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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
RICHMOND GARDENER 4,
| NICKNAMED "SPUDS," !"
WILL HELP RAISE EM

E. F. Murphy, Richmond's new gar
dener, scouts the notion that this
country will face vegetable shortage
next winter.
1T doesn't seem possible that there
with everyone planting gardens as
they are this year." he said today
Murphy arrived yesterday and spent
this morning getting acquainted with
his field. He will be garden super
visor Of the public schools and will
devote his time this spring and sum-
mer to advisory work under direction
OF the Civic Gardening association.
His home Is in Terre Haute; he is
married and will remove here in about
a month. He is a graduate of the
University of Illinois.
Located at Commercial Club
The new gardener made the above
statement before he was informed that
some Richmond vacant lot owners
have refused to donate use of their
lots to the Civic Gardening associa-
ton.
Murphy will have headquarters at
the Commercial club and will be at the
service of any gardener in Richmond
who wishes advice. He plans to pre-
pare a map showing the location of
each vacant lot under cultivation this
season. He desires all persons who
are cultivating their own lots or are
cultivating lot obtained independent
ly of the Civic Gardening association
to call him and inform him of it's
location.
He says he never has been called
"Spuds" Murphy, but he is expecting
the nickname now and he doesn't care
as long as spuds are 80 high.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28

Man, Once Killed BY Pursuing Crowd;
Lives in Wild to Auoid Second Death

Sheriff Carr captured wild man"
on West Main street this morning.
The wild man" had been talking
wildly to persons living along this
street and they notified the sheriff.
He, the wild man." has been living
out of doors since February, he de-
clares. during which month he escap-
ed from the Bartonville, ILL.,, state hos
pital. He says his name is David
Marshall.
During this time he has been sub
sisting on herbs and roots with an oc-
casional snack from a farmers wife.
He has avoided settlements and cities,
he says.
There are crowds of people follow
ing me all the time," he explained to
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
20 Boys List Names
With School Bureau
to Obtain Positions

The employment bureau, organized
in the high school q week ago, already
is filling positions for this summer.
The bureau is for boys and girls who
wish to do work after school hours,
during the summer. or permanently.
At present about seventy students
have registered with the bureau. Calls
for several boys have been received.
A call has been received from Day
ton. Ohio, and one from the K. D..
Cabinet company, this city, asking for
several boys for summer work. L. A..
Newgard. head of the Commercial de-
partment, has charge of the bureau.
Three business men from the CONNER
cial club are to act as advisors.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28

food for three months. Unless another
quarterly food allowance has been
shipped there the German army will
not be able to confiscate much Of the
food which Uncle Sam has sent
Charlev1lle h important to the Ger
mans because It is the headquarters on
the Western front from which All oper-
ations are directed. When General Won
Falkenhayn was chief Of the General
Staff he and the Kaiser had their head
quarters here, but since Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg has directed the Ger
[contInued On Page Feurtssn.l
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
GERMANY WILL PAY
FOR VESSELS SEIZED
IN AMERICAN PORTS

COPENHAGEN, (via London), April
2S.-The Berlin correspondent of the
Leipsig Tageblatt says that since the
loss of the greater part Of Germany's
mercantile marine now In American
ports, is assured. the German govern
ment and the shipping companies
have reached an agreement for the
payment of full compensation for the
confiscated ships.
The government originally proposed
merely loan to help In rebuilding.
: A bill is now being drafted and the
chief point IN dispute is whether com.
pensation shall be made at the present
cost of building or at the book value
of the ships.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
Germany Performs Great Engineering Fea Defend Belgium
population Of 100000, is the largest

population Of 250,000, is the largest
city directly in front of the advancing
British troops Laon. Charleville and
Sedan are Immediately In front OF the
attacking French forces. Cambria, the
English are already threatening.
These are big Industrial cities, OF great
Importance to the Allies Cambrai is
one of the centers from which the
American Commission for the Relief
of Belgium and Northern France dis
tributed American food There are
enormous storehouses on the outskirts
of the city, but last December when I
was there there was only sufficient
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
Wasp Commander
Reported as Killed

COPENHAGEN (Via London), Apr.
2S.-Leutenant Commander Petz, one
of the most successful Of the German
submarine commanders, has perished
in the submarine campaign.
The newspapers of his home town
Koenigsberg, carry an Official death
notice although the admiralty has said
nothing of the loss of his boat. Com
mander Petz was mentioned in dis
patches in February as being in charge
of a submarine which destroyed $1,000
tons Of shipping in one day.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28

tire system Of defence. Trenches and
underground means of communication
have been established between every
one Of the individual forts. So, when
Germany maintains that there is no
definite defensive line in the west, Ger
many means that the whole country is
fortified and that the army as it moves
backward can stop almost any place
and fight defensively.
There are in this occupied territory,
which American troops may help re-
cover from the Germans, many big in
dustriai and commercial cities. Lille.
France, which in peace times has a
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
BERLIN VIRTUES
UNDER SUSPENSE
OF GREAT STRIKE

COPENHAGEN, (via London), April
2s.-The prospect of grave labor
troubles throughout Germany on May
Day Overshadows everything else In
the German press. General Groener's
address to the Reichstag committee,
the manifesto of the federation OF
labor against strikes and editorial ap-
pears to the same purport predominate
in the newspapers, the news OF the
great battle of Arras and the general
military situation being very much sub
ordinated.
Where there Is 80 much smoke there
evidently must be some fire. The
manifesto of the metal workers union,
the organization which took the lead
ing part in the previous strike, Is
worded in a curiously dubious man
ner. While ostensibly directed against
strike agitators it gives the impress
ion of being q very half-hearted docu-
ment
Argues Against Strike.
The manifesto argues that a general
strike Is unnecessary because stoppage
of work in the iron works, munition
plants and transportation systems
would be sufficient to immeasurably
increase the difficulties Of the situa-
ton. 1t adds that the decision to
strike can, according to constitution of
the union, only be taken by the execu
tive after efforts at an amicable sOlu-
tion have failed.
One of the methods by which the
agitators are apparently working is the
spread of rumors Of further impend-
ing reduction of rations. The Berlin
city authorities have appealed to the
public to report persons spreaking
these rumors to the police.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
staked off trenches and planned under

staked off trenches and planned under
ground systems Of defence, but Ger
neering feats. The courses of rivers
have been changed barbed wire
stretched and mines planted in the
river bottom; then the river turned
back in its customary course. On one
trip through Belgium saw two rivers
the courses of which had been
changed. In Northern France saw a
dam which had been built so that upon
an instant notice the countryside for
miles around could be flooded. saw
fields and forests where baroed wire
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
eY CARL w. AcKERMAN

Copyright, 1917, The Tribune AS
eociation. Registered according to the
Copyright Act, Canada, 1917. by The
Tribune Association)
For over a year Germany has been
strategically prepared on the Western
front Almost Immediately after the
occupation of Northern France and
Belgium Germany began to fortify
every possible position or to draw up
plans for the fortification, so that they
would be ready for instant use.
Throughout the territory which the
German army still holds l have trav-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
German WASP
ATTACKS SHIP

MADRID (Via Paris), April %. -
Premier Prieto has announced that he
has received official confirmation of
an attack by a German submarine on
the Spanish steamer Triana and has
addressed a strong protest to Ger
many.
Details of the incident show that a
few minutes after a shell had been
fired at the Triana the commander of
the submarine boarded the steamer
and offered excuses, insisting that he
only fired after the steamer had ig-
nored a blank shot
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
entanglements had been stretched

entanglements had been stretched
through the grass and underbrush in a
continuous network 1t was explained
that the streams in that neighborhood
could be so diverted that this ground
could be flooded just above the top of
the low barbed wire netting, SO that if
soldiers attempted to wade through
they would be trapped. In some Sec
tions of Belgium rode for at least an
hour on the railroad train and saw
nothing but this barbed wire netting.
n Namur, which is considered one
of the best strategic points in Belgium,
the Germans have reorganized the en-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28

For Wayne County by w. z. Moore
Mostly cloudy tonight and Sunday.
Continued cold. Occasional rains.
General Conditions-The unseason-
able cold weather continues over the
central portion of the United States
north of the thirtieth parallel. Cold
wave is still central at Medicine Hat.
Canada. 1t extends all over the Rocky
Mountain Plateau. Heavy SHOWS con-
tinue over the upper plain states as
far south as Omaha. Two important
storms prevail east of 115th parallel.
The large one is central over New
Mexico and the other one over the
lakes. Hot wave prevails over the
southwest. "a degrees in Arizona.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
teddy URGES
U. s. TO SEND
ARMY ABROAD
TO AID ALLIES
Col. Roosevelt in Chicago
Speech Recommends That
Manufacture of Alcoholic
Drinks Be Stopped.
NATION STILL SLEEPS

CHICAGO, April %. = Col.
Theodore Roosevelt in his first
speech delivered here today at a
luncheon given by the Chicago
branch of the National Security
League urged that the use of
grain for the manufacture of al
coholic drinks be prohibited for
the period of war.
He urged obligatory military
training, the expansion and i'm
provement of the navy and as
serted that an expeditionary
force should be sent to France
at once. The presidents con-
scription plan he would deny
service to many men who wished
to volunteer. He remarked that
when England adopted conscrip-
tion she did not decline the serv-
ices OF volunteers from Canada
and Australia.
Pavilion Seats $4,000 Persons.
Colonel Roosevelt will deliver
his principal address tonight at
the Stock Yards pavilion, which
seats 1900 persons.
On his arrival today Mr..
Roosevelt was given a reception
reminiscent of the days when he
was president:
"As yet our people are not
walked up to the vital signific-
ance of this war. This is be-
cause for the moment we are
safe behind the British fleet. In
the papers YESTERDAY 7 saw
statements from England midi
eating the greatest alarm by the
English over the submarine
menace. do not believe that
Germany will be able to make
her submarine warfare a sue
cess. But this is always a pos
sibility; and if she did succeed
it would mean that we would be
a helpless victim to Germany.
II appeal primarily for the
meeting by this nation the three
great military needs of the sit
uation.
Strike Hard At Germany.
"One. We should Immediately in
stitute not only. for this war but for
our own permanent national policy
the system Of universal, obligatory
military training and service for all
our young men.
Two. We should at the earliest
moment strike hard at Germany and
this can be done by sending abroad at
the earliest moment an expeditionary
force; at least division should be put
in France within the next few weeks.
AS rapidly as other divisions can be
gotten ready they should be sent over
besides until without an hours unnec-
essary delay we accumulate at the
front a formidable fighting army,
trained In actual service conditions,
its intensive training near the fighting
lines.
Build Large Naval Outfit
Three. To proceed at once to do
everything for the upbuilding of the
navy. capital ships. submarines, auxil-
iaries. cargo ships, everything.
II believe in universal service so
emphatically that wish to include my
self and the men who are anxious to
come in the division I desire to help
raise. II we are denied this chance
most of us will be denied the chance
of all service under the supposed obi.
gatory system. II two and a half
years ago when this war broke out we
had introduced (as nothing but our
blindness preventedD the principle of
universal service we would now have
had an ample force Of trained men,"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28

One Cambridge City man came to
Sergeant Warner with the frank
declaration that he had deserted from
the army in 1907 and wanted another
chance to prove that he wasn't any
Stacker" when the country was at war
and needed fighting men. He was told
to apply to the war department for
reinstatement.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
HEAVY FIRE

BERLIN (Via London. April Is
The artillery Rghting increased at
dawn today between Loos and ST.
Quentin, says today's official state
ment Soon thereafter infantry fight
ing was resumed along this whole
front.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
"ROU of Honor"

Out of four applicants for enlistment
at the Richmond recruiting station of
the United States army, yesterday and
today, two men were accepted. They
are:
Grover II. Turner, Richmond, coast
artillery.
James Hopes, Hubbard, O., coast
artillery.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
Kitchin Did Not Vote
on Volunteer Clause

WASHINGTON. April %. = Demo
cratic Leader Kitchin, busy with rev.
enue legislation. could not vote. When
Representative Saunders of Virginia,
presiding. announced the Kahn amend
ment had carried 279 to 98 there was
thunderous applause from the floor
and galleries.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
elled as a correspondent and I have

elled as correspondent and I have
seen many Of the limitless defensive
positions which have been prepared
Even cities as far back as Namur, for
merly one Of Belgium's strong fort
resses have been rebuilt at an enor-
nous cost. When / was In Namur the
commander of the city said the German
army had spent 100000 marks pure
ly for the new Notifications. And this
is only drop in the bucket" of what
Germany has spent to make one gigan-
tic fortress of this occupied territory.
Germany has not only fortified every
strategic position: she has not only
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
BAKER MEETS TAFT

WASHINGTON. April 2s.-Former
president Taft conferred with Secre-
tary Baker today about the military
units being trained at Yale university.
Later he went to the White House to
discuss Red Cross affairs with Presi-
dent Wilson.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28

the sheriff. "and I can only escape
them by staying out in the country.
you know they killed me once" he
confided, "and I'm afraid they'll do 1t
again"
The sheriff wired the Bartonville au-
thorities of the mans arrest.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
GUATEMALA. BREAKS
OFF WITH GERMANY

WASHINGTON, April %. - Guate-
mala has broken off diplomatic rela-
tions with Germany, and handed to
the German minister his passports.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
SUBScRIRES TO WAR LOAN

LONDON, April 2S.-A Symla dis
patch says that subscriptions to In
dia's special war loan exceed ten mil
lion pounds sterling.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28
Weather Forecast
For indiana by United States Wealth.
er eureau-Rain tonight and probably
Sunday. Continued cooler.

Temperature Toda,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-28

For Wayne County by w. e. Moore
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-07-10
WIDEN SCOPE OF
EAST SIDE PROTEST
Thursdays Meeting May
Develop into General An
ii Vice Crusade.

There is every prospect today that
the mass meeting of East side citt'
zens, to be held Thursday evening the
Central scvhool building, although
called merely as an East side affair
will develop into protest against wee
and lawlessness wherever it is found
inside the city.
The agitation which led up to the
calling Of this meeting began when II
became known that the Board of Al,
fairs had granted the notorious Billy
Nav license to conduct restaurant
in a building on Water street near the
point where 1t crosses under the MO-
nongahela railway. At preliminary
meeting which was held last week =:
G. Currey was elected chairman ana
a committee was appointed to draw
IN q series of resolutions to be pre-
sented to the meeting which is to be
held Thursday.
The East side people are thorough
" around over the situation and there
will be a big turn out at the meeting'
but 1t is now realized that it would be
short sighted to assume that the Billy
NAV restaurant is an affair of a lmlt'
ed section Of the city and plans are
now being considered to enlarge the
scope of the protest and to interest
all the good people Of Fairmont in the
movement.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-07-10
.DISORDERLY LADS
MUST EARN FINES
Eleven Locust Avenue
Youths Were Before May
or This Morning.

Police court was opened this morn.
ing with eleven young boys ranging
from II to II years Of age from the
Locust ayanue region answering charg-
es for disorderly conduct on Locust
avenue early Sunday evening.
At the hearing this morning it de-
veloped that the boys we're at first
hitting each other with clap boards
Just in fun. But after a while some.
one received a more severe blow than
he thought was coming to him and the
-clapping game was transformed into
a free for all fight, with all OF the
eleven boys engaged
Some of the .neighbors of that Sec
ton hearing the boys using vulgar lam
guage telephoned to the local police
station. The police were soon on the
scene but the boys proved to be bet.
ter runners than the police and none
of them could be captured. Their
names were secured and this morning
they were brought into court.
After talking to the boys the mayor
gave them all fine Of 81 with the ex.
ception of James Hager and Albert
Jamison, who were leaders in the affair,
and were given a fine amounting to
So. Some of the boys we're expecting
their fines and offered to pay cash
down but the mayor refused to take
any money at this time. He stated
that the boys must go out and earn the
money, come in and report to the
mayor how it was earned and it would
then be accepted. The boys who were
implicated in the affair are: Robert
Wilderman, Walter Wllderman, Leon
ard Malcolm, Lawrence Fay, Albert
Jamison, Clarence Whitehair, Albert
Hager, James Fitzhugh, Clarence
Stuck and Albert Cassell.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-07-10
SCHOOLS GET CREDIT
FOR OUR HIGH AIMS
Yet, Mrs. Bradford Tells N.
E. A., Schools Must Have
New Vision.

PORTLAND, Ore, July 10. = The
world.crisis, as it affects the United
States, and the part this country is
playing in 1t, is test Of the public
school, according to Mrs. Mary G. G.
Bradford, Superintendent Of Public In
struction OF Colorado, as expressed in
an address before the Elementary sec
ton of the National Education associa-
ton here today.
Taking as her subject 1.-THE Public
School and the Nation in 1917" Mrs.
Bradford declared that If the United
States carries into effect its avowed
policy Of righteousness to all hui
manity" and sacrifice for all nations"
it will be because the American pub
lie school has, in some degree at least,
fulfilled the august task confided to 1t
by the commands of democratic gov
eminent"
"If, after this great war to end wars
shall be over" she continued, Amer
lea functions as the supreme idealistic
force in the reorganization Of the
world, it will be because the public
schools have given to the nation a
higher vision than the world before
has seen.
"This is the great task of the pub.
lie school in 1917; this the mighty eff
fort that must be made by the school
people Of today"
Pointing out that non.Americans had
declared the public school system OF
this country the "supremely distinc.
tive feature" Of the American develop.
ment, Mrs. Bradford declared:
"a new vision must come to the
school world Of America; a vision that
reveals it to itself as the moulder Of
the soul'stuff Of the nation in the like.
ness of the ideal humanity"
Comparing the public school to the
Casket of the Holy Grail, she added,
Let US offer ourselves to the nation
as one unit in the great army Of thoss
who stand ready to give all at the ma.
TONS summons; let US fit ourselves
for the high emprise of keeping safe
the immortal draught without which
the national ideals must perish"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-07-10
SENATORS HOT
OVER BUTTING IN
Of BURLES0N
ostmaster General Breaks
Up Session Of the Steer
ing Committee.
f|lNGLES N FOOD BILL
Believed That the Anti-Li-
duor Provisions Are
Unconstitutional.
TI.!AINGEES N El9l BUY
tBy Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, D. c. July 10
Increased difficulties today beset the
Administration food control bill with
rs drastic prohibition features Con
yineed that the bill is loaded down"
and that the liquor provisions for gov
srnment purchase Of all distilled spir'
lts a unconstitutional and either must
Sc amended or stricken out.
Senate leaders held conferences
While the debate proceeded on the
IGOR IN an effort to devise amend
ments to pave the way for final pas
sage Of the bill.
The Democratic steering committee
met before the Senate convened, but
was unable to reach an agreement ana
definite action was deferred. sena'
tors said the situation among the steer
ine committee members is as chaotic
as that in the Senate.
While the Steering committee was
in session Postmaster General Burie-
son walked in and Joined in the dis
lciission. Several Senators soon left
the meeting, expressing resentment
over the cabinet officials participa'
ton.