Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 July 1918 — Page 1

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PROTECT V I O S

SOLDIERS

AMERICANS BIG DRIVE WITH CHEERS

Enemy Taken Completely By Surprise In Assault Launched Early Thursday.

AMERICAN INTANTRY LEADS IN BRILLIANT OFFENSIVE

KTany Guris. Equipment antf Prisoners Captured In Early Hours of Big Drive—Tanks Take Part in Action.

BULLETIN.

WASHINGTON, July IB.—'Word that the Fiench were striking the Irermans on a 25-mile front below the Aisne tent a wave of enthusiasm through the war department today when the first bulletin came in. Every official accepted it as proof that the long days of purely offensive Operations arts ended and that Gen. Foch, with the aid of American soldiers rushed over seas is now able to use aggressive tactics,

W I E A E I A N ARMY IN FRANCE, July 18.— (Ry the Associated Press).— American troops went over the top with a cheer this naming in the launching of the allied surfjVise attack on the front northwest of Chateau Thierry: "This is the moment Focfi tias tjfen looking for," said a military autiioriiy here today, and if all goes veil his splendidly executed rounter-attack should bring the •ivhole German offensive on the

Kheims sector to a halt immediately."'

Taken By Surprise.

The enemy was taken completely by surprise all along the line* The American troops were brought up in the night, together vith their French comrades of track units, and lay in their positions until 5 o'clock this morning. At that hour the American and French artillery opened fire.

The Americans advanced behind a terrific bkrrage to their first objectives in less than half an hour. While they jvere digging in, more Americans in most cases passed over the first objectives and then advanced behind the resinned barrage to the second objectives which wer« speed-

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U.S.

LEAD IN OFFENSIVE

LONDON, July 18.—American storm droops, in large numbers, launched, in Cooperation with the French, a powerful offensive' on the line to the north

Chateau Thierry this morning. The Americans passed beyond nearly #.11 their objectives, including the ,1'aris-Soissons road.

The town of- Soisson* now well within the rang* of the American guns. Reports received in London showed tti-e situation up to noon all along the line of the attack begun by the French this morning to be excellent.

The attack is the biggest offensive mow made this year by the allies. The French have captured several thousand prisoner? Sr.

and about 20 guns, i pany.

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LOCAL CONDITIO!* S AT 8 A. M., JULY 18. 1918. Station pressure. .".'.SO: temperature, 65: highest temperature yesterday, 82 lowest temperature last night, 63: precipitation, 0 direction of wind, northeast: velocity of wind, 6 mile* per hour: state of weather, cloudy relative humidity, 64 pfr cent.

Sunrise. 5:39 sunset. 8:13.

POBBCAST.

INDIANA Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow thunder showers tonight in extreme south portion sligrhtly warmer tomorrow.

ILLINOIS—Fair tonight and Friday warmer tomorrow in south portico.

OTHER LOCAL REPORTS. Temperature by Buntin's thermometer, 7 a. m., 66 2 p. rmj 19.

River stage, 0.4 feet.

CIM-GOSNELL CASE MAKING SOMEPROGRESS

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Clark's Attorneys Ask Prospective Jurors If They Know Members of Committee of Twenty.

JOHN G. DOBBS CENTER OF LIVELY EXCHANGE BY LAWYERS

'W herfc There*® So #1 ucfr Smoke There Mult Be Fire," Said Dob^s •—Court Guides Him To More

Technical Ground*

Nine jtirors wer^ Reused on being examined by'the attorneys for the defense and' the special prosecutors, Wednesday, in the Frank "Buster" Clark trial. The state exercised two peremptory challenges, dismissing Leonard Barton, of Torre Haute, a member of the regular panel and one of the jurors who heard the plea in abatement trial, and Frank DinkJa, of Terre Haute, another.., member, of the regular panel.

The defense excused four jurors peremptorily,

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Haute NicholasxRing, of Middletown F. S. Black, of Terre Haute, and Milton A. Rucker, of Terre Haute. George W. Thomas was excused by the judge •when he demanded exemption on account of being .over 60 years old. B. Magers was excused on account of defective hearing. The court sustained

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OH. LOSES LEG UNDER WHEELS AT Ml

Miss Marie Met calf, stenographer in the offices of the Terre Haute Boiler Works company. Thirteenth street and Seventh avenue, was run over by a cut of cars at noon Thursday at the C. & E. I. crossing on North Thirteenth street, sustaining injuries making necessary the amputation of her left leg below the knee. The rigrht leg is also crushed in a horrible manner.

Miss Met calf was on her way to dinner and finding the crossing blocked, she started to crawl under the cars. Before she could get safely across the track an engine backed up to the ctit of cars and pushed them over the unfortunate girl. She was removed to St. Anthony's hospital in the Hickman embulance.

Relatives of the girl at Hutsonville, 111., were notified, and a sister. Mrs. Hamilton, came to Terre Haute this afternoon. Miss Metcalf has been here several months. She attended a business college here before accepting a position with the boiler works com-

In Dr. Davis' fourteen years at Berlin the kaiser t«?tted him more than ioo times, staying from ten minutes to an hour and a half after the professional work^was completed to discuss the topics of the hour—particularly during the war years—when the kaiser asked many questions as to the- likely attitude of America under certain possible conditions and provocations.

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LOCAL A I N

TEMPER ITl KG RECORD. 6 a. t3 Noon 8 a. m. 67 3 p. m. .77 Relative humidity, 2 p. m., 64 per cent.

JULY 18. ......73

1 LOCAL SUPPLY OF COAL WILL BE GUT SHORT

One-Third of Terre Haute District Output Will Go To Essential War Work.

ALL FOITRTH VEIN OUTPUT DIVERTED 10 GOVERNMENT

Pederat Fuel Representative I Affirms Tribune That 33 Per Cent of Total Tonnage Will Fall Under New

Order.

Approximately wrte-tMriJ the eeml mined in the Terre Haute district will be diverted from domestic use to war manufacturing purposes by an order expected at once from the federal fuel administrator, following a decision to take all fourth vein Indiana coal off the market, except for use essential to the prosecution of the war.

A statement to this effect was made yesterday at Indianapolis by R. F. Flood, of the quartermaster's department of the United States army, who was assigned to Indiana to supervise the establishment of preference lists for industrial plants engaged tn war work ^pd to work in co-operation with the state fuel administration.

Scarcity of the fourth vein cfhtf will cause the district representative of the fuel administration in the state to recommend to the federal fuel administration at Washington that delivery of this type of coal be restricted to gas plants and factories that could not operate with other trades of Indiana coat I .'

The effect 6t ftifS drifpf.'wHefli trtiUf*, will be to reduce the domestic coal supply In the Terre Haute district at least one-third. Many retail dealers now holding contracts with fourth vein mines will be compelled to look elsewhere for their supplies il.nd the reSuit, of course, will be a further scarcity mf fuel in this city during the coming winter.

Official Gives Figure#.

Jonns Waffle, assistant district reffcresentatiTe of the federal fuel administration, stated Thursday that he estimated that the Indiana fields would produce between eight and nine million tons of No. 4 coal during 1918. and that practically all of this would

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Words That Inspired Americans to Victory

ON THE FRENCH FRONT IN FRANCE, Wednesday, July 17.— (By the Associated Press).^—In stirring phrases, imploring them to stand firm, Gen. H. J. E. Gauraud. in command of the French and American troops east of Rheims and in Champagne, appealed to his men before the German offensive began. In an order issued to his •oldiers, he said: "We may be attacked a* *«ny moment. You all feel that a de* fensive battle never has been engaged in under more favorable conditions. You were warned and are on guard with powerful reinforcements of infantry and artillery. You will fight on the ground Xou have transformed by your ,hard work into redoubtable fortrwsses which are invincible if the passages are properly guarded. "The bombardment will be terrible, but you will stand it without weakening. The assault will be violent, in clouds of smoke dust »nd gas, but your position and Armament are formidable. "In your breasts beat men's brave, strong hearts. Nobody will look behind nor recede a pace.

Eaoh of you will have one thought —to kill and kill many until they cry enough. "For this reason your general says you will break this assault and it will be brokenly gloriously."

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VOL. XLVn.—No. 48. TEBRE HAUTE, IND, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1918. FOUE O'CLOCK—TWO CENTS

V1G0C0UNTYT0 SENDLOTMORE AGAINST ENEMY

largeit Draft Quota Yet Called Will JL^ave Monday For Camp 4

Zachary Taylor.

SCORES OF YOUNG MEN GO FROM BUSINESS INTERESTS

South ftidt Contingent Includes Many Wiley High School ^Grad-uates—-Few Well Known Boyt

In July CaH,

On Monday next 440 Vigo county boy® will enter upon a new life. At 8:16 in the morning these boys, "selects," as they are designated by the president, will answer their country's call, which the same will lead them to Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky. They should reach camp •by 4 o'clock in the afternoon and be comfortably quartered in the barracks, ,159th depot brigade, before the bugle calls them to their first army mess.

In the list of 440, 215 of whom are from the north side, 166 from the south side, and 59 from the outlying districts, are lawyers, musicians and composers, merchants, electricians, farmers, bankers, bar boys, a theatrical manager and just a few who are given

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Italian Relief Fund

The Tribune yesterday mentioned that Mr. George hynick, of the New York Mutual Life agency, had been "asked to make an appeal here for aid for the Italian relief society.

In the morning mail, today, Mr. Rynick received a check for $10 from Louis SUberman. Mr. Rynick had not intended making any general effort in the matter, but with this encouragement he asked the Tribune to acknowledge such contributions to the Italian fund as are received.

The Tribt/ne will do this and the money will be forwarded through Mr. James S. Royse. The Tribune adds its check.

Italian Relief Fund.

Louis Si Iberman $10.00 Terre Haute Tribune............ 10.00

"THE KAISER AS I KNEW HIM FOR 14 YEARS

By An Ohio Man, Dr. Arthur N. Davis of Piqua, Who From 1904 to 1918 Was the Kaiser's Personal Dentist

The kaiser ta!tred freefv of prominent persons, expressing his opinions of PRESIDENT WILSON, THE CZAR OF RUSSIA, KING GEORGE, ROOSEVELT, HUGHES, NORTHCLIFFE, LLOYD GEORGE,

SCHWAB, SENATOR STONE, and others who, from time jo itime, aroused his indigation or approval.

DR. DAVIS' FIRST ARTICLE IN THE TRIBUNE ON SUNDAY, JULY 21

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Here's the Country- Our Boys Are Fighting Over—Scenes Near Where They Stopped the Hun

AMERICAN TROOPS RESTING- IN VILLAGE LAID LOW BY GERMAN SHELL FIRS.

German Crown Prince Must Satisfy People For Thousands Lost In Defeat.

PARIS, July 18.—The German crown prince, military observers here say, now is trying to convert a large scale failure into showy,minor success which will make up in the eyes of the German public Xor the 160,COG men be has sacrificed.

His goal now apparently is Epernay. The operation includes two parts. In the first the Germans who crossed the Marne in the Dormans region are struggling to widen and strengthen the bridge-head on the south bank. In the second German right center, which at the beginning of the action was

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GROUP or AMKRICA* AM) HRrriSH OKKIf BRS MAPPING *OUT COCRSK OF ACTIOS AGAINST

Xhiring the recent fighting on the American sector our troops occupied a destroyed village and pitched camp there. The upper photo shows the U. S. Jads In dugouts and shellproof shelters among some of the buildings destroyed by the heavy suns of the Germans. The soldiers used parts of tne wrecked buildings to make comfortable shelters and then rested. The lower

photo shows a group ©f American and British officers on the western front consulting and marking off strategic positions at which they expect the enemy to strike.

These pictures show the kind of territory the American soldiers have been fighting over within the past f«w days when they smashed the advance of the Hun along the south bank of the river Marne.

SEEKS MINOR SUCCESS THINK BOOTIEGGERS AFTER HIKE FAILURE WORK FROM HOTEL

Canadian Took One Drink of Whiskey, He Says, and Woke Up In Goatsviller

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Walter Hall, 54 years old. who was arrested l&te Wednesday afternoon In a room at the Keith hotel, when arraigned in City Court Thursday morning on a charge of violating the state liquor law entered a plea of not guilty and his case was continued. Hall was arrested Wednesday afternoon-. William Donnelly, who said his home was in Canada, had appeared at the police station and said he had been lured to the room of Hall at the hotel and given a glass of whisky.

He said that after drinking Ihe whiskey he had awakened in Goatsviile, a smail town six miles west of

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The kak.r tattted without fear of publicity, as is evident by some of the statements made and questions asked—such, for example, as the inquiring of Dr. Davis by the kaiser himself as to what he thought would be the'attitude of America if one of her big liners were sunk. This was shortly before the Lusitania was torpedoed.

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ALLIES TAKE i AGGRESSIVE AGAINST FOE

American Troops Included In Forccs "Launching New Offensive Thursday Morning.

GEN. FOCH ATTACKING

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The front of the attack runs from Fontenoy, six miles west of Soissons, to the town of Bellcau. nn the Clignon ifiver. Few details

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From Various ''Source* Come Heports That Battle Is Progressing Favorably To ths Allied

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BULLETIN.

LONDON, July 18.—The French and Americans have gained from two to four miles everywhere on the 25 miles front of their offensive today between the Aisne and the Marne, according to reports itaching London this afternoon* *—t

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General Foch, the allied com-mander-in-chief, has taken the aggressive on an important scale, attacking this morning on a twenty-five-mile front between the A isne and the Marne—the westerly side of the Germans Marne salient. he attack appears to be a I nificant counter stroke to the German drive along the Marne-Rheims-Champagne front. From various sources come reports that the battle is progressing favorably to the alficd forces, which presumably incluilc American troops.

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able. the main fact officially stated being that at various points along* this front progress of a mile and a half to two miles have been made and that prisoners aave been taken.

The situation on this front presents trrterwting possibilities. The tr.utlf. line when the German offensive paused at the Marne early in June closely resembled the letter V, with the acute angle blunted. Sino% their attack on Monday morning the Germans have made progress which has changed the form of the. line to that of the, letter U. the right leg of which is shorter than t-he left Prom Fontenoy at th« tip of the right leg, to Kheims. on ttie end of the right, is about 37 mile«. Ths distance from the Alsne to the present. battle front south of the ilaxne, is about 25 miles.

Threaten Germans Positions, It is along the left leg 01 uie u that' the allied onslaught hfjjan this mornIn#. If the attack of the allies is what

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PERSHING HAS HOPEROOSEVELT HAY LIVE

NTTWr TOTIK, July 'IS.-rot. Theodore Roosevelt just before leaving the city for Saratoga, N. Y., to attend the republican sta'e on\c titlon, today received a cab!fi»rarii from tJen. Persh-

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ing, in which the American commanrter expressed the h^.pe that I^ie.ut. 'j' Quentln Roosevelt, the colonel's son. reported killed in an aerial battle in ,'f FVance, may have landed safely. *f