Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 137, 20 April 1918 — Page 1

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VOL. XLIIU NO. 137Palladlum and Sun-Telegram Consolidated 1 SOT RICHMOND, 1ND., SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1918 SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

ASK COUNTY TO INCREASE : SUBSCRIPTION TO LIBERTY

Patriotic Citizens of Wayne Are Asked to Overcome Deficits in Other Counties in This District. SOME FAIL TO BUY Wayne county, which Already has oversubscribed ltd quota In the Liberty Loan campaign more than $100,000, haa been called on by the federal government to further increase its oversubscription in order that the Seventh federal dlstriot in which this part of Indiana la included, may raise its full quota. In other words the patriotlo cltlaenshlp of Wayne county Is asked to aid in a general movement to overcome the deficits in those counties 'which; because of lack of financial resources, will be unable to reach the quotas fixed. Saturday the Wayne county Liberty Loan committee received the following telegram from the Federal Heserve District headquarters at Chicago: Wayne County Liberty Loan Committee: "The Issue of the hour has been put squarely up to the Seventh Federal district, of which Wayne county is a part, by the Srcretary of the Treasury, in the following telegram received this forenoon : "I earnestly hope that you will fay to every Liberty Loan committee in the Seventh federal reserve district, that their' quota ought to bo over-subscribed at least fifty percent. With our sons actually dying on the battlefield of France we cannot abate our efforts in , the slightest degree to support them to the utmost limit of our resources." Will Increase Sales. The Wayne county committee has telegraphed the state headquarters and also the Federal reserve bank, Chicago, that an effort will be made to Increase, the bond sales in order that the county's subscription may be considerably increased over Its present standing. " .. , The checking up of subscription blanks that have passed through the ! to iHaiib n rm m 1 tfaaa In h a Anti t r various committees in the show that there are hundreds of per sons financially able to purchase and who should have taken advanta of the Investment featureS-aside the patriotic incentive, who hav yet not made purchases. There are hundreds or others hose subscriptions might be increase from 10 to 50 per cent without s'Aining their resources. The call to Wayne county is an urgent one. he fact that the quota as fixed by tl government was reached In seven iays without the banks being called on to subscribe, is a very strong yeason why Uncle Sam is calling on t As county to do more. Buy at One t. The county commttU t, therefore, is making very emphatic the request for every man and womain Wayne county who has not subr bribed for a Liberty Loan bond, andWho is financially able to do so, to 'to at once to any bank in Rlchmony or Wayne county and sign an applfation for a bond in the sum that the can care for. Equally emphfilc Is the request that persons who a'eady have subscribed and who feel tiat they can add a mite more to their investments for Liberty, shall likewise arrange at once for additional bonis. One thousand citizens of Wayne county, eah purchasing a $100 bond would give an additional $J00,000. There Is need for response. The roverniyent's call should be met by Wayne county citizens nhouly see the oversubscription of the county's quota go to the $300,000 mark at least. Will you help? Three Shots Fired by Terror. Gun, Do No Harm (By Associated Press.) PARIS, April 20. Yesterday's long rane bombardment, which consisted of three shots, at wide intervals re-J j-ulted In no casualties and did litfle damare. One shell went through the roof of a house, penetrated a workshop on th sixth floor and passed through Ihe back wall crossed the court yard and Into a building in the rear finally bursting on the stralrcase. A number of people' were employed, but all had left the building a few minutes before the shell fell.

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American Liberty Loans Must Overtop German '&fflM&edtis of $1 7,343,000,000

(Tiy Associated Tress.) WASHINGTON, April 20. While American arms are meeting German force on the battle front in France, American liberty loans must match and overtop Germany's popular war crtdits, said a review issued today by national loan headquarters with the loan campaign half finished. As compared with the United States' two war loans, the' first for 12,000.000,000, with 4,600,000 subscribers, and the second for $3,808,000,000 with 8.C00.000 or more subscribers, or a total of $5,808,000,000 for the two. the German people have subscribed

Baker Gives Optimistic

-View of War Situation at Military Conference (Br Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 20, An optimistic view of the military situation in France was given today by Secretary Baker and war department officials at their weekly conference with members of the senate military committee. Members of the committee .were told that the military experts believe the German drive has been stopped with every prospect of permanence, both on the French front at Amiens and also in Flanders. Another attack of considerable force Is expected from the Germans shortly, the senators were told, at some new point not yet disclosed but with the allied fighting forces confident of holding the enemys RURAL WOMEN ARE LEADING IN WAR SERVICE DRIVE Women Sign for Many Forms of Work Booths Open Saturday Night. Rural women 'are leading in the registration for war remce, according to Mrs. Paul Ross, county chairman of the registration of women. In Jackson township he women la charge of the registration have already sent in a call for more cards, and Franklin township women are responding in large numbers to the call of the government. The city booth which probably registered the largest number of women Friday afternoon was that in the Peerless grocery, in the seventeenth precinct of the third "'ward, where many women living in the outskirts of the town, registered. While Richmond women Friday did not register in aa large numbers as the women in the country districts, there was a marked display of Interest, and the response was considered very encouraging by the women in charge. One housewife of , German birth, who is unnaturalized, registered for service which she could . do in her home, saying that although she was German-born, she was eager to render some service for America. . Register as Drivers. Many of the young women registered for 1 full time emergency service, saying that they were willing to serve in any capacity in which they might be needed. " Several girls registered as taxi-drivers, and a number signed for office work and stenography. College girls Vi r ViavA rc nrnfocetnn Yvnt ."qti speak French, signed as interpreter i-r tno rVi a rf tTio Ian oiia eta T4nnaa. or teachers of the language. Housewives who registered usually signed for. partial time work, which they could carry on in connection with their home duties. Most of the wornI en registered for Red Cross work, and a number signed for war gardening and food conservation and production. The registration booths were open again Saturday afternoon, find will be open every afternoon until April 27. A change in the location of the booths in the second ward was announced by Mrs. A. W. Roach. Women may register in the second ward at the Star grocery, Fort Wayne avenue and Sixth streets, the Ross drug store, and the Y. M. C. A. The booths will also be open Saturday night for women who are unable to register during the day. The call to register is being sent out to women through the children in the public schools, and the registration is being advertised in every possible way. Mrs. Paul Ross announced Saturday that where any group of women wished further explanation concerning registration, she would ar- ( Continued on Page Four.) THE WEATHER For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Probably rain tonight and Sunday. Warmer tonicht

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In southwest portion Sunday. Today's Temperature Noon 66 Yesterday Maximum 43 Minimum 34 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Showers and probably thunder storms. Cooler Sunday afternoon and evening. General Conditions The Texas storm now central along the Ohio river near Evansville is moving north westward. The cold wave of the last two days has split in two, one part going over the far east and the other over the northwest with snow in western Nebraska. Though still quite cool over the plain states, the temperatures are rising in the far northwest. The Texas storm is due here tonight with high winds and a March squall. the equivalent of $17,343,000,000 ii. seven loans, the greatest number of subscribers in any one of which, was 6,768,000. This was in the sixth loan, floated after more than two years of war, and about one in every ten of Germany's population bougnt bonds. In the two about 1 in 11 subscribed to the second liberty loan. For the third loan, now being offered, the treasury hopes to get 20,000,000 subscribers, and double Germany's best record for wide distribution of these government war securities.

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British Artillerymen Working Valiantly with their heavy guns. With their backs to the wall the BritisI? have been nobly resisting the furious onslaughts of the enemy and many dispatches have mentioned the heroism of their heavy artillerymen who have poured death into the ranks of the foe till their guns were red ho't. . The picture shows th9 British heavy guns and the heroes who serve them stripped to the waist and working desperately to mow down tha enemy forces. - :-" - u:

LATEST U. S. DESTROYER IS INSPECTED BY SEC. DANIELS

(By Associated Press) . QUINCY. Mass., April 2D It took no less a person than Josephus Daniels himself to pry off today the lid of secrecy which, upon the declaration of war, was clamped down by the navy department upon the activity of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation at its Fore River plant and Squantum Works. The secretary of the navy came here on a tour of Inspection of these yards, escorted by Joseph W. Powell, vice president of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding company. WUh Mr. Daniels, Gov, McCall, the mayors of Boston and Quincy, and other guests, he arrived at Fore River early 'in the morning. General Manager- S. Wj ' Wakeman escorted the party "to" the slipways. Here was a launching stand over which one of the latest types of destroyers being turned out at Fore River poked her sharp cut bow. At the screeching of a siren several thousands of Workmen came pouring out of the shops. The Fore River band played the Star Spangled Banner, and Mrs. Daniels gracefully discharged het- office as sponsor as the latest of Uncle Sam s warships tooK the water to the cheering of a constantly augmenting mass of grimy shipbuilders. I 16,000 Men at Work. Mr. Daniels appeared tremendously impressed, for the yard he knew when last ne visitea, nau a.ouu men at work. Today it has 16,000. After the destroyer had been launched, the shipbuilders called on Mr. Daniels for a speech. "The most gratifying thing about this war," he said, "is that the bulk of the men of all callings have bven ready to make whatever sacrifices the SPEAKER SCORES WOMEN'S DRESS The manner of v dressing - of many women in business positions was scored by Dr. Charles E. Barker in an address to women Friday evening on "A Mother's Relation to Her Daughter." ' Dr. Earker urged women to take their daughters into their confidence at critical periods in their life, stating that such confidences could be better made at home than in . the schools, but that in many cases it was necessary to teach the facts in the schools because of home negligence. Physical fitness as a duty which they owed their children was advocated for women. Dr. Barker closed his lectures in the city with a patriotic address at the Coliseum, preceding the Evan Williams concert. He 'Tirged people to do without new clothing, and things that were not necessary, and invest the money which they were able to save in Liberty bonds.ASKED TO BUY MORE. INDIANAPOLIS, April 20. Residents of Indiana were called on today to meet the request of Secretary of Treasury McAdoo for 150 per cent subscriptions for Third Liberty Loan bond. "Have You Bought?" -. , "Have you bought your bonds and become one of the 20,000,000?" asks the headquarters review. "Have you helped to make. America's loans overtop Germany's? Do you know that a wide distribution of the bonds results in less financial displacement and provides better assurance that the bonds will not be placed upon the market but will be held by their purchasers? This is not mere financial theory it is definite facts which you, whoever you are, must help to meet with your purchase of liberty bonds." Germany is four times deeper in

British Gunners, Stripped to Waist, Pour

" authorities have asked them to make. There has been a hearty response by the American people in all directions. The spirit of America is that there will be no profiteering and no toleration of slackers either in the military service, in the munition plants, in the shipyards or anywhere else. The men who are taming out destroyers and munitions are just as brave as men who are at the front. Unless their courage and willingness makes a sacrifice to furnish the implements of war. the brave men at the front will j give their lives without the agencies which will enable them to win the war. "The greatest disappointment of the kaiser has. not been the failure of the U-boat warfare to starve our allies, XContlnuedOiL.Pafl Fjve.J .. .... , Is Slated to Become Quartermaster-General r . - . (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 20. Lieut. Col. Robert E. Wood, nominated to beIcome a brigadier general, is slated for appointment as acting quartermaster general of the army it was learned today, relieving Major General Goethals of the detailed work of that office. BOARD CONTINUES LICENSE HEARINGS j All applications for liquor licenses j made by saloon keepers of Richmond '. and Wayne county were continued for I an indefinite period by the county commissioners Saturday. It is expected that the supreme court will . give a decision on the liquor law within a week, and the matter of licenses will probably be taken up again at' next Saturday's meeting. If the state is returned to the wet column by the court's decision the licenses will be granted in most cases, but if the law is declared valid the matter will be automatically dropped. A contract to supply 800 tons of coal for county institutions was also considered at Saturday's meeting. Burn Keeps President From Daily Golf Gams WASHINGTON, April 20. The burn received by President Wilson yesterday when he grasped a hot exhaust pipe as he climbed from the fighting tank Britannia after a ride around the White House grounds, will prevent him from playing golf for at least a month, it was sa'd today. The President played golf almost every day. The burn was giving the President some pain today, but promised not to be serious. American Ship Sunh; ' Some Lives Are Lost NEW YORK. April 20. The American steamship Florence H., formerly a Great La4tes vessel has been sunk with loss of life wear a foreign port, according to information received in shipping circles today. debt on account of the war than the United States, says the liberty loan review. Yet, her people are only twothirds as great, and her national wealth is estimated about one-third that of the United States. At the end of 1917, every man, woman and child Ip Germany bore, on an average, $379 of public debt, while the per capita public debt of -the United States is about $75. "Look well at these figures," says the headquarters review, "and see why it should not be such a great task for the people of this country within the next two weeks to overscribe this

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U. 5. Ambulance Sections Commended for Bravery by French Army Commander (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, . April 20 An official list of the Individual sections of the U.. S. ambulance service cited by French army commanders for bravery was received today at the office of Surgeon General Gorgas. Forty-two separate citations are noted. In two instances entire sections were commended. HUNS PREPARE FOR MIGHTY ATTACK (By Associated Press WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE,,; April fOr No further big enemy attacks developed during the night. Trouble still is brewing in the northern zone: and south of the river SommeThere. are judications in the latter region that another mighty thrust from the British ' supply base Amiens, is boiling.' The Germans aTe nursing their hurts in the region of LaBassee canal. ' In a sharp local engagement at Riez du Vinage this morning the enemy over run the British outpost but was driven back to the wood. . In the Arras region there, was more activity yesterday and last night. Southward in the ridge zone about Kemmel it seems probable that the enemy has paused to organize a more careful scheme assault then he has employed in the last few days of costly fighting. For some time the Germans have been pushing one attack after another against Kemmel in order to catch the British before they could get up reinforcements and the infantry has been .sent forward without the usual methodical preparation for a drive. Dr. Arthur J.Whallon Gets Orders to Report Dr. Arthur J. Whallon, , recently commissioned a first lieutenant, will report at Washington, D. C, May 1 to the medical corps for inspection. Dr. Whallon applied last fall in the medical department and received his commission as first lieutenant of the year. ,

Town Like Richmond Would Win "Grand Prize" in England He Writes

Mr. and Mrs. George Skinner of near Whitewater, have received a letter from. their son, E. T. Skinner, of the 47th aero squadron, who has just arrived in England. They also have another son in service at Camp Shelby, Miss. Following is a portion of the letter: "I suppose you are wild to hear from me, but I haven't had a chance to write before. I am in the best of health and having a fine. time. "This country is as beautiful as a picture, but the cities are very common far behind ours at home. A town like Richmond here would win a grand prize. "The farms seem to have all been planned at one time, and are a very pretty sight all hedged in, and have beautiful drives and shrubbery. When $3,000,000,000 loan of 'urs a billion or two. But" to do it will require your subscription." Germany's national debt last December was reported as $25,408,000,000, of which $24,343,000,00 has developed since the war started. ' The United States public debt before the third loan campaign started was about $7,753,000,000, of which the $5,808,000,000 of the first and second loans represent the bulk of the war debt. "In Debt to Ourselves." "It is debt we owe. ourselves, however," observes the statement. "When we pay the debt .the money will stay

British Casualties For Week Total 12,368 Men; : Loss Has Decreased ' ' - (By Associated Press) " LONDON, April 20 British casualties reported during the week ending today totaled 12,368, divided , as follows: m' Killed or died of wounds, officers, 676; men 1639. Wounded or missing, officers 2173; men 7,981. The casualties reported for this week are approximately half as large again as those reported In the preceding week. Although heavy fighting has now been in, progress a ' month, however, the list have not begun to approach In size those of last year In the month of active operation where the British were on the offensive. There is no means of determining how far the casualties now being reported represent lossea in the fighting since the German offensive waa started. In the several weeks preceding last week however when 8,129 names were listed, the totals have been running no higher than between three and four thousand.

62 CONSCRIPTS LEAVE FOR CAMP NEXTSATURDAY Selective Army Board Selects Men Who Will Make Up Next Quota. The fourty-eight men and fourteen colored men included in the next draft call from Wayne county, will be sent to Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky. The white men will entrain for the camp on Saturday, April 27, and the colored men on Monday, April 29. Following are the names of those selected for service by the local board: White. Joseph F. Moss, Eber K. Williams, Howard P. Moyer, George N. Settles, Carl Miller. Joseph Baker, Harold E. Hawkins, Edward Gray, Holston Fred Tom, Harold F. Taggartt. Herbert J. Boyer, Frank Skaggs. John Booksout, Olin J. Fosick, Earl W. Brittenham, Walter J. Boyce. Antonio Pasqualett, Albert J. Lieneman, Chester A. Phillips, - Elmer E. Jarvis, Harry B. Cartwright. Andrew J. Greulich. Harry M. Brown, Clarence B. Werner, Lloyd E. Lincoln, Frank J. Miller. ., Clarkson C. Huhard, . Riley C Anthony, Carl Armbruster,-Ross H: Miller, Paul B. Witte. - Roy H. Schneider, Leslie Sprouse, Oren B. Henderson, Walter F. Smith, Paul T. Druely. Ralph N. Rogers, Lester Johnson, Carl C. Young, Alva Ellis, Herbert L. WestendorL Jefferson H. Meyers, William M. Higgins, Frank B. Snyder, John Ebla, Harold Yager, Oscar A- Bridgeford, Phares Hiatt. Colored. William W. Evans, Herbert C. Arnold. Green Parks, Ollie P. Milton, William Tracey. John P. , Scott, Benjamin F. Jones, Marion Louding, Beverly Hockerty, Harry Ray, Reuben Whitlock, Gloster Smith, Will Shucmak, James S. Hicks. Otten is Recommended for Second Lieutenancy Olylie P. Otten, former office employe of the American Seeding Machine company, who has been attending the officer's training camp at Camp Taylor, Ky., has passed the examination with high honors 'and has been recommended for appointment as second lieutenant. Otten enlisted In September, 1917. is Harold coming? I suppose he is on his way by this time. "We ars getting good 'eats' and have no complaint. We are- treated with much respect and courtesy. I am sending home an allotment of $15 per month. Use it as you see fit only sen'd me as soon as you get this in a wooden box, one pound of tobacco and some cigarettes a carton or two. . "Make an old fashioned fruit cake one of those soggy kind, with lots of raisins in it, and send me some. Sweets and cake are extinct here. I have enough tobacco and cigarettes to last me over a month, but 6end me some every week so that I will not run out, and don't forget to send the fruit cake if you can. Hope you are all well and as contented as I am. ' I am having a real time, and have no complaint." in the country. It isn't tribute to a foreign, power. We, the nation, will pay our debt when these liberty bonds fall due." , Germany's war loans, according to the Liberty Loan Review, have been rfeported ks follows: . No. of Subscibers Amount First .. Second Third . Fourth Fifth .. Sixth , . Seventh ...1,267,235 . 2,691,060 ;. 3,966,418 ...5,279,645 ,..3.809,976 ..6,763.082 $1,060,000,000 $2,180,000,000 $2,890,000,000 .' $2,560,000,000 $2,540,000,000 $3,690,000,000 $3,000,000,000 public debt re .5,213,373 ' Austria-Hungary's

BRITISH TAKE GROUND FROM FOE If BIG COUNTER BLOW Results in Re-establishment of British Line as It Exited Before the Huns Struck on Thursday

MORE HUNS DROUGHT UP , (By Associated Press) Field Marshal Haigs troops took the aggressive last night on the Southern side of the Lys battle front with quick and decisive results. They compelled the Germans to give up the small bits of ground in the Gi-venchy-Fesubert sector which were all the enemy had to show for his costly all-day attacks of Thursday on this front. The British counter blow resulted in the attainment of all the objectives sought and in the complete re-establishment of the British-line as it existed before the Germans struck on Thursday. The only offensive action on the German side reported from the British front was in the Robecq region near the westerly tip of the Lys salient, southwest of Merville. The enemy met no success in this local operation, the British driving him back to his positions. Take Prisoners and Guns There Is possible significance in raiding operations carried out by the British south along the line below the Scarpe river just to the northeast of Arras. Apparently it -was a feelingout operation to develop what forces the Germans have ready for an attack in this region. It resulted In the taking of prisoners and collection of ma- y chine guns and trench, mortars. A German counter-attack was repulsed. It seems not Improbable that the enemy will again assay a drive around Arras although he tailed signally there in the early stages of the battle. In some way the Germans have got to force back the British line between Arras and Albert before they can go further ahead In their push on the Somme battle front as their right flank Is held fast by the British from Vimy to Albert and has not been able to keep pace with their left, south of the Somme. - Vimy Ridge fs Anchor Point The British anchor point on this line is Vimy ridge north of Arras, the turning of which from the north has been assumea to do one oi tne uerman odjectives In driving in the salient along the Lys whence they apparently hoped to work southward. Stopped in this attempt by the British, in the fighting on Thursday and yesterday, they must either strike here again or attack with a similar purpose elsewhere if Vimy and the line it supports is not still to stand in the way of their southerly drive. In the sectors of the southern battle front held by the French there was a continuation of the heavy artillery action between Lassinge and Noyan toward the French right flank. The only Infantry operation was a raiding attempt by the Germans near Hangard southeast of Amiens, In which the advantage was with the French who took prisoners Including an officer. It Is not Improbable that the Germans again will attack, either In Pi' cardy or In Flanders-Artois, while over every move they make hangs the menace of the allied reserve army and a counter-offensive. Weather Bad In North. Unfavorable weather has settled down upon the northern battle field but np to the present, the Germans have selected mist and rain and cold periods as opportune for striking and the lull in their attacks is due more probably to their appalling losses, which in the past ten days have caused such depletions in organlzathat offensive tactics must wait the arrival of new troops. The enemy is moving up new troops and supplies along the Lys river and these are being bombarded heavily by the British. , Germany probably still has many reserve divisions and there Is little doubt that her masters will use up the last division in their attempts to crush either the British or the French. The Britisn have borne the brunt of the present campaign, which wiU end its first month today and their line is still unbroken. The enemy has not been able to pierce it and roll up one side as he apparently intended. - Continued On Page Five.) cently waa $19,0:,000,000. of which all but $3,985,000,000 has grown up since the war, and most has been raised from popular loans " - America's allies also have had "liberty loans" of their own, and all have raised proportionately more than the people of the United States have been called on to produce. Great Britain's public debt is above $27,636,000,000; France's. $22,227,000,000; Italy's, $6,676,000,000. War has caused the bulk of these, and from the pockets of the people has come most of the money to keep the war machinery going.