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VOL. XLIIU NO. 119giirfflAniM Palladium and Sun-Telegram K4CHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 1918 SINGLE COPY. 5 CENTS FRENCH ARE TOUCHED BY PROFFER OF II. S. HELP TURN FORWARD FRENCH LINE FORCED: RACK SLIGHTLY ON NORTH EDGE Charges Foe Spies In Airplane Works GEN. PERSHING PLACES WHOLE RESOURCES OF NATION : AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE ALLIED MILITARY LEADERS it YOUR WATCHES ONE RILL HOUR If You Don't, You Will Be Late to Church and Your Work.

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Press Sees in It Grim Determination of America to Aid Free Nations to. Conquer Enemy. WHOLE NATION STIRRED

(By Associated Press) PARIS. March 30. General Pershing's sincere and manly words in plac ing at the disposal of General Foch the entire resources of the American array, have gone straight to the heart of the French people, who dearly love what ihe French call "fine gesture." The newspapers of all shades of opinion, reflect this grateful appreciation, both by the prominence they give tin incident and' in their comments. Echo De Paris, says that France as a whole does grateful homage to the United States, adding "to use the language) of surgeons, we may say there haa been and there is more than ever today a transfusion of blood between the two countries." ; Appreciate Offer. The Petit Journal says: "General Pershing's act asking so ' nobly to share in the honors and sacrifices of that battle of nations now In preparation, is a solemn warning to the grim resolve of free nations to conquer." "General Pershing's words to General Foch have in their simplicity a deep meaning," says the Figaro. "They bring out the magnitude of the stake at Issue. On the events of the Soramo hangs not only the fate of England and France, -but of civilization and progress for which Germany, victorious, would substitute her course methods of human exploitation." L'Oeuvre says: "Certainly the boches did not foresee such rapid intervention. They , will soon have opportunity to judge its growing importance. ; They shall see these new sol- . diers, pressing on in serried ranks, impatient to try their virgin weapons. TUralnsr to the eastward, they will see behind them the Japanese, trembling with eagerness, ready to spring." With Heads Held High . r - for Military Training With ! a firm, confident - step - and heads held high, proud-of the honor bestowed upon them, the forty-three Richmond boys' called for selective service, marched from the courthouse to the Pennsylvania station Saturday morning. A large crowd was there to see" them off, tears and smiles intermingling, as sweethearts bid their .boys goodbye and mothers bid their sons Ood-speed. The train pulled out of the station at 9:45 a. m., enroute to .Camp Taylor, where the Richmond contingent will receive training preparatory to service on the European battle fields. Upon their arrival at the camp they wtlll probably be mustered at once before their officers and assigned to the various companies. The new recruits are immediately examined by the camp physicians and inoculated as a protective measure against - disease Tbey will probably be in their new uniforms within a few hours after . their arrival at the camp. Those leaving Saturday are the first men drafted for selective under the questionnaire system, some of them being included in Class 1A, and others are of the contingent drawn under the first draft. f Agreement is Reached On War Finance Bill , WASHINGTON, March 30. An

agreement on the administration bill to create a war finance corporation, 'fixing its capital stock at 500,000,000, Af the amount of bonds it may issue at $3,000,000,000, and providing a voluntary system for licensing security issues, was reached today by senate and house conferees.

THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Warmer Sunday. Today's Temperature. Noon 62 Yesterday. Maximum' .......60 Minimum 2S

Use of Enemy Language in America is Condemned by Newspaper Woman

The use of the enemy language In American'' schools and churches was condemned by- Mrs. Ida McGlone Gib son, prominent newspaper woman, in her talk on war experiences at the Coliseum Friday night. Mrs. Gibson spoke here under auspices of the American Red Cross, by whom she was sent to Europe to study war conditions. "I wish you would wake up over here," she said. "We are at war with the German people, not with the Kaiser or a form of government. If it were the Kaiser alone who is doing this thing he would have been killed long ago. A dispute with a government could have been settled by diplomacy. -"The Germans are not dying by the tliousanda rigLt now because they

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Senator Lee 8. Overman ' Senator Overman of North Carolina recently declared before the senate that -enemy agents in the. Curtiss airplane works had delayed the output of the factory more than two months by "doctoring" the - planes ? and exhibited' a defective airplane part to prove it. Senator Overman said that were he. secretary of war he would commandeer the plant and employ Americans to operate it. QUAKERS MOVE CIVILIANS FROM BATTLE ZONES Friends of Smith College Unit Work for a Week Under Fire. PARIS, March' 30. The entire civil population in the region of the German advance has been taken out. Edward Eli Hunt, of the American Red Cross, reports to Red Cross headquarters' here. Quakers of the Smith college unit and Red Cross workers from the Philadelphia unio labored for a week under shell fire, Mr. Hunt says. When the evacuation began the Red Cross, co-operating with the French and British authorities, established a chain of relfef station" for refugees. Floyd Van Keuren, of Denver, Colo., was placed in charge of Amiens. Dr. W. B. Jackson, of Florida, and Dr. Hohne, of Baltimore together with . a staff of nurses . from the Children's Hospital at Nesle and a group of Quakers from Smith college, were at Montdidier,' and later at Beauvais. Haine R. Hinshaw: a Qnaker from Emporia, ' Kan., was at Lassigny, Installs Dormitory. "Dr. Henry C Greene; with five Quakers -and .the Philadelphia'unit at Ville-quier-Aumont, installed an emergency dormitory at Noyon. Harry S. House, of New York, was at Soissons. ' Reserve stores of food at Red Cross warehouses were turned over to the Britih soldiers. Every automobile truck worked double time. David Jones, of Utica, N-. Y., drove back to a hotly bombarded town to bring in the last families. The members of the Philadelphia unit,. the Daly unit from Nesle and the Smith college workers from Grecourt and Blerancourt and the other nurses and Quakers are all safe and are doing wonders. Hunt says. Expect to Settle Strike of Kansas City Workers (Associated Press.) KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 30 With the announcement that national and international officials. of the unions involved were expected to come to Kansas City today, and the calling of a meeting of twenty-eight business men and three newspaper editors to consider the situation. The first definite steps were taken toward a settlement of the general strike here. The strike, called in sympathy with the walkout of laundry workers entered its fourth day after a quiet night that had been preceded by a renewal of violence in the afternoon when an attempt was made to resume the street car service. Oscar Hadley is Called Into the Great Beyond (AssnHated Press.) INDIANAPOLIS, March 30. Oscar Hadley, 60, former state treasurer, and for sometime president of the Standard Live Stock Insurance company, died at his. home here early today. He had been ill since Tuesday when he had a stroke of paralysis. He was elected Indiana state treasurer in 1906. The funeral will be. held at 2 oclock Monday afternoon. have been forced into the thing, but because they want to fight. Every German in Germany is fighting for his country, and many here in Amer ica are doing the same thing. Wounds French Child. "I saw a French child who had been wounded by a German officer for speaking to him 'in the language of his enemy.'. And yet we are teaching the language of our enemy in our schools and are using it in our churches. There should be no German newspapers, for the spreading of insiduous propaganda in this country If, a man can't read the American newspapers, he should get some good American to read them for him. "When I went 'over- to France, I met a young Irish soldier who was home on leave. He had been senti

Turn the hands of your clocks and watches forward one hour before retiring 'tonight and add one hour of daylight to the nations effort to win Everybody's doing it, and if 'you fail, you will be an hour late to church tomorrow, an hour late to work Monday and just one hour behind everybody and everything for the next seven months. ' The official time pieces, such as the clocks of the naval observatory and other official agencies by which time is fixed in this country, will not actually be advanced to the new "clock time" until two o'clock tomorrow

; morning, but as the average man then ! will be losing a precious hour of sleep I without knowing it, the best and sur- ! est way is for everyone to turn clocks 1 and watches ahead one hour before rewith the satisfying knowledge that by one hour's sacrifice millions of hours of daylight have been added to the nation's resources for fighting Germany. Change Is Universal. In munitions plants, in the factories, on the farms and on the battle fields ( ' France and Great Britain already have adopted the system) one extra precious hour of daylingt will have been made available for supreme effort. Many persons imagine they will be put to confusing inconvenience by the change. Nothing could be further than the truth. After setting the time pieces ahead one hour forget it until next fall, when on a certain date, everybody will turn them back again and regain the lost hour. There will be absolutely no change in working hours, railroad train sched; ules or in anything else. The clock Is merely going to lie to everybody one Continued Oh Page Twelve. Dead by the Thousands Fill Countryside of " Battle Zone in France (Associated Press.) LONDON, March 30. The Morning Post's correspondent, in France draws a gruesome picture of battlefield conditions. 'Prisoners state that the country side Is full of bodies and that the air is horrible with the odor of deatlJia writes., "Wells cannot lie usee,--! ae-rumea viuages svrw impossible as billets because d they are strewn with German dead. There arc great piles of bodies along the roads and between them. - The enemy has only recently ..found time to bury any of his dead. ' "The spectacle of the battlefield carpeted with the bodies of their comrades has affected fresh troops, :; who in this way discovered to their surprise that ' the British are not too weak to fight. Prisoners say that the British endurance and skill in fight: ing is delaying the progress - of the German army. "Among the feats of thi3 British endurance may be mentioned that of a detachment which marched 18 hours, fought throughout one night and half of the next . day, repelled three attacks, twice recaptured a certain village, and dug trenches." 700,000 Soldiers Gained by New Draft Measure (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 30. Draft legislation urged by the war department was a step nearer completion today as the result of the senate's action last, night in adopting a resolution extending the draft to men reaching the age of 21 since the first registration day, June 5, 1917. The senate rejected an amendment providing for the training of youths from 19 to 21. Approximately 700.000 will be added to the registration this year by the resolution. It now goes to the house for consideration with a bill to base the state and district quotas for second draft on the number of registrants in class one. Details of the second draft, which contemplates the mobili zation of about 800,000 this year, have been withheld pending final action by congress of the legislation. Coshocton Pro-Germans Forced to Kiss U. S. Flag Associated Press.)- .'' COSHOCTON, Ohio, March 30. A mob of between 5Q0 and 600 persons, late last night and early this morning visited 16 homes in this city, and forced between 25 and 30 alleged proGermans to kiss the stars and stripes and say, "To hell with the kaiser." into action eleven days after war was declared, and only five of his , company was left. , - '"It you go over there, he told me, 'you will come "back believing in God, as sure as hell.' "I went, and I came back believing in hell as sure as God. I have seen the wasted forms of children, ; the tragic ;eyes of women, maimed men, devastated ' homes, atrocities that I would not dare to tell " " - .. Religion Flourishes. The War has brought the soldier back to religion, Mrs. Gibson said. .' "They are a cursing lot, those sol diers, but don't worry about it There Isn't a man of them that doesn't 'believe in God. - He may not -have 'a creed ' or ritual, but he ' has a good working religion, that he can live by

America's new "Soldiers of Freedom" marching in review in mass formation. This photograph, made at one of the many cantonments of the national army, shows how well America has proceeded in developing an army of power and force and indicates something of what she is yet to do. This part of America's military program has been conducted In a way that, has , won the greatest praise of visiting officers and the American j spirit will perform as , we 11 the far greater task that lies ahead. ., ,

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54 Women Killed When Big Shell of Mystery Gun Hits Paris Church

(By Associated Press) PARIS, v March 30. Rescue parties at ; work in - the church J which was struck yesterday by. a shell from a German long range gun. have found more bodies. It is now known that 54 women were killed. . An official statement issued in Paris last night said 75 persons had been killed and 90 'wounded, most of them women or children, by a shell which fell on a church in the region" of Paris w hile Good Friday services were being held". The shell struck the north side of the church, bringing .down part of the roof and opening a breach twelve feet high and twenty feet wide. Nearly all the debris fell inward upon the heads of the worshippers sixty feet below. The edifice is now a heartrending sight. The enormous mass of stone, crumbled into all shapes and sizes, lies in the midst of the nave and piled to about the same height as the high altar, which was not damaged. The side aisles are lettered with less cumbersome wreckage and the pavement Is covered with gray dust. .'All .the stained glass windows, some of which and dio by.-. He doesn't pray very much, but he shoots straight, and every shot is a prayer." V America has not yet made the sacrlficee of war, Mrs. Gibson stated. Only the mothers who have sent soias over to France have sacrificed, and until we do know what real sacrifice Is, she said, we will not know there i9 a war. In Paris last winter there j Were " no fires, and only black war. brelid was obtainable, and yet; the people1 made no protest. , " ' See Homeless Children. "I saw 950 children brought, back to Evian in the children's convoy," she said, "almost a thousand children, and each cne represented a devastated home.' " There vras not a father ;or mother "in the lot. The fa they was dead or at the war, and the n other

were cf historical interest, are shat-1 tered. . " The church, although, begun In the middle ages, was entirely remodeled in the epoch of the renaissance." The beauty of its musical services, which were sung unaccompanied, attracted many music lovers. In addition to H. Etroehlln, counsellor of the Swiss legation in Paris, who was killed, it s feared that his wife also is a victim, although searchers have not yet found her body In the debris 'Among the injured are Countess Morand, Viscount Molltor and former Senator Louis Chautteron. ,' Catch Woman Possessing - Curtiss Airplane Prints r (By Associated Press) ' NEWARK, N. J., March 30. Admission that a group of German spies has been employed in the , plant of the Curtiss Engineering ' corporation at Hempstead, N. Y., on Long Island, has been obtained from Mrs. Lydia White, a j woman . arrested today, with - blue prints of airplanes in her possession, the police here announced. was probably behind the : German lines. But when the train came in with those little; victims of the war, they thrust their heads out of the car windows,' and cried fVlve La France," and they marched up to the Red Cross hospital, to the tune of the "Marseilles." ': K .'I ':' - ' ' :-' 'T have been asked If the French will stick," said . the .spaker, "and I can answer that as long as there is a foot of ground for the Frenchman to stand upon fighting, with his back against the wall, France will stick. , , i British Are Jolly "All '.the grim humor and fun In the trenches cornea, from the English soldiers. . There have been people who said that the English went into the was as a sporting proposition. The English are dying today, a thousand

MOSCOW BouHevtw GOVERNOR GIVES HINSHAW PAROLE (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS; March " 30. The Rev. William E. Hinshaw, sentenced to prison for ; life for wife murder, more than twenty years ago, has been given a parole, it .was announced at the office of Governor Goodrich today. Hinshaw. was probably Indiana's most noted prisoner, his ; case having attracted wide attention. The action announced today has been expected for some time. The parole granted Hinshaw at this time is effective during "good behavior." .It allows the former minister to go to his "ranch in the southwest should he desire. He purchased the ranch last year while at liberty under a temporary parole. Before his return to prison at the expiration of his temporary , parole in -1917 Hinshaw said he had married Mrs.. Anna Freeman, and his wife is reported to be living on his ranch. Hinshaw always denied' being guilty of wife murder. He once was at liberty under a parole during good behaviour, but is was revoked when it was reported he had become too friendly with a married woman, Mrs. "Freeman, then the wife of the sheriff of Wabash county.- He has been granted temporary and limited freedom a number of times. men for every mile front but I thank God, there are 4,000 Germans for every thousand Englishmen." The Americans are the best cared for of any soldier in the history of war, according to Mrs. Gibson. "Our boys are happy over there," she said. "They know they are doing the biggest thing a maa can do. The work of the Red Cross has been an important factor of keeping up the morale of the French and Italian arm ies, Mrs. Gibson said. . In an interview with General Pershing she quoted the American general as stating that no organization since the world began haa accomplished so much with such effl ciency, tact, dispatch and sympathy as the Red Cross has In France In the last six months.: There are 40,000 American women in uniform In France

Allies m Fierce Battle to Check German Advance Southeast of the City of Amiens.

BRITISH LINE HOLDS (By Associated Press) Apparently the French line has been forced back slightly on the northern edge of this front, as the Paris official report of the battle mentions the town of luoreuii as forming a part of the line here. This place is on Avre river, about 11 miles southeast of Amiens, and its occupation by the Germans would . advance them , slightly nearer that allied base." On the southerly side of the salient the battle is raging to a point beyond Lassiny, which lies some 14 miles east of Montdidier. There is no indication of any change along this part of the front. The German assault in . this region seems a logical outcome of the strategic position in which the Teutons find themselves as their lines, virtually in the open all the way back to the Oise, offered an inviting objective for an allied counter blow. It apparently was a case of attack or be attacked and they have taken the initiative. To the north along the British front thevgituation is rirtuaUy unchanged. In general the British line stands today in almost - exactly the same position as yesterday. At only one point, just about where the French -and British lines join, did the Germans make any advance, pushing a short dlstance up the Roye-. Amiens road in the direction of the latter place and occupying the village of Mezieres, and the hamlet of Maison Blanche just to the north. 12 Miles From Amienb. The front was indicated by yesterday's official report as running near these places and the recession, being but a short one, still . leaves , the enemy advance approximately 12 miles south of Amiens. Heavy attacks on Demuin, a little further north were beatern off. To the north of the Somme there was only local fighting. The report that the Gel-mans are digging themselves in between Thiepval and La Bolselle in the region of Albert may be significant in view of the general lull In the Intensity of the fighting along the northern part of the front. The possibility suggests itself that, foiled in their attempt to drive a wedge between the French and British armies or effect a break in the allied line, the Germans may be making an attempt to restablish their trench line on the base of their present advance, either for defensive purposes or as the jumping off point into Entente territory. The line of reported entrenchment. however. Is only & little more than 3 miles in length and at present the move Is most likely to be judged as a local measure for protection of the town of Albert. FORCED OUT Ol- MC2IERES LONDON, March 30. The Germans attacking yesterday at Demuin and Mezieres, pressed back the British from Mezieres, the war office announces. All the enemy attempts to capture Demuin, broke down after sharp flghtink which lasted throughout the afternoon. Mezieres, captured by the Germans, is in the sector south of the Somme, where the principal gains of the Germans In the last few days have been made. - It is ten miles north of Montdidier. . The heavy continued pressure of the enemy's converging movement has brought the Germans to within about twelve miles of Amiens. The British line is now west of Marcel Cave, and Demum, but despite this, the situation is still regarded as hopeful, while the enemy advance has not Continued On Page Twelve. according to Mrs. Gibson, and of these 20,000 are Red Cross nurses, and the others- are employed in canteens and other Red Cross work. "There is no braver soldier In the whole 500 miles of front than the Red Cross nurse." the speaker stated. - An appeal to the people to aid the Red Cross and stand behind the administration closed the address. "W'e've got to win the war -with this administration," she said. "Toq have got to get into this thing. - We cant let George do it America must win the war." A motion picture showing Red Cross work r Evian preceded the lecture. . Vocal numbers were rlvnn hr mm Fred Battel and Mrs. Charles Igelman v Dr. L. F. Ross of the Richmond Red cross society, introduced Mrs. Gibson,