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UNLIMITED AUTHORITY SOUGHT BY SEC. BAKER Would Be 111 Advised to Restrict the Number of Men in Army, Secretary of War Says. RESTS WITH CONGRESS (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON'. May 2. Secretary Baker at a hearing today before the house military affairs committee con

fidential session says that Congress should grant unlimited power for the creation of an army of whatever size necessary for the prosecution of the war. He told the committee that it would

be ill-advised to restrict the number of

men to be utilized and that the size of the army should be increased in the discretion of the government as transportation and equipment facilities warrant. Accompanied by Provost Marshal General Crowder and General March, acting chief of staff, the secretary pre

sented the administrations plans for

a greatly increased army. The army appropriation bill has

been held by the committee for months awaiting the return of Secre

tary Baker from France that appropriations might be made to aecord with whatever recommendations he wanted to make. Existing recommendations contemplate an army of 1,700,000 and whether this should be raised to three or four millions rests with the administration. Flans for increasing the army, determined upon by President Wilson and his advisors and based upon the will to win the war if it takes all America's man power to do it, were presented to congress by Secretary Baker. There were indications that the program of the war secretary calls for the removal of all restrictions on the number of troops to be raised and asks authority to mobilize as many men as the government can equip, train and send to the battle front in France. There was evidence that the war department' believes that the existing force of approximately 1,600,000 men now under arms can be doubled during the present year. This means that clothing, equipment and transportation are in sight for 3.200,000 men. It was Indicated also that should additional facilities become available that President Wilson desires to be able to call out more men without the delay caused by seeking new authority. Secretary Baker Indicated he would submit a proposed measure, probably as an amendment to the draft law, to grant the unlimited authority asked. Secretary Baker was questioned by the committee regarding his views to increasing the draft age. He said be was studying the subject and had made no decision. The house military committee will immediately resume consideration ot the annual army appropriation bill and Secretary Baker's Idea is that it shall provide only for the number immediately foreseen. Indications are that it will carry provisions for equipment, transportation, pay and other expenses of approximately three million men as part, not of a specific program, but as a furtherance of a blanket authority plan Involving use of all or part of the funds appropriated and supplemental appropriations later on as their need may become apparent.

AMERICANS WIN FIGHT IN PICARDY

(By Associated Press.) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN NORTHERN FRANCE, Wednesday, May 1. American troops in Picardy east of Amiens, have engaged the German infantry for the first time on the great battlefield and have emerged victorious. After shelling heavily the American positions, near Yilliers-Bretonneux, south of the Somme and on the direct

route to Amiens, three enemy battalions attacked Tuesday night. Sharp fighting took place all along the line and the Germans were repulsed, having sustained severe losses and leaving dead and wounded on the field. The American losses are reported as "rather severe."

THE WEATHER

For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Friday. Little change in temperature. Today's Temperature. Noon 63 Yesterday. Maximum .' 56 Minimum 35 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair tonight and Friday, with moderate temperature. General Conditions Weather is now generally fair throughout the United States and temperatures are rising east of the Rocky mountains, excepting over the far north and on the Atlantic coast. Frost was general this morning over Wayne county and ice formed three-eighths of an inch in thickness.

Richmond Man Returns

(Courtesy Indianapolis News)

Copyright by CllnedlnaU LIEUTENANT JOHN E. SCOTT. Lieutenant John E. Scott of Richmond, who has served with the Amer

ican Expeditionary forces for the last

six months, will be in Richmond in

about a month, according to a message

received from him by his mother.

At present Lieutenant Scott is in

Alexandria, La., where he is acting as

an instructor in a training camp, for

wnlcn purpose ne was transferred from France to this country. In his message to his mother he said that he

could probably secure a furlough in

a month and would be home at that

time.

MINIMUM GOAL NEAR IN DRIVE

(By Associated Press )

WASHINGTON, May 2. Telegrams

pouring in national Liberty Loan headquarters told of the success of

the "Buy Another Bond" and "Match the President," contest everywhere

yesterday and added $62,000,000 sub

scriptions making the national total

$2,641,631,850.

Wayne county still has a chance to be numbered among the half-dozen leading counties in Indiana in the per

centage of oversubscription to the

third Liberty Loan.

Friday and Saturday are the last

days on which applications for Liber ty Bonds may be subscribed for.

When the banks close on Saturday

night, all opportunity to assist in this patriotic effort will have passed. The Wayne county committee has received encouraging reports from various parts of the county relative to the Liberty Loan sales in the last week. Not only are new subscribers

coming forward but many persons

who already ' had purchased bonds

have made subscriptions for one or

more in addition. The committee desires to impress on those citizens who are able to buy bonds and who thus far have failed

through neglect or lack of interest, to

take advantage of the remaining two days, and get their names on the list of patriotic men and women of Wayne

county who have responded to their

country s call.

Would Give Gold Dollar, Gift From Lincoln, to Aid Liberty Loan Drive (By Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, May 2. A man too poor to buy a Liberty bond today offered the treasury his most prized posses

sion, a gold dollar given him by Abra

ham Lincoln in 1860 at Mattoon, Ills.,

to be auctioned off, and the receipts turned into bonds. Writing to Secretary McAdoo, he said: "Uncle Abe jokingly put his hand on my shoulder and said: " 'George, you will vote for me, won't you?' "I said: 'I can't, Uncle Abe, because you are a republican and I am a democrat.' "He burst Into a big laugh and said: " 'George, I am going to give you a present for your honesty. "He put his hand into his pocket and pulled out a gold dollar and gave It to me. I have been offered $2,500 for that dollar, and I prize it very highly, but I will send it to you, and will let it go at any price to get a Liberty bond to help the boys in France." The treasury now is trying to find a way of disposing of the Lincoln dollar.

AMERICA WILL SEND ACROSS ENOUGH H TO WIN WAR

Millions Will Go Into Action If Needed, Secretary of the Navy Tells Philadelphia Body. MANPOWER UNLIMITED

PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 2. As many millions as may be needed to win the war, will be sent to the battle front, Secretary Daniels declared today in an address to the Philadelphia chamber of commerce in behalf of the third liberty loan. "Let us not think in terms of fixed numbers," said the secretary, "congress has provided the selective draft and when there are enough ships ail these men will be on the fields of France. If there Is not enough between 21 and 31 to win the war the age limit will be changed and men of forty and fifty if need be, will respond to the colors." He indicated that he considered it a great mistake to fix the number of the army at three million as had been suggested because the world would take that as the limit of what America could do. This, he said, was far from the spirit of the government which was in the war to the full extent of the resources and man power of America. Earlier in the day Secretary Daniels, speaking to employes of the League Island Navy yard, asserted that the kaiser's greatest disappointment was the failure of German spies and German propaganda to stir up labor trouble in the United States. "Labor in the United States, understands" continued the secretary, "and understands perhaps better than anybody else that it depends for its life and progress and future victories upon overcoming the German autocracy in this war. "And labor is challenging German treachery and German money so successfully that today in most industries, labor is turning out more war munitions and supplies than ships can transport across the water." He also emphasized to the men that a worker's share in the fight was equal to that of the man in the trenches, or at sea and he praised the navy yard employee for their devotion to duty.

Church Membership In United States Increased 7,000,000 In Ten Years (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 2, Church membership in the United States increased from 35,068,058 to 42,044,374 during the ten years period which ended December 31, 1916, according to figures given out today by the census bureau. The number of churches increased from 212,230 to 228.007; ministers from 164,830 to 191.722; Sunday school scholars from 15,337,811 to 26,569,831; Sunday schools from 192,722 to 207,789; Sunday school officers and teachers from 1,746,074 to 2,049,293. The total number of denominations covered by the statistics was 201. thirteen more than reported in 1906." Of the total membership 25,691,774 or 611 comprised members of the protestant denominations. Latter Day Saints, Spiritualist and various other small groups; 15,742,252 or 37.4 per cent, were Roman Catholic and 250, 340 members Greek or Russian church. The Jewish congregations comprised 359,996 persons.

Two Flyers Are Killed In "Straight Nose" Dive (By Associated Press) FT. WORTH, Tex., May 2. Falling 150 feet in a straight nose dive this morning Lieut. James S. Ennis, Jr., of New York city and Cadet Paul Herriott of Okland, Cal., were killed. The accident happened at Hicks just an hour before General Greble and staff of Camp Bowie arrived to witness some "stunt" flying.

Little Girl, Who Was Held by Gypsies, Doesnt Know Her Name

In the household of Captain and Mrs. John Michael cf the Salvation Army is a little, dark-eyid girl who likes to play with dolls and seems much like other children who are reared in average American homes. She thinks her name is Elsie Fisher, but she is not sure about it, for she was stolen by the gypsies when 6he was a baby, and she has never known her parents or where she came from.' The only father and mother and home she could remember before she was taken into the home of Captain Michael, was a cold gypsy wagon with a bed of old carpet, a man who cursed her and taught her to steal and a mother who sent her out to get money and took it away from her to buy whiskey. Was Arrested for Stealing A year ago, when CapUin Michael and his family were in Frankfort, Ky., the police brought to his home in the patrol a little girl, dirty and poorly clad. She had been arrested for stealing in the stores, and the' woman who

claimed she was the child's mother, had been found stretched out beside a buildterr, drunk. The child said that her name was Elsie, and the gypsies said that her name was Fisher, and that she belonged to two of them who travelled in the wagon where she made her home. Elsie cried when they claimed her, and denied that the woman who claimed her was her mother. In juvenile court she told of treatment that brought tears to the eyes of the court and no denials by the gypsies could change her story. She told of her adeptness of the art of small theft, and of how she had been taught to "lasso" chickens with a riding whip for the use of the people in the caravans. She was dirty and her hair had never been combed, and all she wore was a thin, low-necked dress. ' "Bath? What's That 7" "What do you mean, bath?" she asked dubiously, when she was to be put through the ordeal of being washed at Continued On Page Ten.

Another "Victory" for the Huns; Monster Giin Kills Babies in Paris Nursery

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Day nursery in Paris before the bombardment by the big German gun, and after it was hit by shell.

Killme- the helDless and the innocent is a favorite snort of the Germans, and each wholesale murder of noncom-

batants is set down as a "victory." The lower picture, which shows the awful havoc wrought in a nursery by the great German gun which is shelling Paris will no doubt be accepted as evidence of Hun bravery in Germany. Many

of the children and their nurses were killed ana tne rest ot tnem norriDiy injurea.

PLAN FOR IRISH DRAFT MAY BE DROPPED SOON Committee Appointed to Draft Bill Has Done Nothing, Says Press. (By Associated Press) LONDON, May 2. Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, and government spokesman, declared in the house of commons Wednesday that he could not say when an Irish home rule bill would be introduced. This, according to some lobby correspondents of the morning newspapers covers the fact that the introduction of the bill has been deferred and hope of its presentation next week has now been abandoned. The Daily News says the government has met with serious difficulties in its Irish policy and cannot find a successor to Baron Wimborne, who has resigned the lord lieutenantship, while the committee appointed to draft a bill up to this time has settled virtually nothing except the preamble. Its deliberations, it is added, are held up on the issue of giving the veto to Ulster and also in considering past ministerial promises to Ulster. Should Abandon Plan. The only way out of the difficulties is, in the opinion of responsible labor members of the huuse of commons, that the government temporarily abandon both conscription and home rule. It is nowise improbable, adds the Daily News, that this course will be adopted in the near future. A sidelight is thrown on the difficult issues involved by the meeting Wednesday of between 50 and 60 peers and members of the house of commons, both unionist and liberal, who accepted an invitation of the Navy League to discuss what to do regarding Irish coastal defense in of passing a home rule bill. The meeting appointed delegates to urge upon th? committee drafting the bill that the imperial authorities ought to retain full control of Irish harbors and ports, probably also railroads. It is reported in political circles that the more extreme elements of the Unionist i arty have stiffened lately against any form of home rule, and a letter just written by Sir Edward Carson to the secretary of the southern Unionist committee in Ireland suggests that the rumors are well founded. Sir Edward says in part: "In the present condition of Ireland it seems to me little short of insanity for any government to reopen the question of home rule. ... This, indeed, is statesmanship manufactured out of panic and founded on broken pledges in breach of trust. If we have to go down let 'us do so with the flag flying and not in alliance with those whose object is to gain a vantage ground for enforcing further separation policies."

RECORDS ARE NEEDED The boys at Hattlesburg need talking machine records. If you have records for any make of machine, bring them to Harrison's Edison shop. They will be sent to the troopers with your name attached. The supply records sent some time ago is depleted. The sand and dust of the camp, as well as the incessant use to which they were put by the boys, has worn them cut. Records are in such demand that they are sparingly doled out to the tents in which the machines have been placed. Each tent can keep them for three days only. Thousands of records have been sent by New Yorkers to the camps near that city. Richmond sent seventy-five to the Wayne county boys at Hattiesburg. Any kind of records are acceptable. Here's a chance to do a little patriotic service that will lighten the sacrifice of the boys who are training to go overseas. Harrison's Edison section in the Westcott hotel building will send the records for you free of charge.

SENATE APPROVES ANTI I. W. W. BILL (By Aooii;ted Press.) WASHINGTON, May 2 Legislation aimed at the Industrial Workers of the World and similiar organizations advocating force and violance to bring about government, social and industrial changes was approved today by the senate judiciary committee. The measure comprising features of anti-I. W. W. bills introduced by Senator King of Utah and Walsh of Montana was ordered favorably reported.

AMERICANS WILL PROVE BALANCE

IN WARRESULT New Allies Are Weighed

Against Austrian Cannon

Reinforcements for the

Enemy. (By Associated Press) PARIS, Wednesday, May 1. "The end will show which weighed most in the balance, Austrian cannon as reinforcements to the enemy, or the battalions which crossed the Atlantic to support the defenders of right," says a special dispatch to the Temps, describing a visit to the American troops at the front. "The Franco-British liaison, has been rightly described as intimate; the Franco-American is, if possible, still closer. It is real fusion. Every

document of one of the French divisions touching the Americans is immediately communicated to the allies. There are two uniforms, two lan

guages, but one army." The correspondent asked a French artillery colonel, who is well known

in Washington, what he thought of

his American allies. The colonel replied: "We value them highly of course. There are lots of tricks which we learned at what cost! Which we can hand on, but I am astonished at their faculty of assimilation. "Take my arm of the service. One of the greatest difficulties in artillery is the utilization of observation points. You can hardly imagine the work involved in properly using the informa

tion collected at these posts. Our

American comrades have succeeded splendidly in this delicate work." Continued On Page Ten.

Lone British Flyer Attacks Foe Airdrome, Fighting 19 Machines

(By Associated Press.) ; i LONDON, Wednesday, May 1 The

Victoria Cross has been awarded to;

Lieut. Allan Gerrard and Alan Arnett McLeod of the Royal Air Force for deeds which stand out, even among the exploits in this branch of the service. Gerrard, when on an offensive patrol with two. other officers, attacked five enemy airplanes, shooting one down in flames. He then attacked an enemy airdrome, engaging single handed some nineteen machines, which either were landing or starting off, and crashed one of them against the airdrome. A large number of machines then attacked Gerrard, but, seeing one of his companions in difficulty, he went t his assistance and destroyed a third enemy, machine. Fresh enemy machines were rising from the airdrome, and he attacked them one after another and only retreated when ordered to do so. Five machines pursued him, but he turned.

although apparently wounded, and repeatedly attacked them until, overwhelmed by numbers, he was driven down. McLeod, while flying at an altitude of 5,000 feet, was attacked by eight enemy machines, which dived at him

from all directions, firing from their

front guns. By skilful maneuvers he enabled his observed to fire bursts at each machine in turn, shooting three down. By this time both McLeod and his observer wounded and their machine was in flames. McLecd climbed out onto the plane, controlling the machine from the side, and by slideslipping steeply he kept the flames confined to one side, thus enabling the observer to keep on firing until the ground was reached. McLeod dragged the observer from the flaming machine, and although again wounded by a bomb, persevered until he had placed his companion in safety, when he fell from exhaustion, due to loss of blood.

ENEMY LOSSES AGAIN HEAVY IN ATTACKS ON ALLIES

Germans Display Increased

Activity on Somme Front, Apparently in Preparation for Renewal of Drive.

BOYS ARE CALLED Oil (By Associated Press) BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE VIA OTTAWA, May 2. Th

German field depots are being heavily ;

drawn upon to replace recent casual

ties. The 13th reserve division has

just received a company of 250 boys of the 1919 to 1920 class who had

only eight weeks' training and were not to be put into the fighting unless

absolutely necessary. These, facts

that they are now in the battle line suggests anticipation that thpv mnv

have to be used.

(By Associated Press) The Germans are displaying increased activity on the Somme battle front and around the Montdidier sallient to Noyon, probably in preparation of a. renewal of their offensive in this area. Checked last night by the stiff British and Franco-American resistance to their attempt to push further toward Amiens the enemy forces are now engaged in trying out various portions of the southern front in the apparent endeavor to find a weak. spot. One such effort directed against positions held by American troops has already been chronicled in the news dispatches. The enemy found an unyielding barrier here and retired with nothing but heavy losses to show for his attempt. Last night there was a similar thrust at the French in the Thennes region, southwest of Hangard. The artillery promptly broke this drive. This morning the German . guns opened up rather heavily In the Vil-lers-Bretonneux area, just north and directly east of Amiens, but no Infantry attacks had developed up to the time the British, statement was Issued at noon. Meanwhile the lull that followed the severe German defeat of Monday has continued on the Flanders front Only the artillery has been displaying activities there. The German guns were reported opening up a somewhat spirited fire this morning in the region of Merris, indicating the possibility that the renewals of the German effort of the northern front. Apparently the Germans are not prepared to break the second lull in the Flanders battle until still more troops and greater concentrations of cannon are massed along the few important miles of the front southwest of Ypres. Signs are not wanting that General von Arnim Is bringing up reinforcements and supplies but the Anglo-French troops, stirred by the brilliant repulse of the enemy which caused him to cease his attacks for the second time, wait confidently. As the first break in the hard fighting was followed by stronger attacks, it is probable that only the difficulties of transport and supply compel the enemy to withhold further assaults against the allied positions from the Mont Kemmel region westward. Except for Mont Kemmel and a small strip to the east including the Messines Ridge, the Germans are on, much lower ground than the French and British and must either fight on or be compelled eventually to withdraw before the smothering fire of the allied artillery. Heavy Artillery Fire. Heavy artillery firing and the usual outpost actions continue along the front. Around the important sector of Locre the French have been shelled very heavily by the enemy. On the southern leg of the salient the German guns have been active in the region of Bethune. Southward ia Picardy, only the artillery has been active. Fighting for democracy and for free-' dora of their home land, Bohemian ami Slav detachments are now facing Aus-tro-Hungarian troops along the secton in northern Italy. Apparently thes! units have been recruited from formen.' residents of the dual monarchy andl from deserters from the enemy ranks! Austro-Hungarian commanders, who have many thousands of Czechs and' Slavs in their units, are said to be fearful of the effect this move may have on their own troops. This and the fact that the Czechs at Prague and elsewhere and the Slavs in Cnrntni

and southward have become openly

nosuie to tne Austrian government may explain why the enemv nffonnfv

against Italy has been delayed. Ber

lin has heralded and urged an offensive but Austro-Sungarian attack have not yet developed. Although Constantinople and Berlin recently announced the repulse of the British westward across the Jordan.

General Allenby's men, east of the

river, nave captured nearly 300 prisoners in a ruccessful attack against the Turks south of Es-Salt, toward which the British are advancing. Mezrah. west of the Jordan, has been occupied and Arabian troops along the Hedjaa railway revently have taken more than 500 prisoners. May Day apparently passed quietly In the central empires. Few news dispatches of Wednesday's date have been received however, from German and Austria-Hungary.