Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 195, 28 June 1917 — Page 1

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FOE'S FRONT LINE TAKEN BY COLONIALS BEFORE AVION

Protecting Artillery Fire Enables Territorials to Storm Section of Rich Industrial City. , EARLY FALL IS SEEN CANADIAN WAR HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE. June 28. Under a protecting concentration of artillery fire, Canadian troops early today stormed and ' captured the German front line before Avion, a suburb of Lens. The Canadians, heartened by successes gained during the last few days at relatively small cost, decided this morning to attack across the open ground sloping' upwards to Avion and the village of Leauvette near the Souchez river. Advance Delayed. They met with opposition of a serious character at only one point, where a combination of a machine gun fire nnd uncut wires delayed the advance. 1 he . attack : was not intended to be . pressed home at this spot, as the ground specially favored the Germans, so the delay did not harm. By this morning's advance the British line has been carried forward to within one mile of the center of Lens. The attack was made along a two mile front- On the extreme left Novia Scotia ns pushed their . way up the Ins-Arras ?road ; to the ...village f Leauvette. Here they took a number of prisoners. , At the other end of. the Une.. east of the railway tracks, enemy dugouts were bombed. Their occupants be longed to the crack-Prussian guards corps, the Fifth Guard grenadiers, who refused in most cases to come out and surrender. . Still Alive In Dugouts. One officer and twenty-one men of the' grenadiers decided that discretion was the better part of valor. Others are believed to be still alive , In the dugouts, which will, be thoroughly explored after the ground won Is consolidated. At daybreak Canadian airplanes flying low over Avion saw few Germans there. Craters which recently v,ere made by mine explosions at the cross roads are now seriously hindering them in bringing up troops from Lens for counter-attacks. The enemy's guns have been shelling Canadian communication trenches, but Canadian "heavies" are now taking them on. , HENRY H. ENGLEBERT IS CRITICALLY ILL H. H. Englebert, 311 North Ninth street, one of Richmond's best known business men and for many years a member of the city council, is critically ill at his home due to a complication of maladies. He was stricken Sunday and a severe stomach hemorrhage followed. He became unconscious Wednesday night and at noon Thursday was still In that condition. His recovery is doubtful. Mr. Englebert conducts a tobacco store and cigar manufactory at 704 Main street. His daughter, Mrs. Gaar Williams, of Indianapolis, arrived here last night. "WENTS" AND "SENTS" HOBART. New Zealand. May 28. For the purpose of facilitating army recruiting, the people nave aaoptea distinguishing names for the two lots of men who are serving. Those who volunteer are called "The Wents" and those called up by ballot or conscriptIcn "The Sents." . On arrival at camp there is little or no friction between the two. Do Your pJ-i Join the Bit Naw Red Cross WEATHER FORECAST For Indiana By United States Weather Bureau Thundershowera this afternoon or tonisht. Friday fair. Warmer In north portion. Temperature Today Yesterday Noon 85 SO 65 Maximum Minimum ......... For Wayne County By W. E. Moore Thunderstorms this afternoon or tonight. Friday partly cloudy. General Condition Barometric pressure continues low over the north tnd caused the severe thunderstorms of the past 48 hours. Dry hot weather n tho south and west. Severe drouth i Texas.

Another Thunder Storm is Promised

Weatherman Moore in a special bulletin, announces that Richmond will be visited by another heavy rain and thunder storm either late Thursday afternoon or evening. "The weather probably will continue unsettled until the end of the week" Moore announces. "This condition results from the meeting of a hot wave and a cold one." ELLIOTT WILL TAKE OATH OF OFFICE MONDAY Congressman-Elect Expects to go to Washington SaturdayPlurality Grows.

OFFICIAL VOTE Gray Elliott Plur. Hancock 1,494 1.454 40 G. Fayette 1.550 2,058 508 E. Rush 1,917 2,440 523 E. Henry 1,924 2.920 996 E. Shelby ......2,429 2,130 299 G. Franklin ... .1,733, 1,167 571 G. Union 572 842 270 E. Totals.... 14,381 17,151 2,770 E.

Official returns received Thursday from the eight counties of the "Sixth district on Tuesday's special congressional election increased the plurality of the congressman-elect Richard N. Elliott,-Republican, from 2,644 over FInly H. Gray, Democratic nominee, to 2.770. Elliott'! Dluralitv is the largest re ceived' by Republican congre88t!Sfian candidate in the Sixth district since the days when James E. Watson was the Republican standard bearer. The total vote ca6t in the district yesterday was more than 25 per cent, less than the total vote cast last November. To Take Oath Monday. Mr. Elliott was today busily engaged closing up his business affairs in Connersville to permit his departure for Washington by Saturday. He expects to take his oath of office Monday morning. Press comments on the result of the Sixth district election are interesting. The Indianapolis Star sees in the elecContinuea On Page Three. POUNDSTONE NAMED ELLIOTT'S SECRETARY CONNERSVTLLE. Ind., June 28 Richard N. Elliott, congressmanelect from the sixth Indiana district, today announced . the appointment of W. R. Poundstone, a Richmond newspaper man, as his private secretary. Poundstone has been on the staff of the Richmond Palladium for several years. Elliott leaves for Washington, Saturday to assume his new duties. GOVERNMENT PLANS STOP SPECULATION IN WHEAT MARKETS CHICAGO, June 28. Government plans for food control, according to a statement given out here today by President Grissin of the board of trade, include absolute control of the what trade In all its commercial aspects. There can he no speculation. Buying and selling of other grains for present or future delivery will be unrestricted. American Airman Reported Slain In Battle In Clouds PARIS, June 28 Corporal James Hall of Colfax. Iowa, a member of the Lafayette escadrille, which is composed principally of American ' aviators, is believed to have been killed in an encounter with seven German airplanes, according to the Herald. He was shot through the lung. His machine fell within the French lines. Corporal Hall, who was the author of "Kitchener's Mob," Joined the American squadron a short time ago after being wounded in the British army and discharged. He brought down a German airplane , four days ago. - Sub-Lieutenant Donna, one of the most skilful French aviators, who has been credited officially with bringing down 28 German machines, has been missing since he flew over tho - enemy's , lines on May 25 on a scouting lnlsnioTV H!n fate is unknown.

THOUSANDS OF RUDDY REGULARS IN CAMP READY TO TAKE PLACES IN THE TRENCHES; GERMAN PRISONERS WATCH 'EKi DISEMBARK

WASHINGTON, June 28. Somewhere in France thousands of America's lighting men are today encamped ready to . take their places in the trenches beside the seasoned campaigners of the allies. Regulars and marines fresh from service on the Mexican border or in Haiti or Santo Domingo were landed yesterday after a voyage in which tho German submarines were eluded and all records were broken for transporting overseas a large military unit. News of the arrival of the troops sent a thrill through America as it was generally unknown that any large detachment had yet left these shores. Net Gain to Allies. The forces will be a net gain to the allies, as the men will be fed, clothed, armed and equipped by this government. Already there are being stored at the encampment supplies sufficient for many months. The American forces will be an independent unit, co-operating with the allies. It has been suggested that the Americans might placed as a con necting link between the French and British armies, but the exigencies of the coming campaigns will decide that question. A FRENCH SEAPORT, June 28. Pershing's boys are here! Thousands of them came within the last 48 hours out of the misty vastness of the sea, a U-boat-infested sea that held no terrors for them ; not a tor pedo scratch on a transport: not a single man lost. Spick and span, with weather-grown-ed faces, their eyes sparkling fight, every one of them every Inch a man. tney tramped oown the gangways to the strains of the "Star-Spangled Ban ker, into a pandemonium of unending v Eager to Get to Front. Today they are in camp, eager to get to the front. The camp Is not far from here. . It is in charge of General William L. Sibert, who came in command of the troops. General Pershing is coming over from Paris today to greet them. , Vj - As these thousands of American fighting lads poured off the transports scores of German prisoners stood' on the pier. Teeth set, they looked half sideways at these strapping newcomers. Those who watched the prisoners could - discern admiration in their looks. . The remarkable thing about the scenes attending the real entrance of the United States into the world war . Continued on Page Three J English Girls Enjoy As Played by A BRITISH TORT BASE OF AMERICAN DESTROYER FLOTILLAS, June 28. (Correspondence of the A. P.) The baseball season is in full swing here. Every American destroyer has one or more teams and the two days weekly when their ship is in port are devoted to industrious practice for the "big series," which is to begin next month for the championship of the fleet. Three diamonds have been laid out on the top of the cliffs, .overlooking the sea. The scene from' home plate on any of these diamonds is picturesque enough to inspire a batter to his best efforts. At the right is the sea, stretching in blue . expanse toward America. At the left are woods, of a green more vivid than in America, just near BONE-DRY BILL UP FOR ACTION WASHINGTON, June 28 The amended food control bill containing a new "bone dry" prohibition section, was up for action in the senate for the first time today. It will be passed for early passage, but it is probable final action cannot be taken, by July 1 on account of the prohibition feature. . This, would forbid the manufacture of liquor during the war, but would authorise the president to permit wine making and to commandeer existing stocks of distilled spirits. Senator Chamberlain ' expected to move today to haye the amended bill reported yesterday by the agriculture committee, substituted for the draft which the senate has been debating. LENNI8T8 LEAVE PALACE PETROGRAD. June 88. The fellowera of Nikolai Lenine, the Radical socialist leader who since the revolution have -been occupying the villa of Mademoiselle Kshesinska, the dancer and, favorite of. the former emperor, quit her residence today, The palace however. Is still occupied by . the militant Maximallists. .

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MAJOR GENERAL Baseball, American Jackies enough so that an ordinary three-base hit will lose itself in the underbrush and lengthen easily into a home run. Behind and in front are stretches of fields with low hedges and stone walks, all ablaze with golden gorse and field flowers. No Stands For Fans. There are no grandstands although every game played attracts a fine crowd of spectators from the ships Continued On Page Eleven. Pershing Occupies Fine Old Residence PARIS, June 28. Major General Pershing, the American commander, has left the ' hotel in which he has been staying since his arrival in Paris to make his home in a fine old residence in the Rue De yarsenne, so as to be near his . headquarters. , The house, which has a magnificent garden, formerly belonged to Francis Gortchakoff. It was leased before the war by Ogden Mills, of New York, who placed it at the disposal of General Pershing. . - : Mob Forces Man Jo : Kiss Flag After He Wipes Hands On It MABEL, Minn., , June 28. When John Bates,. La . Crosse . music . teacher, used a United States flag In a restaurant here as a towel to wipe, the dust from the piano keys from his fingers, a small mob of citizens gave him his choice of kissing the starry banner or taking a cold bath in a creek. Bates chose the bath and was escorted to the small stream, where he changed his mind, .The meek .musician was led back to . the village square, where In the presenoe - of nearly all of the residents he knelt and kissed the flag, pledging anew, his support to Uncle Sam, He is said to be a socialist .

Into Trenches

WILLIAM L. SIBERT OFFICE BUILDING WILL BE ERECTED Following the purchase of a 17-foot front building at 905 Main street, now occupied by the Midway saloon, by Edward Roser from the Minck Brewing company it was announced Wednesday that a modern store and office building probably would be built where the Lyric theater, the Midway and Office saloons, and Barth Cigar store 'now stand. ' . ' The property at 905 Main street was purchased by Mr. Roser for $12,000, making the total value of the property whereon the proposed building is to be erected, $45,000. . TheJ plan for . improvement of the property has not been definitely determined upon' but will depend largely on the future of the saloon business. WOMAN SUFFRAGE CASE UP, JULY 10 INDIANAPOLIS. 'June ; 28. Arguments In the appeal from the decision of Judge Thornton of Indianapolis on the suffrage bill, holding that women could not. vote $n the election for constitutional delegates' will be heard July .10. , The court fjxes July 7 as the limit for fixing briefs in the case. GERMANS ARREST r BELGIAN PRIESTS AMSTERDAM, June 28 According to the Telegraaf, several priests of the entourage- of Cardinal T.Mercier, primate of Belgium, were arrested recently and " imprisoned in Germany, One of them is Bishop Legraive of Malines. -".'V'l'- " -'V'-N , Twenty others,' the newspaper says, have been imprisoned in -' Belgium. Among them is ' Cardinal Meroler's private secretary,, who was sentenced to a- year in prison for preaching a sermon on .Whitsunday on Christian charity, - '

Mysterious Plague Kills 16 Children In Missouri Town

CAPE GIRARDEAU. Missouri, June 28. Sixteen children fcave died within the last few days and more than 25 are ill from a mysterious malady which has afflicted the town of Oran, in Scott county. Doctors are said to be puzzled as to the nature of the disease. The symptoms of the disease resembles those of enterocolitis, but in other respects is different from that ailment. Enterocolitis, according to specialists In children's diseases, is an inflamation of the intestines and is prevalent mostly among small children. GIRL HURT WHEN MOTORIST LOSES CONTROL OF CAR When Paul Jennings of Whitewater, Ind., known as a baseball player, lost cmtrol of a racing car be was driving in attempting to turn oft Main street on North Nineteenth street, Wednesday evening, the machine plunged into a Ire hydrant; breaking it off and struck Miss Study, 244 South Fourth street, who was standing on the corner with three other women waiting for a street car. Miss Study was hurled against a fence and was injured slightly. She was removed to her home in another machine. Jennings and the young woman riding with him were not Injured. The car was damaged cosiderably. Jennings states bis steering apparatus broke when he attempted to make the turn. Spectators aay that Jennings was driving bit car so fast he was unable to make the turn. Miss Study and. her companions would probably have been killed or seriously injured if the machine had not struck the fire hydrant STATE TEACHERS' CHIEF COMING "Reports have been circulated that the mass meeting scheduled for tonight at the high school auditorium, to discuss the recent action of the school authorities In dispensing with the services of Principal Ramsay of Whitewater school, had been called off. There is absolutely no foundation for such a report. The meeting will be held at 8 o'clock tonight and we believe it will be attended by a large crowd." This statement was made by Robert Graham, chairman of the special Trades Council committee appointed to arrange for the meeting. Graham announces that MlssVerna Hoke of Silver Lake, Ind., president of the State Federation of Teachers, will speak at this meeting and that it is probable another speaker will be Miss Belle O'Hair of Indianapolis, also an officer of the Teachers' Federation.-, - - The public Is Invited to attend this meeting and anyone who desires to speak will be given a hearing. The Trades Council committee will submit a report of its investigations. Coises! Election Officials Deprived Of Pay For Labor At least twenty members of the various registration boards of the county will not receive any money in compensation for their service in the special election last Tuesday. Following the custom adopted some time ago, in all cases where members of the boards are charged with delinquent taxes, their pay for the election day Is given in the form of a receipt for that portion of back taxes covered by the amount due them. County Treasurer Weidner has found no less than 20 men In the county who owe back taxes and who will receive a tax J receipt uisieaa or any money. - SECOND PAYMENT ON LIBERTY BONDS DUE 1 WASHINGTON, June 28 The second payment of 18 per cent for subscribers to the Liberty loan, who bought bonds on the installment payment plan, was due today. The next payment, of 20 per cent is due July 80. ' No official estimate has been made of the payments on the bonds to date but it is believed that approximately one-fourth has been paid in. The engraved bonds probably will be ready next week.

commission : will decide OM MAXIMUM FUEL CHARGE

Four Hundred Mine Owners Assent to Plan Whereby Nation Virtually Will Control Market COST TO BE GUT WASHINGTON, June 28. An . Immediate general reduction of from 11.00 to $1.50 a ton in the price of coal at the mine was agreed upon here today by repne- -sentatlves of the coal operators. This reduction is expected to be followed by still further decrease In price after Investigation tnlo the cost of mining coal and It la probable that the government will , be given a still lower price than to the public. 1 Hundreds of millions of dollars will be saved the American people by this decision. WASHINGTON, Jane 28. The conference of 400 operators inimnillin all coal producing state took quick.) action toward lowering prteea 'by; adopting resolution autharlatns; committees "to give assent to such maximum prices for coal free on boast!' cars at mines in the vartoos dlsUseX" as may be named by the anrrafary of the interior. Federal trade and the Council of National eoal production committee." - Plans were agreed on for ; ment later of tentative "Xatr and ' onable . prices" based oa of the operators to be effective Jozy : Reported By Fort. The resolution gtvtng "assent" to fix-. Ing of maximum prices was reported' by former Governor Fort of a special committee. He said he believed the. resolution was entirely safe for the conference to adopt and that any reContlnued On Pag Three. . Former Convict Is Hero of Russ Army PETROGRAD, June 28. The hero of the army In the Woody Carpathians la a former convict from Siberia who by his example Inspired an attack by forces which heretofore had obdurately refused to charge. The exouutlct, whose rank is sergeant, led fifty volunteers in a rush on a German blindage. The attacking party, oonfoeed by heavy fire, wavered, whereupon the sergeant alone climbed the breastwork and hurled a bomb among the enemy. Attacked by three Germane, be sabered and shot two of them. Then, with i only eighteen followers, several strongly held blindages were rushed. This produced general panic among the enemy and resulted In the capture of many prisoners. The sergeant was given an officers commission, two regiments Invited him to take: command, the. whole of his division resolved Immediately to participate in -an offensive -.zi RICHMOND QUAKERS NOW TRAINING IN AMBULANCE CORPS Four Richmond boys, and a total of nineteen who are Indiana University or Earlham alumni, will be In the Friends' ambulance corps which will start training in Haverford, Penn., some time in July for service on the French front. Other Richmond men may get a chance to -go, as the lists which Secretary Woodward of the Five Year Meeting has received include only sixty-seven of the 100 men wanted for the unit. The rest will be selected before the first of July. Eugene Quigg, Louis Morrison. Jesse Griffith, and Leland Hadley are the four enlisted from Richmond. - Don Kellum, editor of the Earlham Press, and Clayburn Jones, son of C. E- Jones of Chicago, head of the college Alumni association, are other Earlham students In the unit From four to six weeks' training will be given, and the unit, will then proceed directly to the front ' 8MUGGLER8 NABBED . EL PASO, Tex.. June 28. A cavalry patrol Intercepted a band of thirty Mexicans engaged In carrying ammunition across the Rio Grand at Rocky Ford, seven miles east of here early today. Two of the Mexicans were caught but' the others escaped into Mexico. The ammunition was dropped by the smugglers, some of it in the middle of the river. .

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