Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 141, 25 April 1918 — Page 1

Palladium and Sun-Telegram 'Consolidated 1907 RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVENING,4 APRIL 25, 1918 SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS

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LIBERTY LOAN QUOTAS ARE REACHED BY TOWNSHIPS

Many Persons Are Expected to Attend the Liberty Loan Day Celebration at Cambridge City Friday. TOTAL IS $1,300,000 Cambridge City's observance of Liberty Loan Day Friday will be attended by many persona from the western part of Wayne county and Richmond also will be well represented. The parade will take place at 12:30 o'clock; the indoor meeting at o'clock. ... The speakers will be Henry IT. Johnson, Charles W. Jordan and Mrs. Charles Druitt, all of Richmond. Mrs. Druitt, as chairman of the Woman's Liberty Loan committee of Wayne county, will speak in commendation of the excellent work done by the women of Cambridge City and Wayne county in general in the liberty Loan drive, the aggregate sales by women being in excess of $360,000 and probably will reach $400,000. One of the features of the Cambridge City meeting will be the formal presentation to the township of the government's service flag for having reached its quota. AH Townships Over. At a meeting Wednesday night of the Wayne county Liberty Loan executive committee, the lists of subscriptions for the various townships was gone over and every township in the county was awarded a service flag, all having reached their quotas. In some of' the townships where there are no banks there had been some difficulty experienced by the committees in checking up the subcriptlons that should have been credited to, these townships, but this has been accomplished and all townships with but one or two exceptions are safely over the top while the exceptions have scaled it by a narrow marrin. . . The township committees have been notified of the awarding the flags and f it is desired to hold special ceremonies In each township the bounty jommitteo will send a speaker to formally present the flags. liostbn township which sold 200 per cent of its quota, thereby achieving a fcignal honor not yet equalled by any other township In the county, will, it is understood, have a special patriotic meeting, the date to be announced later. Total Is $1,300,000. According to the reports received by the committee Thursday Wayne County's total subscriptions for Liberty Loan bonds has reached $1,300,000. The bonds subscribed for by Richmond employes of the Pennsylvania company amount to $35,300 and this sum is credited to Wayne county. Friday being Liberty Loan day, the committees confidently expect that there will be hundreds of subscriptions received by the banks. The list of citizens who have as yet not made a purchase is still quite large .though many of these whose names were on "delinquent cards" to be submitted to the state committee, have made purchases. Many of the others, it is expected, will file their applications with the banks Friday. 3,465 Convicted for Interference With Draft (Ry Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 25. Refuting recent charges that the department of justice had not been active in combatring enemy propaganda within the United States, the department today reported that at least 3,900 convictions had been obtained during the last year under "wholly inadaquate federal laws against sabotage, disloyal utterances and other forms of interference with the war." Thpse figures were gathered from partial reports of United States attorneys and actually represent only a small part oftthe department's work of policing the country. U was said. On charees of interference with operation of the draft, 3,465 persons have been convicted or have pleaded guilty, and 181 have been acquitted. Under tbe espionage act, which has been stretched to cover many varying Miscs of disloyalty, there have been 226 convictions and 17 acquittals. Under general war statutes, 22$ have been found guilty of making threats against the president and ten acquitted on this charge. THE WEATHER For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Friday. Probably rain in south and central portions. Today's Temperature. Noon 50 Yesterday. Maximum 47 Minimum , 35 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy, warmer, tonight and Friday. Occasional showers. General Conditions The cold weather of the last few days is passing away and temperatures rose rapidly last night from Medicine Hat southward, due to a great area of low barometric pressure over western Canada. The storm over the southwest will probably cause showers durtnm the next twenty-four hours.

Huns, Before War Information as to Blowing Up

(By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 25. Repeated declarations of the German emperor and Hindenburg and Ludendorff that the war was forced upon Germany, and assertions from the same sources that German was taken by surprise by the Russian mobilization, attaches particular interest to certain papers taken from Captain von Fapen seeking information regarding the best means of blowing up railroad trains "in the event of a European war." The significant point is that this letter was written March 12, 1914 about five months before the outbreak of war. This letter says: "According to newspaper reporjs several railway trains were blown up b;- revolutionaries during the troubles in Mexico. In order to form an opinion whether, in the event of an European war, explosions of this kind would have to be reckoned with, it is requested that if possible, information should be obtained as to how these attacks have been carried out. Were mines and explosives placed on lines which were little guarded, or were the attacks carried out on the train by igniting a charge of dynamite, or by the employment of Infernal machines?" Replied from Mexico. Capt. von Papen replying from Mexico, where it is now known that he was industriously planting the seeds of German propaganda and establishing connections for Germany to U3e IRISH ATTITUDE LAID BEFORE U. S. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 25. T. P. O'Connor, the Irish Nationalist leader, who has been on a tour of tbe west, was in Washington today to lay be fore government officials the Irish attitude toward the British conscription plan. He said that Chicago Irish men had urged him to come. "With them as with myself," he added, "hostility to the present con scription proposal is induced, I need scarcely say, not by any desire to weaken in any way the arm of Eng land or her allies in the vigorous Drosecution of the war, but in the con viction that the way to attain the result we all want to see is to give Ire land at once her long overdue parliament, which would then be in a position itself to' throw Ireland's full strength into the struggle . for free dom." Mary Ellen Oelklaus Dies As Result of Peculiar Accident The death of Mary Ellen Oelklaus, 8-vear-old daughter of. Mr. and Mrs. William F. Oelklaus, 233 South Eighth street, occurred early Thursday morning, the result, it Is believed by physicians who attended her, of a fracture nf th sninal cord. A week ago, as the child was leav ing St. Johns parochial school during a storm, the wind blew the door shut through which she was attempting to pass, and twisted about the umbrella which she was carrying in such a way as to cause the rib of the umbrella to penetrate her left ear. For several days the girl did not fool nnv Pifat nain. and was able to attend school the afternoon after she had been curt. Physicians wno attoniipd hpr hplieve that the umbrella rib nenetrated her ear so far as to i fracture, the spinal cora. . Funeral services will be neia tunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at St. John's church. AT IT AGAIN PARIS. April 25. The long range bombardment of Paris was resumed again this morning. Will Melt Old Gold For Benefit of A "melting pot" in which all persons of the city will be iisked to place old gold and silver jewelry as a contribution to the Wayne County. Red Cross society, has been placed in the Jenkins jewelry store. Old gold rings, scarf pins, cuff links and any other discarded gold jewelry, as well as silver, will be accepted for the melting pot. William H. Rindt, of the Jenkins company, points out that 'almost every person In the city, if he searches thoroughly, will find in his home some small pieces of jewelry which no one is wearing. If everyone brings all the small pieces of gold, and silver which he finds about the house, the melting pot should net at least several hundred dollars for the Red Cross society. For the present, one large pot will be placed in the Jenkins ptore where all persons may bring the jewelry which they wish to give. Hun and HARBIN, Manchuria, March 5 (Correspondence of the Associated Press). German and Austrian war prisoners in Siberia are estimated to number more than 100,00 and, in official circles here, it is held they constitute a grave menace to the allied position In the far East. While the number of released prisoners bearing arms under the Bolshevik flag is not great, even a small number might prove a potent danger if they were permitted to become the organizing directing force behind the Bolsheviki. With German organization controlling the Bolsheviki, a huge army might be raised in Siberia. It Is held here

Started, Sought 'Best Means97 of Trains in America

in the event that she should war upon the United States, did not regard the operations of the Mexican revolution aries as of any particular value. For four months late he wrote from Mexico City: "I am convinced from personal evidence that all the recent cases of destruction of railway lines by explosion were brought about by burying dynamite under the Jine itself and then igniting it by an electric current as soon as the traia has reached the appointed place. I consider it out of the question, that explosions prepared (Continued on Page Four.) U. S. AGENTS PROBE FIRES LIMA, O., April 25. Federal agents today are investigating three fire3 which broke out simultaneously in the Lake Erie & Western railroad shops here last night and practically destroyed the plant, valued at $500,000. One arrest has been made and it is said others may be made during the day. Property loss included at least ten locomotives urgently needed in war work, a new train of troop coaches, just completed and a score of other coacnes. Ten thousand dollars' worth of liberty bond subscriptions were burned in the office of the shops. For some time a considerable part of Lima was threatened by the fire. The man under arrest is Will Pantinius, who says his horde Is Cicero, Ind. He was an employe of the shops. Officials decline to say why he is held. Arrests Here Decrease Since Funeral Services for John Barleycorn Since John Barleycorn stepped down and out in the state of Indiana, there has been a marked decrease in the number of arrests made by the Richmond police. During March of the present year 88 arrests were made, and up to date this month only 46 persons have been arrested. Of this number nine were slated April 1 and 2, the only two days during the month when tthe saloons were open. Very few of , the arrests that have been made were for drunkenness. Some men had stored up a surplus Bimniv nf linnor before the saloons wehfout and lrwgg Buuinnen as mis r r j " s . . l , the police say, who feu irom tne pains of sobriety after the saloons closed up. Next month a still further decrease in the number of arrests is expected by the police. U.S. WILL GET WOOL OUTPUT (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 24. Wool growers in conference here today with the war Industries board agree to turn over to the government the entire wool out-put of the United States at prices based on the price prevailing for washed wool on July 30, last. In accepting the government's proposal the growers avoided having their products commandeered. The government will take all wool produced and now in warehouses' and will distribute what is not required for the army to dealers for civilian needs. and Silver Red Cross Society When a sufficient amount of jewelry has been obtained, It will be sent to the mint at Washington where it will be melted and converted into money. Gold will be returned for the gold that was sent, and - silver for the sliver articles. The money received In this way will be donated to the Red Cross chapter here, to be used entirely in local work. "We thought it would be a means of letting Richmond people contribute to the local Red Cross," Mr. Rindt said Thursday. . "There will be no sacrifice about it, as people will just be giving things they are not using, and it will mean a great deal to the Red Cross society. We are Expecting the co-operation of everybody because it Is being done for a cause in which everybody is interested."

A ustrian Prisoners in

that such a force would be in a position to do incalcuable damage and might necessitate the sending of large allied forces to this theater. Previous to the rise of the Bolshevik to "power and their subsequent peace negotiations with Germany, the allies paid very little attention to Siberia. Since then little has been done to counteract enemy propaganda or German attempts to secure control of the vast riches of Siberia when the war is brought to a close. The greater number of the 100,000 prisoners are in Irkutsk .and other large towns to the west, but in Priacuria that part of Siberia which abuts on Manchuria and which has

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Zeebrugge (above), German U-boat at Ostend, and map showing relation of U-boat bases to England. The recent British raid on the German U-boat bases .at Zeebrugge and Ostend is believed to have been very successful. Five concrete ships were sunk in the channels, and it is believed that the entrance to the canal which feeds Zeebrugg ? from Bruges, the main U-boat base in Belgium, has been effectually blocked. Considerable damage was done by the guns of the British warships to works on shore at both Zeebrugge and Ostend. DUTCH MINISTER TELLS LAW BODY OF HUN DEMANDS Sand and Gravel Questioii With Germany Acknowledged to Be Serious. (By Associated Press) THE HAGUE, - April,' 25. Speaking tod ay" in the"" first chamber of the Netherland parliament on the Sand and Gravel question with. Germany the Dutch foreign minister declared he could not and must not conceal from the chamber the fact that the question was a very serious one. AMSTERDAM, April 25. Germany has given no positive guarantee that ships from America sailing within the next three months with grain for Switzerland will not be sunk, it is shown by a semi-official telegram from Berlin today. The German government, says the message, has not left the Swiss government in doubt that although an order has been sent to the submarines to spare vessels carrying grain from America for the Swiss population, it J is impossible to guarantee their safety before three months have elapsed, for technical reasons, as only after that time can it be certain that all German warships abroad will have received the order. Referring to the fact that such vessels will sail under the American flag, the telegram says: "Should any German war vessel not receive such order and sink one of these vessels the responsibility will not fall upon the German government, but upon the President of the United States of America." No, Eaton Saloons Do ' Not Close at 6 o' Clock; t They're Too Busy Now Somebody "without a heart" started a rumor Thursday that caused almost as much concern as an Sdverse war report. It was in fact almost the last straw added to the burden of the man ! who has no intention of being a camel. There was consultation and a sharing of fears, and then somebody called the Palladium office. "Say," asked a voice, that choked a little, "we heard that they are closing the saloons at Eaton at 6 o'clock now. Is there anything to it?" Nobody at the Palladium had heard anything about it, and then the man so obviously wanted to be reassured. "No, we don't think there is anything to it," was the answer, i There was an unmistakable sigh of I relief, as if th.e world was not quite all wrong yet, as the anxious one hung up. an outlet to the China Sea, there are between 15,000 and 16,000. These are in encampments at Habarovk, Blagovestschensk, Nicho'lsk, and other centres. The proportion of the prisoners is three to one In favor of the Austrians. Five thousand of the prisoners in Priamuria are ocers, most of them being In the camp at Habarovsk. It is known that in Irkutsk and Western Siberia the Germans, especially the officers, are working with the Bolsevikl. Some released prison,ers also are with the Bolshevik forces now fighting against General Semenoff the anti-Bolshevik leader In eastern Siberia.

LOSE THEIR TERRORS

1 ,. v9 - V-.y TODAY'S CASUALTIES (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 25. The casualty list "today comained fortynine names, divided as follows: Killed in action, 2. Died of wounds, 6. Died of accident, 4. Died of disease, 7. Died, other causes, 1. Wounded severely, 5. Wounded slightly, 24. Killed in Action Lieutenant Laurence S. Ayer; Private Frank McCall. Died of Wounds Sergeant Emll Senger; Privates Clarence S., Eaton;: Giebeope Molinay, Frank Alekno, Horace G. Mcdexmont, Samuel Roach. : "-f-r Died , of Disease Privates Charles H. Clough, Elmer B. Johnson, Albert Kelly, Harvey A. McPeak, George Moore, Earl Burton, Rathburn, Elmer George Zuschlag. ' Died of Accidents Lieut. James Calder Marquardt, Corporal Daniel J. Scanlon; Privates Donald R. Frazier, Robert Sammons. Wounded Severely - Corporal Carl A. Johnson, Jr.; Privates Omer A. Godin, John H. Simmons, Napoleon St. Charles Roger W. Williams. Wounded Slightly Sergeant George F. Dolan, Corporals Till Samuel Buckingham, Fred D. Christlanson, .Edward P. Joyce, Bugler Nicholas. Angelo; Privates Earl W. Barrows, Walter F. Berry. Walter B. Birkland, Everett E. Bristow, John M. Corbet, Charles F. Goodnew, Roy Gullickson, Nasib Haddad, Harry A. Kane, Lonard V. Legall, Theodore Rand McCabe, Steve Meluk, Arthur R. Moulds, William J. Mullaney, Harry A. Murray, Andrew J. Nett, George M. Powers, John E. Seiffried, Patrick M. Stanton. Died Other Causes Private Jesse M. King. Private Hector E. Rollman, previously reported missing is now reported a prisoner in Germany. American Built Launches Save 200 English Sailors During Raid on Zeebrugge (By Associated Press.) . DOVER, Eng., April 25. One of the most thrilling incidents of the Britisii naval raid on Zeebrugge last Tuesday was the rescue by two American built motor launches of nearly 200 members of.thp crew of two block ships sunk at th$ entrance of the Brugges canal. The feat was accomplished under a heavy fire and the actual transfer was made in less than five minutes. LORD ROTHMERE QUITS (By Associated Press) LONDON, April 25 Lord Rothmere, brother of Lord Northcliffe, has resigned from the office of secretary of state for the air forces, it was announced today.

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Siberia Menace A Hies

Those who have visited the prison camps say that the officers and men keep themselves in excellent physical condition and tha't they believe a day is coming when their services will be used in the far east and that . a German force will come to their assistance over the Siberian railway. General Semenoft is holding an important part of the Siberian railway between Vladivostok and Irkutsk. His force, however, is small and his supply of arms and ammunition limited. Should the Germans and Bolsheviki work in .unity, they may break Semenoff's hold on the railroad. Allied sympathizers here declare that the only way to prevent the Aus-

FOR ENGLAND

.1 V rtn i . RUGES FRANCE ASK PUBLIC TO AID IN ROUNDUP OF TAXEVADERS Millions of Dollars Will Be Collected as Penalties for Delinquency. WASHINGTON, April 25 Millions of dollars, it is estimated by revenue officials, will.be added to the government revenue in penalties as a result of the roundup of income tax delinquents about to be started by the department qf internal revenue. The aid of every loyal citizen is Invoked by Commissioner Roper. "The most important thing in taxation is equity in distributing the tax burden," said Commissioner Roper today. "It is difficult to conceive that any one should endeavor to escape his share of the levy made for the prosecution of war in defense of Christian civilization. It is the duty of every man who has paid his tax to co-operate with us in locating the tax slacker. We shall meet taxpayers cooperatively by doing as much to see that they are not overtaxed as to see that the full taxes are collected. In the interest of honest taxpayers we demand every dollar that is due the government and promise to refund every dollar of overpayment. Should Report Names. "If a taxpayer has reason to believe that any person known to him is a tax slacker he should report his name to the collector of his district or to the commissioner of internal revenue. This kind of co-operation constitutes real war service. It will make the equalization of the tax burden. "Ths is a challenge for the service of loyal citizens to do war work. Let every delinquent taxpayer keep in mind that it is possible to avoid penalties and prosecutions by filing his return before he receives notice from the collector of internal revenue of his delinquency. If he waits until after official notice is received it will be too late. A word to the wise should be sufficient." Only Twelve Americans Killed at Seicheprey, War Department Claims (By Associated Press WASHINGTON, April 25. The number of Americans killed in the German attack of April 20 near Seicheprey was less than a dozen and the number of injured was about 20. These figures made known today appeared to give support to the German claim that 183 Americans were captured since it previously had been admitted that the American casualties were around 200. tro-German prisoners from doing any further damage, is to support any movement that would enable tbe allies to secure control of the prison camps or better still, to have the prisoners removed t a safer locality. A large number of escaped prisoners have come from Siberia into China and Mongolia by using passports purchased from the Bolsheviki ' authorities. Some of these men have been at work among the large Mohammedan population of the Chinese province of Sinkiang, while in Mongolia, Bolsheviki and Turkish agents have been attempting to bring about an uprising against the government.

ALLIES STAND FIRM AGAINST DESPERATE FOE ATTACKS

British Lose Fillers-Breton-neux and French Lose Han-gard-en-Santerre, South of the'Somme. . TANKS PARTICIPATING (By Associated Press) ; LONDON. April 25. Heavy fighting continues on the sector east of Amiens,. Reuter's correspondent at British army headquarters reports. The Germans appear to have gained a footing in D'Aquenne wood, west of VillersBretonneux, but the British counterattack drove them back to the fringe of the wood. At several places the British have retaken ground and their general position has improved considerably. Both British and German tanks participated In the fighting at Vlllers-Ere-tonneaux. Tbe British tanks, the correspondent says, were among a mass of Germans and did great executlot. At two o'clock this morning the Germans pat down an Intense gas barrage on the Anglo-French front In Flanders, and two hours later deep waves of infantry delivered assaults. Fighting is still in progress. BATTLE STILL RAGING (By Associated Press.) WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, April 25. The German attack against the French and British lines on the northern front In the Dra-noutre-Kemmel sector is continuing. The Teuton assault was extended to pave the way for the capture for Kemmel hill. Vigorous British counter-attacks toward VIllers-Bretonneux apparently resulted in the reclaiming of a considerable part of the territory lost to the Germans yesterday. The battle still is raging however, and it is too early to make claims. (By Associated Press.) Yielding only slightly at the first shock of the German assault In the renewal of the drive In tne great battle south of the Somme, the British and Franco-American lines are now standing firmly against the desperate continuing assault of tne enemy. On the 10-mile front south of , the Somm'e where the intensive force of the blow has been concentrated, the the French the village of Hangard-en-Santerre. Haig's Foroes React. Already Field Marshal Haig's forces have begun to react strongly In the vicinity of the former place an dthey have regained ground around it and considerably improved their general position. Hangard has once before been In German possession during the Somme battle and it changed hands twice in the present fighting before the French drew out of it and established themselves armly on its western edge. The Geramns have made repeated attempts to debouch from the place, but each time the French were solidly in the way. The fighting is continuing today, with the Germans desperately struggling to make the considerable headway they must If they are to gain anything but relatively valueless local advantages. Thus the decision in the renewal of tbe battle is by no means yet with either side. The meager gains of the enemy, however, after a pause long enough for him to bring up his heaviest artillery and when he must have beei at the pinacle of his strength, may well be compared with the sweeping successes achieved In the beginning of the battle last month when he won miles of ground a day and captured tens of thousands of prisoners. Meanwhile the Germans have not abandoned even temporarily their ef forts on the Flanders rront. Apparently they are centering their blows on the sector dominated by Mont Kemmel with the object of forcing the defenders from this bulwark. They attacked the French last night In the region northeast of Bailleul and after being repulsed returned to the attacks today with assaults in the same sector and on the British front further east. The battle here was still in progress when the British official statement was issued this afternoon. American, British and French troops on a twenty-mile front in Plcardy are withstanding renewed German efforts to reach Amiens. Battling furiously, and with the help of heavy artillery fire, the enemy infantry has gained but little and on most of the front his attempts are being repulsed by the &Hi6S. Having forces the British VillersBrettonneux, south of the Somme and eleven miles east of Amiens, the enemy is facing the British on Hill positions west and northwest of the village. American and French troops on .. .. m ,T 1 T7" C-AbotA , n tae line irom nanKuru-ru-osuram i south of Castel are holding the Germans well in check. The only progress the enemy has made here has been in Hangard where heavy fighting is progressing in and around the village. South of the Somme, the Germans were hurled back by the British except on the center of the line around VII-lers-Brettoneux, while north of the Somme attacks near the river 'and north of Albert, were repulsed, the British taking prisoners. Bitions. the Germans, although in large force, had to be contented with one, a footing in Hangard and in the woods to the north. Assaults east of Hailles and against Senecat wood and Hill 82, in the region of Castel, were thrown back with no "gains for the . (Continued on Page Twelve.) .."