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IRISH URGED TO UNITE IN DEFEATING DRAFT LAW Nationalist Leader Denounces Conscription as Atrocious Oppression and Urges Determined Resistance

FRENCH MADE VICEROY

(By Associated Press) LONDON, May 6. Anti-conscription speeches were made from the same platform by John Dillon, Nationalist leader, and Prof. Edward de Valera, head of the Sinn Fein, yesterday, at Ballaghadereen, in Dillon's constituency of East Mayo. Good humor and enthusiasm characterized the demonstration, attended by 15,000 persons. Mr. Dillon said that if the Irish kept

united and determined for another two

weeks they would defeat conscription. It was an atrocious form of oppression to compel a people to fight for a country not their own. He personally opposed conscription, whether in Great Britain or in Ireland and believed it was a great blunder to depart from England's nettled policy against compulsory service, especially when It was not to defend the soil of Great Britain, but to Bend huge armies to the icontlnent. I He earnestly appealed for a spirit of rrank and friendly co-operation throughout Ireland. Without tbJs, unity was impossible. If the nation's unity was broken in the face of the present terrific danger, Mr. Dillon continued, the government would be encouraged to pursue its wicked and insane policy and the discipline of the people, which is essential to the defeat of conscription, would be broken. Struggle for Principle. The Nationalists and Sinn Feiners, he said, actually agreed that the whole struggle for Ireland's rights was based on the principle of her rights as a nation. There was an impression in the country that all danger was over. This was a terribly false impression. There was no question that the government had been 'staggered and no longer was so confident about the practicability of its policy as professed when the will was introduced. A powerful section of the house of commons and organized labor of England had declared against conscription in Ireland, Mr. Dillon added, unless and until an Irish palriament and an Irish government was established. These things combined with united opposition in Ireland and the action of the county bishops had given the government pause, but it would be disastrous mistake to suppose that danger had passed. He suggested the formations of Irish committees attached to every church and chapel so that in the event of a struggle being forced upon them the. church could be the rallying point. The Nationalist leader declared he was convinced it would take an army such as England could ill spare to carry out successfully conscription in Ireland. He was also convinced that the government would split on the Irish rock and instead of destroying the Irish nation, the Irish would destroy them. Prof, de Valera said his followers would unite with those of Mr. Dillon to defeat conscription. With reference to the issue raised in East Cavan, he said, there was only one arbitrator to whom the Seinn Fein would submit, namely the free choice of the electors. French Made Irish Viceroy. LONDON, May C The appointment of Field Marshal Viscount French, as viceroy of Ireland comes somewhat as a surprise. It was known that the government was experiencing considtrable dlfllculty in finding a successsor to Baron Wimborne, and that this was the resaon for the delay in announcing officially the appointment of Edward Short as chief secretary, which was known unofficially many d:ivn auo.

No one, however, anticipated such i

a purely military appointment as the celebrated field marshal. His name certainly had been mentioned, but only in connection as a way out of the difficulty and even in that case the name of General Mahon was generally favored as a likely member ot the triumvirate. Viscount Fiench "Is of Irish extraction. Ho has a seat In Ireland, Is colonel of Irish regiments and a pojtular figure in the country, but that is hardly likely to reconcile the Irish people to his appointment, for they will see in it nothing but a threat to put conscription into effect.

Mrs. Potter Palmer Dead in Florida (By Associated Press.) SARASOTA. Fla.. May 6. Mrs. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, is dead at her winter home here. Mrs. Palmer, who was born in Louisville, and was the widow of Potter Palmer, of Chicago, where she was a social leader, had been ill sometime. Several days ago her family was summoned and medical specialists came here from the north. She died last night. The body will be taken to Chicago for burial, leaving here tomorrow.

WILL RELATE HIS EXPERIENCES ON WESTERN FRONT

Rep. Charles B. Timberlake, Who Speaks Here Friday, Attended Earlham. Rep. Charles B. Timberlake of Colorado, who is to speak in Richmond, Friday evening. May 10, under the auspices of the American Red Cross, is one of the few members of congress who has studied war conditions at first hand. At the meeting he will address in Richmond he will tell of his interesting experiences on the western front, late last fall. Rep. Timberlake at one time attended Earlham college and he is looking forward with interest to his visit in Richmond. He has a brother, Edward Timberlake, residing at 603 South Thirteenth street, and a nephew Fred Charles, for many years city enginees of Richmond. A sister resides at Dunreith, Ind. Rep. Timberlake says tliat he feels that he is almost as much an Indianian as he is a Coloradian, although he has resided in Colorado since 1887. Is Entertaining Speaker. This former Earlham student is one of the best known members of the Sixty-fifth congress and is a very entertaining speaker. He was one of a small group of congressmen who went to France following the adjournment of congress, last October. While his principal purpose in making this trip was to study the condition of the Allied armies on the western front he devoted considerable time to investigating the wonderful work the American Red Cross is conducting in France. He became so impressed with the work he saw this great organization doing that he promptly offered his services as a speaker for the Red Cross war fund campaign which opens this month and his offer was promptly accepted. Following his Richmond engagement Rep. Timberlake will address the National Association of City Editors convention at Indianapolis, Sunday, May 12. He will speak elsewhere in Indiana before returning to Washington. As the guest of the King of Belgium while abroad last fall Rep. Timberlake, and the other members of the congressional party, inspected the lines of the gallant Belgian army. In one sector, while traversing the first line trenches they came to a point within thirty yards of the German lines. About this time, suspecting that something unusual was going on in the Belgian lines, the Germans opened up a furious machine gun attack. Rep. Timberlake admits that he and all the other members of the American party promptly got down on their knees. After they had gone a quarter of a mile the Belgian officer who acted as their guide refused to take his charges any farther, fearing they would be killed. Another Belgian officer was struck and killed not twenty feet from where Mr. Timberlake was standing. REPORT IS DENIED.

PEACE EMISSARY OF HUNS MAKES LITTLE HEADWAY

Alleged Peace Terms of Huns Would Give Alsace Self Government. (By Associated Press) LONDON, May 6. Foreign Secretary Balfour told the house of Commons today that no peace offer had been made recently by the enemy. He added: "There is no representative of a neutral nation in this country who has made a tentative or informal suggestion of peace negotiation." LONDON, May 6. Germany's peace emissary, according to the Daily Mail, has been busily working here, but has made no progress in any direction. There is reason to believe, it says, that the German agent, who has been reported to be a Dutch financier, returns to Germany to report that there is nothing doing. A central news dispatch from The Hague says the Dutch intermediary is reported to be Jonkheer Colyn, former minister of war. The proposals made by Jonkheer Colyn, the dispatch from the Hague reports, are said there to have been as follows: 1. Germany to renounce all claims in the west. 2. Restoration of Belgium. 3. Alsace Lorraine to be autonomous within the German federation. 4. The status in the east to remain as at present. 5. Austria to make certain concessions to Italy in the Trentino. 6. Balkan questions to be solved by an international conference. 7. All colonial questions affecting Africa and Asia Minor to be settled by a conference of all the beligerents. 8. Germany to abandon all claims to her former Chinese protectorates at Kiaochau, but in exchange to receive certain economic concessions in China. Jonkheer Colyn went to England last week at the head of a mission whose purpose was said to be to explain to the British government the difficulty caused by Germany's demand on Holland concerning the transfer of German materials across Dutch territory to Belgium. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 6. Officials and diplomats here on reading Germany's purported peace terms as outlined in today's dispatches from London recalled that British officials recently predicted a "peace offensive" and said, furthermore, that they expected that terms to be offered in behalf of Germany would be framed so as to appear most attractive to Great Britain.

MOSCOW, Sunday. April 28 (By the Associated Press). Official denial has been made by Japanese Consul Uyeda to the Russian foreign office to rumors that the Japanese are placing machine guns in Vladivostok and are arranging to increase their forces there.

ELECTION RETURNS Election returns will be given out by the Palladium as soon as they are received Tuesday evening. Bulletins will be posted in front of the Palladium office and returns will be given over phones 1121, 2872 and 2834. Arrangements have been made to obtain returns from precincts as quickly as the count is completed. The public is invited to make use of the facilities that have been provided to obtain returns.

Not Glory, but Dead and Dying Sons, Is What Big Drive Means to Germany

German Red Cross clearing station, shortly after the beginning of Hindenburg's spring drive.

Hindenburg's spring drive may bring exulation to the kaiser, but his six sons are all out of range of the allies' guns. The people of Germany are paying an awful price for every yard gained. An idea of the losses that Germany is suffering may be gained from a glance at this Red Cross clearing station.

EVERY ABLE PHYSICIAN . IS URGED TO ENLIST

Every doctor in Wayne county is expected to attend the meeting in the Commercial club rooms Tuesday night, at which time all physicians within the age limit required by the government will be urged to enlist their services for war work on the battlefields of Europe. It is the concensus of opinion among Richmond physicians that it is the patriotic duty of every doctor in the county to take an active interest in this campaign, and to show this interest and his patriotism by attending the meeting, which is scheduled to begin promptly at 8 o'clock. William W. Reller, chairman of the Wayne county council of defense, will preside. Prominent physicians were interviewed and their opinion asked regarding the enlistment of doctors for war service. Dr. E. R. Churchell, who recently resigned the chairmanship of the Wayne county council of defense to enlist his services for the period-of the war, said: Favors Conscription "I believe that the services of all doctors under 55 years of age will be required by the United States government before this war is over. The government is badly in need of physicians to take care of the boys across the water, and I think that those doctors who are within the age limit and physicially able, who do not enlist their services are nothing but slackers.

Every doctor should go unless he can show some very good excuse for remaining at home. "Personally I am in favor of conscription of doctors. Such action on the part of the government would prevent certain men from staying at home and reaping the-harvest left behind by those doctors who are patriotic enough to go. "At this critical time in the counttry's history it seems to me that every doctor who is able to do so should go to Indianapolis, sign up and take the examination. The government will then decide whether or not he can do the most for his country and for the cause by going to Europe or taking care of those left behind. Any doctor-who will not do this is not a good citizen and not loyal to his government." Dr. Johnson's Statement. ' Dr. Melville F. Johnson said: "Every doctor should regard it as a privilege to enlist his services, not merely a patriotic duty. The work he will do will be of inestimable benefit to him in his profession. He will find the vast experience he gets useful and well worth the while when the war is over and he returns to his country to again take up his practice. "Every doctor within the age limit should certainly go. I regret that I am too old to serve my country in this great cause. I wouid be only to glad (Continued on Page Twelve.)

Hun Airmen Resort to Lowest Trickery to "Get" U. S. Aviators

THE WEATHER

For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Showers tonight and Tuesday. Cooler Tuesday in north portion. x Today's Temperature. Noon 76 Yesterday. Maximum 82 Minimum 48 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Occasional showers. General Conditions The western storm will cross the lakes tonight or Tuesday and will cause rain over the central states. Temperatures are lower in the far north and will probably reach the lake region Tuesday.

"GASOLINE RANGERS" MAY ORGANIZE HERE A company of "Gasoline Rangers"

; mond, it was announced Monday by

Captain Myron Malsby, who attended

a business meeting of the officers of the third batallion of the third regiment, held in Newcastle Sunday Captain Malsby was accompanied to the meeting by Lieutenants Verne Pentecost and Frank Penn. A company of this kind has been organized in Newcastle and is reported to be doing excellent work. The "Gasoline Rangers" are composed of automobile owners who will patriotically donate their cars and their own services, or the services of a driver, to the militia whenever they may be needed

on an emergency call. There are 76 t

members in the Newcastle company of rangers. Captain Malsby said this movement, is sanctioned by the state council of defense, will be taken up in Richmond in the near future.

No Registration Required for Tuesday Primary Some confusion exists as to the relation of the present registration of voters and the Primary Election to be held on Tuesday in this county. The registration of voters now in progress is for the general election next November. It bears no relation whatever to the primary election tomorrow and no voter, Republican or Democrat, is compelled to register in order to vote at Tuesday's primary. This statement has been authorized by the election officers in order to clear up the confusion that exists, particularly in some of the out-townships. If you are a legal voter of your precinct you are entitled to vote in the primary Tuesday. , The present registration of voters has nothing to do with such primary in any way. Voters are urged to go to the polls.

Ask Billion Dollars For Aircraft Program (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 6. A billion dollar appropriation for aircraft production was ascked of congress today by the war department. This would add to the $640,000,000 appropriation already made and expended. Alaska Town Claims Liberty Loan Record (By Associated Press I ' KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 6. Ketchikan with a population of 3,000 claimed today the record for the largest number of subscribers to the third Liberty loan in proportion to population. Ketchikan's quota was $56,000. More than 1,600 subscribers took $168,400 worth of bonds.

(By Associated Press) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN j

FRANCE, May 3. lierman aviators are now resorting to unsportsmanlike tricks in an endeavor to outwit American fliers. The trickiness of the German soldier afoot is emulated by enemy airmen who are marking their machines to make them look a3 much like allied markings as possible. The Germans have taken to round ing off the corners of the ?ross on the wings of their planes to make them look like allied badges. The game of the German airman is to play around and get in a shot if you can, and then run. American fliers for fear of attacking a probable friend, must get up close to an enemy machine, usually after considerable maneuvering before opening a fight. Here is what happens at an airdome to which Americans are attached when an alarm comes in. The telephone bell rings at the hangar and the location of the enemy is repeated in a loud voice by the sergeant A number of young Americans, overalled, helmeted and booted, swing into their machines, the propellers are turned over and one after another the machines dash across the field. They take the air quickly and in less than five minutes from the time the bell rings the airplanes look like mosquitoes in the sky. Back in 45 Minutes In three-quarters of an hour they are back again and compare notes. "Did you see anything?" one yells to another. "One Hun away back in Germany," comes the replly. "What were those three machines north of ?" is the next question. "They looked like French, but you never know," was the answer on this particular occasion. Then the Americans climb out and sit around . and wait for the end of their tour of duty or for another alarm. The weather is getting warm now, but in the air it is still cold, so the pilots still must wear heavy clothing. Because the clothing is cumbersome the airmen usually sit around perspiring rather than waste a second

should a hurry up call come. : The L

American airmen are using the same machineg uns which have been found most effective by the Anglo-French army. Some of the Americans are completing their training in flying in

formations on patrol in fast chasers, while others are learning observation and photograph work. The photographing machines are getting full opportunity to work freely, for the same youths who go out on the alert call take turns in protecting the photographers while they are at work. And while the men in the machines taking pictures desire to be let alone their protectors in fast chasing planes hope that they will not be, for if a boche comes near that gives the fighting airmen a chance for which they are waiting.

DUTCH AND RUNS REACH AGREEMENT

(By Associated Press.) THE HAGUE, Sunday, May 5. In announcing to the Dutch chamber today that Holland and Germany had reached an agreement, Foreign Minister Loudon explained the settlement of the German demand for transport over the Dutch railway by way of Roermond. Germany, he said, had agreed to exclude from transport airplanes, arms and munitions, while there never had been any question of the transport of troops. The foreign minister said Germany had undertaken to limit sand and gfavel sent through Dutch waterways to a maximum of 1,600,000 tons and had promised not to use the material for military purposes.

Nfcc Ccns For Men Received By Board Nine separate calls for men of draft age were received Monday by the selective service board, all of them, with one exception, being for skilled laborers. The selective board has not chosen men as yet who will go as carpenters and engineers, but the following men will be sent to Fort Benjamin Harrison on or about May 17, to fill the other positions under the call. Frank Hale and Fred Lewis, clerks: Harold W. Dilks, draftsman; Sanford Jacobs and Oliver King, electricians; Donald B. Johnson, civil engineer; Alonzo Toney, sheet iron worker; Austin Smelker, surveyor. A letter was received from the war department stating that the men to be sent from Indiana during May, will entrain during the five-day period beginning May 25. There are 3.476 Indiana men included in this call, the letter said, but Wayne county's allotment has not yet been made.

WAYNE SUBSCRIBES $1,552,000 TO LOAN

Wayne county's total subscription in the third Liberty Loan campaign which closed Saturday night was $1,552.000. The county exceeded its quota by $452,000, thereby taking rank among the very top-notchers of the state of Indiana and the Seventh federal bank district. The women in Wayne county sub scribed $450,000; their quota was $275,000 and they succeeded in reaching 160 per cent of the quota. Richmond women alone subscribed $210,000. The county's total was obtained Monday from reports received from all banks in the county. The report of the federal ' reserve bank which will be received within the next three or four days will give in detail the amounts subscribed through each bank and the total number of subscribers which, it is believed, will reach approximately 6,000.

28 Ships Launched In American Yards In Week WASHINGTON, May 6. Ten steel ships of 57,695 tons and six wooden ships of 21,500 tons were launched by American yards in the week ending May 5, the shipping board announced today. Twelve steel ships of 80,180 tons were delivered to the board complete in the same period.

U.S. Court Holds Drafted Man May Be Sent Overseas WASHINGTON. May 6. Federal court decrees dismissing habeas corpus proceedings brought by Robert Cox of Missouri, a member of the national army to prevent his son being sent to France was sustained by. the supreme court today. DR. SMITH TO SPEAK Dr. S. E. Smith, superintendent of the Eastern Insane hospital at Richmond will speak on "Mental Defectives, a Menace to Childhood," at the conference on child welfare, at Indianapolis Thursday.

BRITISH AND FRENCH MAKE SLIGHT GAINS IN FLANDERS

Renewal of Hun Drive on the Western Front to Be Made Simultaneously with Push Against Italians, Belief.

HUNS PLANS ARE UPSET

(By Associated Press) Germany has not yet taken up th offensive in the west and probably another effort against the allied armies is held in abeyance to be made simultaneously with the heralded AustroHungarian drive against the Italians. In preparation for further enemy attacks on the Flanders battle field, the British and French have been improving their positions in local operations. The allied troops in an attack between Locre and Drancourt have advanced their line 500 yards on a front of one thousand yards, gaining positions which strengthen the important section of the front between Scherpenberg and Mont Rouge. German counter-attacks were repulsed with loss. Berlin reporting on the same fighting, attempts to make out the attacks were made in large force. It says they were repulsed and that the French lost 300 prisoners. On the southern leg of the Lys salient, which is the one the Germans must attack if they wish to connect this battle field with the one In Picardy by wiping out the Arras salient, the Germans have made no further attempts to push back the British from their gains at Hinges, earlier efforts having failed. The artillery fire continues most intense on both legs of the Lys salient and south of the Somme, in Picardy. Further 6afe guarding of the southern side of the Lys salient was s.ffected by the British last night through a local operation which resulted in the improvement of the British positions near Locon, north of Bethune. Push on Italy Heralded The coming of a strong push on the Italian front is heralded officially from Vienna, which announces that Emperor Charles and his military advisers are now on the front. In the Trentino, and the Tyrol there have been large movements of enemy troops. ' Rome does not report any marked infantry fighting, nor does Vienna, but the Italian war office notes a great increase in the violence of the Austrian artillery fire, especially on the Trentino front, where the new attack probably will come in an effort to force th Italians from the Piave line. Aerial activity in northern Italy i3 intense. Emperor Charles leaves his capital for the fighting front at a time when Austria is seething with political unrest. In Bohemia and all parts of his domains the Liberals are protesting against his action in dimsissing parliament. It is announced in a panGerman Berlin newspaper that the German food department has taken over control of most of Bohemia "in response to the demands of the German population." Three members of the Austrian cabinet are reported to have re&Lrned. American troops on both the Toul and Luneville sectors have been more busy than usual with the Germans. Northwest of Toul the Germans attempted to occupy a trench formerly held b ythe Americans and which was evacuated a month ago. The American artilleiy broke up the German effort, but further activity is not unexpected. East of Luneville the Germans have beep driven from their front line positions by the American gunfire and a patrol has penetrated three hundred yards into the enemy lines. The Americans met a German party of seven. Three were killed and the others were taken prisoners. Arrangements Upset. It was quiet apparent the Germans intended another assault in Flanders yesterday morning, but the arrangements were upset by a combination of events. There were the allied operations and the heavy rain which converted the ground into mud flats over which it was difficult to move either infantry or artillery. There was also confusion arising from wholesale reliefs and the arrival of strange troops in the German area. The allied artillery has been maintaining an incessant bombardment of enemy territory and Friday night before the projected German attack the French and British gunners played havoc with the German preparations. The allied troops also have been carrying out local operations which improved their lines and upset enemy schemes. Yesterday the British occupied a large number important positions at (Continued on Page Twelve.) .

Ten Vessels and Twenty

Seamen Lost By Norway . j WASHINGTON, May 6 Ten ves-' sels, aggregating 13,704 tons and 20 seamen were , Norway's war losses during April, the Norwegian legation here was Informed today by a cable-1 gram from the foreign office. . j The April totals bring Norway's) losses due to the war to 755 vessels aggregating 1,115,519 tons and the lives of 1,006 seamen, in addition to', about 700 men on fifty-three vessels . missing, two-thirds of which are declared to be war losses.

TO SORGHUM GROWERS

Please fill out these blanks, cut them out Immediately and return to J. C. Kline, Wayne county agricultural agent, or to Mrs. D. W. Scott, Asylum evenue, Richmond. QUESTIONS. (1) Estimate acreage of sorghum to be planted on your farm In township, .Wayne county, in 1918. (2) Have you seed for planting? (3) Have you any surplus seed? bushels (4) How much do you want? ...variety. v (Will you try to grow enough in your community to install a sorghum mill if there is not one already? (6) Name ". Address . . P. O Township Wayne county., .. ...... . s : : 1