Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 25, Number 258, Lebanon, Boone County, 30 July 1917 — Page 1

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DURINGTHEWEEK New Offensive May Occur on Anniversary of War Declaration. ARTILLERY IS VERY ACTIVE ALONG LINE Aeroplane Are Also Ihiinc Great Work Russians Continue Retreat. IB) the ;mrnlional Vein LONDON", July .SO. I r of th present week, will I tin- third anniversary of F.nglarwrs ttUr divluration against Germany ami th-re were strong imlu alums today tliut the British army is tiiiiiritr a Kr'"'lt n,'w "''"- sive drive ugai.--t the Teutons on that date. This is borne liy the terrific can m.riading that has been in pioie.,., in West Flanders all the way from Arnicnt're.s to the North Sa for over a week. Aerial activity is on the increase anil great armadas of British orl (iernian buttle planet crash in battle daily uliove the roaring nuns. British flyer? are act. My engaged in making -'connoisaiicesi white the Germans try v'iliniy to beat thenf back. On Sunday alone thirty (ierman aeroplanes ami two captive balloons wen destroyed or forced down out of coitttol while llerlin reports that thirty five British airmen wcie shot ilown. According to tile indications Field Marshal Haig's new tlimst n,ny In even greater than the Sonime olfen -ive in point of numbers and the length of ground covered by it. Three Object. A violent otTensive in West Flanders might have three objects in view. 1 To relieve pressure against the French on the Aisne, Champagne and lleuse front. ,t t 2 To prevent the Oemisss from , strengthening tlieir armies that are rolling back the Russians on some parts of the eastern front. 2 To crush in the northern flank of the German army on the western front nml regain ground recently won by the Teutons in that sector. While the artillery roared on the west Flanders front patrols were active elsewhere on the bring line during the night, the W3r office announce-1 in its official report today. In the sectors of Bullecourt and Aehevillc minor fighting resulted from clashes between lirilish and Orman patrol parties. German troops southeast of Tarnepol have fought their way across the Zbruci river, occupying the Russia town of Gusiatia. according to ad vices from Vienna tiy; Cusiatin is just across the frontier from the (ialician town of Husiatyn. It is at that point that the German; have concentrated their heaviest force -. of men and the greatest masses of mobile artillery. Their object is evidently to break the Russian front in that sector, if possible, and then to swing to the north and south in two great flanking movements1, MISSED BIG SI M. Burglars Overlooked ,006 in a Robbery in Chieago Early Today. (fl th International Xetri Berctee.l CHICAGO, July 30. A heap of soiled tablecloth and bartenders' aprons saved the Green Mill garden J.'i.OWl early today. Safecrackers, bound and gagged two porters, blew open a safe and secured $2,000 in jewelry and $3,000 in cash, but they overlooked an adjoining safe containing Saturday night's receipts t'i,0O0. It was covered with soiled linen. SIX KILLED IN AUTO 11 Five Lost Their Lives When Run Down by Train at Seymour. B the fsferuMonal ,, Uerrtae.l INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 30. Six -lead and several injured, is Indiana's Sunday toll in automobile accidents. Fire persona were killed in an sito-

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night, wben a Pennsylvania piumtn train smashed the automobile. The crossing long has been regarded as a dangerous one. The dead included Lon Pruitt, 68, driver of fie machine; William Speinker, Julius Orstadt. Miss Clara Wcinhorst and Mis Edna Zimmerman. All but Miss Zimmer man were killed outright and she lived but a short time. Dr. V. A. Magenheimer, 41, of Mooresville, a member of the medical reserve corps at Ft. Harrison, was killed and four others were badly injured in accidents in ami near Indianapolis. Dr. Magonheimer's auto was struck by a Vnion Traction ear near the Port. Miss Grace Holton, who was with him, was badly injured. Mrs. Charles Trask was injured in a collision in the city. l.eo Holm was perhaps fatally injured and two others were badly hurt at Richmond when a C. 4 O. train sideswiped nn express truck in the yards. CLOSELY GUARDED. I'rtrautions Taken at Murder Trial at Springfield, Mo. tBv the International eir f.rrriee.t SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Ju'y 30. A heavy guard was thrown about the court house Aday as Claude J. (Doe.) 1'iersol and memlrers of his gang were brought to town for arraignment in connection with the kidnapping and murder of Baby Lloyd Keet, son of J. Holland Keet, banker. The prisoners were flipped in cuietly during the night, under strong "!! Authorities fear an outbreak from citizens. 1'iersol was to ask for a change of venue, fearing he could not secure a fair trial in the community where the Keet baby lived. RAILWAY STRIKE AT IS The 2.5110 Switchmen Who (nil Work Saturday, ltetuin To Their Jobs. Jtftn the International A'.wt Hrrrtre.) CHICAGO, July 30. The 2r.00 switchmen belonging to the Hrotherhood of Railway Trainmen, who struck Satunlay because the Brotherhood was not allowed to dictate appointment of ynnlmasters, returned to work today after a settlement in which they won a partial victory. " The patriotic appeal -of government agents, in which it was pointed the necessity of fast transportation of troops, caused both sides to yield. Under the terms of settlement yardmasters are to be employed by a board consisting of seven brother pood oilicials and the managers conference committee, representing the railroads. ANOTHER LEBANON BOY William Milntire With the American Expeditionary Force in France. General Mclntire, of this city, has i received a letter from his son William, i who is with the L'rnted Stales army in France. Ycung Mi lntire is nineteen years of age, having left here to join the infantry at Columbus, Ohio, two years ago. He in a members of ; Company G, i6th Infantry and stated ' 'hat his present address as lari,, I France. The letter wus dated July . 4th, and arrived here yesterday. The latter stater that the writer was in : fma belth, and twine personal new s, j but contained no account of riie voy-! age to France nor of the life there. ! He stated he would write more later on, but was not allowed to tell anything abou the army. GERMAN ARRESTED. SPOKANE, Wash., July 30. With the arrest of Ir. Karl Grossman, of New York, identified with f -inner Ger man ambajisauor von Hernstorn s clique,1 federal authorities today be lieved they had apprehended "C of the leaders of anti-American labor iuturhers. Crossman was arrested within an hour after he arrived from New York. TWfJ NEGROES LYNCHED. AMITE, La., July SO. An orderly mob took Dtniel and Jerry Rout, negro brothers from the Tanfipahoa Jail ana burp them to adjoining i'mbs on a giant tree. The brothers were awaiting trial for shooting to death Simeon !'Wri.st, who tried to collect a bill from

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French k Expert Forecasts Mighty Conflicts For Mastery. AMERICANS TO TURN TIDE OF VICTORY Great Air Fleet Means Begin ning of the End of the War. BY DAVID .M. CHURCH. Hv the. International Ketrn Senile.! WASHINGTON, July 30. Next ar will see terrific battles in the nrds; titanic struggles between the lies and Germany to take the suemaey of the air. America, by the execution of her eat aviation must swing the balance. li'iMii will be swept from the skies. It will be the lieginning of the end. This is a summary of the opinion expressed today by Capt. Amsury de l a Grange of the French uviation corps. He is in Washington in an advisory capacity to the war deoartment in the construction und building of the American fleet. Supremacy of the Air. Next year will see the allies ami G.rn-any in what must be the final -tnurgle for the supremacy of the air, said ' apt. He l.a Grange. "Germany must be kept from flying. This will lie the beginning of the -uperiority on the ground Tor the allies. If America can throw hundreds of mnihines into the service to nui th allies, then we can carry on u warfare which will be disastrous to the mem. "To have superiority on the ground you niust have superiority in the air. Without control of the air you cannot concentrate troops of batteries, nor prepare for attacks, without the knowledge of the enemy. It is like a game of cards, in which the other player looks over your shoulder and knows your hand. "Next year we shall have to attack at several places at one time along a great battle, front and to do this we must have superiority in the air. Am erica can help us to gain this superior- j it v, by carrying out her aviation program, and expanding it. t annul F.qual in.firs, "Germany will, of course, try to keep up to America. In my opinion she can never equal the American nation in the production of either men "America must become ejsrouraged if Germany tries to equal her. If Germany tries to equal her efforts in the air, that is the game of war, one ron-.bat.arit continually striving to equal the efforts of his enemy ami back and forth it goes. "You have two great advantages over Germany, in material and in personnel. "You are coming into the war fresh. Germany is worn and tired. Fvery factory and resources in Germany is now u.-ed in war work. If she strives to build a great war fleet, then some other factor must bo weakened, some strength must be taken from their huttleriehl and the advantage is with the allies. A you know we are all nerve worn and strained in France, in Knglond and in (iermany. In America you arc freh and vigorous in your first entrance in the war. "To man airplanes, they must be young men such as yours, your men are fresh and full of life, strong and tlesn muscled and with norvei steady and hard. You have these, you are taking 100,000 such men to build your army of the air youths uniired by the war. "Germany has no such men to man the air fleet she may try to build to meet your efforts. Her men are worn and haggard from long struggles on the battlefields. If she does find enough who are young and fresh, then she must take them from some other important work. Again sh weakens one part of her war machine to strengthen another. So here you e you have the two great advantages in material and personnel. Battle Plane First "My advice is that yon build first of all battle planes and then great bombing machines. "Why?" he was asked. . Because without a large number of battle planes, vou cannot gam suprem acy )n the air. As ?on; as you ! haven't supremacy of the air, you cannot eend yar botubmit machines I far into tha t-eir.." Iwit. But the

minute you have certainly, owing to your air fighticg sttength, then with your Oombing machines, you can bring war home to th Germans. And this will be easier in the future, for one day the Germans are going to retreat .from northern France, and perhaps from Belgium. Then our lines will be nearer to Germany and it will be easier to send offensive machines over the lines and bring the war truly home to Germany. We can the i send bombinx machines to wreck her factories and can make the German people at home realize the war. "It is now hard and unsatisfactory work sending bombing airplanes into Germany. It is nearly 200 miles to the objective and 200 miles back. We ran do little in offensive work in the way of reprisal, which is not satisfactory. Hut when the day comes that Germany withdraws her troops from France, then if we have large numbers of bombing machines ami battleplanes we can do a great work from the air and can bring the end of the war nearer to a conclusion. "For instance, you cannot imagine the demoralizing effect of bombing troops behind the lines. These poor devils h;.ve been in the trenrhes for eight or ten days. They have withstood fire and shell and they are moved back of the lines to a cantonment or barracks. Hert they want to lie only quiet and to rest. If airplanes drop bombs on them constantly throughout the nijrht, H hns a com.

CONTINUED Of PAGE TWO. HEARS R. VI. AOMEY NPATRlQTiCTALK 'How War Came to America" Subject of Address. AMERICAN PURPOSES CLEARLY SET FORTH The United State ,u.i Ls to Protect Civilization Against Barbarism. A powerful patriotic speech was delivered last night at the union church meeting on the public square by Uoy Adney, on the general subjr-ct, "How War Came to America." The largest audience that has yet been in attendance at the meetings heard the address and took part in the services. Rev, R. 11. Kent hail charge of the meeting, ami introduced Mr. Adney. The opening prayer was given by Uov. A. I.. Ward, and the benediction by Kev. Kent. The audience took part in the singing, Mr. Adney, in his speech, dwelt on three mam topics, the responsibility for the war, the causes that led the L'nited States into the world conflict, and the aims of America in the war. He laid the blame for precipitating the nations of the world into bloody conflict squarely at the door of Germany whose selfish ambitions threatened the freedom and the civilization of the nations. He gave as the causes for the entry of our country into the -truggle, the violation of international law by Germany, the murder of our tens on the high seas and the reck less disregard on the part of Germany for the rights of neutrals and nonibatants, which is shown by the burning of the city of Lnuvain, the slaughter of women and children in Belgium and Poland, and the state ment by the German chancellor Von Ilollwegg that the treaty guaranteeing the neutrality and the protection of Belgium was a mere scrap paper. Mr. Adney stuted that the mission of the l'nited Mates in the war is not to acquire territory nor collect an in demnity, but merely to protect civilization against barbarism and to make the world a safe place for democracy. in which all peoples, great and small, may work out their own destiny. JF.WKLS STOLKN. CHICAGO, July 30.p!ice today wpre searching for 10,000 in Jewels stolen from Carolina White, grand op era prima oonna, who is tilling an en Ifagement at a Chicago amusement park. The robbery occurred at Russell hall, where Miss White and her hus band and conductor, Signor Longone are staying. NEGRO SOLDIER KILLED, WACO,' Ten., July 30. William Jones, negro private in the Twenty ionrth United Slates infantry, which i guarding government property at rmp stcAnhur, wan shot and killed during clashes between the' colored) j,liiier nnit unite rittsen last night Several white m were injured, ,

list tu-.ihnJf Li it PLA!i MEETS ViTH NO RESPONSE HERE United States Officials Maintain Silence As to Suggestions.

SINCERITY OF THE OFFER QUESTIONED Believed in Some Quarters That Position is Designed to Influence Russia. BY JOHN F.DW1N NF.YIN. iB$ tht Internnlifmat Neva Berrtee.1 WASHINGTON, July 30. 'Teace by understanding without conquest" as suggested from Vienna and Herlin, met with no responsive reply in administration circles here today. Officials were deeply interest!. They held that the declaration of the German imperial chancellor, George Mirhaclis and the A ustro-Hungarian foreign Minister Count Ottokar Czerninvi in von Chaudenitz that the war should end now by negotiations must be interpreted in the light of existing I control in both nations by the military) caste. They are made at this time, officials profess to believe, chiefly for the effect that they can be expected (n have on Kussia. where the advocates of Kare without mdemnities or annexations arc in the majority. In the absence of any official statement from President Wilson, officials were Vhary about discussing the Teutonic sugtstions for publication. It was pointed out, however, that in part at least, president Wilson -had disposed of some of the suggestions made in his recent message to the Russian people. At that time he took the position that compelling Germany to, restore Uelgiom and devnsated portions of northern France would be t of justice and not an indem nity. By inference he took the same position toward Serbia and Koumanin. but as the United States is not at war with either Austria or Bulgaria there was no sM?cific mention of these nnF.mphssizes Growing Desire. It was believed here that the simul taneous utterances along similar lines from both Vienna and Berlin rmphasi'ed the grow ing desire for peace in the Teutonic nations. Although fr. Michael is has flatly stated that there will be no renewed offers of pea-e from the Crntiul powers and that the icxt move is up to the allies, it will ause no surprise should the ent nte be asked to state their peace terms by the Vatican in thf near future. Failing this, it already is certain, when the German reichstag reconvenes in September, the government will be asked to transmit the "no indemnity, no annexation" resolution to tlje entente powers. There is a strong possibility .however, that the war aims of the entente. as subscribed by the United States ill probably be outlined before then. ussia is to press for an early confer ence to re-state the principles of the allied cause. Both France and Great Britain have agreed to her sugges tion. It is expected that if Premier Kerensky succeeds in restoring disri pline in the Russian army and in checking the German advance, till: conference will meet before September 1. Much admittedly depends on the manner in which the Russian cabinet is re-organised. Kerensky has announced that there will be no change in the government's program. No Change in Program. Kerensky has announced that there will be no chanire in the government's program. However, advices received from Petrograd show that the socialist elements are demanding that all the social reforms be postponed until after the war ends that anarchy be Rtamped out by the death penalty; that cabinet memlieis be made non responsiva to their political parties and that the war be continued along the lines suggested by the allies. In connection with the peace suggestion officers today pointed to the speech of jfSecretury Lansing Pittsburgh lost night as carrying a strong answer. His declarations that the "German people will not cast off the voke of autocracy until physical might of the united democracies of tlie world -has destroyed forever the ambitions of ths military rulers of I Germany" and "imagine Germany vie tor in Europe brause " the United States remained neutral. Who, then I ei,mk you would N tha Mt victim of

of this of the whole earth?" Sum the present attitude government, iney said. Them is a chance that an effort xvill be made on the floor of the senate to have the L'nited Suites state its peace terms. Certain senators have under consideration introducing a resolution along this line and th? Berlin and Vienna utterances may bring thia nlovement fo a head in the near future. SLACKERS ENLIST TO AVOID ARREST IJI the International A'eies firrtrtc, SPUING RELD, 111., July 30. Four men arrested as slackers in the Sprinsfleld district of the United States court, have obtained their release by enlisting in the old Troop D, now an artillery company of the new Third Illinois' Field Artillery. The four are John W. Daily, Petersburg; (iuy Masterson, arrested here Friday when he wanted to register; Oliver Burchi, Kinraid and Martin Anton, Tsylorville. Acting on orders from the United States Marshal's office the men were offered freedom if they would enlist. They accepted. Joe Thomas, of Jerseyville, III., was brought to Springfield today, charged with dodging the draft, and offering to shoot any Federal officer w ho came after him. One United States marshal placed him under urrest without anv shooting. 1HER OWN SOLUTION President Will Not Offer Sutrjrestions to Members of Committees. ' (fl the International eirt Srrrire.) WASHINGTON. July 30. The udloeked food control bill conferees will haw to find their own way out of the muddle. Representative l.evor, uthor of the house bill, was sched uled to go to the while house today to try to induce the president to inter vene and compose differences between the senate and house. Before he arrived it was learned the president will not offer suggestions. p still is unalterably opposed to the congressiom war conduct comee the senate demand and the proposed three-man food administra- , it was learned today. COAST RAKERS FOR USE OF RYE BREAD IBM the Imnrntitional .Vnr AWeicd PORTLAND, Ore.. July 30. Hav ng agreed not to take bark day-old bread, wholesale hnkers of the Pairic Northwest took unother step in he food conservation campaign by tailing the exploitation of rye bread is a war measure. The bakers' move advises the use of rye bread for at least one meal each day, so that the supply of white flour may be conserved. In recent lemnnstrations various ways of using rve flour were shown to be most pal atable, and the food value of the board also is said to favor its general adoption. "If one of the three meals of he lay were served with only rye brad jn the table, the supply of wheat for flour woulld he increased by 150,000,000 bushels," said H. F. Rittman, expresident of the Master Bakers' As sociation. CHARGE OF CRUELTY. Zionsville Man Arrested for Beating His Horse. ' Dr. John Reiber, Zionsville veterinarian, was arrested Saturday by Harrison Hoover, marshal of Whitestown on the charge of cruelty to animals. He was whipping his hoVse to excess, it is alleged. He was brought before Squire Beeler and fined $2 and costs. The promptitude with which the Whitestown marshal puts down lawlessness in his juriediction is to be opmmended, and the orderly demeanor of the general populace there bears witnss to his efforts as a guardian of the peace. It is stated by county officials thst Mr. Hoover is one of the best town marshals in Boone county. THESE KISSES HAD A ROAD LIKE TRUE LOVE IBs tlte International Xema Berrtra.) CLEVELAND, July 30. Two kisses are better than one. Joe thinks so and Julia, ditto. It was like this. Joe end Julia Kiss lived in Caiton. They gave up the task of steering the nuptial bark on the sea of matrimony. They irot a divorce. Each Kiss went his, or her way. But they were lonesome and came back. And they met. Kiss Kissed Kiss and remarried.

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FEDERAL PRiSOIl Indianapolis Chief of Police is Sentenced Today. v A FINE O F$1,000 IS ALSO ASSESSED Other Sentences Are Imposed in the Indianapolis Election Fraud Cases. (JIh the International .Yrtri SVrHce.) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 30. Samuel V. Perrott, chief cf police of Indianapolis when convicted in federal court of election frauds several weeks ago, was loduy sentenced to four years in the federal prison and fined $1,000. Police rapUin Roy Pope, Detective Wring and .Sergeants Sanders unit Hulsc were given 9 months in jail u;"i linerl sou tau, and Herman Adam, former city sealer, was sentenced to two years six months in prison and fined $500. Judge Ferdinand Geiger, of Milwaukee, imposed sentenses. The chief charges against the defendants was that they brutally beat negroes to keep them from the polls in 1814. 4 Stsy of 30 DaysJudge Geiger granted a stay of' thirty days for Perrott, whose counsel represented that he was in had health. The defendants were among the leaders in the Democratic city campaign of 1014. They were charged by the government with conspiracy to defraud, by vote buying and intimidating negroes. Mayor Joseph E. Bell, indicted with thirty-six other city politicians since the Perrott trial, was arraigned and demurred to the indictment His attorneys said he would fight the. rase. Twenty-nine of the number demurred, four pleaded not guilty and four defendants, who were witnesses for th government in the Perrott trial, pleaded guilty. Chief Detective Keilley and William Glauer, clerlf of the board of public works, demurred. Six others, who were indicted with Perrott and pleaded guilty, were not sentenced. They will be held as gorj .rnmnt witn..,,,,,, , CHICAGO POUCH'S HOUSE !S DYNAMITED Bomb Exploded Under Front Porch Policeman Escapes Injury. (fly Ms slerseliossl Sam lartfee.) CHICAGO, July 30. A dynsmlt bomb, believed to have been set with a time fuse, exploded under the fro.it porch of the home of Motm-eyrle Policeman Vred Brown early today. The porch was hurled across the street, plaster was shaken from the walls in the house snd windows were broken. Brown and his wife, asleep in the house at the time, were uninjured. Police believe some man, angered at hiri arrest, attempted revenge. JODiES OF ELEVEN MEN ARE RECOVERED Lost Their Lives in Forest Fi.e Fifteen Others Are Missing. ( International Jrie sVrefM.) FERNIK, B. C, July 30 The bodies of eleven men burned in a forest file that swept the Spruce river valley Sunday afternoon were recovered: from the blackened area twlay. Fifteen others are missing ami r believed to have perished. Fifty-six men and a number of horses, trapped m a blind Valley logging camp, escaped after s difficult climb over the moan tains. Millions ni fwt of timber met burned. '