Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 25, Number 243, Lebanon, Boone County, 12 July 1917 — Page 1

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IT IS REPORTED .Serai-OrTicial Announcement iMade of New ' Position. GERMANS BRING UP REINFORCEMENTS . ' " " South of Dneister Teutons Are Fighting Savagely to Stop i Russian Advance. (Ha the lniernntt'HWl Srtrt Smic.) PETROCRAD, July 12,Scmi-offi. eia! announcement was made here today of the eaoture of Kalusi!, in ",alicia. Austro-Germnn hea.ia;iartorH were located at Kalusi. The capture of thint important town shows that the hemllnng flight of the Austro-Hungarians and Cermans continue west of Stanislau. The Russ'm cavalry in pursuing nt top iipeed. " Kalusi is ahout sixty miles riii'th of Ijcmherg and twenty piilc. west by nuf'J'. f Stanislau. It is only 106 miles A of Huli . It is on a railway line inil lies between tl Sivka and Lomnica rivera. Alarmed by the terrific blows h which the Russian have been smashing the Austro-(ierman front in the tanisluu-Haliri sector, both Austro Hungarian and German reinforcements have been rushed to the defence of l.emberg. The Ruaaiana are now pushing theii line around Rrtesany, an impnrtun' Aostro-Cemian position between the Stiipa 4d Onita Lipa rivers, about liftv miles K0Ullica.it of the Calician capital. IJrxFsany is 1 rnilroaJ town lying on the I luta-I.ipa river. South of the Dneister, where thAustro German armies fled before the Russian cavalry rear guard action ( soma importance are taking place. Thf Teuton force are battling savagely in an attempt to atop the onrush of the Rasaia-ia, after a sharp engagement. iU Ru-.U. fo.J.J Lctr.r.ird Between Halin ami Zloczow and further north heavy artillery duels are in progresA Prisoners are still flowing back from the front. Counting all taken sinethe present offensive began, more than 25,000 Auatro-Hungariana an i Cermao prisoners are now in thhands of the Russiana. The Ruasian have captured more than J.'io cannon. NOT RF.NKWKD. Germaa Assaclt on Britiah Line in Belgium Ceases. IA InlrrMilmal Sent Sarrlce.) LONDON, July 12. Prince Rupprecht's German army in Belgium did not renew the battle of the Dunes last night, but iu activities were extendet south of LonilreerUyile, where a laid was made against the British. The raid was repulsed and the Germans were driven back to their trenches, the war office announced today. Lombsertiyde is a little over a mile from the Nofth Sea coast and jus. north of Nieuport U. S. REGULARS MAY BE SENT TO IDAHO: Their Services Tendered to Governorn Order to Put End to Reign of Terror. til tht leraiNeeal Jfeica lrrvec.) WASHINGTON, July 12. United States regulars are at the aervice of toTtJZ . Z TJ . . .""J"? pat of th state engineered by the I. . W. This wan stated today at the war department, where it w as ex plained tnat while no rci' troops has been r-';' governor, AH ' J

tiuns of . , -i . ; tured ai terrified by the ax'-ms of the organisation. , Many himher ctimp hava been forced to auipend operations while a

similar aituation obtains in the mining regions through I. W. W. threats, these advic state. The ailuation haa become toe aerioua for the police and sheriffs to cope with ad when the militia of the various states are drafted Into the federul service their protection will be loat unleaa the unit are sent back aa regulars. EVEN' THE INDIANS GIVE ENDORSEMENT TO WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE (ft tht lrr(a, Sen avrrlre.l BF.MIDJI, Minn., July 12. Shades of Sitting Bull! The Indians have endorsed woman suffrage! Minnesota Chippewa Indians, sitting in council hy a two to one vote gave suffrage to their squaws. The winning fight was conducted i.y Cora Coffey, 21, a ' stenographer emploed by the I'nited States (tovemnient of the Fondu Ijc reservation. FOUR KILLED. nd Five Injured When Auto is Struck by a Train. IStf - Inimt-tHittiimal Vm tirnier. I CRAS!) RAHUH, Mich.. July 12. Four persons were killed and five in-iu-ed near Hcliling during the niir'nt' .vhen their auto in which they were ! ilrmnir trtrousrn ine mm iui uu curtains drawn was stru.k by a Pere M.irMUt t: patutenger train. The dead: Georire Bat son. Sr., Ionia; Blunchard Hatson, 3, Ionia; Oscar Kasmussen, 3, Greenville. James Irving Allen. 7, Ionia. OT the njured, George Hatson, Jr., may die. THE WAY TO THE FRONT Trip Through France to Permanent Base Behind Front, a Triumphal Procession. BY DA NT FX DILLON-, (fts 1he tmimtwl Kttt Ke-ce. iwriimv pfiivM'iOTcfit; iv FRAVCE Julv t" The A merk-an ! troops traveled through I1 ranee today from their temporary camp to, their permanent base behind the front. It was a triumphal procession. Crowds ! , gTeeted the troop trains at every sta- j tion with cheers of greeting. j Hags were everywhere and the men were everywhere presented with flowera and refreshments. IN'DKPKNDKST ARMY. . . .'.

l nllra Matra win Have iiwr l ine of r ' . : , Dri, lh.t k- K4,ure aome extent because the cabinet in I Prlre ,n" can stcureo. Communication For its Troops. ; the ruture will be held responsible to Aml ' onViilly recognised by !tm, Rehsta imtti of the emperor President Wilson last night when he '"''"'' er,ie,. , .n the past Thu to be brJU(fht , iaued his appeal t the business inPARIS, July 12. Writing in theabout throU)fn a concentration of j Crests to "sell onlj at a fair price." Herald today General Berthaut, one power in the hands of the foreign I RKition of the presence of this of the best informed military' critic, i minister, the chancellor, the vice lchan-1 lobby lrPny had ken place on the in France said that the American ! c',,or n'1 the minister of labor. ! noor of the senate. Smator Jamea R. in France, said that the American will i Reed of Missouri, n the course of a government wlH have its own line of mrougn mem ine wnoie cnoinei w, . , , . . ;.;. Communication with its army on the me responsible to the Reichstag. " western front from Washinton He ' Ti,e shake-up extends to the Pras- table that " of tng trusts and mowestern front from Washington. He. J ,raperW j nopolie. have mobilid in the build-

"ts ,ri.,;i,ii,.. .1 .1,. SUtes in the war does not consist in , placing at our disposition contingents of men. Neither does it consist in ! formed in battalion,, regiments, br.-i gades or larger radres, to be used in- i d,vidually here and there under our; command in collaboration with French unit, of the same order. "The American forces constitute an independent anny. having iU own commander in chief, general at.ff, and! the usual ataff corp., all operat i ng j in closer liaaion with the entente. Vn der such circumstance, each army be- j comes a prolongation of the nation to sending to us tactical units already which it belongs. !

'The United States should know di- "The whole crisis is mainly the rerectly the needs of its army. In ad-1 8ult of the universal demand for peace dition this army should not be sup-hy the German people. And the plied through intermediaries. It is i Peoee demand is occasioned largely by necessary then that there exist at the' t,le foort difficulties." disposition of the American govern. ! Just as the chancellor in hi, speech

ment lines of communication alwavs;the other day when he declared that

uninterrupted between iU armv in the "Cermany must fight to the last, wth certam important legislation. In field and its base of eupplie.." gasp"-,howed thats -- the face of immediate ensi, that f ol- . 1h Vowed the declaration of war against I,c.t,' " " i-ieraianv con cress came manfullv to

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RESIGNED HiSrOSTi Von Bethman-IIolIweg Tenders Resignation to the Kaiser. REPORT PRINTED IN BERLIN PAPER The Kaiser Han Not Yet Formal ly Accepted the Resignation. ( l rs'eraatfniul A aerHce.) AMSTKROAM, Jul 12 It was re ported here today that I)r. Von Beth-mann-Hollweg, the imperial German chancellor, haa handed his resignation ! to the kaiser. I The same report added that Km- i peror William had not yet formally I accepted it. j Hitter attacks have been made upon the chancellor for some time by the ubMa, flfmpnt nd hl8 Knation was demanded last Saturday by the Clerical Deputy Mathiaa Kruberger at 1 a meeting of the main committee of the Reichstag K. Berlin, The original reoort of Dr. Von ! Bethmann-Hollweg'a resignation was printed in the Vossiche Zeitung in Berlin. I The kaiser had a long conference with the chancellor on Wednesday when he received confidential report on the entire political situation. At the conclusion of thia meeting, it was stated, Dr. Von Bethmann-Holl-weg offered to retire from t'le cabinet. Other Resignations. It Mas rporied today that the re tirement of ice-Chancellor Helffarich ' unci Foreign Secretary Zimmerman from the government has been oftlcialI ly gaieted in Berlin. Both were of ' the strongest pro-German type and were frequently criticized l.y socialists and clericals for their unrelenting efforts to maintain the domin ancy of Prussia ovor th other Gor man states. Their elimination, it is helieved, will strengthen the position j ! of the ch:i llor, Dr. Van BethmannI Hollwcir. Advices from Berlin today said that the kaiser and the crown prince were conferring with the higher statesmen . n ,,. An imf)vrM mini!t,y f labor is to be uiUM to the German gmernment te appease the working classes. Domestic reforms have been decided !

upon by the crown council and will ington is at work here today. It covshortly be announced. According to Lrs everv line of industry. Its object

the Cologue Volke Zeitung the politir if the kiier will unfTo tr. caninet. rive rrussian ministers nave ""Mgned and they will be replaced by "' elwr to th' r"Ple. Electoral Reforms.

Klectoral reforms for Prussia alt i " 1?, . n JL .XI fn! are on the slate. They will be aimed " .x'n., 1 'ly, 5 at the removal of the transient politi- j 'JIZ;$Zm l of junker, (war party) and agrar- fXv ll l lVZuZ. 7h un over the Prussian government 'f'" In ""-equenee there is The conservatives ar? urging the i Z"nZ Z' chancellor to stick to his post, and. , h'hh J" " aS,h' if the worst came to the worst, to ; " by It. shBwdest sale, agent, head a democratic movement. The J''A Jr k" " political disturbances .re closely HSJ? .1"'"" lied with the question of peace. A j Z?Zj2Z?l fSTr? . H telegram from Cologne today quoted h'r "V1?' do

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The lifpo't'" t h.a a complete lift of wen regiptored in Boom county for conscription and the aerial nujnbera which, are usaigned to them. ! The list, arranged by townships, will be found on page 7 of thia issue. ANOTHER ARREST.

Second Prominent German to be Tikea Into Custody in New York. (B tsa aln-iwH'HHlc Urn Harctoa.) NEW YORK, July 12. Another wealthy German, of even more promience than Rudolph Hecht, the banker, who was interned yesterday, will be taken into custody within the next forty-eight bout's, it was reported around the federal building today. The man mentioned is connected with the hig financial institutions in New York and other cities. Federal officials refused to comment in any way today Upon the arrest of Hecht. It was sai mat he had presented the German government a number of improvement transactions in South America, j Hocht was taken to Ellis Island to be confined for the duration of the war, and Jos. Veith.SO, a stenographer, was taken into; custody and interned. Veith. an afien enemy is aiiid to have denounced (Preaident Wilson in street speeches. ; T LOBBY IS AT WORK TODAY ' -MWBOHI It Covers Every Line of .Industry it is Declared. i UNDERCURRENT OF FEELIN(IS FITTER Condition Arouses Feelinjf of In-ien-r RctiitiiiCnt Amcr.fi the Officials. BY JOHN EDWIN KEVIN. 0? the fsremaffnna! A'clrs grrrlce.) WASHINGTON, July 12. The greatest lobby in th history of Washis to sell the government at the biggest "'a- wiiH.,n was that which hsused the national council of defense. : Centralited buyitg has displayed competition In nearly every governbusiness with the government, have become permanent guests. Bitter Feeling. fhere is bitter undercurrent o( fading against this condition of afbirs ia congress. To this feeling is due the seeming dilatory tastics in dealing lermany congress came manfully to !1e assistance of the president. Unaralleled sums of money were voted , or the military establishment. Preedent was throven overboard and cash j as furnished without any attempt beg mails to foroe an accounting for 'W it vaa to he spent. The slogan "eliminate partisanship and stand j the president" was sounded by reWicant and democrat, alike. T'fi slocan ae longer is as respona4 a .'t vs, eicia-t aH":it. Io t) ri how ahk there, la ap-

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Selection! Will Require Only 4 Few ' Minutes. FURTHER PLANS FOR THE DRAWING About 200 Key Numbers to be Drawn For Each District. tBy ta International New Hrrvirt.) WASHINGTON, July 12. America's great human gamble will be a comparatively simple matter. With preparations for the drafting of the new national armies covering a period of months the actual selection will consume but a few minutes. Pro vost Marshal Crowder who will have actual charge of the selection and drawing as he had of the registration, is today working on the completion of the details of the drawing. Piesent plans before Secretary of War Baker call for the actual dinning of but about ttfo hundred numbers. - These numbers will be key numbers, and the men holding the drawn numbers in each district will lie called for examination and given opportunity to present claims for exemption. There are approximately 5,000 exemption districts. If 200 numbers are drawn, which will apply to each district, this will give the full number of a million, expected to be drawn on the first draft. Districts have been based on a population Of 30,000 and authorities have found that registrations within the, district will strike a fairly approximate average. When the fortunes of thousands of American youths are complete, there will be no ceremony, but the occasion will be a solemn one. Secretary of War Baker will possibly draw the nunihei-t himself. President Wilson will dtidoubt 11 v be prosent a will cabinet members and members ef the military affair committee of both branches of congress. The place has not yet hxn pirkt. hut it tin ondoubtcdly he in the house of representatives or the white house. The time for the drafting is still a matter of conjecture today. It is up to the states. Provost Marshal General Crowder can be ready for the drawing within twenty-four hours af ter the last state has completed itf registration and eligible lists. Present indications point t Wednesday as the most probahle day. Although Secretary of War Baker and General Crowder are hoping for an curlier date. Provost Jlarshal Crowder today issued a ruling which will simplify the huge process of examination, after the men have actually been selected. Men drawn, who are away from their home district, may he examined and present their claims for exemption to the exemption board In the district where they are residing. "Local boards may order the physical examination of any person called and the hearing on a claim for exemption or discharge transferred to another local board," according to Sec tion 29 of the rules and regulations. This means that the selected person will have to apply for a transfer of examinaUm from lus local board to the board in whose jurisdiction he wishes to be examined. "Permanent removal," or "necessary absence" will be the only groundB upon which the transfer of examination will be allowed. TWO ARE BADLY BEATEN N FIGHT WITH BUM Mr. and Airs. Rimell Shugart, Near Noblesville, Severely Injured. (y tht Inttmntttnat JTe-ra $rctct.) NOBLESVIU.E, Ind July 12. Russell Shugart, who with hi, wife were resorted to have been beatea by a burglar last sight, drank carbolic acid thia norning and died. Myatery aurrsunda the assault of Shsjsrt's wife. 'ftp tht aferaaifcHMJ JTws ffarwcai J,0!iLE3VnXE. Ind., July II.-V-.t, lhirM i-.' u.t, 2.1, m bni , so vei i , t; :it !-, jiroi-v-'y wi.l (,"

lis Wro-u mid a .U'iM, f..0.4j The mtrurt-r aUiuVed riujturt with a i j hammer, knotted him almost Insen-1 :!lc and turned on Mis. &nua;t who

hud com info the room. Her head ' and arms are battered almost to jelly j and she is blinded in one eye, j Khugart, an eccentric old man. Is Uhought to have kept large sums of ! money in his home. It was stated . H" u reveiveu i an anotiymoua letter, accusing her of marrying into the Shugart family to defraud children of Shugart by a former marriage. PARROT IS LATEST RECRUITING AGENT IN CITY OF NEW YORK (Bw tht Inttrnnuvnal Vert ere4cM NEW YORK. July 12. A poll purrot thst shrieked "Slacker!" and "Join up now!" ia the latest recruiting agent in New York. The bird made its appearance on Broadway 'perched on the shoulder of a sailor from a United States battleship. PLANS FOILED.

Attempt to Kidnap Child at Spring- in the ipim,t ot recruiting of the I new Company M. Personal letters Held, Mo, ia Frustrated. are Mnf, Mnt out tf ewrjr (UK tht inttrntHtniii . Aarricet enlisted man in Boone county and it SPRINGFIF.I.P, Mo., July 12. An jg expected that they will turn out in attempt to kidnap the four year old r. p.i , .,. . , . . i i. r i i ! u v 1 ' 'artf- td Jackson, secretary of atat, daughter of Lloyd Hughes, business , , ' man, failed when Hughes awoke and ha'' bw-n curp1 t0 m "- grsppled with three men in his bed-1 s'nn- Although tl. program has not room while his wife jumped through! been completely arranged it is known the window with the child and ran that local men will apeak and that to a neighhor'3 home. ... , , The kidnapping was attempted in a ther" bnd mU9" n' fo",wpart of town remote from the Keet i !n '""er la to be sent out to the reg-

home. DEFENSE COUNCIL mm Existence of National body Threatened by Proposed Senate Action. iBv th tntrmnHtmnl JVaira aarsfer.l WASHINGTON, July 12. The Ex istence of the National Defense Coun - cil and all of its advisory committees is at stake. Its fate probably will be decided by the senate today. If the senate agreea to the agri culture committee's amendment to the food and liquor control bill forbidding voluntary agents of the government

from buying supplies for the govern-1 om"er"' T0U 'would be in touch with ment from concerns in which they arc j home f" when away in the aervice; interested, it is the belief of admin- hom fol would he able to respond istration leaders the National Defense'0 Tnur needs; mail, comfort from

council wHI have to disband. The council and its advisory comlittee ia made up of big business men ho have volunteered their acrricea to aid the government in obtaining aup-

plies and they are often being placed e scttereo to other state, in the position of dealing with con-1 "Every township -a expected to feet nts in which they are offlcera or j Ptvi with it, quota, storkholdera. "You are urgently reqnested to at-

President Wilson haa appealed to the seneate to modify the amendment but his letter to Senator McKellar of Tennessee, calling attention to the probable disastrous effect on the Nat ional Defense Council, haa thus far met with little response. Even the most ardent of administrate, supporter, are unwilling to follow the president in giving congressional sanction to business men and mann - facturera buying from tbemealve, for the government wita the people a money. Without questioning for a minute the integrity of the National Defense Council members, the big majority of senators take the position that in the spending of billions of dollar for eupplie, the government ought to go to great length, to avoid even the appearance of corruption. This ia the view of Senator McKellar as well as of Senator Read and others. Senator Wadsworth of New York has warned the senate that the adoption of the committee amendment will mean the wrecking of the council. Hi, colleague. Senator Calder, has presented a way out of the tangle by offering an amendment permitting voluntary government agents to participate in contract, with concerns in which they are financially interested, if they make public declaration cf their intention. Meanwhile the democratic leaden were till devoting every energy to working out some kind of a com promise io allay the opposition which ! threateaa to defeat the bilu HELD AS A SCSrECT. WOODLAKD, Cal.. July ' 12,-J. Kosiowski, 22. CMcajo, u being held by police at the requmt of federal author-idea today on suspicion of being cerneet.Ml with tha eploinn of a biack rwwder n-.r.rrin at Mare Is-!"-'i V'Hvlay ju v. ,- ,b six persons k- .-4 ,J n.riiy injured.

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I , I Secretary 01 State to P.'KT At Big Patric Meeting. IN INTEREST OF TH E VOLUNTEER COMPANY Letter Sent Out to All RcMered Men I'rging Their Attendance. Great preparations are being made' for the patriotic meeting at the Opera House Sunday afternoon at two o'clock istercd men: "To all Registered Men, for V. 8. Service, in Boone County; "Within a few days all registered men for army servica in Boone counjty, will be informed just exactly who 1 m r:: : -:..r.:

Boone county's quota could be quickly organiied into a comt""!' "Wld lie likely that they would ren.ail, together during the, term of their aervic. It i, thought advisable to organia into a company, by volunteer aervira the 140 men who will likely be cai ;.). "There will be a meeting at Lebanon, on Sunday, Ji ly IS, at two o'clock, in the Grand Opera House, when ou portunity will be given every n viatered man tq jota.Uu., volur,wCLjj-ii pany. It is understood ' ii a ..-.

1 teer company ia organised flint f.ul ! er't "1" be gien the gisteretl from this county. If Boone es-unty's. one company there would be Incalculable benefits; you would be acquainted 'ith practically every man in the com. j P""!'! woo'd likely have honm jhome, relief supplies and many other j things not now to be t!nt:l-t of, would , " much more satisfactory than if the Boone cotsnty boy, were Katterl in iotfn regimenU or more, or might ; tend the meeting at Lebanon, Sumliiy, July 15. , "Are you not personally Interested? "Prominent speakers will arfdrou the registered men. Yours respectfully, Paul 0. Taper, ' Frank O. Myers, John B. Shelby, B TT j " Inters, Carl A. Davis, committee. . - !,,. , jllfll I Jlyjf I LJL lii f .'L I IfiLL iHOiA I lIL hlU Ui puEns::i Tangle Over Food and Liquor Bill In Senate Seems to be Getting Worse. (Aa tl.i JsJarssMsBS! Strt TWce WASHINGTON, July I'resident Wilson will be asked again to straighten out the tangle ever the food and liquor hill in the senate. This was decided at the conference of eenat leaders today after it became apparent that the bill cannot be passed in its present form. Senator Martin, the majority leader of the senate, will confer with the president to learn his view en the muddled question. OH SiUSH! ( tkt xtsnMMnMl Vtwt rse,) SAK FRANCISCO, July UU Jameii BL Wright, student at the resS Ua OftV-ers' Resflrve Corpi ims, pi 4 knitting outfit from a po-.-Ket in L.s nnifonn and proceeded to kn"t cr a woman', band bag while t; s testify tn United States Comr , i er Kruir, court.