Lebanon Daily Reporter, Volume 26, Number 10, Lebanon, Boone County, 9 October 1917 — Page 1

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i . Inrrmiiss elouj.n. m aid ef tomcat, won rain in exitcue fceportion; Wednesday, mm. ONLY DAILY NLV.L?Ar. ER IN BOONE COUNTY. VOLUME 26. LEBANON, INDIANA, TUEFAY, OCTOBER 9, 1917. NO. 10.

ltrE7 PEACE OFFER

Will Contain Terms of No Annexations and No Indemnities. BERLIN PAPER GIVEN AS THE AUTHORITY Says Central Powers Will Aree to Surrender French and ISelgian Territory. IB tkt iHtrrnaHtmal e-ril, r. i THE HAGl'K. Octoher . Chancellor Mirhaelia of Germany in a speech before the Reichstag main committee declared thai the government will not assist any political faction with official propaganda, according to word from Berlin today. This announcement, the dispatch added, was cordially recehed by the Reichstsg. The chancellor's statement waa evidently made with a view to allaying dissatisfaction in Germany owing the growing opinion that the chancellor would mi prior t the view of the Von TirpiU PanAmerican party, which wants peace with annexations and indemnities. (Bit Hit jHUTnaUm9l Ntirt fl-rrtrf. I AMSTERDAM, October 9 A now peace offer from Austria and Germany will toon he maie containing terms of no annexations ami no indemnities according to a dispatch from Berlin today. The telegram quoted the Deutsches Tages Zcitung as its authority. Thi information, if true, show that the "peace blood" in the German Reichstag has won a victory for a peace ou the basis of status quo ante and that the pan-Germans have been vanquished. For some time the peace party in Vienna has been bringing strong pressure to bear upon Rerhn to Male definite peace terms, which would he of auch a nature as to secure i co gnition in the allied capitals. The Deutsche Tages Zietung said that ita announcement of the forLhcoming peace note was made on high authority and that the central powirs would agree to surrender all of the French and Belgian territory ovenun by the Teutonic armies. It is understood that the clause rcIsttPf t the indemnities will stutc that neither side shall ask financial compensation. Thia important news from Berlin cornea at a time when the Reichstag waa planning its debate on peace terma. The debate was to have opened yesterday afternoon, but it is understood that it was postponed to allow the leaders of various German political factions to confer. At the conference, said Berlin advices, the "peace blood" in the Reichstag decided to renew their pressure upon the imperial government to state its peace terma in a definite way. Opinion ia expresed that the peace

intervention of the pope had a trongjtn haij flolT1 ( hl.ae al , k. influence upon both the German and;, th, Something of the gr:,n wVr'rnarrTm,m!' , .t, n , ! rrvr.th.ll spirit of old Yale, s -.,g While definite mention of the Ral-i , , -,,, u,,,,,, t,..-

kan question was avoided, it is under stood that the Central powers wc.n ied by war, and with their finames i the point of complete exhaustion, an prepared to approach that quest on it a manner they hope will he accept able to the entente. 1'NITF.D STATES ATTlTt'OE. Will Reject Any proposals That Lih to Status Quo Ante Bellum. BY JOHN EDWIN NEVI.V. IJto !e n'rranrioHiif srrt gerree.) WASHINGTON. October !). The proposals of peace that carry them only a demand for the restoration of the status quo ante bellum. High administration officials made thia plain today in discussing the ieport printed in the Deutsches Tages Zeitung. of Berlin, that a new peace offer with that auggejition as the basia, ia about to be made by the Central poweri. President Wilson, they pointed out, had auch an offer in hi mind yesterday afternoon, when addressing the newly organited league for national unity, he that the war rr.uit continue until the enemy it beaten. Thia atatement, taken in connection with hia reply to the pope that no peac offer could be considered from

the German government until that government was made responsive to the German people, waa declared by officials today to mean that the president will not change hia announced attitude even though the peace bloc in the German Reichstag should compel the government to offer to end the war on the basis of "no indemnities and no annexations." This does not mean, however, that the administration favors either annexations nor indemnities. On the other hand, it is considered certain that the president himself would favor peace based entirely on a basis of restoration if the present German autocracy could be robbed of ita powers and the government reformed so that the peopls would control. This has been made very plain to the German people and that ia as far as the administration will go at this time. Officials refused to he quoted today c-n the new Berlin suggestion. It was far too intangible, they said, for open discussion a, id too much harm already has been done to the American cause by misinterprotntion of the position of the nation in discussion of the poke's peace offer and "h" prosnlpnt's reply. Privately, the following was set out as the position of the adm:r,i-ti atiun which can be expected if any newpeace of or c mes from Bei 'm via the Vatican or any other wa;. . "The United States entr'". the war to safeguard the democracy of the world. "It earnestly desires peace, b it only a peace that will be lasting and not a truce to allow autocracy to refo m anil renew the conflict. "Discussion of peace by ollic.als at this time would be interpreted, as such discussion has been in the p;'-t. by the German leaders as an admission that this nation was not so!i.-y supporting the president in bis 'let-r-mination to prosecute the cnH ct to a successful eml-ng. "Peace offers that carry with tVm simply rostoiations rf the sta'u- quo ante will he rejected for the reasons clearly set forth by the president in his Flag Day speech and the replyto the pope."

More Serious liiiisineM of War Takes Away Interest in Baseball (James. BY NEWTON C. PARKE. (By lie lrrali',a,il Wm S, i iVf . i HELD HEADQUARTERS OK THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. October 9. The Sammies are singularly apathetic rcparding the outcome of the world's series baseball gan-e.. being played in Chicago and NewYork. Possibly this is because they are engrossed in the more serious business of war. This particularly is. true of the contingents that have been l..t.st in rrar.ee. "Who won the first game?" a-kpd several Sammies. And then '-Well, I thought Cicotte would get it." The first detailed account of the tn.-t gam--' reached the camps Sunday night in the Paris edition of the London Daily Mail. The account gave New York's side of the game, plav by play, ami then Chicago's side. This was a ve-y perplexing way to desmfie a ha-ehali game for the American-. There has been little betting, n -' of the wagers being made at even money. There seems to be more supporters of the (iiants than o! the 11 1,:... c IW of (, Warn... l-e Chicago university eleven fairou-, was witnessed at divi.-ior.ii uciil da;. on Sunday. I It was football weather haipand j crisp with low hanging cloud-. A stiff wind was blowing. Goncial Per hing. Major General Sibert and a number !of other officers as well as MediH MciCormick, of Chicago, were anion the spectators. General Pershing picIsented silver trophy cups to the win-, fning teams. The pretty girls that alwaj s pack Ithe Harvard stadium were lacking but j femininity was represented by a r-u j French princess, from a neighboring Pershing and graciously presented ; consolation trophies. (.'rack companies, entered in squads. took part in the follow ing ronipeti-1 lions: busketry firing, bayoneting, hand grenade throwing, automatic rifle firing, entrenching and machine gun firing. Kleff la Plctureaque. The moat beaatlful dty In Rnssla tl aid to be, sot Petrocrad or Moscow, which lack perspective, the one lying flat od tbe level of the 'lva, and the other situated on an insignificant atream, but Kleff, tbe ancient capital of the Cossacks, which Ilea on tbe heights overlooking Uie rolling Dnie-

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FOR HE ORDER TO GO "OVER THERE" I Thousands of Them Are Trained to the Minute For Service. READY TO TAKE THEIR PLACES IN TRENCHES Officers Belie e Their Men the Finest I!xly of Fighters in the World. ! lt tht lute soilnvil ck Serrlco j ; A MA RINK CANTONMENT I j AMERICA, October !. The marines ale waiting the word to go "over j theie." Thousands of them the numher cannot be revei.led, -are trained i ' to the minute. All they need is the o'der to embark. j And it is plain from watching those 'solder of the sea" on review and in aitiori that not much time will be roquiiod after they get to the battle i front, to show they arc lea.iy for fiont ' Mne trerwh duty. ! As the period of tia.uing of company after company of marines ap- ' proaeiies its close, this great canton- j ment is fairly vibrant w it h expectancy. Almost unbelievable strides have been made in whipping into shape thousands of recruits in this popular arm I of the service. The yearning for great adventure thrills officers and j men aiike. Rumors tnat "certain com- i p-inies" soon v. ill be on their way are I eauerly discussed, but none could say ; ja-t when and so the excitement from i ler to pria'e remains at well ' heat. ' Heady to go?" "Sure, we're ready to go" exclaimed a major. ' We're leauy to get off the boat shooting." The prospect of two or three more months of naming on the other aide is not looked forward to with pleasure by the marines Thev believe they :ir ready to ;ro into the ttenehes today. So do thelr ,,:ti.-ers. And everyone is anxiou to get into the fii'M. The Only KeRr. Their only fear 1 "great disaster" m; the scrap. Sulunai of their fears. IV e.-n that some !d them out of 1 cause the least I is the greatest aster." bucaVio. tl st d. "Wouldn't it be aw fill." one of them said today "if snmcb:eiy framed up an aiiiiistnce before fe got a shot at the , Dutchman"? Officers of the marine corps on duty j here from General to Second Lieuten- i ant believe their men foim the finest army the world has ever seen. Thenfine spjrit is but one of the qualities of which their commandcis are proud. More than fiftv per cent of the :ven at piesent in the Marine corn', it was I out todas-. are pwith at Ic-i.-t a high school educati the enlisted men are many college, graduates. .Marine coi ps officers are proud, too. I of the fact that every marine knows v.'nat the war is about, why the L'nited States is in the war and what we hope to get out of H. In the ranks are some horn fighters who do not care what the fight is about so long as there is a fiiiht. Many of them are lr--' The vast ma iority enlisted five or s,?: months ago because of a firm conviction that the kaiser must b" whipped if tl;r world is to be made i t-i li "Do ou mean to remain in the mar ine c irps alter the ivar is over'" The que-fi n nvai lably brings thi answer f ei'tainl;, not, I ve got I wife, husin that must hi i- youngster! at home en care of. All I enlisted for was to help settle this thing right. After that there won't be any W hat use would I be in the Marine Corps DAN l l l'll) AN ALLY. Already Aiding the Sammies in Loie U'lth French Ctrl'. FIELD HEADQUARTERS (of the American army in r ranee,) Octobe -Dan Cumd using the "little red' A" . 1 .Jw,. Jt J I r.Lv I smiting the Sammic-a hard. The chaplain of one marine regiment married three marines to French village girls during the past week. Numer- . !,.. mi.eTiUD..a ur in th. nf7inir

"The little red book is an Anglo-1 niscipnne no mi u nussian arm- as nramy a nuncn as ne nas seen on inousanns oi coiion pirKors are neenFrench dictionary that can be pur-1 m ,hi rrt ftf 'he front are in ; the diamond in many a year. j ed to gather the fleecy staple. Cotchased yery cheaply hereabout Court-1 'P'endid fighting trim. j ton is commanding more than twenty

ship via thia route is easier than may be thought. Sammy can often ba seen seated at a table digging up love words from hia dictionary aad framing his proposal, the girl, seated opposite, answering in the same method.

HOME RUN BALL TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION FOR RED CROSS BENEFIT.

(H Hie mrrea ! Xeirt Senile,) CHICAGO, October 9. When Happy Felsch pasted one of Slim Snllee's choice shoots into the bleachers for a home run in Saturday's world's series games with the Giants, he not only waa a lot of help to the victorious White Sox, but he also boosted considerably the Red Cross war fund. Maurice DeViy, who caught the hurtling sphere, has had it decorated with the autographs of Felsch. Manager Rowland, and Owner Comiskey. PeVry would like to keep the ball, but thinks the Red Cross could use the money to good advantage, so will sell it tc the highest bidder and turn the proceed over to the Red Cross. DeVry has refused several offers of Jot) for the famous TO CONSERVE COAL. itlioritics May Try to Prevent I i of Gas For Heating Purposes. IHv .Vie nferiuifleiojl Sftrt Seri-lef.l INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., October 9, With dealers short ol coal and an unusual cold spe'l at hand, city offitinls hiive threatened to invoke police powers to prevent the use of gas for heating purposes. They say it is necessary to conserve the gas supply. Combined Assault to Hurl Germans Rack From Belgian Coast. PROGRESS MADE IN

decision in the selection of a pitcher, PHILADELPHIA, October .- THE NEW ATTACK; hut Rowland, it is heheved wilt stick I What the police believe was an at i to Eddie Cicotte as he announced on tempt to blow up the city hall wa

Jhe British Commander Reports Success of Drive on the Flanders Front. LONDON. October . t cioHi. cial dispatches from the front printed here this afternoon said that the Ilritish and I rench penetrated German positions to a depth of a mile at some points. X'rrict. i i The French ! Hi' fnlers'ifnanl V LONDON, October f have joined the Bnlish hi the Riga.itic offensive by which the allies are trying to hurl the Germans fiom the Ueigian roast. '"e-k The wae office announced th;;t I!i iti.-h. junction with left," attacked 'their al man positions northeast and "Sat.sfactor ist of Ypres. progress has been made" said a di.-patch from Maisha! Haig, the Ilritish comr, Held ia niter

,n ('hiet. ' already stated that a majority if not Heavy tiring continues. Lunging Joe Jackson is the most surprised , a the eligibles will be summoned imforward through a rain-torm and layer in the world. He thought the : mediately for physical examination across a field treacherous with deep (iiants were a tough hunch, but after and to file exemption claims, if they

and sticky mud, the allied troops asulted German positions lying ar e Ypres Meain road and tr. rthward past llei eiacre, Hrodzeindo d Po-tlciipellc. The ot.jeci wa.- to ricar the Ger-an-from that part of the pa -s icndaele road which they still hold The attacks followed a violent bomhardment of the Gorn.an trenches. At I'oints the Germans put up istnnre, but were unnbie tand the fierce fire of 1 force ! Incessant rain on the northern of the eastern front is interfering with military activity, sa d a dispatch froni that zone today. The Russian army is actively engaged in preparing, its winter quarters. The sanitary (uartr::-. arc "tit: :frovyF rp::je---. ics of diseases being present. The correspondent of the Pe ti ograd 1 "l'''Ph"' K''nfv received hy the Roumanian minister of war, General Janl Chevesko, somewhere on the Roumanian front. The minister told the correspondent j tn1 ,l" Roumanian army has been ' reorganized along democratic lines of Russian airmen auarnea to tiie, army in Mesopotamia, flying in the ! directions of Bagdad, haee reported to the general staff that the situation of the Turks is beetming more and more desperate as a result of the advance of the British and Russian forces.

FOSTPOIIHIOF HEW YORK GAME BECAUSE OF RAIN

White Sox and Giants Unable to Play This Afternoon. BIG CROWD OF FANS WAS DISAPPOINTED More Than 20.000 Fans Had Assembled at Grounds in Spite of the Rain. BY JACK VKIOCK. I Bi thr Internattoitnt Wwj Berrtct.1 rOI.O GROUNDS, Now York. Oc tober 9. Rain which sturted falling at 11 o'clk this morning kept the White Sox and Giants apart in the third game of the wm Id's .-cries this a f te:-noon. The postponed game will be played tomorrow and the fourth game on Thursday, unless inclement weather interferes furtner. More than twenty thousand fans who had hurried to the park to secure the unreserved seats hied out of the grounds with rain checks which are now as valuable ms the re.-erve seat tickets. Final decision on the playing or calling of -.he g;mo v. us with the four umpires, who did not reach a de cision until 12 to o'clock. Many of the fans who had arrived at the park as early as 7 or 8 o'clock were enterta.ned by the bund and a male quartette and kept the inner man .satisfied with the hot dogs and murky coffee. The extra day of rest which the i players w til get as a result of the I postponement may effect McGra'v'sl Monday. The day of grace may also be i boon to the (iiants, for Lew- McCart; w ill piohabiy be able to get' back inti the lineup tomorrow to permit of hi playing. SOMK SIDELIGHTS ON WORLD'S SERIES ItY TAD. NEW YOP.K. , tober 9. '-Cicotte will pitch the opener in New Yc-rk. and I'll follow him up with Red l aher," said Chil-ence Rowland, the snap py manager of the Sox last night. "Two pitcher.-; are all that I intend to use." ! The Sox were given a wonderful reat tile Grand ( i ntra! .-tation hist night upon their arrival. hi brass baiul met them and alter para ing about the station the blew intc the Hiltmore, where manv of the stav until the series is over. 1 The Woodland Rards. a Chicago bunch, composed of Sox rooters, came (o jown on a special train that they hi led Sunday's rame he figured them nbout as tough as Brooklyn was for the Red Coniiskcy certainly treats hn play eis and the scribes like king-. On the White Sox special coming to New York, he had a refreshment car stocked with eats, drinks and cigars. There two special writers, too. "W here are the Giants stopping in I New York? Do you know?" asked Frank Mackin of Eddie Collins. 1 "Grant's tomb is their headquar - " piped Edcbe. Paiistune, who came from Houston, Texas, to the series, bet fifty bucks against hers that - l-,.., another homer, - ! If Felsch's homer had been made at the Polo Grounds, the hall would have landed in the left field bleachers . between Burns and KaufT. Some ,81am, wa.in't it? I -- j Johnny Evers rode in with the Soa i frrm Chicago. John aavs the Sox are B.auft weakness at the eat nas lost many a fcet for his admirers. He was i picked to beat Felsch, Jackson and John Collins. So far he has not hit even healthy foul. Zimmerman has hit only one ball

out of the infield. That waa a sweet little By to center. Giant fans are aore at McGraw for the way he handled hia pitchers. They say he has given the Sox a look at his whole staff and has no surprises left. The Sox feared Perritt more than any pitcher on the Giant staff but now that they have had a look at him, all fear ia gone. The Chicago fans give Kauff a merry time while he is in center. They yell, "Say, Benny, 1 hear that yer got lifteen suits of clothes and that you change 'em every hour. Change your bata and maybe you'll knock a foul." Emory Tittman, of Philadelphia, will be a millionaire five times over if the Sox win two more. He has cleaned up a pile as high as a telegraph le already.

MAN WITH THE FRIGID FEET IS GIVEN Jl'ST ONE MORE CHANCE iBri rse ;otrit'im.il 'r- gfi-rfcr.l CHICAGO. October tl Seven times have Michael Gooden anil Miss Catherine llicsdorf been lined up at the matrimonial wire but each time Gooden has acquired frigid feet at the last moment and the nuptials hail to be culled olT. They will try it the eighth time today and Gooden must either go to the post and stay there or find him l! defendant in a $:i.'.iKal suit for damages, Miss Hiesdorfs l.iwcr declares. AN ATTEMPT MADE TO BLOW UP CITY HALL I,an;e Amount of Dynamite is Found at Corner of Philadelphia Structure. iBn ti immiiM si-vi Ken-irci frustrated early today when Nathaniel Rambova, city eoipbne, found enough sticks of dynamite at t'ie southeast corner of the building to blow the ed.ficc to piece. The explosive was found directly under the city controliei's window in whose loom the vaults of the city i.ie located. The dynamite was taV:"o to! the supei intendent of the stieet clean- j ing department, who called in th" police. PLANS FOR NEXT DRAFT. Marshal For V Xrrangiug DcluiN It tall. ! i ASHINGTON, October 9.- Plan.' for ,;dlmg u the next dla't of df.-ig . nates for the national arniv will be imideled. tonight. Tliov ale leadv 1 fr (,e aM,rnval of Secretary of War Haker and v.i'1 he submitted to him at n conference by Mujr Genera! Crowder, provost marshal general. The exact number that are to he , railed about the question sti'l That, however, is a de undecided. tail inasmuch as Gen. Crowder haHre to be filed, so that elk-ihles will ; know exactly how they stand on the Changes are to be made tn the methods, General Crowder made this p'ain tod iy. All this will be changed in the next draft. The examination will be com i lele in every way and the men w ho pass the doctors will he certain the;, will be retained when called on for active service, whether all of the men still on the list will be examined ; was a question on which Gen. Crowder j was dumb today. He callel attention, ; however, to the fact that he has some 1 four million dollars available for use in continuing ine wora ot pis nureau and this money will go a long wa conducting examinations. COTTON' PICKERS EARN' BIG PAY IN SOITH i lnlriHHIiiiil Sr,n genir-r. i MEMPHIS, Tenn., 0( tober .Cotton pickers are making f.t and $1 a day in many sections of the south. A few years ago such amounts would have represented pay for a week. cents 1 pouno, compaiecl with ten i cents a few years ago. Time waa when seventy-five cents to one dollar a hundred pounds was considered high wages for picking, but today pickers are paid from $1.60 ta Sl.76 a hun-

Speakers Call Attention to Seriousness of Situation.

SHOULD LOOK TO THE SECURING OF WOOD Committee Appointed to Investigate the Present Supply of Wood. The seriousness of the coal situation was brought home to the ls?h anon people who attended the public meeting held last night in the convention hall at the court house. At the same time the need to conserve the supply now o hand was emphasized, and a warnine, eject- that the people should prepare to use wood instead of coal. Tin 11,. ting waa the appointment . ' u committee composed of 11. K. .McKry, V. T. Hooton. C. I S. Nenl, 11. I-'. Coombs. Dr. W. II. Gieen and t'urce lav. whose duty t shall be to devise means of relieving tiie present shortage in fuel if po.-siloe and especially to secure the needed information as to the wood supply and its availability and the possibility of increasing this supply. The Mavor's Vie meeCng was presided over by j Mayor John It. Shelby, who stated that after careful investigation he had arrived to the conclusion that it wa impossible to get direct results in the present elforts to secure coal for local con-umpt'on. Great yowl might romi however from a public meeting, if it emphasiy.es the need of care in the use of the present supply of coal and if it succeeds in getting many people to use other forms of fu"l, especially wood. In cine any considerable; number of M'ople use winhI, the local demand for coal will not be so heavy and there will be a greater probability of enterprises and institutions who re-iiui-e coal to operate, securing something like an adequate supply. C. F. S. Nenl Talks. C. I-'. S. Neal related his exierienre in attempting to purcbsse coal for his business building on the north side of the public square. He had purchased his coal in May or June heretofore. This ear he whs told to wait until the goyeriimr,,! fixed the piiee. Five or six weeks ago Ik negan to get uneasy. He called u.ion the Tub!'. I tiiities ommi.-sion and found thine coal situation was serious. I then got in touch with coal operatot who told him to wait until the government fixed the price. The price was fixed bv Federal dec ire. He then bought fourteen car loads of coal from six different films. It has not yet been delivered. He is now buying coal from local dealers, hoping to secure a sufficient supply until hia shipment arrives. If it ever does. I,at week he went into Indinnapolia tn see for himself what the coal conditions there were. He saw in the Urightwood yards hundreds of cars. On the tenth of last month, he made trip to New Orleans. On that trip i. .!, s S-iuth. b" saw sidetrack I. The fact of the matter -ernrner.t business hat the I fu : in , , igbt-of-w ay. Immense quantities of itronos and supidies are being transI potted tn every eirection. The haul ing of , 111 is I I up for that reason. He Observation. Mr. Neal said that he made a specnl trip to the Indiana coal fields. The liners complain that because of lack f cars, they are enabled to work only part of the time. Many of them re entering other lines of empioyirnt where Ine woik is steadier. .A larg- amount of coal has been doped to Canada. Mr. Neal says, nd it is hard to get the cars hack. Mr. Neal said he had received word that coal would lie snipped in mi. quantities to Ibanon next week from several different sources. Roy Mr'.zger said that a lot of politicians and some newspapers had kept the people from buying coal during the summer when it could be had. The dcalcm had begged the people t. buy then but the politicians had sai that the prices the dealer wercharging were too high and that it was robbery. He said that unfortunately the people believed the politician. Mr. Metiger said the local dealer were trying to keep as many people supplied, but it was a hard proposition. People with plenty of coal in CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR.