Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 25, Number 249, Lebanon, Boone County, 19 July 1917 — Page 1

LEBANON OAIiu REPORTER.

The Reporter is the only Daily Newspaper in Boone County. WEATHER BULLEXW I Generally fair tonight and Friday. VOLUME 25. LEBANON, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1817. NO. 249.

".WW LOTTERY" 10 SELECT NEW -Demands made for i iKfinr i imiT nnnn

ARHYTD BE DRAWR IN GROUPS

PLAN OF MAKING Whole 10,0(10,000 Names to he (liven Places in the List. DRAWING TO BE MADE IN (iROlTS OF 1.000 I'riivost Marshal Crowder (lives' Detailed Account of Method 4, to he I'sed. (h!l !. tflli(,el Vr,r, .V , ,e , WASHINGTON. July 19. The lottery, through which the firt to be called up for the national army will be determined will almost surely be held at 9:00 nr 10:00 o'clock tomorrow maniiiii". This was conceded at the olhce of I'ruwwt Marshal General Cruwihr at noon luday. when it was announced that but two -dalesPennsylvania and New Yorkhave failed to report the complete organization of the exemption hfiards. General Crowder conferred, at length with Secretary nf War Baker today on the finJ preparations fir the momentous event and then went to the rapitol to confer with the senate and house military affairs ronieiittrea on the most convenient time for the draft. It was then understood that the drawing would take place in the front gallery of the house or one of the big committee rooms. iff;, the tntereoti'mnl .Yeir Gerrtre.) W ASHINGTON', July 10-The "w.-.r lottery", to select the national army, will be drawn in groups. Only one thousand numbers will be drawn. Tl" 1 000. however, will dispose of the entire registered eligible numbering nearly ten million men. General Enoch Crowder, provo.-t marshal general, so announced tnduv. The 10,000,000 registrants are divided into groups. These groups are contmlled by "key numbers" from zeio to nine. The men' to be called ui, have been numbered in red ink on the silcrtive list by the lriil board j These red ink serial numbers run from vey small figures in the lightly populated districts to more than !t.(K in a very few other districts. TV..' rer'numbers were assigned hy chance. Because of this Genera! Crowder haruled that drawings in sets of 1.0M) will in- no way work a hardship on any one. To make it fair the dialings will be divided into to parts first w-ill be the "key numbers" to determine in what order each sheet ef 1.000 shall appear on the master list Then will come a draw ing of numbers from 1 to 1.000 to determine the order inside group in which the registered eiigibles shall be called up. Explains Drawings. In explaining the manner in which the drawing shall take place General Crowder today issued the following: ''Ten million men are registered fiRT.OHO are needed in the first call. Who shall go first? "If we were dealing with the ancient draft we should take every fourteenth man. But we are not conscripting. We are selecting for military servire those whose civil services can hest be spared. Therefore the question is not 'Who shall go first,' hut 'Who shall be called first for examination. ' and what we must do is to make a list fho'.ing the order of examination. "Now no one knows how many m n-nt be examined to yield 687,. 000 soldiers. Therefore, no one can say just how many men It ia absolutely neceinary to out on thi Hat. A moment' refle-tion will prove that the who'e 10 000 'fH) must be given Iheir jlaeej on the list of 'uioVt

THE DRAWING HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED!

of unccitainty. He does not knew when he will he ralied. He hesitates to plant a crop for fear he will not ieap it. Employers hesitate to engage his services fearir.it they will he but temporary. This condition ought to ue cured for the repose of the public mind. It can be cured to some extnt by putting every nuin

on me n-t. To Draw Entire 1(1 OOO. 0(10. "Kor tiris reason the whole ten mil- ; lion nan;es are to lie rivn places on , the list of order of examination, i "Obviously no s'riKip ai!eo,-y could i examine ten million men. 'n-i--ief...re j the t. n million are V,.-V:I:,; into j i! roup- of suitable sote for i rivcme.it. examination. There are 4. '' of I these groups. Kor eu-h a boai. I ha- hen appointed t,, ,..,minc for .:w'i..n. liy Mr t ... .ate.-t ' nuinber "f t'le-e ..rrotips r..s;-t of I approximately .'I.OO.t o. .ri ir.ble.n is n..t ch ';"""!,:eK,'l"a"""'..,. mm in oi priority can o-i! he im-d l.v !t or drawing. "It v.oilld he po-slhlc to h.,v paiate di aw rv,'- -n f... oup- hilt since meth.M- w.ni! sup. and ch: insurai.ee .UMTi-t th. fia lid -ilent i-ianinul-itio had in that way. even ttld l'"t lion-, le 'itlcil CONTINTEt) "V PAGE SEVEN DEBATE ON FOOD BILL LIMITED III SENATE Oratory Cut Down to Ten Minutes Vote to he Taken Saturday. Ilty the fnlrr,..l.,ll nrt ttr -.. WASHINGTON'. Juiv 1!'. Senatorial oratory, winch has bei n CIoo.linir the Congressional Record durmt' the past five week.,' debate on tne food control bill, was ut down today to -hort ten minute .-perches a- a preliminary to bringing the measure to a vote Saturday The fight today centers on the motion of Senator Chamberlain. harkM hy the administration ami leaden "H both sides of the chamber, to -trik" from the controlled ti.-t all commodities except food and fuel. Tin motion is expected to meet wiih some siubhorn opposition, especially ftom the group of senators who belie w that steel, at least. shn.lM he eta:r..l in the contiollcl li..t to give th- government ower to force drrv. :i the products of the Steel Trust Scores nf amendments reiaaiM to ic voted upon hetore the b.ll rorrn s to a final roll call Saturday. Some of these are of far-reaching importance and will be hotly debat' d lur,ng the next three . It is generally agreed that no 'mther attempts to amend the prohiio tion sections will be in order and toat whatever changes are marie in the liiiuor amendments will have to he made after the mea.-ure k.h-s tr. conference. PRESIDENT WILSON A Gives Freedom to Sixteen Women Who Were Sentenced to the Workhouse. tlty the iHtmativnal Ktir Rerrice.) j WASHINGTON, July 19. President I Wilsen at noon tuday panione,) the sixteen suffragists sentenced to sixty i days in the workhouse, after trial fori picketing with banners in front of the , white house. They were released as goon a word of the pardon could I be sent to Supt. Whiteker at the Dccouriuan workhouse. President Wilson ia today seriously considering making women suffrage I an administration war measuie. Hc i eonvinced that an emergency exists which may demand the immediate granting of nuffrage of women. In uch a rjse, the president would feel jutlfttt in foriiiii Uie Anthony amendment through an a part of ih Erin 'tratiot war profram.

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T SITUATI Ships Beinjr, Destroyed Faster Than They Can be . . Constructed. PUBLIC ASKING FOR THE FIGURES New First Lord nf Admiralty Confronted hy a l(i; Task. .ONIlON, July IM. Ijemands for . e tight on the .ubmanne sanation !' o.ced ill marly quarter- t'siuy. j i.e.-,. an-e from persi-tent reports the efle i.it again, t the L'-b.iat .-I:'Pde.tr T! e ro il. anils come at a tune when a new Inst lord of the adoiiralty-Sir lire C;.nibe:i Geddes is taking over t'-e P"-t air.l thevr follow the reg ilar adinnalty statement on shipping In -p il.iVillg the wist Week. Instead of announcing that so many v.-.-Hs nf more or less than 1 ,fi00 tons ' are sent down, the government is beuv ared to pul.li.-h the exact tonnage i v.oy ship that is lost -n that the i d! ftay ki.ow exactly the existing j While the tgures of losses for the! iw. k ern'intf ye-t,rilay were not neat--: Iv -. L.ige as those during the dark days of .April, they were slightly h,gIter than the lirsr, of the two preceding w eeks. Fourteen ship- of a r ' than 1,1'jmi tons and four of less than that t.mnape were destroyed, not j eo.iiiting eight small tishing Iroats. Without counting the ti-hing craft. 17 h:p- were lost during the week ' ceding July 8 and the same nunih. r in tlie foiinwrng we.-k. .I.i-t what method. Sir Kric will u in . rrml.att mg the submarine danger is an otv.cal secret a- et, even if he ; h is "leeided upon a definite course in j ;he r f-r. Hut it is generally he-1 lieveil tlmt the admiralty'.! course will1 he to speed up the wa- against the L -lioats. lather than attempt to tight the ib.nger hy an tncri-a e i-i ship c in-1 stru. lion. ' K tractive co-operainti i, Isdng receivd f i .lm the I a 'i-rl stales and; Kiance. hut the f l.oats are proving e!u-,ie game for tne hunters of the : iti: Rforcupy Advanced Post in Sector Abandoned Julv 1. Wy 1ht InlfrntUnnat &rtr$ aerr, i "MioV, July 19. Ilritish forces the Ana., front extended their' during the night, occupying T. ..I posts in the Monrhy-l.e-.t .- 'i.-.i thai hail been abandoned i J. ir "ffre announced at The : i v ti.erl to capture a Briti h advr.M i.osi near Costa ve rites, W. '. I'lan.i". '. ;; were repulsed. A German aid n ar Cheriiy was repuU-d. Im the I.oiniiai .j:y sector there were artillery duels. Toe capture of 22 Austro-German Trri.-oners ami three machine guns on Tuisilav was reported by the Russian war office today. Th" official stuteroeiil says that the l;u-.siaiis occupied Novica (iialicia) .luring a night attack, but owing to heay losses, afterwards withdrew to the eastern end of the town. A counter attack was repulsed. DECISIVE VICTORY. Is Won hy the Administration on Food Rill. 11 the tttrnmHinol sks Kerrtee.i WASHINGTON, July 19.-The administration won a derisive victory this nfternoon in its drive to eliminate all rnmmoditiea except foodstuffs and fuel froitt the controlled list in the food cont-ol bill. By a vote of 44 to 28. the senate rejected1 an amendment offered hv Senator Keneon of Tows to retain Iron and aee snd th !rw ltUCt, fa'T.ej tr 1 H J er t'ine, ."

HOW THE DRAFT WILL HE REPORTED FROM NATIONAL CAPITAL

The International News Service will carry' "elective draft drawing direct from the rapitol in Washington as fast as the numbers are made available by Provost Marshal General Crowder. It will carry first the master numbers which will range from xern O to cn 10 . These master lumbers will show exactly the order in which each subdivision of the red numbered cards are to be called. Kor instance, should Heven be the first master number drawn all persons holding red numbers from 7,0iO to 7!!r! will be the first drafted. The master numbers will be drawn in sequence until all are recorded. When these are all recorded the drawing will proceed to Che individual. Then 1000 numbers will be drawn out and recorded. This will show the exact order in which each individual card in each master list is to report for examination. Thus there will be carried one set of nine numbers and one set of one thousand, nuking. 1 .!); in all. Efforts to Recruit Company M Have Been Given Up. ACTION TAKEN AT A MEETING TODAY Captain Rogers Will Make No Further Effort on Behalf of Company M. At a meeting this aftrinoon of thr committee tn charR:o of the campaign to r;ii-;e a new volunteer com;iny from Hoone county with K. O. (iocrs as Captain, it was (iecMfetl to rivp up the cnterpi ie, Tht-i action was taken on suujjestion of Captain Kdifprs wht fr!t that the druwintr for the sele tive draft wha so near that it would hardly be possible to muster the l.'.O men required by that time. There have been a number of enli.-itmen!.-; but not enough to justify hope of .-uc-ft's,-. before the draft comes. It was derided to ijive Co. II, the benefit of the work already done in ihe intrpr-t of the new company and all of the men who iyned up with Company M, vill be encouraged Ut join Co., H. AT . iieorKe lomphins Admits hilling Mr. and Mrs. Humphries and Son. iltV the nfersaternnl fii:a ttervtte.i KIIKN.SHL'RG, Pa., July 10. G. C. : Tompkins, of Philadelphia, today con- j fesserl to the triple murder last Sun-' day of Mr. and Mrs. Kdmund I. Hum- j phries and their l-Vvear-nbl son. The confession was mude in the county ail in the presence of Wurden : Erl Knee and Attorney John F.vans of the firm of F.vans & Kvans, counsel for the accus.d man. Thompkins made a clean breast of everything, according to the officials, telling of the revolver, the motive for the crime and how it was enacted. Tompkins in his confession electrified the Cambria county authorities. CONTRACTS ABE LET. WASHINGTON, July 19. The war department today announced that conI tract for th building of three na tional guard cantonment have been awarded ns follows: Wm. E. Hampton & Co., of ,Los Angeles, the Una Vltda, Cat., camn. ! Joan O. Chisholm i Co., of New Orj!arw, Ut Anniston, Alaweamn, A!gerIivmj Ii:ir, of Worr'fomery, Ai, the -y rB..

UNITED STATES

Representatives of Carrana Are in Washington. MEXICO BADLY IN NEED OF MUNITIONS Mexicans Are Also Asking For Money Treasury in Had Shape. I!V IIOMF.lt J. DllHGK. ?! Me tntttMU-mal W .Cer.-i-e.i WASHINGTON, Juiv U.-P.epre-I sent.itives uf the Caiian.a D. I'actu government in Mexico aie in Wahj ington today making a rletei mined and j ! organized eltort t,, get the emiiargu : on alius an-1 mumuo.is ..j' ,i.n ur j Mexico lifted entiiely or at lea..! I mod i t ier I. The same group is doing its utmost to get tire tederal government here to make a loan to Mexico or to give its , sanction to a loan subscribed by a syndicate of American bankeis. So j far little progress has been made. ! Carrana is sadly short of munitions of war. according to reports laid hefore government officials here. It '.va.sugirestcd that tile mechanical weakness of the Carranzista forces imperils the stability of his government. If opposition factions can. hy filibustering or other means, supply themselves better thnn i arrana now is supplied and that, it is claimed, would not be difficult the Cananr.ista regime, would be m-e. turned. The.-e statements have been presented to Ihe VVnsningivn government as argument for the modification of the embargo. It has been suggested that under the newly oiganierl president's council, a policy could he adopted whereby ports of munitions to Carranza could iw licensed. It i- admitted heie that this woul.l be pnss.hle if the American government decides that such a course is desirable. Mexicans Want Money. The spoeial prayer of the Mexicans is for money. The Mexican treasury is in bail shape and Carranza. it is stated, fears that he cannot maintain himself much longer unless financial a.-si.-tanie is forthcoming from some duarter. That any other nation than the t'nited States is likely to make loans in .Mexir-ojs deemed unlikely so the Mowans are concentrating theii attention on Washington. It is declared that ther are extensive financial intere.-ts in this country which would he willing to make a loan to Mexico provided the sanctior of the Washington authorities could he obtained. These bankers have made heavy investments in Mexico and fear that unless they add enough now to make their property safe they w ill lose everything. The fact that the United States and Grea Britain are now allies may have some bearing on the situation. British oil interests in Mexico are extensive anil the British government is wary of the muny humiliations and embarrassments which have been thrown in the path of her citizens in Mexico by reason of Mexican disturbances. If financial assistance could he given Mexico at this time in such a way as to guaiantee reace ami iUiet anil an opportunity to bring needed naval oil out of the Tuxpam and Tamnicn districts in larger (fuantities, the authorities in London would be glad to see it given. So far the Mexican representatives have not made much headway but they are continuing to work iuietl anil are confident their mission will not end in complete failure. PRESIDENT TO DECIDE Will Say Whether General Of fensive Against U-Boals Shall lie Attempted. f the ItttenHiHtnttl Weies sendee.) WASHINGTON, July 19.-Prfsi-oeni wiison will dectd whether the United Stnte ahall attempt a genera! offensive against German fob marines. A plan for auch action, nrenarwd hv the t enenJ itaiT of tha evy now i nerore the f-r-.-..:.nt. I 4 t!"'ft flitr is bi.

formation to show whether auch an

offensive, if undertaken, would succeed. But the increased inroads that the submarine are making; into the reserve supply of the wurld's shipping mukea it necessary that something be done at once to check the submarines. If attempted it will consist of operations by destroyers, aeroplanes, small dirigibles, light cruisers and submarine chasers. Officials of the navy department said today that they considered figures published in a copyrighted article in the N. Y. Times today, saying that German submarines today are sinking 1.600.000 tons of shipping a month too much. The average they said was as estimated by the International Nnws Service three weeks ago about 1,000,000 tons a month. NATION WIDE CAMPAIGN. Suffragists Protest Over Arrest and Imprisonment of Pickets, inn flit International Vcirs tfcrvtff.l NF.W Y0I5K, July 111 Members of the National Woman's Party launched a nation-wide campaign today against the arrest and imprisonment ut Washington of their militant suffragist pickets in thousands of leters and telegrams sent to President Wilson. This plan of attack was a.hpterj following a statement issued at local : headquarter, that the woman's party ' must .oirt.iiur- its policy of pitkitir.g and that suffragists throughout the ! ountry be urged to communicate li-l-.i in ,: p.i soil ill. WANTS TO KNOW. Senate Asks President About Den- j man-Goethals How. I tRu the International rtri Kerriee.) VI" i SIIIVlITnS: Inlv rTl,e ate today asked the president for the j fact., about the nenman-Coetimls 1 ihippin row. It i,iklt..(. witrimit n 1 hy Senator Smoot of I'tah. calling fr the infoi mation. TELL THRILLING TALES Two American Sea Captain Desorihe Encounters at Sea. illy the liW.rnnlfiiri.il Veils Merrier.) I AN AMERICAN PORT. July 1!).

Two American sea captains arrived r Robert Perry Shepherd w:!! anhere today with thrilling accounts of pear on the program tomorrow afterencounteis with German submarines noon and evening. He will speak in the war lone. I"" "Community Organization." Thev were ( apt. Walter O'Brien,! "w fr "r community all that of Chicago, who recently took the 1 11 "u"ht to be and can lie to give lt

Angers, built on Great l akes, to France, and Capt. James Marsha'! of the American hark Gale.ia, torpedoed on June 7f miles southwav.l of L'shant, 1'rance. The (inlena was sunk. The Angers scaped destruction by the narrow margin of two feet, a torpedo passing within that distance of her side. Cap!. O'Brien immediately opened lire on the C-hoat and drove her under water. Four shots were fired hy the Ameriesn gunnels. Capt. O'Brien said that he saw a great splash and a heavy vapor rise on the water. He believes the submarine was badly damaged. The light came as a sequel to the sinking of the American tank steamer John 11 in.ki.,i,i u,hi.-h r iot ft'ltfipn r.r,i r,L thirtv.three men witnessed at short range. The tanker had just received her fatal blow when the Angers' crew sighted the periscope of the attacking submarine a short distance to star board. Before the guns rculd he manned a torpedo was launched at the Angers, missing by a few feet. Later the vessel doubled back to pick up the crew of the tanker, but a British patrol boat hove in sight and picked up the men. ThuGalcna's aptain said his ha,k was attacked by shell fire but the Teuton gunners were in bad form. After wasting a number of shells they sept a hnat alongside and bombed the vessel. FRENCH ARE GENEROUS. Gift of Eatahlea And Wine Put The American in a Quandary. (By the teternationel ftewt Kereiee.) AMERICAN TRAIKING CAMP IN FRANCE, July 19. The generosity of the French ha put the American army officials in a quandary. In addition to the gifts of ham and jam to the "Sammies" on Bauble day, the French have presented the American with one quart of champagne for every four men and a half of a litr of red wine for each man as an expression of friendship. The American efflciala, while appreciaUni deeply the pirit of tile gift were undecided how to act.

They itr b0 enable to conclude whether or nt to give th tan to lh mm, .

Youths' Chautauqua Was Organized This Morning:.

MUSIC AND ORATORY THIS AFTERNOON Program Tomorrow Includes Two Lectures By Dr. Shepherd. ' The Lincoln Chautauqua started- it ries uf programs today wdth the Youths' Chautauqua this morning ar.,I (,(mct,r( U)f Kilm, 0r -h"str "ml the fllll"s ' Rului EKiiik. this afternoon. Over one bun(.i,..rl .,uog people srir .H Mil. HI tn(, nieetitrg this morning, wh.rh was Iduected by Miss Stdlwell the Juvenile Supervisor. Arrangements were made '"' beginning practice for the big pa triotic pageant i ' children whicn 1 to l.e held Monday evening. A ticket hunt was also one of the f irms of diversion this morning. Charles Hjrt, ,' . "ll ,,on . an1 lM "'Win wr, Inj iuck)- rintiers. jampH itonanon xsn the er of the boys' race for ticket, and Mary Voris was the win ner of the gifls' arce. The splendid program this afternoon pleased a small audience. Ihe ticket sale for the rhautnuqua is not what it should have been, anl thT management are tuqieful that Mic pea pie will respond when they dnd out what a log thing it is. The program mil go through regailam of the sols of tl''t. Tor.ight the Craven Orchestra, which consists of a father and four daughter)), am) the lecture "The Royal Road to Wealth," by Rufus King, will be the features. Sir. King's lubject this afternoon was "The Almighty Dollar." Mr. Howard T. Hill ia the platform manager of the rhautnuqua Tomorrow's program. most eflicicnt suport to the million of men now being assigned to service? The people w ho make up our trade district and v. ho are the actual community are gmal people mostly. They go on about their daily work and ordinary cares minding their own business mostly. They average up fair ly well with the people in other localities throughout the nation, and if it were no for the war they would prefer to go on living as they hav been living mostly. There is, however, nationa! concern, in this world crisis, for our man power and our food power. Both must l.e developed to their highest and best. Whatever is found superfluous must ! cu' Thi meaiui general haki in of our ""I'Cary way of living. A million dollars of undeveloped annual resourres can be found In each of the two thousand counties of the t'nited States. If there is any uch amount of power lying unused in thi i , K , , , , . untv to ,m1 .l10? th.' latent wealth. The world needs the goods and w-e need the money. Great Waste. Infinitely greater waste is said to mark our American habit of mind toward our present and future man power. Needless infant mortality, loss of time and money through preventable dii-eaes, frightciiinx inciraso of feeble-mindedness and insanity, appalling; increase of unnatural crimes, of home wrecking and home breaking, of flippant marriage and frivolous excuses for divorce, of physically defective school children and of the army of mentally deficient and halfeducated youths all these facts stand up to challenge indifferent and unorganized to combat the wastage of man power in the nation. And the challenge is made acute by the new peace of thi nation among the leaders of the wor'd. The part thi community must play in the new drama of life is right hero at home. It can be stated in our expression iystematie co-operation. We must get together and lay out practical plan for conserving our food power and our met! power. We must ret some, by agreement among ourelves, to d'aeuver and develop to th

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