Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 25, Number 244, Lebanon, Boone County, 13 July 1917 — Page 1

C(iZ"lf' VOLUME 25.

LEBANON, INDIANA, i :j AY, JULY 13, 1317. NO. 241

Have Extended Their Offensive to New Sectors.

VIE NOW MOVING ON THE TOWN OF STRY.J Jaw Astride the Railway and Highway) Leading From Stunislau. tllu the International Vfiri firrri-r.) PETROGRAD, July 13.-The Rus siuns swept forward to fi"sh success'1. toluy, nvanv. hile extending their of fensive tn r..-w sectors. That vctf'in of Gen. Krni!n" urm whirri s'-trmed Kalu.-z. th1 for mor A u.tro-Carman headquarters in Caiiciu, is reported to have is-cup Krechevic, whu h is on the ras'A:i h aving to D'!;na. V'.rth of thi.! sortw Huvian i.ra'ry is approaching the Svica river, 1 miels from K:4t where the AustroGerman soldiers are expected to ma : a strong stand. North of the Dncister. the are fighting for the railroad town r! Buczciov'ce, an import-unt po-itien north of Halicz. 'Hie Rusiuns are now atnd? lh' railway and highways leading lYo.r Ktanislau to Stryj. This latter tow. is another of the key position- d fending I.emberg on the s'urh. Towards the Carpathian foothill wt of .Sfanislau. the Russian ad an has alnwvd down owiiif to the d'fiiey' nature of the ground attacked. RAIDING AtTlVITV. British and Germans Show Intense Activity During Night. IB II the tnterenlvnMt Xeiet Hexlce.) ' LONDON, July 13. Intense -.-aid ing activity was reported from tl i British front by the war office todsv The Iliitish iluring the night masuccessful raids in the Itulluth ai Yprcs areas. Three German raids were underta en with strong detachments hut nl were driven olT. The German army of the crow n prince made a number of strong attacks on the Verdun front during t'ie 'nif-ht, hut all were repulsed, according to the official communique of tl French war office. Heavy fighting centered around Causierc woods, Hill 304, and ne :r Vidalet wood, where the eastern flank of the ilartyres Salient wi.s ' assaulted. There were big gun duels in the tors of St. Quentin, Pantheon and clonf? the Meuse river. Will Try to Find Out Wat fongre is Going to do in Coal Situation. tBv the International .Vtvf fierrira. ) INUIAXAPOUS, Ind., July 1!. . Governor James V. Goodrich left Washington toluy to find out vhat congress is going to do about the co situation. If congress can't act, the Governor will. He proiisi.ty win call a spccMi aession of the legislature and demand i,m.i(of i.,,;.i,,. i .,,r. will. He probably will call a spec! adequate supply of cheap coal lited several The governor has weeks for congress to act, bekevmi that national action would be more ef fective. If he finds that there is as sura nee thai congress will control th situation, he immediately will prepare to do whatever is required of him Indiana. But the demand for cheaj: coal has become o strong over th irtate that Goodrich believci aometbingj most be done without delay. The big question which developed wg .. .... and county councils of defense wai k i a ii .urv part of the state brought information that until a fair price ia placed on eoal and plenty ef real is made available, there will t uareit antonf th ople.

THREE SHIPS SUNK.

American Vessels Victims of The Ger. man Submarine. R the International V'" ferclre.t WASHINGTON. July 1'! Sinking of two American vessels and the confiimation of the sinking of a thiol were announced hy the state department Uslay. The American filing vessel Mary W. Howcn wax sunk hy gunfire on July X. All the crew of eleven were landed. The Hartus Hildegnrd, a steamship of New Orleans, was torpedoed anil sunk by a German submarine on July Id. Early reports of the loss of the Massnpequa. sunk on July 11. were confirmed. The steamer had no armed guard, REVOLUTIONARY PLOT. American Agents Inteslinate in Fqucdor. I Tin the lntrr ll " nil Si PANAMA. Ju'y I I. - J agi nt.-. as we ister at Quito nation of a overthrow th 'ration. acror have begun an 'i I he id to he headed by SORROW VITAL DAY III SESSION OF THEREICHSTAG Program Includes General Debate on Political Situation. VOHERTMN(;WH-I NOT BE CHANCELLOR Declines (he Tost, it is Reported The Situation in thr tntrrnvtt; ill . -tr V, . r . AMSTK KDA.M. July l-'I. The mi- j penal chanceiloi sh p vf (H rtnany ha. j reen olfered to C unt von lltvt'inif. the bavarian prt mi 'r, who refund it, j paid a message frr,-n Her! in today. 1 Count Von Herthra -ileadefi advanced ajfe and i'! health a spccul n a-onl why he could not ..creed :r. Von j Hethmann-Hullwe.;. Tomorrow premises to be the vital day in the present wsinn of the I (jerman reichstajf. i In addit on to th current veport.s t that the resignation of the entire ier

man cabinet miirht he announrod, theiout!ook

day's program includral d-bate I upon the political Situation, fma I the foreign policy and possibly The ldera!s threaten to intr" a resolution setting fortii tit u terms of the entire liberal fa ! of the empire. So far, h-di'i a di patch from Berlin. ' dated Thursday, th main committer of th" Reichstag ha rrfu-r-d to vote j an additional uar credit of I.',.0'i0.0't0..! iO'HJ marks, but in spirp of this refusal drtood that the -dit will King of be disrusftd in the opn th Reichstag. Conflicting Rumors. Never has the position of Ilr. Von : Bethmann-Hollweg. the irman rhan- i ' reilor, ben so precarious, if he ha.- , 1 not already resigned, as reported by i the Vof sische Xeitung. Hut the rePorted resignation is only one r.f the , conHicling nimors with which ,eri many is Berthing. Out of this fwirl .have come sur priors as well as prerlirtlnn. Amimi tl,e l.n f ia " " ." , ' i,kp f hp .' pnnre, who was called to Berlin from the western f'ont toduv to participate I I a tTown eouncil. (i irs council was loiiowen tiy a re-1 (script from the kaiter recommending i ; universal suffrage fur Prussia. After-1 j wards the crown prince held conferi , , ' . .I " " i ' I cals. While all this indicates that the 1 crown prince stood out for liberalism . ' ; i ,hat he ();.man,w , f on1inUB,tCon fwe( if,Mlim . .. .. n.hmlinn.inlm, , - , 4. . ,, u" he rea the chancellor might bring about peace. The German censorship, which is notorious for the way it fluctuates, C0NTIMJZD ON FlGt fOUK

THE DIPLOIVIATIC

U. S. Officials Watch the Developments in Europe. IMPRESSED WITH THE CHANGES MADE Attach Importance to the Revolutionary Reform Now I'ndcr Wav. HY JOHN KOWIN NKVIV tHtt tl jHifrHtti'tmnt Vetr Hrrrif.) WASHINGTON. July I 3. The .lip-hm-.iUv uniTt'urrent, which inevitably i... i l to ;'aif has start'!. (UVia's h't.' who are watching with if-t inlrnsr int'T'.'-t all (l.vflipnrntf i Kur.iyr r.'alic this fact. Th (n:it cut that th'it dor.-i not mean tha' , ji(T v.jl! soun or wn that it - in r--. I Jut fhf siacr- is l-mg st i t"f K irui-can capitals for th Tifv Administration officios declined to IT' on rec(ril l-panlin the rirveloprent.'. Tli'Mr position U that any ex-pi-ion of opinion at the pre.nt time mitfM jfive comfort to the enemy. In addition pro-(;rmanisni has fath-i-iTt! js.u many peace moves th;it have nf'n used to demoralize bu.i'iess and !h tot-k -narket that ohVials are fearfal nny cxpres-oon of opinion at this inic would he misunderstood. I'rivrtt.-ly, however, cfi'icial and li p- ' i?nuth circles attach (freat import;ince to the dev lopments of the last 7 J ho.ii .j. in v. hich there has hen a tompiit' "ahout, face" on 'he p;.'i ii tu i ot in'1 li.jfgt-'.it factor- in the - tniirie Ormany ami Greftt Britain. The action of the latter i the mt -ut priirnf, in that it seems to show a distin' -t ch inR" of position on the part -f ti.'- l!riti;h prime mini-tT, Lloyd ore" Recent Sp In h.s rerent sre.rhes the RritUh irenii'M-, ha:- 'mpiiai7el that the enMito c'tilil not a"ccpt the position d !!us.--ia asrnint irm mmticH ami anifxations. Thesi- sort'clv resulted in ;usiu refusing to snd hT troops into iro. h. Now overnight comes the d!h ;al ..taU'ment that Vngland has chanjd her position and that hf no is illip(f to enter into a discussion looking to thn possible revi.-ion of th war anrs cf th" entente allies. Tlx re is not the sliRhtest doubt thai hi action following as it doe, the i,rniHn ctims which i expects! to re--u!t in an announcement by the ieritiitfi Iteichstag of r,ermany's peace terms frms that from the present not be dictated bv the junkers will furnish the opening wedge for the substitution of diplomacy for brute force. It is, of course, too early to hazard a guess as to the outcome but officials here believe (Jreat Mntain will be v, illing, should the military party be .forced into a minority mi (I'Ttnany, to mak1 material concessions looking toward p'ace. And oft;. mi tic WJ here fee! certain that Germany make her minimum proposition ' no annexation, no indemnity" on ba.'i;. and let it be known that even this is suh'cr' to revision if a peace conference ,h:i he called. i Rut t-'i: i'. -uiih diplomatic negorted it in thought w'rv likely hey would rach an important stage for some time '"me. i RECTOR, BARRED FROM ARMY, ENTERS FACTORY i&U the International Air Service.) GRKK.NVILLE, Pa., July 11. L'n .. . :. V . ?!,le to D'n thtf "" his age, the Rev. K. A. Imoine, rector of St. Clement's Kpiscopal church will work in a munition factory in levcianu ounng ,'uiy nu ciuKusi. s his contribution toward the defense of his country. KKCKIVER ASK KB. CHICAGO. July 13. Receiver! were asked for the Pugh Stores company captaliied at $20,000,000 and operatinging 39 stores in 6 states, today, by I A- . R. T. Whitrtah, stockhol.ler,. ho charged mismanagement of the he-il"M,H """. It was charged that the company owes $180,000, has no cash on hand and that $1,000,000 in stock was in to Ja. A, Pugh, president for a mail order list which was f vlu to the stockholders.

ON THEWAHPATH.

India. Artoited by".rr-st of Tw. M.mbrr of Trilw. I If II l wm.llI ttrrUr.t Ely, Colo., July 13. Mounted on sto!in horses, Indian, from th Deep Crwk reservation today wore daihinft throuith ettlemcnt terroiirln(t citizens and demand) njt revenue because of the belated return of two braveF who were arrested for refusal to register for the selective daft Settler, in the northern portion sf Snuke Valley fled to Baker and appealed for protection to their home, and crops. The Indians beifii". to (ret nifly when the two redskins were arrested following reis'i-'dration day June 6. They camped for the nijrlit on the banks of War Creek, which is some distance from the nearest to-n in Utah or Nevada. THREE ARE SHOT. City Treasurer of Wisconsin Town, and Two Other. Found Dead. (Rp th Inlnnatiimai KervtcfA MAl'STOX. Wis, July IS. Police were puzzled today following the findinn of the bodie. of city Treasurer I.ouis Al-bacher, bis mother, and David Gray of Bloomer on the floor of the home recently purchased by Al.hacher. All three had been shot. One theory advanced was that Gray, who formerly lived here, quarreled with Alshacher and did the shooting in a fit of anger. THRI BURNATEASTSLLOUIS The Officials ltelieve Fire Was Started by an Incendiary. IRv the tntmttUnol Xrvt K-r(cf. KAT ST. LOI IS. III.. July H.I'ire swept three l.uildiiqcs and threatened half a dozen others in the lilack itelt early trdav, arousinjr, fears of a renewal of the holccniu mJ j-acc rint:nn here last wek," '4t ijiventi((atior. has begun. liiiniXMta will ! tiO.m). it is esiiM:tt It is the beii... of officials tl.at the tire was started hy an inepndiary, who "torched" the "monkey Ciiirr," & notorious neero resort. The ft'imes tread lu the roeipinK hoiif-e of Mk Mary Holmes and more than twenty roomers escaped in (heir nipht clothes. A stitf hiittle hy firemen checked the spread of the flames. Militiamen tailed. A cordon of militiamen was thrown nround the place to prevent any demonstration.

The seven members of the military disorder, inquiry being appointed by (iov. Dow- I While almost 1.2H0 aeitritors, loaded den to investieate chaises of la i:- I 'n 1!4 cattle cars, were beiie shuttled i-iplme of militiamen during the riots j hark and fortii between Arizona and ace exMHted to start their probe eith- New Mexico twd'.y, (iov. fan oh-dl was er this afternoon or tomorrow. : awaitinif a reply to his message to Corporal Karl Anderson and seven i ('resilient Wilson askinjr for federal other members of Company "I.," Third j troops f.ir every mininr? camp in the Illinois Infantry, testitied before the state. coroners' jury trey killed two m Krocs Two men have been killed in the disand wounded another "in self defense.") orders at llisl ee. (). p. Mr Kae, a enp.State's Attor ney Srhaumlerfel de-! Pr mine shift boss, deputized by the dared there will he at least six white! the sheriff, was hit hy a shot fired

reon indicted next week for murder and that evidence has lieen obtained to bring about the indictment of at leiJX loO whites and blacks for attempted murder, assault or arson. M,a,llp. Tarrvinr Sfi lfl flfin nnfi Appropriation Reported in House. (flrf the International Sevt RcrvU WASHINGTON'. July 13. Victory j for American arms through defeat of i Germany in the air has become the j war slogan of congress. Thus was sentiment crystallized in the house today when Chairman Dent, of the military affairs committee, reported the $40.000,000 aviation bill. The bill came out of th committee with a unanimous vote that it be passed. So aroused are members to the neceasity of immediate domination of the air by the United States and her allies that the bill will be passed tomorrow almost without opposition. It could be passed today but for parliamentary requirements. The military committee has proTilled authorisation of a flying eorps limited in roaerial and personal only by the discretion of the president. German spies who study the bill will not be able to build op any correct estimate of the sise of the aerial fleet about t be launched against them.

IEM1BIT

TAKES A HAND IN li General Parker Instructed to Iotcct Life and Property. MUST TAKE NO SIPES IN THE DISPUTES Martial Law Not Yet Declared Developments of the Day. ilty the IntfrnnHonnl .Wit. 8errlrM WASHINGTON. July IX The war department moved today in the situation that has developed in Arizona as the result of deportations of 1. W. W. hordes. In rt-pon.'-e to a request from the (fovr.rnor of the state, Secretary of War Kaker wired instructions to Gen. Taker, commamW of the southern department, to take whatever ctens are nfces.-ary to protect life and property. General Parker was further instucted to take no sides in the disputes. AKed whether ti:e cc n.-ors'np tha' has been clamped down in parts ot Arizona meant that martial law had been di-c!ared Secretary Baekr said that either the povprnor or Genera! Parker could declare martial law hut had this been done the governor w nu!d hove been notified and no such no'.ice has been receivd. ARIZONA MH VTION. Two Men Have Keen Killed in Pisorders at Risbee. (Ry the fnlfmatlnnl SevM fin-r;rr.l I'HOENIX, Ariz., July 111. IVpnrtation from nishee. Ariz., of hctwcfT. 1.100 and tSW Industrial Workers of the world centered the eves of the nation today on an agitation which has ri-en to eonsidermnle proportions in the west. ORictals in pome of the seven states n'fectrd pronounced the movement one to redure production of supplies necessary to the condm-t of the w:ir and charge Crrman induences and tinanriul supiort. Oiifitnizers of the I. W. V., especially in this state, are well financed from sources unkno.vn even to those well versed in the workings of lire body. I rrnto the Canadun bonier to Mexico, civic, state, and military authnnI ties wore alert today to susppiess ail through the door of his home hy James Brew, an I. W. W. sympathizer, whom he sought to arrest. Hiew was killed hy companions of McKae. MARKS lir.NIAI.. t. V. W. Official Sayn (ierman Money ia Not Iteing t'sed. iflif the International Sevn Bertice.) CHICAGO. July l:i.W. D. Haywood, secretary and treasurer of the Industrials Workers of the World, today dented that German money or influence is being the cause of the copper mine strikes. "There is no attempt to tie up copper mines cf the I'nited States because we are at war," said Haywood. FOl'R HOI R BATTLE. American Tanker and Submarine in Fight OlT Spanish Coast. (ftp the International S'e.trt Rertiee. AS AMKIUCAN PORT, July 13. Petails of a four-hour battle fought off the coast of Spain by the American tanker Moreni and a German suhmnrine on Juno 12 were brought to the United States today by Captain Thomas Thompson of the Moreni, who arrived aboard a passenger liner. Forty-three of the Moreni's crew accompanied him. The Moreni was bound from Baton Rouge for Leghorn. The U-boat shelled the Moreni repeatedly, the tanker replying. One shell from the submarine finally blew up the decks of the Moreni and ignited her gasoline cargo. The crew then abandoned the vctael. Fo-ir men were lost. One oiler was drowned, two of t'ie crew were killed by gunfire and the wirelesa operator died of heart fsilurfc

IS FINE CONDITION.

I!. S. t roop. Have Not Had Ningt, Accident So Far. (ft. tA fnrm.Hr..al V.ir. Bervitie.1 AMERICAN HEADQUARTKRSIN FRANCE, July 1.1. Not a .ina-le accident has yet marked the transportation of the United States troops from their temporary camps to the permanent base behind the front. The Americans continued crossing France trfwir and the same enthusiasm was shown by the people as characterized the first day. Enthusiastic receptions were (riven to Gen. Pershing's Yankee boys at evryery station where the troop trains stopped. RAILROAD EMBARGOES. Are Placed on Cummoditi on The Export Mt. iRj thr tnfmittioHtit XetiH Krtcirt. WASHINGTON, July 13. Railroad embargoes on all commoditiPh placed on the export embargo list by Tiesidint Wilson, were ordered today. The new commission on car service telegraphed all railrmifls poratinc in the United State that they may not in future move commodities consigned or intended for export except (.) receipt of bill of lading with the federal license number from the export council. BE GIVEN EVERY ;n Provost Marshal Determined That Draft Shall lie Square. NO FAVORITISM WILL DE SHOWN President Determined That the Draft Shall be ThorouKhIv American. illy the International Xm FervtreA WASHINGTON, July 13. F.very man of America's ten million eligihh's will have a fair chance when the national army is drafted. Provost Marshal-General Enoch Crowder is today going carefully over every step of the draft procedure with his corps of executive associates. Tiiey are searchirg every rule and regulation for any possible loophole through which one might take an unfair ml vantage. R;tce, color or creed, no matter w hich, each American will know when he is drawn that he has been fairly drawn and that his set vice is required only after he has a chance with every other man, whatever his position in life. Individual lack of patriotism on the part of local exemption boards is the only possible manner of evasion of the wide sweeping demands of the draft. This has been precluded hy the selection of men of high repute for the exemption boards. President's Demand. President Wilson, from the very first, has demanded tl.st the draft h thoroughly American. Pany lines and political favors, he has been particu larly keen in wiping out. It is ge. rrally understood in a proclamation to he made public on the day of tr drawing, President Wilson will place the responsibility of the honor of the nation squarely on the shoulders of those tjjen chosen to serve upon ex emption boards. There have been rumors in the war department of attempts to so evade the law that the burden will be thrown upon sectional classes, but those rumors which for the most part have come from anonymous sources have been unfounded. President Wilson's regulations were drawn with this particular objective in view that there might not be the slightest possibility or even a hint of unfairness. Fo' this reason the president is withholding the details of the drafting, so that no clever schemer may devise a means of evading it. Draft Neat Week. Reports received today upon the organize loa of the local boards indicated that the drafting may be done earlier than next 'Wednesday. Should CONTINUED ON P5? FOUB.

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Jill iL CONVENTlO;iAGl 'DECUREDINVALIO The Indiana Supreme Court Rendered Derision in Case Today. CONVENTION DATE SET FOR JANUARY, Registration of Voters For .the Special Election Now in Progress. IH the International Xrirt fierrU-e.) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 13. The supreme court of Indiana today; derided that the act of the recent legislature calling a constitutional convention is unconstitutional. The convention was to have been held next January, a special election for the selection of delegates to the convention having been set for this fall. Registrations of voters for the special election are now in progress in every county in the state. The Decision, In holding the culling of the constitutional convention illegal the supreme court said the inherent right and constitutional right rested in the people to change their hn,ic law. The court said the election of 1W1S when the people rejected the. proposal to call a convention, showed they did not want it. The constitutional convention can be called only if the leg. islatmc shall call an election and the. people shall vote for the convention. Alj the judges except Judge Ijilrv signed the decision. Judge I.airy said ;he had not studied-the ruse fuliy. Basis of Suit. Henry W. Bennett, of Indianapolis, president of the State Life Insurance Company, filed suit in the court here to enjoin the election of delegates. Judge Thornton held the legislature, was within its rights in calling thn convention, but that women could not vote. The case was hurriedly carried to the supreme court. , The basic contention of the oppon enfs of the law was that the constitution of the state gave tho people alone the power to call a constitutional convention. The answer of those favoring the convention was that the legislature constituted the people, because its members were representatives of the peop'e The action of the higher court will stop the registration of voters for the CONTINUED ON TAGE EIGHT IS UP TO PRESENT TO SAVE FOOD BILL! Wilson Ha Before Him Thre Plaiw Considered by Senate. (fly the Internalianat Sevn Merviee.) WASHINGTON, July 13. It's up to President Wilson to save the food; control bill. The p""sident had before him today the three plana now before the senate. They are: First The house bill, controlling only food and fuel but containing "bone dry'" prohibition. Second- - The senate agriculture committee's bill, controlling food, fuel, steel, copper, lumber, cotton, wool and various other necessities, with whisky prohibition only. Third The Gore substitute, confining the controlled list to wheat and coal and centaining whisky prohibition with authority to the president to stop beer and wine making. The president is expected to submit to the senate a solution of the situation which, as it now stand, win surely bring about the defeat ef the bill. Sentiment in favor of the Core substitute ia growing because it eontains minimum of the thing wbiek hare been eaaaing the objtction to the food control plan.