Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 26, Number 2, Lebanon, Boone County, 29 September 1917 — Page 1

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Carrespondents Forbidden to Send Out Information Today. MUCH SPECULATION AS TO THE CAUSE A New Move by General Hig's Troops Believed to be Imminent. Iffjr th Intermitiamii .Yrw ftr LONDON, September 29. An- j nouncement by British headquarters that correnpondents would not be al- j lowed to send any information out to- j day aroused much speculation as to ine cause, une reoors was mat r leio Marshal Haig was planning a new , move against the Germans and thul ; the correspondents would not be al- i lowed to say anything about it until it was fully under way. I The impetuous drive of the British

on the west Flanders front earlier in ( The Gulf hurricane is moving north-1 the week has opened the road to pnss eastward today with decreased veloChendaele. That was made sure when city. according to reporU reaching the Zonnebeke waa captured, i wealh'r b"T M"ch .daml"'t to

A dispatch from Paria today quoted K , ... ' ' . the correspondent of the. Petit Panes- i 'anam- eather bureau dispatches ienne a. saying: V rnel estimate of the damage. "When Pas, Chendaele and ,n,ver nor did they mention anv neighboring heights are taken British , '

forces will be able to overlook German positions that have been hidden from their eyes for three years." Big Gains Made. Nearly 500 square aulna of Belgian soil ia now in possession of the allies ft a result of the gains made this The battle line now extends in a ,.! h;,-h tmm Ni,mw past Dixmude, to a point east of Zon- i nebeke and tlnce into France, just west of Warneton. Advices from the frontier today said that the German censor was forbidding the sending of German newspapers over the border into Holland. This led to reports that grave dis i . . f.

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.-race is growing Deyonu ooumis. , NEXT WEEK'S WEATHER. l fry m stersaluHtai A tr. srrnce.l WASHIVfiTflV Sentmher 29 Th w..h hi.r.an issued the .

following forecast for next week: ' Trmc h b"'n resumed on all railRegion of the Great Lakes With rmui m th P1" rtion, moat of the the exception of rain Sunday over '""d" raping 'th only nominal extreme eastern districtsgenerally : 'mage. At last report the hurricane fair weather will prevail during the W " '! Northeastern Alabama week, although there is some prospect nd moving northeastward, of unsettled weather toward the end . of the week in the northern upper ALMOST WIPED OUT, lake region. Comparatively cool first - . half of week and somewhat warmer ; Wealth of I.le of Pines Destroyed by

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;oay. Appeals nave oeen airecten to the Cuban people and the A meriian NEW YORK, fjentamhT2.-Frh uuMic for M.U..vc in tW rei,rf eggs sold here today mt 50 cenU a worlt for the homeless and the destideB. '. tute of the isle, most of whom are

TWO MEN SHOT. CHICAGO, September 29 Two men were shot and one of them seriously wounded in saloon holdups here today. Georg Schober, a deputy clerk in the municipal court, is in a critical condition from wounds received when robbers held up his father's saloon. Ludwig Linder was shot when three negroes robbed a saloon owucU by bis cousin merhuis. MAY HALT STRIKERS. J0LIET, III., September 21.-A A posse of 26 home guard members, formed by Sheriff George M. Scholl, . . F. . .A tr ul"n"D"J w' ' I .. I! .J:" ! I today to induce local switchmen to Join the strikers of Gary and South ..; , j ii .,:f,i, . I Chicago. At th. asm. time the police received ! warning from Chicago Height that I

seven L W. W. member., known a.) ,"v' w- " uMivn, ot an mThe dynamiU squad." were en rout I ttniry rgiir.nt, died September 24, j to Joiiet. I from cerenro-spinal meningitis, whilei i i . . i I on duty. 1 he war department ku no I NOMINATIONS MADE. record of ins hf,n e s.l''.' . S - ' r j (win !''. vd - t , ,

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i Altrhieon, of Oregon, nod Georgi Anderson, of Boston, to be interstate ! commerce commissioners end Charles R. Page, of California, to be a member j j of th United States shipping board ! j, W. G. Wyun Gardner, of Wahing-' ton, was nominated to be commis sioner of the District of Columbia. SERVICE CUT OFF. Cable Communication With Huenos Airea ia Interrupted. " (B in hlraHiMI Km 8trvlC4.) NEW YORK, September 29. The New York office of th International News service wa notified early today that cable communication with Buenos Aires had been cut off. No explanation was Riven. Dispatches sent before communication was shut off said that the strike situation had spread to the chauffeurs and bakers and that it was in danger of extending still further within the next twenty-four hours. They said further that the present situation involving Germany remained unchanged. GULF HIM IS 8 Moving Northeastward With j

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Decreased Velocity Reports of Damage. I" the Imlrrnnlhual Herein WASHINGTON. Sentember 29. I PfcfcSACOLA CUT OFF. ; No Word" rT , Reacue Steamers ly ta afrnMNoMl V Mtrt Wi NEW ORLEANS, September 29.--With Pensacola cut off from all out side communication and the fate of in- ... habiUnts of the city unknown, resf"' te"m,hiP i" a,V h'r ioday lo to the rel,ef of ' city. Damage at Mobile caused by the hurricane is estimated at approximately $500,000. No lives were lost. Biloxi, Gulfport and other Mississippi towns in the path of the storm have weathered a 75 mile an hour Kal with a few unroofed houses being the onlv damaa-e. The denot at St. - .. " Elmo w At Chefmenteur, La., on the Gulf court, all of the inhabitants of the town evacuated except two old negroes who said they had never been away from the t.. and refused itgo. No damage was done there and " 1 WKrt tost Wednesday's Hurricane. iBlf IS International tfeift Service. i optemoer September 2!. -The weat f y,, ,3e of pjnes was s, mogt whnUy wipe(1 out by hurrj cane list wecinesnay, according to i stories of refugees arriving here to- ' Americans. TWOAMERICANSOLDIERS DIE IN A FRENCH CAMP n ..... rv:.4 r-v Natural Causes, General Pershing Reports. ( Ms atwastkHMil Xeiri Irrrirl.) WASHINGTON, September 29. The deaths of two American soldiers in Eance were reported to th war department today by General Tersh- . v .. .... . lnT- Botn men a"a ,mm B"ur' cau,M- .

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PLAN MGtl FOR LIBERTY L0AI1 County-WideOrganization Perfected at a Meeting Held Last Night. GENERAL CANVASS IS ARRANGED FOR Committees Are Named In Preparation For Sale of New Issue of War ISonrls. A meeting of representatives of the banking institutions of Boone county a as held yesterday evening at the , First National Bank to perfect an organization for making an extensive J campaign for subscriptions to the s?conl I-'Derty Loan Dmrt i,sue' next few riaya. Those present were: W. J. DeVol and Joseph A. Coons, of the First National Hank; Morris Ritchie, of the Boone County State Bank; John L. Wade, of the Farmers State Hank: Hugh Woody, of the Home National Bank of Thorntown; W. T. HootThe on', of the Citizens Loan and Tiust Company; Herbert Epperson, of the Bank of Advance; Granville Wells, of the Jamestown Cititena State Bank; and J. T. Frank Laughner, of the Whitestown Citizens Bank. Organization Made. -K""-""n was arranged, wun W. J. DeVol as general chairman, Morris Ritchie as, vice-chairman, and Jbhn L. Wade as general secretary. general executive committee was appointed uy authority of thoxe present, composed of: Morris Ritchie, John Wade, J. W. Witt, W. T. Hooton, and Joseph A. Coons. The county was divided into districts, with a township chairman for e-vh district, as follows: Sugar Creek and Washington, Hugh Woody; Jefrerson and north half of Jackson, Albert Epperson; Harrison and south half of Jackson, M. H. Roberts; Union and Eagle, Earnie Harvey; Worth and Perry, J. T. F. Laughner; Center, Clinton, and Marion, J. W. Witt. Speakers Bureau. A speakers bureau was provided for, with W. T. Hooton as chairman. Charles Forbes was appointed chairman of the publicity committee, which will be composed of the editors of th Iloone county newspapers. It is intended to make a thorough campaign throughout the county in the interest of the Liberty bonds. Meetings will be arranged for the dif 1 ferent towns, beirinninr next week. I Prominent sneaker, will he secured. - - FIRE AT MORILF. Al.A. "mil V, A'a., .f 'n re Vhiie humrsne rird thrmit

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! I.ANTIC ; HAWAII cay Int tnlertnt' ! vrt fkrri". WASHINGTON, September 29. All record for long distance wireless communication were shattered today wbsn radio communication was opened between Hawaii and the Atlan? ic coafU The navy deparUvnt announced this afternoon thvl the first message hod been received here from the New Radio elation at Pearl Island Hawaii. Messages were received and transmitted from Hawaii to Sayville JL Y, Thirtythree minutes ttfMr SeereWry Daniels had sear a message of ' common congratulation to Hawaii an acknowledgment of the message was in his office, ON INDEPENDENT TICKET. John P. Mitchell Will be Independent Candidate For Mayor of N. Y. (Sy th lnttrntttin! ilmrt ffn-cicc.) NEW YORK, September 29. Without waitinir for court action to showhe was not rhoen the republican mayoralty nominee. Mayor John P. Mitchell defeated by fill votes by former Senator Wm. M. Bennett, an nounred that he wou'd be an independent candidate. The recount of the ballots waa completed early today. . Application' for an order directing the board of election to print the name of Wm. M. Bennett on the election ballots as the republican nominee for mayor will be made in the supreme court today. It is reported Mayor Mitchell will not contest the application. ' Wrong Kind of FOOD SITUATION IN Will Take Another Year Before it Will Likely Prove Factor Toward Peace, Ky Ms slerMlleiiei H! terrtct. AMERICAN FIELD HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, September 29. It will be at least a year before the food situation in Germany i likely to prove a conclusive factor towards peace, according to information secured from a reliable source today. Latest reports on the domestic situation in Germany were that crop conditions are generally poorer, but that there is no actual taniine. The scarcity of provisions is expected, however, to reduce still further the moje of the German soldiers and this in itself will contri bute to an allied victory. IMHCO.ASKS FFffiMPME

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T0THES1TUAM1 Four Prominent Hoosiersj Visit Lebanon on Patriotic Mission.

ilttu A iHtrntttiftHtl Sei srrrlcr.) THE HAGUE, September 29. AH MftClimi raill ur A possibility that Germany's war aims will soon be mude known to the world WHIRLWIND TOUR baa been dispelled by the speech of , Chancellor Michaelis to the Reichstag . j main committee. Speakers Warn of Sacrifices the! Ne' from "f"" Um''"' w" to "! .effect that the (,erman government is

People W ill be Called Upon to Make. Most excellent addresses were made by men of Htate-widr reputa-1 lion at the meeting of the Council of Defense in the court room yesterday afternoon. The meeting was attend-; ed by about fifty people. Judge W. ; H Parr presided. The speaker, were (jt McMurtrie, treasurer of state, Rev. Frank Jaynes, of Wahash, State Senator Stephen Fleming, of Portland, and , Senator Fred VanNuys. of Indian- j arndi'j. j The treasurer of state, Mr. McMur-; trie, congratulated Boone county on j the fact that little, if any, matters of j Keys T a seditious nature had developed here

and urged the people to guard against from a OTer the country was handed these things. He also spoke in be- down by vice-president Marshall, half of organizing the forces of the presiding officer of the senate, citizens in conservation of food, cloth-1 ing, etc., until the war is over. EULA IS OUT OF IT. Senator VanNuys, a former Lena- j non man, spoke of the organization ; yettf CouW No, PlM Army Physiof the national, state and county coun-; cils of defense, and explained the pri-1 cal Exam and is Discharged. mary purposes of the organization. ... . , . . . . . Senator Fleming tourhrd on some ' , been received here that of the enterprise, in which the council ' Metzger, who accompanied the

is intereKted, iaying special empliasus on the fact that it should be every 's duty to support the second Lib - erty Ixian. Rev. Jaynes spoke more gAierally i of the preparations for war, stating that now is the time for the nation to bend all its efforts toward getting into action as quickly as possible, as the time may come, if this is not done, when much more sacrifice would be needed to win the war. Purpose of Meetings. The meeting was one of a whirlwind campaign made this week In Indiana by 100 citiaens to arouse the people to the fact that this country is at war and that they should be willing to to their bit to help the government ki the prosecution of the fight against Germany. In the addresses that were made it waa pointed out that the citizens of the state did not seem to realize the fact that this drain for men end money might continue for one, two, thre or even four years longer and; thit Hie national government Was practically UTmhle to do anything with - I out the ajwistMiice of the individual, I I ' u ,-ed noe strenuous work in ' t t- 1 Cre, sMi.uij'li they t i i d 1 ' tfa-.a eeanty

i care taken of the farms in order to j have an increased production, and the ' people, in the judgment of Senator i Fleming, will be calld upon to sacri1 fire a grent deal mora than they ever , anticipated they could before the conI Diet Is ended. 1 ' "With all of these demands." said

; the senator, "they will be nothing compared with what our boys are do- : tng who have enlisted m the army i and are practically on their way to j France." ABSOLUTE SILENCE. : Will be Maintained For Present on J Germany's Trace Terms. I pledged to a policy of absolute silence regarding peace terms. ASKS EXFULSiON OF SENATOR LAFOLLETTE petHion Sj d R officiaU f Minnesota Filed in V. S. Senate. (y l ;lnH.i...l JUt.cs Hrrric. I WASHINGTON, September 29. Senator Robert M. LaVollctte, of Wisconsin, must show cause why he should not be expelled from the United States senate. A petition reciting alleged treasonable utterances by the senior senator From the Badger state reached the senate today. It was. signed by Governor Burnquist and the members ot the Minnesota Puhlic Safety Commission and demands that Senator LaFollette be removed from his office. The peti- j tion was immediately referred under the rules of the senate to the committee on privileges and elections of the senate. Although receipt of the petition had been expected, its actual filing caused a sensation in the senate. Leaders made it plain that they considered the allegation contained in the petition, which was in the form of a resolution, as most serious. However, as the j senate must inevitably sit in the posi-! tion of a court she d the rCMiliitioii tie 1 considered, no member of the senate would comment on it. The resolution was laid before the senate by Senator Kellogg, of Minnesota, the junior member from that stat, who acted at the request of the governor of his slate and the members ot the committee, who had fathered the resolution. That the entire attitude of Senntor LaFollette toward the war is to be fought out was indicated when, following the presentation of the resolution declaring that the senator's remarks at the St. Paul non-partisan league convention on September 20th were "disloyal and seditious, large roiection of teleirrams and letters ... j, .l....i u. j;,i Taylor, had been dlscha ged. He did ;" 1 m uv . ' . t. I m . . ' About Twenty Machines in Hostile Air Fleet That Attacked England. Il Mt slerssNeaill ferefc.) LONDON, September 29-Two of the German airplanes that attacked southeastern England last night were destroyed, St was officially anr.ao.nced today by Viscount French, commander of the British forves. mere were i about 21) machine in the hostile air j fleet, N.j casualties were reported. Some tried to attak London, but '.ware tntaM to battle their way past 1 1' r?"Msb. r atrola and the intense

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THEi;EXTQU3TA to mm Thirty-three Conscripts t Leave For Louisville Next Saturday. LIST OF THE SELECTED MEN AND ALTERNATES Men Ordered to Report Next Friday and Will Leave Saturday Morning, Oct. 6. Thirty-three men, comprising twenty per cent of Iloone county's draft quota, will leave here next Saturday morning for Camp Taylor. Ky, Thesa men will report to the local conscription board at the court house Friday afternoon at 2:00 o'clxk. end leave Saturday on the 9:55 Big Four train. This is the sumo schedule a wag carried out last Saturday, when the forty per rent increment left. Four alternates Lave been chosen by the board, and they will report Frid also, and hold themselves in rendine to go Saturday if necessary. The I of those who will leave follows: Ralph Peery, Thorntown. non. Ralph Perry, Thorntown. Claude Pascal Mclaughlin. R. R. 3 New Ross. Allen Oliver Wilts, R. R. 11 Lebanon. Harry Ncff Ransdell. Irfbanon. Jum; ltuuWn, Jaoirstown. Virgil Earl Want, Whiteslnwn. Charlie Roberts, R. R. 1 Kirklifl. Perry Edward Smith, Indianapolis. Jesse Pearl Palmer. Jamevtown. ( lark Monroe Ktioemaxei , Kosi-ti.it, Wilbur Leo Dentrick. Lebanon. Albert Tribbett, lbanon. Marion Huren Cline, Whitestown. Fred Doehlmnn, Zionsville. Eugene Butcher, Thorntown. Alexander H'ry Sweeney, Whites town. Harry V, Snyder. Jamestown. Roy Alvin Bnwen, Thorntown. Guy Clair Kmcaid, R. R. 12 I.eba non. William Dnmian Pack, New Augum j ta. James Oliver Jameton, Lebanon. James Iflwell Gillaspie, Jamestown, Adron Brendel Sluder, R. R. 30 ; ionsvill James George Waitt, R. R. 21 Sher idan. Jacob Alf.l Eii!-, R. I. 31 Pwiitnn. Nye Dye, R. R. 15 Thorntown. Guy Nelson Shaw, R. R. 29, 7,ionaville. Vora B. Harshharger, Lebanon. Otha Wilson, Brownsburg. Emory V. Smith, Lebanon. Fred Milton huiTman, Lebanon. Theodore Edward Eadres, R. R. 1( Lebanon. Claude A. Mangus, R. R. S Jamestown. Barton Benson Davis, Colfax. William Marsh Hendrickson, R. B, 2, Lebanon. CONSERVATION DAY. October 26th so Designated For Ob nervation In the Schools. In a.'eordanre with a eommunication from the state superintendent of public instruction, E. M. Servies will instruct all of the Boone eonrtty school teachers that Friday, October 2fi ha been designated as Conservation Da v. On that day, especially in the schools, serious consideration is to be given I to the problems of conserving our reI sources of fooil, clothing and fuel for ' ourselves; and our resources of time, money and health for our soldiers and sailors. Tenchers will also be supplied with food administration litersI ture, which will he distributed by them. NEW UNITS AUTHORIZED. WASHINGTON. September 2ff. Authorization today waa given ae -states to organize new units of I National Guard the first that I been required since the federalizat of the state militia organizations . the war department on August t California has been granted permission to organize three battalions of infantry. RAIN AT H trniRunc HATTlESBURfJ VSs, f ' 29. Homier soliiiers in (.: were drenched hi t ofipour but ei-ijtwd the t-1 1 4