Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 September 1918 — Page 1

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THIS DISTRICT AND SECOND IN UNETO CHANGE

JFred Bays' Whirlwind Campaign In Latter District One of Features of Campaign.

BEOPLE HERE EXPECTED TO EEC ALL RALPH MOSS TO DUTY

Sanders' Opposition to the President On Vital War Measures Not the Sentiment of Loyal People

Here At Home.

By Staff Correspondent.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 31.— former Senator Thomas Taggart, whose health has been none the best for the last two years, is* beginning to improve. He has suffered from a long and aggravating attack of neuritis that has 'vaused .him to keep out of public Affairs. He has not been taking an active hand in politics and probably •will not as he has shown a disposition to retire from the leadership he held for so many years.

While in Washington this week Mr. Taggart informed the president that the democrats will gain two or three congressmen in Indiana. He mentioned the Second and Fifth districts which he believes will go democratic. He Kaid the republicans are making a desperate effort to hold the Second disTrict, but the indications are that Fred .."Hays, of Sullivan, will defeat Representative Oscar Bland. The hope of the republican leaders of the Second is that Bays' speeches will not be approved by the democrats—which is a trange position for them to take, vs has been forceful in his utterances and he has criticised Bland rather vigorously. It Is a hard matter to see how the republican leaders can figure that Bays' attacks on Bland are going to elect the latter while they are 'hammering Rays in the most vigorous manner possible. They are fighting a losing cause in the Second—and it hurts.

Bays fttui been hammering1 away on the illicit relations of some of the Hughes leaders and the GermanAmerican alliance in the last presidential campaign and has been dealing out plain talk about the villiany of such politicians as were tarred by Von !Romstorffs plotting against this government. Bays has stirred up more political discussion in the Second than that district ha« had for many a day and he looks line a winner from this enU of the periscope.

Says Sanders Is Slipping. In the Fifth -district Congressman Kverett Sanders has a lively tight on his hands for his opposition to the president in the food administration measures. Sanders stuck with the re,0 publican obstructionists in several very vital votes and the people now are asking him for an explanation.

Senders' was elected on a "fluke," the .Debs candidacy having helped him considerably. This year Debs will be arraigned in the federal court for alleged seditious work against the prosecution of the war and the government of the United States and will Hardly b© a factor in the congressional race. i

The democratic candidate in the v Fifth district is Ralph W. Moss, a high standing, loyal citizen, long known as a public leader of wisdom ,v and experience and a man esteemed in political circles both in Indiana and at

Washington, where he has previously given valuable service as a congressman. In fact both President Wilson and Keoretary MeAdoo wrote him per--sonal letters voicing their gratitude for his support when he was in congress.

Makes Forecast.

The political situation In Indiana grows more encouraging to Chairman Fred Van Nuys, of the democratic state committee. He is predicting that the democrats will carry the state by a very comfortable majority, and that they will carry at least nine of the thirteen congressional districts.

Whether Van Nuys has his "dope** 'right remains to b" seen. He h3« opportunities for gathering Information that are not at the hand of the average citisen. But politicians have been known to misjudge their facts and to make predictions that never come true.

That failing is not limited to the ranks of either party. However, Van Nuys has made a tour of Indiana, and has had reports from every county. He is receiving hundreds of letters each week, and the number of visitor at the headquarters here is very large. ^'an Nuys has been greeted by many Enthusiastic audiences, and naturally *lp

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optimistic view of the sit

uation. He is not alone in thinking that the democrats are jsoing to carry Indiana. There are many leaders among the republicans who have about given up hope. FnV'ss there is a change in the situation they are afraid of the result. One well known repub-

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LOCAL CONDITIONS AT S P. M. AUG. 91, 1918. Station pressure. 2ft.43 temperature, 71 highest temperature Saturday, 75 precipitation, 0 direction of wind, northwest velocity of wind, 9 mile* per hour: state of weather, clear rela tlve humidity, 65 pv cent.

Sunrise, 9:19 sunset, 7:21.

Police Reserves and Camp Rose Men Go to Rescue of Alleged Pro-German.

PRAISE OF KAISER BRINGS RESENTMENT AGAINST TAILOR

Aged Man Felled In Streets Threatened With Hanging Until Spirited "Away to Jail.

Mrs. Nelson, who accompanied the soldiers to the police station with the man, made a full report to the captain, and^said she and her husband and little girl had been looking Into a show window on Wabash avenue between Fourth and Fifth streets, where cartoons of various personages were being shown'. A comio cartoOn of the kaiser, mixed up in an international tangle and getting the worst of it was shown, and Mr. Nelson became patriotic and turned to Strassner, who was standing directly behind him, and said: "Now what does everyone think of the kaiser?"

Assailed By Woman.

Strassner is alleged to have said a loud tone to everyone near the show window: "If a few more of us were as good as the kaiser we would be better off he is allright,'*

Mrs. Nelson said she stepped in front of the man and said "Do you mean to say that the kaiser is as good as am."

Straswnwr is reported to have replied, "Sure he to." As the latter remark was made. Mrs. Nelson struck the man in the face, and he struck back, catching her in the face.

Mr. Nelson started to interfere, and Mrs, Nelson requested that he keep

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FOOD HEAD RESIGNS

John S- Ahlgren, federal food administrator for Vigo county, sent his resignation Saturday afternoon to H. E. Barnard, of Indianapolis# federal food administrator for Indiana, stating in his letter that "For good and sufficient reasons, best known to the Vigo county council of defense, I herewith place With you my resignation a^ federal food administrator for Vigo county, same to take effect at the earliest time convenient."

Nothing further has been made known %s to ItP NW lor Mr. Ahlgr*n's aottvfc.

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XLVII.—No. 93. TEBRE HAUTE, IND.,OUSTED

WARMER WEATHER

TEMPERATURE S a.. ra 65 $ a. 66

RECORD AUG I p. ra p. 7 m..

IL 75

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warmer. INDIANA—Warmer today and tomorrow generally fair.

ILLINOIS—Fair except unsettled is north portion.

OTHER LOCAL REPORTS. River stage, 0.4 feet.

WOMAN LEADS MOB AROUSED FOR LYNCHING

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I»oliee reserve»~-*rme*- witfc night sticks were forced to fight desperately for several minutes Saturday night to keep a mob composed of about 2,000 maddened Americans from doing bodily harm to Frederick Strassner, 66 years old, of German descent, who is a traveling tailor and who is registered at the Henderson hotel on South Fourth street. After several minutes of hard work the mob was quieted and Strassner escorted out of the back door of the city hall into a waiting patrol wagon and hurried to a cell on the third floor of the jail.

The man was arrested by Captain William Staley, of Camp Rose, after he had been knocked down twice by Mrs. Messila Nelson, of 1206 South Third street, for alleged unpatriotic remarks made during the congested period on Wabash avenue. It was with difficulty that Captain Staley with the aifl of several Camp Rose soldiers managed to get the man to the city hall. It Is also charged that Mrs. Nelson was severely scratched and struck once by the man, before she was able to knock him to the pavement.

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Uncle Sam Will Have Checkers On Roads to See How Many Autoljl 0 11CS

"ABSOLUTE NECESSITY" IS RULE LEFT TO OWNERS' JUDGMENT

Day's Suspension Throughout the Restricted Territory Is Figured to Save Eight MiSlion

Gallons.

A sharp vigil of all the leading automobile highways in the states east of the Mississippi river will be maintained today to determine'whether the American motorist responds to the patriotic appeal to suspend pleasure driving th-at day to conserve gasoline^for war purposes.

Thousands of guards wilt be stationed along these highways. These guards will count the cars that pass by. If the number is abnormally high, in view of the request for a suspension of pleasure driving, numbers of many of them will be taken and will be reported to the state fuel administrators. Sveps will then be taken to ascertain whether the trips were for pleasure or on business.

Whether the fuel administration's request will be made into e, mandatory order will depend on the number of motorists who do not heed the patriotic appeal.

Depends -on Publio.

It was stated that If motorists fail to respond to the appeal an order will be issued forbidding the use of automobiles for pleasure purposes on Sundays, and a penalty will be prescribed which will make the practice unprofitable and unpleasant to the man who violates the order.

Officials at the oil division of the fuel administration estimate that if the request is rigidly obeyed an enormous saving of gasoline will be made on Sundays. Their estimate is 7,600,000 gallons.

While this looks hfgb, !t Is reaftied by estimating there are at least 3.800.000 passenger cars in the states east of the Mississippi and each use, on an

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AMSTERDAM. Aug. 31.—M. Unitski, the people's commissary for home affairs in Russia, has been assassinated, according to dispatches received today from Petrograd. His muraerers were arrested.

The report of the assassination of Unitski, corning so close oil the dispatches announcing an attempt to murder Nikolai Lenine, the Bolsheviki premier, may indicate that the recently reported social revolutionary plot of teu-orism against the Bolshevik officials is bearing fruit.

In addition to Von Mirbach and Von Eichhora, German officials, a number of Bolshevik minor officials have been fiain recently.

THE TERRE HAUTE TRIBUNE

French and Yanks Like Brothers—French Dirigibles Go Aloft to Protect Americans Locating Their Camp at Front

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FRENCH DIRIGIBLE GOING ALOFT TO WATCH FOR HUM AVIATORS.

This photograph shows the close cooperation between the French and American war departments. The Americans are setting up a new camp near the fr^t. A French balloon squad has been loaned them to guard the camp from Hun aviators until the Americans can get out their scout and combat planes and do their own gu«frd duty.

Y All AMERICAN ARMY NOW"""'

System of Brigading U. S. Troops "With British and French Is*--•)1 Nearly At An End.

WASHINGTON! Aug. 31.—The "all American army" Is in the process of assembling., The system of brigading United States troops with British and French is nearly at an end, and such troops as are training in that way abroad are being taken, out as seedily as possible.

Hereafter, Americas troops gent abroad can be brigaded with seasoned American forces The emergency which caused America to sacrifice the natural pride of having a distinctive organization has passed. Hence, it is not necessary to continue for any great length of time the makeshift system of brigading with the allies.

According to senators, Gen. March, chief of staff, informed them today that the withdrawals were being- accomplished rapidly, and that ntkrly all our forces training with British and French have now been removed.

Plans Not Made Public. did not specify the full reasons for this, nor discuss plans for the future for the distinctively American army.

It is apparent, however, that forces are being gathered which before long can be organized into a second field army. The first field armjr of one million men has already been listed. And, now, with the troops shipment well past the 1,509,000 mark, it will be a matter of only a comparatively short time when the second big force can be organised.

One American field army Is likely to form an "army of maneuver" for the tremendous operations to be undertaken next spring.

With such a mobile force, coupled with reserve organisations of French and British, it will b^possible to concentrate such strength against the Germans at any given point that a push through will be a matter of comparative ease. The four million army predicted for neprt June will give the allies numerical superiority which Germany can never meet, and which will seal her doom.

The senators declared Gen. March looked

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BOLSHEVIK HEAD SLAIN BY ASSASSIN MUTINY IN HUN ARM?

on the war situation.

He did not hold his usual press conference today, but other officials talked informally.

AMSTERDAM. Aug. 31.—Serious mutiny has occurred in the German army and dire dissatisfaction exists among workmen of the Krupps munition factories, according to reports reaching here tonight.

When two regiments refused to go to the west front from Russia, 130 of their number were shot

At Munich 600 life guards also refused to fight and locked themselves in barracks wherGv the authorities finally forced them to surrender.

Thirty thousand workers who revolted at the Krupps factories were placed under arms sad sent to the frost. -VS. .IT mt

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1918.FROM

ffl'ADOO TELLS RAILROADMEN TO TURN OUT

Director General of Railroads Sends Labor Day Orders Over Wire* ^f^J«0fficial* Lait Night, 4® V

MAKE DAT HERE A VICTORY CELEBRATION AMONG MEN

Declares These Public Servants Have Great Task Before Them, and He.Depends on Them to

Stand Test.

Orders for Labtr day for the railroad men were received for the Big Four division yesterday by C. E. Griffith, freight and passenger agent. The order is direct from Secretary William MeAdoo, at Washington, director general of railroads, and came over the Big Four wire direct at 6:09 last night. It reads: "In view of the colossal wai" which America is a party combatant and of the gravity of the issues involved, concerning as they do the lives and liberty of the people of the world, the celebration of Labor day, ,1918, poasesses a special significance. I shall be glad, therefore, if you will permit as many railroad employes to participate In the forthcoming Labor day celebration throughout the country as will not hamper essential railroad operations. The pressure upon transportation is go great that it is, of course, important to reduce train service for even a day, but doubtless it will be possible by making preparations in advance to give a larger number of employes liberty that day than could otherwise be done.

The Call to Duty.*

"Not only is the welfare of labor concerned in this war, but the welfare of every class of people in America and throughout the world. The millions of America's splendid sons we are sending to Europe to settle these issues in our favor cannot do their part of this great job unless we each and everyone of us who stay at home do our part equally well and on time. Any failure to produce at home the things our men' must have, if they are to fight successfully, would mean disaster. Such a disaster would be less appall' tig in the injury to or destruc-

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DEFENSES ON RHINE

AMSTERDAM, Aug. SI.—Thousands of Belgian citizens are being employed by the Germans to dig trenches and construct other defense works along the Rhine, from Cologne to Switzerland.

The foregoing dispatch indicates that the German military leaders anticipate that they will ultimately be compelled to withdraw entirely out of France and to defend German soil along the Rhine. It has been reported for some time that the enemy has been Improving the Rhine defenses, but this is the first indication of such extensive work in thai connection.-

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Boches Thrown Into Confusion Losses Are Heavy—French Attack Gains on Fifty-Mile Front

East of Soissons.

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LONDON, Aug. 31.—The Germans have started to evacuate the Ly$ salient in Flanders, Field Marshal Haig reported to the British war. office tonight. vi

British troops have progressed approximately three miles on a front of twelve miles, running from Voomezelle through Lindenhoek, a mile south of Kemmel hil, through Lecreche, through Doulieu and approach* ing Estairs (a mile and a half farther east .than the last official statement by the British).

Retirement of the Germans again gives the British possession of the famous Kemmel hillf unofficially reported this afternoon to have been taken. Through an attack by the Australians, Mont St. Quentin and the village of that name are now officially reported in British hands. This gives the British an important tactical position commanding Peronne* the important German stronghold. ., ..

Boche Losses Are Heavy

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, Aug. 31— Leaping* into the open and meeting the enemy more than half way, American troops repulsed a series of heavy counter attacks near Juvigny, north of Soissons, today* v .»*

The boches were thrown into oonfusion, and "badly -cut up. ffieir losses were extremely heavy, The bombardment by German light guns has decreased considfeiabty. This may possibly indicate that the enemy is already withdrawing his artillery to a place of safety because of the threat resulting from further American progress. #,

The American artillery maintained a heavy fire on the German posi* tions throughout the day. About 200 prisoners were added to the haul in this area today.

Six boche prisoners were killed and several wounded by their own ai tillery fire, a shell falling in the group at the entrance to a oave oo» cupied by the Americans.

During the height of the battle each prisoner sent to the rear cait ried a wounded American on his back.

Gain On 100-Mile Front

IiONDON, Aug. 31.-*-The allies pushed the Germans back on a front

more than 100 miles today. The French and Americans ^ttiade prpgress on a large portion of their fifty mile front from the Aisne northward to the region of peronne. From the junction of their lines with the French northward to the neighborhood of Lens—affront of about 35* miles— the British made good gains. In Flanders, the Germans fell back before the British pressure, relinquishing LaCourt, Vieillfe-Chapelle, Dranot, the Ballileu railway station and Kemmel

BRITISH TAW 2,000 AT MONT ST. QUENTIN

WITH THE BRITISH AJtMIBS IN FRANCE, Aug. 31.—With the capture of Mont St. Quentin, and the surrounding points, the prisoners taken by the British during the operations In that vicinity, have risen to upwards of 2,000.

Occupation of Peronne by British troops is now believed to be only a matter of a brief time. So close are the allies pressing the city that the enemy is believed to have withdrawn practically all military stores concentrated there.

The Australians, whose untiring efforts for five days were crowned by the capture of Mount St. Quentin, have had remarkably few Casualties for the fighting through which they have passed,. It is estimated that the Australian dead and wounded have been only one-tenth of the number of prisoners taken by these troops.

One of the most amazing performances of the entire war was the speed with which the Australians exceeded e\en their own best records in capturing the mountain. Their attack was launched at five o'clock this morning. Two hours and a half later an observation post across the river telephoned the news that the Australians were going up the mountain with great speed and that prisoners were coming down. One of the captured officers was asked how the Australians had done it and {Mii34U "1 wls& konr mysniy

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hill, the famous height which was i captured by the Germans in April after one of the bloodiest battles of the war. There an advance at the last report had reached a depth of from one to two miles. ra

Great possibilities are seen In the British advance in the Arras reglorN^ where they are pushing down the main road toward Cambrai, less than 12 miles east of their present lines. The Wotan section of the Hindenburg line has been cut here on a front of 12 miles, almost to its junction with the Siegfried section of the line at Queant. This operation is rapidly jeopardizing the whole Hindenburg line, through exposing its northern flank.

Unless the Germans possess a sec* ondary defense system of unusual strength in this immediate vicinity, it is believed they will be compelled to relinquish a much larger arte, than they did in last year's retreat. It is possible that the next German stopping place will be before Lille and Valifiicennes, their line running from there to the Meuss. Recent reports have described feverish work on the old Meuse fortifications, where thousands of war prisoners and Belgian captives are said to be employed.

MAY CLEAR FRANCS.

Opportunity to Get All Germans Out Before Dead of Winter1# PARIS, Aug. 81.—Operations in th# north are b^Ing closely w itche1T for there is an opportunity of cleat nig th©, Germans from France before theC ad of winter, provided allied successes ar* sufficiently extended.

As the western line Nnow shapes up,

WITH THE FRENCH- ARMIES In FRANCE, Aug. 31.—The Germans are drenching Noyon with incendiary shells. There are no soldiers in thk towp at present, owing to numerous fires and the dens* clouds of smother* In*

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