Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 233, 14 July 1919 — Page 10
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'PAGE TEN THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND BUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, JULY 14, 1919.
Bash Throws Hat In Ring; aases Much G; 0. P. Gossip; May Force Governor's Hand i " INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., July 14. The definite announcement of Lieutenant Ctoveraor Edgar D. Bush of Salem of hl candidacy for Republican nomination for Governor la supplying Inter J eating midsummer political diversion among the members of hla party who , are speculating on Its effect. He ia expected to open headquarters here early next fall. It la believed that Mr. Bush will await the conclusion of the special session of the Legislature before he takes further active steps. Whether he will continue his opposition to the so-called Goodrich centralization policy at the extra session la not known. Republican leaders find In his announcement a possibility of a split In the party before the primary to be held next May to nominate the ticket. Mr. Buah is to make his fight on a platform that Is contrary to the policy of the Goodrich administration, which was indorsed In the last state convention and over which there was a contest In the last Legislature. Would Pace Opposition It Is pointed out that a victory for Mr. Bush at the primary would be construed properly aa a repudiation of the policies of the Goodrich administration and a. backdown from the avowals of the last state convention. His candidacy, it J a being said, will force Governor Goodrich and his friends to oppose him. even though it waa not known that they favor Will H. Hays, chairman of the national committee, for Governor.
City, Sweltering In Heat, Seeks Relief Everywhere Although not the hottest day of the season. Saturday afternoon found Richmond slzeling. The theomometer which rose from 63 degrees Saturday morning to 91 degrees toward 5 o'clock In the afternoon. The Fourth of July with a maximum temperature of 97 degrees, still holds the stakes as the season's hottest day. A heavy storm Saturday night temporarily curbed the heat, which resumed Its sway again Sunday morning. Parks, street carp, motor cars, Morton Lake and neighboring river banks, as a rer-ulf, giinrd sudden popularity. Glen park crowded, while bathing suit brigades went to Hawkins bathing beach. Ice tea, watermelon, ice cream and lemonade were first, last and foremost at all dinner parties and the usual Sunday crowds made" business good fr,r all refreshments parlors of the city. Auto rides Into the country were nlso popular.
Levy On Property Is Proposed By Germans (By Asuociated Press) COPENHAGEN, Sunday. July 13. Mathiaa Erzberger, German minister of finance, has Issued a statement, according to a Berlin dispatch to the Tidede, that the proposed levy on property, in German, will begin at 5,000 marks and will be graduated up to ten percent, for property valued at 50,000 marks. The rates will become higher with property the valuation of which
is aboue this figure until it reaches 65 percent, on property above 3,000,000 marks. The levy will be payable by Instalments extending over thirty years, beginning with January, 1920.
Swiss Economist Advises Entrance Into League (By Associated Press) BERNE, July 14. Edmund Schulthess, federal councillor, In the course of a long address before the congress of the Radical party here today, discussed Switzerland's entry into the league of nations, giving arguments on both sides of the question. He concluded by saying: "I can only declare myself expressly In favor of our entry." He added that his colleagues in the economic department and members of the commission and International questions had reached the same conclusion.
TRAINS DELAYED BY WASHOUT
Trains through Richmond were delayed several hours Sunday night and Monday on account of a washout east of West Manchester. Mail trains from Columbus and the east were forced to detour.
Native Of Union County, Indianapolis Railroad Many Dies In Hospital INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 24 J. Q. Hicks; 70 years old, 2528 Central avenue, who was employed by the Big Four railroad in Indianapolis for more than 43 years, died Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Deaconess hospital. Mr. Hicks was born in Union county, Ind., In 1849. He retired from active service nine years ago and at that time was acting as general yardmaster and local agent. Mr. Hicks was elected to the Indiana legislature from Marlon county In 1896." He was a member of the Logan Lodge of Masons and the Seventh Presbyterian church. One daughter survives.
Fail To Keep Up Payments Here For French Children A plea to renew subscriptions for (he care of the fatherless children of France has been sent out by those in charge here. According to Mrs. William Dudley Foulke, many persons are falling to renew their subscriptions and many names are left unprovided for. In a new allotment which has recently been made, the names of 67 children have been given to Mrs.
Foulke. In addition to this number
there are 20 names still unsubscribed for on a previous list. The need Is greater now than ever before, the
leaders say, yet many persons are
losing their interest.
League Outgrowth Of DemocracyRev. Mitchell "Reaping the World's Harvest" was thfi subjprt of the sermon by Rev. Andrew Mitchell, pastor of the South E'phth Street Friends church, Sunday raomins:. Rev. Mitchell said that ''fro aiv thrco world harvests, the V.'nrM Wsu tho League of Nations . T.1 Prohibition. He show d that the war was a nat-nn-.i hniv'sr. and the outgrowth of r-.'-Y.i r.risni. The league, he said, is a fulfillment or democracy. Prohibition, he said, was an outgrowth of the war.
FINED FOR DRUNKENNESS. Rush Hager was fined $1 and costs for public intoxication in city court Monday morning and Charles Sapp was fined $5 and costs on the same charge.
When a codfish eats it takes an oyster in its mouth, cracks the shell, digests the meat and ejects the shell.
HONORED FOR WORK WITH FOUNDATION
Delinquent F ether Up '"' In Juvenile Court
Leonard Wilhelm, who appeared before Judge Bond in Juvenile court Saturday afternoor, charged with nonpupport of his children, was released on his promise to care properly for the children in the future. Judge Bond told Wilhelm that another appearance in court would mean a trip to the state penal form. Two small boys who admitted that they had broken into several buildings in .Cambridge City and stole small articles, were reprimanded.
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Three Trainmen Hurt In
Wreck On Pennsylvania
LOGANS PORT, Ind., July 14 Three
trainmen were hurt seriously today
when Pennsylvania passenger train
No. 902 ran into a burning bridge at
Perkins Spur, near Kentland, Ind., ac
cording to information received here
Only meager reports were available at the Pennsylvania offices here, but they were to the effect that William Nepher, engineer; C. C. Clayborn, fireman, were scalded, and J. T. Custer, baggageman, had a broken arm and was bruised. All the men live in Logansport. None of the passengers was reported hurt, although it was said three coaches were wrecked.
Serbs Remove Valuables In Temesvar Retreat
(By Associated Press) GENEVA. July 14. The Rumanian bureau at Berne announces that the Serbian forces which have been occupying the city of Temesvar. 72 miles northeast of Belgrade, are evacuating the place, taking with them everything of value, including forty locomotives, 1,500 railroad cars, machinery from factories, animals and household articles. The bureau states that the population of the city is making an indignant protest against the action of the Serbians. The Rumanian government, according to the bureau, has declined another offer from Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshevist premier of Russia, for the arrangement of an alliance between Rumania and Russia.
Atlantic Records
William J. French William J. French of Washington has been awarded the cross of tha Lepion of Honor by France in recognition of his work in French hospitals and among the mothers and rhildren of France while working: for the Rockefeller Foundation at Paris.
Dirigible R-34 Mineola to Pulham, 3,300 miles; time, 75 hours, 6 minutes.
Airplane Vickers St. Johns to
Cliften, 1,900; time, 16 hours 20 min
utes. Seaplane NC-4 Rockaway to Plymouth, 3,900 miles; time, 54 hours 17 minutes. Steamship Mauretania Queenstown to New York, 3,000 miles; time, 106 hours 41 minutes. Earlier records: Columbus Palo to Salvador, 37 days. Steamship Savannah Savannah to Liverpool, 2" days.
NOW, OFFICER, DON'T YOU THINK THE RULES ARE TOO STRICT?, -
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Group of Mack Sennett bathing girls being hauled into court at Coney Island for wearing too scanty attire oo the beach.
Ya may get away with them outfits in California, but this ain't no California," is what the policeman present said when the above group of Mack Sennett bathing girls tripped along the sand on ijiair arrival at Coney Island re
cently. So he promptly marched them up to Magistrate O'NeiL The magistrate explained that one-piece suits didn't cover enough of one's figure to meet Coney Island requirements and then let
mem go witn a warning to add aj
dash of goods here and there. Most women folk would be indignant and probably tearful if forced tc walk, dressed so daringly, with a policeman along the public thoroughfares, but it's all part of th game for these movie stars. They dote on advertising.
World's Greatest Comedian at the Washington
Charles Chaplin In his million dollar comedy "Sunnyslde" to be shown at the Washington Theatre Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
Car Turns Over Down Bank; Bruises Sustained Slight injuries and bad bruises were sustained by Mr. and Mrs. William Winters and daughter, Elgesa, 908 North Eighth street, Saturday afternoon when their five passenger touring car turned over an embankment near their home. Wrhile Mr. Winters was working on the engine which was running, the car began backing down the embankment. Winters jumped on the running board. Mrs. Winters and the daughter were sitting on the back seat. The daughter wras found underneath the car with bruiseB and cuts about the face and Dhoulders. Winters had his shoulders and back injured and Mrs. Winters received cuts on her body. The automobile was badly damaged.
German Not To Be Revived In Schools, Says Bentley German is a dead language so far as the school city of Richmond is concerned, said Superintendent Bentley, Monday. At present only French and Spanish are offered, and it is probable that there will be no demand for German for at least five years. German was excluded from the curriculum two years ago this fall and French substituted for It. Spanish, which was already taught, together with French have supplanted German to such an extent that it is never expected to come back, said Bentley.
Clemency Refused To Wayne Men By Pardons Board Pleas of clemency for two Wayne county men were refused by the state board of pardons In last week's session. The men are James H. Green, sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, in 1914, and John Tucker, sentenced to five to fourteen years for robbery In 1917. Green was found guilty of killing Ulysses G. Clark, with a shotgun, on October 29, 1914, and was sentenced to life Imprisonment in the state penitentiary on November 13, 1914. Tucker was found guilty of robbing Frank Barbee of $3.40 on July 2, 1917, and was sentenced to the state reformatory for five to fourteen years. St John's Buys Ground For School Building Final transactions of the purchase of the property at South Seventh and E streets by the St. John's church, wore completed at a congregational meeting of the church Sunday afternoon. The matter has been in the hands of a committee and was transferred to the congregation. The ground will be used for the erection of a school some time in the future.
NO RISE IN SALARY City officials cannot look forward to an Increase In salary during their terms, no matter how much the H. C. L. rises, because of a state law which provides that Increases in the salaries of city officials cannot be granted during their term.
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Charles White, Known Here, Eulogized After Death An editorial In the Detroit Times last Saturday, eulogized the charactei of Charles White, who died at a summer resort near Detroit recently. Mr. White was the brother of Seldon and Miss Hettie White of this city and of Mrs. Byram Robbins of Detroit, well known In Richmond. The editorial was written by Jame Schermerhorn, under the head of "A Detroit Nobleman Dies." It follows: "Detroit Is not growing so fast that It can afford to suffer without a definite sense of diminution the going away of such a gentle spirit as the lamented Charles S. White. "His was the knlghtliness of soul that, gives to a community a quality
and charm that no material achievement or boast of population and output can impart. "Physical handicap he bore smilingly; personal eorrow left him unshaken in faith and serenity of spirit. "What Dr. Jowett said of a man whose head was burdened but unbowed, fits the uprightness and unmurmuring patience of Charles S.v White: 'how he does ehow off God!' "
ST. JOHN'S WILL PICNIC.
The Young People's society and the Lutheran league of the St. John'a Lutheran church will hold a picnic at Glen Miller park Tuesday evening.
Lansing's Steamer Sails For New York Today BREST. July 14. The steamship Rotterdam with Secretary of Stata Lansing on board left here for New York this afternoon. She was delay, ed a day in coaling. Secretary Lansing went on board Sunday morning after his arrival from Paris.
THE NEED of a GOOD WATCH
For the Men Civil life is moving faster than ever before. Minutes lost now take on a new importance. The man in the factory needs accurate time in order that he may get to his work on the minute. The business man can no longer be late in keeping appointments. The motorist, the sportsman, the boy in school in fact, everyone engaged in any active work or pleasure needs an accurate, reliable watch. Time, in these days of activity, is translated swiftly into money, and to own a trustworthy watch saves both.
For the Women Woman's sphere today is greater and much larger than it has ever been. The woman worker in factory, store and office must do her part on schedule time. The woman in the home with the responsibilities of a family also feels the necessity of accuracy in time. In the past a woman's watch was unhandy and reposed in her boudoir, unwound most of the time. But today the busy woman uses a dainty wristlet watch always ready never in the way, a useful as well as ornamental timepiece.
You will find us ready to supply every need Reliable, Trustworthy Watches from the best American and Swiss Watch factories, for the busy man. Practical and dainty Wristlet Watches for the women. They cost from$15.00 to $40.00 each, in a wide assortment of styles. Jenkins & Company
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