Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 25, Number 292, Lebanon, Boone County, 7 September 1917 — Page 1
TIIE REPORTEIt IS THE f'RAMOM Tt) A ll P F5 PA lQ" I WEATuku WL.' ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP- 1 4 SlLMKL N 1 11-1 illi H-1L JA J 'x I Showers tonight and probably S;t I FR IN BOONE COUNTY. - . , , urday. Warmer tonight. A VOLUME 25, LEBANON, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBEPv 7, 1917. N0.292. . I
IS NOW ENTERING ITSTHIRD WEEK Heaviest Fighting Still Haginjf Around San Cabriele. germans advance upon rk;a front
Itussians in l ull Retreat Ormans Make ;ain on llriti-h Front. PKTKOGR D. September 7. Russia's llaltir Del ill make a operate defense t I'olrograd and the banes of Kronstadt and Itetal. (lltirial assurance to this effect were gien today in the dmpatches tu the provisional gnvernment from the commanders of those ports. A most significant feature of this important development i that it shows that the grate ne wperil facing Russia sinre the fall of Riga is uniting the hostile political factions. V targe part of the llaltic fleet ha been under ronlrol of the Hiasimalists who. up to the present. have maintained a hostile attitude towards the Kerenky government. IRil f),r !.,,. iliuroil Are. V. ,l.. . ROME. September 7.-The eleventh battle of the Isonzo which is raghiy from Tolmino to the Adriatic .Sea will enter its third week toliiurr The heaviest fighting still renters' around Monte San Gnbriele and Monte Daniele. northeast of Gorizia, and the Carsu Plateau, southeast of Gorizia. By using fresh troops the AustroHungarians have been aiile to launch, powerful counter attacks at numerous points on this wide front, in an effott to stem the Italian advance. On Monte San Gabnele, the AustinHuns recaptured trench sectors '.hat the Italians had taken in a brilliant 1 dash four days ago. Italian pressure against the Austrians in the region northeast of Gonzia is becoming decisive, the war office announced today. The enemy , hits suffered extremely heavy losses for several days in his desperate i resistance. I MAKE SLIGHT liAIN. German Capture Trench in Counter Attack on Flander Krnnt, lll rr ;rr,-nfllin'il Krrrhr I LONDON, September 7. A slight gain for the Germans on the West Flanders front was admitted by the British war office today. During the night, the Germans made a counter attack north of Fmsonherg, recapturing local ground lost to the British in the fighting on Thursday. Frosonberg is three mihsj northti.it of Ypres and a mile and a half south of St. Julien. Artillery duels continue along the front. EXTENSIVE PLANGermans to Make Combined t-and and aea Attack. ilttf Oie Jnfrrntlttiinnl S'ira K'f COPENHAGEN. Sept. Gorman forces that raptured the great Russian port of Riga, on the Haltir Sea ure working with desperate energy transforming it into a reva! base for extensive sea operations. Advices received here today report that a German flotilla has entered the gulf of Kr.gland, at the northern end of the Halt..-, on which I'etrograd is situated. Another flotilla is cruising off licval, an important Russian port about half way between Riga and the Russian capital. Large cumbers of German trawlers, convoyed by torpedo boats, are destroying mine fields off the Russian coast beyond Riga. If true, this report indicates that the Germans may attempt to land an army in the rear of the Russian forces retreating from the Riga-Dvinsk sector. Land and Sea Operations. It la possible that the German ge'eral staff plans combined land and sea operations against both Reval and I'etrograd, although the campaign has Dot progressed far enough to reveal the plans of th Germans. Tiw Russian rets as meat from Kit
j continue with the German Eighth I army in pursuit. The German have i nruken the Russian front over a width of more thun forty miles and are now j approaching W'enden, a large town on the Riga-I'etrograd railway, i (Woden in about forty-flve miles northeast of Riga. Dispatches from Petrogiad rkate that Premier Kerensky has sent a proclamation to the garrison of the fortrets at Kronstudt exerting the soldiers and sailors stationed there to remain ioyal to the government. There u a big fortress at Kronstadt which is the chief defense of Pctrograd on the sea side. A few months ago the narrison mutiniel and tried to start a counter revolution, but it was put down. It if said that greater part, if nut all of the ships in the Russian Bultic
fleet, are lying under the protection of the gun in the Kronstadt forties, j ARK si i;kkdhf.ig. Jugoslav Officers and Men Austrian Forces. (tuttinK er 7 WASHINGTON. September ?. Jugoslav officers and men fighting with the Austrian armies are surrendering in large- numbers to the Italians on the lsono fiont. "rather than light the t.attle of reaction anairist the forces of freedom," accordiog to dis1 patches received at the Serbian bga- ; tiun to-lay. 1 Twenty-four of th- surrendering othcer.s have sent firtruiay giee'ins to Kins? Peter of Si rbui through the COAL AMil THE CONSUMESTS FREND Carfield Says His First Interest Will be tu Take up Retail Price of Coal. U ASillNC I ON. Sept-mb. -The coal adeiimstration is to be the -mail i consumer's friend. Dr. Hairy A. tiar-i ,i. , k,. r. ..!i . ...l- 1 up the retail pr CoriMrations. through th repre-'entatives. have approached Dr Garfield and -ought to have aition taken to have tiie suppiy ot ail large ci-rpoi atiotis msurid. tr. fiartieiti has failed to act in these cases because he feels that the duty iricumhent upon him is to first take care of the man who coit-nme c-ial to keep warm and c(.'k his fud with. Corporations doing government war work will he considered as government plants. Private corporations will have to look after their own coal supply until the coal administration has made the comfort of the individual sured. In many cbms it appears that the
interests have protected themselves i at the expense of small consumer. I Corporations have made contracts for;rilit Men Seriously Injured in
large amounts of coal, more than nee essary to fill their needs. Mines are filling the.-.e contracts and consequently the supply of coal reaching the retail market i restricted, tuiik action will be taken to secure an equal distribution of coal to the retail market and the wholesale market, where the large consumer buys. If necessary the government will distribute all coal regaroiess ot private contract. MOBILIZATION OF THE DRAFTED MEN PROCEDS No Difficulty so far Experienced. Provost Marshal Announces. I 1 ik (Ac ;ie.osie,ii ,,.f iwr i j WASHINGTON. Sept. 7. Mobilization of the drafted men in fourteen ,., , . , v , , of the sixteen cantonments Yaphank and Meade being uncompleted has proceeded without difficulty, accord- j ing to dispatches received today by : I'rnvost Marshal Generul Crowder.
When and w hether there w ill be a ' , . , , carryn g concealed weapons and also second call is within the discretion';. ,k.,4 . .u.i...
t n.;,iant Wilu,n it nnni.Aa ,. . 'n ,.'s.i.n,.. ond rail, and so far as is known, no second call is tioo. present contemplaDIED SUDDENLY. Drewry Ashburn Found Dead in His Room This Morning. The death of Drewry Ashbudn, of east of Lebanon, occurred this morning between 10 and 11 o'clock. The deceased, who had been afflicted with heart trouble for a number of yean, was found dead is his room.
VICTORYFORTHE UNITEDSTATES Premier Lloyd Georjfe Emphatic in Expressed Views.
BRITON LEADER'S WORDS CHEERED Savs Kussian Conditions May J Delay ictory Asks People ! to he Patient. Ilr (ifn-aulooul Vri sVirier. ( BIRKKNHKAD. Kng.. Sept. 7. An emphatic prediction of victory for the I'mted States in the world war was made here today by Premier I.Ioydlieoige in a speech accepting the free dom of the city. I tl was an addreas filled nitli high praise of the military prowens for thej great western republic. i "Never in her history has America known the word defeat and she will J not know it now," declared the pre- j mier. f Mr. Lloyd-George said that thej Russian revolution might delay tic- ! lory for the allies, but that victory i is certain. , ! "The people mu.-t be patient," he1 counseled. The premier's words, especially th se relating to the great part th I'nited States is going to play in th struggle called forth great applause Russia is alreudy repairing her military machine, said the statesman and expres.-ed hojie that the wotk would soon be successful. "'iermany did not decide to invade; Russia with the sword unM her m. paitrn in bel.alf of the revolution hail failed," declared the premier.. He ,j added that the allies were less con-1 erned over the ettect of Russia miltary failure than of certain possi-; ie results that unrest in the republic light have on the world's democracy. In conclusion Mr. I.loyd-lieorge ouched on the German submarine warfare, saying it weuld never sueeed. !N STRttT CAR STRIKE Street Dirtturhance in Frlnto. I Hii (lol litem! a,il .Vrw. H'n i. e. I SAN FRANCISCO, September 7. Rioting connection with the Sar street car strike waa re Franc; sumed today and within three hours , . . . police posses were ordered out to quell discrders in f.ve different parts of the city. F ght substitute platform men of the Cnited Railroads were seriously injjred during the noting. Ollie Olson and Samuel Marks of Chicago were nea'en by stnke sympathisers. I Their su'..'s v.re fractured and both i men may die. O'hers badly hurt in the rif't weie Henry Kroit, of Jersey City, F.verett Baird and Henry Krause , if fhirago, sa l W. A. Edwards of New York. All are strikebreakers. Raird was waylaid by a score of dtrikers who hid in doorways after P'-'m" n obstruction on the track and blocking baird's car. The strik- . ., , , , ... ers earned Uaird to a saloon and there b-at him. John Murphy, a strikebreaker from New York, entered a saloon and withou "arning "tarlect to shoot the n . . ! icunv envrrccea Ajmi , Ki,ltd Thom E Near Lafayette, June 4. (Bt la lutlruiaul Veins erelcct I.APAYETTE, Inil., Sept. 7. William Ashby, 32, succumbed to an allnight third degree by the police, and sheriff, early today confessing he killed Thomas E. Sense, owner of a taxlcab line west of Lafayette, June 4. Sense's head was crushed with an axt and hi ntoaey and tavjeab vara stolen. Ashby haa a criminal record, police aay.
JURIST LISTS TEN " REASONS WHY MEN LEAVE THEIR HOMES
) Ike ler"-Ml WKi Snefcv.) CHICAGO, Kept. 7. There are at least ten good reasons why men leave home, Judge Stelk, of the Domestic Relations court, outlined them for two hundred and fifty women in a church meeting today. His lists mother-in-law and father-in-law. money, or lack of it; young marriages; desire to "sport around after marriage;" lack of home trailing on the part of young girls; Improper training permitting them to become loose in morals; card parties and shopping crazes: argument over who is boss, and bestowal of mole attention upon children than husbands. WOMAN IS ROBMKD. Wife of Pish Market Owner. Robbed of Nearly t'M en the Street. ,.; Ifti- : tiol.i.ul ! Mfi'l'i'f.l CHIC AliO, September 7. Mi
Anna Shuger, wife (1 a tieh market -owner, was robbed of $4!:t by high-; mv waymen early today us she was re- j Pub turning home with the market ; , ceipts. A cloth was thrown over her- j hoad and her sti-uggles were -a..il i overcome. Mrs. Shuger's face v. a.-j1'"'" hadlv stiatchi-d. T
- Death Knell of the Cabaret Sottnrled Other Reforms are Planned. lfl llf afeiimreiMl Aci,- K(f l'-r. CHICAl'.O, September 7.--Chn fig" to engatre in a general hou -"-cean- ! inir. accordinir to hii'.cery mtere.ts and retailers who v they , ported by the i.sls of lib element o and the bette i I he plan soumis i the cabaret and th 1 Crewer a!.- ay th Segregatiu hall and the f dancing in linU" turn of tiieatr:ca the stage. 1 Ridding the saloi tares and a reilu, t f its had fe f the numb 1 iiscon inuance of hack i quest lonahle character. Confining music ti houses than null permanent eating -fH. then only hy ot(he;ras c, including obtainable mer gardeus, only general superintend1 Members of the I Tit of pel association on the houserl-amng ! after several months of close mi t lance of cabarets, this w,,rk h ; been in the hand.- of ex pert dete. I Their report ,ho,nd that "m 'i:e cabarets in t hicago are vie hut to effective!;.- top the al.u ; lici n.se and privilege. ;,H ,,f tiiem he wiped out. Approximately l.fiiiO Chicago I loons will go out of business nex , vember ! of war : . t It is estimated that be at least '-'.bill! addition! II go out f business bv l'f'8 present total of i will he reduced I I The House Grapples With Measure That I'ares Much Opposition. j WASHINGTON, September 7. j The house, speeding up after months 'of "waiting for the sunate." took up I today the soldiers' and sailors' insurance bill. 1 ot,. k i The measure is not scheduled for easy going in tne lower branch. Members of both big parties are avr.wedly against it. They do no regard the bill as a war necessary. Representaa minority report opposing the measure and other members of the house Interstate commerce committee, say
i- Unit Chicago's .- saloons soon y at least one-half.
JAKESUPSOLDtERS'AND
SAILORS' INSURANCE B
they have never stood back of the 'Henry Hrasheurs, of New Albany, j CHICAGO. September '.-Wm. terday afternoon completed the exmeasure, but did nut oppose it in ! Ind., ia uniier indictment here today 1 Hauke, a painter who was to have left ', amination of yesteniay's fifty-five
committee, as they believed it would ba useless. It is practically assured that the bill will pass, as the- president is behind it and bas urged its enactment into law.
HEATING RATES ARE INCREASED FOR THE SEASON
j State Public Service ComI mission Announces I Decision. jNEW RATE WILL BE I INCREASE OF 5 CENTS Is Merely Temporary antl Due to Increased Cost of Operation. Pat i n of the ior;ll heating piant .ie for the service !- .... . . ..t ,l--l-.nl-d and i l toi:d down. Ver Mick flj uiiraine. the .lel''cr
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r,...vers Member of Marine Corps Aruiv, i'l-i rived Home This Morninu ., tlv,.u I ' i urn liaininu amp. e, all
Mali .stationed at Pans I..ing unexr vcfr-l lough before re Norfolk. Mr, phvsical conditi Work. He doe 1,'s assifcrnment splen.li v ing hi ill iie. DIED THIS MORNINi; Ie Dauiihler of Lawrence I FMiired Today.
ILLsx. IHIo. died a'
and .Mr-. Pearl sir and thir' e of tw baby hs the entenary Methods Short funeral services will be at the home at 1J:UH o'clock So the Rev. C. A. Parkin oflinatn.i sistt-d bv Dr. Weikman. of : Rend. The bodv will be take, ( rawford.sviiie immediately afte funeml here where another si will be held from the First (V church at 2:30 p. m. Burial will Oak'Hill cemetery at Crawford I, J. Pierce was instructor i outh the seventh and eighth grades at the Central building last year, lie has recently accepted a position as mstruct((r jf) lh(. ,,.lf.iyett, hll(h 8,hoo IIOOS1F.K I NDKR ARKKST. BOWLING GRKF.N, Ky Sept. i lor the murder of Jtrs. Margaret Cherry, whose body was found in the river with a heavy stone tied to her jncek. Mrs. Cherry, a widow, left her horn June 20, announcing that she I was going to be married.
THE APPORTIONMENT.
Agricultural Department Makes Division of Good Roads Fund. IffW le menulMil .Vera gtvvirr.f WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.-The department of agriculture today announces! the apportionment of 5r0.lK)O among the several states as the thiid allotment of the $,!,ito,tMi() good roads fund. Texas with $.M7fi,- !(! receives the largest sum while Delaware with 124.4 1 !.!! receives the smallest share. The apportionment is for the fiscal year ending June and is the third distribution ..f federal good roads money The following upjMirttonments are wle: Alaba m;i 40; Ark.i $:ti:i,l."'t;; Arizona slli, JJ.VI.OIS; Cal ;..'.s.i:i: oklah.. ! I SJ.47 1 : Illinois, i ' lii-'i.L' iO; l-wa. MJo.iiii; Kentuc 1 1! 10? P.I .iH l Apresses His Admiral ion Over the American Troops Kvieued by Him. ' HY N. C. I'.Mlbil ' I IK! i IIK.UKil AIM i:i!S TDK , .A MKIH' ' V N ARMY IN HIAM I'-, i s. ..,.,: , i; -.(ltelaye.1 in trann".snarkeil the of ,n,uh ti , CONTINUED ON PAGE FO'JR. , CONCLAVE OF LABOR ; INTERESTS PROPOSED British Labor Party Stiogrsts Meetinu to Take Place of Socialist Conference. Pi.AI KPOOL, I'.ng.. I laha.r party ti national conci f the propose rl inter iie at idea 'll Wide llioong the ib legu'es li ' ion congress. It is ur Arr'nur Hender-on. fori of the Prilish governme tary of the labor party. g'lfc the COl'PLE FOl'Np DEAD. Chicago Man. Drafted For Army, and: His Hride. Commit Suicide. I (0, I. faier.aMM.1 .Vrir. Sw-Hcr.l I for service in the national army , Rockford today, and his eighteen-ear-old bride, were found dead in their home on North Talmsm avenue today, victims, the police say, of r suicide pact.
TWEHTY-flNE MORE NAMES CERTIFIED TO LOCAL BOARD
District Board Announces Action in Several Cases. LIST OK THE NAMES CERTIFIED TODAY Fviniinatiun of Loral Conscripts j Comes to a Close ! Temporarily. twenty-one ified by the f..r military Thorntown, R. K. .'., Lebanon, It. iyi. Sheridan. It. ., Lebanon R. R. . Lebanon. ie, Leban R, Kleinlienz. I.eb. i ni'oo.1, Wbite.sto Cvrkett. Whites en K.liimel. Lei: n were examined bv beard this morning, i's ca'led list of ennil be the b,-t examinhoaid calls for more th. following I!. F. I). 1. on R. F. D. -. Terbune. eban. n K. F. D. .1. ;on.-,ville. men w ho passed and Advance!!. F. D. 1. i, Jame.-town. Lebanon. Advance p. F. I), t. ,on,Ml!o R. F. I. 2. art Lebanon. , Thnrnton. Lebanon. Tin rntown R. V. 0. .-r. Iianon. i R. F. D. I'. II. 2.-. ul Woiiand. re.-t Chamb. nice. Leban. ih. Is-banor !!e,st,,,l i. K. F. I). 9. R F. I). 9 R. F. Kdwar Tarry rr.-.i,lie Sciwi, k, Sberoian. K. F. I), 1. Ri.hard Walt,'. Sheridan, R. F. I). 1.11. Krne-t Koun.s, Ros-don. 'Jarence Harding. Zionsville. Frnest Wiggins, Zion.-ville. T examin.ltiim oT f,)Ur mfn Te3. at j called men. Vasco Dodson, Lebanon, was rejected, George Gregg of 7aimsville, and Dtlbert Walton of Advance, R. F. D. 1, passed ond filed no claims, and James K ill ion of Lebanon passed I and filed an exemption claim.