Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 25, Number 141, Lebanon, Boone County, 12 March 1917 — Page 1

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2 Ram or snow rnj.l.f acj ri--il. VOLUME 25. LEBANON, INDIANA, MONDAY MARCH 12. 1917. No. 141.

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IlEfEEi "teon Persons Reported Missinjf in Storm Devastated Cities. ISSUED FOR FINANCIAL AID or Rays $1110,000 ImmediateNeeded For Relief Work H-enes of Devastation ; Starlet of Survivors. 9y fAft frrnafpmal Sftr flerrlre.l EWCASTI.E, Ind., Marrh 1-'.-the known number of dead in Newtastle torniulo horror standat nineteen today, searching pardelved into the ruins of scores of s In the southeastern part of city searching for fifteen missing iu. Four deaths were added to 'tornado in Wayne rounty, where ornado killed two children and , I anil luoorrrs Del "re it spent stricken relatives who came e seeker of curiosity from nty in central Indiana during " could only wait until thp parties hail completed their They waited and shivered, e thermometer stambng near nil a chilly wind bluwir.it over own. rhere was no gas and t iuei. i 11:00 a. m. Coroner Drake an-, iced definitely that nineteen per- i i were dead in Kewcastle. ! though all the factories were d $o that laborers mirht plunire , tle work of reconstruction, the fA far earpentera lotted the t will be carried on rapidly. ayor J. Ib W atkins, who has not for forty -hours, said that the citof Newcastle needeil f 1 00,000 im-; tly for relief work, tou't believe a million dollars will ; the property loss." he said, j t poor men have lost everything. I elf, have lost my home and euwhold (pxx's. 1 have left an ; jtomobile worth a hundred dolBut n0,(KX) will give relief! needy and prevent too great j

eweuatle'a citiiena are generous- j ni w mwhnr already purchase,! in-, eninj: their homes to their unfor- tallel. the Interstate Public Sen-ice' e brothen and sisters, but we Company will have spent aevera! ' have outside help." j thouaand dollars in making the I .eh- j wn found hundreds of searcher ) "" proin-rtiee. including the eleetcg the debris for the missing, (trie light plant, heating and ice plant, !y nineteen bodies had been re- .among the most modern in the state, erf and it was believed as many j The work has already teen started j would be found under the wreck- I ' a small way and before many days ',

Militiamen from Muncie, I.ngan- ! and Crawfirdaville were here to! fharge of the work of rescue and 1y 200 special deputies of the j t policing the town, made nov- j by the discovery that looter, ' -f aa rescuers, had seized upoo ' t- il to pursue their work. I"e-1 nurse, hurried here on spec- . : from Indianapolis, and by j Wrni nearby towns were busy . Cr for the injured, roanv of whom a serious conilion- Every house standing upon its foundations, f church, every school bu'l'nu in u.- as a hospital, or a shelter ie hundreda uf homeless, whose y waa added to by bilnn c -id Four Dead in (ne Family.

all the cases of sufferi.ig, that of ' five hundred kilowatt or six hundred -t Day stands out as the most ap- 'ai d seventy horse power direct conag. Three of hia children, Her-; nected electric unit to the engine. This I d; June, 8 and F.thel are dead will give the plant a rapacity of eight jk 24-year-old son is believed to hundred kilowatt or one thousand and : :d. The father and two little neventy horse power in electric equipn are homeleha. But while all ment and cistern hundred and fifty 4ty mourned, determined citizens . horse power in lioiler eipjipment. When : i( the work of reconstruction. ! all this ia installed the entire plant W J. Leb Watkins with his home i will have dual eipjipment or in other ,M of ruina, but happy because wor-ls if one machine breakrt down j 'amily eacaped injury or death, another w ill he in reserve ready for inted citiiena committees in their stmt use. In case both should break; t He ahut off the gas and coal d-.wn, which ia very improbable, the I Invent fire. He supervised the oil station will be ready for use. This

of a relief committee which will needy, he mobilized the work-; m the factorie and stores to ip the wreckage and restore ; companies of the National . patrolling the devastated dia-, 'If enter, wer commanded by I R A. Davia, of IndianapoUa. have been many report of loot-

sit no nrreaia. , claaaea of rltiwmi uffered ta raado. The Indiana Rolllnj Mill irrerked; scores of factory work-1 imea war demoliabed nod aome 1

! of the best residences in this prosperous city were destroyed. Gitixens are thankful that the business district and the big Maxwell Motor and Hoosier Kitchen cabinet factories were not in the path of the storm cloud. The hastily organised relief committees were ratified to the early responses for appeal for a state-wide fund to relieve distress. John W. Rogers, of Newcastle, W. W. Goodrirh of Winchester, aril Herbert Muddy, of Winchester, headed the F.tate wide committee. Mayor WatVirui estimated that $100,000 will be needeil. The nvdiral situation was well in hand, with the services of doctors from many cities at the disposal of the committee and citizens opened their homes to the homeless. Only money now is needeil. Countless stories of miraculous escapes from death or injury were recounted. When the steel roof of the rolling mill was torn off several employes clung to the posts at a doorway. Here they hung while the brick wall crumbled above them until the

storm passed. One man had let fur goats into the mill. He saw them buried under an avalanche of timbers. After the : storm the timbers were turn away and the gouts found unh.rtnril A fanner was driving to town when the cyclone cloud caught him. His horre and bonify were t.ed into the air. He w:is thrown from the bugg. The horse Km found down the road with only a bridle on, the buggy wa.- a muss of splinter.-, and the farmer was not injured. The .-.tunii tore off the -hirco upper half of the home of Krost Mclatren. slicing it off neatly. CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR." TO BE INSTALLED AT PLANTS HERE Interstate Public Service Company Purchases New Machinery. CAPACITY OF LIGHT PLANT INCREASED Additional Equipment Will Provide For Any Emergency RusinesH Grows Steadily. When improvements which have al.a,ly ,,, r, fomlll.t,(1 will he in full sway. The changes; to lie made are many and when they aie completed Lebanon will have praetirally new plants The present equipment it the heat-! ine and electric plants includes three' boilers of three hundred and fifty horse power each or a total of one thousacd and fifty horse power. The present electric equipment there now: consists of three hundred kilowutt or' four hundred horse power steam i turbin. In a Idltion to this the oil en-' g'ne plant on Mallard street consisting of three Ileisel oil engines with a total capacity of live hundred hor-ie pow- , er, is used. ! The New Kquipmrnt. ' The new equipment will consist of ; three hundre.i horse power toiler ami however will be used only in caes j of emergency. At the present time, i with the exception of th street hghts. all rurre'.t is fed from the oil plant after it haa Wn generated at the htating plant. Tins plan wilt bei changed entirely and all the switching i .htating plant Baalneaa Crows.

NEW EQUIPMENT

Rjh year aeet 1 decided Incrmae the ,mount of current consumed iB t,hanon and the official! expect a CONTINUED ON FACE SIX. m

GERARD BRINGING

E STARTLING INTRIGUE FACTS Returning Ambassador Will Furnish President With Disclosures. HAS DOCUMENTS TO SHOW PRESIDENT Declines to be Interviewed, But Members of Party Give Out Intimations. RY EDWARD F. ORRIKN'. IB fS- nrrrHdflondl .Vfitf Hrrlc. HAVANA. March li'.-Startling revelations of German diplomatic intrigues will be made hy James W. Gerard, fonner American ambassador, after he reuches Secretary of State Lunging and President Wil t was ' believed after the (ierard party sailed for Key West today. tieraM's purpose, his friejds said, is to furnish the president with an etfective weapon to combat the pacificist element in congress. His revelations, it is undertiMst, wilt be given aa much Publicity as possible and will ko a lonjr way toward clearing up any doubts in the Tatted States of tier-

muny's attitude. The former ainba.v , ' sailor believes it to be his duty to inform the American public, member:, of Hi(fSl School Oaeful

his party declared, and will back up his statements with documentary evidence. (ierard, himself, declined to submit to interviews when approached by ' newspaper men here, but several mem- j ber.i of his party brought to Havana firit hand information regarding in-1 ternal conditions in (iermany. They reported that Germany, threatened .ation, three ftii to s Thes.' are: An effective si :iibmartne cai Kiigland into i that will slu peace. ilution in Rusi Withdrawn! of Italy from the war. The new submarine war had beenin operutton only few daya when the i ambassador and his party left Or-; many and none of the I.' b.iats had re-i turned with reports. Hut absolute confidence prevuiled Uiroughout the empire that the new wariare woul bring Kng'and to her knees. - Cerard will so reiwrt to p-esident Wilson upon his arrival in Wash: ton. I Hi Not Fear I'nited States. The German people, members of Gerard's party agreed, heard the new s of severance of diplomatic relations with the I'nited States with the greatest indifference. They do not believe that the I'nited States can become a On the other hand they are watchjn. internal relations closely in Kussia and Italy. I A revolution in Russia, or action to, a separate peace ts conf.dently ! Zm f-ITwanl ioZ Berlin official cr-! cles. The German government is waUhing closely reports of food riots and demoralization of Russian trans-' portation and munitions system and unquestionably German agents are backing the peaie propaganda in Petrograd So confident are the Ten-' tons tliat Ku a c m undertake no' great onensiv- tor many moi nths that ' they have stri.-l ti of men and gun-, a.-. eastern front I,... mt.l them in the west to meet the expected spring offensive of the itntish. German agents are also active in Italy, members of the (ierard party reported. The Germans believe effective submarine ofierations in the Mediter ranean will cut off Italy's coal sup factories to plies, cause -'r muniti suspend operations and bring about It aly's defeat. The former ambassador pli to re-1 port to President Wilson before going to New York. REPORTER EXTRAS PROVE POPULAR WITH BASKETBALL FANS: The Reporter'a basketball extras taaued Friday and Saturday during the sectional tournament proved very popular with the fana. Over on thousand of the extra were sold on th streets and In addition the regular issues had a heavy sal, Th extras wvr Issued In recorJ tim and earried eompiets srid no ta the minute sarwmts of ti fumes.

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(Be Me Inttrmattomml If" asrvirs.) COPENHAGEN, March The Danish steamef Koebrrf carrying a carifo of com from Raltimore fi nenmvi has been aunk with the kiss of ail li.es. The captain and eleven mn were landed on the Norwegian roast. E. G. HOG ATE STRICKEN. Dean or I. 1'. l aw School Taken Suil- : denly III This Morning. IKu ttt ;T..ll)al Veirs SVrrfcr.l BLOOM1NGTON, Ind., March l'i Judge E. 0. Hogate, dean of the Indiana University Law School, wast stricken with paralysis While delivering a lecture in his clas room toda His recovery is not expected. Judge donate is the author of many well known law books, and w an Republican cundiilate for governor in l'.MW. He has held the position of dean of the law school for fifteen years. CASES DISMISSED. so Slate Case Against Morris, Are Taken OS The Docket. The two state cases against Wallace Morris, of Thornto-. n, charging him with embezzlement of I. O. O. K. lodge fumU, have been dismissed on motion of the prosecutor. For Support During the Tournament. VISITORS " PLEASED : ; p.,.: .k. Treatmnl 4renrriH ' Them L. fi. Sinrlncr F.x plains Ticket Sale. 'To the flood People of Lebanon: I wish to exprea my thanks as local moirer, and the thanks of the """n high school to the patrons and friends who so hospitably opened their homes to care for the visiting teams. Most of these were mothers of our students, but many did this merely ' ou of goo.1 wishes for our school. More hemes were offered than were ded, oven though we gave full en-' tertfjnment to the teams from IeeiCreek and Rossville, who were barred from participating in the tournament, This all speaks well for Lebanon. We sent away scorea of athletes and hundreds ol -isitors loudly praising the tine trea'.mejit n-cetved at Lebanon s -

nunus. Many ol tnese nraim me upif,IMJi That this feeling of confidence to express their thanks. , w.,s w,i founded was shown by the

We wish to thank the pntrons of the

f rae for tn"ir H"""" and gnoil hum- fmai warr that was hung uu. i or "n,Wr tr'in cin-umstances, when Advance had a splendid team, enw wore t'!''n U.r to T1 " t,lM t0 ""'k " up with ubanon m to see the crucia games, and even sn,, Thomtown. It had individual ta,ulm r""m WM U players of extraordinary ability and ' "'" W rr that it waa too crowded. (.onHl,,,.,ing U.e comparatively few , Thls V we mul t0 aai-rill'e comfort , yell it hiul ,rln in the game, Adfor eeo"" capacity, and thus man-, van(.e has made notable process in' aw " B,"at maBV m"" than the science of basketball. The AdJrwlr- V,e hv done ' ran u,'vanre K hool and its supporters had "'e the armory safe, by bracing th? reason to be proud of its team and the ! b,nt tn rto"r- fbanging lowing it has maile. ln ,,oor,, to "Pn outward. ! ny oa(. f the three Roone county ! w "'n 1,1 th"nk ,h" tl'0,'l'ntful teams would have repiesented tho dm ,

f 'n'"f ,ran 11 r "iiicism ; ,"u "lr , ' , cient in number to go round. I now explain that the sale of seats was handled exactly as it was handled every previous time. However, though this haj always provided sufficient reserved seats for all, this year after the same plan was announced and many of the ( tickets apportioned and sold, the dema"' unexpectedly proved to be far i u a t r w , , , . .... i .i y reserved ninety for visit-: with the State Board of t ontrol, and ( i . hm. . i ,i. .u' Iwr to Thomtown and Advance, who could almost alone have filled the , armory. That any person had a large numb-r "f ! T"1"'" d'"P"!l',f '" ' ! in their disappointment, realized that th fault lay in an unexpected dr-: mand at the last minute and In the ; fact that the armory is far too small : totommml.Uth erowrf.nd w,! situation, with courtesy and thoughtfolnea. Your hospitality, your co-operation, and ovr team have helped to "put Leb- j .w. - - . . '.. . i - .. .-1 CONTINUED OJf IrAGE flX. I

LEBANON FAFiS ARE

ELATED OVER THE TEAM'S SHOWING ,The Local Quintette Played Great Ball During the Tournament. THORN TOWN GAME A VERY HARD ONE Tha, Cmtt WaH Reav ,he Deriding One Lebanon Has Good Schedule at I. I'. The IHslricl Winners, i Martinsville. Emerson (Gary). Rich- , mond. Rockvtlle, KendallviMe, Wahington, Vincennes, Kloomington. Bluffton. South Bend. Muncie, Lebanon, t'olumbus, Kokomo, Tiafahar, l.i.tnn, 1'enilleton. WiiiKate. Jeffer on ( t-ifay-lette). Rochester. - Hy ilefcnting the Advance quintette . in the finals Saturday night, rtT to 18, i i . i. i. ..i. i ... i .u - n Lebanon nipti school earned the right 'to represent this district at the state basketball tournament to be staged at Iniliana university net Kridty and Satunlay. There was no fluke about, Lebanon's victory. It was clean-cut and earned strictly on Its merits. ; There were few if any surprises in the tournament, which resulted about as tiie expert dopesters h:ul figured it out. It was eonieded from the stnri that the tight for district honors would he between Ihanon, Thorntown ' and silvance. Local fans and the! team a weii felt that the game with j Thorntowri Saturday afternoon would le the .uctiomil t That' game was re;itrded as the crucial one, and so it proved to lie. The two teams put 1141 a desperate struggle and Ibanon won hy a close margin. I et'ammitcs give 1 horntown credit for having a great team. WithOUt lloullt One Of the brt IB Ho utate. They weie decidedly pubilant to win from such a team, and that is ' about as Ktioi.g a compliment as local ; fans can pay the boys from Sugar t'reek township. Kor a game so hard

, fought, it was one of the rteunest Ix-h-j(.v,,. played at a sectional tournament here, and that was caime for re- ' joioing ,v the supporters of both team. vV'jth the Taorntown game out of

tne v the Lebanon team and the q , , , th , ,, ,. Uxa flu,s na,i no uneasiness over the i " "tur"r ,n tn " of Cretan outcome of the contest with Advance:0' Rtate the Rural Crellt l"Hn

niaht. and this too despite the fact i that the Lebanon piavers were not in, th of hysical condition follow-; in- th gnielling content with Thorn- i J,. Thi9 i, not KkJ(i w.tl, a view of Mlttling tlie prowess of tha Advance t(.ttm. It ih men-ly recording the feel-. mif thnt prevaill before the night bailed account oi tho game and the trict with cre.pt. It is unmriunatc that any or them had to he Oeteateii. liut only one of them could survive the tournament. Is-bnon won that honor To the credit of both Advance and Thomtown lie it said that they accepted defeat in true sportsman-1 ship style, in winning tne , i.tr.ct honors i,n-; nnon inui it na.n not utiphihi the resect or the goo-l will of either i i tu f t t?r ., i - , . winning the district championship. waa host for the visiting basketball e . i i. .u. (r chration haturday night over the victory. The demonstration was conf,nd to the armory at the rk.se of the T.1. l" Uh,n1 "li .itZll have restrained their joy to an ual extent. Later In the week a big -pep- Is on the program h bould the team win th utat cham-. piorJih.p, the fans will m.ke up for I night such as this old town haa never Iiefor witnessed. The Lebanon team cam through th totrrnament her In fairly food ji.i -ill k.. m the , , CONTINUED ON PAGE FITS.

iUIIIDEIITIFIED 111 KILLED

FREIGHT AT WHJTKTOWH CETSOMOrION.

Rev. George B. Jone. to Become Pastor at East Chicago. Ceot-jf? B. -Ion nastor of the Hillshoro Methodist church, received word the first of the week that arrangements had been completed for him to move to East Chicago. The reason for the change at-this time is that Rev. I. B. Harper ro Hautl ntly n,lgneil hm pul. pit to take charge of an English speaking church in Rio de Janeno nnd in the adjustment of the p to (ill the vacant pulpit at Terre Haute Rev. Junes was offered the pulpit ut Fast Chicago. The appointment is a nice promotion for Kev. Jones and one that he is capable of filling. It is an $1.8tM) appointment including the parsonugle and is a single station work. The church is a new edifice costing 14U.WH1. The last conference report show 'M6 niemlicrs with -'lot in Sunday school. The field ': regarded as a difficult one hut Kev Jones has had three years of exoenence in that part of the state, having served a patorate at Hobart and is familiar with the condition., T 1; IAIN HERE , Rural Credit Loan & Sav ings Association Incorporates. BEGINS OPERATIONS WITHIN SHORT TIME , . I apital Stock to b Sold in ThlH County Officers Chosen Hy the Company. Articlei of ineoriioration were filed Savings Association of this city. Tht charter was issuwl to the concern ti operate unjBr ,,rvision f tht . , , ., . ,,. eUl1 ,aW """ Marfh ir'' mX nt C"ltal of the company is placed at 000,000. The officera are: C. K. S Sn, president '. Yutiy, vin president; tluy M. Voris, secretary: John 0. Cason, treasurer; FranV Hutchinson, attorney. These five an also directors. Two more directors wil be elected as soon as the organizaUor co,m,ieted The applioatior ,S fully completed, the applioatior for the charter waa signed by aixtee, persiais. The association has leared the al ley room in the Colonial theatre build jg 0n North Lebanon street and tin olhce quarters there will tie openei Weilnesday of this week, and suh senptions for stock will be takei Uiero. It is the plun to have the or gumzation completed soon and the ex 1 potation is that the Association wil gin operations sometime betweer h nJddle of April and the first o- .., .viost of the stock will be soli ),rf. jn Boone county, Caters To Farm Loans. npw af90f,atoil m b ; Ash0ci,tioB11'h.ve pwj vory p0()U,a 1 Bncf l mMi by the jjovern mi'ttt. The Indiana law. however, i and is more satisfactory because o : the elimination of red tape, Kiv charters, each for $1,000,000 capital . , ' . . . . .. .I have been issued in Indiana since th at ate law went into effect. !U rural crediU feature will .1

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i .,io n, JJ Z ' for a.iy purpose. Th assocLitlon starts out with every prospect of an qualified sue ees and Its growth la expected to br I rapid. Further announcement of the plans of th Association will b mads from time to time. ,

BENEATH WHEELS Was "Beating" His Way With Three Others To Kankakee. STEPPED BEHIND A CAR TO LIGHT PIPE Cut of ( ars Humped Into Htm and He Was Drawn I'nder the Wheels. An unidentified man about thirtyfive years old was ki!l hy a westbound Big Four freight train at Whitestown Sunday about noon. After the train struck the man the body was dragged for about five hundred yards and it was so badly mutilated that it was beyond recognition. This man with three others had boarded the train ut Indianapolis. When the train reached Whitestown, a stop wt.b made to switch i w cars. All the men got off tho oil -ur which they had been riding to wa t until it pulled out again. This man and his partner, who left immediately ufter the accident, were sitting near a box cur which hud been pushed into the siding. John Pipes, livirg at Whitestown, gave this man a pipe full of tobacco and the latter stepped behind the freight car to. light his pipe-. While he was utanding there the 'reignt backed into the aiding and bumped the cai knocking the man underneath the wheels. Ilefore the train could be stopped llifi body hud lieen diagged about five hundred yards and was literally ground to pieces. Immediately after the accident Cormer Brendle of Zlonsvillc, and a local indertaker were called. The coroner lid not complete his investigation until this afternoon, however. The pieces of the b'xly were gathered together and brought to the George M. Comley undertaking establishment here. One of the Witn i Disappears. One of the three -'io rc with the man who was killed ran away from the scene of the accident shortly after it had happened and evidently boarded the train someplace farther west of the town. The other two remained lear the scene and acted as witnesses in the coroner's investigation Sunday afternoon, .ater they were brought to this city and placed in jail where they were held until today when th :oroner questioned them futther. They avfc their names as Charles Harriion, age eighteen and Lester Stewart iged seventeen, both of Muncie. The 'ys state that they know nothing of 'he man who waa killed. According to their story all four men hoarded the train at Indianapolis and rode the same car to Whitestown. The man who was killed, they say, told '.hem that he was on his way to 'ankakee where he was to catch anither train on the C 4 K. I. for the vest. That was piiuUaily all that '.hey know of the man as they had lever seen him until he b arded the trein. Tell Straight-forward Story. These boys seem to be. telling a ghtforward story. They say that had been laid olT their regular t Muncie and were going to Indiana Harbor U find work. Both ire nice appearing young men and etters which they carried show that -hey are giving their correct names. Nothing, whatever, was found that ould identify the man who was illed. "His clothes were hadly cut o pieces but none of the pockets ontained papers br anything that -ouid lead to his iilntitiration. One wnny was the only thing in the lockets except some matches. He vas apparently about thirty-four 'ears old, and was about five feet, 'our inches in height He was attired in a blue suit of clothes and wore lark overcont. Coroner Brendle mad a further investigation of th case this afternoon. Upon examining the body th Initials T. H. F r ond tattooed? on his eight arm. On tmy slip of paper th address "424 East 114th street," CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX.