Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 25, Number 301, Lebanon, Boone County, 18 September 1917 — Page 1

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THE REPORTER IS THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPArER IN BOONE COUNTY. WEATIIEII LL LLJL . Fair tonifthl and probably W day; little change In temperature. I. i. 4e. , .VOLUME 25. LEBANON, INDIANA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1917. NO. 301.

EZRA M. IfflE

SUICIDE R FOUNDDEAD TODAY Evidence Indicates He Had Been Dead Since Last Friday. (IAS JET WAS TURNED ON IN THE KITCHEN Jayne Pound Sitting in a (hair With Gas Tube in Kiiiht Hand leaves a Letter. Ezra M. Jayne. well-known Lebanon shoemaker, was found in the kitchen of his resilience on the corner of F.lizaville avenue and North Meridian street thin morning, with every evidence his having committed suicide by inhaling gas. Jayne had been a user of drugs foi yearn, and it is said that lately their use hud begun to affect him more than usual. It seems that no one had seen him since Friday evening, when he was talking to a neighbor. At that time he did not seem despondent, but friends stated that he had told them that "sometimes he felt so queer that he felt like committing suicide." Sift r ts in known he had no financial nor domestic troubles. Hit wife, who has been in poor health, hat been visiting relatives in Muncie for the past two weeks. Employer Investigate. Jayne waa employed in the C. T Ruchanon shoe repairing .shop. Mir employer had become worried abou' him so this morning he decided to in vestigate. He went with Ora Kills police chief, to the home of Mr. Jaynr about 9:00 o'clock. The house we.locked, but entrance was affected bj means of a ladder and an upstairs window. The rooms were filled with gat fumes. Jayne wat found in the kitchen, sitting in a chair with his feet propped up on the gas hot-plab with t gas tube in his right hand The gat waa (till pouting out of th tube. The gas was shut off and the hou opened. Mr. Jayne held a Friday evening't newspaper in his left hand He was bloated froti the effects of thr gas. ' Coroner Investigates, Coroner Brendel was railed and Mrs Jayne waa notified. When the coroner arrived, a search was made through the clothing of Jayne. A small bottle of nitric acid was found The bottle was full. An envelope wat found instructing his employer to send its contenta to the address on the in side. The opinion was general that the suicide waa committed Friday evening after 7:00 o'clock. The light in the room was burning. Mr. Jayne was about sixty-onr years of age. He had been marriei twice. He is turvived by hi seconr wife, Emma, and by three sisters anr two brothers. He came to this citv eight years ago from Columbus, Ind. to which city he had moved from Sheridan. He had been in the shoe repairing business nearly all of In? life. No funeral arrangements had been made this morning. CHICKS, DOGS, CHILDREN HRING DIVORCE SUIT i fly the nreriiifK,i!j( .Wirt Nm trr. I FORT SMITH. Ark . Sopombcr IS Charging his wife allowed chickeni to roost in the kitchen and dogs tf raise puppies in the bed, and that h kfj.t ridiiliU ill "lit- n'll.vl- lllll! BMOWl-l! them to ilie there, Fred Will-ford has filed suit for divorce. Mrs. W illeford represented to him before their mar riage she had but three children by former marriage, but she really had many more, and they threatened tc kill him, is also charged by the husband in the petition. The W'tllefordr were married last January. WAST TO ENLIST BOYS LONDON', September 18. German boys of th age of 15 are invited to join the German ran', affording to a dispatch received her today from Swim source.

COMMITTED

INHALING CAS CHICAGOAN TRAVELS OVER 10,000 MILES TO ENLIST IN NAVY I fly thr Inlrritiitinml eirt Seerirr. I CHICAGO, Sepember 18. After i trip of 10.OOU miles, Wright Patterson presented himself at the recruiting office of Great takes naval training station today and asked to enlist. I'utterson. whose home is in Chicago, worked his way home from Sydney, Australia, aboard u sailing vessel in order to join the navy. COMMITS Sl ICITE One of Oew of German 1'-float Itoutrhland lakes Hi Own life. (fly tt rif'rnar. IJAI.TIMOUK, fiottoi.i Prusse, tf thf (ierman s land, winch mail? 1 New I.orwlon, Gu mat Vfwj tfnu e. i September W. it? of the flesiK"'!' i-imarine 1 "eut.-wh-rips t't tin city arxl n., fonunittt'il ,-uiciti in the pity jail her-- tolay bi hanjfinic hiui.-otf with a belt in hi.celi Piu.-se came to Haltiriinr to ac as poet enKint'iT in the umierseu sri vice. Ho wa ent to jail Wauv b violated hi purnle by leaving th barrel r.me. William J. Kryan Substitutes "Fight to a Finish for "Peace at Any Price." By the Itrniio4l Vnri Rmre. CHICAGO. September IS. "Pence it any price' today has hen stricken :rmn the cotle of William JeniunifBryan and "fiht to a finish" has substituted. Speaking before the annual convention of the International r yeuin assr":af ion Bryan )( a r-l 'The qjicke.-t way out jf tr- war :.- itraijjnt thrti;ph." Hp branded pacifists as "pi motors of anarchy." "Any itr.i.Mn or djsru.-.-ion now," Rryan asserted, "would .-simply proonjf the war and make it more ro-ti n lives and treasure, and the m r inxiouly ne desires peine the nioie irmly he xru.uM support the povernuent in the quirkt way of a.-urintf peace. "i will not rfUcuss the cau.-,e.-. of .he war. I care not what caused the government to declare war. Once the government hat acted it is th" duty yf every citizen to EDI Officials Deny Existence of Reported Device Mr. Edison's Work. (fly the ;i.li.i...;eil V...WASHIMiTON, s, ,te: I'ublished reports that ' iCilison has lerfected a de lecting toipedws from v sme as news to navv dei e- lii -r.niaA. for dr eour::'' !m..nt oficials today. The statement that such a device had Teen installed on several destroyer, md on at least one trans-Atlantic Im r was without confirmation. ldi.non 'ong ago abandoned any plan:; he may ave had for fighting torpedoes, navy lepartment officials asserted. ITie eletrical wizord is convjpred 'hat the solution of the suhmarine nenace lies not in fighting the I,'boat at close quarters, but in avoiding and escaping them. The shipping .ward has come to share this view and is a result it has ordered that none but speedy ships be built in future for '.he government-owned merchant murine. While details and specific information on inventions now being perfected by Edibon are withheld by oflirials of the nay department, it may be laid that the inventor it standing hii Hopea on a new system of camouflage This system of painting in combination with other devicet upon which Ellison it working will make American -nipt practically iavttibl to tubmtrine at very short rungs. ,

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Foreign Legion Distinguished Itself by its Bravery. TWO AMERICANS WERE WOUNDED Exciting and Thrilling Experi ence Tld by Americans Who Escaped. i:y h. walk. PARIS, September .1 tHy "tail tXew York. September 18.) AKvav in the thick of the tiirhtine, the American contingent of the foreign legion played an important part in the advance on Verdun on Augti-t 21, during which two Americans. Ivan K. M-ck, of Ha'timore. and Marius Phillips, of San Francisco, were wound,! by -hfl! hie. At the hospital the ivn wr told that their wounds were flight ind that they would he out .(gain in about a month. This vas the ..ecnnd time Meek has been wounded w:thin two rnt-nth.-., having been struck in the head by a rihV ball in an earlier engagement. From participants in the battle it i. gathered that the b gionV losse., wer very -light, albeit their attack resulted in a splendid success. At 20 minutes to ." o'clock in the morning the order wat giv n to go over the top. Th" legion had been assigned to t;:ke ive ob-jritiv.-s and was given 4."t hours in hich t carry them. Inside of thirty i.Oiiis all had be.n attained and the "foreign devils" as the t.ermai-.- call them, were preying onward into territory that exposed them to dangnrs from, their own artillery fne. It was nfter the day's work had hern ''cleaned up" and th" legi n e.--tahlishetj mat ierman gun im placen:ent beyond the 1 jertives, that Mi'r wnundiil. Their .. mo.-t advanced ,,ki of their last obind Phillips were . !i linn crawl-d out .ion ards over an open held n establish an outpost in what had been a heavy guard emplacement evacuated only that morning by the 'armnni. Seek Shell Holes. The squad suc-eedul in getting intr the empl ent thrr Hi-man field batterv opened f,re on the shelter from a distance of :ui0 yards. The first shell demolished the r.mf on the shelter and the legiunaires immediately dashed out to seek protection in shell holes. The battery followed them up with three. inch shells, the second of which hurst ju.-t behind Meek and Phillips, throwing them flat and covering them with mud and dirt, A splinter caught the lialtnmorean in the right leg, while another hit Phillips in the feet, The dernans then opened up with gas shells. Neither of t,,e Anierieuns could move, but they had the presence of mind to put m their gas maks. They re-te, in their -hell holes durng the entire bfrmhardment. An aerono flew out from the French lines I began hovering over the (ierman buttery. Soon lug shells began to re thiough the air from the nch u in., and at the fourth round irn t hit 'i.'t- obtained and a .-how-ii n . ;,,,,( a fl,,w skyward, er ti " te inhardtnertt stieteder ng and picked up tlv wounded. The (ieinian i.-.i and most of the , 19 oar .-.Id bovs. ale was y had. 18 to NEW YORK WILL HAVE 1.200 DRAFTED POLICE ly Mr InlriH'lltuHitt fir Hrtvu-e.) NEW YORK, September 18. New York City's police will be so hard hit by the army draft that Commissioner Woods will usk permissions to add 1.200 men to the department. Of about 10,000 policemen in the city. 2,113 are of Hrnft Of thofe oligihla $M have been examined and 555 accepted. NOT OI T OF lA.N;Kft. I.MUA.N'APOI.IS, Ind., September 18. (iovernor (Goodrich is not out of danger, but he wat resting better today than he has for several days, and close friends expressed belief that he would conquer the typhoid fever. REJECTS t.EHMAN PROPOSAL. AMSTERDAM, September 18. Holland hat rejected Germany's proposal to tupply Holland with eoul in return for a loan, according to the TelffraaX.

AMERICAN WOMAN ONCE SLAPPED KAISER WILLIAM IN THE FACE

Iffy flif '"' Vwl Hrrrlet.) I'EOKIA, III., Sepember 18. Mrs. Christina Tropin, of Peoria, probably is th' on,y woman in America who ever slapped Kaiser Bill's fare. While a stuilent at a girl's boanlinsr school in Germany years ago Mrs. Tropitz and some othr girls passed tile- kaiser and his brother Henry on a road at Cassel. Wilhelm maile, t smart remark to the girls and they turned on the young ruler and his brother and (tave them a sound thrashing. "I grt in soverul good slaps on Wilhelm'.-. face before he took to his heels," raid Mrs. Tropitz. "He wa.- a vciy bad hoy." Nrs. Tropitz bus been in America yea;s and is now knitting socks for I'ncle Sam's sulitiers. TWO KILLED. Automobile Struck by I.. X. Train at Louisville. tie l,h.mmmt V.-... .V,iii,r.i I.OITSVII.I.K. Ky., September If. Jam (iriflitl.s, foreman fur Mason .- H.iuem'. eon'.i-uctora who are build ing Camp Taylor and Mrs. Sadie Wil ms, were killed here today when automobile in which they were rening fruni a i nadhiiuse was struck a l.om?v.l!e Nashville train. Mr. 1 Mrs. Jnsenh Schneidi r, passen gers in the automobile, were seriniisly injured. Report Received By Red Cross Indicate Thousands Are Dying of Starvation. I Ay (Ait faler.aHnnrl . rferrtes.) WASHINCTON, September 1R. Ketorts of terriiile suilering for wuri'. nf I'm d among the pei..des of wes ten Asiatic eoiintricj, in which thousands are dving from starvation, reached Ameiiean K .1 Cross head(juartcrs today from the American re:i"f riiinlnittce in that territory. Mo.-t di--tessing conditions provjil in A.sia Minor, rmeiiia, Syria iind poitions of Egypt. Accurate data fnrwarderl to headipiarters here shows that more than l.no.j.oou non-combatants have been exiled from their homes and nr. barely existing in reg:,,ns where selfsupport is practically impossible. Fatherless children make up a large percentage of tills aimy of sufferers. Chairman (lavison, of the pod ( rnss war council, deflated that the deaths of hundreds of thousands in the near eastern districts muld he prevented only through the heroic elforts of Ihe relief agencies now at work. In this field he said J2ll,0i0 is now being expended under the directirn of the American committee on Armenian and Syrian relief. Before Christmas the appropriation for sm h relief proimblv will he doubled. Will Demand a Formal Note from Ihe Gorman Government. tfltf the Interntitiimit Ketrt Keener.) ML'EXOS AlliE.S, September ls. Argentine was nearer a break with 'iermany today than it has been at any time. (lermany's action in notifying the Argentine minister at Ileriin that the (ierman government "regretted" Count Luxburg's action has not satisfied the Argentine governmen. Officials were conferring over the situation today. It is believed that Argentine will remand a formal men) and in the event that it is not forthcoming a break in diplomatic relations is inevitable. FINANCIER SUICIDES. NEW YORK, September 16AIfred R. Conkling. a prominent lawyer and financier, committed suicide early today by leaping from the fifth story of hit home to a courtyard in tht rear.' His body wat crushed almost to a pulp by the fall. No reason for hit act it known. Hit wife and one daughter are ttopptnjf at a resort on are Pacific canst, 'two other daughters art in tht Wiltf mountain.

DESIRE PEACE

Said to be Holding Secret Meetings to Consider Plans. BLACK DISASTER FACES GERMANY I'nless Peace Comes Soon Nation Will he Demoralized Beyond Repair. I tin the Intr, mil r AMSTERDAM. September 18. tlreat (Ierman banks and merchants are preparing to meet a financial and industrial crisis almost as serious as war itself after the world conflict ends. "Representatives of (ierman finances anil industry are holding freijuent secret tnertit.g many of them are spending fortunes in furth?rance of the peace pi'Mtactanda." said a dis- i patch froni a (cinian source today. It added: "The (Ionian captains of tinance anil indu.-tty see nothing but black disaster ahead unless Germany an enter a pc: ontoi Vltlll the next t Germany's fmeign trade is ptacti-i cally dead. In addition to her allies.1 Austria-Hungary, llulgaria and Tur-1 key, the only other countries with j which she has dealings are Holland. Denmark. Switzerland and Sweden. The central difficulty which is agitating German statesmen at this time i tm difhculty that will he encounter- j ed in getting raw materials in the re-j t onstruetion period All other problems facing Germany are .subsidiary to Hie establishment ' 'A her expi-rt trade; for raw materials are indispensihle to industrial employment, and demobilization is ditlicult and dangerous until euipli.-ynu nt is available for relumed soldiers Similarly the pressing question of Germany's foreign exchange is bound up with the problem of how the required imports of raw materials are to be financed and at what cost they can fie obtained. Hefore the entrance of the Fnited States into the war the difficulties md nut seem insuperable, but that event has cut away the foundations on which German recon.-truc-,ion pelicy was formerly based. MAY TIE I P SHIPPINC. Longshoremen's Strike Imminent at the New York Port. ltj thr InliuMtmnnt .Wen Seiner. i NEW VOliK, September 17. NewYork today faced a possible sttike of 40,Om longshoremen which, if called, could completely tie up shipping from this port. A conference is being held today between representatives of 1,800 striking longshoremen and the International Merchuntlle Marine Co. If j the company will agree to discharge an objectionable foreman, the men ; will return to work. Otherwise, Union leaders said todav, all longshoremen in this district -tx.OuO will bo called out. ; The men claim the foreman in ques-. tion discharged a union man without HEAD-ON COLLISION. . , ral People Injured in Accident on Interurhan Near Fortville. inn me mrraimii nr.Ke ecrrirr.i FORTVII.I.E, Ind., September 18. 1 1 onductor ( harles hchweinfurth was ; injured and many persons were badly j shaken up early today when two in - I terurnan cars met in a head-on collis - lion near Fortville. Slippery tracks I was given as the cause of the aeri - I dent. The front end of one car was

smaaheet in. , mand for execution at Ihe best exKchwcir.furth nay be internally In-'ample to Rumimn trooiu. of discipline, jured. Motoiman Daniel Howell, of Meanwhile, General KornilofT and Muncie, leaped from the cab of the, the 23 officers are confined in a hotel west bound car just before the east-. at Mohiley in the atrict custody of the bound interurhan crashed into his car, i provisional governmentescaping death. The east-bound carj waa travelling very tlowly. DIED AT ANDERSON.

KERENSKY NOT MARRIED.

COPENHAGEN, Sepember 18. formerly of thit city, died at her home The report that Premier Kerentky i jn Anderson Thursday of lait weekhad married a second time, hit lastiMn. McMahan it expected to five I

marriaf e taking place during the trymg lyt of the recent revolt of Kor nilofT, it ntrue, according to a dispatch lvceivfcd here today from Pe'.ro-grad.

ARTIFICIAL FOG IS USED BY FRENCH IN SURPRISE ATTACKS

(By frtt HferMltoiutJ Kelt Service. ) PARIS, September 18. Artificia! fog is the latest form of comouflage to be used by the French. By the use of chemicals, a thick mist is created through which the French now make surprise attucks against the Germans without any artillery preparation. AWARDED A MEDAL. American Brigadier-General Honored by French Government. (By tht trtteruatioHfli AtM Rerrice.) AMERICAN FIELD HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE. September IK. It was learned here today that an American brigadier-general has been awarded the Croix de Guerre, the French war medal. His helmet was struck by a piece of shrapnel while ho was on the battle front during an important action. He was uninjured but his helmet bears a mark showing where the shrapnel sttuek. ALL WINTER'S JOIJ. Ksrhhach Favors Cuing Kight Ahead With the Draft Work. I fly t'ic rmtradlioaal Von in ner. I INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Septemlter 1H. State Conscription Officer Jesse Esrhbarh will recommend to local draft boards that they continue their " ations this winter until every the state has been listed or reTOBE FOURTEEN LIVES -.,.n,,e. ,.., ,.,. ... Driven Ashore on Massachusetts Coast. 0!y the Internatlonm yf terrier. ORLEANS, Mass., September 18 ! Fourteen men are believed to have hecn lost as the result of a schooner and three barges going ashore at two different points near here during the night. A schooner, apparently a threemaster, is breaking to pieces on the outer sandbar. From the size of the schooner it is estimated thut it carried seven or eight men. Three barges are ashore, one and one half miles off the Tamrt river lifesaving station, about 100 yards off shore on an outside bar. Marge crew- number at least two men eai h, so the total number of men earned by the three barges is figuietf at six at least. The sixty mile wind and high seas make it impossible to get lifeboats out to the wrecker! vessels and thp distance was too far to shoot life lines. : What (n Art Will. Ib Rolvullinnu General Interests the Public. Ifll the Internatinnit Srvt tnii. PETROGRAP, September "What defense has General KornilofT to the treason charges preferred by tne provisional government. - i This all-consuming question occu - pir, th min of RlI!Mj, todav. His answer to the charges, a full statement in writing, is in the hands . 0f tnc government, but the latte i action is being withheld pending the further investigation of the 21 offtrera involved with the former com - ! mander-in-chief's rebellion. 1 Recommendations for either a civil , trial or a military court martial are 1 anticipated by the interested populace, ; w hich to a great extent repeats its rtrHlt Jeaiie Springer, of Anderson, j sister of Mil. Kenneth B. McMahan, i in Aoderton from the Weat today, to attend the funeral eerricet which will be held tomorrow. Mi Springer la well kaowit hete where the waa frejquenUy ti:e el ber tuier,

FiRE DAMAGES THE DRUG STORE OF FRED COOMBS

Blaze Starting in Pile of Excelsior Spreads ; Rapidly. ; FIRE CONFINED TO THE ONE BUILDING Was Checked Before it had ProKressed Far Heavy Damage to Stot'k. Fue stinting shortly before 1:00 o'clock this afternoon in the shed at the rear of the Fred Coomba drug store, practically ruineri the stock of goods in that establishment ami threatened to spread to adjoining buildings. The work of the fire j department confined the blane to the ar portion of the building and nothered the fire before it had lined headway m the drug store "m proper. The blaie started in tome excelsior ar the alley entrance to the frame ed at the rear of the brick building. How the bhue originated it not known. Frank H. Wooley, the clothI ier, whose establishment it located a I few doora smith in the tame block, , di-cnvered the fire as he passed through the nlley on his way to the. since from dinner. t.Ne The Alarm. He Immediately rushed through the. shed into the drug store and gave the. alarm. When Mr. Wooley first ditcovered the fire, it had just started and it looked then at if a bucket of water was nil that wat needed to extinguish it. When he and the store employees hastened bark to the rear of the. building with buckets of water tho entire frame shed was sblase, to rapidly had the flames spread among the inflammable mittcrinl. Illaie is (hecked. An alarm was turned In and the fire department made a quick run to the scene. Jty hard work the department put. out the hie in the (-bed and qnickly checked : p:c- e..-, ;n the store room. The dense volume of smoke made the blaze somewhat difficult to fight. The fire had crept into the rear room of the store but wat halted before it hnd gone far. The wood-work was charred in that portion of th building. Other Flrmt Sustain Lout. The intense heat scorched the woodwork and broke glasses in the thow rases and in one of the front wdr.dowt. The fixtures were badly damaged by the heat and smoke. All of the stock exposed to the smoke and heat t ruined. The wall clock near the front entrance stopped at 7 minutes after 1 o'clock. Mr. Coombs could not estimate the amount of damage to the stock. He carried $r),r00 insurance m the American Drug and thi Retail j prug Mutual Insurance Companlet of Cincinnati. I How soon Mr. Coomba will be able !to resume husincss depends upon the time required to adjust the losses and i to complete renairs to the fixtures. The building is owned by H. L. Ken-wo.-thy. lictween 4.00O and $5,000 insuranre was carried on the St rue- ! ture. I Heat W as Intense. Reginald Stewart's cigar shop occupied the rear room up stairs. He had a considerable stock of cigara removed j in time to save it from heavy damI age. The remainder of the upper floor is occupied by the W itt-Hrntton Realty Company. This firm sustained no damage. The location of the fire made it an exceedingly dangerout one. Had it spread to adjoining buildings, it could hardly have been checked and a considerable portion of the businett district would have been laid watte. That it was confined to the one building it cause for congratulation. Alj thought the. fire department wat short handed when the fire ttarted, the volunteer! came quickly to Itt aid and the fire waa held in check and coajquered la a abort time.