Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 25, Number 201, Lebanon, Boone County, 23 May 1917 — Page 1

frei;gh capture more positions from germans

Take Scries of Heights Commanding the Aillettc Valley. FRENCH NOW NINE MILES FROM LAON Increased Artillery Atlitity Along the Belgian Front Arouses Interest. 1.0N10N. May 23. Tba Ailtrtte Valley, a strategic strip of ground south of the fortress of ljion is now dominated by the French. A series of heights, commanding the valley, were ranturcd during the night, the Fien' h r; office announced today. In the Chevroux sector I'.tt i run. captured thre lines of German tienches. Three hundred and f'fty Germun prisoners wcr captured. The Germans delivered n violent counter attack, but it broke down under t'ie French fire. The text of the official report ful- I 01: "From the California plateau to ! Vlauclero the French have captured all th point dominating the Ailettei valley and alto achieved splendid auc cess on the northern slopes. Eat of Chevroux, three lines of trenches were captured last German counter assault against the new position broke down under our fire. The enemy lost heavily. "In the sector of Eparges, a German attack failed." A a result of the captures lust fnlght the French are now about nine J miles south of Laon, the chief fortress J defending the southern end of the IHirftleubarg line. The increasing artillery activity along the Belgian front has aroused intense curiosity as to the forthcoming development in the arena of fighting. A dispatch from Havre, the pref nt seat of the Ilelgian government. Imported an increase in fighting all jaloruj the line from the North sea to a point south of pres.

j Only artillery duels were reported I Quglielmo Marconi. Inventor "f the jfrorn the Arras front by the war oftae I M inwntM ..,ullt);ar,e 1 The gound recently captured by the i kll,Br " Mr'nl 0 m "r "f 'Itritish around Bullecourt, In the Hin- Italian war mission to tho United lenburg line, was shelled all night by States which reuchtsl Washington tujheavy German guns. The Britian re- ,jay jplicd with effective fire, j In an jpjew with newspai' men i Near Cavrelle, in the Lens sector. , ,M (f(ven bt0 aftern.s.n the he British carried out n successful i IMiun inV(!ator wil, te, of hlH ntw , rench raid. , yc0 l0 COrnbat the sumarlne nu n ice, i A number of German prisoners were it wftJ liy B n,emher of the l-aptured by engagements In which the I

ll-'rench captured some Germans. Italian Offensive. The smashing offensive of the Italas on a 35-mile front between TulVmno and the Adriatic sea will reolve itself into a decisive battle, eording to the view expressed by mili ary experts her today. The Italian are battling for two bjertivea, the flist and most Import,nt of which is Trieste. The second s Leiharh, and if they are able to crnpy this city thsj will be only lflO lilee from Vienna. Practically the entire Italian army massed upo the Julien front. Where a fierce fight is in progress I imong the mountains. It is estimated jhat the Italians have nearly 3,000,000 nB il action on this front. I The counter drive of the Ausrrn. Jluns on the Trentino front is being limed out with extreme vigor, but Ithout any derisive results. Artillery activity has been inereasig along the front of the Carnic alps uring the past 24 hours, indicating a esumption of in funtry operations in hat region soon. A hot wave has struck the Italian ront and has causer) considerable suf-: ering among the troops, especially j le British artillery men, who are orkinir the biir iruns that the tint-1 )h war office sent to this front. Not Inly guns and ammunition hut a fill s uiply of eooipment was sent. j j The devastation of the eountry re-1 nny uiren ny uie itanan rivals trim ; jf Frsn.e. Plava is a eity of rui jt has been under shell fire for two ear. The Aostro-Huns detroyed H'erytl.ing when they retired. I MARTIAL LAW DECLARED. 1 PARIS. May 23. -Martial law has "ta declared in Lisbon, Portugal, as result of food riots there, accords' to dispatch received br today. hundred pertovn are de'lsred to iv been killed in the f '"' ' -;fets.

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Bulletins Iffy fa Irtttrmnii'mnl StKa grrrtct.i GENEVA, May 23. II was reported frem Vienna tedsy that the British have sent an army of 2 ".0,0110 o aid the Italians in their offensive anninot the AuslroHuns. y tV InUrnulixnitl rifa .rrlcf. KIO JANEIRO, May 21. Although rioting was expected on the war situation the night passed quietly owing to extra pidice precautions. Frequent expressions were heard in. the street toduy that. Germany was already making war upon Brazil by attacking Brazilian ships. The general opin. ion is that Itmil probably will enter the conflict on the aide of the United States. Iff 1hf !iemnli'mll AVirif Smli f.) LONDON, May 21. The American medical unit which arrived law! eeek was reviewed to. day by King George, tjueen Mary, the Prince of Wale and Princes Mary at Hiii'ilrgham Palace, in, Mr nfnf..sl V Kr'rl.rA GENEVA. May 23. The Cuban minister to Germany, acc.impanied by the Guatemalan ministcr arrivitl here today from Iter. lin. Both staled that the situation in Germany is s riouw. The people are discontented and the food shortage is tsusing intense suffering. They cre aceompan. id from Berlin to the Swiss frontier by a German army officer. MARCONI HAS DEVICE 10 DESTROY U Italian Inventor of the Wireless Announces Invention of a "Submarine Killer." 1PV M flfernutidnilf Stum 6'frike.i WASHINGTON, May 2:1 .-The invention of the d.'vice that will r! the was of Gt-rmany's U-boats ina hv to In rn-.lited b, lti.lv ' It is to Marconi's invention that the members of th Italian mission credit the destruction of fourteen Austrian and lierriian submarines in the Mediterranean during the last montii. WILL INVESTIGATE. Go'ernmom Will Try (Hit Inventions Directed Against I'.hnat. lily tku iileraaHSTi Unft MsrisV-e.) WASin.VGTON, May 23-lnvesti-gat'on of reportei inventions to thwart the German submarines is to he made hy the government nn a sc!e not hitherto attempted i' was declarer; ! by Secretary ft' Navy Daniels today, ; The " "ouncement was made in con. j nwtion snth the statement of Hudson i Maxim that he has perfected a de-h e that will n.ats ships immune fiom ; torpedoes. ! 1 nONOR ROLL List of Those Who Have Recently Paid Hnbscriptiona la Advance. Ioral Glendennlng, K. K. 2. Curtis Shore, IndinnaiHilis. Moore Brothers, Rosston. T. N. Bryan, R. R. fl. John Garrett, R. R. 7. I A. Rithmnn, Indianapolis. W. A. Lane, North Manchester. Jos. Griffin, R. R. 8. Gaynelle Bradley, Kentucky. Gus Cobh, R. R. . J. E. Campbell, R. R. 7. Cora Doehlman, Wisconsin. Interstate Public Service, City. Jos. Baird, R. R. 19. C. A. Hollingsworth, Klrklin. Chaimer Rk, R. Jt, 10. niswlee V.'illioit, R. R. S. Row, i Fulton. Illla-ris, .

LEBANON,

THEALLIED BOARD VILLSPEND HUGE sumos. Will Buy Supplies For the Allies and the United States Also. GREATEST BUYING ! AGENCY IN WORLD Extension of Scope Will Double j the Work of Purchasing ! Hoard. I (n thr rrMfivai .Ws-t Scrttce., WASHINGTON', May 21 The ali lied purchasing board will spend ten I lull .on dollars a year in the United States. !t will buy supplies, not for i the entente allies aiono, but for the ' military and naval foices of the I I'niied States ae well. The.,e facta developed this afterj nim after it wa learned that Soc- ! retiry of War Pnker and Secretary I of the Navy lamicls are now working ! nn concrete plans for turning over the entire juarter-maiter's d peitment of both the army and navy to work as a j division of the allied purchasing board. ! The wnek of the purchasing hoard, ! already heralded as the greatest buyj mg agency in the world's history, will ! be nearly doubled by this extension ! of tli scope of its activities. No j announcement has yet been made of ' tiie names of the men that are to be members of the beard but it is known that many of them will ba business 1 experts. According to present plans it j is known the entente allies will b roi presented on the board by onl on ! official of each country engaged in the jsr to crush Germany, j The work of the purchasing board i pr.ihabiy will got under way by tha iia t,H,..iur. I tirs'will be in' Washington and it, wilt v, .v tV,,,s.,nrts M field s.-nts ' throughout tho United Status. The j centralizations of the purchasing authonty in this one body will make , nut only for economy but for effltlenoy that will measure well up to Prussian standards.

ULTIMATE CONSUMER WILL BE HIT BY REVENUE BILL

BY ROBBRT SMITH. tAy ls slersdHbsal 3mf er4e) WASHINGTON, May M. Mr. and Mrs. Ultimate Consumer are going to be sharply and painfully stung by the 1.8iS).0"0.000 revenue bill, which i is eipectixl to pa the house today. The bill is going to dip down into t American porkut and pull forti canh for vital neceasitiee In heretofore un- ! Ireame.) of ways). It is going to make .Mr. and Mrs. Ultimate Conaatier fori;et thn high eot of living and pnpalatino a now mfniin atitltiad, Tke , high cost of existing. Fiom tho time thoy roll out of bed 'in the morning until the eonnd of j taps at mght they are goinf to find j themse'ves confronted with new and surprising drvu..- for eitraetlng funils from t' ..ir already emadared ! pocketlioolt. j Apparently the hr.use leompletely i forgot President V.'ilion's (uldlng ini Junction, laid down in hit war addrwes that, "if men were to be eon scripted I so must wealth he also and unless the j sennte radically change the bill, aa it probably will, the great burden of the war's cost is going to be thrown upon the shoulder of the average cit izen already staggering under the load of the cost of living;. The house bill begins it levy on i the average eititen by reaching down i and taking two per rent of the income of married men over 12.000 and of unmarried men of $1,000. Honsontal tariff Increase of tarn

per cent, ou U Import whether on ansoi fi source or revenue. A the dutiable or free, list, ta provided I ten per cent tax will be levied on in the bill. Thie, if. i estimated, will lycmr due If you belong to a gymnadd $21X1,000,000 to the nation's re- faaium, golf or terms club. New life

venue during the war period. Several year go, before th na.tment of the Underwood law, th tariff was blamed for the high cost of living. The restoration of th entlr free list to the dltlabl list, with a ten per cent tax, will a IT set th price of many of th most vital aecir! of life. Bom of tho ales student of the bill contend that pwrd Jump of ten pe cent In U "t of h tr be te rfa we- t -

INDIANA, ViWUZZDAY, MAY 23, 1U17.

PERSHING'S MEN WILL JEAT AMERICAN FOOD WHILE IN FRANCE . I Iks lalrmmtemll Nmu wr-. ' .WASHINGTON, May 2.1. General Pershing's troop will eut fse vhit Mln In the trenches in France. The nine engineers regiment also wilrhave American food as will the regiments of murines which will operate with Pershing's men. This was determined today by General Al Smith, chief of the division of supplies of the quartermasters corps, who already started plana for eompletely storking the commissary of the expedition. ; ' No French food will he consumed by the American forces until the individual soldier or marine desires to obtain it. General Smith declared that the war department will arrange to sustain all American troops that are ordered ittroad when they go in large numbers. 1 Small expeditions, if any are ordered, however, will not be accompanied by rulcwanre with whidh to purchase food abroad. The food cost for the "first 25,000" will be about 18.000 a day. REACHES HOI SAFELY; . """ " " Gn. JotTre and E-Premler Vivlanl Arrived at Brest Last Night. Ml m ler..l Wew. drrrlce.l

PARIS, May 23. &c-ne,al Joffre ; mUon the neutrals, and ex-Premier VTvluni, who headed j While the plans of the food adminiathe r Tench mission to the United tration have not been announced and 0, , , , r,, , are still far from complete, it is

upon meir reiura. They reached Brest at mid-night j and will arrive in Pari tonight. Only a few officials knew that for-! mer Premier Viviani of France and i General JofTre sailed from New V'ork , on May 15. The party-sailed on the stme ship which had brought them to the Ln taii States and which was enn. ; Toyed by a man-of-war. The secreaiin.iiK .h. .u,M,., f .v, French mission was maintained to prevent the f renchmen's plans from falling into the hands of Germnn spies and to keep the envoys' ship from being endangered by German submarines. Freight re baa are to h taxed S per sent Thia is expected to yield 177,000,000 annually in revenue. It will cost tan per cent more to send articles by nxprees. AH these charges will be passed on to Mr. Ultimate Consumer. There will be a ten per conr "J paJsi lares, ami u , yo ride a a Pullman sleeper or chair j car another ton -per cent will be tacked to your traporut.oa bill. , Tour euetra : light I will and your gas: and your telephone bill will b boosted I fir per wit. treasury departs osent estlriiAte the government will receive tO.0OO,OO0 year from this score of revenue. If you warf. to us the long distance phone or send a wlrs ymi will have to pay five cents additional foi each meanage coating II rent. The icoet of ssuaament will go still higher, ff you go to a movie you wfll pay an additional cent for each ten rent worth. If you take your wife to a hall gun it will eoat yon approximately twenty rent more and if you go to real "legit" theater thnre will be a tax of approximately forty centa on your two tickets. Along in this connection cornea a tax on tennis balls, dice, checkers, cabarets, fishing tackle, hair restorer, salve, pills, tooth pa-ste, tonic, Jewelry, club dues, drugs, hair dye, tobacco, cigarettes, soft drinks, hard liquor and chewing gum. Even mercise haunt Often overlookad in tii soulless search of the tax liwurance will cost you, indirectly eight cent for each tlOQ. If you send a letter to the government orotesting against the his-h tax, the stamp will oat yon three wsnta instead of two, and if you try to he economic! and only us a posard that will eoat yoa a cent nor, too. And, finally If ytt get tnto debt and try to bmrew oirmev to "K'"t out rt M- boss." Tooll to nay a, , - i I i "Jf..

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Food Commission Emphasizes Need of Conservation. PLANS ARE NOT FAR FROM COMPLETE Country May be Divided Into J Districts With Woman in I Charge of Each. BY DAVID B. CHURCH. (On ( sfmi'l"'il .Vrir Keniicl WASHINGTON', .May 2:!. "The : ha t that rocks the cradle" is the hand that not alone "rules the world, but w ill win the world war. Members of President W ilson's food commission deflated today that the American women can win the war for she can do the greatest "bit" in the I urngrnm of food conservation so that i the United States may feed its allies ( Food economists have estimated tlul f ""' n,wt r feat of ihp fo'"' lomaumed bv the American people each day is under the control or women. tt eacn woman win mane ncrself a food controller, officials say, the food conservation in this country will be suih tlmt there will he a great nlentv for evDortation to the allied !,.,ln,r;.s an.l s sutlii -ient liuantltv to ! known that the present plans call for g iarfe numWf of women to take active part in the work of ministering the foisl resources of the United .States, Divided Into District 1 1 la tirnhnlile that the country will fc, divided into districts and there will be a woman in chargo vf earn uistrict. l nc nea't ot encn uisirici wilL navT rorps of women on her staff and they will attempt to reach ! personally th of the American housewives. ! It is strictly a matter of impressing j upon the American house wife the neI cessity for her economizing at once, ! members of the food administration say. They have nn doubts but that 1 American women will support the i movement, but they believe the real ! seriousness of the oil jsliun hs not ! yet "come home to the kitchen." They 1 feel that while America reads daily i of the need of conservation, she leaves the matter of conservation to her J neighbor. ; There was consideiable encouragement in food circles today on receipt of news that New York society women, headed by Mrs. William K. Vanderbuilt have started a campaign of ! economy. There will be no campaign of cducarood administrators realize that' ,he tlmp fop pl)u,ution not anir..:.-.!.. inu. Manlim th, administration awaits srtion r0 s9 th f,wl ,,, wni,. ut prwnt givea nn pro. milW, of bw,omjn(f , aw for at lflftat thirty days IlCOIDIOIMEu.S. Arrived in Wafshington on a Spe cial Irsin Provided by the State Department. fly 'e ' stersnffanfll Xcirf Rervic.) WASHINGTON, May 2.1. The red, hite and green of Italy was raised everywhere over Washington today besides th stars and stripes, the Union Jack and th Tri-color of France, in honor of the arrival of the Italian commission to the United States. The mission arrived in Washington on fpeeial train provided by the state department. They were accompanied by Assistant Secretary Brecinridge Long and were greeted at the station by Secretary Lansing and other high officials. The trip to the home of Joseph Loiter where the mission will be quartered during its month's stay, took on the nature of a street parade. Th military escort was two troop of cavalry from Fort Meyer. In the Italian party are some of the kirg iotna foremost commercial and ecdnomie xprts, '

NO. 2S1.

THE GERMAN LOSSES TOTAL OVER 4,000,000 UP TO END OF APRIL (Its t jsnraajfoaaj Arev ffnffcv.t THE HAGUK, May 23. The total number of German losses up to th end of April is estimated at 4,245,800. Those figures were compiled today from the various lists issued in Berlin. Nearly 1,000,000 German have been killed in battle. The balance represent men lost as prisoner or wounded. FIRE IN NAVY YARD. Little Damage Done in Establishment t Norfolk. Va. B Its terlloll .Vt gcrisve.) NORFOLK, Va., May 2!l. Naval officials today declined to make any estimate of the damage resulting from a fire in the navy yard last night. The fire was in one of the machine shops and following its dis covery a call to quarters was sounded. fsarlier in the day the entire yard had been tied up by the short circuiting of generator in the pnwsr plimt Fire Did Little Damage. WASHINGTON, May TX The fire at the Norfolk Navy yard was confined to a few barrels of rubbish in a building that is being constructed and was put out with a few pails water, it was stated at the navy il partment today. TWO NEGROES KILLED. Two Mortally Wounded and Score In jared at Baseball Game. Iffy tht IsferiMNimol A'sios SerWcc.) LOUSVILLE, May 2.1. lteport were received here today that two negroes were killed, two mortally wounded and a score injured in fight at a bull game between tw colored teams near Richmond, Ky. Serves Notice That He Desires Restrictive Measure Panned By Congre). (Be Iflf ;eraHo9! .i Imto.l WASHINGTON, May 2H. Prosi-1 lent Wilson will insist on a war cen-l sorship of prees and speech. He rved notice today on both houses of congress that dosplte the decisive rejection of the censorship section by the senate and the hnuso Republicans he had decided to throw all his power and Influence behind an effort to restore it to the espionage bill. The president today called Senators Overman of North Carolina, Fletcher of Florida and Nelson of Minnesota, the senate conferee nn the espionage bill, to the white house and repeated substantially to them w-hat he said in his letter yesterday to Chairman Webb of the house Judiciary committee. He denied that he had changed his mind with regard to the necessity for censorship and expressed the wish that they renew their efforts to Incorporate such a section in the espionage bill. Thtf piwldent, according to the conferee, praised th patriotism of the newspaper as a whole, but declared that some sort of governmental restrictions on th publication of news was absolutely essential to the successful conduct of tha war. The senate conferee returned to the capitol to meet again with the house conferees in another effort to break the deadlock Ovtr th censorship and embargo provision of the espionage bill. They freely admitted to their colleague that they 4r perplexed over th situation and a request to both house for new Instructions may come at any moment from tha con fereos. the senate conferee are definitely pledged not to accept the cen sorship section in any form, and since then action of the house Republicans yesterday the opinion was expressed that the chance of getting a censor ship provirion agreed to by the houst were even lea favorable than in the senate. THREE MORE SUNK. Norwegian Merchant Ship Victim of German 15- Boats. (As steiussMl gem aerrlM.) CHRISTIANIA, May J3. Thre more Norwegian merchaih ships have been sunk by German submarines, bringing th relattou between tliis country and Germany to the breaking point. U was aaV that lows of life attended tli dea-tr. jio of th ships. The name of the Teasels wsr not made known. . ,

UdFOSEiiE YsflsCAsChinhS niriniu on mu LLtAnLi oti uut-

Explanation Made of the Object of Proposed War Fund. IS TO PROUDE A ' SOCIAL CENTER It Will Furnish Place in Camp Life For Wholesome Recreation. An army officer who commanded n Illinois regiment on the Mexuaa line last winter said that he would be unwilling to lead American boys into the training camp or into the battle line today if he could not have behind the line the army V. M. C. A. Some people, in Lebanon, apparently, do not fully iviilize just what the money to be ruined tomorrow is to be used for. Primarily it is net to carry preachers, or Sunday school teachers, or even Sunday school teaching to th army; it is not to carry the church to the army; primarily it is not even to carry religion to the army, using that word in its narrow sense. Prrmarily it w to carry a social center, a place where there slmll be clean amusements, wholesome and uplifting; entertainments and, as far as possible, a place in the midst of camp life wherw there shall be the atmosphere of th home and of the community that tha lioys have left behind. In the next few weeks thousands of boys will leave small cftiea like Leo- ( anon and smaller towns like Whitetowa and Advance and quiet home on Indiana farms; the purpose Is, that wherever theae boys go, whether to the Irsiiiing camp at Indianapoiiaw or to the larger training camps of the Atlantic coast, or to the trsnlng campx of France, or to the battle line where hey face the German legions, thar shall always be right behind thera within easy access of every soldier, this V. M. C. A. center with It books, music and home papers and song and the atmosphere, so far as it ran ve reproduced, of the home and th community life that they left behind. It is to carry to these boys wherever they may be called to go, a center which will link them, even though they be in n strange land, with th life of the home, tile school, the community and the church, lack behind them. To mention only one feature win. ve an idea of what th whole pur pose is. in these i . M. u. A. cemer will be kept for free nse of th boys, army stationery, envelopes, pen and nk end tables where they can b-e useo, Kvery encouragement will be given through these to have the boys kwo fresh f-.e memory and the ties of their old life. It has been found in the wide; uerience of the Canadian troops oa the battle front that the hoya who keep in communion with the friends. i-ith tbe sisters, with the motnere, fith the sweethearts back in America are the boys who escape best th tre mendous temptation of the army tire, and who are best fitted to do that soldier's part which has brought sucr. surprise and praise from the soldier of the old world. The German prisoners say there are no men on the western front whom they so fear aa they do the Canadian troops. Every American will be proud if our Amari-i can boys astonish the world, as we firmly believe they will, both as soldiers and aa men. Dr. Mcintosh pre-. dicta that it will be American boy who will first cross the R'-'we- ad that it will be tho roar of the American cannon manned by American boya who will first strike terror into the hoart cf tha kaiser and hia crowd. - We who cannot go are glad of this opportunity to do our part by furnishing as far as we can, the mean to make the American boy who can go as, comfortable and as contented a n,j aa erocient es we can. And there is no way that we can do thia so wall as through ties home-life center which the Y. M. C A. i planning to carry with the army. President Wilson in connection with the war department and all the o (Beers in the field has been so impressed by th good work of the Y. M. C A. that he has placed it on tho same footing with the Fed Cms society and given it th official standing w army institution. The canvas' tomorrow is furnishing ut with an opportunity, not Impoelng upon tt a duty. Indiana i responding loyally and her part of 1150,000 will be readied and we are sure that Boone county and Lebanon will an com abort.