Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 25, Number 272, Lebanon, Boone County, 15 August 1917 — Page 1

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iLkiilZjLi':-yi j iLA WEATHEIIUULLETI:, Partly deady tonight and ThorwUy; VOLUME 5. LEBANON, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1317. NO. ti'L

OF POPE CAUSE OF

Siiffgestions Offered That Have Already Been Rejected. EMBARRASSING TO THE ALLIED NATIONS Proposals Must He Passed I port Rejection Carries Kespunsihility. I By Ihe International n-t gtirte. WASHINGTON. Augii-I I Intimation Itiat German ami Austro-Httngary will arrcpl Ihe atiran's peace proposals and place the burden of rejection, it they arc lo be rejected, upon Ihe I nitcd State and the enlt'iitc powers, reached Vt a-hington today. This information, which r;tme through confidential ihplomalio sources, added lo the a'.xi'ly of Ihe administration boli vies with Ihe deepest cororn thr injection inio the war of 'his new rorrrete propo'dton at the present moment. P.Y JOHN KUWI.N S'KVI N". (? ti-e . WASHINGTON, August 1.VBonedict's peace proposal have grave concern m oibcia! circleThere is complete recognition where in Washington tsat they brought fotward in the ut'in. ferity. OifVia'.- d-i l..re. howevi in uiging a reveis pm to tlie quo ante the pmposais are c -IV tiled with a suggestion already emphati a!-: ly rejected by the United States and by the en', nte allies. Accompanying ; propoasls that the destiny of Alsa 'c-j Lonaine an.l Italy's claim.- to Au--trian territoiy, as well as suggestions of reduction in armament and -abolishment of a ieague of nations, be, left to mutual agreement do not i move the insurmountabl, obstacle to acceptance in the Mews of the official.who, however, acting directly um.oj the orders of President Wilson himself, refu.-e to be ousted on the subject. Privately they admit worri-i ment inasmuch as the peace propisals must specifically be passed upon and responsibility for rejection nvi-t 1. a very heavy one. To (rystalize peace Sentiment. Officials say the pope's proposals are certain to crystallize ail peacr s.'ntitnent in all of the cauntrif including the L'nited States. I h. y fear toe effect upon Russia where the policy or peikce without annexations or inflemnities is utmost unanirrou-ly suoporterl. It was accepted today that will be necessary for the entente a. . the L'nited Statea to exchange on the entire subject. The state depaitment expected to rereive an official copy of the v.itiraVs Diopo.-als some time during today. ! was explained that a soon as it a--rived official copies will he transrr.:t' to President Wilson. Later he a id Secretary Lansing will discuss the . tion to be taken by the L'nited Siiiw. The greatest question wliich the peace proposals have raised nere :s to what extent they would lead Ufree discussion of peace. fiermany Kor Peace (ounnl. It is recognised that 'lermany nil along ha been anxious to have a pea'council named on the assumption thai it would be possible for (Jern-.an diplotrats to play representatives of o:ie entente country against another in it, and in that manner get the best of things when the peace treaty was framed. Officials generally believe that (i-rn.any will aco.-ot aU ol the Vatican's peace suggestion; with the exception of the suggestion that the fate of Alsaie-Lornime ran be considered. Lnder no rirfu.ntanct,. mill fiermanv ever consider ,nrrendoring the "lost provinces." offii-als who know what they speak of say, unless she is completely beaten to her knees. It is hinted here during the la.-t f days when officials were discussing the peaee proposals of Senator Larollette, that the viewpoint of the L'nited State; -as rHngid . .l.:Ul it entered the war. t.'p to that time propositionr of "peace without victory and suggestions of compromise had been ircnpted mj posrihlc by the dminitratlon. Revilation which h.v hwn hittfr hatred entertained ' fjrainut tht I'nitfd 8tat hy not alone Orman officialdom but the German

people themselves has changed this ! view. Only a few rluy ago one of j j the highest officials, of the govern- j ment declared that if the I'nited Stales ! i consented to any compromise with j Germany, no matter wha the attitu'le of the entente it would simply j make it certuin that this nation would ' later l.e i mpelM to pay till the bills! "or the war. i The Immediate Result. I

Entente diplomatic circles here to dav expressed the belief that the on iv immediate result of the Pope's proposals will ue lo open the way fori a complete statement l.y Germany' enemies of their war aims. This plight result very advantageously of'.i- a:s said, inn-much as then (.lermany Aijuid know what to expect and nvght uake counter suggestions which would possibly open tlie door for ireace. miking piam thet they on the t p beet of the npHe diplor anpot be CONTINUED ON PACK FOUR. 'TO CONSIDER ONLY EGONQ (.overnor Will Oppose Hrini;ini; nv Other Problems liefore the l egislature. IM'IAN V!"ii IS. V rn. r '... !ri. h let It he ing sp.'. ial ses-ion of the lThe gov Tnr.r believes on' problem.- pr'-wirig out of should be considered. Th bill i' ving tlie state the al Mtuato O.vmittee Judiriii be no upproprietion c a i. e but a .separate ui pi o 'iat be introdured. JUst what the amount of pnution bill will be is jpcvt will be an appropriation to the eual plan, an appripnat State ( ounri! of Defense, governor exp-cis tin; h-gi out ' tm' '" legal.. opt creases! expi ns and proParik for the state will, it i i-orporat ii .der t. means of raising needed revet The governor will continue daiiy ronerences u :th b'Ph can and Democratic leader- ( ravens. Democratic leaner house, is opposed to a -P's'ial HANDS OFF POLICY. Resolution (ntroduci Stop Interference in Congr i Pi-ace plan (Bir Ihe Inlrrn'lti-.ntl . WASI'IXGToX, Auc tor Lewis, of Illinois, der today introduced a py. congressional interferes duct of peace nentiat:. The resolution, de-igt stitute for the Lahoile-ti tion introdund S'ltur'lir. congres.-ion il peace rnovi will he emharrai--ing to tration. LEAVE SOON FOR FRONT. American Troops to he Revi ed hy (.en. Sihs'rt Soon. BY DANTFI. DILLON. (ftv lht Intrrnttion'it Vo' s..,r. AMFRICAX TRAINING ( AMP I FR.A.NCF, August ir-.-Geiieral :;:h.--t second in command of the t'nited States forces, will review ai thf. American tr-T shortly. Following the review the men are expected to leave for that part of th. French front (rations are contemplated. ARRESTS AT FRISCO. SAX rRAis'CIfiCO, August lo. D. J. Harnedy, shoe merchant and jwrenre Delacey, publisher of a weekly paper were tinder arrest today on a cnarge or conspiring to aid Tranf Bopp, former Gorman consul, and t'ekhard von Srhack, his assistant, to escape from the detention camp at Angel Island to a point in Mexico,

j ' , . . -, I' ood Commissioner N ames

Men Who Will Fix the Price of the Grain. , j t Ujf f)p THE MEN i VHO ARE APPOINTED Include ! Heads ARrifullural College Farmers Organizations, Etc. i II i the Inlrfatiiinal Vrir Btrvtre.l WASHIN'tlTON, Augu.-t 1.".. Food Administrator Hoover today anlouoi'ed the personnel of the committee that Will fix the prire of wheat in the L'nited States. The men pre: Chairman. A. J. Garfield, president of Williams rolVo-e: William X. Dosk.

lioanoke. Ya., vice-president of the lliotherhod of Kailwav Trainmen; ' Kug.-ne K. Funk. Il!niiiit..n. 111-. pre-ident of National Torn Association: Kdward W. Ladd. Fargo, X. p.. P pie.-ident North Dakota Agricultural J t "ileg. : II. Goodv.yn Khett, Charleston. S. (T., president chamber of commerce of the I'nited State:.; .1. W.

Shorthill. York. N'eb., secretary of National Council of Farmers t'o-oper-,,tive A-,.K-iati..ns; James W. Sullivan. Itrooklyn. of the American Fedt.itp.n of Labor: I.. J. I'abor. Barnes, ie. Ohio, master of Ohio State -.mge; Frank W. Taussig, chairman Federal Tariff Commission; Theod.ue N. Vail. New Yoik, president of American Telephone & Telegiaph Company; Henry J. Waters, Manhattan. Kits., president Kansas agriculturil College. The executives of the wheat pur-ii'i-ing division were announced as fellows; Chairman Hoover, pi. -i-dem; Julius Barnes, Duluth, Minn.; Treasurer, Gates W. McGurruh, president of the Mechanics & Metals Bank. New York: vice-president, F. G. t'rouoll. of Kansas City; transportation dirictor, Fdward Chamliers, vice-.r--tent of th" Santa Fe railroad . hifago: counsel. Judgi .mdlev, of San Francisr J. W. Shorthill. of Yolk. seuctaiv A; tiie same tun through an executi a food admmi-trati Hon with a capital iiiiii.iHHi to be open divi.-ion with the g. -toikholder. the president, i-e order, created in grain corporation of S.'jO.ted by the grain iveirirnent as sole WHKAT CORPORATION. Ottirers of Ihe Administration Organization Opened in New York. tltv thr strrioif'Htl Vrwl Kerv4c.l NKW YOP.K", August 10. America's wheat supply will be controlled from New York. Officers of the fowl ' ad.nin stration "wheat corporation" have h en oiened here in chat ge of Julius II. Barries, named as chief a.-si-tant to Herbert C. Hoover in matters relating to wheat. Hiunrh offices are being opened in (very wheat renter of the country in- ' Holing Minneapolis, Duluth, Chicago, St. Louis, Buffalo, New York, Detroit. I'ortiand. San Francisco, New Orleans, Kan -as c,iy, Galveston and Philadel-i pi"-'- 1 Evidence Points to Strained Re- ! lations Between Two Governments. a ttlll the Internatinnnl .Vnirt rrlee.) GF.NFVA. August lf-.-There is videnre that the relations between the Bulgarian ami Gorman govern

ments are beroming strained, accord-; crew of Norwegian steamer Benguola ing to advices received here today, sunk by a submarine. Twelve of the This state of affairs is said to have ; crew of the Benguola arriving here been brought about by territorial af-j today, stated that the (rerman subquisitions planned by King Ferdinand marine which sank their vessel had in the Balkans. Bulgaria is insist- been on a five months' cruise, ing upon the retention of Servian-1 The Benguola wan taken captive by Macedonia, the nnrtheaitsm corner of ' the U-boat and used as a deeov. Vnr

, ,-ietvia tunUiiima Hit Ocio.il ilyil8 days the stearnef lowed th sub.

(Berlin to Constantinople) and Pobi rudia. which ia that section of Sou i mania lying south orf the Daoobe river. i Germtny it opposing Bulgaria's avaricious demands the mild that I they will prolong th war and hinder j the opening of peact nstotiations.

TALE OF INHUMAN BRl'TALITl TOLD TO ! THECHAGO POLICE j (S Ih4 llllete, e'eun Xrrfre.) j CHICAGO, Auist 15. A tale I or inhuman brutality was un- j folded to police tbday by Frank Pacut, 1 1, who vai found chained i up In a cell in the basement of his j home. J The boy had stood in chains in

a cell four feet long, three feet wide and five feet high for ten and cne-half hours. Food had been placed just beyond his reach. He was so weak detectives had to carry him from the cellar. "My father beat me with a fat-o-nine-taiU," said the boy. "He chained me up sernuse I ran away from home." Anton Pacut. 41, a Pole, admitted the beatings. "He's a bum," he said. "He begs and steals and runs away. I have chained him up fifty times but it don't do any good." SWISS MISSION HERE. Arrived at an Atlantic Port Today is Announced. ifli fftl lntrn4lWHl ,Verl Arrrlce.)

AN ATLANTIC PORT. August IS.!0 V" Switzerland's mission to the t'niteil port States arrived here today. There aiejweek.

five members of the mission headed hy Jean Adolphe Sulzer. The mission will proceed to Washington to take up the matter of allowing foodstuffs shipped to Switzerland under the exports licen-ing act. All of the Objectives Alonut German First Line Taken. ATTACK FOLLOWED A BOMBARDMENT Front and Make an Advance.

Bit tlif isrcsolloioil r- tffrrirr.l LONDON, August Ii. Another! powerful thrust at the German posi-1 tions ut Lens in northern Fiance, was made by the British todav. j The war office announced that all I of the objectives along the German i first line were carried by storm. j The attack followed a terrific horn- ; bardment of the German trench sec-( tions and which delivered on a wide j front in the whole I.cn--Lo07. sector, j While the British were plunging for- j ward in France, the Frenrh attacked . on the West Flanders front and advanced considerable distance along the Dixmude road, said a Paris dispatch, j In addition to the heavy bombard-1 The ments British aeroplanes are swarm-1 ing in the sky every day, marking the I

location of artillery positions! and the concentration of Strong reconnoissances are being I made against the German trench sec tions every night, their strength being carefully felt out by picked P.ritish soldiers. The Portilgie with the British who .are fighting are playing an im-, portant part in the f.ghting in north ern France. They hold a section o the aci'tor near Xeuville Chappclle : being flanked on both i British. ides hy the MAKING LONG CRUISES. I'-Boats Now Months Cruises IKy thn International Vetre Hervlrt.l ; AX AMFRICAX PORT, August 15. ; German U-boats are making long . cruises, according to member-, 0f the j roarint, which had I tonnage of 1,700 tont tnd a erew of 70 men. Finally th crew ef the Norwegian steamer were ordered into their lifeboats and their steamer was sunk with bombs. Fivt members of the crew tf the Norwegian steamer flira, also sunk by a U-boat arrived hert today.

ANOTHER LIST OF

County Conscription Hoard Sends Out Additional Notices. THIRD FIFTY-FIVE NOTIFIED TOMORROW New Call is For lfi." Additional Men to be Examined Next Week. The dav se rounty con it out lift g men of r physical This is tl -ription hoard tofive more notices lititaty age to reexamination next second batch of notices sent out -o f;.'- this week. A third will he sent out Thursday bringing tl'iC total number summoned in this .ail to :.",. Fif'.y-five men summoned yesterday will reoort for examination at the court lioj;e next The lifty-tive notified today vill report Tuesday and the tit'ty-tive who are to bs noiili'd totnoirow will appear Wednesday of examination. The board has rec, for d that en illlio ll The following is tip tilied today to appc; examination: tin .Pis.pi, in, DIED IN PRISON. Fdilor of a Socialist Paper Fx- pired in France, tti-i PARIS, August 15. Meguel Alyreda. editor of the Soctailist news paper lionnel Rouge, died in prison ty, having been arrested last eek , after the discovery on the Sw frontier of a check for 1:10.000 tended for his paper. The check believed to have come from a Germ 'I he newspaor I.J Tranchee nlit.-rl li ,1, fer,,i,.,l Ui bv J hn Goldsky, who reda, has suspended HONOR ROLL List of Those Who Have Recently Paid Subscriptions to Advance. Ira Bradley, R. R. 5. City. W. W. MrVey, K, R. 4. City. W. I.. I nurtney, Tii)rnten Archie Rose, Jamestown. Bruce Pickering, Advance. J. A. Garner, Advance. Thomas Huckstep, R. R. 9, City. J. II Cunningham, R, R. 1, City. Ed Conner, R. R. 0. City. Ml. N. E. LUitiii, n. It. 1. CHy. J. W. Long, City. C. H. Glendenntng, R, R. S, City. J. C. Padgett. R. R. 5. City. Wallace Caldwell, R. R. g, City. Curtis Shore, Indianapolis. Cecil Dean, Advance. Ray Nicely, Jamestown. L. P. Shortrtdge, Indianapolis.

JUDGE SENTENCES A BIGAMIST TO THE TRENCHES IN FRANCE.

(By ittenMNMof Sm BerrM.) NKW YORK, Augut 15. "Send him to France," urged l.illium M. Smith when Kenneth Shannon, 10, member of the New Jersey field artillery, was found guilty of marrying her when he already had a wife in East Orange, X. J. Judge Mulqueen, wjio found the youth guilty of bigamy, oh sen ted. Take your rifle and report in France," was the judge's sentence. SOLDIERS IN CHARGE. Heavily Armed Troops Hold Striking Miners in Check. lfy (tie nffinfllionifl .NVtri Strvti e KMNGTOX. Ky., August lo. Five hundred soldiers, with four machine guns mounted at strategic spot.in the towns of Clay and Providence, held striking miners in check today while a house to house search for men who fired on troops two weeks ago was made. The guard about the corral in which fiftv strikers are held under arrest was strengthened today upon receipt ! of reports that an attempt would be j made to rush the stockade and rescue the prisoners. CAPTURE OF AMERICANS Secretary of Navy Haker (Jives Names of Men Taken Prisoner. iPtl tht International .Vrim .enter. WASHINGTON, August l.YSect. tary of Navy Daniels today officially .opfnmtd the reports that Cupt. Oliver and five members of the gun crew of the armed tanker Campania were taken prisoners when the vessel was torpedoed and sunk otf the French coat on August fi. The secretary said he would ake public the names of the men. The state department is making diligent inquiry through Spanish and Swiss sources as to the present whereabouts of these men and how they are being treated. The names of the nrm;d guard now held ortsoners hy the Germans as : made public by the navy department were as follows: James Delancy, i chief gunner's mate, Maiden, Mas.-.; I Delancv commanded the gun cr, w. William Albert Miller, seaman, secjond class, mother, Flir.abeth Grebe HS.i.i Burley street. Chicago. Fred S. Jacob, seaman, second c'a.-s. Pittsburgh. Pa. Ray Roup, boatswain's mate, second class, mother Flizabeth Gain. 41,' Poplar street, Bov ns City, Mich, Charles I. oven Kline, gunnel's mate. third class, Reading. Pa. Gteal Crowds Cheer the Anieri-' cans as They Pass Buckingham Palace. iHy the Intrrnattoniit Xein xem. r LONDON, August 11. Cheered by great crowds, a force of L'nited States troops marched past Burkingham Palace today after having been i "leomecl at Wellington barracks. '' I"-' Americans were headed by the guards hand and were watched l ord Derby. British secretary ol as they swung past the palace. .rMUGGLING CHARGE. Four Men Caught With Large Quantity of Opium. (S.v l,e Aferniiiiol! Vricj Serntrf. SAX ANTONIO, Tex., August Four men who were caught w ith Jlin.OOO worth of opium in their posj session, were under arret, here today chargeil with smuggling the drug into the United States from Mexico. Following their arrest, i.uantities of the drug valued at $40,000 were found cached on tht Mexican side of the Rio Crar.-!r Federal officials believe that the quartet is connected with parties throughout tht United States for the dispottl of opium smuggled through Mexico and police in New York. Chicago, Cincinnati, St Louis, Cleveland and New Orltani have been tipped th names of suspected agent there.

VIOLATION OF THE

Dr. Linton Gives Interesting Address At Institute. REVIEWS EARLY EVENTS OF WAR Explains Points Connected With lieleJum Invasion Other Talks ut Institute. Tl ic teachers were railed to order morning at !:0(l. The first uerivas epent in music in charge of Clarence Hall and Miss Goidiene Grov Roll call folowed, then Dr. n tak d to the institute about -"S in reading which he ennduetthe platform yesterday. The chil -ireii wvo not f lightened, although it was their first day at school. The sp '; r explained that a h teacher niu.-t learn to like other ren if she wishes to npKach chihl. however he may be, has certain good characteristics which should he developed as much as possible. Children are not small adults and are not to be treated us such; they are obedient lo anyone who can keep them interested in something. The tendency is for teachers to drag in too many device w hich should be discarded. Kven should' parent and every teacher learn to tell stories for the nt of the young people. Anydo this with practise, and pays. The children will repractise spond aipl their very reponse will aid the teller in her task. After the atories become familiar, they may b dramatized very easily in the school I room. This acting on the part of thn PuP'Ih w'" be more natural and I'pontaneous if each play 18 a perfor mance in itself rather than a dreaded rehearsal. Boys tmd girls enjoy a story that is told without books more than the one that is read directly, it is well for the teller to use the same iungunge each time it is told, for the benefit of the children's improvement in speech. The author has usually chosen those words which he deemed most fitting in particular p'aces. Newer texts omit the morals which o'd books used to have; however, the present readers are very valuable to build up the pupil's rharccter. Dr. Jackson thinks. t. -.noted for th pleasure of the teachers some literary gems. The teachers sang "My Old Kentucky Home," "My Maryland," "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes," and the "Marsellaise Hymn." Re tgian ' Xeutrality. Dr. Linton's subject for the morning lecture wns "Belgian Neutrality.1 The violation of Belgian neutrality hy Germany was fully justifiable. This statement without explanation might seem bold, however, Dr. Linton explained it later. The congress of Vienna in 1814 decided that the Belgian provinces would be joined with Holland under a Dutch king. Tiiis plan was rather poor, partly o nnccount of a difference in language spoken hy the two peoples. There ere economic differences, also. The Belgians were manufacturers, thn Dutch were agricultural, therefore the. former wanted protective tariff, th latter wanted free trade. There were two distinct religions in the United Netherlands. Friction increased until lnf when the Belgians revolted and were finally recognized as an in-

by ' dependent nation. ;.r, ' Brussels is called "little Paris." The news of a revolution in Paris caused the Belgians to declare inde- ' penilence. They were made an inI dependent state hy the great powers.

Austria, Russia, Prussia, hnglanrt, and Fiance. They promised her recognition if she would promise to remain a neutral state permanently. That is, she could not contract any alliances that might lead to any hostilities. , ,,Kilim w arcUKed by Germany at the first of this war of having virtuallied ..lib F-oglaod in lfti2. It this is true. Germany did not violate. Belgium neutrality, for it had already passed awav. It is probable that the five great j p. unfn neutraliiation si Belgit!-; In provide a barrier against possible French expansion is the northeast The French representative at London saw that thit arrangement would be carried out, in spite of any objections she might make. France, therefore, immediateCONTINUED OX PACE FOUR.