Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 25, Number 266, Lebanon, Boone County, 8 August 1917 — Page 1

I 4

Da2y6spaper in Boone iilL- iL-Pl ill N vl N 'L 11 r.ri, ,m,h .-.a n i day. CSS J VOLUME 25. LEBANON, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1917. NO. 266. I

ERS FRONT

British Raiding Operations Are Also Numerous. TERRIFIC FIRE ON BRITISH POSITION. New Points Held hy Allies Sub jetted to Heavy Hornbardment. t ffff the Intrrntlti-t LONDON. Aui-u Minns and violet, were reported 're crs front today I. office. In the I.ombaer troops made a sucr ing a number ol East and north V;.' artillery is directing a t burdment against the new sitions, especially ,n 'he Wo.stbock and the Ypres- ' (Stailen lies about 4 tri the great German ha-e which the British have t. at intervals.) Emperor Charle.. made a triumphal witz, capital of the entry into ( : A astro-Hutu crown land nf Rukowina. sa.s i patch receive,! here today, witz was recently recaptured fnu Kuss ans hy Gero-an anil Au-ti. troops. ON STRIKE 1)1 TV. Illinois Militiamen I'wd to Tut Hot Riot. B the International V".r Iwn.i Springfield, i: Five hundred memhc Illinois infantry were ugu-t strike here today following the death 1 u.-i night of Policeman Noah Roll, who was hit by bullet fired from a .-ti.-et car manned hy non-union nu n. Roll's death came during an attempt by the street car company to resume niicht service, which hail been suspended Ju' 27. Five men, including the crew of the car from which the shots were fired, are under ace-t. Governor Lowden today was -ah. to be convinced that it would be necessary to declare martial law as a result of the riotinir. IN P1TIFI L CONDITION'. Two Trainload of Americans From Turkey Reach Swiljierlard. BERNE, August 8. Two tra,nl..-i.-of Anierican citizens, all in pitiful t .odition, have arrived in Switztrland from Jerusalem and other points within the Turkish empire. They were eight hours on their tt with little food and no opport.un.u to change their clothes or wa.-h during the entire journey through Turk y. Most of the refuses are old mm women and children. All report food conditions in Turkey terrible. ALL EFFORTS FAIL. Special Coal Committee I'nahle to Secure Coal Price Reduction. I Hi the In frnal final Xttrl Berrirt.) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., August The special coal committee of the State Council of Defense, headed by Will Irwin, reported today that all efforts to obtain voluntary reductions in coal prices by operators had failed. This report forecasts drastic action by the state, through the legislature, to obtain relief. TO GRANT CONCESSION'S. Germany Ready to (iive Poland a Cabinet, it ia Reported. .; .4u"' H'Ulw In Ihr (. imMoeiiJ lri. Kerr lei. 1 CF.NFA'A, August S.--Grminv is ready to erant Poland a cabinet and I a form of government with a council of atate, said a Warsaw dUputch today. This decision was reached after a conference at Vienna that followed the recent Polish troublei.

FAKIRS DOINO. A BIG MSINESS SELLING

EXEMPTION PAPERS (fly (Ac sfernofli sir Rerrlrr.) CHICAGO. August 8. Fakers today were doing a biif business in Chicago selling finely engraved "exemption affidavits" to gullible wives and mothers of drafted nien. Federal investigator Cluhuugh put secret service men on their tr-iil as s.wm as he heard of it. Ill RRY TO RESCl'E. wbnys and Rangers on Way to avc Men Besieged hy Indians. , tv the Inlfrunlioe'il tf i N.'.-i-r.l il.OP.K. Ariz., August 1 .- Cow , s ai.. fori st rangers from House about luu -ti iktig In am- Horn ttte A-bt 1. Administration Secures An Armistice Fur Duration of the War.

liv david m. riii'iMi. fl.e Int., ,..,( W ,-.,, M V. ASHiN'G'M'N. August X - .Hi i.'., ..i !.,.. r ami - ad,. v..t ave .1 a..-l a 'race Tte .umi.-t... ar, s.,-,e..,ry -.f War Hasi had b''f..;. i ni i.HUy a plan f..r averting lah.u rouh .-s in war t.c.e. It . .r.erallv in. lei -'and t'. .' the plan is apurov. .v I'f -i.leo' V ds-n and vm. je, 'cii'i iier.i, pn-idi-nt of th" ioenan f-.l rat, on of labor. petal's of the ran hav r. t h. r ti ade public but is uii.i. r-lc .I 'hat il follows c !. the K"g:.-h e.-tem The war d. ' a: .:n. f.t w:il a.- u. . , pervision m.-r a'l i.!u..'i m !.M-h tn..r(i :.s a reiatrin to the f .'iilj.'t " he war. In factor'.- wn-re .sal work is l.emg turn..! out. whether il be hell, or buttons for umfoi m -. 'he wai ieparttlient take- the right to humnandcer the factor in ia.-e oi laboi troubles. When ettrV-ift-s ..rh-e titween emj.ioyer aao en .!cve. . the ' ai department wil m anil t:c e tu thonty. Work cnt.nue and work

Commission to he ( hosen. conciliation comiei.--.ion v. appointed. On Cm- contmi' '-n-n. II have jui's.,ct,n ov. r f lustrial district.-, there will he ore memliers. The..- (umii is. ill lie chosen i.,ua 'y from t'.e pital and government p rI'hey will sit in judgment or. troubles. When handed down iecision will date h:1,k to the t. the origin of tne .Ii!h-..j!tm-.. Laboring n en mny take a c t.huut : he fe isions of the ci.'cnus-e.t., i legree as employe.-. I ire he government wi'l have tr uake contract.-. ..hi, h irivc ight to commandeer plant vent of labor trouble. It i.- also understood the !' 111 ttion has a plan for e-tahli ty of work, t'nder tn s pa nork mu.-.t be gi-n the pn very factory, nv.-r oi.hn.ir ial woik. The rift between organ d lab. and the administration which ha I horn looming as threatening, is today he ginning to close, lis. !ho u'f of ti.e.-e administration steps to appease labo, leaders and a--ure them that labor w ill be dealt fairly with during the entire war. The mining situation, which has seemed serious, is now being straight ened out. The administration took a hand in the eases where mineis had , been deported ami as a result 1 he j workmen are being returned to their) homes. This act has satisfied the mine 1 workers and has indicated to the labor leaders the eood intentions of the administration. MARTIAL LAW DF.CLAHFI). LEXI.1GT0N, Ky., August 8. Martial law was in force in Clay, where fifty men were killed in a coal mine explosion. All but ten homes have been recovered.

Emperor Literally Keeping "The Watch On the Rine."

PRECAUTIONS TAKEN TO GUARD THE PLACE v'on-dant Watt h Kept to Prevent Raids liy Enemy .Aeroplanes. IIV KARL H. VON WlF.CAXn. KW YORK. Aug.i-t 8.-F:iiierot Wii'iam is now htcn'ly keej.hig "the Aatrh on the Rhine." Soon after the i-e.uit oi the Rome conference of the a'h '?. nat-iely fe deci-ion for a joint .ii.'ultaiv'ous .priMg oTensive on all ft out s became known to the Hermans h: w titer, ami indenture and I.ududorir ahatidone.i their planned drive uMaid (liii-a, the kaiser moved ."i.i.l general headnuarters from the a-t to It w his foiilth "big move" o' i.-;l'i.Uurteis ,iiu-p the first weeks of eii'.l the war ia.-t August the kiusei ov. , from ( nai le.-vihe in France, to .-art. In December when I was h.ue. traful geiu-ra) headquarters wa.- . a nio-t dreai-v vilhge in SlY.-ia. hen he ,,-ove,l hack to the west with iriil'id gem-lul slalf. the kai.-er took jo "Die wacht am Rhein." The emperor and h,s military cli.ef'airs are. or at least were located in i h. autiful and picturesque tow n I ee..ii -he Rome ami the French bor'r I'l'in I h it Ceinianv anil wenti.i ti.,..,. wh.-n I sail.-! from ChrUtita.a two weeks ago. T:.ere. r.,t far rom the hanks of the Rhine. indenture and Ludendortf are directing the !, f. r...e f (lerr.iaty un the Ai-n. on he Scarpr. by Arm-, in Munders and h.. drive ag-iin-t tie ,; n. after the f'aiiuie of the hitter's oirensive. on I.. Soil. about twiive hours away oncer ra'iwnv .-,-he.lule and the -11 l ! .-arlv day.- of the war. the kaiser's hea,i,tj,,..t,.,s when in (lie wo.-t. has always been on I I, t.ch .-oil. For the tir.-t tnce he aed his h'g military the e,-t a-t he western fiont from German soil. The kai.'-r has selected a place which once wa- the headnuarters of he Roman legions in the time of Julius ( ae-ar. There are u numlier of which the emperor ran study vhen h, -eeks diversion. The steep slope., are covered with teirac-d vines of famous German uino.s. Shady walk- wind about over he lolhs. Not so very far away is 'Tiingen, fair Pingen on the Rhine," known to every American school boy or gul. To the westward is Mot, the powetful fortress. Southward the ;,'.: ser v. ouid not have far to go to be ,n 1 a'-e -the A'-are wanted bv the !.'!. h. I- -peror William is now again with"i i..-v targe of raiding flying squadton . He is in a di-trict that often has In-., h.,.a ,-ed from the air. The town r,u;-i.;. - among high steep hills. The un.i: i', r . ;li, ... ate studded with mahie. go .! la, g.-r anti-aerial craft Upo the r.tilV i ' i a ' ' i - dilhcj't and the j Mer.,e ' ' I" th.t re-peet he isj far he'l. r ,, i .-. than he was at j Il a.U sviiie Wl , . I happened to be; a-t -'.iniT . r during the oxc tcnient of i ti ght a'taik. ! "Lookout " an po-ted on the hill- j ops day and night, scanning the hori- ; .on f,.r enemy flyers. Telephones run ; from tr.e "lookout" posts to a detail' "f Derrnanv's daring duelists of the; air locntid with their machine gut,--; -nine lii-tiinie from town, ready to ! tart the propellers the moment the laidmg siuadlons are signalled. tiiet and peaceful, wonderfully1 ainnv, bright, and pirturesipiely locat-! ed among hills and trees and rivers,' the kaiser's headquarters has little; martial appearance that would indi-j late it was the center of flermanyV armies fiom which the fighting from ' Persia to th North Sea m being di-1 riHted. Hut "Die wacht am Rhein" I has come true. j DAVIS KI.EtTED GOVERNOR. RICHMOND, Va., Aurut 8. We.tmoreland Davis, of Iudoun county, probably will be the next governor of Virginia. Incomplete returns from yesterday' primaries indicated today that he baa won the democratie nomination which U equivalent t election.

CAR MAKES fRIP OF U MILES TO GET MILK FOR A HUNGRY BABY

(fly l InttrntUti 8rrii-. BRAZIL, Ind., August 8. James Burnett, possenKer agent of the T. H- I- K. traction line, ordered the Highland limited to make a upecial trip of eleven miles just to secure some milk for a hungry b"b"- And the baby's coos and gurgles more than repaid Burnett The limited was help up at Girton's stop because of a storm. A baby on the car got hungry and began to cry. Interested passengers waved newspapers, made faces ar.d tried everyway to appeace the baby. Finally, ttie car was ordered back to Brazil and the baby's cries were drowned in a shower of milk. v SIAMESE TWIN GIRLS. Were Born at Chicago HospitalLived Only a Few Seconds. fRlf the rnttrnlHf'ttnt Xeirt Bnrirf.) CHICAGO. August H Siamese twin girls, born at the Frances Willard hospital today, lived only a few seconds. They were normal, except that their waists were joined together and their combined weight was eight and three eighths pounds. The mother, who is li'i. has no other children. I'nited States Will Participate in Allied Offensive of Hutie Proportions. (Hi the intnn'iii'iiial .Vsir Srirlcf.i PARIS. August 8. Another winter of war was piedicted today by French military writers. While Russia's aid is being discounted the allies are pinning great hopes to the part the I'nited Slates Is going to play .luring the next eight or ten months. In the meantime the German allies will grow- weaker in both a military and economic sense while the all ie.will grow correspondingly stornger. The possibility exists that the allied fighting forces, including Hip Cuited States army, will launch their bigge.-t offensive in the future. Gigantic plans are already in their initial form. id a drive i ay be forthcoming next . v ill mke any of the s in the war look like spring that preceding on a pigmy. The Germans are working desperately for a military decision in tiie west before cold weather sets in. but the present outlook is that all then hopes in this direction will be shut tered. The German attacks grow weaker all the time as their reserves dwindle and the gun and munitions supplies of the allies grow stronger. Kaiser Thanks Reichstag l or Vote of Confidence Boastful Words. P.FRI.IN. via Zurich, August K. Fminuor William has sent the following lespon-e to a ti legrarn from Dr. Kiiempf, president of reichstag: "Accept my warmest thanks for your telegram of devotion hy which j ou express.-.! on the ooca.-ion of the day commemorating August 4th in the name of the empire the unshakable resolution of the German people. The -piiit. which three years of warfare revealed in unperishuble manner the soul of the German people, united for the immense sacrifices this war demands, continues to live today among us. It has shown itself afresh in recent days in tlje heroic combats wdiich our great strategists, in the midst of the heaviest attacks, became masters of the situation, us well as at home where the population perseveres with greut courage despite cares and privations, working with great success for the army as I have just seen in eastern Prussia, where new life it developing. "In -weighing the determination shown by our population in the last three yeara, I am convinced that we shall surmount every obstacle without fear of differences of opinion that have arisen in the Interior, and that we ahall hold firm until a peace which guarantees the future and greatness of our country ia inured in a happy manner.''

WonDUilllAM

Lllll LIUI HILLiniTI I , WIRES HIS THANKS I i

CONTROL BILL IS

IE; Senate Will Take Final Action Late This Afternoon. WILL BECOME LAW WITHIN FEW DAYS Success and Disaster .Are Both Predicted For the Measure As it Now Stands. Ifl. tht (nfernill.1111. ,V" SU'rleO WASHINGTON. Atigart 8. The food control bill, described as the most revolutioeiiiy measure in the history .if the American congre.-.-, awaits only formal action to go upon the nation's statute books. The senate will pass it finally at 4 .'.lock this aO.crnoon. Kven its opponent conceded this today. Tiie measure then will be sent hack to tne house to receive Speaker t lalk'igiiatute I t'.'hu and go ii:itueiiuite', to tile president. I 111.'' s the progl llll unexpe, tedly goe- wrong, the big l"l wll be a law Friday night. Roth success ami iil-a 'or are pie dieted for the measure. If its ami..lie earned out. tile co-t of living will he cut down, speculation and corner ng will be ended, production "f foods will he stimulated and the i-ronomi, illli stums of the war will he well on their way to solution. If p'-edirti-.ns of its opponents are realized, business will be depressed, production Nwi!l be reduced and the cost of living will continue to soar. Practically everything depends upon Herbert C. Hoover. Speech making for home consumption was tin only thing scheduled today before the bill g oes to a tinal vote. The opposition bad no hope of blocking ucunii. The vote wd! bring to an end two months of the must stubborn and loiter lighting c ai-gre-s has .-o.-n in recent years ami will pave the way for a brief recess this fall. Only the S-i.ulih.OIHUMlO revenue bill remains of the original war program and this will he taken up at EXOM'S HEGl'N. About I ..MM) Men leaving OHicers' Training ( amp. Iftll the nfr)-,flfe,B; r Smtrr.) FORT HARRISON. lad., Augu-t R. - .The exodus ha- hi gun from the Ollicers' Training Camp here. About UMiil men who have been informed they ivill nut be gn en commission, will ha.e i it the camp hy tomorrow. .Mali) Ik, v ,11 l.o ,1,, I io (he n..,ti,,nJ al army as non -commissioned othcers if they d.-s,re to enlist. It is prohahle that about '.'..,MI coniriiis.-ion., will lie granted to men in the camp here, about half of those who entered the cam;, ami about two-thirds of those who spent the entire three months in the camp. HONOR ROLL List of Those Who Have Recently Paid Subscriptions in Advance. Walter Venis, Thorntown. V. A. Foreman. Z.on.-v.lle. H. .mer Green. It. .'(, Citv. Albert Mount. R. 0, City. A. F. Copeland, Rosston. W in. urics, R. 8. City. ( has. Moore. R. Ml, City. I. . R. P.enniiii-ton. R. Ill, City. Deo. I.senhour. Winter town. Husil Hall, R. in. City. Un Pork, K. lb. Citv. Geo. Horning. R. 10, City. C. C. Caldwell, Houston. C. A. illew. It. 1, City. Frank I.. Kvans, R. 7. City. Walter llinsiiiore, R. City. Mrs. Ruth ISartun. Iowa. Furl Self. New Ross. Claud McLaughlin, New Ross. Fstel Tiaugh, New Ro-s. F. Self, Advance. Wnlter Harmon, R. PI, City. A. I'. Caldwell, R. !'l, City. Mrs. J. X. Griffin, It. . City. O. P. Linton, R. 1, City. N. A. Reynolds, R .g. City. Mrs. J. W. Crawford, Advance Rasil Howen, Michigan. W. S. Hazelrigg, R. 12, City. J. C. Stephenson, Sneridan. J. W. Rohison, R. g, City. Chas. Cross, Michigan. Owen Curry, Thorntown. H. W. Hill, Thorntown, Opal Booher, Thorntown. S. A. t)ickinson, R. 1, City. Sarah Cabins, Cloverdule.

GOULD IS POOR.

That i The Reason He is Claiming Exemption on Ground of Dependent. (0y fan fnfarsafemal eir aertxee.) NEW YORK, August 8. Kingdom Gould, eldest son of George Gould, today explained to newspaper reporters why be claimed exemption on the ground of having a dependent wife to support when he passed tne draft examination. "I am poorer than anybody has any idea," he said, "and the ifily doubt in my mind was whether my wife could skim through in my absence. "Now it seems as we could make it and if we can I will not press mv claim." Young Gould was niarrifd early in July to Jliss Annunziata Camilla Marie I.ueci, an Italian art student. AGREE TO STRIKE. Twenty-Iwo Thousand Miners in Kentueky anil Tennessee to Quit. lfl tlit nlfrncili..n,il X.im Ccrrlcc.i I.KXINGTON. Ky.. August H. Twenty-five thousand coal iniiic-is in district No. lit, embracing pints of Kentucky and Tenne-see. today agreed lo strike Saturday, after the opcrator-refll.-ed to negotiate with then on ids f leased wa, ry di trict d for the . Delegates ,et at Pin, Their Official Actions Will Directly Reflect the Emperor's Views. (Hll thr ,llrr,.nle,n,ll .V, if, (ten COI'KXIIAGKN. August S II new member- of the Derma eminent weie picked persona the K.ii.-er and their ollicial i will di'ectly reflect the kaiser's says a dispatch received hen Berlin, today. A large section of the prc-s I tacking the newcomers in th gov1 ei-nmeut for various reasons, but

' among the leaders of the various i .' , ' , , -m,. , . , ., .utch examined faded to pass. The 1 political fa. lion there is an evident ; ,,, . ..... .

desire to wait a while before support,ng or opposing them. democratie papers accuse all the new officials of being bureaucrats while the pan-German press charges them with favoring a policy which is "an. tagonistic to the expansion of tin mpire. The two chief avenues of artion for he l "organized government, which v ill hi Aatrhed most closely by the people are: First. Movement towards peace. I Second, Institution of constitutional 1 reform- in the empire. It is a conspicuous fact that a numt ber of prominent German statesmen I who an; acknowledged leaders of the j reform movement and who were spoken of for places in the reorgan- ' ized Gorman cabinet are missing, j One of the chief figures in the rab- ' inet, who is coming in for abuse from almost eivery quarter is Dr. Helfferich, the vice chancellor, who ! retains the office he held in the old government. The pan-German are i attacking him as a friend of England; the siKualists are accusing him of being a bureaucrat and the liberals and social-democrats charge him with representing the very essence of Prusslanism. He is a man of great power. The Yos.-i.srho Zeitung of Merlin -ays it now rests with the Reichstag to see that the new appointees do not run contrary to democratic wi.he.i. 1 This paper points out that three of ; them are conservative agrarian.-, o'h- , erwise junkers, whiie one is an out and out i.'ltio ; Theodor Wolff's significant t..m- : ment in the Berliner Tageblatt is: "In Germany onlv the army is alloweii to make history." THREE ARE KILLED. Workers Lose Lives in Accident in Dig Steel Plant. IdU the fslrrsntlos'll Sen I Srnlir.

tllH. ADO. August 8. Three men ft. '), government employe, ere killed, two probably fatally in-, Hallie L. Hamilton, Lebanon, modited and a score injured today when i cal reserve corps, defective ladle tipped ail.OHO pounds I Gurney C. Newman, Lebanon R. R.

of molten metal into their midst at i the Inland Steel plant, Indiana HarSTRIKE IS CALLED. KANSAS CITY, August 8 Promptly at 4:35 this morning a strike was called hy conductors and motormen employed by the Kansas City itreet railways company and about SOI per cent, or 1,000 men turned in their badges and as a result a majority of Kansas Cityans walked to work. The men are not asking an increaie in wages, but merely the right to organize.

WILL BEGiN THE

SI! II Conscription Board to Take Up Hard Task Tomorrow. EXAMINATIONS OF 328 MEN FINISHED Twenty-five Per Cent Fail to Pass Many Exemptions Are Claimed. The conscription bourd yesterday, completed its work of examining the men .summoned in the first call of .1-8. The question of exemptions claimed will be passed upon with little delay. The h.iurd members rested today and will take up the consideration of exemption clam- either tonight or tomorrow mornpg. All but nineteen of the 3-8 men summoned appeared for examination. The-e men weve: Russell Page, who tkes the rv .mi . ., ,p Mllldletown. O.; lien Scifres, who is in the Officers' Reserve Training ( atnp at Indianapolis: I' win C. McDonald, who ia aliea.ly in the army service; Hallie Hamilton, who is in the medical reserve; Jam.s W. Robison, who is a no ruber of Co. L, First Ohio Infantry; llany Neff Raiisdall. who when last heard from was with a circus; C. A. llaidy. who is ill in a hospital; Clifford Wilson, who was released from the state penal fatm to join a circus; Oris Harvey, who is with the 4(ith In- ! fant rv I who I at I t. Harrison; Orvnl Dean, in the Reserves; Rollin C. Woodson. Raymond Jones, Franklin W. Jones. Francis C. Hedges, Walter McGee; George I.. White, who is a member of the I'nited States Marin Coi ps; Jesse K. Reagan, who ia a number of Co. H; Merle Purdue, who in the service. i .. ., , . .. ai,.j t, wm.h , jn the pubi-lh. : p. m ,iivit in rrtUy fmmfi the physical examination. His exam ination card had been catalogued I w rong and to this fact the erroneous ' publication was due. All of the married men except on who passed the examination, claimed exemption. The exception was Charles I.. Mills, who resides on New Rose ruial route two. He has a wife and child, but declined to claim exemption. A number of the single men who 1 passed the examiration, gave notice that they would u.p'. for exemption, .. t of them on an occupational l x. ..-und. The following is the result of yesterday's examination, together with! ,the list of those who claim exemption and the grounds upon which tho I claims aie based: Accepted Exemption Claimed. Oliver William Hunt, Lebanon R. R. 12, wife and child. Opal Dallas Kooher, Thorntown R. n. lib wife. Ivan Coulter, Lebanon, wife. Jesse Franklin Castile, Thorntown, William Wiley, Lebanon R. R. 2, fe. Otto Arthur Hine, Whitestown, vife. Zarah Oral Meenarh, Ibanon R. R, 4, wife. Roy Hugh Kibbey, Jamestown R. It. I'., wife and five children. O.-car P.eeslfy, Thorntown, R. R. 17, wife. j John Jacob Steelemith, Sheridan R. R. 2"i, wife, child and mother-in-law. Luther K. Klass, Lebanon, R. R. 1, w if'e and child. Oliver Perry Morton Davis, tb anon, wife. ( Elmer S. Pratt. Lebanon, wife. Forest Wood Ivton, Pittsboro R. II. 1. wife and child. Michael D. Campbell, Thorntown, wife and child. Austin John Beaver. Advance, R. 7, wife. John Joseph Moran, Lebanon R. R. T, infirm parents. Otis I). Scott, Jamestown R. R. 1, wife and child. Zachariah Arnold, Thorntown, wife and two children. Lloyd R. Click, Lebanon R. R. 13, aged and infirm parents. John W. Tickott, Shendan R. R. 21, Cecil Weber, Lebanon R. R. 2, wifa and three children. Clarence Alonzo Mills, Lebanon R. R. 1, wife and child. CONTINUED ON PACK SEC