Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 25, Number 218, Lebanon, Boone County, 11 June 1917 — Page 1

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New Form of Weapon Proved Effective in Recent Fighting. GERMAN CASUALTIES FROM 30,000 TO 10,000 The British Losses Put at 8.000 in Recent Fin h tine in Belgium. LONDON', June 11. At least :V 000 Germans were killed, wounded, or captured in the great battle won by the Kritish in Belgium on Thursday it wan estimated to. lay by competent military observer. The total British losses were estimated at one-third those of the Germane A new form of weapon was used b' the British in this fighting along the Wyschaete Iti.lse for the first time. It consist of a projectite known as the "oil can." When the shell bursts it throw boiling oil over a wide area setting fire to everything inflammable. Great conflagration were caused in the German lines by the .use of these "oil cans" during the bombardment which preceded the llritish infantry attacks. The wnr office announced today that successful raids were enrried out by the Kritish southwest of IdRassee. east of Vermclles and South of Armentieres. South of Messines, in Belgium, the British advanced their lines. German Troops Dispersed. East of Epehy, in the St. Quentin district, Orman troops that were assembling for an attack were dispersed by the fire from heavy British butteries, the official statement said. Intense artillery activity continues all along the western front. The British war office reported that six German aeroplanes were shot down by Britisn airmen on Saturday and that three othera were sent down out of control. The German war office reported the shooting down of ten allied aeroplanes over West Flanders on Friday ami six other on Sunday. The Krenqh office stated that during the first week of June, 21 German aeroplanes were sent down by French airmen and two captive balloons. Between 30,000 and 40.000 Germans were killed or wounded in Tuesday's fighting in Belgium, according to a dispatch in the i'aris Matin today from its correspondent at the British front. The British losses were put at 8,000. The light batteries of one British division fired 170,000 shells against the German positions. British heavy batteries in a single sector fired so,000 projectiles. A BOILER EXPLODES Engineer, Fireman and Brakesnan Victims of Explosion Near Huntington. (Ru thr In ft nntlt.nnl ,n e,e.i HUNTINGTON. Ind., June 11 Three men were killed this morning when a boiler in an Erie railroad engine exploded at Uniondale. east of here. The dead: William Wagner, engineer; Jerome Wilson, fireman; Rudy Harger, head brakeman. The boiler exploded with terrific force. Al) the men lived in Huntington. Wilson was thrown l.r0 feet and will die. The bodies of Wegner and Harger were picked up 100 yards from the scene of the exolosion. The trail! was running thirty mil.an hour. REPORTED FAVORABLY. Shephsrd Prohi Resolution Reported Out of Committee In Senate. rem u ' .few SWrlcct WASHINGTON, June 11. The Shepard resolution proposition nationwide prohibition was ordered favombly reported by the senate Judiciary committer this afternoon.

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TO BE FEARED AS FOE tf.i Ike l:fu!hHttl Vcr s.-rre-r. AMSTERDAM, Juae 11. The Ormaas who. believe, that th United States is not to be feared are deceiving themselves, in the oiiinion of CapL Perseus, famous German naval expert, of the Tage-blatt-H warns Germany that by autumn the United States probably will have 1RO.0OO men on the battlefield and that the United State fleet may Join the Hri " tiah fleet in an attempt to destroy the German navy and attack the Genimn coast defenses. MATCHED FOR RACE. Oldnekj and IWPalma Will Bare at Milwaukee. Wit the RrernaMonti! .Vrirt Serrtec.l CHICAGO, June 11. Barney Oldfielii and Ralph lioPalma have been matched for s race at Milwaukee, June for a til .000 side bet. George N. Browne, famous autoist, will be stakeholder and referee. OUHicId will use his new racing limousine and OePalmu his llfi miles an hour car. The contest will murk the first time the great -peedway cars have been used on a dirt trark. CONTENTS ITSELFVV1TH Mob Tortures Prisoner Suspected of Killing Baby and Then Turns Him Loose f?S the International Wirt fiercer.) SPRINGFIELD, Mo., June 11. The suggestive cross bars on the tall light pole that stands in the center of .Springfield's public square were still bare today. Out at the Meadowmerc bungalow of Holland Keet, the body of Pudgy, Merry "Buddie" Keet lay in a white casket ready for burial in the soft green hills of the Oz.,i'ks. It wasn't the fault of Springfield that the crossbars were liare. Springfield tried with all the cold fury that came on this town when) Buddie's body was found, to kill by lynching the men who crushed the tiny life. Springfield wanted to hush ; the hv.t little cry of Budlie with the ! screams of the tortured men. No one who saw the IO.OM.000 men, I women and children crowd solemnly j about that light pole until the gray hours of dawn yesterday will forget the thrill of it. there they waited for i their man hunters, far off on the j chase, to return with the five men and ! a woman that Sheriff Webb had spirited from the mob by motor. ( Tolay they are trying to be satisfied I with the story of a bloodless ami ! deathless lvnching at the hands of the j citizens committee who took from the Sheriff Claude Ioc Piersol, chief susI pect among the six prisoners, tortured I him with all the fiendishness that an j apache could devise and turned him i back when he convinced them of his j innocence. Sheriff Webb and his prisoners were I caught by the mob through the agency ! of the long distance telephone, a ; short cut, and the tearing up of a ; bridge over the road Webb was travel- j i ing. . I I When the headlights of the sheriffs ; machine met the headlights of .noicsj 'of machines pointed at them air ows j the river, Sheriff Webb knew the ! game was up. "Well, it's a showdown," he said! coolly. "I,ou can't take my prisoners. I I am not going to give them up to; 1 1 killed." Sheriff Yielded. "We'll play fair with them" the mobi leader a prominent Springfield professional man promised, vtelib look-1 ed into the sea of 600 determined j faces, and yieldeiL This was at Stockton, Mo. Pierso! was taken from the sheriff. He was shown a rope with a running "That was made for you, Piersol," the leader said. "Just for your dirty neck; you are doomed to die." Then he smacked him across the face with it. "Die, I said" shouted the leader. He was a lawyer. "You might just as well tell the tiuth, for you are going to die anyway. Why did you kill BitVidi Keet?" "Go ahead and get the killing over with," Piersol retorted coolly. "I didn't kill the Kee'. baby. I was in the plot j to kidnap Jeweler Clement, but had I nothing to do with the Keet ease." I Then the mob turned to Cleetus I Adams, another suspect He was so I frightened one could hear his teeth knocking together. He finally managed to say; "Piersol was at the Crenshaw mansion, where they found Bud-

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OEM Plans For Reception of the Troop9 in France Being Rushed. ARMY OFFICERS ALREADY IN FRANCE Gen. Pershing Will Go to the Front at Once to Observe Methods Used. (Hy the Internatinnitl Xeire SerxieeA LONDON, June 11. The work of preparing for the first army of the Un:t:l Mates troops that will fight with the allies in France is being rushed at top speed, iieiivi.,! J..lm J. P, ioliing, the American commander, will lose no time in getting to the fighting zone. It was reported today that his first activities upon arriving'!!! France would consist of a visit to V'pres and other histuric battle fields in order to get first hand knowledge of the colossal preparations necessary to cun duct a successful campaign. A number of officers on Pershing"? staff have already reached Boulogne and today the wmk of organiiing an American base at that city was begun. Americans have never taken part in a war conducted upon a scale of such magnitude as the present one and one of the things that British officers are impressing upon the members of General Pershing's staff is that they will need a gigantic quantity of all kinds of supplies. There is much speculation as to what part of the front will be given over to the American troops, but it is likely they will fight with the Brtish. French troops are holding the fiont from a point near St. (juentin. to the Swiss frontier but there is a contingent of French helping the Itelgians in West Flanders. British forces hold the front from a point near Ilixmu.le to St. Quentin. The Russians that were sent into France are f'irhting for the French in Champagne while the Portuguese troops are fighting alongside the French on the Aisne. Gen. John J. Pershing, commander of the United States forces that will fight in France, and Walter H. Page, the American ambassador, were the guests of King George and Queen Mary at luncheo'f?oday. The luncheon took place in Buckingham Paiace, he enlisted men in lien. Pershing's party have been invited "by llie King to visit the palace tomorrow. Gen. Perilling held the first war conference during the morning when he met members of the British war staff at the Savoy hotel. AI LAFAYETTE Loss Will Amount to $80,000 Fire Relieved to Have Been Incendiary. III,, the Iv in, , it, , Iniini I.AFAYFTTK, June 11. The Kern packing house on Wabash avenue was destroyed by fire believed to have beB of incendiary origin early today. The loss wilf amount to about $.r,,000. E. J. Brown, towerman at the New York Central interlocking plant south of the city discovered the blaim. He stated that just before the fire broke out two men drove to the packing house in a buggy. A few minutes later he noticed the flames. (ieorge St ruble was arrested as a suspect, but denied any connection with the tire. EARTHQUAKE SHOCK. Four .Severe (Juskea do Considerable Damage In Italy. I the Inlmmatlonml Metre Kerir.) ROME, June 11. Four severe earthquake shocks did great damage to Terni today. One dispatch said that the entire population was fleeing from tha city. t Terni lies in Perugia province, about fifty miles from Rome. It has a population of approximately 1,000.

Two Hostile Armies Face Karfa Oth.t

in Pi-kin, IB tha tnlernctinnal Jfevc Swoine.l PEKIN, June 11. Two hostile armies face each other in Pekin and an outbreak of fighting seemed imminent today. One army is commanded by General Nsun, former military governor of Anhwai province, who served an ultimatum upon Prerident Li Yuan Hung demanding the president's resignation and the dissolution of parliament, i he other army is composed of troops loyal to the government. Complications with foreign countries over the withholding of railway revenues are threatened. IS NOT WELCOME. U. S. Fleet Visit to Chilean Waters, Declared "Uncalled For" ( !e Internaltantl Xetrit ttrrrlrr.) SANTIAGO, June: 11. The United States fleet, which jame to South America, is not welcome in Chilean waters, -wording to a d,;art!'oi by the Chancellor today. He stated that the visit of UnAmerican warships is uncalled for, ad ding: "Anyway our southern waters are too dangerous for any naval navigators except the Chileans and British, who know them intimately. " ORGANIZED LABOR Will Aid President Wilson in His Plans For Food Control. tPH the International Sen Srrrlef.l WASHINGTON. June 11. Organized Inlior today pl.ilgeil its support to President Wilson's plan for food control during the period of the war. It went one step further. In confer ence with the president, Labor's re presentatives urged haste. "If the food contra! hilts are not passed before July 1 before the harvest begins it will 1 too late the president wist told. Eliminate the food gambler and the fowl miser if prices, already high, arc not to go higher aft,, the people will go hungry." The heads of the American Federa tion of Labor headed the list of orga nized bodies represented in the confeience. Others representeil included National Federation of Postal Employes and the four great railway hiotherhoods. DEATH LLST SMALL. Fewer Than Fifty permn .ot Ufo In Salvador Karlhquake. iHjf ihr ltnnt.,nnl Vwt X.rr.re i PANAMA CITY. June II. Fwr than fifty persons weic krllM by tht; arthUi.k and volcanic nruptiim in SalviMior Thursday nijjht, it was Ktitin aivicpR recfivwi hom today. S far hs known thr Wfrf no fatalitipH in thf capital city, San Salvador, althoujfh a numi'f'r of persons were injured.

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atkcihe tlAVY DEPARTMENT Sretary of, Navy Daniels Makes Sensational Charges, ORDNANCE SECRETS HAVE BEEN STOLEN Declares Spy Has Access to Confidential Files of Department. IKll the InternalUm' Vries Ser'-trf.t WASHINGTON, June 11. Secretary of Navy Daniels today charged ?hat there is a spy or a traitor In th navy ordnance department or at the Indian Head proving ground. He made tlie rhnree !c fore the senate naval a? J'airs committee when he was confront od with records stolen from the navy department s confidential files reveal ing ordnance and nnnnunilion secrets. The records were submitted to the committee by Senator Krelingluiysen of New York, who received them in (he mail some days ago. Efforts to locate the sender have been unavailing. The stolen records were accompanied by comments of the sender, it was stated, makintr (-rave charger, of defective ammunition in the navy. Senatir Krelinghuysen r'd he had made every efTort to locate the man who mailed them to him, but had so far been unable to do so. Should be in Prison. "It plainly shows that there must be a spy employed in the navy furnishing in a manner for which we should put him in the penitentiary" said Oaniels. "A detective should be put on hi truck immediately that he may put him in a place where he will b punu-hed. He had access to the confidential files of the navy department. He is either a spy or a traitor." "I want the secretary to understand that I am not seeking to obtain information from spies and traitors." said Senator Krelinghuysen. "1 have tried to learn his identity, but have been unable to do so." "If there is a spy in the navy, he should be found at once, and when found he should be dealt with accordingly." "Are you resentful because this matter is false?" inquired "Senatoi Pbelan of California. "Some of it i false and some of it is true," replied Secretary Daniels. "I am resentful because the confidential files of the department have been revealed." "Is there a possibility of the sender of these records acting in good faith?" a.-ked Senator Phelan. Secretary Daniel?, admitted there was such a possibility. Senator Kre-

;i.- ie b. . : .h t.t.k in the culiuiit.i stout Use fib" they should be maiie public. Secretary Daniels said he had no objection to their being public and declared he courted the most thorough investigation. The senate then went into executive session to read tha records nnd letters and to deride whether they should be made public. LIST OF DEAD GROWS.

TVsth Toll in Montana Mine !.. ter May Reach 125. (B t Jetcml Vie terrlre ) BUTTE, Mont.. June 11. As the rescue work at the Siiecnlator mine at North Butte continued today and body after body was taken from the bowels of the earth, it became evident that the death toll would climb from the list of 60 known dead to nearer 100 or 12B. Twenty-seven miners who were taken out alive from a depth of almost half a mile today gave full credit for their rescue to Manus Duggan. a 20year old boy. Duggan is missing and he may have died while performing the heroic work. Duggan, a too! boy. retained presence of mind and showed his older comrades how to hulkhead .nems. ks from the poisonous gases and keep alive until rescuers leached them. Representative of Kritish Government Arrives on Secret Mission. Iflf the International Setre 8errire. AN A MP. Kit AN' PORT, June 11. i-;rd Northclilfe, who will he a repre-1 ontative of the British government j in this country to complete work begun ! here by lialfour, arrived on American j soil tndav. As Lord Northclilfe and his party I came down the gangway a score or! more of newspaper men rushed forward to great him. Lord Northclilfe I smiled and said: "Hello, hoys. I am sorry, but I will have nothing to say to you until I j offer my credentials in Washington to-1 day. I N'oitliciiffe leaves for Washington this afternoon to plunge at once into j the work which brought him into this i country. I The arrival of England's "Cabinet ! maker" aroused great interest here lie-J cause, since it was announced he was ; enroute, there has developed conflict-j ing reports of the real nature of his visit. j Kefoie sailing, Lord NorthctitTe was! received by the King. His departure was secret. When he was well on his way the announcement was m !de anil j wss followed immediately in Knglandj by criticism of his mission. Oppon cuts attacked him because he had criticized the work of the Rilfoiir mission in this country. Tto iy claimed he had no official diplomatic standing and that meanwhile his newspapers in England were refc.ng to him as successor to Balfoi. i . It is understood! he will make his headquarters in New York. NorthclifTe comes as an official representative of the British war dennrtment to co-ordinate the wrk of the war department now being done j in the country, he declared in a statement issued soon after hiH arrival. I He declared the British people had ja high expectation of the work done i by the Bclfour mission here, j The statement follows: "The war i cabinet has designated me head of the British war mission to the United j Slates and I have been instructed to i try and co-ordinate the work of the j various admirable British organiiations already established here. These are charged with the task of supplying our war and other needs. Until I present my credentials to Washington, it is impossible, of course, for ; me to make any further statement. I "I can, howevi r, express my very ; great personal pleasure at being again j in America, which I have so often i visited and which has many delight!ful associations and friendships for us. aior is it saying too much when ; I add that the whole British people i has a profound sense of grateful onipreeiation of the magnificent welcome accorded Mr. Balfour and his asI sociates: and the complete hucccss of j this mission. OFFICIAL RESIGNS. Minister of Interior ()uils Post at Buenos Aires. I (Ay th4 fsMrMMosaf rrif.) BUENOS AIRES, June 11. Minister of Interior has resigned because I congress refused to allow the governi merit to interfere in the ' affairs of I Buenos Aires province. ! Today he sent a challenge for a duel to deputy Avellandes, who led the opposition to bis interventionist policy.

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red cross v; i. .a Women of County Awake ta seriousness of War Situation. THOROUGH CANVASS FOR NEW MEMBERS City Divided Into Sections For Purpose (Jirls Sell Muttons Other Activities. Each day sees a marked increase in the Red Cross activities. The women of ll.Kine county have awakened to the seriousness of the war situation far better than the men, and are enlistinK i the work set aside for them. In the beginning they started in a syslemalic way and each day sees their field of wurlt brnadrn. their daties becoming greater and their working force increasing. Nevertheless there a.v duties in the Red Cross for men, young men, rirls and boys to perform so these ti ,i should respond to the call ami report at the Red Crosa rooniNn the court house, which wa formerly the men's rest room. Saturday night a meeting of tho local oiganitation was held in the convention hall of the court house at which time the city wa divided into nineteen sections anil a ronimittee appointed In have charge of a house to house canvass for members. This canvassing work was started this niorning and should be completed before many days. The committee to have charge of this work consist of Mrs. Harry Parnnll, chairman; Mrs. Klza O. Rogers. Mrs. J. W. Shumate, Mrs. William Kelly, Mrs. Lester V. Jones, and Mrs. Virgil liuntin. Thin committee has n large corps of assistants to'help in the work. This morning twelve girls dressed In Rod Cross nurse tmiform wem divided into groups of two and placed in the windows of various stores where they sold Red Cross buttons. The following Is the list of girls and J the places stationed: Miss Mary Kiltnboth Hooton and Miss Janice Coombs at the post office: Miss Cecil Hurt and Miss Merle Smithson at the Adnev furniture store; Miss Treasel Bowman and Miss Doris Perkins at Adler's; Miss Mary Voorhees and Misa Cora Allen at Coulter and Smock ' fumiteure store; Miss Viola Nealis and Miss Margaret Higbee at Whit A Armstrong's clothing store; Misa Jene Cnrmichael and Miss Margaret Elaningam at Jones A Perkins furniture store. Miss Avaion Busby took , the place of one of the girls who could i r.ot work this afternoon. I Miss Mae Shannon and Miss Anna Crawford will go to Indianapolis, Tuesday to take a course in making I surgical bandages for the Red Cross ! society. This course will take two ! weeks and then the ladies will have , to pass a physical and mental exsminI ation given by the government before they can teach this work to others. la i the meantime, however, the workshop will be instaiied in the Red Crosa I room at the. court ho and the wo- ! men will be busy in making shirts, pa-

j jamas and other articles of clothing j needed in the nsmy. This work can ' be done by any woman who will Tol- ' unteer her services and she Joe not . ; have to be a member of the organiiai tion to do this. Any woman's servieeii ! will be appreciated by the society at jony time. Sewing machines will b ; installed but if there ara more oi men than machines the ladies may ' take the work home with them. Contmittees are being formed to tako charge of the various department of ; the work shop and these will be an- ; nounced within a day or so. I Visitors at the Red Cross room ara ' welcome and there will always be someone there to explain the work to all who call whether they wish to become members or not. Tha army and j come members or not The army of the Red Cross is calling yon. Won't you enlist?

TRAIN DERAILED. ! Big Foor Passenger Train Wrecked Nont of Passengers Seriously Hurt. IBtj the tntmntlnl Xetrt Herrlet.t CLEVELAND, June 11. ler Four passenger train No. 24 from Cincinnati was derailed by spretding rails here to.ay. All tho cars left tha tracks but none of the 100 passengers was injured seriously. AMERICAN SHIP SUNK. LONDON, June 11. The American sailing ship Magnus Manson, 1571 ton has been sunk by a German submarine. The crew has beea Usdec1,