Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 25, Number 299, Lebanon, Boone County, 15 September 1917 — Page 1

SHiEOFF ATLANTIC COAST

S. 0. S. Call Received From Ship Not Far from U. S. Coast. ATTACK REPORTED BY BRITISH SHIP Vessel Arriving at American Port, Tells of Wireless Call for Help. R thr (rrfi'.iml V.,rj SVrre-r. I AX ATLANTIC PORT, Septembei lft. A Hntmh stesurcr aimed lu-ir from an Italian port reported thai yestc-day nooning 't received a wii-e-loss S. (. S. front u vessel giving he: position a sixty-'iv? miles east of Nantucket-, saying: "Attacked by submarine .sb'U fire.' The name of the ship attacked di-' not come clear, only the word "Abby,'prcsunihry the last half of the nan-e, being caught. There are a number of vessels, -h sail and, steam, now in the Atlantic trade, having the word "Ahby" a a part of their names. Additional information that a sub marine was in the western Atlantic was brought by another British liner, whieh arrived here today from an England port. Officers of the lineRaid they had been instructed to wi.t.-h out for U'-twats when nearing the American coast. WITHOUT INFORM ATION. Navy Department Had no Direct Won) as to l"-boat Attack. illd fAe KiiirMHMtil AVir Srrfr.t " WASHINGTON". .September 15. The navy itcpartmrnt today was without any information whatever indicating the presence of submarines off the American coast. No report had been made rcguiding the reported picking up of a wireless dispatch from a vessel giving her position as "fto miles east of Nantucket," saying that it had been attacked and shelled by a submarine. Officials of the navy department mere inclined to look on the menage as a hoax. Klaborate precautions have been taken by the ctrnmanders of the anti-submarine vessels on duty off the New Yok and New Englan coasts to guard againrt any surprise attack ami official say that any suh mor,aage would have been picked up by the patrol fleet and immediately investigated. The fact that no report has been made to Washington leads the official to believe that no such incident took place. GENERAL KORNLOFF HAS Bi Petrograd Dispatch Tells of His Arrest and That of His Aides. IB fA fnttrnatpntnt Itrvit Strplt.) LONDON, September lo.-tieneral Korniloff. leader of the military revolt or Russia and his chief adherents, have been arrested,, said a dispatch frr,ni I'etrngrad today. An advance into Austrian territory resulting in the captuie of four towns, was reported by the military nu- ' notifies. W1LLTEACH J!U JITSU 10 HAN TIPS tl Ide IntrrnalnKll Sm RerH't.) .SA.V FRANCISCO. Sepu.mtr 15. The soldiers r-f the I'niied States arc to receive a thorough eoure in the Japanese art of jiu jitsu. Allan S. Smith has been commissioned by the government as Instructor. He bus recently returned from Tokio with the "black belt," an honor corresponding to the heavyweight title In America, oHumnn to move. ! INIHA'ArOU;. Ind, Peifcrnb-r l-V-Iha Ind.ra Natiin.l f.unrd r,tt ji ipf ri n . it I of 1.1 r. ,

VUCKY COWBOY FINDS STORE OF OLD SPANISH COIN IN HOLLOW JREE (Its Tftc tntcrrwtumal aVi? Brrrtee.) PHOENIX, Ariz., September 15. While hunting stray cattle northwest of Solomnnvillo, in Oaham county, Joe W'alsoy, a cowboy, saw a tree from which the handle of a shovel protruded, lagging 4tiw-loicrt an iron box containing old Spanish gold coin and gold vessels 3aid to be worth $400,000. STREET CAR STRIKE.

Traffic k( Danville. I II inn is (nmes to a Stand. till. ifi? the Ihlrrnntinnnl Ww tsrrfre.) DANVtU.K. II!., Se;.tem,-r !?- Oprtirm of stret cars on th Dan illc street oar sytom wa.J entirely Ui'ivnded today whn coi.iiucfoi a nnti mflormt-n walked out in a genrr.il strike. The stivt enr c-mji-t-yf-i are 'Ipir.ardirijr incrensr.s in .vij?e ani rpcoirnition of th"ir union. Th .treM: -rir company, it v.:-j r.n nouncfHl, will mnkp no atfni.t to ptsIp cars until the s'rtke u sftttH Thf company ha.-i rvfii.-t-j To irmnt vatr increase:., claiming that it ha twice rni-i) whs within a yv-.tr :nl that DanvilU' carmen hit ikii1 hiptifi wajjPs than ?Uwncrf in Illinois. Thaverage wace is da i;f nirti Ilayonet Drilling at Field Headquarters to he I'nder Their Tutelage Next Week. BY NEWTON" C. PAliKK. tRy Inlrrmt K'Hii, .V.r. fit ri.-o yiy.uj i;KAtigi"Aii"i::i. (of the American uimy in France.) yepteinber lu. ilcirinninff next weel; the iitmie" will bei-'in grftinj; b..i on. t instrwtion by native-born Amerii-ans. (Hitheilo, bayonet instnirti.m has been under the direction of Hi itish j and French officers. F'ive Americans, attached to the , raiuvtian forces, have arrived from t "' I they will be shon inir the Anv-i icant j how- to go after the (icrmans with the cold steel. All were former mem-1 ber of the "American legion," which J waa nearly wiped out in the savage fiKhting around Vimy Rids;e and else where on the front. Anions the nev, ly hi rived instruc tors is a major who was a former esident of Portland. Oieirnn, and a lieutenant from Florida. The first I knew- that I was ifoini; to help train the "sammics" whs when I received word to report to American headquarters in Paris," said the major. "I was so Rlad to see the boy that 1 ot up at bMKl o'clock in the morninjr to betrin try joiMn-y, although 1 had only two hours sleep, j They are certamly a fine looking lot. i Along the Hritish front, the counting upon the Americans to do a great deal." Many rumors are spreading amnny the Canadians tegaroing the st-,x ot the American fortes an. the pn.hsh'e position they will lae on the b itt;e line. Many Canadian soldiers are hoping that the Americans will be put nlongM.le of the British. Two Canadian omoer were irjct,. of General W illiam I,. Kihert at dinner lust night. The prooi.cel maps ,.f tie lena district and explained t! e fiirht f in that rone. The American units recot'Iy ti:.ineo under the Frerw h chasseurs b;ve p;irrhaaed fap- to be pre. onto.) in ..heir former instructors. Tales of the excrllent treatment kccorde.1 ihc Pumn.ies winch ate m.-i.-ing Switzerland led one Swiss newspaper to print a jocular article on the subject. According to this humorous story. American 'igents are offering Swiss workmen fii.lXSI a yenr to work behind the American front. The men are to be isolati d. but in compensaiton for this they are to be theaters and bars with beautiful women aerving us barmaids. PASSED WAR ROND BILL. Senate Adopts Measure Without Dissenting Vote, 0-K (AC Sntgrnmtimnl ffeiri Serrice.1 WASHINGTON, September 15 Without roll call or dissenting vote ; ffJi' "r 'bZ74P"'l b e.-- t money fie American ,

CENTRAL FSS CONCEDE NOTHING IN THEmREPLIES Entire Note to the Pope Characterized as Verbal Fencing.

PAN GERMANS IN A FIGHT FOK LIVES Make No Conces.iion to the Liberals Will Precipitate Hitter Strife. BY JOHN I'D WIN' NEVtX. Illf 1hr rni.-iO.,a trg fcvrrlre.) iA.-HI.NGTON. :--v.tvir.t..:r 15 The central porvers concede .lothinir in their note to the pope if Amsterdam outlines are correct -and they are considered to !w ncrordinj: to state department officials tislay. Pretending to m;-.ke concesifns officials characterize the entire jeply as veibal fenciriR. It will not make for pence in any way they say. But it v. ill have a powerful effect upon, the doliherations of the Reich.-iai? when it convents on Septemht r 26. tl-.'-y believe. T?sti'ncnv rej.rdinff idealim on its o-.vn part by the :erman (rovprnmer.t, coutded with reiteration of the iId denuind that tlie powers must irive serious evidence of the question whirh now separate the nations, increase the doubt of the sincerity of t!.e entire reply, officials say. ' Tc ri :ike matters worse, it is pointed out here that (lernan otlicial duplicity iKain is in evidence in the vacie retVr.'ees to a Htitih petice otfer which on me face of present conditions, could rnt have beer, n'adp. Features (f If. ply. j The outstanding features of the rer.lv. I If,, ials ti.te Is it 'i.ilnre n ,AnVr any fdnceions to the (icmar, lihern's. This is certain to niecii.itale 'he most title- pailiamentary stiue'e "' '"'"nan his ory wt,en the Keichf:ig meets, o:r,cwr :-av. the cla.m .if siV.-ei.ini- vi.-t.HM-s on land an.) plli w:,, which the neac adveatos h.-n-e been lulled to sleep in the past, not serve thii time, into-.TCMinn rea-lvn; th stite doI'itioiK'iii ;o.i.i rri..un unimH-acn-ahlo sources, conclusively ,h'iw that the pan-American clen:rnt is to fight for its life confi-otitpd by positive utatcmonts from the (leiinan liberal.that ti e bureaucrats have ecmpletely deceiv.d the people. With the assembling of the Reichstag important militaiy movement will he undertaken by the allies on all fronts. They will be timed for their effert on German sonfment. Their effect will be greatly aided by reali'.ati'm in Germany that the embargo m Ck.,,-Tt n,,H m,,nuinnu l-,l,l 1.. ,h, vu(f, int ihnff w , . . . ir,lvi r. effeetive. The broad rruid through , ,- vve.ien over wr.ich all sorts or suppi, cs have poured has been closed b I ihc action of the I'nited States in ;-.h:oir.g the spotlight on activities of , 'he Getnian subsidized Swedish offi'ci.'ils. Holland and Ijenmark, and even fiwitzerhmd have shut down on al! j.-upn!-. r to Germany. The inevitable j revolt n u t r,e depres-ing on id! Ger- ; rnan... .tiO;-:,. p- intcd out to.hy. Wh' ; ,1-c-e will t- additional . si-.veoi ii , j .si. ,'H. iletjends i pon rircuicstafee--.. oftu said today. Neither Sfcrvuiy I..ir:.-iig ..r his n.-si tia.it v.- juld oi c . -s the varir.us reports I'nv.'-vn-g d:-ior..aU in the I'nited jHilll.es. I I'KOBK .SHOOTINt;. j )rtrctite Try lo Find Person Who Fired on a Troop Train. . tmientHumnl Xcwt acriicc.! i-TKI.'BI'.NVMXE. O., Septeinher 1 15. Scores of detectives were torlay .'5, nir.K iios uoii i-r tue iieruon or persona who hist night fired upon a troop carrying United States regitla.s, as it wis passing throuph Min-go-junction, wouniling four aoldien. one serious'y. The theory was hId this morning by th police that the act was thut of an insane man. rather than a delitn-r-ate attemnf to injure the soldiers, I They -r sure there n cuM Ire an arrest before the day is over. swtr,! MivrsTFK mum. l-.-T' scd r

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3AND1TS FAIL IN THEIR ATTEMPT TO ROB BANK Vault Withstands All Efforts to Penetrate it Randiln Make Escape. 3 th nfrrNtiriORa! Xctri Kercics.; CAMP FUVSTON', Kas., September IS. Threa bandits stood off cit izens of Milf .rd, ten miles northeast of here for four hours early today in m effort t", .scu iO.'ViO from the ault of the State hank. The bank builHmtr was wrecked by 'J-C tuuige of nitroglycerine. Scores of shots were fired in the bat tle and at least one of the bandits is believed to be wounded. Seeing their attempts to reach the currency were futile, the bandits escape.! on a motor handcar which they abandoned two miles from town. Thousands of soldiers from Camp Funston joined sheriffs' posses in an attynpt to head off the bandits. German Counter Attacks Re pulsed Italians Achieve Greatest Victory. AN AMERICAN PORT September 15. American destroyers rushed to the aid of an unidentified steamer when it a attacked by submarine sixty-five miles east of Nantucket yesterday, according to the captain of a British steamship this afternoon. The captain declared that his wireless operator got the call for assistance, but that the ltrilish shipping rules prevented him from going to the aid of I he steamer. IB) Itrsoflmiol .Yens ffrtief.l LONDON, September 15. British positions east of Westhock. on the West Flanders front, were Improved during the night, the war office announced today. The Germans made a counter attack northeast, of St. Julian, where the British had gained ground on Friday, but it broke down under the British fire. North of Tjirgeinarrk the Gorman lines heavily, (All of the points mentioned in the official statement are in Belgium.) ' Capture of the crest of ML San Gabriel by the Italians han been announced. The full of ML San C.abrielo follower! close on the taking by the Italians of the hill of Pol and the Gargiro basin. The achievement of their objective marks the greatest ektoi-y ef the ItaJu'.n arm since the wrar began, not only because of the difficult conditions under which the tronps v era forced to 'i I ! he "- ) e f t . hrtt H'eit - i

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HONOR ROLL List of Those Wfco Have Recently Paid Subscriptions la Adtance. Ili rdis Bmwn, Advance. Audio Ihlt. R. H, City. C. y. Payton, New Koss. Carl Perkins, It. 9. City. A. Wysong, Uosstou. J. E. AshwoW, Advance. C. A. atangus, Jnn cstown. W. J. Wwd, Vi, fciiii:t. Flank Woods, Virginia. .M s. II. H. i all. It X, City. P. Cunningham, R. 1", City. Bert Necs,,, t ny. Guy Cox. U. VI. Ciiy. Rev. A. W. (ash, Kln.mth - Omer Green, R. It. City. C. H. Cross, Michigan. Orv-ile Miller, ft. , City, Clara Cranford, Trafalgar, K. A, Tiicmpson. She. i-tan. C. H. Saunders. R. -1, City. S. K. Runess, Ro,--ton. l.uiy Henderson, It- 9, City. W. J. Rhodes, Thointown. 1-'. L. Rutlcr, Advance. I!. G. Herr, Kc.itucky. lianicl Wines, li. 0, City. W. A. lane, Kokomo W. M. Kndrcs, R. in. Ci'y. Nclle Jackson, Clinton. Jesse r.rT. Zionsville. C. F:. .McClintoek, Ma.-,sachu.ietts. Mary Mahan, Jluncie. M. A. Fulwidcr, Advance. Carl Bralton, Whitetown. A. T. Perkins, R. 8, City. K. D. Worrell, ft. 2, City. ( Iiffvrd White, Advance. A. A. Maggard, R. Vi, City. G. Hedges, Tone Haute. Clara-McKein. R. 11. City. S. T. Atkins. R. S, City! Ho'lie ii.cvei;. R. 11, City. Millard Wampler, R. 10, City. Andrew Stewart, R. ti. City. Mary Smith, R. ID, City. R. R. I.al'olictte. Illinois. A. B. Iluckstep. North Salem. Von Hindcnhurg Will I'se Bulgarians and Turks in the i Air Service. lily Ihf I. lln,i.,SU, .i,r. Sr. .1. I AMSTFHDAM. Sept., l.r..-Ger many has begun preparations to meet the great air offensive which the al'ies -ire expected to launch when America gets fully in the war. It was learned today that Von ilindenbutv la pl-in-ning to use many young Bulgnrmmand Turks in the German air service on the western front.. Already fifty Turkish and Bulgarian officers are be ing trained at the German military aviation school near Ostend. stkikf: spRF;Ans. fel'RINCFlKU), IIL, September 15 Two hundred meat cutters am,1 butchers joined the ranks of returning barbers tins morning in Spring lield'igeneral strike. W h.-ther the capitulntiun of the tw .rafts) t the enteritis? wedge of i -ttv-wide retcimntion of i-.:iu- tci- tl

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The Greal AUTOMOBILE BANDITS ROB BANK OF $7,000 Held l'p Entire Town in Michigan, Illew Hank Safe and Escaped. tHy thr tnlti Sfl'H.wnl ,Vir s, .ict.l BATTI.K CIU.KK, Mich., Scpiem(wr IS. Six automobile banditsdioxe into the little town of Climi.it flxut 12 miles "outjt of Battle CrecV. in Kalamatoo county, esti- this . .- ing, cut all wires, held up the villagers and blew open the safe at the State Bank, making a getaway with $7.IHH). It is believed the iron escaped by way of Athens. Cars full of armed ofheers are .-ouring ull roads ins.ithtern Michigan, but no trace of the bandit machine has yet wen repotted. The bandits worked an hour and ised four charges of dynamite in Wowng open the safe. Conditions in Government Print Shop Beint? Prohed by Committee. BY HOMF.R JOSEPH DOPCE. (t rS rslersstiosal Kurt SVrctce.i WASHINGTON, September 15. A thorough investigation of conditions in the big bureaus of engraving and printing is in progress. Prelimnary reports of the revelations the ommitlee already ha.-, made are alleged to be of a sensational nature. The investigating committee is corn-1 io. e.1 of Oscar T. Crotliy, assistant ' .ecre'.ary of the treasury in charge ( if fiscal bureaus; Oscar Price, pub-1 'icitv director for the Liberty Loan. I md James I.. W ilmeth, chief clerk of he twastiry department. The activities of the high oflici.-ils f the bureau are under inquiry. The' -ommit'ee is studying not only labor -onditiona in the burcm, but the enire administration from the director's) kvffiec down. Use of metals, paper. nk.-, and many other expensive maerials utilized in the making of high ?ra.le postage stamps, t-urrea. y and eeurities is being investigated. A int-liniinary report on conditions ilresdy has been laid before Secretary if the treasury MeA.luo. I WW is sant ;o contain recommendations for weeping changes in the personnel ind general management methods of he nig i-'hop. One feature of the Investigation in the alleged waste of materials used n the manufacture of the Liberty '.oan bonds. U is claimcil that thoustiids of nVillars worth of costly government bond ha lrf-en w-asteii as the -exult of incffKicnt work. It was adnitUd at the treasury department tolay that therfl has be"n waste, van due, however, oftxialB tlaiui ho fact that the rush of wi r.ecosMtv to employ in PI, i end d:.'

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WiLLGO TOt TAYLOR SEP! 'll Local Conscription I3iari Gives Out Names of Next Quota. LIST NOT QUITE COMPLETED TODAY A Few More Men to be Secured Before Quota of 66 is Completed. I ' The names of sixty-four out of thn sixty-siv men who are scheduled to go to Camp Taylor, Louisville next Saturday as forty per cent ot ttoono county's qJota of drafted men, wer );iven out today by the local conscription board. These men have been notified to apm-ar at the court house at 2:00 o'clo. k Friday afternoon to report to the board, und they are to leave on the !):Wi o'clock Big F'nar train for the Camp Saturday mnrnlnif. The men called a e ix-.Uested to bring suit cases and ills.) to provi.lo themselves with high top slioes, aa the government is short in this department. The government recommends broad tan shoes as the best for servico and comfort. The names of the other two men w ill probably be given out tomorrow. The fact that t!ie .Usliict boaid has not certified to the IochI bonpt sufli.ient nnmes from which to choose the uuota of Wl men has made it necessary for the board to ask for volunteers among the drafted men. Hie list given out today Is subject to change and correction. It is an follows: Ralph Sb..e. R. R. il Sheridan, James Walter Mullen, Lebanon. Char!. Fields, Jamestown, l a'jiel Frvin Swope. R. R. fl i" .- nou. Chester Ivell, Lclmnon Charlee O. Seay, Lebanon. Herman Warren. R. K. lfi Thointown. Clarence Karl Hays, K. R. 21 Sheridan. Allen Oliver Wills, R. R. It TehRalph J. Harvey, Zionsville, Gemge Irvin Utterbak. Zinnsvillo. Merl Marltlnnd, WhiU-slown. Volna Boy Stray, Lebanon. Riley Sylvester Dodson, Whitestown. Irvin Ernest Worrell, R. R. 10 Lebanon. F'rai.k Robison. Terhune. Richard I. Dnmpier, Lebanon. Forest Ix-e t',,ar., B, R. 4 Tnorntown. Virgil Raymond Carr, Zionsville. . f!arl McDowell F'raley, Lcbanctt. Virgil Brouhard, Zionsvilie. Roscne IncotM-lli, lharicn. Clyde Franklin Robinson, R. R. 2 Lebanon. Henry Howard Swinrfler, R. R. 2 Jamestown. Buell West Dole, R. R. 24 Jurrv ttown." Firm H. Highland, R. R. IS Ubnnon. Charles Nelson Bush, R. R. 7 Lebanon. Velda Emerson Clery, Iebsnon. Paul Revore Honan, Lebanon. David Sharp, K. R. 'H Rosston. . William M. Kiener, Ibanon. .'athan Adolph Woody, Thorntown. John Livings Brindle, R. R. 14 LeitPoy Fairfield, Thointown. Jf.oph Phillip LaBolle, Ivebnnon. Leo Martin Far roll, R. R. 2 Lcbonon CONT1NL Kf) ON PAGE THKER URUGUA SEIZES EIGHT i GERMAN MERCHAfiTf.IN Break Between the Two Countries Imminent as a Result Of Their Act. (Rtf !ft Intermattonai Tine Ber&et.i PL'ENOS A1RRS. Septernher 15. A biealt b.twen Uruguay and Germany is Imminent today as a result of the seiiure of eight German merchnos ships by the Uruguayan gnvernoii n'., according to word from Monteviijo. It ! The vessels, all of which were intern ed, have a total tonnage of 4 ,""

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