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HOME EDITION TWELVE PAGES VOL. XLII., NO. 184 SSSiEUf 78un-T1'ram RICHMOND, IND, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1917. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS, (6) 111 Ml IsnfL 0)J

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ALL DISTRICTS EXPECTED TO EXCEED THEIR ALLOTMENTS

New York Reserve Has Subscribed Least One Billion of Big Fund. District for at Dollars CHICAGO TOTAL GREAT WASHINGTON. June IB. The Liberty Loan has been tremendously oversubscribed. .When the books closed at noon, treasury officials estimated that the total would reach at least $2,500,000,000, and might soar to three billion dollars. Every federal reserve district with possibly the exception of Atlanta and Kansas City, appeared to have ex ceeded its minimum allotment. Reports from these two districts were slow in coming in. With thousands of banks to be heard from in the two districts, how ever, it seemed likely that the minimum allotment would be reached in each case. NEW YORK. June 15 With tabulatr tag clerks many hours behind the subscriptions, the participation' of buyers of the Liberty Loan bonds in the New ,-York Federal reserve district at 10 o'clock today had reached an aggregate or $952,000,000. ' Two hours before the books were to close heavy subscriptions were still pouring in and it appeared certain that New York's share in the Liberty Loan would exceed more than half of the two billion total. . The Initial transaction In Liberty Loan bonds, trading in which began on the New York stock exchange today was above par. . A lot of 110,000 sold at par and 1-60. . The next lot $250,000 old at par. , CHICAGO-DISTRICT MAY . SUBSCRIBE $325,000,000 CHICAGO, June 15. Three hundred million 'dollars, forty- millions more , than the quota, was the official estimate' of the subscription of the Chicago Federal ' reserve -: bank district, : when the Liberty Loan books clossed ' at noon today. - Tbe greater part of Indiana Is In the district. At noon a total of $274,000,000 for the Seventh district has been counted and tbe estimate for the district when returns are all counted tonight, was shortly afterward raised to . $325,000,000. CLEVELAND SUBSCRIBES $56,000,000 TO LOAN . CLEVELAND, June 15. Cleveland Liberty Loan subscriptions reached $56,000,000 this morning. Campaign managers estimate tbe total will ex ceed $57,000,000 by noon.-: Cleveland has exceeded her original quota of $36,000,000 by 50 percent and the manlmumm total of $45,000,000 by 25 percent. Fourth district federal reserve bank officials after working all night on the subscriptions from the fourth district aid this morning that the maximum allotment of $225,0000.000 for the dlstrice would be oversubscribed. Do Your p--! Join the Bit NowLj-iRed Cross WEATHER FORECAST For Indiana, by United States Weather Bureau Fair weather and rising temperature tonight and Saturday. Temperature Today. Noon .....53 Yesterday. Maximum 70 Minimum 49 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy but mostly fair tonight and Saturday. Rising temperature Satnrday.. General Conditions The Rocky mountain cold wave affected the entire eastern and central portions of the United States, and is moving toward the Gulf of Mexico. Hot wave covers the north ' and southwest. 116 at Yuma, Arizona and 90 to 100 In Texas. Frost in Wyoming and Montana. Theodore Marbug, Minister to Belgium from 1912 to 1914, and now chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the League to Enforce Peace, who is in Richmond as a guest of William Dudley Foulke, foresees a change of heart In Germany after the war which will win the friendship of her former foes. . "I look forward," says Marburg, "lo this war bringing about a , change of spirit on the part ot the German people which will cause her to be welcomed at the council-table of the nations, and start Germany on a career of more real

World Will Be Armed Camp If Kaiser Wins, Says Marburg

Thlo lo For You-Rcod It

You want to do something for your country? You can't shoulder a gun and go into the trenches. There is a work here at home under government supervision that is just as important. That work is getting our hospitals and ambulances ready to take care of the thousands of American boys who are now In France or getting ready to leave. Let's don't leave this form of preparedness until It is too late. Suppose your son was in France today and you did not know how he would be taken care of in case he was wounded? How would you feel? . This is the work which will be done by the. Red Cross. The money for this work will be raised in a country-wide campaign all over the United States next week. Men who are very , busy with their own affairs have agreed to drop their own work and go out in a house to house solicitation in the cause of human suffering? What are you willing to do? Y6u can do two things, you, can volunteer to help with the raising of this money and then you can give as liberally as possible for the cause. It must be done and there are no Slackers in Wayne county. COUNTY'S TOTAL EXPECTED TO BE OVER $1,100,000 Bankers Will Continue to Accent Subscriptions to a Liberty Loan Fund. INDIANAPOLIS. June 15 Liberty Loan figures totaled at noon today showed that Indiana lacked a little more than $2,000,000 j of subscribing its allotment. - Wayne county's . total contribution to tbe Liberty Loan will reach $1,100,000. according to the estimates made today "by local banks, v The exact amount of the county's subscriptions bad not been figured up this afternoon after the campaign had officially closed at noon.' ' Applications for Liberty bonds re ceived too late to reach the treasury department by this noon will be ac cepted by local banks under a recent order of the treasury department. Tbe sale of bonds In this county has practically closed although banks are willing to accept applications for sev eral days. Members of the county bankers' committee are gratified with the way tbe campaign has finished in this county and are confident that the county will be able to do its share in any future loan that may be floated. VIEWS OF ARMENIA AND SYRIA TO BE THROWN ON SCREEN . Views depicting the Armenian-Syrian situation as it is today, will be shown . in the assembly room of the Morrisson-Reeves library tonight. Rev. Mead A. Kelsey and J. E. Williams will have charge of tbe lecture. Fifty new slides have been received from the Underwood. and Underwood company.. They are colored pictures portraying most vividly the present situation in Turkey. Pictures of the Holy Land, as it was before the war, will be shown. This stereopticon lecture is to be free, and tho public is invited to at tend. Children must be accompanied by an adult. The lecture will last about one hour, beginning promptly at 8 o'clock. No offering of any kind will be tak en. Tne purpose or it is to snow what conditions actually are. Millions of children are starving, and many dying of disease. Help must be sent and unless every one is acquainted with conditions, progress cannot be made. BENSON GETS DEGREE BALTIMORE, Md., June 15. Rear Admiral William 3. Benson, U. S. N., was awarded the honorary degree of doctor of laws by Loyala College of this city, yesterday. and higher prosperity than she has ever enjoyed." Goes To Cincinnati School. Marburg has just come from Grinnell, la., where he delivered jthe commencement address to the graduating class of Grinnell, and he is to be the speaker at the commencement exercises of the University of Cincinnati Because of the anarchic condition. of Russia, the former minister does not believe in an early peace, but considers such a peace possible in the event of a revolt of the German soldiers, which he also thinks. possible.

COLONELS ARE SELECTED TO DIRECT RED

CROSS DRIVE Staffs Picked by General Dill and 'Admiral Harris for Great Campaign for Funds Next Week. TO GIVE LIBERTY BONDS . General Howard Dill and Admiral E. H. Harris, of the army and navy, which will endeavor to capture the county's share of the $25,000 to be raised for the Red Cross, have selected the five colonels who will have dilect charge of the campaign under the commanders in chief. L. A. Handley, Oliver Nusbaum, F. M. Taylor, Charles F. Thomason and Ira C. Wood compose the staff of the Dill forces, while J. Clifford Price, Fred G. White, W. M. Bailey, E. R. Lemon and R. B. Nicholson will have direct charge of the Harris band. New Colonels Recruiting. The hew colonels are recruiting with much enthusiasm and each expects to have a picked force ready by Monday for the house-to-house canvass which j will be made. . ' Many of the wealthier Richmond residents are planning to do double patriotlo duty by the gift of a Liberty bond to the work of the Red Cross Plans have, been completed for the big mass meeting at the Coliseum Sunday afternoon, at which the work of the Red Cross will be explained by Judge Woodmansee of Cincinnati. Ar rangements have been made for mus ic, and for the parking of the automo biles of the overflow crowd. - Meetings lit County Besides the meetings to be held over the county, to be addressed by speak, erf from Richmond .and others, many "T' - - k w i w' Ti Sunday meeting In Richmond. . Men of the city, to whom the pro ject is a vital .matter, are very en thusiastic, and. have started a move ment for subscriptions from each cit izen to total at least a day's income. Word Received of Accidental Death of John T. McCarthy Word was received here today that John T. McCarthy, of this city, a United States Marine, and son of John F. McCarthy, grocer, former president of the Commercial club, had been accidentally killed in San Fran cisco, presumably at the navy yard there. No details have been announced. A dispatch from San Francisco appear ing In an Indianapolis newspaper today says that the body will be sent to Richmond. McCarthy was about thirty years old and for a time was a student at Notre Dame University. Powder Factory is Scene ot Explosion; All Details Lacking BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 15.. An explosion occurred at the plant of the Aetna Powder company on the outskirts of the city about 11 a. m. today. All telephones to the plant are out of commission and details of the accident are lacking. . BASIL WALTERS ACCEPTED FOR AMBULANCE CORPS Basil L. Walters, former Richmond newspaper man and member of the Palladium staff, who has been in Bloomington attending Indiana university, has been selected as one of the ambulance corps to go to the front from Bloomington, by Major T. Victor Keen,-chief of sanitary inspection at Fort Benjamin Harrison. Only one out of three of the applicants for places in the corps were chosen by Major Keene. He gave an outline of the things he thinks most important for the United States and the world at present. v Winning of War First, i; Chief among these he placed the winning of the war. - "With the defection of Russia, he said, the world would be in desperate plight, with France . so sorely tried, had not the United States entered the war. ' ' All World Must Arm. Germany has drilled every citizen as a soldier. If she wins the war, Marburg went on, she will impose her mili

Moore Takes Blame For Frigid Wave; Relief, is Promised

Guilty! Weatherman Moore today absolved Medicine Hat of any blame for- the present cqld wave and Is willing to take all the blame for the pres ent January weather on his .own shoulders. ". , "Medicine Hat has nothing to do with It," Moore said, "I guess I am to blame." . J - . The cold wave will be over by the first -of next week, however, and according to -Moore, the temperature will rise to SO degrees In the shade and even more than that by Monday. To Motorists! Oyer! Oyez! The Red Cross requests all auto owners of the city to leave the sign boosting tbe Red Cross, which will be placed upon tbelr windshields, in place at least until the close ot P.ed Cross week, on June 25. ; Compliance with this request will be greatly appreciated ; by the Red Cross, and will aid In the publicity work. Miss White Tells Factory Girls Mow to Cast Their Vote Esther Griffin White, chairman . of the Women Voter's Association, gave a brief talk this afternoon to the young women employes of the Adam H. Bartel factory on the provisions of the partial suffrage bill passed by the last legislature. "J " "Although we cannot, tell what the outcome of the suit brought In the Indianapolis courts to test the constitutionality of the law ill be," said Miss White, , "we must be ready to vote if it Is declared legitimate. Therefore every woman of voting age should register for that purpose and there is plenty of time to do so as the registration period covers 60 days." Miss White further urged the women to Inform, themselves as to the personality of their candidates for Council stating- that- the. kind , of councilman thai closely affected every, resident: u wi.. n JLn.;Miss White will give similar talks in other Richmond factories on- Satmv day and. Monday. Monday noon she will speak to the young women of the Richmond Underwear factory. . "The Women Voters Association was formed last Spring and held a series of largely attended ward meetings and started the movement, for active work by the women of the city in the con duct of city affairs. At that time It was stated that precinct chairmen would be appointed before the date of registration to see that all women registered If possible and that has now been done. We . have a chairman .in every precinct in the city," said Miss White. ; ELLIOTT CANVASSES IN HENRY COUNTY NEWCASTLE, Ind., June 15. "Dick" Elliott, Republican candidate for congress, put in. a very busy day here. Together with a party of Newcastle Republicans he made an automobile tour through a part of the county this forenoon and at noon met hundreds of employes of the Maxwell automobile and Hoosier, Kitchen Cabinet factories in this city. This afternoon he completed his tour of the county. Everywhere Mr. Elliott . was most cordially received. He made no speeches, confining his efforts to personally meeting as many voters as possible. This morning Mr. Elliott visited New Lisbon, Straughns, Lewisville, Dunreith, Spiceland, and Knightstown. This afternoon he was to visit Millville. Mooresville, Blountsville, Mti Clements, Sulphur Springs, Honey Creek, Middletown, Cadiz and Kennard. British to Release Irish Prisoners LONDON, June 15. It was announced in the House of Commons this afternoon that the government had decided to release all the prisoners taken in the Irish rebellion of Easter Sunday a year ago. , tary system upon her allies, AustriaHungary, Bulgaria and Turkey. This means that the rest of the world must do the same, which will mean enormous expense and an explosive condition of the world, since if men are ready to fight they will fight. 1 If Germany is beaten, and a liberal government is introduced, not necessarily a republic, but like that of England and Italy,' there is no reason why Germany should be denied a place at the council-table of nations. The ideas of Bernhardt. Nietzsche and Treitschke are not mainly responsible for the false ideas of the German

Teddy's Feeling Good I HiMiii . ' ' , i.n m ii- . ' . 1 1 . I ,5g ft

The photographer snapped T. R. as he stopped off in Chicago on his way to Lincoln to deliver a Flag Day address. , "I'm feeling bully,", he said, "in spite of the fact that they won't let me go to Europe." 7 .. . " . , School Board Supports Pickell and Giles in Signed Statement; Newspapers Scored For Attacks

A statement covering the recent attacks on Superintendent Giles . and Principal Pickell was issued today by the school board. ..... , Full confidence in the two school men was expressed and the Richmond newspapers were scored for . giving space to attacks on them. The state ment follows : : i ' Regarding" Supt. J. T.' Giles Supt Giles is under contract for the ensuring year, which will complete his two years contract signed in 1916. : No Charge Preferred. In the four, years of his service no charge has ever been preferred against him to the board; the board up to this date haa no charge to bring against j him, but - herewith sustains him in every official act that has been passed by them on his recommendation.' Mr. Giles is in excellent standing with his Alma Mater, also at Columbia University Teachers , College, and is considered one of the best exponents of the vocational system now at work people, in Marburg's opinion. Rather the true cause is to be found In the cheap and easy victories won by German ars in former. wars ..;.';"i,.--.".:V The France-PruBsian war, 1 for ' Instance,' gave the Germans such ' an enormous indemnity fund that they were enabled to place the nation on a gold 'basis; put her commerce on a sound footing and to become in spirit a young people. - ' v ; ; If she is shown that she cannot repeat the victories, she will : have a change of spirit. ' It is Impossible to stipulate by treaty the overthrow of

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i under state aid and encouragement in Indiana. We also warmly commend his administration, while realizing that it may not be absolutely justifiable in the judgement of the boara. Regarding Principal Pickell Principal Pickell has finished a . term of Continued, On Page Nine. End of World Will Follow War, Says Eaton Clergyman EATON, O., June 15. "The Battle of That Great Day of God Almighty" is the subject ' of a sermon to be preached next Sunday morning at First Christian church by the pastor. Rev. R. Lee KIrkland. Dr. Kirkland believes humanity is living in the shadows of the world's setting sun and that the great world war is the .last-one, to. which Biblical attention is called. Rev. A. M. Hainer.'. of Utica, Ohio, will preach at the ' evening hour of service. ' Prcssianism, because -' we , would be dealing with Prussianism and for this reason ;: the reform must come from within, from the overturning' of the rynasty by the people. It Is like asking a man to agree to his own hanging. ; .. .... -: -. . An organization, at least a rudimentary one. to regulate the relations of nations just as those of a state are administered " is fully .possible,' Marburg believes, and he considers it a reflection upon our intelligence' that , it has not been done. Germany, however, victorious and. outside such an organi

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HEAVY GUNS OF BRITISH FORCE FOE TO RETREAT;

Germans Unable to Resist Constant Pressure of Artillery Berlin Admits Retirement in Belgium. , FALL BACK RAPIDLY LONDON, June 15w The British armed merchant cruiser, Abanger was torpedoed and sunk In the North Sea Wednesday night. All but one were saved. BERLIN, June 15, vta LondonRetirement of the German forces at two points on the front In Bel . glum is reported in today'e official statement. The Germane were pressed back by the British between Hollebeke and the region ef the river Bouve and alee southwest of Warneton. (By Associated Press)' - The British campaign in Belgium gives sign of developing into one of the most important of tbe war. The Germans apparently are unable to re sist the pressure constantly being applied to them and are being forced back at a comparatively rapid rate. Today brings the announcement of another considerable advance o( the British in this area. The attack. last night in the region south and east of Messines and on both sides ; of the Tpres-Comines canal, gaining all their objective and. capturing one big gun and seven machine guns together with , 150 prisoners. ' -, - ' Extends' Seven' Miles. - . ' ' The front line in the British offensive movement extends for a distance of about 7 miles from the village of Klin ZiUebeke south to the. rtver , Wajnare;. :. .-, -'-.w u Last night's attack the culmina-j tion of constant pressure yielded General Plumer'a . troops, the German' front trenches between the Warnavej and the Lys. besides - additional ground more to the north in the cen ter between Ypres and Comlnes. the' omciai statement indicates. Signs of a probable further rtrat I of the Germans are not wanting.' Cor-j respondents have reported the with-: drawal of the -big German guns east ' and southeast of Messines.. to the ex-, treme limit of their range. I - Artillery Is Responsible. The British artillery command of the situation seems to be almost altogether responsible for this and tho other yielding tendency of . the Ger mans. . The British guns secured. their advantage when Messines ridge. the only commanding eminence in the region, was stormed at the opening of the offensive. General Haig's dispatches have in dicated that Important developments might be expected to grow out of the offensive on Belgium and his predic tion appears to be in the way of being made good. ITALIAN COMMISSION TO VISIT GARIBALDI STATUE IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, June 15. The Italian war commission will visit the Garibaldi Memorial on Staten Island, while guests of New York next week. Announcement was made today that this function would be one of the most impressive details of the entertainment of the commission. The Staten Island visit will be made on the second day of tbe commission's stay in New York, Friday, June 22. Mayor Mitchel today issued an Invitation to all Italian societies, organizations and to all Italian-American citijens and residents generally to attend the function. - i Beg Pardon! Contrary to the announcement in ' last night's Palladium, the organ that is being installed in the South! Eighth Street Friends' church ,wss! the gift of Benjamin Johnson instead! of John H. Johnson. Benjamin John-' son is one; of the charter members of the . church and has been very active in the church work all his life. zation would be a constant menace and for this reason she must come inJ The admission of Germany to thur league would be ' distasteful to" the allies at present, bat a r change of spirit In tbe German people would cause that to disappear. Marburg pointed out the feeling of distrust in England regarding n alliance with autocratic Russia which, disappeared with the . forming of the " Russian Republic. ,w . ' . Why should not the same thing hap. pen ' in regard to - Germany 7 he , inquires. . , . ..,

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