Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 177, 7 June 1917 — Page 1

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BRITISH PUSH FOE BACK ON FRONT NINE MILES LONG New Offensive Menaces Lille Artillery Bombardment ; is Aid to Great Onslaught Attack Early Today. ) PRISONERS ARE TAKEN i t.oxtON. June 7. The British have opened an attack on a nine-mile front between Messines ana wyischaete and have taken all their first objectives. Thm Mficlal statement says that the British progress is. being continued and that a number of prisoners nave been taken. TV. nffioial tafompnt follows: l ... "We attacked at 3:10 a. m., u morning German positions on the Messines Wytschaete ridge, on a front of over nine miles. We have everywhere captured our first objectives and further progress i3 reported to be satisfactory along the whole front of attack. . Numbers of prisoners are reported already to be reaching the collection stations." The new British orfensive is against a sharp German salient three miles sooth of Ypres. For several days the British have maintained a tremendous bombardment for almost thirty miles on this portion of their front. The salient . Itself is about three miles in width and the same in depth. An offensive advance in this sector would seriously menace , the German hold on Lille, which is about five miles from the nearest British position. New Attack is Part of Arras Off ensive x . (By Associated Prs General Halg has launched his expected dash at the German lines in Germany, striking early this morning along a nine-mile front on the Mes-sines-Wytschaete ridge, between Ypres and Lille. ' . Successes marked the opening or the offensive, the British winning all their points and pushing on. Further progress is reported to be satisfactory along the whole front. While a considerable stretch separates the field of this new offensive and that of Arras the operation may be considered as in conjunction with the continuing battle on the Arras front. , A sweeping palient In front of the city of Lille has been created by the Arras attack and in a broad sense this salient is now under threat of both the north and the south. Belying the recent German boasts that the French offesnive from Arras has come to a halt. General Haig earlier this week showed that he had not lost his initiative there by making a successful drive to the south of Lens, carrying a mile of the German front north of the Scarpe. Preparations for this ' blow had hardly died away before the attack was launched on the other side of the Lille salient. 44 Y" Camp Boys to Get Chicken Dinner Boys who go on ' the Y. M. C. A. ; camping party will partake of a real I chicken dinner in Milroy. Rev. Thomas H. Adams of Milroy, formerly of the j Central Christian church here, has extended an invitation to the entire camp n mtnA Simrtav nchool and church. Women of the church will prepare dinner for them at tne cnurcn. ine boy will hike to Milroy, a distance of eight miles. Everything is ready for the trip. Camp opens next Wediresday. About thirty-five boys will go. They will be taken in automobiles to the camp, which is about 65 milee distant. Do Yonrr--i Join the Bit NowT Red C WEATHER FORECAST For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Probably fair tonight and Friday. Cooler in northeast portion tonight Temperature Today. Noon .......75 Yesterday. Maximum 81 Minimum 60 For Wayne County by W. E.' Moore Fair tonight and Friday except for im inn! thunder saualls. General Conditions The storm of the past several days is now central over the Great Lakes and is one of great violence. Winds will reach gale proportions over the northern positions of central states and Great Lakes. The storm Is moving northeastward down the St. Lawrence Valley and will probably reach here sometime during the next 24 hours.

American Steamer

Was Ship parts Jim 7.- The American! steamer Silvershell has had a battle with a submarine In the Mediterranean. After an exchange of sixty shots the submarine disappeared. Details of the fignt were maae puo11c today by the ministry of marine. The Silvershell,- commanded by Captain Tom Charlton, sighted the submarine on May 30. In the running fight which followed the American boat proved speedier than Its enemy and seemed also to be the master In gunfire. The disappearance of the submarine was sudden. WASHINGTON, June 7. The Silrershell Is the steamer referred to In yesterday's state department- announcement as having sunk a German submarine after an exchange of sixty shots In a . running fight of an hour and a half. The slate department did not , announce the name of the steamer because It has been this government's policy not to disclose the names of ships having engagements with submerslbles because officials feel it marks the ship for further attack, as they believe was the case with the Mongolia. That vessel, after having once been identified with a submarine encounter, has repeatedly been attacked as though the submarine flotilla had set Ebout especially to destroy tne vessel which had the temerity to engage it with such persistence. It has been the policy also not to identify the gun WOMEN WILL SIT AT PEACE TABLE, DR. JONES SAYS Suffragist Speaker Predicts Franchise for Sex Will Result From War. ; Dr. Effie Jones, field director of the National Suffrage Association, in her address ' this afternoon at the High school said universal enfranchisement of women will be one result of the war."Men see that . war bears as heavily on women as men, and will be willing to let us take part in making the peace treaties. Dr. Jones made a fair appeal for the ballot for women. She doeB not claim that votes for women will bring about the millenlum. She had not criticism of men, and there was no sex antagonism in her talk. "All human needs are better served when men and women work in partnership. Woman suffrage means a partnership of the right thinking men and the right thinking women fot curContlnued On Pane Thirteen. LODGE WOMEN ARRAIGN GILES; PROTEST GROWS Employes of Factory Present Petition Against Superintendent. J. T. Giles, superintendent of city schools, was bitterly scored by Daughters of America In a meeting held last night - Speakers spoke against his retention as head of the local schools. The following committee was appointed to co-operate In the movement of protest that is rising over the city: Mrs. Rosetta Hosier. Mrs. Eva Monroe and Mrs. Ella Slmms. Tool-Makers Act Employes of the Simplex Tool Works, in the southern part of the city, yesterday signed a petition which went to the school board. Seventy-five employes asked that Giles be fired and Ramsey re-instated principal of the Whitewater ' school. The petitions in the Whitewater district are about complete. Practically every school patron in the district is asking that the school board return Ramsey to the school. All over the city, men and women are keeping up their fight against what they feel Is an outrageous oppression of an Innocent men. Supporters Are Few The clubs and social ' organizations are outspoken in their .strictures against Giles. His supporters are few and far between, - . - No action of the school board in a decade has provoked an attack of the virulence and bitterness that has been directed the school administration. In many circles is heard the cry for a "house cleaning" that will begin with Giles and not end until the system has been revamped. PEACOCK IS PROMOTED J. D. Peacock, membership secretary of the Y. M. C. A., will leave June 15 to accept a position as membership and social secretary of the Wilson avenue Y. M. C. A. in Chicago. This appointment is a promotion. '

Silvershell

Which Sank U-Boat crews on merchant ships so as not to add to their hardships in case of capture. ' British Follow Policy The British have followed this same policy because, in cases where the Germans have identified a gun crew or a commander as having attacked or sunk one of their submarines they have subjected the prisoners to unusual severity. ' The Silvershell is a steamship of 5,605 tons owned by the Shell Oil Company of California. - She sailed from America early in May with a crew of 43 men of whom 15 are American citizens. Her commander comes from New York. William J. Clark of New York, an officer on the battleship Arkansas, commanded the armed guard aboard the American steamer Silvershell which sunk a German submarine In the Mediterranean. "It was a splen did piece of work," Secretary Daniels said today, "and we are now considering promotion for Clark who well deserves it. Woman, Fearing Son Will be Conscripted, Leaps Into Cistern EATON. Ohio. June 7. In a fit of mental rienrwsslnn renorted to have been occasioned because she feared her only son would be conscripted, Sophia Bolton, 56 years old. wife of Henry Bolton, residing nine miles southeast of here, removed the cover ing from a cistern and leaped down Into the water. The son, Frank Bol ton, lives near New Hope. Discovery of the lifeless body was made by a neighbor. Mrs. Walter Frame, when she visited the Bolton home. Reside her husband and son men tioned, the deceased is survived by two daughters. Funeral services and burial tooa place Thursday at Gratis. 44 Hen" is Only 34, Though He's Been on Force 33 Years ; Yesterday was the sixty- seventh anniversary of Henry Westenberg, the dean of the Richmond, police force. Henry, however, claims that he is nniv 34 vari old. "I have been "on the force" for 33 years and they don't count," he said. He started "on the force" July l, 1880, and for twenty-five years was night patrolman In Rlverdale, then known as "Goosetown," the toughest district in the city. He was removed from the department for four years during a change in the political administration of the city. "See that fellow over there V Henry asked a reporter today. "He was a kid when I started on the force, and I am a kid yet." Four Persons Killed by Michigan Storm DETROIT, June 7. Damage amounting to about $750,000 was wrought and four lives were claimed by the terrific windstorm which swept across central Michigan yesterday afternoon. The district which 'includes Battle Creek, Ann Arbor and Jackson, sustained most of the damage. A score of persons were injured. Wire communication was restored today to all cities in the storm areaBattle Creek reported about $300,000 damage. No one was killed there. Seventeen persons were hurt. The plant of the Michigan Carton company was badly battered and the company estimated its loss at $100,000. Sprtngport, Jackson county, and the vicinity were in the path of the storm. Ten houses were destroyed. Total damage was estimated at $75,000. Mrs. Florence Brown of Chicago died of heart failure shortly after the storm had swept through the village. RED GROSS WORKERS MAP OUT OFFENSIVE Details of Richmond's grand offensive in the Red Cross campaign will be worked out tomorrow evening in the Commercial club rooms. Representatives of all organizations in the county 'are urged to attend the mass meeting. Plans . for Red Cross week, which has been set by President Wilson, as ending June 25, will be considered. Indiana' has been apportioned $100,000,000 to raise. This money .will be divided into two parts. Three-fourths will go to the special war fund. The other one-fourth will pay the expenses of the campaign,' and the remainder be put in the chapter treasuries. . Fred S. Bates, representative from Richmond chapter, is attending a meeting of representatives in Indianapolis today. 3 The Red Cross War Fund Headquarters called the meeting to outline work for the state Tomorrow evening Bates will give a report. YOUNKIN WILL SPEAK Captain Younkin will speak on "Y. M. C. A. Work in the Army" this evening at the prayer service of the Reid Memorial U. P. church. - -

LIBERTY CLOCK HANDS REACH

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Banks Report Large Sales Youth Cuts Out Tobacco to "Do Bit. The dally" quota of Wayne county's share in the Liberty Loan was obtainCHICAGO, June 7. Mrs. Mabel her sister Mrs. James H. Channon, accounting of her $200,000 estate. guardian. FIRST AMERICAN TRANSPORT SAFE IN FRENCH PORT Collier Bears Wheat for Troops Expected Soon Convoyed by Warship. WASHINGTON, Juno 7. The naval collier Jupiter has arrived in Prance, Secretary Daniels announced today, laden with 10,600 tons of wheat and other supplies. The ship sailed from an American port, without any Information of her voyage having been given out in advance, and is now at anchor in a French port. PARIS. June 7 A large American I iCan troops which are to come later has crossed the Atlantic unaer ine protection of an American warship, the Matin announces. Tho transport is now being unloaded at a French port, a newspaper says. Preparations are being made for the reception of American troops,. the newspaper says further. A number of bases similar to those of the British army have been organized. PARIS, June 7. The ministry of marine announced last night that American warships have anchored off the French coast. TWELVE MEN WHO FAILED TO ENROLL LISTED BY KELLY Following the plan of leniency adopted by the government toward men who failed to register for the draft last Tuesday, County Clerk Kelly has accepted twelve men for delinquent registration. . This morning a copy of a telegram from Provost Marshal General Crowder, was received from the state registration .board which instructs registration boards to accept men for registration where "the person failing to register is clearly without fault." One man applied for a registration blank at the clerk's office today and declared that he had "been feeling badly and had forgotten to register" Tuesday? He was allowed to fill out the registration card and given a certificate.

I Syi?S "Eighth and Main H t2&3w 6treetfl was mov- - I,. lPT :$ I W ed up past the v IfZiihl Jjr ' A I seven hundred I 1 thousand dollar JSt&M Vrv! IJ mark. V If V 1 The total '3 " H f amount subscribed previous- f If : , ' ly was $653,000 s M and the total to date is $707,050. The M , county's quota is $850,00,0. , A young man subscribed for a bond J i ContlnueJ On Page Thirteen. ' r I ' ill 1 m 4t 1 is 1

Noted Beauty Wins Plea

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Arey Ludham, once known as the "most beautiful woman in Chicago, and from whom she became estranged when she sued her brother-in-law for an Channon is a North Side society and club man and was Mrs. Ludham's

Panic Spread Among Germans

by Mining BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, (From a Staff Correspondent of the A. P.) June 7. The British rush this morning on the MessinesWytachaete ridge of the Belgian front took them well over the ridge where they are now entrenched. The British captured important positions all the day from observations ridge, southeast of Ypres, to Ploegsteert wood, north of Armentiier. , More than one million pounds of high explosives were blown up under the German forward position. This, the most gigantic mining operation in the history of war, spread panic among the Germans. The British in their attacks today used probably twenty per cent, more guns, especially those of heavy calibre, than they employed in the battle of Arras. Tanks were in the thick of the fighting. More than 1,000 Germans were DOCTORS SCORED FOR FAILURE TO RESPOND TO CALL NEW YORK, June 7. Meetings of the various branches for; the discussion of papers were continued today by the delegates attending the annual convention here of the American Medical 'Association, .- Of special interest were papers read before the section on preventive medicine and public health on "Some Aspects of the Public Health in China," by Dr. W. W. Peters of Shanghai, China, and by Dr. R. W. Corwin of Pueblo, Colo., dealing with medical and surgical preparedness in times of peace and its advantage to the nation. Dr. Franklin H. Martin, chairman of the. medical section of the council of national defense in an - address last night arraigned his Junior colleagues for their failure in responding to the country's call for medical men to take care of the armies now forming. . MASSACHUSETTS' TOTAL IN EXCESS OF ESTIMATE BOSTON, June 7. Charles F. Getteny, director of military ; enrollment, wired Provost Marshal General Crowder today that with fifty towns and many institutions still to be heard from 350.000 men in Massachusetts had registered under .the .draft calL Complete returns he said would bring to total to 370.000 or about 35,000 more than the government's estimate.

Attacks of British

taken prisoners early In the engage ment. The fighting continues under a hot sun. The Germans have not yet rallied for their counter-attack. The ; village of .- Messines was re"ptJrted to have been taken early in the fighting. It was also reported Lemser and Barees had fallen and that Wytschaete had been surrounded by the British. RUSSIAN REBELS SURRENDER FORT - PETROGRAD (via London). June 7. The Kronstadt incident is closed. The local committee of soldiers and workmen's delegates has recognized the authority of the provisional government. The local committee of the workmens and soldiers' delegates at Kronstadt decided on June 1 to assume control of the great fortress and to refuse recognition of the provisional government. 1 The government officials were removed. ' " The ' seceders put forward a program of splitting Russia up Into a great - number of self-governed communities and sent missionaries out to try to persuade neighboring towns to Join them. The socialist ministers in the provisional cabinet, Thsertelli and Skobeleff, went to Kronstadt, from Petrograd and endeavored to persuade the Beceders to abandon their plan. The present surrender is apparently a result of their arguments. REPORT ON BRIDGE EXPECTED MONDAY With additional evidence to be presented in connection with the present county bridge investigation, the Wayne county grand jury adjourned until Monday morning to allow sufficient time ' to collect the remainder of the evidence needed in the investigation. The report of the grand ' jury's investigation of the bridges and a number of indictments' for felonies are expected ' to be returned at " Monday's session. . .

GRAY PICKED

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BY PARTY TO j CONTEST FOR i VACANT SEAT Former Congressman Nomi-. nated for Congress byi Sixth District Democrats on First Ballot. JOHNSON IS HONORED CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., June 7. ytnly H, Gray today was nominated by Sixth district Democrats for the vacant seat in congress left by the death of Judge Comstock. Gray was nominated on the first ballot He received 72 of the 116 votes cast Fifty-nine were necessary to a choice. Lewis Fedderman, of Brookville, received 25, Lawrence Bertsch, of Cambridge City, 15, and Henry U. Johnson, of Richmond, 4. Johnson Stampede Starts. For a time it appeared that the convention would be stampeded for Johnson, who was permanent chalrman. His keynote epeech was a masterly effort and at its close the veteran orator was given a tremendous ovation. Cries of "Johnson, Johnson." "We want Johnson," were heard all over the hall and the delegates were being swept into a state of enthusiasm when Johnson arose. "I want to thank you for the compliment you are paying me," he said, "but I positively will not be a candU date." He was forced to raise his voice to a high pitch to be heard against the din of his supporters. ' , Settle Into Business After this interruption the delegates settled into the business of the convention, which was the nomination of former Congressman Gray. Following is the vote by counties: . Fayette, ten for Gray; - Franklin, twelve for Gray; Hancock, thirteen for Gray, one for Fedderman; Henry, twelve for Gray, three for Fedderman. three for Bertsch; Rush, seven for Gray, one for - Fedderman, one for Bertsch, four for Johnson; Shelby, eight for Gray, six for Fedderman, six for Bertsch; Union, two for Gray, two for Fedderman; Wayne, twenty for Gray, five for Bertsch. Indications at noon were that Gray would be nominated on the first ballot. The boom for Lawrence Bertsch which originated in Richmond a few days ago collapsed with a dull thud this morning when a pell of the Wayne county delegation of twenty-five , was taken. This poll showed the whole delegation was solid for Gray, even the three delegates from Jackson township being for Gray. Bertsch had no support in the other counties. - Some of his friends advised him not to let his name go before the convention, assuring him that he was in for slaughter, his home delegation leading the massacre. Bertsch Is Obdurate. Just before the convention, assembled, however, Bertsch said he bad decided to permit his name to be used. He did not believe that he would be nominated. . He thought that it his name was mentioned it might be possible so to split the vote that it would be impossible for -Gray to land the Continued On Page Eleven. French Positions Taken by Enemy BERLIN, June 7. German troops yesterday captured French positions for an extent of nearly one and onequarter mile long the Ghemin-des-Bames south of Parney-Wllaim, in the Alsne region, cays the official statement Issued today by the German army headquarters staff. "WIN WITH ROBBINS" SLOGAN OF WAYNE COUNTY DELEGATES Rush ville win be the Mecca of the Wayne county Republicans tomorrow. "Win with Robbins" will be the slogan of the Wayne delegates and the nthr nnrtT workers who are Planning to attend the district convention. A number of Richmond Repunucans will leave for Rushvllle this afternoon, quite a few of them taking the trip in automobiles. It is now generally understood that ta wm Mmitv delegation to the convention win . vote solidly for Byram GL KOODins, ana pmucwnw were mil HiIm mnrnlnc that taei popular yoantr Richmond attorney, WOUlu DO UN tuiniimii mwimiim.1 PfCKEIX STILL AWAY I'

Contrary to ' aanoaneesMota nata early in the week. F. E. FlckaSL who has been in Lincoln. Nebraska, tar the last several days did not retain today. It was learned however, that he win be In the city tomorrow but no information - could be obtained as to whether be took, a place In the Lincoln, schools. - X ..." ... z-;- f,