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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-25
u. s. BUILDS Guns
TO POUND PATH.
ACROSS Rhine

WASHINGTON, D. c.. May 25.-As
an evidence Of its supreme confidence
in the outcome Of the war, the war
department, 1t became known today. Is
preparing for the manufacture OF g.
gantic siege guns to be used in level
ing German fortifications when the
enemy shall have been driven back
from the occupied portions OF France
and Belgium.
The mammoth new plant to be con-
structed for the government by the
United States Steel corporation on
Neville island near Pittsburgh, will be
used primarily for the manufacture Of
these giant guns-counterparts of the
mammoth Krupp guns that leveled the
Notifications Of Antwerp and Liege.
Negotiations are practically complet-
ed for the construction Of a second
huge ordnance plant by the Midvale
Steel company near Philadelphia. This
plant also will be used for construction
of great siege guns.
Increase Ammunition Plants.
To keep pace with the manufacture
OF these giant guns, the war depart
ment has taken steps to increase one
hundred fold its facilities for manu-
facture of big gun ammunition. Con-
tracts have been let by the ordance
department, 1t was announced today,
for establishment Of two large plants
to manufacture picric acid. one Of the
chemicals entering into the compost
ton of heavy artillery ammunition.
One plant at Little Rock, Ark, will
cost 100000. A second plant at
Brunswick, Ga. will cost $1,000 900.
The amount Of money to be expend-
ed in the Midvale gun plant has not
been announced, but It is planned to
construct q plant approaching in size
the $70,O00,000 plant which the Steel
corporation will construct at Neville
island.
Can Be Used In Field.
Plans for the quantity construction
OF these mammoth siege guns have
been undertaken as a preparedness
measure for the day in the future
when they may be called into play.
These guns also can be used, however,
In field operations against ammunition
depots back of the line and in destruc-
ton OF pill boxes and dugouts.
While plans for construction Of this
heavy artillery are under way the war
department announced today that
progress is being made in production
of machine guns and light artillery.
Secretary Baker announced that
heavy Browning guns sufficient to
equip the machine gun units Of one
army division have been manufactured
This is something over 100 guns. Half
Of the guns have been delivered to
Camp Meade, Md, and the remainder
will be shipped there soon.
1000 Light Guns.
Enough light Browning guns have
been manufactured to supply the ma
chine gun units of four and a half
divisions, or a total Of about 1000
guns. Half of these guns have been
shipped to France. The other half
goes to army divisions in this country
for training purposes.
Heavy Browning guns have also
been distributed to the national guard
and national army camps in quantity
sufficient to meet instruction purposes
1t was also announced that the first
heavy Brownipgs for overseas training
have been shipped to France.
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|. c. 4. |. TRACK
men meet TODAY

The annual I. c. A. L. track meet
was held Saturday afternoon at Reid
field, about 70 athletes, representing
six Indiana colleges, taking part. Five
schools took part in the annual tennis
tournament.
Because of the number of entries it
was necessary to run heats for elimi-
nation purposes in most of the track
events.
The track at the field Is in the best
of condition and large score board
has been erected directly in front of
the grand stand. All of the men en-
tered in the events were numbered,
and the numbers of those who place
are given on the board so that the
spectators know at all times just
where the various teams stand in the
run for first honors.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-25
Industrial Company
Elects Neuu Trustees

The Richmond Industrial Develop
ment company, at a meeting Of stock
holders Friday night. elected as trus-
tees John F. Mccarthy and George
Knollenberg. to serve for one year,
and Adam H. Bartel. George H. Egge-
meyer and L. s. Bowman, for two
years. The trustees for one year were
reelected. 49,
The report Of the finance committee
was submitted, showing a balance Of
$291.87. The report was as follows:
collected from October 1916 to March
1917, $10.079.50: paids'out from Octo-
Der 1916 to April 1917. $9.z35.21; bal
ance on hand. $S.4t4.2S; receipts from
June 1917 to September 1917, $1l.2l6-
09; paid out in stock. $1,000; balance.
$6.216.09. Paid out from September
1917 to February 1918. including $1,000
in Liberty bonds, $l5.42s.17; balance
in bank, $291.87.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-25

ion as "splatter or splash shooting
and is looked upon as ''fliver trick
as the head of as the head of a match
could not be seen from the balcony.
Mechanical shooting, as featured by
| dealers in magical appliances, is sold
at an approximate price of $50 This
: for the become an expert marksman
| over night" aspirants for shooting
| honors. Small objects are broken at
long distance by concealed trip at
| tached to a finger arm. which is
| thrown forward by the impact of the
bullet against the steel plate. The
finger is set to strike the object to be
!; broken. instantly returning to it's orig
inal position by series of springs
derstood that the striking force OF a
% calibre bullet is &C pounds. it is
easily computed how the arm is in
stantly operated. too rapidly for the
eyes of the audience to detect.
The Card Trick.
The card splitting trick Is sometimes
performed in the same manner A
razor blade is attached to the swinging
finger and is usually used when two
revovlers are introduced. being sighted
by mirrors and fired simultaneously,
cutting two cards at the same time.
The card splitting act is frequently
done on the square. operating one gun.
The rosin ball, moulded from COM
position of two third rosin one third
plaster paris and covered with coat
of paint (made from whiting) which
gives them the puff ball effect when
hit. is stage favorite. This the OBJ
ject de resistance used by the late
Buffalo Bill. Wild and Pawnee Bill,
when shooting from the backs of their
charging steeds. But the three Bills
used A calibre. smooth bore. lever
action rifles Tin appearance) loaded
with special cartridges, containing
fine shot which give a good spread or
pattern at short range. Municipal
authorities in any city would have
tabooed the use of rifle and bullets in
this work to insure the safety of their
citizens
Annie OakIey's Stunt.
Annie Oakley for many years travel
ed with Buffalo Bills Wild West Show
as the real feature shot of the aggre-
grafton. She was starring an act
known as the William Tell in which
she shot nice. red apple from the top
of her husbands head. with % rifle.
This proved a drawing card and elicit
ed much applause. On one occaYion
her rifle was properly directed but the
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fighting. Have recently read an article
where General Pershing had given
your suggestion most successful try
out. Why are they preferable to the
phis, Tenn.
Answer: A twelve guage repeating
shot gun, which can be found in al
most every home in America, cham
bers 12-No. buck shot in each shell,
magazines on repeating guns can be
elongated to hold ten shells containing
100 buckshot, to be fired every II
seconds, thus 900 bullets are fired per
minute by every operator. He thus
becomes machine gun operator.
Buckshot are efficient at 100 yards.
Gerry dangerous at 80 and deadly at
so yards. Shotguns require very much
less kill and accuracy than service
rifles. Imagine if you can the Huns
marching up in solid formation against
shotgun equipment in the hands CT
American Wingshots. Give the boys
in Khaki shotguns and buckshot,
there will be no occasion for bayonet
training, no Boche would get near
enough one of the Allies trenches to
toss hand grenade, they would be
made to eat their own liquid fire. At
shot range they are efficient in the
line of attack or defense. The Auto
matte or Pump guns would shoot 900
bullets per minute, the service rifle
approximately 25 This advantage
sent out in. the interest of Democracy,
would have telling effect on the
Huns, This is the reason for endors-
ing the scatter gun in trench fighting.
Am very glad the idea has landed on
fertile soil. Watch results.
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won the pennant in the American
league. That McGraw won SO easily
in the National, and that the prospects
are he will repeat, is an indication
more of the weakness of that circuit
rather than the strength OF his own
outfit"
Baseball on the Pacific coast, which
has gone through variety of wars
in the past fifteen years, is now feel
ing the menace of a new kind of out
lawry," and the situation is such that
some sort of drastic action may be
required if organized baseball is to be
maintained to it's full purpose.
Earlier in the season the club own
ers had to face the drain caused by
the tactics of various army and navy
units which came out with open bids
to players to enlist, with promises of
special inducements, the purpose be-
ing to build up strong ball clubs as
part of service athletic activities.
That period passed and now the
various shipyards along the coast
have entered into similar move
ment Every ball player who is eligi-
BILE for service in the national army
but who does not care to shoulder A
gun is angling for job in the ship
yards these days. By taking such
employment he thinks he is assured
deferred draft classification, besides
pay of an expert workman, whether
he ever had any experience IN the
work supposed to be done or not.
The situation has become such that
there is likely to be something doing
between organized baseball and the
shipyards pretty soon.
A ball player in the front line
trenches is worth more to Americas
cause than a dozen in the shipyards.
Billy Miske's manager has printed
a lot of letterheads carrying the line:
Billy Miske, Heavyweight Cham
pion of the World"
The fact that Miske has never
fought a champion heavyweight and
consequently has never whipped a
champion heavyweight doesn't weak
en- the strength of the claim in the
least--it doesn't, if you don't care
what you say.
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cartridge snapped making a contin-
uous long fire, she had started to take
the gun from her shoulder when the
explosion took place. AS a result the
bullet cut nice direct trench over the
top of his head, caused by imperfect
ammunition, an accident which would
not happen under the present methods
of loading.
The Shooting Savages" of vaude-
vile fame supplant the apple with a
crown of one inch targets. closely en-
circling the head of la tiara. Those
small disks are crushed with a bullet
the slight deviation of which would
mean death or Disagreement. They
flirt with the undertaken because they
have faith in their shooting ability.
Another act performed by Miss Saw
age, which holds the audience in
breathless anticipation of a tragic eli
max. Immediately above her head is
suspended a two inch disk, which is
demolished by bullet fired from a
rifle across the stage, which had been
sighted and trained on this objective.
The second rifle is discharged by Miss
Savage hitting the trigger with a bull
let from a rifle fired by herself.
Offers Her Service.
Miss Savage Is the woman who
wired her services to the United
States Government, as preceptress
either in cantonments, ground schools
or sniping Boches on the front lines
in No Mans Land. She would be an
expert shooting card with the boys in
khaki. AS Hun snuffer at long range
she would be hummer
Stage shooting under the glare Of
electric lights is deceptive, strong Dor
der lights cause one to shoot low.
bright footlights induce high shooting.
Mental glimmer is complaint stage
shooting experts are afflicted with.
They shoot with both eyes open. Their
pilot eye aligns while the auxiliary
eye is used for concentration and gen
eral locating. The Topperweins are
the most wonderful out-in-the-open
team on he circuit. their work is legit-
innate from every angle. Success with
shooting teams means continuous
practice and unlimited confidence IN
their own ability, coupled with prefec-
ton in guns and ammunition.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-25
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

At New York r. H. E.
Cleveland
oo1 600 100 900 900 900 ID II I
New York
600 900 101 900 900 900 % IL 2
Eatteries-Coveleskie and O'Neill
Russell. Mogridge and Hannah and
Walters.
At Washington HE
Detroit
900 1O1 900 900 900 % /
Washington
OIL 900 900 900 900 % 2
Called on account of darkness.)
Batteries-Erickson and Stanage;
Harper and Ainsmith.
At Boston r. H. E.
Chicago ....... 90 200 02O-4 Z 8
Boston 1000 O40 001-5 10
Batteries = Faber, Danforth and
Schalk; Bush and Schapg and Ag.
new.
At Philadelphia r. H. E.
st. Louis ..... 1923 900 031-9 II
Philadelphia ..002 900 O1O--3 10 8
Batteries-Galia and Nunamaker;
Adams. Myers and McAvoy.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-25
GAMES TODAY
National League.

Philadelphia at Cincinnati.
New York at Chicago.
Boston at Pittsburg.
Brooklyn at st. Louis.
American League.
Chicago at Boston.
Cleveland at New York
St. Louis at Philadelphia.
Detroit at Washington.
American Association.
Columbus at Minneapolis.
Toledo at St. Paul.
Indianapolis at Milwaukee.
Louisville at Kansas City.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-25
HOLY COMMUNION SERVICES

EATON, O.. May 25-These cllil.
dren will receive their first holy CON-
munion Sunday morning at o'clock
mass, at the hands Of Father J. n.
Hyland: Charles Poos, Robert Wead-
lex, Robert Coleman, Josephine Tran.
tennella. Hazel McKeliig4u, Regina
Webster, Margaret Conrad. Mary Con.
rad. Dorothy vanDoren. Mary OLeary.
Loretta McGhee. :
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-25
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.

At Kansas City, 1st gamer. H. E
Indianapolis 900 003 900 OO0-3 3
Hans City 900 021 900 OO1--4 16
Observation-Disclosures and Gosset;
Adams and Onslow.
Second game r. H. E
Indianapolis 1000 $40 020-S IL G
Kansas City 900 900 900 OOO-O Z
Batteries - Rogge and Schang
Whestley, Caporal and Onslow.
At st. Paul r. H. E
Columbus 100 III O0O--1O - 2
St Paul 49,. 900 001 600 4
Observation-Disclosures and Hartley
and Wagner; Heating and Glenn.
At Minneapolis r. II. E.
Toledo
Minneapolis ................1 IL Is
Batteries-Brady and Kelley: Pat
terson and Gray.
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Yesterdays Games
NATIONAL LEAGUE

At St. Louis R. II. E
Brooklyn $50. 900 O01 0OO-1
st. Louis 900 Dol 0O1--2 8 I
Batteries-Marquard and Kruger;
Packard and Gonzales.
At Pittsburgh r. + E.
Boston ...... .OO2 100 OO0-6 J II
Pittsburgh 49,. 900 900 2O1-3f =
Batteries-Ragon and Wilson ia>
mon. Jacobs, Steel and Archer
At Cincinnati J II. E.
Philadelphia 900 900 100 90 . 2
Cincinnati 100 900 900 o. Z
Batteries - Prendergash, Watson
and Adams: Toney and Who.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-25
Ross Hadley to Speak
to Friends Bible s ,nool

Ross Hadley, General 81 1retary OF
the American Friends Board of For
eign Missions, will speak 10 the South
Eighth Street Friends Bible school
Sunday morning during the closing ex-
ercises. 1t is desired that there be
a large attendance.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-25
BOX At conneasvILLE

Bud Wallace Of Richmond viii meet
Jack Shepard Of Cincinnati In Q box
ing exhibition at ConneYsvilje We'd
nesday night. May -. wallace IL
training on Fort Wsyne avenue With
Billy Mcclure Of West Baden.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-25

Lawrence Guinnell, Sim Fem mem.
Der of parliament, who is already
serving six months term in Mount
Joy prison, is one Of the four members
OF parliament implicated in the Sim
Fein plot. His colleagues have been
taken into custody.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-25

A plant has been discovered In Cuba
that bears fruit resembling figs, in
which flies lay their eggs to be hatch
ed by the sun.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-25

Thirty-eight thousand applications
for divorce have been made in Petro-
grad since the resolution.
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MarshaiI's Answers to Nimrods.
Question: Have read your articles
advocating and urging the use OF re-
peating shot guns for trench work or
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-25

Do you want to know what the six
teen major league managers are go
ing to pull down for their six months
work on the bench this summer:
Well, listen:
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$4,000
1t may be seen that aside from
President Wilson, two of the big
league manager-McGraw OF the
Giants, and Jones Of the Browns
receive more money than any public
official In fact, the combined salaries
of these two baseball notables come
very close to surprising that of the
writer's.
Mr.. Clarence Rowland of the Chi
cago White Sox is very confident
young man, we should say. In spite
of the fact that General Joseph Jack
son is. due to. depart from the Chi
cago ranks at an early date to do his
bit in the army, Mr.. Rowland profess
ses to see another American league
championship in the offing, to say
nothing Of a subsequent triumph in
the worlds series.
"We will win the pennant this sea-
son." says Rowland, land we will beat
the New York Giants in the world
series easier than we did a year ago.
For a championship team the Giants
surprised me because they displayed
so many weaknesses. A pennant win
ner should be well balanced and
strong in every department. The Gil
ants were not. They could not have
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Takes 5000 bees to weigh pound.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-12-06
STRANCLING OIL INDUSTRY

AT a time when highest authori-
ties agree that it is absolutely nee
essary to increase oil production in
U. S. we have obstructionist in
Washington blocking oil and land
leasing bill. Practical horse sense
and good business judgment wants
American initiative, enterprise, and
capital turned loose to unlock these
natural treasures, but theoretical
conservationists and the Socialist
press have used the national crisis
to force their pet theories of federal
ownership and operation of these
vast industries. For years there has
been an oil land leasing bill kicking
around Washington, from one com
mittee to another, and to such a
condition have things come that in.
vestment in new oil land territory
is practically stopped. Western oil
producing states are suffering sew
erely.
Meantime, the production of oil, SO
essential to the nations welfare, is
on the down-grade and new pro.
duction is stopped at the behest of
some fanatical statesman CD in
Washington.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-12-06
GREATER RAILWAY UNIONS

December 8, there will be a con-
vention of delegates from all the rail
road shops on tho Union Pacific
system to form ono big union.
All crafts and trades employed in
railroad shops will be represented
by 200 delegates who will act for
the employees they represent.
Shop employees of all big abroad
systems are to be organized into a
single union representing machin-
lists, boilermakers, carmen, etc.
Whether this is for good or evil
in administration of railroads re-
mains to be seen, although it is in
Inc with administration tendency.
By collective bargaining and or
ganized ranks the laborcrs repre-
scented VIII be able to hold up their
wages and get increases from the
nation.
Under government operation of
railroads these workmcn will be re-
moved from competitive conditions
and can force higher wages.
Producers from the soil, business
men large and small, consumers of
all classes will simply be taxed for
higher freight rates to pay wages.
The greatest danger is the conso-
lidating of large bodies of voters in
an organization.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-12-06
SERVANTS OR DICTATORS7
The pot is beginning to boil.

The pot is beginning to oil.
The public is awakening to the
fact that the extraordinary powers
il granted public officials as war
measures arc scheduled to become
peace measures.
The commo citizen thought that
the railroads were taken over for
period of war and not to exceed Il
months thereafter.
He thought the telegraph and tele-
phone lines were taken over for du-
ration of war, also the express COM
Panies. ,
AS "a war measure he has submitted
TO all kinds of Inconvenience and
increased rate, which he would have
never accepted in peace times.
Now hat the war is over he is
somewhat surprised to have it calm.
ly announced that the telegraph and
express companies and teephone
system which have been nominally
under government control as war
measures are to be consolidated and
operated by the government under
q tighter reign than during the war
Again we say RS war measures
every citizen cheerfully accepted
every Inconvenience. But the men
who were given this taste of power
seem bent on continuing and in
~creasing it in peace times.
Since I776 the American people
have felt entirely able to think, act
and look out for them elves, and
choose and elect their officials (pa'd
public servants if you p'case), mo-
to dictate to them what they could
and could not do but TO carry out
the wishes of the people of thi, ma
ton.
Apparently this rule is to be re-
versed and the paid servants are
to become the paid di~ctators" and
the people are calmly advised to &C
q%uiesce without complaint or ex-
PLANTATION.
Again we say as a war measure
this was o. X, as a peace measure
il is un-American.
1t will wind up by deriving the
states of millions of dollars of tax
revenue under the governmental
ownership program and is the en-
tering wedge for breaking down the
American spirit of individual initia-
tive and enterprise and turning the
nation over to officialism and So
cialistic rule.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-12-06
WET AND DRY SITUATION

The following table shows tn,
states that are now dry, those tina
have ratified the proposed prohibi
ton amendment to the Federal Con
stitution, and those that voted dr.,
last week.
States Now Dry
Maine, Kansas, N. Dakota, Oklaho.
ma, Georgia, N. Carolina, Mississip.
pi, Tennessee, W. Virginia. Alabama
Arizona, Virginia, Colorado, Oregon
Washington Arkansas. Iowa, S. Car.
DINA, Nebraska, S. Dakota, Utah
Indiana, Michigan, New Hampshire
Montana, New Mexico, Texas.-27.
Ratified Federal Amendment
Mississippi. Virginia, Kentucky, s
Carolina, N. Dakota, Maryland, Mon.
tana, Texas, Delaware, S. Dakota
Massachusetts. Arizona. Georgia
Louisiana.-14.
Voted Dry Last Week.
Ohio, Nevada, Minnesota, Wyoming
Florida, California;.
In the Missouri Legislature. the
drys have a majority in the House
and say they have pledges from "a
members of the new Senate to vote
for the Federal constitutional "a
mendment. Eighteen votes would
be required for the Senate to ratify
the amendment.