Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 106, 15 March 1918 — Page 1

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U. S. FORCES HOLD GERMAN TRENCHES ON WESTJRONT Trenches Abandoned by the Fleeing Huns Consolidated with American First Line Germans Are Repulsed. ACTIVITY IS SHARP (By Associated Prss) American troops have made their first permanent advance into the German positions on the western front. Northeast of Badonvillers in the Luneville sector, trenches which the enemy was forced to abandon, have been consolidated with the American first line. Repeated American raids on tbls sector and the effective work of the American gunners forced the Germans to give up the trenches. German efforts to regain the lost positions were repulsed by General Pershing's men. The new position gives the American and French troops higher ground from which to operate against the common foe. Badonvillers is eight miles west of the German frontier and is almost directly west of Strassburg, capital of Alsace. The American position here is about elslitecn miles southeast of the RhineMarne Canal where the Americans first entered the trenches last November. Hun Plans Frustrated. On both the Luneville and Toul sectors, the American artillery has been firing many shells into the German positions. Northwest of Toul. German plans for a gas attack again were frustrated when the American gunners destroyed four groups of gas pro.lectois which I ad been Placed in position. German batteries, trenches, wire entanglements and other military defences are being razed by the American heavy fir. American activity on the front from Ypres. south toward Ar-a ontirues at a sharp pitch. On the "t!W sector between Armen-ii-v "d Yermelles. about 15 miles, i. - --MUerv continues intense as it has i for several davs nast. A strong Ci-.fTr.nn detachment attempted a raid or. tM? front but was thrown back by fll Pongnese. On the southern end of the Ypres c -. Australian troops have been Cul in raids into enemy line1? errl 'n -onulsing German raiding part (.. There has been heavy srtill-r--frn" rn th French front pnd the F-'i have repulsed throe German r;iirt ' Slick to Vonr Jh is Tip to Skilled Workers WASHINGTON, March 15. Men who volunteered for shinbuilding will not be called in anv large numbers for fom time, the department of labor announced today. The men called will be chiefly from the unemployed, unless they are skilled mechanics and those nowholding jobs are advised to stick to them. The public service reserve now has two hundred thousand men enrolled. They are being classified by trades. 28 Missing as Result of Collision at Sea LONDON, March 15. Twenty-six persons are missing in consequence of a collision between a naval vessel and the Hritirh steamship Rathmore. Survivors have been landed at Kingstown. Ireland, by destroyers. r THE WEATHER Fcr Indiana by United States Weather BureauFair tonight, Saturday, warmer. Today's Temperature. Yesterday. Noon Maximum 6s ! Minimum 35 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore --Pair and below freezing tonight Saturday fair and warmer. Warmer Sunday. General Conditions The storm of the past forty-eight hours is now over the ou-t and a great area of high barometric pressure which ha moved si Hthward from Montana has caused 't!snlrahly cooler weather over the Mississippi valley. Temperatures b.ivp dropped 40 degrees in Richmond in "1 hours, being 70 yesterday morn!tii; pud I!0 this morning. The weather will be fair during the next twentyfour hours and probably longer with ri'fdinns to warmer weather some time Snturdav and still warmer Sunday.

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WASHINGTON. March 15. The neighborhood character of national army and national guard units is certain to vanish as the war progresses in the opinion of army officials. British and French forces already have undergone the process and it now is being felt by American front line divisions, r.s the direct result of the three-line system of defense, held indispensable by General Pershing and the a'.'.itd chieftains to keep tha front line at full Hunting strength.

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AMSTERDAM,' Feb. 25. (By Mail.) Lieutenant Gruner, of the German aerial service has written an account of a "visit" which he claims to have made recently to London. His story, which is printed in the Berlin newspapers, follows: '"The English ccast must come into sight soon. Sure enough, there it is in sharp outline. Soon we shall be near enough to realize where we are. Slowly, quite slowly, we approach it. All is peace and quiet. Now the coast lies perpendicularly beneath us. We are nearing the goal of our heart's desire. The English are waiting for us, but we are not disturbed. On we go. Now and then a search light picks us up. Now and then a shot flares out at us. But not-with-standing these little hindrances, we press on toward our goal. There it is, London! A brilliant wreath of searchlights sets off the prize from afar. "I consult my map and compass, and the order is given: "Cross London from north to south and then veer to eastward.' Beneath us we can see and hear that our presence is detected. Lights burst forth and go out. the.muz-zle-flashes of anti-aircraft guna. Searchlights stab the sky, first, slowly, carefully, anxiously, then wildly. Sometimes, thev locate nothing but a driftcloud. Then suddenly they find us. Now the ghostly white stab is directed straight at our ship and envelops us. "Shrapnel bursts fiercely all around us. Shells tear at us like birds of prey with flaming eyes. Fort and aft, below, above, everywhere, they scream and roar. It is hellish, yet beautiful. And loud above the crash of the shells we hear the deep bass of our faithful bombs, dropping steadily on their appointed objectives, and always also the orchestral accompaniment of our whirring propellors. We are doing things in London, all right. There, on Texas to Be Dry in June if Governor Hobby Signs New Bill AUSTIN. Tex.. March 15 The senate today passed finally the state-wide prohibition bill by a vote of 17 to 9. The measure was passed by the house a. few days ago. it is expected that Gov. Hobby will approve and sign it. tl goes into effect June 15. WETS HOLD NEW YORK GAIN ALBANY. N. Y.. March 15. Prospects that the New York legislature might ratify the prohibition amendment to the federal constitution, which receivd a setback Tuesday when the assembly substituted a bill designed to provido for an "advisory referendum" in place of the Hill-McNab ratification resolution, were further dampened by today's developments at the capitol. An anouncement was made that Gov. Whitman would not send to the legislature a message urging ratification. A po'l of th senate by the dry leaders showed that only twenty-two votes, or four less than a majority, could b mustered on the ratification proposal. Before the referendum bill can be transmitted to the senate for concurrent action it must be advanced to the order of final passage, and then passed, an effort to block its program undoubtedly will be made on both occasions. W. H. Brooks Files Notice of Candidacy William Howard Brooks has filed with the county clerk his declaration of candidacy for the Republican noniinniinri fr.r rmintV -auditor. Joseph Edwards has ir-gistered as j candidate for delegate to the Republi- j can state convention. j llnry I newsman uit-u ni nu'n-c- . candidacy for the office of trustee of Wavne township, and William J. Curtis for the office of trustee of Franklin township. Druids Haw 31 Men in Service of U. S. r"-nrk T. Ptrayer will address the; member of th Druids lodae next! Monday night at a patriotic meeting in honor of the members of the lodge j who are in the service. A service flag will be dedicated to) thirtv-one members who are either l:i ! tne service or who soon will leave 35 Alleged Members of I. WAV. Under Indictment m WICHITA. Kans., March In. Federal indictments were returned here this morning against thirtv-fie alleged members of the I W. W. With only one exception the indicted men are now under arrest and some have been I interned for the duration of the war. Dr. Govan Commissioned As First Lieutenant Dr. T. P. Govan, physician with officers over the Starr Piano store at Tenth and Main streets, has been commissioned a first lieutenant in the medical corps of the army and will be stationed at Camp Aver, Mass. Plans projected by the general staff for erecting a replacement system, to handle nearly a quarter of a million men this year, it is understood, are founded on acceptance of the fact that localization cannot be maintained. Eventually, it is believed, that enlisted men of the regulars, national army and national guard, will be intermixed throughout all divisions at the front.

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RICHMOND, our starboard is a mighty cavein and there to port, another. Midway between them comes a series of explosions, probabl a munitions factory. We are certainly letting them have it this time! "But things are getting hot for us. Away from this inhospitable neighborhood! A caressing west wind is at our back, and amid protecting clouds we start homeward. At the coast another still heavier but equally futile bombardment awaits us. Home coasts beckon and before we know it we ar safe again on friendly soil." HUNS AROUSED OVER U. S, ACTION (By Associated Press) Germany is up in arms over the notice given Holland by Great Britain and United States that Dutch ships in allied ports will be taken over next week if Holland does not in the mean time bring the long pending negotia-J tions over these vessels to a close in favor of the allied interest. The Ger- I man press is reported in news agency advices through Copenhagen to be demanding counter measures of the most drastic nature if Holland yields. Simultaneously, acocrding to advices trirniih Amsterdam. Germanv is again threatening to open her long- j talked of offensive on the western front. Field Marshal von Hindenburg is quoted as'declaring the "great German offensive" mist go on now that the entente has shown itself unresponsive to "Germany's peace intentions." Other reports state that Germany is prepared to sacrifice 300.000 men in a drive in the west, which would seem a comparatively small number in number of her 'reputed casualties in the losing effort at Verdun about 500,000 men. UTAH GOVERNOR TO SPEAK HERE Richmond is to receive a visit on April 4 by a distinguished party of Liberty Loan field speakers, headed by Governor Simon E. Bamberger, of Utah, and including Julian E. Bryan, author of "Ambulance 464," and Miss Linna Bressette, of Kansas, representing the Women's National Liberty Loan Committee. Probably several other men and women of prominence who are members of the Indiana Liberty Loan committee will accompany the visitors. While the Wayne county committee has as yet taken no action relative to a meeting which will be held for these visitors, the matter will be taken up at a session to be held Saturday afternoon. The members of the township committee, including the two hundred or mor Richmond men and women who are to participate in the Liberty Loan drive, are to be special guests at the meeting wherever it is held, as it is the main purpose of the affair to give; out information concerning the work that is "to beein on Anril 6. i Lobster a La Newburg Soon to Be Extinct CHICAGO. March 15 Lovers of the lobster, in The middle west, are likely to be deprived of that dish within a short time. In a telegram to Chicago's principal lobster dealers yesterday the committee on express transportation at Washington gave notice of an embargo immediately effective on shipments by rail of fresh lObfet.ers. "I don't knowhow many fresh lobsters there are 6h town." said one of the largest wholesale fish dealers, "but I do know that unless the committee rescinds its order it won't be manv days before there won't be any here." Jesse Rash is Held on Wife's Complaint j.s?- Hash of near Modoc, was arrested Thursday night and placed in the county jail here charged with fail ure to provide for the support or msj wife. j Damon Mitchell, who was indicted) by the grand jury on a serious charge, i was released Friday under $1,000 bond. I Mitchell pleaded not guilty and win stand trial. Davison Gets Invitation to Call on King George LONDON, March 15. King George sent today for Henry P. Davison, chairman of the American Red Cross war council who arrived in England a few davs ago, and thanked him for the contribution of $1,000,000 made recently by the American to the British Red Cross. Mr. Davison was a guest of the Prince of Wales at luncheon. Selects Will Congress expressed a decided preference for localization of the national army in the selective law, but many officers have maintained insistently, that it would be impossible to handle the army except as one great unit. The facts promise to bear out that view, it Is said, and with the replacement of casualties, the welding of the expeditionary forces into one homogenous unit has already begun. In an opinion rendered last Septem

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OUST MILWAUKEE MAYOR FROM WAR DEFENSEJJOUNCIL His Campaign Platform Objectionable Four Others Are Dropped. MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 15 Mayor Daniel W. Hoan was removed as chairman of the county council of r? e fen cq thio oft cvt-i rr Kr ct vnto nf 1 I to 5. Only the Socialist members voted to retain him, including the mayor himself. The mayor's removal from the chairmanship is the result of his failure to answer a questionnaire with regard to matters affecting the war in connection with his platform as the Socialist candidate for re-election to office. Following the removal of Mayor Hoan, four other Socialists, members of the defense council, were voted out of that body by practically the same vote. Platform Objectionable The platform which the members of the county council of defense object to and for which Mayor Hoan stands, contains a plank which reads as follows: "The American people did not want and do not want this war. They were plunged into the abyss by the treachery of the ruling class of the country its demagogic agitators, its bought press, its . sensational photoplays, its lying advertisements, and other purchasable instruments of public expression." The action of the committee was fni'farnQtprl whpn at thp vprv nnpninsr of the session, on an appeal vote from the chair, it overruled Mayor Hoan's I decision that it had no power to act. j Wheeler P. Bloodgood, vice chairman j of the committee, moved to appeal j from the ruling of the chair, and was i sustained by a vote of 16 to 4, the four being the Socialist members of the defense council. Power is Questioned The mayor maintained that the committee had no power to remove him, and that to do so would be a highhanded usurption of authority. Frederick Morehouse and Mr. Bloodgood differed with him. declaring that the constitution specifically provides that the executive committee has the power to remove members when it deems such acts necessary. The charge against the mayor was read by the secretary of the defense council. It charged that he cannot continue as head of the council because he is a candidate for re-election on a platform opposed to the war. Gas Mask, Captured from German by Wayne Manr Put on Exhibition Here Richmond was given an intimate; glimpse of the war Friday when a j German mask, captured from a Hun soldier, was placed on view in the window of Leo Fine's drug store on Main street. j The mask was captured from a German by First Lieutenant Morris Caldwell of the Eleventh U. S. Engineers after a personal encounter in the Cambria battle. Caldwell is a brother-in-law of Attorney Denver Harlan, of Richmond, and is a former resident of Milton, Ind. The mask bears the name of its German owner in indelible ink characters and a blood stain is visible on the carrying strap of the container which accompanies it. Gardeners Should Buy Onion Sets Early Owners of war gardens who wish to plant onions should buy the sets early as the frost has caused a shortage and the price is rapidly increasing, said Walter Eggemeyer Friday. Even if the sets are not planted for a few weeks they can be kept in a cool place where they will not sprout. However, if the sets are left in a sack or in a warm place they will sprout before they are planted. According to Eggemeyer onion sets are the only war garden vegetables that, are increasing in price. The other seeds and sets are selling at about the same price as last year with the exception of potatoes which are selling at a lower price. Sell $13,485 Worth of Stamps in Five 'Days : Five days business in War and j Thrift Saving stamps at the Richmond I postoffice amounted to $13,485.29 ao-j cording to a report made Friday by j Finance Clerk Sprong. "We have sold one thousand dollars worth of stamps since Thursday noon," said Sprong. . City and rural carriers7 in charge of Superintendent of Mails Wilson are selling many stamps. ISSUE LETTERS Letters of administration were issued Lida Anderson in the estate of Darwin U. Atkinson Friday in circuit court. be Formed ber, Acting Judge Advocate General j Ansell, sustained absolutely the legal right of the department to transfer officers and men among the regulars national army and national guard as found necessary. The selective service law gave only a suggestion of independence to the three branches of the service, he said. "As legal adviser to the army and as an officer thereof," he continued, "I discard, as the law permits me and military etficlency requires me to dis

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Sister of King George Entertains Orphans of Those Killed in Action

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Princess Louise presenting handkerchief to an orphan. The king's sister, Princess Louise, is one of the patronesses of the "Kitchener of Khartoum Empire Association" which is doing great work entertaining the small children of fighters' who have made their supreme sacrifice. She is shown here presenting a handkerchief, on which is printed a nursery rhyme, to an orphan girl.

BRITAIN'S DRINK BILL IS REDUCED BY TWO-THIRDS LONDON, March 15. Consumption of intoxicating liquors in Great Britain owing to the reductions instituted by the government is now only one-third of what it was four years ago. Premier Lloyd George declared in an address to the Free Churchmen at the City Temple today when challenged about the drink traffic. No spirits were being manufactured at all, he said, and anyone who four years ago had predicted such a thing would not have been believed. The premier reiterated that if it came to a question of choosing between mread and beer the government would cot hesitate a moment. The present, he added, was an hour of grave national emergency, the appeal of war was greater than patriotism because it was an appeal for help against the forces of brutality and a cry of conscience against the greed and lust of one power. The function of the churches was to keep the nation up to the level of its high purpose when entering the war. No nation had ever entered war with a more holy purpose. The churches must keep the war to the end a holy war; anything else would disgrace the memory of the heroic dead. Instead of having hunger at one end and surfeit at the other, raid the premier, there was a fair distribution among all classes and ranks. Twelve Farmers Taken in Moonshiners Raid WOMBLE. Ark., March 15. Twelve farmers c hained together are marching to Little Rock today in charge of fifty internal revenue officers who slipped into the Montgomery county hills yesterday and arrested the men on charges of making "moonshine" whisky. In addition to being chained together as a further precaution against an ambush, the prisoners were forced to march on foot ahead of the officers, for a distance of twenty-five miles over the Ozark hills to the nearest railroad station, from where they are to be taken to Little Rock for arraignment. Reports came from the hills that "moonshine" whisky has been sold openly for years and that any attempt to raid the district would meet with resistance. The revenue officers encountered no trouble in making tha ,'irrests. although they seized more than two dozen rifles. STEPHENSON DIES MARINETTE. Wis., Marh 15. Former L'nited States Senator Isaac Stephenson died at 1:30 o'clock this morning. Into One card, the theory of separate and independent forces. Such a theory can be adhered to only with injury to fighting efficiency. "Battles can hardly be won with forces which are regarded as heterogeneous, but only so because of customary conception of legal formulary. Administration should proceed boldly along broad lines to sustain our fighting forces with unity of organization and unity of administration as well as of purpose, if we are to succeed against an enemy who has demonstrat

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20 Richmond Sailors Ordered to Report About twenty Richmond and Wayne county men who have enlisted in the navy have received orders from the navy department to report to Navy Recruiter Goldfarb for transportation to training stations. These men have enlisted in the navy since Dec. 12, and had been sent to their homes as the stations were already overcrowded and could not handle them. They will report to the navy recruiter Wednesday. The navy recruiter announced Frij day that men skilled in the cabinet making, carpentry and wood working j trades were in demand in the navy, j Also fifty clarinet players are wanted I at once for immediate service. NEW CALL TAKES 44 FROM HERE Two selects left Friday for Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., to enter the medical department of the national army. They were Hugh R. Foss and Emmett A. Smith. Two other enlisted Thursday in the coast artillery at the Richmond army board. They are Joe Deloia and Todd Pecar. Others wishing to go next Tuesday are urged to enlist Friday or Saturday. The Richmond board must furnish its seventeen percent of the first quota for the war department's new call of 95,000 men. This will mean the board must send about 44 men the latter part of April. This will take all the registered men up into order numbers 1100. The hoard is preparing a list of registered men who have enlisted since registration day last June. It is estimated the list will include nearly 200 men. Major Baltzell, Indiana conscription officer, notified the board it must furnish its 17 percent regardless of the fact that the board has exceeded its original quota of 254 men. He says the board probably will get all its credits later. Tcggart to Take Place of Lindley at College Harold Tasrgart. graduate of Earlham college in the class of 1915. has been appointed to fill the place of Harlow Lindley. who has taken a chair in Leland Stanford university temporarily. Taggart was instructor of history for I one year in Pacific college and rei ceived his master's degree from the; University of California in that subj ject. Great Army ed his thoroughness In that field. "There is but one army of the United States and every organization, bureau, officer and man In the military service is a part of it." The six division corps organization adopted by General Fershing was devised to give a corps commander a two division front to hold, backed up j by two divisions on the second line and two divisions on the third line. Relieve Each Other ! At Intervals' these divisions relieve i each other, each serving Its allotted i

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PEACE TERMS OF GERMANS ARE RATIFIED BY RUSSIANS Hun Militarism Takes from Present Russian Government, Thousands of Square Miles of Land. FLEET IS INTERNED PETROGRAD. Thursday. March 14. The all-Russian congress of Soviets, meeting at Moscow today, by a vote of 453 to 30, decided to ratify the peace treaty with the central powers. M. Ryazonov, a prominent Bolshevik theorist, and representatives of all the professional unions resigned from the Bolsheviki party after the vote. f By Aoctatetx Press) One year ago today Emperor Nicholas abdicated as autocrat of Russia and yesterday the All-Russian congress of Soviet by an overwhelming vote agreed to German peace terms. German militarism takes from the present Russian government thousands of square miles of land and millions of inhabitants contained in the former imperial territories of Finland, Poland, Courland. Lithuania, Esthonia. Livonia and the Ukraine in Europe and Batoum. Khars and Erivan in the Caucasus. Fleet Is Interned The Russian army must demobilize, the Russian fleet Is interned and favorable trade agreements are to b given Germany and her allies. Announcement of allied policy toward Russia and of Japanese intentions in eastern Siberia, probably will follow quickly the news that the Lenine government, after four months of rule, has surrendered completely to the demands of Germany and opened up the vast European and Asiatic territories to German economic and military penetration. Russia must renounce all claims to the occupied territories in Europe. Germany and Austria-Hungary to decide the fate of these regions in agreement with their populations. The Russian army must be demobilized and Russian warships are to be disarmed. More important to the central powers is the reopening of navigation in the Black and Baltic Seas and tho signing by Russia under compulsion of a new commercial treaty, with guarantees of a most favored nation treatment, at least until 1925. The Bolsheviki also promised to put an end to all propaganda and agitation within j their central empires and in occupied territories under their control. NO WORD FROM FRANCES WASHINGTON. March 15 Aside from press dispatches, Washington has no information today on the decision of the all Russian congress of Soviets at Moscow ratifying the German peace terms. Nothing had come either from Ambassador Frances at Vologda or the American council general at Moscow. Officials had no means of knowing whether the action was taken before or after receipt of President Wilson's message to the people of Russia promising American aid in obtaining j for Russia full independence from German aggression. The message was sent March 11. It is believed that ratification of the peace terms will bring an early move by Japan in Siberia. Any move by the Japanese, it is believed, would be made chiefly as a measure of protection for Japanese and American supplies at Vladivostok. T A : ILI I l uuu Aiffitri item swniuiunie ! Drivers are Commended WASHINGTON. March 15. Two American ambulance drivers. Charles B. Kendall of 17-A Arlington street. Cambridge. Mass.. and James F. Brown of 254 Beacon street. Boston, have been commended by both French and American army officers for bravery in removing wounded men. Kendall continued to work after be was wounded, and Brown worked for 48 hours in one of the most dangerous sectors on the American front. Both men were transferred recently to the American sanitary corps after several months sevice with the French armies. Seed Corn Shipment Expected This Week The shipment of seed corn obtained for the farmers of the county by Emergency County Agent Zechiel is expected to arrive at Greensfork Friday evening or Saturday. Mr. Zechiel will continue to take orders for seed corn, and if he obtains a sufficient j number of orders will procure another j carload in a short time. in France time In each of the three lines. As casualties occur In front line divisions men are drawn from second line divisions and second line units fill up immediately from third line dlvlsio-s. The casuals, given preliminary training in the United States and shipped over on a regular schedule, are fed Into the third line division and by tha time they reach the front i:ne trenches, they are ready for the battle having received their finishing course at the hands of veterans as they moved up.

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