Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 July 1918 — Page 1

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PROTECT V I O S SOLDIERS

ALL© FORCES STIU. HOLDING ENEMY IN CHECK

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Hew Reserves Thrown Intj Pray, Germans Are Unable to Hake Gains.

JLESXSTANCE OF ALLIES aSEATER THAN EXPECTED

Enemy "Troops In New PoisTttons Along the Marne Are In Dan*. ger U n e s s a i n s Can Be -,

Enlarged.

By the Associated Press. The German offensive is in its third day and, according- to the ij iriews of entente observers, it has no longer the character of a general attack. It already, they declare, has worked itself into a f. series of comparatively local opI* erations/j,

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success of at least one of

these however, would amount to a considerable achievc-

ment for the Germans, however much it'might fall short of their original designs. high

Thus the offensive now appears largely to take on the aspect of a turning movement against the fthcims salient.

In the region of Dormans and eastward along the Marne, the Germans have penetrated about Ave miles and How hold both banks of the river for a retch of about 14 miles. Strong and repeated attempts to enlarge, tlieir frain* north and south of the Tiver ftave been repulsed. Unless thev can enlarge their hold on the river their troops along the Mame are in a .dangerous situation should an allied

Counter attack begin. RHeims Not Attacked. Evidently the Germans* purpose In ^driving to pres* forward astride the Tiver to Epernay is to outflank the trong natural ubstacle of the mountain of Rhcims, which lies between the Marne and Rheims.

Attacks a gains: this height from I he west have stopped for the moment ».nd no effort haa been made to attack i-theims frontalljr.

Formidable attempts by ttie Germans to break the main French line at Turaay, about eight miles aast

Jtheiros, have been broken up by the •stubborn resistance of the French who hold a strong lfne along the Vesle jfriver.

In the region of Tahure and Crosnes, In the hilly country west of the Ar» jgonne forest the Germans have been Unable to advance further than the •flrct adjyinced line. In repeated attacks tHly have been repulsed with fieavy losses by the French.

Germans Take 13,000.

"Monday, the Germans captured 13,*00 prisoners, according to Berlin. The first lengthy official statement on the fiew offensive did not mention any detided gains and the statement of Tuesday night showed" that the allied resistance was still strong, if not strong-

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I IERRE HAUTE BOY IS HISSINC IN ACTION

Another Terre Haute boy has placed J»is name on the roll of honor of those who are doing "their all" in France, t'orporal Charles S. Doane, who has been living with his mother, Mrs. iloli»e Doane, at 1325 S. Fifteenth, is rejported as missing in action. The boy •unlisted at the local recruiting station,

Oct. t, 1917, and at the time that he "went into action be was a corporal in company, sixty-flrst United States infantry.

In his letters to his mother the boy has been very cheerful and happy and !y full praiae^ for the service. Mrs.

Doane feels sure that if her boy is missing he is only captured and that |he will come out on top before the (finish. A telegram from the war deIpartment, stating that the boy was ^Biasing In action, waa received by the

LOCAL 1 A I N

TEMPERATURE RECORD, JULY 17. 6 a. ra 67 Noon ........7-4 9 a. m. ......69 3 p. m. .....76 Relative humidity, 2 p. m., 75 per cent.

LOCAL CONDITIONS AT 8 A* M„ JULY 17, WIS. Station pressure, 29.34 temperature, 67 highest temperature yesterday. S3 lowest temperature last night, 68 precipitation .08 direction of wind, northwest velocity of wind, 12 miles per hour state of weather, cloudy relative humidity, 89 per«cent.

Sunrise, 5:38 sunset. 8:14.

FORECAST.

TERRE HAUTE—Probably »howers tonight and tomorrow. INDIANA—Probably showers tonight and tomorrow in south portion partly cloudy in north.

ILLINOIS—Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow probably showers south portion tonight: slighly warmer north portion tomorrow.

ATHER LOCAL REPORT*. Temperature by Buntin's thermometer. 7 a. m., 70 2 p. m., tt.

River stage, 0.5 feet.

TWENTY CENT TAX INCREASE IS DISCUSSED

It Would Produce $100,000, and City It Short Abfat $115,000 As She Stands Right Now,

What the German high com-|" Inand intelded the offensive to fee cannot be surmised. It ap-i $75,000 LIQUOR REVENUE FEES parentlv encountered a defense 1 ARE GONE BEYOND RECALL that was sufficiently stubborn to prevent the immediate achievement of more important objectives. and the Germans have pursued their usual tactics of making the most of local successes at various points along the front.

Wage ami Salary fttcreases of $40,000 Also Do Not Help Miss Terre Haute's Stringency—*

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By Nora Ball Ragadale.*

"Broke." That's a Word with which most wtvss. and in fact an women, are familiar. They hear it so often from their men folks. So, when it is explained that the city is near-broke, or to be more dignified, bankrupt, women as well as men understand. Terre Haute is headed for a gTeat financial embarrassment unless some relief is found. Already it is spending money that it hasn't collected' as yet. Just like making debts—and then when the paying off process cornea, it brings a tough nib. Knowing that berore another "century" at least, Indiana women will have the vote, we thought it might be well for them to know about Terre Haute's financial straits. So here it 1? from City Controller W. G. Shepherd's office: "Our administration for the first five months in office has been a most economical one. We are spending less money than the previous administration, but—•"

Now you almost know what's coming. don't you? You've heard It often since the war! but wages have gone up, materials have gone up, to such a degree that it Is not possible to keep the city expenditure figures down to within our present financial limits. There has been a $40,000 increase In wages and salaries. For example, we are paying laborers 20% more than was paid a year or two ago. Police officers have received a 12% Increase, and so on. Then, besides that, the city will lose the $76,000 liquor revenue that it has had before. The $40,000 wage and salary increase and the $75,000 loss of revenue makes a. to

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YOUNGEST SON OF ROOSEVELT DIES IN ACTION

LOSES CONTROL OF PLANH WHEN MORTALLY WOUNDED

Wat Attached By German Squadron While Returning From Patrol Flight—Cousin

LONDON, 17.—fieutenfcnt Quentin Roosevelt, Colonel Roosevelt's youngest son, who has been attached to the American line forces -ton the,, Marne front,, tvas killed at Chateau Thierry on July 14. says a dispatch from Paris to the Exchange Telegraph company.

Lieutenant Roosevelt, the dispatch says, was returning from a patrol flight when he was attacked by a German squadron. It was seen that Roosevelt suddenly lost control of his machine, having probably received a mortal wound. It was not in flames when it fell.

Philip Roosevelt, QuentiVs cousin, witnessed the air battle i n e v i i n i y o a e a u Thierry, in which Quentin was engaged, and Saw the machine fall, but did not know until later that the airplane was that of his cousin, Le Journal says today.

Quentin Roosevelt, in 1917, join/d the" Canadian aviating cbrps to train for service with the American army. Ho was commissioned last fall and in the present spring began service with the American air forces on the French front. On July 3 he took part in an aerial battle between American and German machines in the Marne region, and a few days later, on July 10, it was announced that he had brought down his first Herman airplane in a fight north of Chateau Thierry.

Lieut. Roosevelt

Lai shortage of

$115,000." On June 25, Mr. Shepherd submitted to the city council a report showing that the estimated disbursements for the year of 1918 would be $468,129.68. Also he estimated the Income to the general fund, through which the city

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u 9 America Must Be Punished.

That flertanratton of Emperor William of Germany to a Toy*! American some months before this country entered the struggle against the central empires as a result of Germany's ruthless submarine warfare, by which it undertook to drive off the high seas vessels flying-the flag of this and other neutral nations.

An American who on numerous occasions during a period of fourteen Sears, three and a half of which were years of the present great conflict, talked intimately with the war lord, has written an account of his conversations and of his numerous experiences with William and members of the imperial family and the imperial court.

Dr. Arthur N. Davis, the kaiser's dentist, one of the last Americans to lea\e Germany after the United States entered the lists against that warmad empire, will tell in the Tribune exactly the kind of man the kaiser is, hpw he talks, what he thinks about "America and the Americans, and' how he conducts the war ajrainst democracy.

This remarkable series of articles will beptn Tiert Stinflay rmd "Mritl be Continued daily for some weeks. The revelations of Dr. Davis disclose how the kaiser acts, what he thinks, what he does and how he does it. No such revealing articles about Ua# moat, conspicuous man ill the world have ever appeared in print.

To read these articles is to know the kaiser better than the world now Ttnows him. The first one appears Sunday morning. •15--PF

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Killed In Air Battle At Chateau Thierry On July 14, Accordk ing to Paris Dispatch,-

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BULLETIN.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., July 17.—Col. Theodore Roosevelt will deliver the principal address at the republican state convention tomorrow, notwithstanding the death of his son, Ljput. Quentin Roosevelt, in an aerial combat in France, \This word was received this afternoon by Senator Theodore Douglas Robinson, a nephew of the .colonel, oyer tie telephone from Oyster Bay*

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•eombat on Sunday morning with two enemy airplanes about ten miles inside the German lines In the Chateau Thierry sector. He started out with a patrol of 13 American machines. They encountered s^ven Germans and were chasing them back when two of them turned on Lieut. Roosevelt.

Reports of the fight state that the Germans appeared to be shooting at the lieutenant from the rear, the three machines being close together. Then one of the machines was seen tumbling through the clouds and a patrol, which went in search of Lieut. Roosevelt, returned without a trace of him. He appeared to be fighting up to the last moment.

One account of the com*at states that the machine caught fire before it began to fall.

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VOL. XLVIL—No. 47. TERRE HAUTE, IND., WEDNESDAY, JULY 17,1918. .TOUR O'CLOCK—TWO CENTS

CLARK-GOSNEU. DEFENSE LOSES FIRST BATTLE

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Jtrifce Htttt Cuts Off Fnrtie* Arfr-""-ment on Issues, and Orders Defend&nts to TriaL

ALL PRELIMINARY MOTIONS WIPED OUT AT ONE STROKE

Special Prosecutor* Piety and O'Mara Will Take Part In Caae, .Which Has Come to At.tract Wide Interest.

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The Buster Clark-Eddie Gosnell defense, which has fought off the trials of these men for nearly a year, received two body blows from Judge €. R. Hunt in the Circuit Court Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning.

Tuesday afternoon Judge Hunt overruled the motion to dismiss the caaes against Clark and Gosnell, for the reason, as their attorneys set up. that there was no new*term of court, but that the old. term had never been adjourned.

Wednesday morning Xudge Hunt bluntly informed the attorneys for the defense in these oases that he would also overrule the motion to dismiss the cases on the pretended ground that three terms of court had elapsed without trial.

Judge Hun#® notified Attorneys Blankenbaker and Walker that ho would hear no arguments on this contention, that the record wou.'a shGw

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GERMANS TORPEDO SPANISH STEAMER

ATHENS, Greece, July 17.—It is announced from a Spanish source that a Spanish steamship on which Minister Lopez De Vega was returning to Spain, had been torpedoed by a German submarine. The ship flew the minister's flag. The diplomat and his family have been rescued. The German government had been notified of the minister's departure a week in advance.

SET HEARING FOR

The Tribune was advised Wednes: day that the public service commission will hear the petition of the coal miners for miners' trains between Terre Haute and Harmony and Glenn Ayr on Friday, July 26th, in room 121 at the state house, Indianapolis. The commission notifies the miners to have their ropranataUYCa aa hand.

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Hell-Holes Which Germans 'Call Prison Camps—Men Flee These Hoping They Will Be Shot While Escaping

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PRISONERS SLEEPING FLOOR IN GERMAN PRISON CAMP AT DARMSTADT.

This photo shows a war prisoners' barracks in Darmstadt. The photo was obtained from a French Interne who is at present in Geneva. Switzerland. It gives a clear idea of the lot of prisoners held by the Huns. The sleeping accommodations are improvised on the floor. The prisoner's own chair, made at his own expense, is placed at his feet at night to insure a proper limit for him and to prevent the German officers in charge from stepping all over him. The men cover themselves with their own slothing and odds and ends of other clothing and bedding.

It is said wounded men become so desperate in these places that they try all manner of means to escape in their agony and are Indifferent whether a guard's bullet checks them.

RED LIGHT CHARGES COLLAPSEJN COURT

Two More Women Taken By Police Are Discharged—Liquor Law Violations Heard.

.Kergeant Tom Barry knd his vice squad seem to be having trouble to make any of their red Hghf .cases stick in the City Court.

Of the 32 women arrested in the recent raids, two have been convicted. Two more escaped the law Tuesday afternoon when Veraa Vest was discharged, the City Court holding that there was not sufficient evidence for a conviction. Pearl Brown, cnarged with a like ofTense, and a very young girl, was turned over to Probation Officer William Bailey for investigation-

Liquor Law Violations.

The cases of William Kepler, Boy Liowery and Joe Farabee, all charged with violating the state liquor law, when called in City Court Tuesday afternoon, were continued until July 19. The defendants are also charged with a violation of the federal liquor law and were the first Terre Haute men to be arrested after the expiration of their government license and the establishment of Camp' Rose. In the event of the federal authorities not taking a band in their cases, each of the defendants will be arraigned for a violation of the state law.

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federal liquor law, was also arraigned w,rj£"X defense being absent, the case was partially heard and continued until the other witnesses could pe brought in.

Thompson Cooper, charged with malicious trespass, had judgment withheld in his case after the evidenoe bad been heard by Judge Paul R. Shafer. Cooper was arrested by Patrolmen Weeks and Allen several nights ago when he knocked the lights from the police patrol auto with his cane. Cooper is employed as a night watchman ot| the new paving that is being done on Twenty-fifth street and when the officers in making a hurry up call, ignored a barricade and entered the torn up street, Cooper not knowing who they were attempted to stop them and struck the lights with his cane. The foreman of the construction work agreed to pay for thfrjfeht and Cooper was released.

MACHINISTS ON STRIKE.

NEWARK, N. J., July 17.—Between seven and eight thousand skilled machinists, tool-makers and their apprentices, mostly employed in government work, walked out of their places of employment in various manufacturing plants in this district today on a strike £or higher wages*

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WASHINGTON OPTIMISTIC WITS VIEWS

End of Se6ond Day of German Offensive Finds Situation Good for the Allies.

ALLIED POSITIONS NOf IN DANGER AT ANY POINT

World Is Watching Main Offensive, Which Was Intended to Force German Peace Upon the Allies*

the offensive in March and May thej present gain is insignificant.The view here is that the allied po- 1 sition thus far has been endangered at no point and that the future may be awaited with considerable confidence,

Attack Was Not Feint.

"The* tendency now is to disregard the suggestion that the enemy's present attack was possibly a prelude to a more serious assault elsewhere oj a feint for the purpose of drawing off

the allied reserves from other areas. The view is widely taken that what notably in the Prunay region. These the world is watching is Germany's efforts by the enemy were fruitless. In main offensive, which, according to renewed assaults upon Reaumont the .u statements of prisoners, had been enemy suffered a sanguinary repulse.

WASHINGTON, July 17.—The crisis Of the new German offensive in France is sUll to be reached, in the opinion of high officials here. While the first

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GERMAN ARMY MEN BURN OWN PLANES

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Ten Belgians and two German noncommissioned officers have been arrested.

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the dispatch, a secret meeting occurred in the canteen at Nivelles, where th| scheme for the destruction at the airdrome waa dlacu»eU ... ... v 4

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NIGHT ATTACKS FAE TO MAKE GAINS FORFOE

South of the Marne Fighting Rages Fiercely Throughout All of Tuesday Night.

BULLETIN.

LONDON, July 17.—French counter attacks have brought the German bridges over the river Marnr' under the fire of the French artillery oi medium calibre.

BULLETIN.

A powerful attack jmewTse was raafi by the Germans in the direction of Monvoisin, but they were driven from this locality by a French counter attack.

On the front between the Marne and Rhcims the fighting developed violent-

ly in the Courton wood. The Germans attacked in the Vrigney region, on this front, but their assault her# broke down completely.

Along the line to the east of Rheims the Germans delivered local attfrks.

|dubbed beforehand the "Friedenstrund" The.French positions throughout the or peace attack, its object beinij to

Crisis Not Reacfcsrf.

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HI AIR RAIDERS Kill -MANY OWN SOLDIERS

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by fire of a new German airdrome with twenty-two airplanes, near Nivelles, is attributed to the Work of German revolutionists in the army, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam today. Nivelles is 17 miles south of Brussels.

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BATTLE STILL GOING ON IN B0TJRD0NNIERE WOODS

Gerrfiart Atfauft Break Down Completely At Every Point, and French Maintain All

Positions Intact.

BULLETIN.

PAR®, July 17.—On the MarntJ front the French and American. troop® of the second line, and perhaps the general reserves, are nowff entering the action in a strong offensive movement against thei enemy. Wherever the allied fl®bps| have assumed the offensive and, launched attacks against the Ger| mans they have gained ground. Forty-eight hours' of crushing blows by the allies has served to br k the. spirit of the German forces, and only comparatively alight resistance is made to the onslaught of the allied troops. .»

LONDON, July 17.—General Vnn Einem's army, which was engageda on the German left wing in the Champagne yesterday, delivered fivcy attacks between Suippe and Massiges All the attacks were repulsed with heavy losses,

PARTS, July T7.—The Germans last night threw new forces into the battle on the front south

WASHJNOTON, July IT.—End of the OF Marne and attacked the allied second day of the German offensive, lines north of St. Agnan, the war in view of all circumstances, found office announced today. TllO the situation distinctly good for the enemy succeeded in penetrating allies, according to opinion here. The into Bourdonneir ©. he battle extreme depth of the enemy advance i is continuing in the wocds immesince the attack began Monday morn- diately tO the SOUth of this noint. S ing does not exceed five miles at any it,- e, .t point, which compares joorly with the ta^ther to the east, intenrion to move forward twenty kilo-1fne rrench held,the enemy in the metres (13.5 miles) on the first day, as southern outskirts of the Bourevealed in captured German orders, queny wood and at the village of Compared with the results attained in JtfesleS 1

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PARIS, July 17.—(Havas a*ency)— Ninety-four Germans were killed and seventy-four Germans were wounded on the night of July 15-16, when fivn German aviators bombed a prisoners' camp in the region of Troyes, thirty miles behind" the French battle front. The aerial bombardment lasted for ono hour. Two French soldiers of the camp guard were wounded.

CMIOSE 100,000

LONDON. July 17.—Casualties sustained by the German troops in the offensive up to the present are estimated to number 1{""M00. according to news received in London today from the battle front in Franca, •1

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