Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 25, Number 265, Lebanon, Boone County, 7 August 1917 — Page 1

LEBANON Dlliy -REPORTER.

WE ATHER BULLETIN Probably thunder shower tonight and in north portion Wednesday; fair In south portion Wednesday. The Reporter is the only Daily Newspaper in Boon County. VOLUME 25. T-ERANON, INDIANA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1917. NO. 26..

FIGHTING ENSUES

Choose Their Own Hattletrround on Eastern Front. LULL IN FIGHTING ON WESTERN FRONT Comparative Calm Settle Down Over the British Section. IKll Iht nfl,-l'll 'icm SVrrfse.i GENEVA. Au,ru-t T Violent fight ing on the frontier of the lb.is-:.-,r Province of llr-surahia and along llu Roumanian flnnl ,ias reported h;, Vienna today. C hoo.-urg th--i' o.vn battlefield, tire Rus-ians baited tli.'ii retirement between the Dniester ami Truth rivers whi-ir an engagement developed in thp ToporouU-Rai:inr7 .vector. North of the Putna valley in Mo!dnviu, the Russian-Roumanian fi.iees tiave been delivering strong ain a distracting enterprise to Auscro-Gemian pressure on tin davia and Bystritza rivers. little fighting. ui'is Nothing of Importance Happen British Front. Ay IA Internet ,nal .Vrv aerilc.i j LONDON. August "-- Comparative j calm has settled down over the Hi it ish section of the westein front. The war office statement today said that j nothirg of importance had taken place j during the night. j Unofficial advices told of earlier ac- ', tivity in the district of l,ens where j the British are working forward j slowly but methodically toward- this i important (Jerman post ion. j An allied council of war. whirl: is , believed to deal with the Balkan situation was held here today. Among those participating were Premier Lloyd-George of England; Premier Ribot of France; the premier of Sorvia. the Italian foreign mmi-tcr and a representative of the Roumanian government. ASKS MORE SPEED. President Wnt the Coal Situation Settled al Once. ( tcriillool rrt Strrirt 1 WASHINGTON. August 7.-App ehension of the aeiisua condition t"d iy caused President Wilson to take the shortest cut toward action by the :olmini stration, rather than wait for the report of the federal trade committee on its coal cotss investigation. He walked to the office of chairman H ir ris and personally went over the t-g. ures with the commission. It is undertood he pointed out to the commission the urgency of -in early finding on fair coal prices a:ainsisted the investigation to speeded up. Until the report is made, no solution to the coal price problem is believed possible. At the end of the conference and before going for an auui rule about the city, President Wilson characterized the meeting as merely a business taik. BOMB WRECKS STORE. Three People Throon From Bed by l'v plosion of Dynamite. IHu Iht IntrrnatlnnH Xrui Rtrrirr.l CHICAGO, Aug. 7. A dynamite bomb wrecked the confr rtionery store of Mrs. Louise Cuthbrrt on West Division street early today. Mrs. Cuthhert and her two children. 9 years and 18 months old respectively, were thrown from their beds but were not injured. A tolored family recently moved in above the store. ON MILITARY BASIS. Reorganization of American Red .'row Announced. 1 Iffy Iht l14raHnal Ktn 0rrl.) WASHINGTON, August 7. Re-organization of the American Red Cross on a miliary basis was announced to day by Secretary of War Baker. Win. ri. Taft, chairman of tha ttntral committee, and directing head of of the feed Crow, become majorgeneral and other oflWn k rank (radin down t ftrtt UeuUnaat.

SCRATCHING KITE OF MOSQUITO CAUSED DEATH OF A N. Y. MAN

fRg thf Imttrnnti'WHl firt Srrrlrr.) NEW YORK, August 7. As tin- result f scratching a mosquito hit? on the rron of "his head, Or. A. A. Greenhiirg. a prominent physician and philanthropist of this city in dead from blood poisoning todny. He held t rank of tirt lieutenant in the Medical reserve corps. EMBARGO ON COAL. Proud nt W ilon Extends the General Regulation. iBv Intfrnoti'-n-il Vr-- $: I WASHINGTON. Augu-t 7. 1'rr.M-Wii-on ha- e-.tend .1 ti P'-ri--i i :, hl.lgO t" I-OV.T .,! :ll:-l C. da n Leader of the Peasant I'artj Seeks Separation From llunnary. ! ZURICH, Augu-t 7-Steiden R.idica. leader or th Croatian p.-a-.-.r.t paity, at u sitting of the Cn.at.au d -t lemndcl the comply,- em.i'.ripa'.i .n of Cinatia. the closing of Hoiiganan h.sls in Croatia, the iibs.dute - purition of l.aliacr.a and H.'.iiat from Hungary atd the creation of an independent .southern Slav state foi the freedom of Austrian Slavs, ar-'oroing to a Budatest di -patch received here today. The state thu to Ik- cre,,.,., should have the r-ght for lejn -m with Servia if It ndesi,-es. 1 he ore-:-dent of the Diet amidst gre.,t uprt.er tried to stop the speech. samg thut Hungary would adopt eneige ic measures to rond.at such a policy as :t- ex istence would he dangcrou-. Croatia rnn.-titute the we.-ern half of the Hungarian crown'and of l',.i-tia-Slavonta. The iatigua're f hfpeople is almo t elei,tical wiij thv. of the Serbs. Riots Occur at Cracow Where Reichstag Polish Party is Sitting. ZURICH, August 7.- A n-::. ,!1 pa'ch received today admits tr.it . iy riots have occuried at Ci:i'-o.v -.viicee the Reichstag Pob.-h party i- s.ttmg. During the outbreak Luge riouds maoe manifestations le-fore ti e f e. h -stag demanding the immediate life-ration of Oencral Pil-ud-ki ;nd othei Polish patriots. The crowd tried to force an en trance into the chamber to m the deputies not to make any coiopiomi-e with the Austrian government, but 1 was dispersed by the police after a number of the disturbers h;o! been wounded. j Cracow is in northern (laiieia near ! the Russian border and was formerly the capital of the Kingdom of Poland. General Pilsudski was recently arrested in Warsaw by the Germans, i ANOTHER ( Kl t.EK ( KH. LACROSSE, Wis., Augu.-t 7 A ' para I'd to the Ruth Cruger case was ' seen by the police today in the discov- 1 ery of the body of .Mrs. Cora Miller.; pretty and wealthy widow, buried r I feet lielow the floor of the base-1 ment in a house near West SaVm. She I disappeared February 24. W. H. TAFT IS ILL. CLAY CENTER, Kas.. August 7. Ex-Preaident Wm. Howard Taft, who poko her last night In conjunction with i peace league meeting, ii il and under th car of phytiriani at hotel. Ilia condition i not sericua. '

Administration Si'ekinjr, to Make Strikes Impossible During the War.

TWO METHODS ARE NOW BEING USED 1 Dra-tic Provisions of Senator j Culhcrsun's Bill Meets With Opposition. l:Y ROBERT I!. .SMITH. into I aomi'y doe.-, the-o d thin-elves un ing -Hikes procuring war time, .f the iidministia-it-e!f in two imthe past leu action of the conference on control hill in striking out eyemption clauses inserted the J - 1 he hiil recommended by the secr. iaiv of war and mtniducod in the .-mate Saturday', empowering the pi,-:di'nt to declare certain places "lutii-d 7..ne.-" and create a sort of federal con-'.thulary to polire such p'nies. 'liie friends of labor in congress, alllioogn they have been assured to the j the administration, be-1 iieve certain prohibitory provisions of the f,,d control bill can be con-! -inict,-, a.- forbidding peaceful picket-. ing authorized in the Clayton anti-; ni-t ad. Senator Chamberlain, in ! (large of Che food control bill, insisted todav the a lminttration had no in-

'ention of using .-neb provisions to. Several French aeroplanes flew over I il. until, labor, but it i. the view of the American camp today, the skill-I the ,'raicers of the bill that labor 1 ful pilots dodging through the an ient.take it- chances along with oth- with the grace and .-wiftness of huge i ci i !a--es m hearing the war harden. , birds. 1 Sen, tor HoMis. who has been lead-1 The efficient use which the French ing ihe tight to re store the labor ex- i soldiers make if bicycles over the ex-1 cci.tion clause, feats the bill will bo;cellont French roads has raised the I u-ed by nitaiii powerful interests to question of the possible adoption of! lie. no Ihe '.-.Lor i,rimniiiil inn. dor. i 1 1. A,er,ran .,-,., l. I

" " ' """ 1 "- i'" i iiijit.iy n.-c-.sity. He wained the! -en. 'to ye-tenlay, th" war cannot he v., in uole.s it ha- the hcurty support i of lie mn-kingmen and that anything: gonije them will be de-! ;il to the conduct of tin Vigorous Opposition. i son's bill ' oppo-iti' umittee a ill he the both tf,P . nend the esI low ing lanStiP by procla latum, rohihit proper '. not authorized h; the government to do so ing upon places which the leiiy m sind proclamation i:a--,f:. or describe as of n connection with the nf fre e there ottering be may i ituio who. afte e -ued such proupon any such e terms of such place. proclamation, boier within a prohibited di-tanre of ,ch place, shall be puni hrd by a tine of not more than Jt'i,00!! i.p K y imprn: onment for not more than one year. Authority is hereby conferred upon any persons or class of persons, designated for that purpose, fiy any such proclamation, to make summary arrests of persons viola' ing ihe provisions of this title." primary purpose of the hi rding to its sunnorters is to .Iv. th federal government further powers in protecting munition plant. The la lators take the view it could eusily he interpreted to give the president power to preve.it strikes by declaring picketing in barred tones, and policing them with specially appointed agents. MAY TAKE OVER SHIPS. Government Planning to Znlargo It Merchant Mario. ( tht htMlftMlt JTmf tWllBM.1 WASHINGTON, August T Within the next Un day th government mar take over thip flying th African flag. Tbst (hipping baard it eon-

centrating on thl step, the second (treat stride toward providing an adequate war time merchant fleet for America. I'lans were outlined at a meeting of the shipping board today. It was decided that, as the board hag not the necessary organisation to operate the ships they will be chartered back to their owners aft"' oin( requisitioned. The owners will be asked to maintain their orguniiatioas for the operation of the vessels. The procedure "will place control of the ships in the govrenmcnt's hands. The urgent need f cargo space which cannnot await the completion of tonnage now building, wiu given as the reason for the expected step. BULGARIA'S PLANS.

Declaration Made That it Experts to Keep Conquered Territory. ZURICH. August 7. A dispatch from Sotia today quotes Premier Rudjslavotf of Rulgariu as saying to Butgai ian journalists: "Agitation of irresponsible in countries among our allies will in no manner dissuade Bulgaria from keeping territory conquered in this war. I hae their solemn word our conquests belong to us." American Troops Will Use Them Like French Armies Have Been Doing. BY BANTF,!. I'lU.'l.V. tpy lite tnttrntiii'Htl S'ruM Xeni'f.) AMF.RICA.V TR AI.NTNCi CAMP IN FRANCE, August S. ( Delayed IThe initial class of officers and noncommissioned officers have lett camp fur an artillery siiiool to study the handling of trench mortan dicates that the American trooi u..e them like the French armies have been doing for resisting rol silencing ho-tiie machine gun lire, American officers . raise the weapon v(.rv highly and believe it will be ery effective in the hands of the Yank soldiers. torcycies arc eropioyeo ny tnem w , present. The high co-t of gasoline is causing the bicvele to receive the most serious consideration. In their hours of recreation many f the Americans are hiring French ichines for touring the distant enrons of the ramp. The delay in the arrival of autoombiles from the I'mted State hu that hindered the ements American stalf. but the French prompt- : Iv came to the aid of the American i placing such motor car: o,l at their disposal. SUICIDE IN ST. LOUIS Jordon W. Lamhert Shoots Him.self 'Phone Call Leads to Discovery

I "compensation" is involved. Holland. I Vnniarfl. Sweden and Switzerland implv tiiu.-t have some coal. Other- ' "" '"" v" "''"'' wise 'the railways, electric light and ST. I.Ot'lS, August 7. Jordan 'power and gas plant nvi-t :hut Whi at Lamhert. millionaire vice-presi- j down. In Sweden alone no less dent of the Lambert Pharmacul Co., than .HKI.Oli!) workingmen in various committed suicide early today in his industries and works are dependent exclusive Oxford apartments here, j for employment upon a certain A telephone call from a mysierious j amount of coal being obtained. Hewoman who urged a maid in Lam-: fore the war Sweden obtained foorbert's apartments to go to his room. ! fifths of her coal from England, 'l o

i l''1 t0 the discovery of the body. The maid found Lambert in a pool of blood. He was dead. A revolver lay near the ! bod'- Whp" T'' inf"m'"i the woman at the telephone of Lambert's death, the latter screamed: "My God, is he dead?" and apparently fainted. According to the iioliee Ijimbert was estranged from his second wife who is now in New York with her

aix month old baby. Lambert wn from those countries. This "compendivoreed fremjii firit wife because I tition" usually consist of horsen. cat-

of hi belief in elirvoycy and hi nightly ceaneea, it it (aid. H wna menbw of en of th wlthit fanili'ln 8t Loui and had national rapwution a tportman. H van th donor of th Lambert medal, th world' ehairrpionahia trophy for thr-ithlB tiiUard.

HEAVY TRIBUTE

Is Becoming a Tremendous Factor in European Strife. POWERFUL WEAPON IN GERMAN HANDS Coal is "Throttle Grip" Germany Has on the Neutral Nations. RV KAR! ( The last . to leave Rerl the Scandina YON WIEC.WP. and just in count r l tl,r slerann NKV YORK, king in Kmope u ev-acting a king's A (iermnn mo-iui--king coal will d, war. That he a the approach of August 7. C ellOo of supplv. The pi i'ntion in boih covmtries is by the -carcily of labor whic month of ihe war grows :is Kquully as important, if n more so than ainmunition, is co conduct of war. Coal is e.--e the fleets thafhey can light, railways to transport tmops a plies ue.d to the niercantlle in bring situplies to Kiiglnnd i Allies. England must supply not e needs of her own fleet, railwa; canlile marine and domestic ments for electrirt power and hut also those of France. Itn id sup-1 Ru.-siii these in shipping tries, the (jei oal Holland, md Russi ' ! Italy cities will darkness hi power and i in darkness oi Use of lack of i plants. y's Coal Supply ilde from her o any n lug ml fields, holds the mine lance and Belgium. Co.il is tin hrotlle grip" Germany has on thi to an extent either not un tood. or riot appieciated in Amen ca. I' is with coal that "i ompensiito.ii" from Switzerland Holland, Denmark and until recently even from Norway. Had Viashini: understood the coal problem in F.'.n :mil the vital factor it is. ihe expoi tion of the nor! hern neutrals to br with Germany would never have h up. The linnk whidi binds the noitlorn neutrals and to a large extent Switzerland also, to Germany, is coul. This link, in view of the seriousness of the tonnage question created by tin submarines and the inability of England 1 ci deliver what these countries ; absolutely must have, is .-o strong that 1 e ' en the power of the embargo of the i I'mted States is not likely to break it. The alleged refusal of the American people, as viewed from Copenhagen j ami Stockholm to see that the neutralla 'e being ciucilied between 'ood and coal, is amusing intense bitterness in the s ll.nd Mo untr st America. ill not hu I'vport ill i J" oal ;.nv for Not ; day she gels little and some month I none at all. The same is true of De , mark and of Holland. More Powerful Than Gold German coal is more powerful in those neutral countries than is German gold. The Germans know that. They make the fullest use of it to exact as "compensation" whatever thev mav be able to iret in return tie, aometimes pork, butter, egg and other homo product. A mcr glance at th figures how what factor coal i in th war and specially in th continued relations between Germny end th remaining neutnjs. In 1914, Great BriUiu produced 1W7.CJ8.617 ton ef coaj. Gcr-

many 270,5i4,9."2 anil Austria-Hungary, 6!647,957 tons. In addition to her own vast fields, Germany now holds the greater part of France's coal mines with their annual production of 45.000,000 tons and all of the Belgian mines which produced 25,lo.0! 4ons in ll'lt. British coal, the little obtainable, was selling in Stockholm at $X4 k ton when I left there, (Jerman coal at HO kronen or approximately $24 at the present rate of exchange. The price of wood had gone up to $18 a cord. Hundreds of acres of forests in Sweden and Norway are being cut down to furnish fuel as substitute for coal. Denmark and Holland have no timber. The greater part of the water front in Stockholm was jammed with schooners loaded witii wood. Immense quantities of wood for fuel wa.heing cut and stored to keep away the intense cold which together with th. scarcity of food, is an unusually fierce "wolf" who will stand in front Kurope's door this w inter. Russian Conditions. Travelers from Petrograd. Ameiicans, English. Russians, Swede-, all

that the coal Russia is wo se. Coal. tht nol, tamable a' md fuel situthan auvdeclared was -mil What was available CO XT I XI' ED ON PAGE THREE. lnJiSLAIURE MAY Bt i CALLED IN 3 Ml 'Governor Determined to Secure Action on the Coal ! ' Situation. i lll, the InternaK'innl Sev Nfrri'or.l - IXDIAXAPOI.IS. Ind., August S.Tiied of waiting for congress to act to relieve the coal situation, the governors of four middle western state. ate planning to take drastic nieas. ures to obtain relief. Il was learned on the highest authorities that the Indiana legislature will in all probability be called into special session within three weeks, and that similar action is exiected to lie taken byGovernor Cox of Ohio, Governor l.owden of Illinois and probably Governor Stanley of Kentucky. According to developments, the governors of these four states, all large produce! s of coal, will ask for legislation along the same lines, so that the obstacles of interstate commeice icgulations will be overcome. Governor Goodrich has conferred with Governor I.owden. of Illinois, and an nnother conference likely will be heid within n few days. Fights Off German U-Boat That Attacked a British Steamer. ffty Hi' Mf"neiM"it'T' Viri lirrrfrf.i ' AS AMERICAN PORT. August 7. An American patrol boat drove ff a submarine which attacked a British steamer off the coast of I-ranee on Julv 21. officers of the steamer lepoiied on their arrival here todav. The I' -bout fired a torpedo across the steamer's how from the port side. The torpedo missed lire but the sllbmaiine was so close to the vessel's side that -he was unable to send another torpedo as the explosion would have damaged the submarine he-e'f. The steamer tired one shot which -truck. An American patrol boat ru.-hed up and fired eight -hots at the L -boat whi.1t di-upp.-.i.-d. Another vessel arriving from Oporto rt ported that on the outward voyage on July l.'i, she sighted a large submarine or. the surface. The steamer circled about the t'-boat and made ready to open fire, hut the submarine did not attack. IHII.lt E FIND NO ( I I K. J ANESVIl.LE, Wis.. Aug. 7. Police were absolutely without clues in their search todav for an assailant who shot Mrs. Edward W. Herhtirdt from ambush last night. A rifle bullet entered her head above the le'; ei.r. She will live. Mrs. Herhnedt was a scciety leader among the younger set and her home life was taid to he ideal. SHOT HER HUSBAND. ST. LOUIS, Aufiut 7. BeauM hr husband would not go to work end allowtd her to support them both, Mr. John Dieteel, SO, today shot him through th hud, ah told th police. H i dying.

American patrol boat i nniiirn nrx mimiirmir

UKIYL5 Ult MDMAKINt ik!

Comparatively Few of the Drafted Men But File v Claims.

SMALL PER CENT OF MEN REJECTED List of Those Who Were Aeeepted ant) Rejected Yesterdav and Today. l'p to 2:00 p. 111. today firt of the f n called for examination for Tuesay had been examined. Eighteen of ic-o faii. d in the physical examinaoii. TuoKe out of those who pnssril dot nol r In I lie oral did l pa.-sed al teen did of these Id.ng pa enam'natmns yesterday, sev lot a, pi nr at nil. Sixty-two id cliii'in d exemption, elghiot c!:iun eveniptions but ten -igmii I their intention of I'd- later, and twenty-ono were rejected. In todai's number the following weie accepted and made no claim for exemption: Carl M. V raley, Lebanon, Thomas W. Itowman, Sheridan R. P. II. 21, Joseph P. I.nHolle, Lebanon, Arthur L. Stum. Zionsville R. F. D. "0, Roy Fairfield, Thnrntown, Arnio A. Hale, Jamestown. John W. Stoops, Terhune, Xerxes Silver, Whitestown, Kuril D. Umberhine. Lebanon It. F.'D. :. Frederick Neidlinger, Whitestown, Charles C. French, Thorntown. Noble I. Pierce, Lebanon It. F. V. 12. Those whe were rejected are Lester C. McCoun, Jamestown, F'red M. Englodow, Zionsville, fiuy M. Lewds, Jamestown. Willliim H. Burroughs, Advance R." F. D. I. Fred J. Hiitts, Lebanon, Carl Long, Kirklin R. F. D. 1, James j. Ilightshue, Zionsville, F.dgar H Dale, Jamestown R. F. D. 2, Charles R. Goodnight, Jamestown R. F. D. Ii, Harry Bishop, Lebanon R. F. D. 7. Otto Tribbe'.t. Lebanon, Ira Bradley, Lebanon R. F. D. R, F.lmer I. Burgess, Lebanon R. F. P. 1H. Truman A. Crosstreet, Lebanon R. F. P. 19, I.osey K. t ody, Rosston R. F. D. SI, Andrew V. Stewart, Lebanon, Rushton F. Witt, lbanon, Cecil J. Moss, Lebanon R. I . D. 7. The following is the list of thoso who passed the test and who filed exemption claims: Guy B. Mundell, It. F. D. 7; William A. Stephenson, Ronton R. F. D. HI; Zarah O. Meenach,, Lebanon R F. D. 4: Finest C. Key, Jamestown R. i', D. :,; John J. Moran, Lebanon U. F. D. ,'t: Otto A. llines, Whitestown; Guy Sorrel!, Lebanon; Oakley B. Powell. !.ebanon, John Annh. Ixbnnon; John A. Strawmyer, Brownshurg R. F. D. 1; Dillon C. Davidson. Zionsville; Cleveland floodwin, White-town; Oi-val J. Larsh, Lebanon; William Wiley, Lebanon R. F. D. 2; Oliver P. M. Davis, Lebanon; Warren B. Dailey, lhanon; Hairy E. Nicelv. I'ittsboro R. F. P. 1; Wilmer I.. Sanders, Ibanon R. F. D. 10; J. f). Hillock, Lebanon; Forest W. Lavton, I'ittsboro I!. F. P. 1; GoflT C Hinshaw, Zionsville; Ivan Coulter, Lebanon: Chester P. Kimble, Terhunn i occupational. John J. Steelsmith, Sheridan R. F. D. 21, Clarence E. Hays. Sheridan I'. F. D. 1; Clifford Tompkins, Thorntown R. F. P. IS, Otis penman Scott. Jamestown R. P. D. 1; Oscar Beesley, Thorntown, R. F. D. 17; Llovd R. (Hick, I-ebanon R. F. D. II!; Uwis O. Wood, Sheridan R. P. p. 21 (Occupational); Zachariah Arnold, Thorntown; Opal P. Booher, Thorntown R. F. D. Ill; John W. Pickett, Sheridan R. F. P. 21; EVlgar '. R. Peterson, Jamestown R. F. P. 3; Archie I . V.n.r. Jamestown U. F. P. 1; Cecil Weber, Lebanon R F. D. 2; Jesse V. Castile, Thorntown; Michael P. Campbell, Thorntown; Elmer 8. Pratt, lehanon; Clarence A. Mills, Lehanon R. F. P. 1; George A. Parr, Lebanon; Frederick S. Flaningham, ; Thorntown R. F. I). 17 (Orcuational.) The follow ing is a list of the men examined yesterday groujred Into the ' classes of accepted and rejected, and ! showing those who claimed exemption and the grounds upon which the claims j were based. ACCEPTED. 1 " Exemption Claimed. F'rank Fisher, Thorntown, wife and child., Dennie Otto Butler, Lehanon, wif nd child. Orval Dennis Abhett, Zionsville R. R. 30, wife nd two children. Alex S-ott, Zionsville, wif and thru children. Lester Dawson Beck, Lbnon R. R. 10, wife. CONTINUED jiH PACE fWH