Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 247, 28 August 1918 — Page 3

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

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DRAFT PASSES SENATE WITHOUT OPPOSING VOTE Biil Contains Modified AntiStrike Provision Age Limit Stands.

WASHINGTON'. Aug. 28. The man power bill, extending the draft age to 18 to 45, both inclusive, passed the Senate Tuesday without a dissenting vote. Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, voted against the bill on its final passage because ho was opposed to calling boys of 18 to fight overseas. When at the finish of roll call his vote was the only one in the negative, he said that he did not want his vote to stand In the way of unanimous action by the Senate. He said he could not conscientiously vote for the measure, and asked the Senate to excuse him from voting. He was excused by a formal motion and vote. The bill as it passed the Senate contains the anti-strike, or "work or fight" provision, but with some of its teeth drawn. Senator Cummins, of Iowa, proposed and the Senate adopted a modifying amendment which will protect strikers In their deferred classification if they will submit their grievances to the National War Labor Board and agree to abide by its decision. Age Limit Stands. ' Amendment after amendment intended to free boys under 21 from the call of the new draft, or to. keep them In reserve in this country and not to Kend them to the battle front until they have attained their majority was proposed, only to be voted down as fast as proposed. The acid test was on the amendment proposed by Senator Poindexter to exempt boys of 18 from the draft. It was defeated by a vote of 62 to 21. The vote came after Senator Chamberlain. Chairman of the Military Affairs committee, and in charge of the bill, had Htated that he would not be h purty to a deception of the American people, and that he wanted the Senators to vote for or against the bill with their eyes open. He said that the talk of deferred classes or prefer

ment for the younger registrants was idle, no matter In what quarter it originated, and that boys of 18 would be called in the draft and would be pent to the battle front to meet the present great crisis in the world's history If the bill became a law as presented to the Senate. The bill passed as drawn with regard to the call of the IS, 19 and 20 year old boys, giving them no preference by law, and although the War department Insists that the eighteen-year-old boys will not be in the first groups, as arranged by the War department, Secretary Baker does not pav they will not be called within a few months, or that they will not be on he battle front in France by the first of next July, when the United States expects to have her maximum army in France. GHAUNGEY EDGERTON IS IN FRENCH CAMP The following letter was received from Chauncey Edgerton, son of Trustee and Mrs. J. O. Edgerton. Pearl utreet. Edgerton has been across for six weeks. "We had a very nice trip over the pond and made good time. I was expecting to be seasick but I felt fine all the way over and didn't miss a meal. "I saw two whales at quite a distance from the boat but sharks and porpoises came up close. We could nee them almost every evening at about sunset. "We were in a rest camp not far from where we landed when I wrote, but we didn't get to rest there very long. We have moved twice since then. We were in a fine camp for a few days. We lived in barracks and had things pretty nice. I saw Morris Jones twice while there and we had a long talk before I left. He was working pretty hard but he seems to like it. "Our new camp Is about lik the last one we were in po I think I will like it. The Y. M. C. A. is Just about fifty feet from our quarters. It has all the conveniences as any camp Y. M. C A. in the tT. S. A. They also have a canteen where they pell cakes

and candy, but I haven t been aoie to find any chocolate over here. I'd like to have about a car load of sweet chocolate but 1 may have to wait until I get home again. "I had a nice swim this morning at the beach which is about ten minutes walk from here. Then 1 went down to a little town not far away for a while. The French towns and people are old fashioned looking but very interesting. I'll wait until I'm home to tell you about them. "I'm trying to learn the French language a little now but I think it will be a long time before I can carry on a conversation. "This is Sunday, our day of rest. I haven't done much work yet but will start tomorrow."

GREENSFORK MAN IS SEVERELY WOUNDED

Florence P.. Ridge, Greensfork, is listed in Wednesday's casualty list as severely wounded in action. A telegram has been received by his mother, Mrs. Mahaney Ridge, of Greensfork, from the War Department stating that Ridge was wounded on the French front, but no further word has been received by the family. Ridge was drafted last September and has been overseas three months with an infantry company. He has been in active service at thefront. No word has been received from him for two months. His wife is dead and the only child is a five-year-old son, James. Ridge was employed at Richmond on the Pennsylvania Railroad before "'ferine the service.

WITH THOSE IN ARMY AND NAVY

This column, containing newi of Richmond and Wayne county aoldlera and sailors, will appear dally In the Palladium. Contributions will be welcomed.

Seven men have made application

for enlistment in the Army in the ?asi few days. They are Marshall Ketron, O. Swisher, Colbert C. Ingerman, Wendell O'al, Emmett C. Watts, George B. Harris and George 11. Masey.

Thirty-four men made application for enlistment In the Navy last week and the Richmond station was tied with the Indianapolis and Fort Wayne stations for the number of applications filled out. So far this week 13 have applied. Among them are Walter A. Martin, Victor H. Bloake. Clement E Meyers, Wllburn L. Hibberd, James C. Coyle and William C. Hoover.

Donald B. Johnson, son of Dr. and Mrs. Melviile . Johnston, has sent his parents the regular government card announcing his arrival in England. He Is with a headquarters company.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dixon, of Abington pike, have been notified that their son, Walter has arrived overseas. He is with a machine gun company.

Louis Quinn has arrived in France, according to a cord received by bis mother, Mrs. Anna Quinn. Quinn is in air service. "In the town where we are stationed you can go into the street almost any time and see a Frenchman with a loaf of bread under his arm. The bread comes in immense loaves," said Russell Kinsey in a letter to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Kinsey, of 913 Sheridan street. He is now in France and writes that the part of the country in which they are located is very beautiful. He also mentioned that his mall was coming through all right.

Fred Manis who was stationed three years and seven months at Schofield Barracks, has now been transferred to Camp Kearny, San Diego, Cal., according to word received by his sister, Mrs. Ethel Hoover, 516 North Seventeenth street Manis has also been made a sergeant since his transfer. He is in

Co. C, 32 Infantry. Mrs. Mary Beck, 537 North Nineteenth street has received a letter from her son, Corporal Marshall Jack, who has recently arrived in France, telling of his trl pacross. Jack says he was seasick four times, but says "the sea wasn't rough like I thought it would be." He stated that he was in splendid health and ienjoylng his work. Mrs. Floyd Lamb has received a letter from her husband stating that he has been transferred from Great Lakes Training Station to Brooklyn Navy Yards. Arthur Maynard, a son of John Maynard, of Winchester, has been wounded, according to word received Wednesday. He is in a hospital in Louisiana, but the nature of the wound has not been learned. Maynard had been in Naval service for several years and has been stattioned on a submarine.

Lieut. L. H. Vosmeier of Camp Shelby, Miss., is home on a visit with his parents.

Machinists' Union Will Meet Thursday Evening The Machinists' union wgl meet Thursday evening in Red Men's hall

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RICHMOND SAILOR HEARS ADDRESS BY SECRETARY DANIELS

Ray Williams of Richmond was among the crowd of sailors at Hampton Roads, Va., to hear the address given here by Secretary of the Navy Daniels. Williams expects to leave for overseas service soon. Williams sent a copy of Daniels' speech to his mother. A portion of the address follows: "You know this navy you belong to is the greatest Institution in the world, and has in Is ranks today, over four hundred and fifty thousand men, the very flower of America. That Is you; don't be modest about it. If anyone tells you the young men of the navy are the finest fellows in the world, blush a bit, but speak right up and say, "We know it." And why do you know it? Because your brothers are across who are looking to you. We are building ships as fast as facilities will permit, so that you can go over and take part in the struggle in whjch no man can engage unless in his heart he has the spirit of liberty and whose spirit gives him courage and strength. "Mind you, while you first remember that you are fighting for home and for the kind of government that made our fathers and mothers what they are. And whether you are in Hampton Roads or on ships or in France or Great Britian, I' counsel you boys not to do anything that you could not go back home and look your mother in the eye and tell her you had done. You cannot win this war; no nation can win it unless they can shoot straight, and men cannot shoot straight unless they live straight. "There is not any organization in the world where team work is as important as in the Navy. I do not care how great the Admiral is, if the wigwagger failed to do his work well, the Admiral fails; and from the Admiral down, like baseball, there must be team work. You boys know a pitcher can not win a game if the outfielder muffs the ball. So in the Navy; It is team work. You may learn to do your job a little better and get a big job; for the best man

and the fittest man in the world is the I

man who takes orders and 'goes to it',

Harry Tutwaller Shot While on Guard Duty Harry F. Tutwaller, who is stationed at Camp Sheridan, Ala., in the Bakers' and Cooks' Bchool, was shot below the heart while on guard duty one night last week. He Is now in the base hospital and will soon be able to be back on duty. The person who fired the shot has not yet been found. Tutwaller is the son of Harry Tutwaller of 150 Bridge Ave. DEFERRED CLASS FOR RAILROAD MEN MAY BE NECESSARY (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 Prospects of the crippling of railroad operations by the drafting of skilled employes have become so serious that the railroad administration today took steps to call the situation sharply to the attention of President Wilson and Secretary Baker with the idea of formulating some systematic plan for giving deferred classification to railroad men. More than 200,000 employes of the railways already have entered the army, and reports to the railroad administration indicate that if future drafts take that many more, the roads will have great difficulty in operating, particularly next winter when bad weather may precipitate a crisis. Regional directors recently instructed federal managers and general managers of railroads to apply to draft boards for deferred classification of all employes considered essential to operation, and - gsrre detailed advice concerning the procedure in these cases. As a result of this course, executives now are entering applications in large numbers. These apply mainly to locomotive engineers, firemen, freight and passenger conductors and other trainmen, skilled mechanics in shops, station agents and telegraphers. These are the classes of men, officials say, who cannot be replaced quickly by inexperienced employes.

German Empress Has Taken Turn for Worse

LONDON, Aug. 28. The German empress, who has been ill for several days, has taken a turn for the worse, according tc a mesasge received in Amsterdam from Dusseldorf and forwarded to the Exchange Telegraph Company.

Pool Room Proprietor Fined for Selling Liquor Fred Jefferson, colored, pleaded guilty in circuit court Wednesday morning on a charge of selling liquor. He was fined $100 and a jail sentence which had been given him was suspended and he must close his place of business by September. Jefferson operates a pool and billiard room on Fort Wayne avenue. He was found to be selling whiskey, beer, wine and gin.

'SOME PLACE,' LOCAL SOLDIER WRITES OF CAMP IN GEORGIA

"If you want to get into trouble in Georgia, Just Bing 'Marching Through Georgia,' write two Richmond boys stationed at Camp Hancock, in a letter to The Palladium. The letter follows: "As we two Richmond boys at Camp Hancock, Georgia, have nothing to do today, we thought we would write a few lines. "This is sure some place here. We have plenty to eat and ai good place to sleep. There are about 4.000 men here, and we have a good time. "There la no place here that grass

wilt grow. , There is not much timber and what there is, is pine. It grows about sixty feet high. We are sitting out in the woods now under one. It is the only one insight. It has three limbs on it and they are all in the top. "You all think it gets hot up there in Indiana but you all don't know what hot weather is. We were white men when we got here but now we are not. "Every time you take a step here you go down in the sand over your shoes. "About 15,000 men have left here in their overseas suits on their way 'over there.' Some more go soon and many more are ready to go anytime. "If you want to get into trouble down here just sing, 'Marching Through Georgia.' "Wishing you all the best of luck, we remain "DALE D. BROOKS and CHELCIE SHEFFER.

Murphy Relieved from Army for Red Cross NEW YORK, Aug. 28. Colonel Frederick Murphy, of St. Louis, has been relieved from any duty overseas to become director of the medical and surgical department of the American Red Cross in France, according to a cablegram received here by the war council of the Red Cross. The appointment, it was explained, was made to effect closer co-operation with the American expeditionary forces.

PAUL HUNT IS HURT IN ACTION

Paul Hunt of Centerville, son of Mrs. Mattie B. Hunt, is listed in Wednesday's casuality list as seriously wounded. Hunt enlisted in the infantry over a year ago. A telegram was received by his mother stating that he had been seriously wounded in action between the 14th and 28th of July. He is 20 years old. Hunt is the brother of Captain Ira Hunt now serving in France and is a cousin of Mrs. Nimrod Johnson and Mrs. John M. Elliott and a nephew of Mrs. Alden Mote of Richmond.

Class 1 Men Get Chance . to Serve on General Staff CHICAGO, Aug. 28. A call is being made for men of special qualifications for service with the general staff in Washington. Only men between 21 and 31 years old, who are classified in Class 1A for limited service, will be permitted to enlifit. Stenographers, typists, draftsmen, mimeograph operators, statisticians, accountants, and men experienced in textile' industries are desired. Capt. Ednyfed H. Williams of the general staff will interview all applicants at the State council of defense building, 120 West Adams street, Tuesday and Wednesday from 9:30 to 12:30 and from 2 to 7 o'clock.

CHARLES VISITS SAXON KING. '

AMSTERDAM, Aug. 27. Emperor Charles of Austria and Empress Ztfa have arived at Dresden to visit the king of Saxony. After remaining there a day they will go to Munich, the capital of Bavaria, and Stuttgart, the capital of Wurttemberg. Tney are accompanied by Baron Burian, the ' Austro-Hungarian foreign minister.

CONTRIBUTED VERSE

TO FRANK GENN. Our country's son we honor thee Thyself for us did'st give Upon the firing line In France That right and justice live That we and all who follow us Might live in peace and love Which comes of liberty and law As blessings from above. Our country's son we grieve for thee Our souls are sad and torn But soldier boy our hearts are proud That such as thou art born American. Rest loyal one Neath freedom's flag unfurled For sons like thee have put it Where 'tis loved by all the world. Mrs. Frank Stafford.

FORFEITS BOND

Ben Sanders, charged with bringing liquor into the state forfeited his bond and did not appear for trial in city court Wednesday morning.

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