Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 25, Number 262, Lebanon, Boone County, 3 August 1917 — Page 1

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The Reporter is the only Daily Newspaper in Boone County. si 'k'sii 4& x- kvs ii 1 i. sv ?ir tonight end San!y; erm Uaturda (a mtrtb portion. VOLUME 25. LEBANON, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1917. NO. 262.

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Succeed in Taking Somej British Trenches. But j Retreat Again. I BLOODY FIGHTIM. j NORTHEAST OF YPRESj Germans Hurled Hack in Repealed Counter Attacks The Situation. IK.J the .IC.iil.Meil V,.r, ,c-. I.. I THK H AGt E, Aug. 3,t '"mowitz, capital of the tusirian rrimn land of l!ukoina. ha been recaptured by the Vietnam. said a dipatrh from Vienna today. The dispatch as that official annminciment of the cily's captute had been made there. , By the fe..a.O'. t' LONDON. Aug. .'t. In vol.-nt gh ; ing in the Mnni hy sector in lust night. th Germans sui penetrating British position.powerful counter attack, it cially announced l.y the war dy. The Germans attacked on n far. I halt i front, following a terntir hnait.ar.lment. They raptured portions of British trenches in heavy righting, hu' tl.e British returned to the attack and iecap tmed part of the lost positions. Heavy lighting in the Monchy .-.,.. i was continuing ear'y today in w -t and stormy weather, "Hold your lines at any rvt." This command was given to Crown ''fince Rupprecht of Havana, cum'nanding the Gorman forces in 1- landers, when the war council of German military and naval leader, summoned by the kaiser, met in Brussels yesterday, said a di: patch from Amsterdam. The imperial command has already been flashed up and down the German front and today's dispatch from Flan Iera told of savage German counter attacks, terrific pounding of British line by artillery and hand-to-har.d fighting of a ferocity unequalled even :n the battles of the Somme. Blood) Fighting. Throuifhotit last night the regx northeast of Ypres was a seen" ..f bloody alaughter. Hurled hack in repeated counter attacks during; the day, the Ormans renewed the batt'ej at dusk. They came charging o.it I through a sea of mud, siumhlirg through great al.e'l craters half t iled with water, pushing, lighting de pe; -utely on only to meet .i. aster un.l. r the galling fire of British guns. j In nearly every instance the char.'-1 ing Teutons were cut down before th. y were half way to the British I, to-. In rare cases they ran on to the Bnti: h trenches, only to be slaughtered by '.he i British troops who repulsed one at-! tack after another. At dawn today ; hundreds of German dead, their grey i uniforms coated with mud, lay bet'iee: the British positions. I The full fury of the Orman c'tae s fMI against the newly won British positions, south of Kreisrlibuig. The1 Teutons emeiged from strong po: i tiona along a highway leading to the; Ypren-Roulers railway and atterr pie. j time and again to take the Rriti-h positions by storm. German prisoners brought in dum g the night, hollow-eyed, hungrv ard suffering severely from pxpoure in the 48-hour storm, said that the fn" : importance of the allied drive m ! Klanders was realized hy every sold-1 ier along the German front. There were rumors along the German front j that huge bodies of reserres wpre ho-1 ing hurried Up, some of them com-1 ing fom the .tern front, they said. ' fiETS DECORATION. Von llindenhurg Given Ci And Star of Royal Order of llohenollern. ' Ilit mers.Mmia, , or. atrelrit.1 AMSTERDAM, August 3. Kaiser Wiihelm has conferred the cross and star of the royal order of the house of Hohenzollern on Field Marshal Von Hindnbirg, after expressing his "boundless thanks" to the German military leader for "defying superior forces of th enemy and clearing the way for our armies' victory." TELEGRAPHERS MAY STRIKE. CLEVELAKD. Aug. 8Tlegraph operators of the Erie railroad lines today art threatening a strika because the company has not granted improvements is working conditions d-maaded.

I AMERICAN TROOPS WILL MARCH THROl'GH ! STREETS OF LONDON

(By the ilfrnul'il Srtrl aerrlc.! LONDON', Auk. 3. American troops are to march through London streets with flags flying and hands play inr in the near future the Daily Express declared today. It will ho the tir:,t time since the landing of William III that soldier.of a foro!gn country have hern permitted to march in England, carrying arms and n foreign lug. Th Daily Mail p ts on: that presence tr-op .nglisk so,l no (for n sechat limit the fart ,eorge in-pecled On- Amen, a was nubli-ried a lev -lavs ago. T Mail demand th.it the Kng:i p. uple hrlefo'.' he given on i (ortunitv to p;ve the Amen'. KE( RI lTINt; TOR (,V ARI). Will be in ( hame of liectiinr Vr Itecrm'tnr I irganifat a a-. "" M . . " ! INDIAN Al'nl.lS. Ivd.. -V;.!v ia ozatinn. it d.-t.l.led to te. ru ting :' i k t.- ! p ' ii mi i,n.U h;'"i' tin ', ko -...,! ti. W h-ther or Pot th- ln.lun.1 -Ki: ! .Mil co to Kort Harn-on befor- "-.m- f lil. nn's , I. mo. Th.. a.M,twm f f,. i lion itaani-ioen to toe . amp -..u!d pi:' ji over ,'o.Omo ,,.n in uiitlWm t-i.T. ao-i , h'-cau-e "t' I r loud, l.-adin ,'ao'P th. re w II 1.0 .l,iV:."l!tv in rarii.g for all. le tieiai h -i'- a,fa.n de- , .T.and.d that the Man. oi cuntv coo,-m.s.-ioper, p'it the roads f' .m lml.-. arai.L to i!.- f.,rt in if.,.,1 -hm,... TAKE DRASTIC STEPS TO V OUI 1 L i New Vork Hotels and Ri'stauranis Adopt Strict Regulations. tlU trie Itfrnatir.nil . e..ee.) NKW YOltK, August .'l.-Dia-t, steps to conserve f.aul suppi.e.- !;av brHn agreed upon by the hot.-i an restaurant conservation committee . fowl adtn.n.stration, representing tn leading hotels and restaurants of th country, it was announced hole to.la;. Veal will be ahsolut. the menu. There will he two weekly Tuesday and -I fro I wo rolls, of one ounces each -titu'.i portion for each guest One ounce of butter each guest though he i ond portion on request Stale bread, toast will be sterili; "war bread." Icings and i will be banner e, and o-tly lu Hating of pou 1 f.-h ill be encouraged. The hotel men will st; wide movement to previa calves for food dunng tr The Former Lehanonite With the American Troop in France. A letter received he "somewhere m France tod: " conv Dutch. information that known here, where he ha ly all his life, is with American forces that rec. ntly crossed the ocean to fight with the British and the French against the Germans. Tl letter was written by Mr. Dutch and

stated that he had enlisted while tne , troops were on the Mexican border, Conference Wins Favor. and the forces to which he had been assigned were among the first to be I whl1' ,!r'l"h government unsent abroad. He is a member of a hu,'"tl"nahlv '' bitter at acks regimental band. ! ' om 8 pnrtlon "f th' Pres" nd lllre

SHOW F.RS BRING BELIEF. NEW YORK, Aug. 3 Cooling showers that began yesterday afternoon and continued In many cities today brought relief from th three-day heat wave that cost mote than 300 lives and resulted in more than 1.000 prostrations. Police records in New York alone show 200 deaths sua di. recti y to tha heat

PEACE STATEMENT

Momentous Events May Grow Out of Conditions Now Developing. FIN ANCIAL INTERESTS ARE TAKING A HAND 'Rising Tide of Revolution Said to be Influencing the I I Monevcd Men. 'Hi I' r .reread.. air Vrm err(e.l I.ONT'OX. Ati;ut Momentous (,v.'..t-, tarninic upon the ifrowinp de;.md in all heliiiferent countries for 'to ve .lefjiitt statement, of peace ii.ris, are approaching in Kniland. U .at muy develop into the most -ik'mficant political crisis of the war i, rapidly irainir.ij momentum. Speelinc on this movement ai'e these two Kir-1 - Kio'eiiai Secretary talfour's peace amis, considered by many to ii. - the roust advanced step in the intere,ts vf peace taken by any Hrttish -t.tt. sinan since the war hetfan. Socnnd The irowinir Hissatisfact ..n in parliament over the manner in winch the i.-vernment has handled (lie rc.iucst of llritish socialists for . .-presentation at the PtocVholm socI a'l-t conference. Piemier l.loyd-Ceorire is scheduled i to make an important address torn, n row. It is believed more than i;k. that he will refer to tne sub ject now liem.r turned over in many rn.r.l-. In many quarters it was said ' .!ay that ho wuture of the l.loytllooi'ie mini.-try rests upon his statepent tomorrow. There n'-e many members of parliament who believe I'.al four's address may elevate the foreign secretary to the premiership le-fore many weeks. Atait t hancello Reply. The men who ende Balfour statement that the allies have no intent, on of imposing a political settlement upon Germany, and his refer-..p.-e to Alsace-Lorraine are anxious!y awaiting some statement from the German chancellor Vltchaelis in reply. Thev believe, too. tint the foreign seci'.'.'try's address will strengthen the I. and of the K-retiskv government in lius.ia, which has lad to face the . halite that Knglan.l wants to keep l! is-ia in the war ontil Germany is uforiy crushed. (The significance nf Balfour's statement lay m the fact that instead of demanding 'he restoration of AlsaceLorraine as Bntish statesmen have done earlier m the war. he merely s'ated that Britain would support ('ranee, if ('ran.-e made such a Ne Sidelight. Into the badly muddled peace situa.n the weekly publication, New arop" injected a new sidelight, alg:ni! the int. rnational financiers are ,w aorkirg for an early peace to event the -,,read of socialism ami . on. The Nr.'v Kuropo, which is often been ill the possession of r a.-, urate itif.irmation regarding '.. '-national politics, declared further a' tie K'l'nan Catholic church is .t, it. t';e early peace movean unimpeachable t conference of inrs which recently "; bind was inspired rent motives froni scribed to it at the errati'.aul ook place i which

; tame," said New Europe, j Acting purely in the interests of capital, it aimed, above all, at an imI mediate peace to arrest the growth .' from ; (f international socialism and the rtsys the ' jn(f j(jp 0f revolution throughout Kurw'1'''' ! ope. The gathering sought to fore1 near-, ,.,!) ((le h,jng 0f the Stockholm -hing's' ii , conference bv a direct sr.

r.in(fement between the belligerents in which the national claims would be entirely suborilinatil to considerations j of wrd-wide finance. !"'""'" l'..inmco!. unless IV goes squarely on record against tha Stock holm conference of socialists, thera were Indications today that tha conference is winning (aver. The West minster Gazette, for instar.es, point out that while Germany takes avery . opportunity to open channel of tern 1 munteaUon with unofficial einion on peace in enemy countries, tti British I rnnrnnnt all linnrm all soetl I channels of communication. In this

manner, ara-uea the ftt, the government loses opportunities to eoanteract insidious German propaganda. The British laboritea who now favor sending representatives to the Stockholm conference, art encouraged by reports that they have received from the Russian socialists. The Russians believe that German socialists really have the upper hand and are in a position to overthroW Prussian militarism and force t! democratization of Germany whenever the allies indicate a willingness tf make peace immediately after that is done. British labor leaders, while accepting this theory with many grains of salt, feel that they should ut least grant the Russian socialists the opportunity to expound their opinions. SUICIDE REVEALS DR. SAM ACKERMAN WAS REALLY A WOMAN

B) Iht lnfrriMHimnl tirnrr.i TOLEDO, Aug. 3. The fact that Dr. Samuel Ackerman, optician with an extensive practice, was a woman was revealed today when "his" body was dragged from the Muunie river with u heavv iron weight uttach.nl to it. Police called it suicide. Dr. Ackerman came here thiee years ago and was considered in comfort circumstances. BATTLE WITH l -HOAT. American Steamer Has Exciting Experienre W ith German Boat. . H ( thr Irfin.tlt'itiil .Venn S.',rn..A I AN AMERICAN PORT, August I). Bringing a story oi" a buuie with a Gentian submarine on her outwary voyage, off the coast of France, an American steamer arrived here todav. The steamer sighted a submarine ahead at 11:00 o'clock on the morn-I ing of July 10. Sh.' was a long distance away but the lookout believes she fired u torpedo before submerging. The steamer adopted a zigzag course and manned her guns. The submarine pursued for an hour and a half w ith her periscope showing and then coming to the surface continued the chase until the stern gun of the steamer opened fire. The submarine rpiied, firing "Jl shots, none of which struck. The steamer fired 16 shells and finally made her escape. THE "SLACKER" AGAIN UNDER FIRE TODAY Provost Marshal Mitkes Additional Rulings to Guard Exemptions. (ly the nrernail'iiKJl .r.. S'cr.acc.i WASHINGTON, Aug. tl.-The "slacker'' is under lire again today. Provost Marshal General ( row. ier today sent additional rulings on granting exemptions, to ea''h of the -C.a.'.T local boards. These ruimgs urge the strictest scrutiny against spurious exemptions claims. Depenccncy is the ground of most of tiie exannnnt'on claims thus far. All local hoards arc ordered to examine carefully each do pendency claim and pa'ticuiai ly marriage claims. Huge stacks of exemption claims now in the office of exemption boardnow will be so much worthless paper in a few days. Gen. ("rowder predicts. There is no basis of estimation of the number of claims to tie reluscd hut it i expected that well over ,all per rent of ad claims hied will he rejected. To dale not a single exemption has been allowed, according to reports of local hoards reached Gen. Cw local boards reaching (len. ('rowder. in physical examinations and have examined large numbers of mnn, but have been slow in the gianting of exemptions. There is good rea.sop to believe that in many local disrtirts where the second batch of men have been called, for physical examinations, that they will not be called to colors. Claimants of exemptions will be sent in their stead. No authenticated reports have reached the provost marshal general of attempts to evade the law through physical disability, hut he has taken steps to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law any such cases. TWO KILLED. And Five Injured When Auto Turned Turtle Today. ( 7erHal JTeics gri(r. HYANNTS, Mass., August . Two meg were, killed tnd two men and S women Injured when seven passenger touring ear turned turtle in Park Square her today. Th dead men are Gaorg Kingslow, butler for Tom Taggart, th In. diana politician, at hi cummer home at Hyannj port, and John Wright, batter for Jane B. Blagdee of Greenfield, Man.

PROVESAEAILURE Work Begun Over Four Years Ago is of Little Value.

INWORKABILITY OF ACT ADMITTED Railroad Men Say the System of Valuation is Radically Wrong. BY HO.MLR J. DODGE. the ..fc. s.lle s'd .,rt Seme itij WASHINGTON, August M.-The valuation of raiiioa.ls, begun pursuant to an act of congress mow than tour years ago. is a failure. Railroad men. shippers and even some officials of the interstate commerce commission, charged w ith making the valuation, admit the unw-ork-ahility of the ac of progress has it stands. Luck pletely nullified

its valuation, lo mahe tne valua- j previous year. Mr. Perkins contintion useful the commission has had to j uses as president, Mr. Gullion as secre-

roa.ls which alieady have boon valued! inventories, made as j if June :)(, l'.H I, and bring them up ; to date. ! The valuation ait was intended to j provide a fixed value of the railroad I prof.erty of the companies operating in the I'nitetl States. The capital investment represented by this valua- ' tion w-as to be taken as a basis for the making of freignt and passenger, rates. The theory was that rates i should be charired w Inch would pay a fair return on the investment and ! The inherent cumbersomeness of the valuation procedure, according to interested parties, originally nullified the value of the act. On top of that came the Euroian war bringing w ith it an era of hi'sth prices wheh threw valuations previously regarded as fairly stable, all out of line. A fair valuation three years ago is not a fair valuation today. The commission recognizes this fact. Bringing data up to date will reouire a large amount of work by the ruilioads, necessitating the checking over of all costs items and the figur uring of increases in from the smallest r the largest lornmoti ured in this oaleulati Evervtbinir ad spike to fig-!. A.-lie from tne i.lioal i i liunges i aluation. n dedare the .-vstem of valuation is I cally wrong in that it permits end less argument over fair values. One of the most difficult points with which the division of valuation of the commission is wrestling is that relating to the appraisal nf intangible proprttes, and elements of value. The railroads and the commission are so hoe!essly at odds on some of these nomts that no end of con

troversy is in sight. The adoption of, ing Camp which opens at Fort llenjaarbitrary standards of value by the min Harrison, August 27, thirty per commission is possible. This the rail-jr(,m. This means that 582 men from roads are prepared to claim would be j In(liana wj he 8(lrnitM inst(,a( ,

nothing snorr or ronnsealion ano would herald the downfall of the dependent railroad system of the t'nited States. The railroads are ready to throw some of the disputed points concerning values to the courts if the comml-sion doc- not adopt their With the valuation situation in this status, the commission has little more than scratched the surface of the woik only a very small rercentage of all the railroads in the country having been valued so far. The valuations of the dozen or more railroads appraised are being bitterly contested. SEPARATE PEACE. N Said to be Near Between Austria and Russia. tltii the IntrrnctUimtl .Vfw Wcrt'jcr.l AMSTERDAM, Aug. 3. The Handelsblatt today quoted President Nuy mans of the International socialist bur - declaring that Austria ami kus:iu are about to conclude a separate peace. Austria, Huysemans wasquot.j,i..k. "-' ."HOOK a but would leave settlement of Russi the Poland problem to Germany. Tl'RKEY IS PREPARING. ROME, Aug. 3 Aided by beth Austria and Germany, Turkey is preparing for a great campaign to recapture Bagdad from th British and drive the British Mesopotairsian army back to the Persian gulf, according to Athens dispatches today.

THE CHICAGO JURISTS DECLARE WAR UPON "HUSBAND SNATCHERS"

tin stenMltaanl SVict BerriM. CHICAGO, August 3. Chicago judges have declared war on "husband snatchers." Miss Rose Mortimer, young, pretty, smartly frocked, was sentenced to the Bridewell when she appeared before Judge Steil of the court of domestic relations today and the court said he would "break up this affinity business in Chicago" if he had to send the next "husband snatcher" to Juliet. "Girls like you," said the court to the prisoner, who was arrested on complaint of Mrs. Emma Schofield, "cause a great deal of trouble that comes to this court. You destroy homes and break the hearts of honest wives. You say the man told you his wife wasn't kind to him. You listened willingly to the man, but never tried to hear the wife's story. I'll give you the limit this time, and if I ever deal with you again, I'll finil a way to send you to the penitenHOARD OF EDI CVriON. City Board Met Yesterday Fi pose nf Reorganiralion. PurThe city Board of Education, composed of F. C. Gullion, John C. Perkins, and Roy W. Adney, held a meeting yesterday for the purpose of re "rir; lation. Bv unanimous vote. ,rk was divided among the three 1 toe v.-or iMlK,r as it lias been during ihe The annual financial report tor the !

city schools is being prepared hy the'"""

board 1.1 will ptohahly he i next i Each State Permitted to Supply' More Men to Reserve Officers' Camps. IH thr tilcrflll sirl Serrlef.i

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. Each talking and not a semblance of roughstate will be permitted a tunta of , ness anywhere. They were them

:t(l ner cent hitrher t ban otagina v as signed at the reserve ollicc training i amp that will open Aug. 27, the war lepaHnient announced today. Instead I of 1.000 men in "each of the sixteen 'camps, a total of 23,000 men will l,e dmitt.-d. BRINGS JOY. Hope In Many nnouncement Gi Indiana Applicants For Places. l..r the tnterotiinQl fir S'ecrlcr.l INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. Joy and hope was brought to 3.000 In.lianians today by the announcement that each state will be allowed to increase its quota for the Officers' Train4IS. There are about 3.000 applicai tion I Call Issued For Additional Help Much Work Must He Done.

; children. I ! 486 Rush A. Taylor, wife and two Miss Mayme Sheridan, in charge of children, the Socks for Soldiers work in this I 602 Benjamin Franklin Murphy, . . , n .,:.,, thiu'wife and child, county, as the result of a visit this g,,, R wif(, aB(j week to the headquarters of the ln-icnji(i. diana Council of Defense, extends a; 1682 James B. Weaver Emmert,

j call for more knitters to aid in the (lvpmPnt Thoge in charge of the state w ork say that 1000 pair of socks j jfi'to ,he h(,aaquarters evcry WM.5 fnr the next three weeks if ' , . . . the demand is to be met. Boone county, with its headquarters at Lebanen, is en of the very few places where thr work is going en in th stt. where th work can ba finally inspected tnd packed. It will not b necessary to nava any ef the socks wad it Boone county sent to another place to have them inspected. This is distinct compliment te the local worker.

0NLY250UT0FTHE FIRST 110 FAILED

T( The Great Majority of Conscripts Were Accepted. MANY EXEMPTION CLAIMS FILED All Married Men in List of Those Seeking Relief From Military Service. The work of examining the first 110 men in the list of conscripts was lushed through to completion yesterday afternoon. Practically a" the physicians in Lebanon assisted ir. the examination and especially gorsl progress wits made in the afternoon. Of all the mo i examined only twen-ty-tive failed to pass. In the .-jses of two of these. ('. A. Dean and R. S. Dodsop. the ex.- ':ning physicians .fail - The conscription hoard nll this afternoon puss upon all the men who failed to pass. All the married men and several of the smgh men examined yesterday for exemption because of

pleted ' dependents. i Several men listed in the first 110 ' failed to appear for examination. George White. Merle Purdue and j Jesse Reagan huve already enlisted. Carl McDonald Fraley was sick yes- ! terday and unable to appear. He was

examined today. Walter MoGee, livj ing on a New Rons rural route, ia missing. He faded to appear and no word has been received from him. The board has no record of his enlistment in any branch of service. It was generally remarked that th young men who assembled in the court ; bouse yterday for examination was the finest group of Boone county 1 youths that has been seen hem fof j many a day. They were accompanied in some cases hy relatives. Them ' was no Imisterous conduct, no loud 11 t,- "u. nuns hhu iniy iwoseu strictly for bus imn it as serious business. The following is the list of the men accepted and the men who failed to pass at the physical examination yesterday, together with the record of those who claim exemption: ACCEPTED. Exenvit'on H-lmcd. I 25 Bertie Clifford Camp, denend- , ,,, wjfp an, two children. 4,"t8 Amos Clifford Ranee, depend ent wife and child. 7S3 Harold George Buchanan, de pendent wife. 17o2 Calvin Ira Wells, dependent wife. 1117 Frederick George Weber, wife. ir72 Buren Sullivan, wife. 174S Samuel Guy Thompson, wifa. 837 Grover Cleveland Harris, wife. 564 Raymond Oliver Linn, wif nnd two children. 5!i6 Ivan Shoemaker, wife and child. 12fi7 Rosscll B. Swails, wife. KM Rex Roscoe Moore, wife and child. 54 Clyde Ellison Halrlider, wife. 126 Ralph Shore, a dependent mother. 1679 George Anderson Dale, wif and child. 7W Robert Monroe Billingsly, a) wife and child. 1732 James Harry Ross, dependent wife, father, mother and brother. 1563 George Alfred Pedigo, wife and three children. 616 Marian A. Anderson, wife and one child. 1676 Don Anderson Dale, wife and wife and child., 507 George B. Yount, wife. 309 William McKinsey, wife. 1763-i-Amos E. Broshar, wife. 1548 James Glendenning, dependent mother and brother. 420 Ray Kreag, wif. 1014 Clarence Hooton, wif ami child. 117John Franklin Dossett, wif and child. 43S L. W. Millar, wife. 1329 Franeia Byrkett, wif and child. 10 Raymond E. Bush, wif. CONTINUED ON PACE THRii.