Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 247, 28 August 1918 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SON-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28, 1918.

OBJECTORS TO T DRAFT ARE TO ; WORIUjNFARUS 'Labor Needs in Farm Com- ! munities Filled by Religious Objectors to War.

WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 28. Arter struggling for a long time with the knotty problem of conscientious objectors In army cantonments, the "War Department now announces that the difficulty has to a large degree been solved through the aid of the farm help specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture. m luo vniiuuo Biaiea wuere lucre .are farming communities which Inelude sects opposed to war, such a j'the Dunkards and Mennonltes, and , where additional farm help Is needed, these places are made known to the cantonment commanders, together wlth a record of their farm labor needs. The plan has worked out so well J that in the three camps where definite lists of objectors were compiled, practically all of these men have been -placed. Camp Meade had 88, all of hem now at labor on farms; 100 of rlhe 102 men at Camp Lee have been placed, and the majority of these at Camp Taylor. . Final arrangements have been made for labor furloughs for objectors In Camps Gordan, Ga.; Jackson, S. C; Dix. N. J.; Upton, N. Y.; Sherman, Ohio; Dcvens, Mass.; Custer, Mich.; -Grant, 111.; Dodge, Iowa; Lewis, t Wash., and Fort Riley, Kan. The labor specialists of the department of 3 agriculture in the states where the cantonments are situated have been Instructed to communicate with specialists in other states In case they .2 can not place all the conscientious ob;j Jectors at work at once. The furloughed men are under strict regulations drawn up by the War department. They are placed on farms St a standard wage and reports of .their conduct and effectiveness are ,; made to the cantonment commander at ' monthly intervals. If their services are not satisfactory the commandant Is promptly Informed of the fact. . The War department has expressed itself as thoroughly pleased with the arrangements by which he department of agriculture, through its farm help specialists, has aided in placing these men where their services will be an tld to victory through food production. Civil Service Positions The civil service announcements for the week call for seventeen positions, jt number of which are open for immediate employment to persons passing the examination. The list follows: -Minor clerk, male, examination to be Theld on Sept. 7; tabulating mechanician, male, salary 11,200 to $1,400 per lyear. No examination will be given :but applicants willbe rated on qualification presented. On account of Tirgent needs for persons In this branch of service, applications will be jecelved until Nov. 6, 1918, in absence yt further notice. Papers will be ratted promptly anl certification made as sonn aa the needs arise. v Bacteriologist, male, salary $1,800 to $2,500 per year. A ifumber of vacancies have arisen. Openings at inspection station of food and drugs in ""Ban Francisco; bureau of chemistry, "department of agriculture at Washington, and elsewhere. No examination. "Applicants will bo rated on (1) education and fitness, (2) thesis to be filed with application on , some phase of Jood bacteriology. Applicant must be fL graduate of some university or college of good standing and have had fit least two years work at a graduate chcol or two years' experience in "handling foods and drugs. He must bo forty years of age. " Local and assistant inspector of boilrs. Local and assistant inspectors of XJiulls .male.. No examination for either. 'Applicants rated on ability. I Horticulturist .male, salary $2,100C$2,760. Application must be in by TEeptember 27th. H Electricians (male, salary $840-$1200 "Elevator conductor (male) salary $720--$900; merchanic (male, $720-$900; -steam egneer (male) salary $600-$1200 -according to first, second or third Automobile engineer, designer, draftTman or tracer. Salaries range from r?200-$2,400. Architectural desinger, or draftman ,'for service In the Panama Canal zono. :No examination given. More Dope on U. S. AMSTERDAM. Aug. 23. America has been able to transport more than one million soldiers to France because they have been carried in small swift .'steamers which offered very difficult I targets for tho torpedoes of submarines, declared Captain Zimmerman, : of the German general staff in a lecPturo at Breslau on the military situa- ; tlon, according to the Rhenisch Westvphalian Gazette, of Essen. He said ;,these steamers were escorted by wardships. The captain said there were 440.000 Americans at the front and 700,000 , more behind the lines. The recent progress of the allies, "the captain attributed to the mass eni'ploymcnt of tanks which had, yielded ; initial successes but, . he declared, means had now been found to master -them. WORLD SERIES Co-operating with the conservation policy of the government and conforming with war time conditions, the Palladium will not give returns from the world series on "its big electric score board. The government has adopted a strenuous policy of conserving man power and of keeping men engaged in essential industries. . . . .

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Every one of the thousands of German prisoners being captured by the allies In the war is thoroughly searched for dangerous weapons, explosive devices, poisons or germs that might be used against the allies. The above British official photograph shows English soldiers searching prisoners. The prisoners are being taken so fast that the handling of them is a big problem.

Yanks Swarming Into France is Great Miracle of the War

(By Associated Press) AMERICAN PORT, Western France, Aug. 28. Long lines of khakl-clad men Just debarked from American transportation and now on the way to their first camp, packed the streets from curb to curb and stretched away for miles. It was four miles and up hill most of the way through city, suburbs and country lanes, from the seafront to the great reception camp located outside the town, one of the largest camps In the world and capable of caring for the population of a metropolitan city. Hour after hour from 6 this morning until late this afternoon the steady tramp of marching thousands, hod been going on, for this steady stream is the army of 36,000 Just arrived on thirteen American transports, making the record debarkment from ship to camp within twelve hours. With Major X, the engineer officer of the camp, we skirted alongside this moving stream, from the landing to the camp, and had an opportunity of seeing each stage in the huge movement up to the time tho tired marchers pitched their shelter tents on the soared, grounds tnd crawled inside to s!ff;.. Stirring as it was to see these ir . - ;n-to swell the million men in f' ' O ilcan ranks, yet there was a prir-in-rH and grsynees to the scene suggesting the stern reality of war. A steady downpour swept across the ranks and the men were dripping as they trudged through the rain-soaked mud. They were at route step, without the regularity of parading troops, and each man carried, beside his rifle, all his belongings on his back, seventy pounds of tent, blankets, clothing, shoes, and all the miscellaneous equipment of a soldier headed for the front. Their last camp was in the wellequipped cantonments in the United States, where they slept on cots and had a semblance of modern comfort. Now they were on the war-swept soil of France and had seen the last of cots and comforts. It was their first glimpse of real war conditions, and anyone whos ays it's cheerful shuts his eyes to the grimness of war. Greater Than Former Total Army. "There are more troops arriving," said the Major, as he led the way, "than the total strength of the United States army a short time ago." And with such an Influx we have to provide a very elastic camp, capable of immediate expansion from a thousand up to a hundred thousand men." The Major was well qualified to explain the magnitude of the work, for he had been chief constructing engineer of the New York subway system, had planned and built a good part of the system, and had made the population figures on which subway construction was based. "To get an idea of the camp." he said, "compare It with Central Park. We have 2,500 acres here, Central Park ha9 800 acres. Why, the entire area of New York City on Manhattan is only 41,000 acres." On both sides of the road, for mile after mile as we sped along in an army car, a city of tents was rising and there was the hum and bustle of camp activity on a vast scale. This morning all the ground had been stubble-field from the newly cut wheat and barley. But now every evailable foot was being laid off by the army engineers, working with tripods and instruments like a party of surveyors. Tented streets and avenues .headquarters tents, mess, kitchen and hospital tents, and vast parks for supplies and artillery and horses, were rising in the fields and spreading for forty square mile over this huge enclosure. "We never take a field of growing grain," said the Major," but as fast as the grain is cut we take over the fields and with harvest time well advanced this entire farming section will soon be turned into an American, camp." In one of the fields where we stopped to see the men, two battalions of 80 men each, just marched in and were preparing to pitch their tents. The great stretch of ploughed ground, Just cleared of grain, was rain soaked, and the storm had set in for the night The men stood ready, each with a half of a shelter tent, to drive the stakes and lash is against the elements, and then crawl in. It seems an endless wait for all the formalities of laying out the camp with engineering exactness, yet all of this was essential to the smooth running of such a large concern. At last the stakes were driven and soon the great field was dotted with thousands of little khaki mounds, about as high as a man's waist, called "pup tents" by the soldiers probably because they look like dog houses. Under the tent there is Just room for two lying down, and if the ground 13 soaked as it is tonight, the rubber pauncho keeps out some of the water and kindly nature and the iron of youth must do the rest.

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This was only on typical camp of hundreds lining the roads for miles in this vast reception camp. Field kitchens and water carts were wheeling up to all the camps as the tents went up. Filtered water is brought in hogsheads and each command has its apportioned lot of hogheads. Later on there will be a splendid system of water mains for the whole camp. But here are the men, and water system Is not installed in a day. So instead of waiting for 12-Inch mains, the primitive hogshead is filling the gap. Each man carries his emergency ration for three days. Some of them were nibbling it before climbing into their pup tents, but most of them waited for the smoking field kitchen to get into action with is cooks, serving out hot coffee and hot soup and meat. The item of feeding an army with precision is in itself a gigantic task. "We served 1,800,000 meals last month," said Major X, "or 600,000 army rations of three meals to the ration." - And besides all the feeding and watering and sanitation there is the immense "paper, work" of such an organization. There are 128 separate organization in the 36,000 men just arrived. Each of the 128 must sorted out and brought together, and every individual soldier of the 36,000 must be identified and accounted for, so as to guard against losses, and then each organization and man must have his detail to one of the sectors of the fighting front. This "paper work," as it is called, is prodigious, and like everything military it must be done with absolute precision. And the "paper work" calls for paper, which is very hard to get. 36,000 Under One Canvas. "When Headquarters called for a map of the camp the other day," said

the Major, "they got it all right, on Quincy, O. He was rushed to a hosthe only paper which could be found, ' pital at Bellefontaine, but died in a

which was brown wrapping paper. But It was a good map, and the wrapping paper map if the big American camp will go Into the archives." When taps sounded tonight every man of this 36,000 was under canvas, although this morning every man had been afloat. It was the record accomplishment in landing, for while one body of arrivals had been large, 42,000, the landing had taken the best part of two days, whereas this huge transfer was in the daylight hours of the first day. "And right on top of it," said the General tonight, "one ship is arriving "with 12,000 more men, and then another flotilla of transports and then another." Thus this gigantic influx of armed men goes on steadily and unceasingly, on record time, with little or no confusion, each man and organization being cared for and accounted for as they moved forward to the front, and all of the huge enterprise of docking, landing, transporting and camping, with all their Infinite details, created out of practically nothing within the last ten months. Cambridge City, led. i Mr. and Mrs. Charles Coleheir, of Connersville, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Chas Drlggs A number of children under the supervision of Helen Golay, gave a play "Cinderella" Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wheelan for the benefit of the Red Cross Oscar Cooley has returned from Cedar Grove, O., from a visit with relatives Mrs. James VanMeter and daughter, Janette have returned from a visit at Indianapolis with relatives A. H. Hlnes will move from the property on Mulberry street into the Stoddard house on East Church street. .. .Mr. r.nd Mrs. Fred Stale, of Indianapolis, were tlfe guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Driggs Sunday. .. .Miss Bertha Coleheir Is seriously ill. She is well known here, having once been a resident of this place. .. .Mrs. J. C. Harr, of Connersville, who has been ill for some time, is improved. Dr. J. C. Harr and Mrs. Harr were once residents of Cambridge City. . . .Mrs. Pfafflln Conaway and daughter, Margaret, have gone to Indianapolis. .. .Mrs. Harriett Kiess, Miss Grace Kless, and Mrs. Louiso Thurston spent Tuesday in Richmond Mrs. Marrow and daughter of Muncie is the guest of Mrs. Marrow's brother, Father Gorman, at St. Elizabeth parsonage.... Ernest Jones and Edward Jones of Wabash Ind., were Cambridge City visitors Monday. .. .John Ohmlt, and daughter, Mrs. C. F. Griffon!, of Hagerstown was in Cambridge City Monday... .Boyd Daugherty of near New Lizbon is progressing nicely with his broken limb.

INFORMATION

ARMY CHOICE FOR CHINESE PRESIDENCY Hsu Shih-Chang. Hsu Shih-Oiang formerly vice prime minister of China. was He has been selected by the army party as candidate for the presidency. He is understood to be acceptable to the southern provinces. It is expected that there will be an interesting fight this year both for the presidency and vice presidency. Hsu Shih-Chang was prominent during the latter days of the monarch and was oneof the leaders durinjr the negotiations preliminary to the settlement between China, Japan and Russia after the Russo-Japanese war. Winchester Railroader Dies Following Injury WINCHESTER, Ind., Aug. 28. Fred Goodhue, 25 years old, is dead at his home here, death resulting from an inlurv received while rmmlins' rare at short time. He had been braking on the Big Four only a few weeks. The body was brought here for burial. The widow and two children survive. voiumeer Help to Save in Kansas Kansas Women Figure in Bloodless, Bulletless Battie to Save the Wheat : Crop While Male Harvesters Are Fighting in France. One of the moat romantic battles of Uiu Great War was not fought on the other aide of the Atlantic: men had only a part in it: not a shot was fired: the people for whom the battle was fought were half a world away! Tet this battle was won without the loss of a single life, and with incalculable profit to humanity. Its objectives were the millions of bushels of wheat from the fruitful acres which are the broad bosom of Kansas: the fighters who harvested the Train were women, elrla. children and men. The enemies were the elements, fire, air and water: the nations for whom the battle was waged were mrv!ngr Belgium. France ' England -all -of friendly Burope in fart and our own Americans over there.

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Belgian Soldiers Killed When Huns Bomb Red Cfoss Hospital

. rBy Associated Press.) . WASHINGTON. Aug. 28. Details of the shelling of an American Red Cross bath house for Belgian soldiers near the Belgian front, in which 23 Belgian employes were killed and six ty others injured, were received today at American Red Cross headquarters. The three large buildings including a laundry and fumigating plant gave employment to about 200 persons. A shell bit the roof of the laundry of the both about 11 o'clock in the morning. Fragments penetrated all three structures and destroyed them. Men, women and children were hurled in every direction and for long distances. Parts of bodies were found in the street many feet from the struc ture. An hour after the shell hit the building a soldier brought a bundle to the hospital and said to a physician "What must I do with this?" It was the arm of a little boy he had found in a vacant lot. Madame Rolin, for the Belgians, took charge of the women and assisted the Red Cross In immediate relief NEW WAR CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. The new greenbacks the first of the nation's wartime currency are in circulation. They are the ?1 and $2 Federal Reserve bank notes planned especially to replace the silver certlflicates withdrawn from circulation as the treasury's silver reserve is melted into bullion for export to the allies. The one dollar note bears a portrait of George Washington in the upper left hand corner of the face side, and otherwise resembles generall a federal reserve note. On the reverse side is shown in a center oval an eagle in full flight, typifying the nation mobilized for war. The two dollar note is similar, except that it bears a portrait of Thomas Jefferson on the front and a picture of a batleship on the back. Denies Intention to Confiscate Bank Deposits (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. Reports that the government might confiscate savings banks deposits were denied today by Secretary McAdoo and denounced as probable German propaganda. "My attention has been called," said the secretary, "to an insidious propaganda that is being carried on, prob ably by secret agents of Germany, to sow seeds of distrust In the minds or savings bank depositors by false rumors that the United States government is contemplating the confiscation of the savings of the people. The absurdity of these statements is manifest. In order, however, to allay the fears of the few who might bo alarmed by such reports, I repeat that these rumors are wholly baseless." FOOD HEAD CLOSES BAKERY WINCHESTER , Ind., Aug. 28. County Food Administrator Clark acting under orders from the federal food authorities has ordered the Stump bakery at Union City closed for ten days, after they., have sold out their stock of bakery goods. This was brought about by violations of the bakery food rules promulgated by the federal government. The Union City Bottling works suffered a fine of $200 and the confiscation of eighteen barrels of sugar which they had stored in a barn. rmy ot women the v-'ip It will be noticed that the men are mentioned last In the order of battle formation. And that is where they ' belong. For had It not been for the women ana ennaren. a large Dart of the bumper crop would have rotted on the ground. The depleted ranks of male workers, ranks thin even In times of peaee. had not the man power adequately to meet the situation. There is an element of humor In this story of how the women came to the rescue of Kansas. When the matrons and the ladles and the "flappers" and the llttl boys and girls offered last January to aid in the harvesting this turn. mer. tne tiansas war council a

work. A large sum of money was made available for the Red Cross at once for the relief of the Injured and their families. The employes were refugees driven

from Belgian towns by the German advance. A little hunch back girl, who was supporting her widowed mother, lost both legs. At the hospital, she said to her mother: "It doesn't matter so much. I can still sit and sew, I will be a dress-maker and we will get along." WAR CORRESPONDENT PRAISES U. S. BOYS Floyd Gibbons. Floyd Gibbons, an American war correspondent, arrived back in the United States a few days ago ignorant of the fact that he had been awarded the croix de guerre. This honor was conferred upon him for going to the aid of Major John Barry when Gibbons wen', over the top with the major and American troops at Belleau wood. Former Newspaper Man Is Killed in France (By Associated Prusa) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Tuesday. Aug. 27. Second Lieut Franklin Fox of Philadelphia, at. tached to headquarters staff, was killed Friday afternoon when an airplane in which he was riding caught fire. The pilot, an experienced aviator, jumped and was killed. Lieut. Fox was a newspaper man until the United States entered the war. He was employed on the Boston Herald and the Philadelphia Public Ledger. &umiciTei, clined their proffered help. The thing seemed impossible. The offer had a . far different aspect, a few weeks ago. when th War Council faced the situation of a bumper wheat crcp and man power entirely Inadequate to handle itThe fate of the crop hung in the balance. - Then thousands of women the same women whose January offer of aid had been scorned with their army of chlld'en and girls, sprang up from ali over the state, and the wheat crop was saved. If this volunteer army nad not. unbidden, come to the rescue, s fcieat part of this tremendous crop would have been lost.

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German Comrnancl Saves Fresh Men to Make Stand to Rear of Present Line. (By Associated Press) WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE. Monday. Aug. 28. The extension of the British line north of the Scarpe has brought the attackers to within striking distance of a good part of the Hindenburg line, back of which is open country with the terrain and roads in excellent condition for the movement of tanks and horses The British made steady progress again today, especially on the new section of the front, around Bapaume snd astride the Somme. German resistance again was stubborn. However, It is beginning to look as though the enemy is fighting rear guard actions with the hope of holding up the British until he can move his material to the rear. No fresh German divisions have been identified in the recent fighting. The strategy of the German high command now is to leave battered divisions to fight rear guard actions and incidentally, to have a large part of the remnants of these formations chewed to pieces by the British fire. Gen. Ludendorff perhaps has some plans to make a stand o the rear of the present line and is saving what men he can for that purpose. It would not be surprising if the enemy intended to put up a stiff defense somewhere on a line running north and south through Peronne. New Gains Important There was hard fighting today around Bapaume. Favreuil, Just north of Bapaume, has been taken and the streets run red with the blood of Germans killed there. The enemy was prepared to launch a counter attack here, but as his troops moved toward the town from the east, they were caught under the fire of the British artillery. The British then stormed into the town and captured what remained of the enemy's forces 110 men and five officers. From Faveull, the British pushed east and south further encircling Bapaume. There are unconfirmed rumors that British patrols have reconnoitered into Bapaume and have gone some distance without seeing any of the enemy. British shells have been raining down on Bapaume for many hours. Large numbers of prisoners captured have not arrived yet at the cages, because they are some distance to the rear. This accounts for the fact that many captured Germans, perhaps the number runs well into the thousands, while well outside the zone of fire in accordance with the rules of war, have not yet reached the tase cages. The new section of the battle front just south of the Scarpe offers great possibilities. The attacking forcrs here are driving eastward astr'de the Arras-Cambrai railroad and are now beyond Monchy-Le-Preux and Wancourt. These points virtually are on the Hindenburg line. The rain (luring the night did not interfere with the British advance, for the operations now are on hard ground. The rain put the Germans at a disadvantage, particularly those in crater holes with machine guns, as many of the holes were turned to puddles. As soon as the rain ceased scores of British planes took the air and continued their systematic attacks upon the enemy troops. Tanks again distinguished themselves by overwhelming difficult points where the concentration of machine guns delayed the advancing infantry. PUBLICATION OF BOOKS IS LIMITED WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 2S. Under new regulations controling the use of paper by publishers of trade books, copyright reprints, toy books, juvenile, and noncopyright books the war industry board, through Thomas E. Donnelley of Chicago, chief of the pulp and paper section, directs that, beginning Oct. 1, there shall be a reduction in new titles of books manufactures in this country of 25 per cent of the average of the three years from July 1, 1915, to June 30, 1918. Publisherlrwho have not been in business for five years will have their reduced tonnage based on their tonnage used in one year ended June 30 last, and bona fide new publishers who maintained no connection with existing publishers may apply to the war industries board for registration and allotment of the number of titles to be published In the first year. Exception from the regulations is made for books of research published under subsidy and war service books published for the United States or allied governments under subsidy; also, the regulations are not to apply to books in process of manufacture to be published prior to October 1 next. Flying Officers Return to Act as Instructors (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. Experienced flying officers are being returned from overseas service, a war department announcement says, to act as special instructors in the advanced sections of American flying schols. At the same time, elemental instruction at the fields has been put under a new system, by which cadets are assigned to a single Instructor, and kept under his tutelage until they complete the first course. This is said to be a safer and more effective method than the former practice of giving the student a fixed amount of flying with instructors, after which he is required to make a solo flight. You may be talking about the relation of protoplasm to the nebular hypoth.-sis. but a woman will find Lsomething In the conversation to remma ner to ten about that time she was in the hospital. Mr. Voter, if you do not register you can not vote.