Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 310, 10 November 1920 — Page 14

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. RICHMOND. IND., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10, 1920.

ACCIDENTAL DEATH CORONERS VERDICT; IN EATON MISHAP

EATON, O. Nov. 10. Arrangements for the funeral of Everett Emerick, 16. .who was killed Tuesday morning when caught in an embankment cave-in at a gravel pit of the Eaton Cement Tile company, had not been fully completed Wednesday, but it is probable it will take place Thursday afternoon. Young Emerick was buried beneath fibout three feet of earth and was dead when rescuers reached the body. His neck was broken, according to the finding of Coroner Treffinger. who viewed the body and then turned it over to Undertaker L. P. Barnes. The coroner held that death was accidental. Young Emerick's age is given as 16 in the coroner's report in the case. Officials of the tile company say the lad gave his age as 18 when he applied for work Friday and was given a place in the gravel pit. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Emerick, parents of the dead lad, removed to Eaton from the country a short time ago. The family resides at 710 East Somers street. Emerick, familiarly known a9 "Doc," is a carpenter. Brothers Are Sentenced Frank and Roy O'Dell, brothers, living near Eaton, and their cousin, Walter O'Dell. of near Camden, after trial Tuesday before Judge A. C. Risinger in common pleas court on a charge of

burglary and larceny, were aeciarea guilty and sentence was imposed. Walter and Roy were sentenced to from one to 15 years in the state reformatory at Mansfield and Frank was given a suspended sentence to the came institution. The trio was charged with breaking into the local grocery store of H. McNeal and Son and stealing about $8 in money. Thompson Given New Chance. In a juvenile court case against John Thompson, local young man, Judge A. C. Risinger disposed of the case Tuesday by releasing Thompson upon condition that he conducts himself properly In the future. The case was left on the open docket. The case involved two young girls, one of whom Thompson married recently. Poffenberger Fined. Henry Poffenberger, 17, country youth, was fined $3 and costs by Mayor H. L. Risinger in police court foroperating an automobile upon the streets here with the cut-out open, in violation of a city ordinance. Start Drive Thursday. Beginning Thursday Armistice day the Preble County Red Cross chapter, in common with other Red Cross organizations throughout the country, will inaugurate its fourth annual membership drive. The county's quota is 3,000. The several branches making up the county chapter will conduct the drive in their respective territories. The Eaton chapter's campaign will be carried on by the Psi Iota Xi sorority girls, with a house-to-house canvass. No Program at Eaton. No arrangements have been made for special observance of. Armistice dav in Eaton. Thursday. It is expected there will be a very generous display of the American colors.

FIRST GERMAN MERCHANTMAN SINCE WAR REACHES U. S.

SOCIALISTS, LIBERALS CLASHING IN MEXICO

(By Associated Press) MEXICO CITY, Nov. 10 Frequent armed conflicts resulting in numerous deaths are occurring between Socialists and liberals in Yucatan, and despatches from Merida declare the seriousness situation which developed last week continues. After receiving a detailed report of disorders from General Mange, commander of federal troops in Yucatan, Minister of War Calles ordered "all necessary measures to be taken to give security to all the inhabitants of the disturbed area. General Calles directed that all members of political parties be disarmed. General Mange declared he had been told by a group of men who had been captured carrying rifles and bombs that Socialists and Liberals engaged in a battle last Friday at the village of Tecanto. The Socialists were entrenched behind hemp bulwarks, which they had thrown across all roads leading to the village, it was asserted.

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town hall is in use, there are banks)

and shops and a determined effort is on to restore life to those streets of the dead.

TOWN HALL CROWDED FOR FARM GATHERING

The farmers' meeting at Centerville on Tuesday night seemed very much like a large family gathering. The town hall overflowed with friends and neighbors from all parts of the township, and the mothers and children were much in evidence. The occasion was the annual meeting for the election of officers, to listen to reports, and next to have a good time in general. Rev. J. J. Rae, of Richmond, was the speaker of the evening and was heard with marked attention. President Davis, of the Wayne federation, devoted a few minutes to what the federation has

HONOR DAVID LUBIN BY MARBLE TABLET

By Associated Press) ROME, Nov. 10. Plans for the placing of a marble tablet in the international institute of agriculture building here in memory of. David Lubin, founder of the institute, were approved at Tuesday's session of the General Assembly of the institute. Associated with Mr. Lubin was the King of Italy and in speaking on the subject today, .the president declared this "coupled together the sovereign with the Israelite of modest origin, who throujrh strength, faith and work rose to a high position." Thomas F. Hunt, American delegate expressed thanks for the honor given Mr. Lubin. Raoul Bio-Branco of Brazil was elected vice president of the assembly and I. M. Masterbrook. head of the

statistical service in Washington was

advantageous offers and the than alopted the present plan.

board

The Home Garden

It is well to protect the strawberry; beds with manure that contains considerable straw.' Leaves or corn-i stalks may be used for the same purpose. Examine all trees carefully for caterpillar nests or egg masses of any kind. If any are found, cut the limb off or destroy the insects or eggs. Top dress the lawns with half-rotted manure. Allow it to remain until spring. It might be interesting to plant a few sweet peas this month and watch results next spring. Cover them with six inches of good soil.

airt-aflv arpnTnnlishfri and .T. L. Dolan.

county agent, gave a few reasons for 1 appointed head of one commission.

the need of such an organization, and ,

The German ship, "Sophie Rickmer," at the pier ia Brooklyn.

why every farmer should become identified with it. Official Board President Gaar Eliason was reelected and James F. Harris, vice president, and B. C. Gaier, secretarytreasurer, will also continue to hold office during 1921. Charles Neff and Ernest Trcmps were the two holdover

tlirectcrs, and John

Smith and Fred

elected to the board.

I cake was served in generous portions Jand many new members were present j to enjoy the occasion.

SHIPPING BOARD SELLS $15,000,000 EXCESS STOCK WASHINGTON. Nov. 10 Sale of the shipping board's surplus materials on ' the Pacific coast, estimated to be worth $15,fM)0,(iOO. to the Barde Bros. ; Ind., of New York, was announced Monday by Chairman Benson. Under ihe

i contract, he said, the board i frar.

n p(1pnri! Harrv r- uwru js guarSuits were also -eed 50 per cent of the appraised -d Ice cream and Va Vf uhe materi;il which must be dJTlulTsilold. th rde Bros., west of the

The first German merchantman sent to the U. S. since tbe end of the Wold war. docked at a Brooklyn pier recently. x-

service men from the Genran forces formed the ereatsr teit'on of he; crew American x-servioe men on shcre Lecavnt incensed at

the display of the German Rag over the boat It was haulei down at sunset and nut boiatel again.

What the American Soldier Sees on Returning to France

YOUNG BUSINESS MEN PLEASED WITH ROADS

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num? iiiuuiuains wunir. one yea:. Barde Bros, are to get returns in ex

cess of 50 per cent appraised value I up to CO per cent and all returns above 60 per cent are to hp diviHi i

I 75 per cent to the board and 25 rer j

.fiu io came uros. A bond for $l-i 000,000 was deposited by the pu- I chase.

Efforts

Europeans Criticize System Of Athletic Training Here ( Bv Associated Press) AMSTERDAM. Nov. 10. The American system of athletic training which culminated in many victories at the Antwerp Olympic games, is now beins subjected, throughout Europe, to a great deal of criticism, favorable and unfavorable. While, as an example, there are some members of ihe Dutch Olympic committee who concede Holland should adopt American methods in its universities and athletic clubs, others charge that such Ions intensive training makes the athletes professional amateurs. At a recent meeting of the eommit tee, one ppcaker went so far as to question the amateur standing of the American navy crew which won th? Olympic eight regatta. He said thai these future American navy officers had done nothing during their four years at Annapolis, but row. Europeans find it difficult to understand That American university men can ri vote so much time to sports, and still find time for study. Everett Emerick, of Eaton, Killed by Gravel Slide EATON, O., Nov. 10. Everett Emerick, age 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Emerick, was killed when a gravel bank on the pit owned by the Eaton Cement Tile company caved in. The accident occurred at 8 a. m. Tuesday. lie is survived by his parents, a brother, Raymond, of Dayton. O.. and a sister, Mrs. Harry Shafi'er, living north of Eaton. Funeral arraignments have not yet been announced COX TWINS NAMED . WARREN AND FLORENCE TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Nov. 10. Twins, a boy and a girl, born to Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Cox of Terre Haute were named Warren Harding Cox and Florence Kling Cox, it was announced yesterday. The father and mother are Republicans.

By EDWARD A. RU H EEL The soldier returning to the battle fields of France after two stirring and eventful years is likely lo attach far too great a significance to the apparent stagnation, the lilelessness, that seems part of the very atmosphere today of those scenes of terrific struggle. Reconstruction in a war-exhausted country is a painfully slow process, but rosy accounts of the forward strides that had been made, coupled with the naturally optimistic American frame of mind, were responsible for an absolute "about face" from preconceived notions to actuality. Prepared for gardens and miraculously greening fields, the desolation that persists is tragic. Men still busy after two years in searching lor and exploding shells give the impression of unnecessary delay in vital work, but after a while the various details piece together properly. The length of the struggle, the draining of lifeblood, the insecurity of the financial structure, the persisting fear, are all factors in the result, and gradually one sees that the steps made, while slow, are forward steps, and the halting progress is real. Champagne Battlefields. The Champagne battlefields, by reason of their nearness to Paris, their strategic importance, and the intensity of the fighting, may well serve the visitor as an epitome of the war. Likewise the extent of reconstruction there is a good index or average foi the whole country. Up north in the former British sectors, and in the industrial region, for various reasons progress is a good deal more rapid. In parts of the Argonne arid other sections it is slower. Then, too, the Champagne front has as its 1 Rheims and its cathedral, the foca of probably more American attention than any other until American boys went overseas and fought in their own sectors.

Just a few miles from Rheims the churned up battle area begins. In the1 distance one sees the low flat hills: occupied by the Germans for more ! than three years, then taken by the French, abandoned, reoccupied and so j on until the finale. Far as the eye j can see, the white or green-tinted j fields, here and there the skeleton of ' a tree, the steel bones of an abandon-: ed tank, jungles of barbed wire, the) snaky mazes of trenches that is the' panorama. Now and again a lew low, j improvised shacks with a garden j patch which looks strangely out of j place amid the desolation that is all j the relief to that endless stretch of; ruin which extends practically all the the way from Fort de la Pompelle :oi Soissons and beyond. In this region! are the Chemin des Dames, Nogenl I l'Abesse, the heights of Cornillet and other famed battlegrounds, but even ; the heights seem to have been hum-; bled into the dust by the fury of high explosives. j

Rehabilitation Starts That is the broad view starkly naked fields, wearying tiie eye iu their monotony, over which the imagination readily ses the tragedy enacted again, and seems even to see the spirits of the thousands that gave their lives there and whose bodies are buried in ihe little cemeteries along the roads. Gone are the woods that crowned the hills in the happy days before the war. and vanished the vineyards that covered much of the land. For just as

nature abhors a vacuum, so nature j seems to loathe utter desolation, and! along those same roads, usually not j far from the cemeteries, the signs of i

the rehabilitation may be seen. In this region there were no poppies to flaunt a bit of color against a

materials the wreckage of war, just as the members of his little flock were its victims. Helps Till Fields. His appearance was not that of the conventional clergyman. He seemed to be of the Norman type; he wore no

lino linen or well-cut garments. In i county

fact, were not his cassock visible evi-

somber background, although further north their bright scarlet was still

visible. But wherever a

livea hf rilnnla flnveri an Iho rmnni

ume nn,i t n rt in m ' w, o th ,tnnr, ! was his labor solely that in the

Frenchman I s mm'siry, uc nugin naie

ucen misiaKen lor a peasant. rsor

of the homes he constructed with abandoned war material mean that he has lost neither his spirit nor his love for beauty and it augurs well for the future. Barracks Timbers to Build Homes. Small patches which were not so roughly used as the great fields have drawn a considerable number of the

original inhabitants back to their na-j live soil. Sometimes an abandoned

railroad carriage, rolled into the field, provides a home for a family. In comparison with other homes structures of rough timbers roofed with sections of corrugated culvert walling these carriage homes are palatial. Nearer the city a few feeble attempts to build have been made. Then, too, the

i abandoned barracks of the soldiery, ! most of them of sectional construc

tion, have provided building material for new homes. The pity of it all is that this effort is so widely at variance with the traditions of France. The meanest dwellings had always been constructed for permanence, proclaiming to the world that their possessor loved the earth that gave him his bread, and that he was building not. a mere house but a home. These battlefield dwellings are

! just the reverse so light and flimsy ! they are that a heavy storm might deniolish them. j The inhabitants get their living to- ! day in various ways. Many of them

are engaged in tne apparently neverending task of clearing the fields, rolling up the nedless miles of wire, heaping up the tons of iron debris and searching out the loaded grenades and shells that are still perilous. Near the cemeteries are others who make the

I fantastic bead crosses ana tiowers j with which the French ornament the i graves of dear ones. Still others gather and sell souvenirs to tourists, i Near Pomello, the oft-taken fort thnt was one of the chief defenses ol j Rheims, lives a worthy pastor, a true j representative of militant Christ ian- ' itv. He had no church but a cathedi ral vaulted by .he sky, no rectory but a hovel made by his own hands, its

vine

yard of the Lord;" he labored long weary hours during the week in the field, virtually earning his bread by the sweat of his brow; and his masses and other services as well as the bulk

of his ministrations were confined ! night.

The report of Dell Davis to the Young Men's Business club on the Good Road Boosters' trip, which was sponsored by them and carried out Tuesday, occupied the attention of the club at its regular meeting Tuesday night in the K. of P. building. A resolution complimenting W. O. Jones,

road superintendent, on the

splendid condition of the roads, the, fine spirit shown in maintenance and the entertainment furnished for the boosters, was adopted by the club. An effort to secure motion picture! firms to film the Armistice Day pa-i rade will be made by the club. A. committee to communicate with themj was appointed and began work last;

tO diSDOSe Of Did clnrt. i

through direct sales failed to bring'

HIT

-A-VEEK"

Nov. 6th to 13th

(Wednesday)

My Little Bim

bo Down on the Babmoo Isle." Columbia Records Sheet Music Q. R. S. Word Rolls

largely to the usual "leisure hours." Pompelle itself is scarcely recognizable as the staunch defender of Rheims, which it was, nor is it known how many bodies are still buried under its tremendous ruins. From the distance it now resembles a rugged hillock; but on closer inspection it is a huge jumble of masonry, or enormous blocks of concrete thrown about as by a Titan hand, with here and there the remnants of a passageway or of a bastion partly exposed. The fighting at Pompelle was terrific; heavy guns practically blew it off the earth, and it was taken and retaken by the Germans and French in many desperate conflicts even after there was little advantage in holding it.

And Rheims, the sacred city, a scant six miles from Pompelle, de-, serves a volume of description. It is ; a living city of the dead, with miles , and miles of streets that are beyond I

the description of mere words to convey the wreckage and desolation. Yet in these streets, in houses with neither walls nor roofs but only cellars, a population said to number 50,000 is living. And the skeleton of the cathedral stands guard over the city while it is rebuilding. Already several ho

tels have been repaired or rebuilt, the

Ray Weisbrod, treasurer, impressed upon the members of the club the importance of paying dues immediately. Checks should be made payable to the club and mailed to the treasurer. Several committee reports were made. .

DAMAGED TIRES and

TUBES CARE-

Y REPAIRED

Here at moderate cost WM. F. LEE No. 8 South 7th Street

"Richmond's Reliable Tire Man"

mm inner

ft FULL

Big Line of Bunte's Boxed Candies Just Received. "Phil" Zuttermeister 1103 Main

DR. R. H. CARNES DENTIST Phone 2665 Rooms 15-16 Comstock Building i016 Main Street Open Sundays and Evening by appointment

SHOT GUN SHELLS 75 Box SAM S. VIGRAN

617 Main St.

Buy Your Baked Goods

early Thursday morning istice Day. We close at m. on that day.

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Remember Federal Products can be purchased only in the Federal Store, 1025 Main St. FEDERAL SYSTEM OF BAKERIES of AMERICA Richmond, Ind.

When in Richmond Armistice Day

visit the home Price "goodies"-

of the famous

Price's Oysters Price's Delicious Ice Cream Price's Candies Exclusive agents for Whitman's, Mallard and Betsy Ross Candies

SUITS

at Prices "Back to Normalcy" A Specialized Feature in Our Great November Drive Every Suit Reduced One group of better Suits that sold for $40.00 and $50.00

350

All Suits from $55.00 to $125.00, One-Third Off

$2

As requested by Armistice Day executive committee, we will close at 1 1 a. m. Armistice Dav.

LEE B. NUSBAUM CO. NUSBAUM BUILDING

We can save you dialer's profit on a Used Piano or can trade your Silent Piano for a Vlctrola.

WALTER 1000 Main St.

B. FULGHUM Phone 2275

You Always Get More Change Back at the

A Safe Place for Your Savings We Pay 42 on Savings Second National Bank

Try Mrs. Reefer's HomeMade Candies Knollenberg's Store

MEN'S SUITS All Materials and Colors S25 to ssO THE WHEN STORE 712 Main

SPECIAL

$19.95

THE UNION STORE

Ladies' and Misses' Coats

830 Main St.

Boys' Heavyweight Ribbed Union Suits, 98c RAPP'S CUT PRICE CO. 529 Main St.

THE SOFT WATER LAUNDRY Richmond Home Laundry Phone 2766

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Beautiful Wrist Watches

THERE IS a charm about a pretty wrist watch that cannot be denied. Popularity born of utility and nurtured by beautiful designing has made it the most valuable piece of feminine jewelry extant. Reliability The things you need to know mostly about a watch is the honesty and reliability of the concern selling it. We stand upon our reputation of many years of successful watch selling a reputation you can rely upon for the utmost satisfaction in buying here.

CHARLES H. HANER 810 Main St. Jeweler Glasses Fitted

A1 Feltman's

Boys' Specials for This Week Only Come here for your boys' shoes. We can sell them to you at one-half of their regular price, as we are closing out our children's department.

Brown English

anteed all leather . .

guar-

$3.45

Brown Army tra good soles

Shoes, ex$3.45

Black English Calfskin, oak soles, made in narrow or con- 00 QC servative last

.Feltman's Shoe Store. The World's Largest Shoe Dealers 35 Stores 724 Main Street