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Eligibles In Division No. 2 and District Outside of City Are Called t- for Examination.
SECOND CALL DECIDED UPON FROM SOUTH PART OF CITY
Great Number of Claims for Exemption May Cause First Summons to Fall Short of
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WhVn the draft selection board of Division No. 1, for the south part of the city, began its third day's work Saturday morning, the boards of Division No. 2, for the north side, and the county division, began their first day's work. The board of Division No. 2 will call for examination 392 men, twice its allotted quota of 196, onethird each day. From the countyslist of eligibles 610 men will be called, which also is twice the allotment fixed for the district, outside of the city.
Both Nicholas J. Kasper, of the north division, and Paul Charles Ehret, of the county ^division, holders of No. 258, tbo first called, passed their physical examinations Saturday morning. Kasper filed no claim for exemption, but Lhret asks discharge from liability to service on account of dependents.
Thirty-five men of the last "third" of the men in Division No. 1 had beec called in for examination at 10:3(1 c'clock. Eighteen of this number liled exemptions, and three had not appeared. 8«cond Call Macfe.
Chairman Dix announced at noon that the board would call for the appearance for examination of more than additional men. This call, he said, would be made Monday morning. At 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, the board had found less than 100 men physically fit and who did not claim exemption, of the 226 that had been called.
At that hour the board had called in for examination 51 men during the day. Of this number, five were absent four were exempted—two were German subjects and two had enlisted. Twenty-seven were found physically fit, and 14 of these filed claims for exemption. Fifteen w re rejected on account of physical defects.
As usual, when the board began its work, almost all of the men whose names appeared in the Inst "third" were in the corridor, awaiting the calling of their numbers. Those having the highest numbers were told that there numbers would not be called for hours, and that they might lea\^ and return later in the day.
Chairman Dix, of the board, took up his duties Saturday morning. He was absent Friday on account of illness.
Nicholas J. Kasper, 827 North Eleventh street, appeared early for examination before the board of District No. 2, and passed the physical tests with a high percentage. Kasper did not enter a claim for exemption. He was the first man called before the board.
John E. Newby, 1324 T,hird avenue, the second man examined by the hoard, passed the physical tests, but entered a claim for exemption on the grounds that he had dependent relatives.
The conscription board of District No- 2, which is composed of Finley McNTutt, Homer Williams and Dr. T. W. Moorhead, began the work of examining the young men of the north sfdp promptly at 8 o'clock. Drs. T. W. Moorhead. O. R- Spigler, E. F. Larkins Daniel T. Miller, C. A. Pavy and I* F. Farbazette had charge of the physical examination- Eleven men were exam-
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TRAPPED MINER
EVANSVILL®, Ind., Aug.
KO.'-KVILLE, lnd., Aug.
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Mine officials at day expressed hcj^s that the remainin twenty men would be rescued with few casualties.
GIRL BITTEN BY DOG.
Daughter of Dr. T. J. CoHlngs Taken to Hospitaal for Treatment. By Special Correspondent.
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and Mr«. T. J. Collings, was bitten on the ear ly their pet poodle dog and as the dog acted as if affected by rafties It was killed. Dr. Collings left Fr'dav with his daughter for Indianapolis for examination and if necessary, treatment. The dog's head was also taker, for examination.
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TKMPKllATUKK RIOCORD, AUG. 4. 6 a. 70 Noon 87 y a. 70
Relative humidity, noon, 60 per cent.
LOCAL CONDITIONS AT 7 A. 4, 101
ILTtjINOIfr?—Partly cloudy, probably with showers late tonight and Sunday north and central portion warmer tonight north arul central portion! cooler Sunday afternoon or night north or west portion.
OTHER LOCAL REPORTS.
Temperature by Buntin's theimometer 7 a. m., 73 2 p. m., S7. River stage—1,8 feet.
HOT TASK Of SIZE
Nine Died Here Last Month—Reason Enough for Public Concern In the Matter.
PUBLIC NURSING ASS'N. TO TAKE HAND IN THE MATTER
Nurse Says If You Are Going to Kiss, Cough or Snesre, Get Out of the Baby's Neighborhod —Safety Hints.
You've heard the little cry of the baby in your neighborhood in the late hours of night, haven't you? It was a pathetic cry perhaps, rather weak and seemed to carry a plea with it for somebody to do something. You've noted this cry In the summer time more frequently than in any other season, haven't you? "Being a baby has been called the most dangerous job in the world," says a writer. Be'ng a baby in the summer time perhaps is the really most dangerous part of the job. In Terre Haute for the month of July, the death rate among little ones was not alarmingly high but high enough to attract some attention. There were nine little lives snuffed out, the babes ranging from a few hours to a year or more old.
Strange as it may seem, these deaths were not caused by the standardized seasonable diseases for baby. Would you know what these are? They are whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria and cerebro-spinal meningitis. It is said that mothers usually consider the first four of these diseases among the "simple things of childhood. Things to be gotten over with." The folly of this can not be too greatly emphasized.
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But now you want to know what caused the deaths of our Terre Haute babes. Here they are: Two died of malnutrition five of premature birth one of terentio colitis one of valvular insufficiency one of acute enter'tis and one of eupyena following pneumonia.
Visiting nurses of Terre Haute are devoting much of their attention to ihe care of babies. They say that bot-
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By Nora Ball Ragsdals.
And I thought this sort were all dead! Read "Goin* up town, lady?" a big, husky looking man asked the question. "Oh, yes, thank you. I didn't know this was a jitney!" and she climbed in. "Doesn't seem much like a jitney, does it?" he asked after they'd traveled a square or so.
No," she .-aid rather confuted':', "Isn't it?" "I should say no*. I just saw y-nj htandin' there ioolon' for a car. I saw you this mornin', too, wnen I was goin' d'iwn." "Well, I shouldn't have gotten in," rath£r apologetically. "That's all right," he answered. "Work down town?" "Oh yes." "Married "Yes," beginning to resept being questioned.
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Station pressure, ^9.40 temperature, 3: highest temperature' yesterday, 89 lowest to mi* rat. u re la.st ni^ht, 70: precipitation, 0 direction of wind, south east velocity of wind, three miles per hour state of weather, clear relatives humidity, 74 per cent sunrise, 4:53 sunset, 6:69.
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TERRE HAUTE—Fair tonight and Sunday. INDIANA—Fair tonight and Sunday.
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Divorced South American Wife of John Be Saulles Murders Him At His Home.
KILLING CLIMAX OF LONG CONTROVERSY OF BABY SON
Slain Man Refused Post of Minister to Uruguay By President Wilson—Earned Fame As Yale
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NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—Repeated differences over the custody of their son, four and a half years old, whom the mother was anxious to take with her on a visit to her own home in Chile, were assigned today as the cause o! the murder last night of John Longei De Saulles by his divorced wife, Mrs. P.ianca Errazuriz De Saulles. Mrs. De Saullas spent last night in the Jail at Mineola, L. I., where she was taken after a brief hearing which resulted in her being charged with first degree murder.. Beyond sending for her at torney and notifying her mother In South America of her arrest, Mrs. De Saulles declined to make a statement
The story of the shooting,' as pieced together by the police, serves to con firm the belief expressed today that the repeated quarrels over the custody of the child was the only cau^fe. for the murder.
Romance and Tragedy.
Last night s shooting came as a climax to a romance that entered two continents. It started with the courtship in South America in the. spring $f H-10 when Do Saulles went to Chile as a--representative of a company interested IS1 railroad construction. A year later lie married Bianca Errazuriz in Faris. At the time of his marriage, De Saulles spoke of his wife as "Th" loveliest girl in the world," and the first intimation that the couple were not happy came to their friends in July of last year, when Mrs. De Saulles began a suit for divorce and named a popular Broadway dancer and actress as co-respondent. Although reputed to be worth many millions in her own right, Mrs. De Saulles was awarded alimony of $300 a month, which was to be cut in half should she remarry.
De Saulles first won prominence as a quarterback at Yale and after his graduation he carried his popularity among college men into politic|, successfully heading Aw o organizations, one during the ea.mpaism of 1912 for the election of President Wilson and the second for the election of Mayor Mitchel. As a reward for his work in 1912, President Wilson appointed Mr. De Saulles minister" to Uruguay, but he never visited that country, preferring to decline the honor to engnes in the real estate business in this city. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Tq Saulles of South Bethlehem, Pa. His father, who was a major on the stafl of Gen. Polk of the confederate army, was one of the witnesses of the shooting last night. Mrs. De Saulles is 23 years old, a member of one of the richest families of South America and a niece of a one-time president of Chile.
Trouble Over Child.
It was recalled »today that several months ago, shortly before Mrs. De Saulles applied to the oourt for permission to take her son on a visit to Chile, that a message of a few words was delivered to her bf a priest. The messenger, the Rev. James Kent Stone, of the Passionist Fathers in South America, said that he came more than 4,000 miles -to deliver the message and refused to disclose its contents to the public. The message is said to have
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Jifney Conversations In One Reel—By the Girl Reporter
"Not much of a man you've got. Wouldn't let you work if he was." "That so?" "It's so all right. I wouldn't let you work if I was your husband!" "And I'd just like to see you help yourself if I wanted to!"
Then she left the car. And when she told the story to me. she was seething with rage. Said she was willing to bet a dollar to a doughnut that his wife was home washing his socks or embroidering lace for sheets for love of her dear husband. Declared she wouldn't exchange Jobs with her for any consideration! "But just think." she added, "the nerve of him, inviting me to ride" in his old 'Lizzie' just to have a chance to explode to m« about my husband! How dare he?" "Don't take it so seriously," I tried to advise her. "Despite all that's been said by people who have brains, this case proves to us that ther^are a few oil fossils even yet who insist upon talking about "woman's place'"!
TERRE HAUTE, IND, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1917.
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Must Be Released for Service Unless Barred By Physical Defects or Dependent Families.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—Heads of government departments today are considering the individual problems incidental to the call of feferai employes for service in the new national a.rmy. The postofflce department, which has instructed postmasters n#t r.o ask exemptions for carriers, laborers or dispensable clerks, tnok the first step in compliance with President Wilson's order directing that the requirement of indispensabillty be rigidly enforced.
Postmasters ara instructed not to ask for exemption for carriers or laborers or for clerks in second class offices below the $1,000 grade, clerks in first class offices below the $1,100 grade, or any above these grades, Unless they are qualified distributors of mail.
The entire mile carriers' force, numbering thousands of men, of whom a considerable percentage are within the draft age limits, is excluded from exemption, except for physical reasons, or because of dependent families. Every portion of the country is reached by the ruling as even the rural carriors are included.
The department's ruling in regard to clerks leaves railway mail clerks within the exemption classes as they are highly specialized distributors. Provost Marshal General Crowdertook steps today to reduce the number of exemptions because of dependent families. Instructions were sent to the governors of all states pointing out that the minimum pay of soldiers is nrw $30 a month and that local boards must consider whether a man's dependents could not be supported on that amount.
There are three clerks and three letter carriers at the local postofflce who are of draft age. The clerks as Samuel S. Scott, Herbert San tag and James E. Jones. The carriers are Ben Dildine, Claude Laney and Anson VanGilder.
The indications are that Terre Haute will have fair weather Saturday and Sunday and that it will continue wi'm, according to the predictions of Meteorologist W. R. Cade, of the local weather station. He predicted a' maximum temperature of about 90 degrees for Saturday and. said that aM_r three days of relief from'the preceding hot wave it would probably warm up again.
The maximum temperature for Friday was 89 degrees, just about a-^ normal mid-summer temperature.
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DIVISION NO. 1—PASSED. FRED WAGNER SPRINGER, 1120 South Ninth. HERMAN J. KRUSE, 1013 South
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EARL HURST, 1102 South Eleventh. xLAWRENCE CLEVELAND MINOR, 504 South Thirteenth. FRANK AUGUSTA LEWIS, 308 South
Fourteenth, xEDDIE ELRIC WALTERS, 1520 South Fifteenth. WILLIAM L. SMALL, 2835 South
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xTYLER TIMMONS, 1001 Main. JAMES FLOCKHART, 1502 Cruft. JOHN ANAIST, 1014 Walnut. xROBERT SWEET, 2730 South Sixth. DANIEL MACAULEY HOWARD, 1221
South Ninth. xHARRY E-RMILL FRANKLIN, 437 South Fifteenth. DALTON B. SHOURDS,,421 Osborne, ROY J. GREGGS, 2623 Jefferson,
AMES F. NEECE, 722 South Sixth. xVERNON TALLEY, 1331 South Sixteenth. xVERNON OLEN DEBAUN, 1921
South Sijxth. xERRETT M. BROWN, 712 South teenthxHENRY ALBERT TRYON, 1215
South Twelfth. xLELAND HOBART CARR, 1503 South Second. xWILLIAM ST. CLAIR, ,1601 South
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xPRUME M. SPANOGLE, 220 Gilbert OSCAR MILLER, 1125 Walnut. xHALLIE McCLUF.E, 2527 Dillman. OTTO C. GROLLA, 1725 South Sixth.
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WILLIAM E. WOOD, 2420 South Sixth. WILLIAM FILMORE BROWN, 627
South Second. HOMER BYRL JAMES, 312«/2 8outh Seventeenth. WILL LONG, 1433 Cruft. GEORGE WILLIAM MUELLER, 719
South Seventeenth. GEORGE CHARLES MADIGAN, 2206 South Third. WILLIAM L. ELLIS, 228 South Tenth and One-half.
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CANADA DRAFT CERTAIN
OTTAWA, Aug. 4.—The Canadian senate last night advanced to second reading the conscription act, thereby insuring its passage through parliament and making certain that it will become law.
A motion by the opposition that the act should not take effect until after a general elected was defeated, 44 to $4.
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ADMITS BRITISH HOLD MASTERY OF THE SEA
German Writer Says German Heet Is Unequal to Meet Foe, In Spite of Losses Inflicted.
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 4.—Captain Perseus, naval expert of the Berlinger Tageblatt, thrusts unpleasant heresies in the faces of naval enthusiasts, in a review of the third naval year of the war. He says the superiority of the British fleet, despite heavy losses, is great enough to Justify its claim that it controls the seas. Ths German fleet is unequal to meet it.
The high seas fleet, in conjunction with the coast defense guns, submarines, mines, etc., will undoubtedly be able to beat off all attacks and keep the enemy from the coast, but he adds, warningly, German minds should give no room to views of an offensive activity of the fleet, which is based on an insecure foundation and an unproved hypothesis.
All this flatly contradicts the admiralty view frequently expressed in official and semi-official reports and in the emperor's SkagerraV. message, that the Germans decisively defeated the British fleet and wrested from It mastery at sea." All nsval critics, except Capt. Perseus, regularly promulgated this thesis end an outburst of rage by Count von Reventlow and Captain von Kuehlwet.ter and others against him Is expected.
PRICE OF MILK RAISED.
SOTTTH BEND. Ind., Aug. 4.—Following the action of milk dealers in South Bend, Mishawnka retail milk dealers today announced an increase in the price of milk from 8c to 10c per quart, whfch is still 1c under the South Bend price. The new quotation will go into effect August
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Two new candidates for mayor have appeared since the Rotary club cai'td for en independent candidate who could cleanup the town.
Per-jy Carrett, former soldier %nd saloonkeeoei, offers himself, saving that he was. a policeman seven years and anyone can ascertain his record by inquiring of the chief of police.
A postal card to the Tribune Saturday morning announces "Billy" 'Eiser as a candidate for maj or. On his eard, Mr. Ki.-.er says: "I have been a cab driver here for twenty years and anyone can ascertain my record also by ask'ng the chief of_police."
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Anti-Draft Agitation Grows In Ex tent, and Officials Consider It Drastic Steps.
RIOTERS DESTROY BRIDGES IN OUTBREAK IN OKLAHOMA
Department of Justice Order* All Agitators Run Down and PunIshcd for Acts, Regardless of Cost. -i
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FRANCIS, Okla., Aug. 4.—-Draft r*'sisters burned the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad bridge across the Canadian river at Tyrol*, ne«f hers, last night, according to reports received here today. ...
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MUSKOGEE. Okla., Aug. 4-W. Humphrey, superintendent of the Misrouri, Oklahoma A Gulf railroad,. received word this morning that the road's briHg© near Calvin, 80 miles south of Muskogee, in Hughes eounty, was burned fast night.- Details were not obtained.
OTCLATTOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. Indulging In a dr»am of revo'"tlon and resisting the draft law, at least half a dozen armedi bands of tenant farmers, half breed Indians and negroes are running rampant throughout five counties !n east central Oklahoma today.
As the disturbed territory is about 100 mile® by 90 miles wide, the topo,. graphy of which is rugged, onlyestimate can be made of the total number of rioters, most of whom are bent on resisting the draft law Report placed the number of resistors variously at 500 to 1.500.
Authorities, following ftesftPI 'tswrf night, declared the situation was well in hand and that the strength of the movement has been broken.
Numerous posses of armed civilian* and law enforcement officials i*ere converging today upon affected districts and reports from them were be ir.g awaited. The district includes Pontotoc, Seminole, Okmulgee, Pittsburg and Hughes counties.
One thousand armed possemen began a drive early today upon four hundred of the draft resisters said to be encamped near Sasakawa in Seminole county, where the anarchistic campaign was.reported to have had Its blrtb. ], $'
ARDMORE, Okla., Aug. 4.—A posse guarding a highway near Stonewall, in Pontotoc county, exchanged shots to the number of forty with a band of alleged draft registers early today, according to reports. None was injured. Oklahoma's national guard cavalry left Wewoka for the troubled districts this morning.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.- Federal troops may be sent into Oklahoma a dl other states to quell anti-draft demon strations which recently have ur growing proportions,
Department of Justice officials Vest igating disorders in the south an elsewhere, announced that all persons resisting the draft law would be hunted down and brought to justice, no mat ter at what cost.
The possibility of sending federal troops into sections where anti-draf agitators have been busy was discussed| today at conferences between officials of the justice and war departments. It 1? probable a decision will be reached in this respect within the next 24 hours. As the national guard of th country goes under federal control to day, governors in states where dis orders occur will have to ask federal military authorities for help if local civil authorities are unable to quell the disorders.
Officials here think it hardly Hkelyj however, that troops will be sent int any section until it becomes apparent that the civil authorities are unable tq cope with the situation. The next few days, it was thought, would determi this. The intention tp deal quickiy and. severely with all persons si pad ing dissension in whatever loca or against the draft law was expre se*
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emergency fleet corporation today re I quisitioned all merchant vesse's more than 2,500 tons now build.ng American ship yards. Double and tri$ labor shifts will be put in tbe yards sXeod construction.
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