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HUGE MASS MEETING HERE WILL USHER IN COUNTY'S; PART IN LIBERTY DRIVE .: . ; , . ' f Biggest Patriotic Demonstration Ever Arranged for Richmond Will Be Held in the Coliseum Saturday Night Aviator Will Drop Paper Bombs on the City Saturday Afternoon. Tha T.iKorfv Tan masm moptinff Saturday nicrht in the Coli-

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ing capacity of 3,000 or more likely will be filled to capacity. Members of Company K, I. S. M., will act as ushers and the executive committee has arranged for the Coliseum to be open at rn hecrin nt 7-5.0 with a band bv the Maxwell-

Briscoe band of Newcastle. One section of the lower floor will be reserved for the members of Richmond fraternal societies who will march to the Coliseum in a body. Frank C. Albus, secretary of the Commercial Club, who will preside at the Coliseum meeting Friday announced the detailed program as follows: . , 7:30 to 8:00 o'clock Concert by Maxwell-Bnscoe band of Newcastle. Invocation Rev. F. W. Dressel, pastor First English Lutheran church. Address Miss Eleanor Barker, of Indianapolis. Song "Keep the Home Fires Burning," The Liberty Quartet. Address Charles A. Bookwalter, former mayor of Indianpolis. "What the Sixth District will do in the Campaign" George Barnard, of Newcastle, district chairman Liberty Loan. Finale Maxwell-Briscoe Band.

Quality Above Average. The program aa arranged Is not of great length, but its quality, the executive committee said today, will be far above the average. Mr. Bookwalter who Is to deliver the principal address is one of Indiana's moat eloquent orators and he has been particularly active In affairs connected with the Indiana Liberty Loan committee. Miss Barker and Mr. Barnard also are speakers of much merit., As a preliminary feature to the mass meeting tomorrow night, the government officers at Wright aviation field, Dayton, will arrange a special flight of an airplane to Richmond during the afternoon, probably between 2 and 3 o'clock. The aviator will fly low when he reaches the city and is fcheduled to do some fancy stunts. Liberty loan literature advertising tomorrow night's mass meeting will be dropped by the aviator while encircling the city. The county committee Is much pleased with the enthusiasm that is being shown workers in all of the fifteen townships. Both the men's and women's committees have arranged preliminary details In each township so that actual work will begin tomorrow. It is the purpose of the committee to see that every man and woman In Wayne county Is seen personally 30 that they may have the opportunity of subscribing for a Liberty Loan Bond. The committee, however, urges that persons should not wait on the solicitors, hut may call up Liberty Loan headquarters, phone 5232, and a special solicitor will be sent at once. All banks in the county have applications on hand so that subscriptions may be received at any time beginning tomorrow morning. Soliciting to Begin. The Wayne county committee Friday received the following telegraphic Instructions relative to the soliciting for the sale of bonds and the manner of making daily reports: "All of the Wayne county soliciting mnimittMi Tiuva hppn Instructed to start their solicitations on or after April 6. These committees have been itnt4 to turn In to their various chairmen all subscriptions for liberty loans. These subscriptions win men be distributed to the various banks in fhe county. The executive committee will ask each bank or trust company in the county to report by telephone at the end of each day the total amount of subscriptions which have been turned In to your institution. The tabulating of the figures each day will be taken from the reports of the banks and trust companies of the county and not from the soliciting committee. The committee also requests that banks and trust companies keep a separate list so that reports may be made giving the total amount of subscriptions by men and women separately which have been made through your institution." It Is the purpose of the committee to complete this drive on the loth day of April at which time we hope to have the full quota for the county subscribed. The committee also requests that no subscriptions be given in for your own account until after all solici THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair and slightly warmer tonight and Saturday. Today's Temperature Yesterday 44 48 31 Noon Maximum Minimum ..' For Waxne County by W. E. Moore Near freezing or below tonight. Rising temperature Saturday. General Conditions The cold wave now covers all states east of the nlne-ty-flfth meridian and temperatures considerably below freezing were general about Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and northward this morning. Two storms cover the west and two in the south. Generally fair In the middle west. Temperatures are near zero around Ontario. Reaction to warmer weather will take place the first or tne ween.

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patriotic aeraons.rauun ua8 and the Coliseum with a seat tations have been made. It is the purpose of the government to have these bonds distributed to the general public and therefore the banks should not buy any for their own account unless the full quota for the county cannot be raised through the soliciting campaign. BELLS WILL RING The fire bells and church bells of Richmond will ring at 12 o'clock tonight to usher in the first anniversary of the entrance of the United States into the great war on the side of the Allies and to signalize the beginning of the third Liberty Loan drive in Richmond. The bells will ring for fifteen minites. $2,500,000 FIRE AT KANSAS CITY (Associated Press.) KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 5. Con fronted by a loss that might extend beyond the first conservative esti mates of $2,500,000, the wholesale' dis trict, situated in that part of the city known as the West Bottoms, at the confluence of the Kaw and Missouri rivers, today began to take stock of the damage wrought by a fire which last night destroyed three city blocks of buildings and damaged more or less, many others. Thomas P. Flahive, chief of police, who, with fire department officials, at first scouted the idea that the fire was of incendiary origin, today said that reports to him indicated the fire had "started in several places at the same time," and that he would make an investigation. He said he had no positive Information that the firew as intentionally set. Buildings occupied by eighteen business concerns were destroyed. The structures themselves were main ly of minor value, it was said, but the contents of several were valuable. The damage to the buildings not destroyed would mount high, it was believed. ROCHESTER, N. Y.. April 5. Fire of supposed incendiary origin early this morning destroyed the five buildings' of the W. H. Osborne company canning plant at Honeoye Falls, twenty miles from this city involving a loss of $100,000. United States Marshal John D. Lynn was notified by village officials that they believed an incendiary was responsible for the fire. He will order an investigation. Two Negro Soldiers Put to Death for Murder of Soldier (By Associated Press) HOUSTON, Tex., April 5. In a little arroyo within the limits of Camp Logan a score of persons this morning saw the first military execution held here since the camp was established, John B. Mann and Walter Matthews, negro privates of Company I, 370th Infantry, paying with their lives for the slaying of Private Ralph Foley, Company G, 130th infantry. The condemned men went to their death calmly and the entire proceedings lasted but a few minutes. The crime for which the death penalty was inflicted by court martial and approved by President Wilson was the murder of Private Foley, who was guarding the negroes while they were engaged in cleaning up rubbish around the camp. Foley was stabbed in the ear and died two hours later. The negroes fled but were quickly recaptured and their trial began the followJ ing morning lasting three days.

Hang Out the Flag Saturday is Liberty Day, the first anniversary of the United States into the war with Germany on the side of the Allies. Saturday is the first day of the third Liberty Loan campaign. America is loyal. America is patriotic. America stands behind Woodrow Wilson to a man. On every flag staff, from every home, in front of every business house in Richmond the American flag should fly Saturday. It is a flag of freedom. It is a flag of a liberty loving nation that is waging its great fight for the cause of democracy and the overthrow of autocracy, militarism and slavery for all time. It is our flag, your flag and my flag with no stain to mar its beauty. And so on Saturday, Liberty Day, show your love of America and your patriotism. HANG OUT THE FLAG

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WASHINGTON PREPARED FOR LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 5. Final preparations were being rushed today for the opening tomorrow of the sale campaign of the. third liberty loan. Directors of the drive announced that forty thousand of the bonds already had been turned out by ' the bureau of engraving and printing and it was estimated that one hundred thousand will be ready by tomorrow. Thereafter, the bonds will leave at the rate of 500,000 daily to supply demands for cash sales and immediate deliveries. Legislation necessary for floating the loan was completed yesterday, when the house accepted minor senate amendments to the bill, authorizing the issuance of additional bonds and President Wilson approved the measuse. Announcement of the complete plan for the new loan was made earlier in day by the treasury department. Here is the essentials of the new issue i "Amount $3,000,000,000 and all subscriptions above that amount; interest rate AV. per cent. Campaign period April 6 to May 4; date of bonds, May 9. 1918; maturity 10 years, or Sept 15, 1928; payments due, five per cent on subscription, 20 percent May 28, 35 per War Mothers are First to Apply for New Bond The first application for a bond in the third Liberty loan in Richmond, was made by Mrs. A. W. Roach on behalf of the War Mothers of the city. The War Mothers is an organization evolved here for the purpose of establishing a memorial -to Richmond boys In service who are among those that fail to return.

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cent July IS, 40 per cent August 13. Interest payable semi-annually, Sept. 15 and March 15; bonds of the first and second liberty loans may be converted into third liberty loan bonds, but bonds of the third loan are not convertible into future issues. NEW YORK, April 5. Twenty thousand persons will hang paste board "liberty bells" inscribed "Ring it again" 1,050,000 door knobs in New York tonight and an army of small boys will ring the door bells tomorrow morning to acquaint residents that the third liberty loan drive has started. The police have promised not to molest the boys. Believe Wilson and Czernin Negotiating (By Associated Press) ZURICH, April 6. Austrian parlia mentary circles believe that negotia tions have been opened between President Wilson and Count Czernin. the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister. A telegram from Vienna to the Neueste Nachrichten of Munich says: "Count Czernin's speech has created a profound impression in Austrian par liamentary circles, where it is believed that communications have been opened between Count Czernin and President Wilson which already have reached further than County Czernin's statement showB." ONE AMERICAN WOUNDED . (By Associated Prss) ; OTTAWA. April 5. The casualty list of the Canadian forces overseas, published today, contains the name of one American, J. Larkin, of Chicago, who is listed as wounded. . '

MOB LYNCHES SUPPORTER OF GERMAfT CAUSE Illinois Patriots Hang Man Who Made an Attack on President Wilson. (Associated Press.) COLLINSVILLE. I1U April 5.

Kneeling with his arms crossed, Robert P. Prager, who was lynched by a moo last night at midnight for alleged dis loyal utterances, prayed In German for three minutes before he was strung up, according to statements today by members of the lynching party. Prager was a coal miner and yesterday at Maryvllle, 111., in an address to the miners on socialism, Is said to have made remarks derogatory to President Wilson. Miners there became angry and when they threatened to do him bodily harm he escaped to Collinsville, his home. Some of the miners, how ever, followed him, collected a crowd. took Prager from his home ana lea mm barefoot through the street waving an American flag. Police Take. Prisoner. The police, , fearing violence took Prager from the crowd and placed him in the City hall. Later a large mob eathered in front of the hall and de manded the man. Mayor J. H. Siegel counselled calmness, but the police force of four was overpowered and Prager was found In the basement of the hall hiding beneath a pile of tiling. He was dragged down the street and bevond the city limits, the crowd threatening to shoot if the officers ap proached. t One mile west of the city, the rope bv which Prager had been led was thrown over the limb Of a tree. He was asked if he had anything to say, Offers Praysr. His answer was to, drop to his knees and with arms crossed to pray in German for three minutes. With out another word he was pulled into the air ten feet and allowed to hang. The mob then dispersed. The police said that Prager, while in their custody had stated he was a registered enemy alien, that he was born in Germany but that he had taken out his first naturalization papers and had hoped to become an American citizen. Collinsville is 12 miles east of St Louis and is in that section of Southwestern Illinois that of late has been active againt disloyalists. WASHINGTON. April 5. Attorney General Gregory took to the cabinet meeting today a report of the lynching of a German, Robert P. Prager, at Collinsville, 111., last night, for discus4 8ion-with h President Wilson. . The government Is expected, to denounce the mob's lawless act and to express the hope that there will be no repetition elsewhere. LENROOT WILL SUPPORT WILSON MILWAUKEE. April 5. United States Senator-elect Irvine L. Lenroot declared in a statement today that he would support Presirent Wilson in the senate as he did in the house In all measures helpful in the prosecution of the war. He said that Victor L. Berger, the Socialist candidate, received to many votes and that the campaign of pa triotlc education must go on. "But the combined loyalty vote demonstrates beyond all question the loyalty of Wisconsin as a state, he said. hone all Republicans and Democrats will now again work together shoulder to shoulder and make the third Liberty loan campaign the most successful of any we have had." Mr. Lenroot will make two Liberty bond speeches and will return to Washington next week. Alliance to Disband Says Former Leader NEW YORK, April 5. Announcement that the National German-American Alliance will disband at a special meeting in Philadelphia on April 11 was made here last night by Henry Weismann, of this city, who until recently was active in the affairs of the organization. "I received advices to this effect from the management of the organization," said Mr. Weismann, "but just why the dissolution is contemplated, I do not know. I imagine, however, that a quiet tip has gone out from Washington that the organization' had better take advantage of an opportunity to dissolve voluntarily." To Use Home of German Society for Hospital (By Associates Press) NEW YORK, April 5. Arion Hall, in Brooklyn, home of one of the largest German singing societies In the United States, Is to be purchased by the city and turned over to the government for use as a base hospital, it was learned today. Negotiations have reached such a stage, It is said, that the property will be transferred by May 1. Since the United States entered the war, there has been a breach between the older German-born and younger American born members of the society and the membership has dwindled to less than 500, of whom 300 are associate members. The society, it is said, plans to buy a smaller home in another section of Brooklyn. QUARANTINE LIFTED EATON. Ohio, April 6 Having recovered from an attack of smallpox, Miss Isabelle Smith was expected to be released from quarantine Thursday. Miss Smith was ill in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Kautz.

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School Pupils Here Own Thrift and War Stamps Sixty-six percent of the pupils in the city schools own thrift stamps, ac cording to the report submitted oy Superintendent J. T. Giles to josepn Mills, county chairman of the thrift stamp campaign. , The following' is the report for the schools up to March 29: Vaile, with 257 pupils carries the highest percentage with 94 nercent perfect and sales of $1,134.27 Baxter, with 287 pupils carries 92 percent perfect, sales... 733.83 Joseph Moore, 90 pupils, car ries 83 percent perfect, ana sales 234.26 Flnley, with 225 pupils, carries 76 percent perfect, sales... 697.80 High School, with 1,738 puipls carries 71 percent- perfect. sales 1.973.32 Starr, with 451 pupils, carries - 63 percent perfect, sales ... 1,689.81 Hlbberd. with 289 pupils, car ries 63 percent perfect, sales 424.25 Garfield, with 530 pupils, car ries 59 percent perfect, 6ales 1.350.97 Warner, with 266 pupils, car ries 49 percent perfect, sales 380.62 Sevastopol, with 226 pupils, carries 44 percent perfect, sales 269.73 Whitewater, with 243 pupils, carries 39 percent perfect. sales 118.67 Total 3,602 pupils carries 66 percent perfect with sales $9,007.6S ARMY WILL TAKE 90,000 MONTHLY (Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 5. Orders for the mobilization of the first large num ber of men for the second draft will go out to the governors of states very soon. Fifteen thousand men of the second draft are now mobilizing and the April call, about to go out, will represent probably more than the month's proportion of the 800,000 men who it previously has been announced, will be called during the remaining nine months of the year. To call the 800,000 in equal monthly Increments which would mobilize them at the rate of 90,000 a month. However, there is no assurance that this will be a fixed figure because the flow of men will be determined by the needs of the army in France. As General Pershing may call for specially qualified troops an average of 90,000 a month my be much exceeded or much decreased. It has been announced the men will be drawn as gradually and In as small numbers as possible f o as not to dislocate industry and particularly agriculture. So far as possible this plan will be followed. The immediate need of increasing the American forces In France, however, to meet the German drive in the west is likely to result in calling the men faster than first supposed. For that reason the April quota undoubtedly will exceed Its normal average. In fact If the need Is pressing the entire 800,000 might be called in much less than the nine months originally planned. Circus Engagements Boohed for Richmond; Ringling's Here in May Ringling Brothers circus, hailed as the "greatest show on earth" by all press agents, will come to Richmond with bag and baggage on May 15, according to Omer G. Whelan, Friday. The Robinson circus is scheduled to play an engagement in Richmond on May 2. The advance agent of the Ringling show has already hit the city and contracted for grain with Whelan. It is the largest grain contract to be placed with Whelan for the last eight years. 23 West Virginia High Schools Drop German (Bv Associated Press CHARLESTON, W. Va.,April 5. The German language, as a course of study, has been dropped by twentythree West Virginia high schools in the last year, according to the annual reports of principals, just received by the state department of schools. A number of the institutions have substituted the study of French and Spanish. . V. Professor to Speak on War Aims of Allies At the monthly meeting of the Commercial club Monday evening Prof. E. M. Linton of Indiana University will speak on "War Aaims and the Liberty Loan." A large attendance is deBired.

"War Liars and Loafers" Will be Rounded Up by Richmond Police

Immediate action will be taken to round up all "war liars and loafers," Chief of Police Gorman and Assistant Police Chief McNally stated Thursday. " . The city ordinances imposing penalties on men convicted of being either war liars or loafers became effective Thursday, and the police state that their attention has already been called to a number of cases which will come under the war loafer ordinance. Immediate prosecution will result in these cases unless the persons violatins the ordinance go to work at once, according to the police. The war ordinances which were passed by the council were siibtntttea ty the council of defense March 15.

GERMAN DRIVE

IS RENEWED; FOE FORCES HURLED RACK Enemy Makes Only Slight Gain at Isolated PointsRepulsed with Great Loss Everywhere Else. 100,000 HUNS USED (Associated Press.) The French lines have held below Amiens and the Germans have been defeated with great losses to what probably constituted their most desperate effort yet to break in and cut off the communication of this Important base from the south. Similarly to the east of Amiens, the British have maintained their steadfast defense and prevented the Germans from making any Important headway here. This battle which raged yesterday and virtually all last night was fought along a line of approximately 30 miles south of the Somme. Today, according to unofficial dispatches, the Germans switched their attacks to the north of the river and engaged the British along a front of some 17 miles but again were unable to make any progress except a slight advance near the river. In the great battle to the south of Somme the contending armies fought with fluctuating fortunes, the French giving some ground In the northerly sector of their battle area but closing the engagement with their lines not only where it was adong its southerly course but even advanced in one or two sectors where the Germans bad been violently thrown back. As a whole the entente line may be considered, as the French official statement puts it, maintained in its entirety. So far as the German objective south of Amiens, the railway line to Clermont is concerned, the stupendous German effort resulted merely In the projection of the fighting front a distance of probably not more than 2,000 yards nearer to it opposite Caspel where the map shows the enemy still nearly three miles away from the railroad. LONDON, April 5 The British havs been pressed back a short distance on the front east of Amiens to positions east of Villers-Brettonneux, the war office announces. The Germans concentrated troops early this morning near Albert, the war office announces. British artillery took them under Its fire. In the neighborhood of Bucquoy and in the Scarpe valley there was active artillery fightins during the night. The Germans hurled large bodies of troops against the British between the Luce . and Somme rivers, making repeated assaults. For the most part the enemy was thrown back with losses. MAKE SLIGHT GAINS (Associated Press.) Striking at positions south of the Somme. nearest Amiens, the Germans heavy forces. In desnerate fighting with the British and French, the enemy has been able to make only slight gains at isolated points, being repulsed with great loss everywhere else. How well the valiant Franco- British forces withstood the enemy forces Is shown that on a front of nine miles, north of Montdldier. the Germans used more than 100,000 men. Field Marshal Halg's center and right held ground against the heavy attacks.whfle the left fell back somewhat around Hamel, south of the Somme and about twelve miles directly east of Amiens. Contest Ground Bitterly. Between the Avre and the Luce the French and Germans contested all the ground bitterly. The enemy was determined to break through and used his masses of infantry in ten reckless assaults, the French mowing the Germans down with artillery fire. On either, side of Moreuil. twelve miles southeast of Amiens, the French retired several hundred yards from the villages of Mallly-Raineval, and Morieul. the heights around which are still held by the French. South of the Avre. the heaviest fighting centered on Grievnes. Gen. Petain's men held stubbornly to their positions despite repeated efforts by the German infantry, and then in a counter attack, advanced their own lines Into the enemy positions. Be tween Montididier and Lassigny, where the German line bends, the heavy artillery bombardment, which Continued On Page Nine. who tells a falsehood against the United States or any of its organizations. The penalty for conviction Is six months imprisonment and a fine of $50. The "war loafer" Is defined as any person between the ages of 18 and 50, who, while the United States Is at war with any other nation, government or power, is not engaged continuously in a lawful employment or who apparently does not perform manual labor sufficient to provide for the cost of ---...m-H hv hi -h wh gpends most 0f his time loitering around cigar stores, pool rooms or cd rooms Tne penalty for being a waT loafer lB a flne of from $1-00 to ?500