indiana during his service in the ministry, and was active in the North Indiana Methodist conference. Since he had been in charge of the Richmond church, he had always regarded this city as his home. Surviving are his widow, and two sons, Edward of Indianapolis, and Harry, former Richmond newspaper man, now residing in Boise City, Idaho. The body will lie in. state at the home of H. M. Kramer, 1416 Main street, and funeral services will be conducted, from the Grace church Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Burial probably will be made in Earlham cemetery. Friends may call at the home of H. M. Kramer Tuesday afternoon and Tuesday evening.

THRIFT STAMP CAMPAIGN OPENS IN COUNTY TODAY

' The, following table shows the standing of the townships,, as to the percentage . already obtained in the bale of thrift stamps. , Abington- .. ................190 Boston ...'65 Center ." .' .150 Clay 81

3,500 REGISTERED FOR FALL ELECTIONS

About 3,500 Wayne county voters have registered for the fall elections, the clerks in charge at the court house announced Monday. Unless a higher average is maintained, however, the clerks Eaid that all of the voters would not be registered by October 7, when the registration comes to an end. The work began on April 7; and as there are about 12,000 voters in Wayne county who will have to register before the November elections if they expect to cast their votes, those who have. not done so are urged by the clerks to make it a point to get their names on the books, y ' French Airmen Wings ' Twentieth Enemy Plane PARIS, May 27. Captain DeCllin, it is announced, has won his twentieth aerial victory- The captain was a partner of the late Captain Guynemer, the famous French ace. '.-

Dalton ".. 01 ' Franklin 60 Green ....' 61 Harrison ..110Jackson 30 Jefferson .' 100 . New Garden-....:...:...... 70 Perry .. 21 Washington 40 Wayne 40 Webster 40 One hundred and eighteen thousand dollars in seven days, is the task set before the Wayne i county committee for the thrift stamp drive. Every citizen in the county is to be enlisted In the great army that will put over the drive. It will require subscriptions to the campaign amounting to $2.50 per capita, to raise the amount which has been assigned to the county for the week of May 27 to June 3. Of the amount $75,000 is to be raised in Wayne township." School children already have done much toward putting Wayae county in its present position as one of the leading counties in the thrift stamp drive, and the schools have been enlisted by County Chairman Mills to stimulate interest, in the sale of the "baby bonds." Everyone Is Included. Church and ledge membnrs, business men, farmers and persons of all occupations are included in the special call sent out by the county committee to keep up Wayne county's record, and send the county over the top in the present week's drive. The drive is the result of the government announcement that the complete quota of thrift stamps sales must be raised over the country by June 1, six months ahead of the time previously announced. The period was shortened when it was found that the money obtained from, the thrift stamp sales would be needed before the end of the year. The state has been asked to raise between $7,000,000 and $8,000,000 In the next five weeks. Wayne county

FOURTH WARD MEETING. AH lodges and fraternal orders and all committeemen and blockmen, appointed to poll the fourth ward for thrift and war savings stamps drive, are urged to attend a meeting to be held in No. 4 hose house hall,. Ninth and South E streets, Monday night. The meeting will begin at 8:30 o'clock, and will be held under the auspices of the Wayne county thrift and war savings stamp committee, of which Joseph H. Mills is chairman. J. Henry Bode will preside.

Enemy Acknowledges Probability of Sub Loss (By Associated Press.) AMSTERDAM, May 27 In refer ence to the British announcement of Saturday that a large German submarine had been sunk off Cape St.

Vincent, a semi-official statement from

Benin says tnat no news nas oeen . received for a long time from one of the German U-boats operating west of Gibraltar. The loss of submarines in the manner claimed by the British, it is added, must.be reckoned with. Draft Slacker Inducted Into Immediate Service John Tilden Howard, who gave himself up Saturday as a draft deserter, has been inducted into the army and left Monday, for Fort Benjamin Harrison. If he' is punished for his failure to report when first called for duty by the Richmond board, the decision will be up to military authorities at Fort Harrison.

has still $500,000 to subscribe. The county quota for the year was $945,000. During the present week it will be necessary to subscribe $2.50 per capita in order to obtain the amount alloted. Will Double Agencies. There are more than 150 first-class thrift stamp agencies in the state at the present time, and of these over 80 are in Wayne township. It is expected to double the number of agencies this week, and a special appeal has been made by Joseph H. Mills, county chairman of the drive, to manufacturers, merchants, jobbers, churches and lodges and schools, to assist in establishing the agencies and acting as salesmen for the stamps. The plan of campaign originally announced by the treasury department, Continued On Page Ten. 6 DRAFT DESERTERS ARE ARRESTED HERE . Six draft deserters were arrested late Saturday night by Isaac Burns, Pennsylvania railroad detective, in a railroad camp in the east yards. The identity of all of the men, with one exception, was proven by their registration cards. The exception was Arthur Brown, colored,' of New Orleans, who did not register at all. He is 22 years old. The other five men sll registered but none of them filled out their questionnaires and returned shem to their boards, it is charged. All are being held in the county jail pending the receipt of information from bords in towns where they registered, as to what shall be done with them. They are Robert Oliver Wise, colored, 25 years old, of Chicago; Nicolas Demar, an Austrian, 28 years old, of Cranberry, W. Va.; Louis Arthur Burton, colored, 6 years old, of Washington. D. C; Miguel R. Marin, a Mexican, 24 years old, of Freeport, Pa.; and Lucanio Nuncio, a , Mexican, 22 years old, of Tulsa, Okla.

Natiot-l Patrol Established On the Alaskan Coast (By Associated Press.) , ' . WASHINGTON, May 27. A naval patrol of the Alaskan coast has been established to forestall agitation by leaders of the I. W. W.

Long Range Bombardment

of Paris is Resumed

PARIS.' May 27. After a long in

terval, the Germans again , began to bombard Paris with long range guns

at 6:30 o'clock this morning. :

HONS RESUME i OFFENSIVE ON WEST FRONT; FOCH READY

Strike in the South Between

Rheims and Soissons and on Northerly Side of Lys Salient. .

AIMED AT THE FRENCH

(By Associated Press.) Germany has resumed her drive for a decision on the western front after a lapse of near

ly four weeks, striking in the south between Rheims and Sois

sons and in Flanders on the northerly side of the Lys salient. While it is too early for the true German intention to be disclosed, the effort apparently is simultaneously to push through to the channel port thus breaking up the British front and to strike for Paris in the south in an effort aimed mainly at the French. The main field of the German attack begun last March and halted after the disasterous enemy reverse in Flanders late in AnriL TVip Rnmrtip rpcrirvn in th

direction of Amiens has been neglected by the German command in this new thrust. May Be Extended. The possibility exists, however, that the fighting will be extended to this area as the battle develops. The southerly blow, which covers a front of some 40 miles and apparently is by far the more Important of the two, has come at a point which had not been considered the most probable field for a renewal of the German attempt. The fact that both British and French troops are found holding this front, however, gives indications that General Foch, the allied commander-in-chief, has hardly been caught napping and has large forces massed thr ... ... ... - ...... -.

it was indeed, on this front betwee the tip of the Montdidier salient and Rheims that the enemy flank was most dangerously exposed and where he must have felt himself most vulnerable to a counter blow. If this attack here is neither a demonstration in force to cover the main effort or a veritable drive at Paris, the possibility remains that it was launched with the intention of driving the allies from their advantageous positions along the. Oise and the Ailette and thus forestalling a flanking counter effort by Foch's great reserve army. The stroke in Flanders, while of far less magnitude covering a front of less than 10 miles, is nevertheless aimed at points which the Germans must take . before they can hope to carry their April advance further toward the coast. Hills Bar Hun's Way. Behind the Locre-Voormezeele area lie the hills which constitute the back bone of the Franco-British positions, only the outlying peak of which the Germans captured when they took Mt. Kemmei last month. Other imminences are yet barring the way to the Germans. The allied position along both fronts under attack are notably strong. This is particularly true of the southerly line guarded by the rivers Oise and Ailette and the Chemin des Dames bridge which the German crown prince spent many weeks last summer trying to take. Not only did he fail, but he was forced still further back last fall when General Petain launched a decisive blow in the Pinon region, drove in for a depth of two miles a day and compelled the Germans to fall back to the positions behind the Ailette, where they have since remained. In the north, the French recently have strengthened their hold on the hill region by pushing forward in the Locre sector in local thrusts and cap

turing important high ground.

In general, the allies seem well prepared for the thrust, and while they appear likely to be forced to give ground at points the opinion of their high command has been reflected as confident in the ability of the allied forces to prevent the Germans from gaining anything decisive. Is Along Aisne Front. The front of the German attack 1 s

along the sector which usually is referred to as the Aisne front, owing to

the fact that for a long time the line

of battle followed the Aisne river. The

present battle line runs along the

Ailette river north of the Aisne, over

the larger part of this sector, the

French having advanced their line.

The front of attack is about forty miles, which is about 15 miles short

er than the line of the original Ger

man attack on March 21. In turning to a new sector to strike their blow the Germans have taken a

course contrary to that which had

generally been predicted by military commentators. The view usually . expressed has been that the Germans were committed so heavily to their campaign in Plcardy and Flanders, and were occupying such dangerously exposed positions that they were under the necessity of striking again at those points when they resumed the attack. It is not unlikely, however,- that the attack on the Aisne front will be followed by renewal of the offensive on the other' battle fields. The German strategy say contemplate a surprise attack in sufficient strength to compel General Foch to withdraw troops Continued On Page Ten.