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WILSON HOPES HOUSE WILL GET STARTED WITH SPEED
Resolution Supporting President's Address to Congress Will Probably Originate in Lower House.
WILL PROVIDE FUNDS
(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. March 29. President Wilson was said today . to be hopeful that the House of Representatives will rush its organization plans so that there will be no delay in affording him opportunity to make his address on the war situation to a joint session with the Senate. No matter how the final organization is perfected administration leaders are anxious that . if a prolonged fight is in prospect some sort of an
agreement be made for temporary organization to permit the President's appearance Tuesday or Wednesday. These officials feel that public opinion will not support a long struggle over organization and committee patronage at such a critical time. Action Comes First In House. The resolution for Congressional action to comply with the President's recommendation probably will be considered first, in the House leaving the Senate to take it up later. The House foreign affairs committee now is drafting various forms of resolutions to meet the executive recommendations. Another reason for original House action is the probability that the resolution will carry an emergency appropriation. Appropriation measures must originate there. The peculiar situation in the Senate
foreign relations committee with Chairman Stone opposed to action which would lead to "war and the opposition of Senator Hitchcock, the next ranking Democratic member, to steps further than an armed neutrality manifesto was another factor in the. tentative plan to have the resolution originate In the House.
Tne president has received vecom
Young Women Call on Youths to Join Guard
(By Associated Press) SALINA, Kan., March 29. Young men of military age in Salina were the subject of calls today from young women, clad in olive drab skirts, leggings and military hats, who asked them pointedly why they had not enlisted in one of the four companies of the national guard, with headquarters in this city.
IRITISH DEFEAT TURKISH FORCE OF 20,000 MEN
(By Associated Press) LONDON, March 29. The - British e.rmy in Palestine has defeated a Turkish army of 20,000 men capturing 900 men, including a general, the war office annonnces. The entire divisional staff of the Fifty-third Turkish division in Palestine has been captured by the British.
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GERMANS STRIKE BACK FIERCELY TO HALT ADVANCE OF FRENCH
(By Associated Press) around the southern half of the great The Germans are striking back in St. Gobaih plateau is steadily contractChampagne in a determined effort to ing. If the French maintain their divert General Nivelle from his cease- present rate of advance it can only be
less pounding at the base of the shak
en Hindenburg line. The scene of the
counter offensive launched by Field
Marshal von Hindenburg is along a fifteen-mile front, Btarting about 25
miles east of Rheims.
Attacking in force In this sector the
Germans have driven the French from come of their advance trenches but
have failed so far to make a serious
Impression on the defenders lines. Iron Semi-Circle Contracts. In the meantime, the iron semi-cir
cle which General Nivelle has thrown
RUSSIAN PEOPLE SUPPORT POLICY TO CONTINUE WAR
(By Associated Press) Petrograd, (via London), March 29. A declaration in support of the war
has been issued by a committee of workingmen, soldiers and deputies and apparently represents the sober conclusion which the masses of the population have reached, after being swayed this way and that by the Turbulent currents and cross ' currents which
swept throueh the countrv in the first
im ncaiueui ubb rcieiveu recom-i . ... , ,, mendatlons from several cabinet mem-1 days of the revolution.
bers on plans to be included in his ad-1
dress and is now preparing it in a preliminary way. The final cabinet meeting before the assembling of Congress will be held tomorrow and members will be ready to report; fully on preliminary preparedness measures.
AMERICAN DOCTORS
LEARN FROM FRENCH
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, March 29 Physicians
consider the method of treating in
fected wounds worked out in France
by Dr. Alexis Carrel and Dr. H. H
Dakin, which will be demonstrated bere by the Rockefeller Institute for medical research one of the most valuable surgical developments of the
War. To Instruct American physicians
and surgeons in the use of this treat
ment the institute has appropriated $200,000 for the erection on its
grounds of a military unit hospital.
Raider Siffamps Jap Warship
a matter of a very few days before the
entire plateau is in their grasp, removing the last great natural barrier to Laon. The British are moving forward steadily to the north but the fact that they are capturing villages with cavalry indicates that they are not yet in contact with the main German forces.
The most advanced British outposts are still ten miles from the Cambrai line, where allied observers have assumed the Germans propose to make their real stand. Fall Back to Belgian Border. Military critics in Paris and London are reverting to the belief that the present German retreat is only part of the plan for a retirement on a tremendous scale to the Belgian border. In support of this theory it is pointed that the withdrawal from the Noyon and
Bapaume salients is rapidly forcing
the whole German line into the form of an Immense right angle. The upright of this angle runs north and south for 120 miles from Nieuport on the Belgian coast to Laon. The horizontal - lines runs for about an equal distance east to the Lorraine border. It is into the apex of this angle that General Nivelle is boring his way, threatening to cut the forces of the invaders squarely in two.
State Instructs Pupils to Sing Patriotic Songs
County Superintendent Williams today received a letter from State Superintendent Horace Ellis urging that teachers of town and rural schools be asked to obey the Indiana law which prescribes that on ever patriotic occasion the pupils of Indiana schools
shall sing, VThe Star Spangled Banner," in full. "The present occasion seems to demand the cultivation of the sentiment of the song," Mr. Ellis said.
BANKERS DEMAND THAT CITY EQUIP POLICE WITH EMERGENCY RIFLES AND RIOT GUNS; POLICE ASK RAILROADS TO GUARD BRIDGES
Chicago Women Agree to Drive Army Machines
(Ey Associated Press) CHICAGO, March 29. Fifty-one Chicago women today are rated as emergency chauffeurs as a result of an examination held under the supervision of an officer from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station for the women's section of the Navy League.
SUPPLY DEPOT CAPTURED BY FRENCH FORCE
(By Associated Press) PARIS, March 29. An important munitions and supply depot has been captured by the French, the war-office announced today. Artillery lighting continued during the night between the Somme and the Aisne and the French kept in contact everywhere with the German lines.
OPEN RED CROSS HALL
(By Associated Press) ..'
WASHINGTON, March 29. The
new American Red Cross building here, now Hearing completion, will be
dedicated May 12, and President Wil
on is expected to attend. He has been told of the date by Miss Mabel Boardman, members of the Red CrosB exe
cutive committee.
I Weather Forecast
Forecast for Richmond and Wayne
county Fair tonight and Friday
Heavy frost tonight. Probably fair
Saturday. For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair. Slightly colder tonight. Friday fair. Temperature Today. Noon 57 Yesterday. Maximum 44 Minimum 20 General Conditions Barometric pressure arose rapidly over the west last night and is the cause of the present cool weather. The weather is expected to remain fair the remainder of the week.
(By Associated Press) VANCOUVER, B. C, March 29. A dispatch to the Canadian News from Toklo says that a German raider has sunk a Japanese warship in the Southern Pacific. The names of the vessels were not disclosed.
Bavaria Faces Grave, Famine
(By Associated Press) LONDON, March 29. A gloomy picture of the food situation in Bavaria was drawn by the minister of the interior Brettreich in an address before the Lantag on Tuesday, according to a Berne dispatch to Reuters. Minister Brettreich is quoted as Baying that the recent stock taking had shown that conditions were very serious and that there was a deficiency of 90,000 tons in Bavarian breadstuffs. Conditions outside Bavaria, he said, were even more unfavorable.
FACTORIES SECURE PERMITS TO ERECT $16,000 ADDITIONS
The seriousness of the international situation is having no affect on the i local building activities. Within the
past few days permits have been issued" for the construction of two factory additions, one residence, two garages and one sto're. The Miller-Kemper company has a permit for the construction of a $6,000 concrete factory building on Northwest Second street and .the Swayne-
Robinson company is authorized to construct a $10,000 foundry on North Second street. Other late permits are: Steven Worley, 211-213 Northwest Seventh street, garage, cost $2,800. Dessie Bayer, 541 North Twelfth street, one-room frame store, cost $500. D. W. Comstock, "concrete garage, rear 1014 Main, cost $400. . E. R. Foster, frame residence, 2224 North E street, cost $1,600.
PUBLIC KNOWS MOST OF DATA ABOUT CRISIS
(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 29. The
American public, in a general way, has
as much information bearing directly
on the present crisis between the United States and Germany, except on
German plots against American inter
ests as the government itself, it was
ascertained definitely today. Regard
ing the plots, however, the government
has considerable information which it
has so far not deemed wise to divulge.
With the extraordinary session of congress only four days off, it also is
known, the government is without
knowledge of any further develop
ments in prospect in the situation between nowrattd that time. Neither has the government any information Of a possible peace move on Germany's
part of that she has considered aband
oning her submarine ruthlessness or that any other nation contemplates a step Intended to change the situation.
Women Arrange Ward Meeting
Urges President to Recommend Universal Plan
SPAIN WILL PROBE APPEAL TO PEOPLE
(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 29. Chairman Chamberlain of the Senate military committee, with a White House engagement for late today, said he would ask President Wilson in his address before Congress next week to endorse universal military training as a preparedness measure of first importance'.
A meeting for the women of the
Second ward will be held under the auspices of Esther Griffin White and Mrs. Nelle Barnard on Friday evening at half past seven o'clock in the lecture room of the Morrisson-Reeves library for the purpose of discussing the provisions of the new suffrage law. Special music and speakers will be present and the women of the Second ward are urged to attend. The Second ward extends from the east side of the river to the middle of North Eighth street, north of Main to the Pennsylvania railroad.
Mennonite Church is Against War
(By Associated Press) LIMA, O., March 29. Congressman B. F. Welty, of Lima, who will reach Washington today, will submit to President Wilson a resolution adopted
by 75,000 members of the Mennonite church protesting against compulsory military training and asking that they
be exempted from military service in the event the United States Is engaged In war. The resolution sets forth that the Mennonite church does not
countenance war.
(By Associated Press) PARIS, March 29. An appeal to the people," which has been issued in Spain has been declared by the government to be seditious, a Havas dispatch from Madrid reports. The sign
ers of the appeal, whose names have not been disclosed, have been arrested. The cabinet has taken the affair into its own hands and will deal with it summarily.
MADRID SUSPENDS ALL GUARANTEES
(By Associated Press) LONDON, March 29. The official Gazette of Madrid publishes today a decree suspending constitutional guarantees in all provinces of the Kingdom. Internal disorders and wide-spread strikes in Spain have been reported at intervals during the last year. In December a general strike of twentyfour hours was called by the labor organizations as a protest against the Increased price of food.
Labor Renounces , Eight-Hour Day ( By Associated Press) PETROGRAD, Via London, March
29. The workmen in all the factories engaged in manufacturing for the na
tional defense have decided to renounce for the period of the war one of the fundamental items of the labor program, namely, the eight-hour day, it is announced here semiofficially.
ADVANCING BRITISH DRAW LINES CLOSE ABOUT JERUSALEM
(By Associated Press) . British operations In Palestine are indicated by today's reports to be progressing successfully on a large scale, with the British forces closing in fcteadily on Jerusalem. On March 7, a British column was reported within forty miles of Jerusalem at El Chalil, or Hebron, about thirty-five miles inland. This column has evidently been supported by a stronger army advancing up the Mediterranean coast, where it can be munitioned and supplied by water. The coast army, moving northward
from Rafa, has rushed up the Medi
terranean shore to within five miles of Gaza, the historic town of Bible times. Gaza is almost directly west of
El Chalil bringing the British front up to a straight line apparently across the entire breadth of Palestine between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. Forty miles north of Gaza is Jaffa, the port of Jerusalem, where a railway line runs to the capital.
By W. R. POUND8TONE "Preparedness" was the watchword of the day at city hall and the usual placid atmosphere of the seat of municipal government was disturbed by an activity which brought home the fact that the nation now stands on the brink of war. When the board of public works assembled this forenoon a delegation representing every bank in the dry waited upon that body with the request that the police department be promptly provided with sufficient rifles and riot guns to meet any emergency which might arise. Favorable consideration was given to this demand and the delegation of bankers will meet again tonight with members of the board of public works and of the police board for a further discussion of the question. The joint special session of these boards was called by Mayor Robbins. Guards MimlelMl Plan
It was also announced today that the city had placed armed guards at the municipal electric power plant for the proper protection of that institution which furnishes the city all of its electric lighting and power. City officials have also called upon Superintendent Stimson of the Richmond division, Pennsylvania lines, requesting that railroad police officers be detailed to guard the Pennsylvania bridge over the Whitewater river. These officials admitted that they were not satisfied with the result of their interview with Superintendent Stimson and said that in the event he failed, to act on the city's request for a bridge guard a similar request would be filed with the general superintendent of the southwest system of the Pennsylvania lines. The railroad police force In Richmond lately has been reduced from fourteen to three officers. Interview Local Official. The question of providing guards for the C. & O. bridge over the Whitewater will be taken up with Henry C. Starr of this city, general counsel for the C. & O. of Indiana. It was also stated today that the city Is prepared to file a request with the management of the Richmond City Water Works company. for the estabContlnued On Page Five.
SUGAR-LADEN BARK TORPEDOED BY SUB
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 29. The British bark Neach with a cargo of sugar was torpedoed without warning
at 8:45 a. m. Tuesday twenty-eight
miles southeast of Fastnet, according
to a state department report today from CoUsul Frost atQueenstown. Two Americans, Clarence Bloom, of San Francisco and Peter Webster, negro seaman of Pensacola, Fla., escaped together with other members of the crew.
DEMOCRAT STAYS. AWAY FROM CAUCUS (By Associated Press) BOSTON, March 29. Congressman
James A. Gallivan, before starting for Washington last night said that he favored a bi-partisan - organization of congress, that he would not attend the Democratic caucus: set for tomorrow
Dut mat he would vote for Champ Clark for speaker.
DEATH CALLS CHARLES SHIVELEY, PROMINENT IN LODGE CIRCLES
COLUMBIA PROFESSOR ADDRESSES TEACHERS
Charles E. Shiveley, one of the best known members of the Wayne county
bar, died suddenly at his home, 46 South Fourteenth street, at 2 o'clock
this afternoon after an illness of only
two days. An acute attack of grip, complicated by a heart ailment, was the cause of death. Mr. Shiveley is survived by the widow, a son, Ray K. Shiveley, and a daughter, Mrs. Mary Holmes, the wife of Dr. Harry Holmes, of Oberlin, Ohio, formerly a member of Earlham faculty. Prominent as K. of P. Mr. Shiveley was one of Richmond's
i most prominent citizens, and was one i of the best-known attorneys in Indiana. He was nationally prominent as a member of the Knights of Pythias. He was also a Mason and an Elk.
BRIDGE IS GIVEN CONFERENCE POST Rev. U. S. A. Bridge, of Richmond, Rev. W. B. Freeland, former Richmond district superintendent, and Rev. C. C. Travis, of Fort Wayne, were appointed on the floor committee at the North Indiana Methodist conference in Huntington yesterday. Dr. Harris Franklin Rail, of Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, 111., spoke yesterday afternoon on . "Christian
Faith." "Science has accentuated poverty, cursed riches and stained millions in Europe," he said.
Dr. Arthur D. Dean, of Columbia University Teachers' college, is to speak in Richmond' on May 12 at a teachers' institute. An invitation will be extended to all persons who are interested in the relation of the schools to community life.
Dr. Dean is a pioneer in the recent community efforts and his work along! that line at Rochester, N. Y., Is re-! garded as a model. He is a widely!
Known writer along, community lines
Berlin Considers War Inevitable
Duma Members Explain Revolt
(By Associated Press) LONDON, March 29 Two members of the Russian duma have returned to Petrograd from Kronstadt, where the revolutionary movement was least organized, and met with armed resistance, says a Reuter dispatch from Petrograd today. During their stay a great meeting was held at which the deputies explained the situation to
representatives of the fleet and the garrison, who cheered the speeches vigorously. :
(By Associated Press) COPENHAGEN (via London) March 29. There has been a noticeable absence of comment in the German pa
pers of the last few days on the news of American war preparations. The papers have printed various dispatches, some from New York and others from the Anglo-French press but generally without comment. The tone of the headlines alone indicates the Increasing ceritude that war is inevitable. The news of the recall of American representatives on the Belgian relief commission has, however, stirred the editorial writers into breaking their Eilence. The Tages Zeitung attacks the American commissioners sharply, declaring that they were steadily working in English interests and furnlshined a regular channel for the transmission of military news from Belgium.
Charles Edward Shiveley was born on a farm in Preble county, Ohio, July 8, 1853. He was the son of Henry and Mary ; Shiveley. When he was eight years of age his parents moved to Miami county, Indiana, and in 1868, he was placed in a Presbyterian boarding school at Wabash, Ind., where he remained for two years. In 1870 he removed with his parents to Cambridge City, and In the public schools of that town was prepared for college. Studied at Hanover College. Mr. Shiveley was a student in Hanover college, Indiana, and In 1874 finished his Junior year in that institution. In 1875, after some years of reading law, he was admitted to the Wayne county bar. In 1880 he was elected prosecuting attorney of this county and then removed to Richmond where he has since resided. Mr. Shiveley was re-elected presocuting attorney in 1S82 and since then he had devoted himself to the pracContlnued On Page Nine.
APPLY PEACE PLAN
BEFORE MAKING WAR, BRYAN ASKS SOLOIIS
(By Associated Press) MIAMI, Fla., March 29. William J.
Bryan today addressed an appeal to
the senate and house of representatives urging that an attempt be made to secure the suspension of Germany's ruthless submarine campaign through the application of the so-called Bryan peace plan which provides for an investigation of all disputes by an International tribunal before resort to war. Mr. Bryan asked that congress also consult the wishes of the people through a referendum if it concludes that nothing but war will satisfy the nation's honor.
Ackerman Tells of German Propaganda to Engender Hate Toward Americans
By CARL W. ACKERMAN (Copyright, 1917, The Tribune Association. Registered in accordance with the Copyright Act, Canada, 1917, by The Tribune Association.) While professing officially, her friendship for the United States the German government has been secretly preparing the German mind for war since the sinking of the Lusltania. German officials realized that unless the people were encouraged to hate and to buspect President Wilson and the United States it would be impos-,
sible for them to have public support
when the break came. . The German people must always have a reason. A war or a break in diplomatic relations had to be "Justified." So while Germany maintained a propaganda bureau in America to "explain" Germany and to maintain good relations, she started, also, in Germany an extensive propaganda system against Wilson, the press, the United States Ambassador and Americans in general. It was a propaganda of hate and very effective. Among,
army officers the bitterness and hatred
of the United States are deeper and
more extensive than the hatred of
any other belligerent. It was often said in Berlin: "Germany hates England, fights France, suspects Russia, but loathes America." No one, not even American officials questioned it. Light and Truth In January, 1916, there appeared in Berlin a publication called "Light and Truth." It was a twelve-page circular in English and German attacking President Wifson and the United;
j States. Copies were sent by mall to
.all Americans and to hundreds of
thousands of Germans. It was edited and distributed by "The League of Truth." It was the most sensational document printed in Germany since the beginning of the war against a power with which Germany was supposed to be at peace. Page 6 contained two illustrations under the legend: WILSON AND HIS PRESS IS NOT AMERICA ; Underneath was this paragraph: "An American Demonstration On
the 27th of January, the birthday of
the German Emperor, an immense
laurel wreath decorated with the Ger
man and American flags was placed by Americans at the foot of the monument to Frederick the Great (in Berlin). The American .flag was enshrouded in black crepe. Frederick the Great was the first to recognize the independence of the young Republic, after it had won its freedom from the yoke of England at the price of
tts very heart's blood through years
of struggle. His successor, Wilhelm
IL receives the gratitude of America
in the form of hypocritical phrases and war supplies to his mortal
enemy."
One photograph was the wreath it-
eelf. The other showed a group of thirty-six people, mostly boys, standing in front of the statue after the wreath had been placed. Gerard on the Job When Ambassador Gerard - learned about the "demonstration" he went to the statue and from there immediately to the Foreign Office, where he saw
Secretary of State von Jagow. Gerard demanded instantaneous removal of the wreath. Von Jagow promised an "Investigation.' Gerard, meanwhile began a personal investigation of tho "League of Truth." which had purchased and placed the insult there. Days, weeks, even months passed. Von Jagow still refused to have the wreath removed. Finally Gerard went to the Foreign Office and told von Jagow that unless it was taken away
that day be would get It himself Continued on Pago Two .
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