Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 September 1918 — Page 1

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AMERICANS PUSH HUNS FROM VESLE

Enemy Forced Back By Fierce Attack Begun At 8 O'clock A "Wednesday Morning.

GERJtANS BIIENING STORES TO ACCELERATE RETREAT

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Report Lacks Details, But

taps Americans Have Made tabstantlal Progress Against Enemy.

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THE AMEBICAN FORCES

XOBTH OF THE VESLE, Sept 5.— I p. m.—(By the Associated Press.) ,—The American forces following up the German retreat from tlie Vesle, moved) steadily over the plateau between the Vesle and the Aisne today, and by noon their advanced elements had Altered into the slopes on the northern side of the plateau.

Virtually no opposition was encountered. Aerial and other observers reported that there was every indication that the main body of Germans had retired across the Aisne.

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WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES NORTH OF THE VESLE RIVER, §ept. 5.—(By the Associated Press.) —Violent explosions wert heard, along the line this morning. Observers reported that they believed the Germans were destroying fchir ammunition dumps.

Bazoches and Fismette were occupied by tha Americans during the night These towns had been evacuated by the Germans, only two or three wounded men who Jhad been abandoned, being found.

WTTH TTTE AMERICAN* ARMY ON THE VEXdLi: FRUXT, Wednesday, Sept. 6.—(iBy the Associated Press.)— Americans. with tin- French moving with them on their left, have advanced from the Vesle to the edge of the plateau alone a line from Rrenelle, Vauxcerr, Kinney and Baslieux.

The Germans nearest this line along which they might make a rear guard defense of any consequence arc opposite the edge of the plateau paralleling the Aisne, over which it is obvious they received their storest and heavy artillery,.

The advance of the Americans Tn force began at 4 o'clock this morning, and patrols, one after another, have been goinsr over all day and meeting sharp resistance at some points.

Germans Headed For Aisne. After a month on the Vesle, during Which they have been subjected to pressure night and day by the tightly drawn line from Soissons to Rheims, the Hermans appear to be heading straight for the Aisne. and possibly for their old positions on the Chemin-Des-Dames.

It was not unexpected. The move was, in fact, because it was Inevitable. While the pressure from the south was insistent, if not vigorous, the onward drive north from Soissons on to the western end of the plateaus made their position between tlie two rivers practically untenable.

Americans Make Progress. The extent to which the retreat has gone is not mentioned officially, and therefore cannot be told, but it is per-

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An Heroic Charge

PARIS, Sept. 5.-»La Liberte, under the heading, "An heroic charge." pays tribute to the Americans. It says "The taking of Terny-Sorny by the Americans was a particularly brilliant operation executed by our allies with wonderful dash. The unit which made this stroke had never been under Are. having passed only a few weeks in a comparatively calm sector, but on its debut it pitted itself against the Imperial guards and beat it. "The sturdy young men from Texas, habituated to prairie life, tracked the boche like wild beasts, they swept villages and nests of machine gunners and charged with bayonets at batteries Of 105«, killing those serving the battery and capturing the guns. "Twice an officer of the French general staff had to interfere to modify their ardor, fearing that they might overstep the mark. Even the French Zouaves, who are an embodiment of *Ur aggressive fighting, were astonished at such daring."

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WEATHER

TEMPERATUKE RECORD, SEPT. 5. 6 a, m. iS Moon ........65 9 a. m........60 8 p. #8 Relative humidity. p. m., 74 per cent. LOCAt CONDITIONS AT S A. Jl, SEPT. 19IS.

Station pressure, -9.-19 temperature, 59 highest temperature yesterday, 73, lowest temperature last night, 58 precipitation, trace direction of wind, north velocity of wind, 12 miles per hour state of weather, cloudy relativehumidity, 85 per cent.

Sunrise, 6:22 sunset,

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TERRB HAUTE—Fair tonight and tomorrow continued cool. INDIANA—Fair taught and tomorrow continued cool,

ILLINOIS—Fair tenfgtit and tomorrow slightly warmer.

OTHER I»OCAIj RICPORTS. Temperature by Buntin's thermometer. 7 a. in., 60 2 p. m., 70.

River stage, 3.0 feet.

PASTORS WILL ANALYZE MOVE FOR MORE PAY

Dismiss National Movement Which la Expected to Encourage Larger Salaries to Cloth.

WITH TEACHEBS, THEY HAVE ALL ENCOUNTERED H. C. OF L.

IrOcal Shepherds of the Flock* Said to Generally Fare Better Thaft «Most Ministers In Cities of

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ty 'Anna Bowies Wiley. It has weLI been said that it is difference of opinion which makes horn* races, and opinion as to the salary paid the preachers of America among the ministers themselves seems to differ largely.

An editorial te a-national magazine recently has brought about considerable discussion regarding the problem, whether a minister is sufficiently paid for the service rendered and in view of the increase of living expenses not to speak of participation in war financing.

Unwittingly the question is answered through a letter received this week by the Rev. W. L. Kwing, o£ the Cente-nary-Methodist church, who has charge of the program for the northwestern Methodist conference which will .meet in annual session September 24. The letter comes from a minister in a certain city in Indiana, who has been in the service of the Methodist conference for more than fifty years, and sets forth the fact that much to his sorrow, he will be unable- to attend his annual conference on account of his inability to meet the financial strain. His salary is small, possibly dpes not exceed $500 a year, entirely inadequate for his present day needs of living. It pogsibly is the sum with which he has been able to keep soul and body together for the fifty years of his service.

Rev. Ewing states that there is no appropriation set aside by conference for such cases as this, and the minister will have to miss the meeting after all his years of devotion to the cause of God and church and the serving of the people. Dr. Ewing also points that this perhaps may be the last conference meeting the man may attend, taking into consideration the facts that he is getting up in years and is not well.

Last Sunday, in his sermon at morning service, Rev. Ewing touched upon the subject under discussion although at that time he had not read the article which has caused the controversy. He set out to show the ratio of increase in living expense*, sixty per

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Warning to Voters

If someone has called at year home to register your vote, look the matter up and see that your registration has been turned in.

L. Ert Slack says there were so ma/iy cases of this kind last fall that a lot of voters lost their vote.

Slack also notifies registrars that any man who takes a registration and fails to report it is guilty of a violation of the law.

The district attorney says that every voter who registers with a political worekr who calls at hit home should demand a signed statement from the registrar as proofs of the transaction*

Then if the voter discovers that he has been deceived and that his name has purposely not been registered he can hold the righty party responsible.

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OLD FAMDJAR FACES NOT AT CAMP TAYLOR

^jjjo Selects Who Put Into Port To---flight Will Miss the J" pathfinders.

JAKIE GOODMAN WILL BE THERE TO 0TTIHT SEW ROOKIES

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Baxter

Also Remain, But Most of the Boys Have Departed Hence.

By Mique O'Brien.

CAMP ZACHARY TAYLOR, LOUISVILLE, Kyn Sept. S.-^-^The Vigo county selects who reach camp tonight will be assigned to tents in the depot brigade, after being equipped with uniforms under the able direction of Sup-1 ply Sergeant Ralph Feguson, Sergeant Palmer Z. Holmes, Corporal Leo Baxter and Corporal JakeJr Goodman. Jakey is a shark at measuring rookie# for army equipment and whenever a new bunch arrives at the depot brigade it means work a plenty for. him.

Of the hundreds of Terre «Haute boys who have been sent to this camp since last September only a few remain. Harry Worsham is about the only one of the first batch to be sent just one year ago still remaining at the old headquarters of division 84. which occupied the cantonment proper before being transferred to Camp Sherman. Worsham is in the quartermaster's department.

Of the 440 that were sent from old Vigo, in the last big movement from Indiana probably half a dozen remain. Clifford Lowe, the gifted pianistcomposer, left Sunday for the east, expecting to be on his way across within a few weeks. Lowe had only recently been transferred to the base hospital as an attache of the medical corps.

Leo Baxter, who was inducted into service a few days before the bunch

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BOND FOR PRO-GERMAN

TTed Stra^ssner, fi6* years old, who was arrested Saturday night on a charge of assault and battery upon Mrs. Mellisa Nelson, after it is alleged he had made traitorous remarks about the United States government, was released from jail Thursday morning on a $1,000 bond by Judge Paul R. Shafer in City Court. Strassner will be arraigned for trial Friday afternoon on the assault and battery charge.

United States Commissioner Clyde Kandei will be In attendance at the trial and will determine from the evidence submitted whether Strassner is guilty of violating the espionage act. In the event of the act being considered an insult to the country, Strassner will be tfiken to Indianapolis to face Judge A. C- Anderson on a charge of uttering treasonable remarka.

One Battle Don't End Airplane's Life Rebuilt at "Hospital"

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BRITISH AIRPLA3IB SALVAGING DEPOT. Allied airplanes disabled by a chance shot from Hun airplanes or anti-air-craft guns aren't thrown in the junk heap. Neither are the Hun planes that allied fliers brins down. Airplane hospitals, established behind the lines salvage all these machines. The allied ones are repaired and made ready for more battles with the Hun. The enemy planes are taken apart and all the good parts utilized. The photo shows a

British royal air force salvaging depot for the planes. The extent of this salvaging work can be gained from the fact that during the fiscal year ending July 1 & total of 3,856 enemy craft had been bagged by the British

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Husband Charges That Wife's Friend look Exception to His Intrusion on Scene.

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Another case of alleged misplaced afTection between one man's wife and another woman's husband developed Thursday morning when the case of John D. Hayhurst, 46 years old, of 3024 Not4h Third street, charged with carry "Concealed weapons, was called in City Court before Judge Paul R. Shafer.'

Hayhurst was arrested Wednesday night on a warrant frofh City Court filed by Owen Kelty, of 1301 North Center street, who alleged that Hayhurst had drawn a gun, on him on August 16, in the Calvary cemetery, east of the city, Evidence submitted shotoed that Hayhurst, who is married and the father of six children, was found in the cemetery on August 16 with 'Mrs. Kelty, by the husband of the woman and that when he had intervened, Hayhurst had drawn a gun on him and chased him from the cemetery.

A baby belonging to the Kelty's was lying on the ground beneath a tree at the time and after the alleged gun drawing, the mother, baby and Hayhurst returned to the city on a street car. Mrs. Kelty, when called to the stand by Attorney Gerdink for the defense, said that the gun belonged to her and that she had Hayhurst buy it for her to protect herself from her husbaria whom it is s^iid has already filed divorce proceedings in Superior Court. She said that Hayhurst did not have a giin at the time of the episode In the cemetery.

The word of the husband, however, was taken in preference to the testimony of the pair, and Hayhurst was fined $20 and costs. An appeal was taken to Circuit Court. Hayhurst was formerly a peddler, but has recently branched out as a salesman for a foreign concern, and travels in and out of the city. Mrs. Katherme O'Donnejl, who investigated the cao*-, said that another child is expected in the Hayhurst family within a month, and that Hayhurst had been guilty of neplectinjE his family on several occasions.

FIREMEN GET INCREASE.

NEW YORK, Sept. S.—The wages of the members.of the New York fire department have been increased to $1,660 a year for the men entitled to the maximum. The minimum for members new in the service is $1,250.

AIR SERVICE STARTED.

NrK\V YORK, Sept. 5.—Aerial postal Service between New York and Chicago ^as inaugurated this morning when Max Miller, in a large airplane carrying a sack of mall left Belmont park at 7:09 o'clock.

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SENSATION IN COUNCIL FALLS RATHER FLAT

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|ffayor Hunter Ihsarms Councilman ..Zimmerman With Report of Sjupitary, Crew's Wojdfc. J.

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'Some extra spectators* gathered! at the city council chamber last night, it beinfc intimated that Harry Zimmerman, councilman from the 'Fifth ward, Was "going to take the hide off the city sanitary police." There was a little riffle when Mr. Zimmerman sharply inquired into -vhat these four occupants of the pay roll are doing, but there was no excitement.

Mayor Hunter seemed tb irtake out a" pretty good case Tor His sanitary crew and the "sensation" was absent from the meeting.

It was said that Mayor Hunter has a statement from the state board of health supporting him in his stand and strongly remonstrating against the dismissal of the sanitary officers here.

At the last meeting Councilman Zimmerman expressed himself to Mayor Hunter as being in favor of eliminating the sanitary board, and detailing patrolmen to the duties performed by them.

Mayor Hunter informed Zimmerman that the board was necessary to the health and sanitation of the city, and offered to submit a report of the work done by the board during the year. Councilman Zimmerman reqnested that such a report be read to the council. and Wednesday night at the regular meeting the report wae read by H. L. Herring, clerk to the board.

The report showed that 2.147 cases of weeds had been reported to the board and ordered cut in various parts of the city. Following the reading of the report, Councilman Zimmerman asked Mr. Herring "Out of the 2,147

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OFFERS REWARD FOR

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN LORRAINE, Sept- 5.—(By the Associated Press.')—Orders captured by American troops in the Tou! sector, and-signed by the commander of a German division, offer a reward of 400 marks to the German soldier bringing in the first American prisoner.

The German commander Is apparently unusually anxious, for in another order he threatens to send an extlre regiment out on patrol if It continues to fail to produce an American prisoner.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1918. FOUR O'CLOCK—TWO CENTS

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WILLIS JOINS ZIMMERMAN, jBUl THERE "REVOLT" ENDED

Most of the Council Accept Hunter's Explanation, and the Expected Upheaval Did Not Happen ./. -—Other Business.

BRmSH SMASH DOWN HDmElffiUICG DEFENSES

Victorious Allies Sweep On To .Outskirts of Cambria, the Next Important Enemy Position To Fall—^Operations On Vesle Extended.

RFTREAT GOES OH UNCHECKED

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PARIsf Sept. 5.—Overcoming the resistance of the Gfermafii fool' hy foot, Gen. Humbert's men are forging ahead rapidly after breaking the line today. The advance at 3 o'clock was from four to seven miles in depth. Guiscard fell into their hands this afternoon. The first army, in the meantime, took Libermont, Fretoy-Le-Chatean, northwest of Ham. 4

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

The British after their victorious drive through the Hindenbnrg defenses, are knocking at the gates of Cambrai, but apparently are momentarily pausing before attempting to force an entrance. Prisoners to the number of more than 16,000, and guns exceeding 100 in number have been taken by them in this advance.

Meanwhile the center of greatest activity has shifted to the FrancoAmerican front, where the Germans axe in full retreat on a wide front north of the Vesle, with the French and Americajis in pursuit, and reported as having reached the Aisne in their chase.

Between these two sectors another notable German retrograde movement is in progress. The French pressure in the region north and east of Noyon has forced a German retirement on a wide front in this sector, and advances of five to seven miles have been scoied^ by the French forces within the past if hours.

FRENCH NEARING HAM.

The town of Guiscard has been captured, and the French have pressed beyond until they are now but a little more than two miles from the important road center of Ham. They are approaching Ham on both sides of the Somme, and its speedy fall seems probable. iThe Germans lere are apparently heading back for the St. ftuentin-La Fere line.

Between the Ailett* and the Aisne the French also are gaining ground. They have crossed the Aisne at several points northeast of Soissons, and hav$_ taken the town of Missy-Sur-Aisne on the north bank, where they were already in possession of Bucy-Le-Long. farther north on this front they have taken the towns of of Braye and Clamecy.

VESLE OPERATIONS EXTENDED.

The Franco-American operation on the Vesle front has been extended farther eastward toward Rheims, and new crossings have been ef jsd on the two and one-half mile front between Ventraux and Jonchejy, seven miles west of Rheims.

In the north the Germans are continuing to move backward along the Flanders front The British are accelerating Che retirement by sharp attacks, in one of which they captured thf village of Ploegsteeri They have regained their April line on the southern part of this front from Neuve Chapelle fo Givenchy.

Huns in General Retreat

ALLIED ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE Sept, 6.—The Germans have begun a general retreat from the Vesle river between Soissons and Rheims. General Man^rn has advanced his lines to the edge of the plateaa from Vauzcere to Bastieux to a position to the north dominating the Aisne and the Chemin Des Dames. American patrols confirm reports that the enemy has removed his stores and supplies and additional territory in this sector is expected to be taken with little more than rear guard opposition.

Klse'where along the battle front from Rheims to Ypr*s the German re-

INDIANAPOLIS, lnd„ Sept. S.— President "Wilson was a-^ked today to make one or more speeches in Indiana during his proposed liberty Loan tour by George C. For re v. director of the Indiana speakers' bureau of the fcurth Liberty Loan committee.

Mr. Forrey sent a telegram to Joseph P. Tumulty, the president's secretary, urging him to include Indiana in the president's speaking trip should* the tour be decided upon. Mr.*Forrev said an intensive speaking campaign would be conducted in Indiana from Sept. 14 to 2* iust before the opening of the official loan campaign,

BOMY $lM BUSY

A police squad under Special Officer Moore and Sergt. Deere raided the saloon of James Bunkley, colored, at Thirteenth and College struts. Thursday morning and sent Bunkley to Jail and contiscAted about two gallons of whiskay with glasses and bottles.

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treat continues, heavy gains having been made by the French who are advancing in the direction of Ham, after taking Guiscard. Overcoming strong resistance, Gen. Humbert's army broke the line and advanced in this section from four to seven miles on a line from Mont St. Simeon to the C&nal Du Nord.

The concentration of German troops tn the wide front before Cambrai has served to slow down the British advance br this section appreciably, although some progress is being made. Increased German artillery Are is reported an along the British lines. Here the Germans l»ad the advantage of the defe: .ormed by the Cans4 Du Nord and tne Hindenburg line, both of which the British have entered at various points. Also, the strain of the long offensive they ha^e had caused the British to halt temporarily to give the men much needed rest.

HARASS FOE RETREATS

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PARIS. Sept. 5.—The Ormati treat iWore the Fr^m-h northeast

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Stand Back, Widows

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 5.— Enactment of a law in Germany to prevent widows from remarrying, so a* to leave the few available men for single women, is urged in a letter to the Tag by a Munich doctor, Hans von Hertig. He points out that the widow, through rcmarrytng after the war, would have a detrimental effect on the birth rate, aa most of them are mothers already. "On Decejn'o-jr 1, 1910," he writes, "there were in Terman\ about fml widows between the ages of eighteen and forty-Ave. At a very modest estimate there are now 800.000."

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