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100,000 ARE Of STRIKE IN AUSTRIA FOR

BORE OREAD Food Conditions Also Becoming Worse in Germany and

There is Great Discontent There, Says Dutchman.

VON SEYDLER BLAMED

(By Associated Press.) LONDON, June 21. In many prov

inces of Hungary there is only one

third or one quorter the food necess

ary to maintain the population in health former Premier Tisza declared

in a speech to the Hungarian parlia

ment yesterday according to a tele

gram forwarded by the Exchange Telegraph correspondent at Amsterdam. .... . .... (By Associated Press) CbPENHAGEN, June 21. The situation at Prague, Bohemia, and the industrial center In that district, says the Neue Freie Presse of Vienna, has become so serious that the Austrian government -will either be compelled to increase the bread rations or run th3 risk of still further exciting the working people. In the latter event the newspaper declares railway communication would be cut off and a revolution would break out. LONDON, June 21. Food conditions in Germany, are becoming worse and there is great discontent there, owing to .reduction in the bread ration, according to a Dutchman interviewed by the correspondent of the Times, at the Hague. The Dutchman had just .returned from working in the Krupp plant at Essen, which he left because he could not stand the food conditions. The German people, he added, feared to grumble, lest they be sent to the front. ' The correspondent says that the people will pay 100 marks for a sick dog to eat. "The war is becoming very unpopular among the workers, but the feeling ebbs and flows with the tide of German's success and the English are generally cursed." 100,000 ' WORKERS 8TWKE (By Associated Press. I Riots are reported in .suburbs pf Vienna and 100,000 workmen in important war manufactories there, are on , strike. The situation apparently is growing beyond control of the civil authorities . and martial law in the Austrian capital, is not unlikely. The

workmen continue to demand more

bread and the situation is spreading.

Advices - received in neutral coun

tries are to the effect that the present trouble Is the most serious the Austrian; government has faced and is causing grave apprehension throughout the country.' Germany appears unable to help because it is faced with a serious food situation itself.' . . y THE WEEKLY RATION (By Associated Press.) LONDON, June 21. The weekly food ration in Austria, the Daily Mail correspondent at The Hague, quotes the Arbeiter Zeltung of Vienna, as reporting, is as follows: "Twenty-two ounces of bread: one pound of potatoes of which half cannot be eaten; one ounces of black bran each; one ounce of another mill product; an ounce and a half of fat; 6 ounces of sugar; one egg; seven ounces of meat and a little jam and coffee substitutes. "The Vienna newspaper says that the meat allowance is obtained "if the applicant waits all night for it." PREMIER IS ACCUSED. (By Associated Tress) LONDON, June 21. Further Information confirming reports of intense resentment and excitement in Austria over the reduction of the bread ration is quoted from Austrian newspaper by the correspondent of the Times at The Hague. Among the subsidiary causes of the anger, is the fact that notification of the reduction was not made until

noon Monday, although it had been enforced from early that morning when j ond and excited protests were raised. Premier Von Seydler is accused by the socialist Arbiter Zeitung of Vienna of producing a disturbing situation, by favoring the agrarians and traders. It sas the situation could certainly have been prevented. The paper rails ajrainst Germany and Hungary and tells the authorities they must immediately draw the attention of those countries to the fact that food conditions in Austria are intolerable and demand nscessary assistance. It adds: "The Austrian population cannot starve, while Germany and Hungary have tolerable adequate rations. The Austrian government must be placed under tutelage even in matters relate ing to the food supply. It has deserved to be subjected to guardianship, but the population must not be punished with starvation for the failure of the government." (By Associated Press) ROME, June 21. All advices from the fighting fronts add to the fast accumulating evidence that Austria is driven nearly to desperation by the shortage of food. Nearly all the prisoners do not hesitate to say that the food situation is alarming, and that the army, too, is feeling the the pinch. Many of the prisoners say their rations have been cut to the minimum, vhlle others declare they have been !orced to go days without adequate lourishment. One dispatch from the front says: "Prisoners taken by the Italians all Continued On Page Ten.

Four Berlin Residents Flee in Two Airplanes;

. One Plane Brought Down

(By Associated Press.) COPENHAGEN, June 21. Four residents of Berlin attempted to es

cape from Germany Thursday in two

airplanes. One succeeded in landing in Denmark, but the other was brought down in the Baltic sea by German guard ships. The machine

which landed In Denmark, had two occupants, one of whom, a reserVe officer, Is a professor In the Univer

sity of Berlin. They say they fled from Berlin because of the conditions there. The two machines left Berlin early Thursday morning. Their flight was noticed and guard ships along the coast were warned. When the machines reached the Baltic the guard Bhips opened fire and brought down the second of the two airplanes. The machine which landed in Denmark is a large one of the Albatross type.

30 TO 40 CENTS AN HOUR TO BE PAID WORKERS Several Hundred Men Have Volunteered to Aid Farmers in Field.

Members of the labor working reserve who have volunteered their services to help the farmers harvest their crops this year, will receive from 30 to 40 cents an hour for their work, according to J. C. Kline, Wayne county agriculture agent. y The price of labor in the harvest fields, like other things, has gone up

a few notches in fact has almost doubled, Mr. Kline said. Two years ago ordinary labor could be secured for about $2 a day, or even less than

that, while engineers for threshing

charged $3.50 per day. Now the farmers will have to pay nearly $4 per

day for cqmmon labor and about $5 or even more than that to the engineers.

Several hundred men have pledged themselves to help on the farms, and

many men have agreed to turn over their entire earnings to the Red Cross

or some other worthy institution.

Will Determine Price. According to M. E. Foley, chairman

of the Indiana state council of defense, there is a tendency in some places to charge exorbitant prices for

grain threshing, and this has caused the government to take the matter of a proper scale of prices Into, consid

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The threshing work will come un

der the direct supervision of the Unit

ed States food administration, and

county food administrators will have

the power to set the price to be

charged, and to see that the work is done in conformity with government regulations. Questionnaires have been addressed to all owners of threshing outfits and are, being filled out and returned to the' county food administrators and the-county agriculture agents. This will help the government keep an accurate tab on the threshing men. May Set Sale Saturday. Harry Gilbert, Wayne county food administrator, has not yet set the price to be charged, but at a meeting of Wayne county threshers to be held Saturday afternoon at the Richmond Commercial club rooms this scale will probably be announced. Official notice was sent out Thursday by Mr. Gilbert and Mr. Kline to all owners of threshing outfits, stating that the meeting would be held to discuss plans for saving the 3-4

bushels of wheat lost on the average out of every 100 bushels threshed because of improper methods and system. A committee representing the state council of defense made an inquiry into the question of fair prices for threshing, and reported favoring an increase, but setting a maximum price of 6 cents per bushel as against the

former price of 4 cents. This is probably the price that will be set by Mr. Gilbert, though the maximum price may go as high as 7 cents. In a letter to the state council of defense, Governor Goodrich said: "My attention has ben called to the fact that there is a movement on foot in Indiana to increase the price for threshing grain nearly 100 per cent in certain communities of the state. In some of the counties I understand the threshing men have met and decided to charge 5 cents per bushel for oats; 10 cents for wheat and 12 cents for

rye. "These rates are clearly too high, and steps ought to be taken at once to secure more reasonable prices in our state." This letter caused the state council to take immediate steps to control the prices, and regulations have been set .which the threshermen will be expected to follow.

STATE RECORD FOR ONE DAY'S IV. S. S. SALES BROKEN HERE Workers Pledge $129,000 Toward County Quota at

Thursday's Meeting Ex pect $100,000 More.

1 WEEK TO GET QUOTA

ITALIANS DRAG GUNS THROUGH WOODS ; TO HURL SHRAPNEL INTO THE AUSTRIANS

The Weather

..ror Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair and coder tonight. Saturday, fair and cooler in south portion. Today's Temperature. Noon ?2 Yesterday. Maximum 74 Minimum 57 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy and unsettled afternoon and tonight. Cool wave tonight. Fair Saturday and probably Sunday. General Conditions Canadian cool wave of lhe. first of. week, reported over Quebec Wednesday, has moved entirely away and general reaction to warmer weather' has followed over Indiana and adjacent states. Another cool wave has made it appearance over the northwest and is moving rapidly thl3 way. It will cause clearing weather by Saturday and severe drouth probably will continue for at least two or three days.

The state record for the total amount of money pledged for war savings certificates in a single day, was broken by Richmond thrift stamp workers Thursday, when a total of $129,000 was pledged to the Wayne county quota. The amount exceeds even that made at Indianapolis recently when at a thrift stamp meeting attended by 20,000 people, only about $123,000 was subscribed to the war savings stamp quota of Marion county. - The . pledges made Thursday were for $1,000, $500 and $250. The outlying townships represented, all of whom have covered their annual quotas, subscribed an additional amount Thursday. Million by June 28. The county will attempt to raise a total of $1,000,000 by June 28. There still remains $260,000 to be raised

during the coming week.

The treasury department has made

provision for a registration of per

sons contributing and refusing to contirbute to the thrift stamp campaign.

At the close of the drive on June 28, all persons living in the county will be required to meet the commute and explain what they have done for the dirve. Those who do not contribute

will be reported to the state commit

tee. ......

According to J. H. Mills, county

chairman of the war savings stamp campaign, this method will not be followed unless it is found that the amount cannot be obtained in the county through volunteer subscriptions given without pressure. Mr. Mills is hopeful, from results already obtained, that the amount for Wayne county can be raised by an appeal to the patriotism of the people.: Committee Start Work. The committee which is in charge of. the canvassing for the drive, went out Friday, and on the results obtained by this comimttee will be besed future action in the drive. If the committee reports , $100,000 subscribed by noon Saturday, Mr. Mills said Friday, he will feel safe in reporting to state headquarters that he wil lnot find it necessary to use pressure in obtaining pledges for the county quota. Members of the 20 soliciting committees, which were appointed Thursday, have each between 20 and 25 special persons to interview for subscriptions. These 400 persons listed by the committee has been assigned no certain amounts, but are expected to give as much as they can afford. The efforts of the committees, however, will not be restricted to those persons whose names they have, and every taxpayer, wage earner, man or woman is expected by the federal government to make what contributions they can to the campaign. The committee members will meet for luncheon at the Y. M. C. A. Satur

day to make their reports of the results of the campaign up to that time Thursday's Subscriptions. The amounts subscribed at the meeting Thursday follow: $1,000 The Richmond City Water Works, the Richmond Horn4; Telephone Company, T. B. Jenkins, W. A. Bockhoff. E. G. Hill, Starr Piano Company, SwayneRobinson Co., A. D. Gayle, W. D. Foulke, F. M. Taylor, E. B. Calvert, A. T. Hale, Omar Hollingsworth, Indiana Piston Ring Co., J. M. Lontz, Pettis A. Reid, Charles A. Thomason, B. Johnson & Son, the Vaile school

by W. C. Hibberd, the Conkey Drug Co. $500 Postmaster C. B. Beck, the Joseph H. Hill Co., W. C. Hibberd, Mayor W. W. Zimmerman, Everett Ackerman, Lee B. Nusbaum, Everett Lemon, Theodore Martin, Omar McConaha, W. J. Blackmore, Malleable Castings Co., Mrs. William Bockhoff, Mrs. John Lontz, Mrs. W. D. Foulke. First Methodist Sunday School, First English Lutheran Sunday School, St. John's Lutheran Sunday School, First Presbyterian church, Beebe Glove Co., J.. M. Hutton & Co., John W. Cook, the Arlington Hotel Co., the Cambridge City Gas Co., Harry Watt, Charles R. and Robert M. Lontz, and ' P." W. Smith. $250 Harry Bockhoff, Secretary Carl Ullman of the Commercial Club, Supt. of Public Schools J. T. Giles, O. E. Dickinson, Washington Theatre Company by Henry Gennett, Druitt Bros., Sam Fred, Charles and Francis Robinson, Independent Ice Co., Paul Price, Frank Edmunds. C. A. Harrison, Continued On Page Ten.

Hun Newspapers Openly

Attack Kaiser's Speech (By Associated Press) . GENEVA; June - 21. Several German newspapers op.enly attack the speech made by -Emperor William, at German great headquarters on the occasion of his anniversay. The Post of Munich says that the feast could have been celebrated by ' a measure of clemency and humanity Instead of with a speech of warlike tenor against England without containing words of thanks to bis own people. The paper concludes that the Anglo-Saxon races are powerful enough to accent the emperor's challenge, . ' ,

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' Italian cannon ready for action.

Italian artillery and infantrymen are overcoming enormous handicaps in their fight to halt the advance

of the Austrian forces. Big guns used to hurl shrapnel into the Austrian forces are snaked through the woods at the end of a long rope, the gunners and other soldiers pulling the cannon. This picture shows one of the guns made ready for action on the Piave. The rope used to haul it can be seen wound around the cannon.

Cromder Issues CM m A MFP PIMM Tfl fir H WIMA

For 876 Draftees M fl VXO OUU N IU DL TLllluU

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 21. Provost Marshal General Crowder today called for 8,976 draft registrants qualified for general military service to be sent on July 15 to various schools for special training. The call is to be held open for volunteers until July 1.

CROWDER ISSUES NEW DRAFT RULE

(By Associated Press). WASHINGTON, June 21. New", regulations issued to draft boards today by Provost Marshal General Crowder to govern applications of the work or fight order do not rule specifically upon the status of professional baseball players or other classes wmch may be affected, but emphasized the section of the order placing games and sports among the occupations classed as non-uselul. "Local boards will consider cases of withdrawal of deferred classification with common sense," General Crowder's instructions say, and they name illness, vacation, the impossibilities of securing productive employment without a change of residence as reasonable grounds for waiving the general order. While sales clerks in stores and clerical workers in offices are classed as non-producers, boards are directed to exempt department store executives and skilled workers attached to such establishments. Traveling salesmen will be considered as engaged in productive employment but automobile salesmen in cities will not, it was explained. Public or private chauffers are held to be nonproducers only when they combine other work with their mechanical duties. Local boards 'are asked to assist registrants to obtain new employment through the federal employment service and are given power to postpone action while effort is being, made to place men in occupations held productive. "When it has been determined that

a person in deferred classification is

ACROSS ATLANTIC HE SAYS

(By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, June 21. Big American air and sea-planes should be flying across the Atlantic to reach the front by next summer. Major General W. Brancker of the British air ministry, said here today in a formal statement to the" press. He; is in Washington to co-operate with American aircraft officials and is a believer that a pioneer trans-Atlantic flight should be attempted without delay. . General Brancker disclosed the fact that the British air council had definitely decided upon trans-Atlantic air flight in order to find a route for the movement of American made air crafts to the front. His mission in this city has to do with arrangement for the pioneer flight in which it is hoped the U. S. government will cooperate. It is expected the initial flight will be made this autumn in a machine of British make, probably a sea boat starting from Newfoundland and touching at the Azores and Portugal

before arriving In Ireland. It has been estimated the trip can be made in 40 hours of flying. Plans under consideration call for crews of four men composed of an engineer a relief of pilots and a navigation officer.

FAMOUS JAP AVIATOR KILLED IN BATTLE

(By Associated Press. -PARIS, June 21 (Harvas Agency).-

Sergeant Kobayaski, the Japanese avi

ator in the French service, has been killed in an aerial battle. He was fighting against a number of enemies when his machine was set on fire by an incendiary bullet He jumped from his airplane at the height of about 9,000 feet and fell behind the French lines. Lieut. De Turrenne has brought down his tenth enemy plane and has become an "ace." Lieut. Madon has brought down his thirty-fourth.

Englishmen, A ttention I

Every Englishman in the City of Richmond and surrounding territory is earnestlv invited to embrace th on.

an idler or is engaged in non-produc-1 portunity of showing his patriotism by

acuveiy iJaxucipaung in me coming

tive employment, tne instructions

say, "the classification and order number of such persons will be withdrawn and he will be immediately inducted into military service. ' ' '" ,

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American1' Army is Arrested by Police

The war was brought to Richmond Thursday. It started when two lads threw stones at an American flag flying over the tent which housed the "American army," and there would have been another perfect victory for America to report had it not been that the relatives of one of the "nuns" notified the police, and had the. whole "American army" arrested. 1 , The two boys who played the "nuns" in this miniature war, stoned the camp after the "Huns" had stoned the flag, and the American army issued in full force to quell the enemy. It was an easy victory for the Americans, according to the boys who composed the "army". They took the "nuns" first and tied them to a tree, they explained, and then they put and forced them to do heavy manual labor behind the "lines." Late in the evening the prisoners were released. When the "huns" reached home, they told the story of their indignities, and lrrate relatives demanded the arrest of . the attacking army. The youthful American "army" was led to police headquarters, where it was released after a solemn warning from Mayor Zimmerman and Chief of Police Gormon. . '

Fourth of July celebration to be given

in this city. Those desiring to take part will please address the undersigned or phone 3255. R. J. WIGMORE, Chairman British Section.

PRESIDENT MAY LEAD DRIVE FOR 4TH WAR LOAN

(By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C, June 21. President Wilson may "substitute" for Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo in personal appeals before the people during the next Liberty loan campaign. The loan will be the first great test of the country's willingness to sacrifice "until it hurts." With at least $6,000,000,000 In treasury certificates to be absorbed by the loan, it was intimated today by treasury officials that the subscription to be asked may run to $7,000,000,000 or $8,000,000,000. Secretary McAdoo has been ordered by physicians to a ranch in the west. Believing his throat trouble was serious the doctors directed complete rest.

AUSTRIANS ARE AGAIN HALTED BY ITALIANS

Official . Announcement Says Austrians Are Defeated" in Drive on Northeastern Section of Plateau.

ENEMY LOSSES ARE ENORMOUS HE SAYS

(By Associated Press) ROME, Thursday, June 20. The efforts of the Austrians to widen the northeastern salient on the Montella, the keystone of the Piave front, toward the west have failed, Premier Orlando informed parliament tonight. Toward the south the premier stated the enemy again succeeded in crossing thesMonte Belluna-Susegana railway at several points near the Neversa station, but was promptly stopped. On the lower Piave the Italians gained more ground. The enemy losses during the day were enormous, the premier added. The Italians took several hundred prisoners.

Leading American Ace in French Flying Corps Missing After Fight With Four Foe Planes

(By Associated Press.) PARIS, June, 21. The leading American ace in the French flying corps, First Lieutenant Frank L. Baylies, of New Bedford, Mass., Is missing after an unequal fight with four German machines. On June 17, Lieut. Baylies, with Sergeants Rubeunet and Macarj, of the Stork Ascadrilla had finished several hours' patrolling and were about to return at twilight when they sighted four single-seater airplanes. They paid little attention to other machines, believeing them to be British. . ' It turned out the machines were German and all of them seized' an opportunity to attack Baylies simultaneously. The enemy had the advantage of : position and number but Baylies

put up a game fight. He attempted

fell after a few moments about six miles within the German lines. Sergt. iUacari thinks that Baylies may have had a good landing if he escaped death in the flames of his burning machine. - - - From Feb. 19. 1918 up to June 7. Lieut. Baylies had gained twelve aerial victories and bad been promoted from corporal to sergeant and then to first lieutenant. On June 1, he was awarded the cross of the legion of honor and he had been cited in French army orders several times previously. He was 22 years old. , ' Joining the American field ambulance In February 1916, Baylies served in it in France, Serbia and Macedonia. Rejected for the 'American aviation

corps, because of defective vision, be was accepted by the French army and

to take the offensive against the Ger-! rapidly gained a reputation as an inrnans but his machine caught fire and trepid and successful airman.

U. S. AVIATORS ACTIVE

(By Associated Press) Stout Italian resistance has again stopped the Austrians In their effort to extend their front on the Montello plateau, the. keystone of the Italian defense on the Piave river. - Official announcement made at Rome that the Austrians were defeat" ed in a drive yesterday on the northeastern section of the plateau and that only on the south were they able to make any progress whatever. The enemy was able to cross the Monte Belluna-Susegana railway at several points near Nervesa station, where even at this point was promptly stopped. , t Nervesa is a village - on the west bank of the Piave on the extreme southeastern point of the - Montello plateau. The railroad . mentioned is not shown on military maps and probably has been built quite recently. On the north and west the plateau slopea steeply to wooded height,while on the south are lowlands similar to those further on, where the Austrians have been checked by the Italian defense. As the Austrians have for some days held positions near Nervesa the net result of their last attack is apparently insignificant. American Flyers Active. American aviators are now actively engaged on the Piave front. It vai announced early in the week that they were on their , way to the battle area and it is reported that they have featured their arrival by participating in a bombing expedition against the bridges the Austrians have flung acros the river. They were successful in damaging a .bridge and their work satisfied the commander of the Italian

aerial squadron under whom they are fighting. Raiding operations are reported on the British fronts while the French have Improved their positions on the front to the southwest of Soissons. Austria's offensive against Italy apparently has resolved itself into a defensive movement both in the mountains and along the Piave. While facing allied counter-atacks on the fighting front, the Austrian government is being harassed in Vienna and elsewhere by popular outbreaks caused by food conditions. Spurred on by their successful resistance, Italian troops are making repeated attacks against the enemy positions west of the Piave and have gained some ground. In the mountains around Asiago, Franco-Italian troops have re-occupied1 important positions. Wednesday, the bag of Austrian prisoners aggregated nearly 2,000. bringing the total captures to 11.000. Vienna, in its official statement, admits that its troops are on the defensive, and is content to report that all Italian atacks, especially along the Piave, have been repulsed. The fighting is now in its seventh day and th Austrians west of the Piave probably are in a more precarious position than at any time since last Saturday. Around Montello, on the northern end of the Piave line, the Austrians

have been driven back slightly. Their

efforts to advance near Zenson, near

the center of the line, have been

checked with severe losses. At San Dona di Piave and on the Fossetta

canal the Italians have driven the enemy from ground gained earlier In the week.

Heavy rains are reported In the

mountains and these may add to the torrent in the Piave which already has washed away many bridges. With the flooded river behind the enemy the Italian counter attacks are gaining in strength in an effort to wipe out or capture the troops which have crossed the Piave and have been unable to advance into the Venetian plain. Americans Clear Trenches. Sub-normal fighting activity continues generally ort the front in France and Belgium. The American troops appear to, be the only ones who are busy and the actions which have occupied them have not been extensive. West of Montdidier. American troops in a short and desperate engagement, have cleaned out German trenches and machine gun nests at Cantigny. Most of the Germans who remained to fight the Americans were killed while a number were made prloner. - - - , . . : Berlin officially claims that German troops have penetrated the American trenches at Seicheprey. The falsity of this report is shown by a dispatch from . the American front which says that the "penetration' 'was only an attempted raid by 60 Germans. - Announcement is made of the torpedoing in the Mediterranean of the French transport Saint Ann with the loss of 638 lives. . The vessel was sunk on May 10, and 1,512 of the soldiers and native workmen on board were saved. '

British Casualties For WeekTotd (By Associated Press) LONDON, June 21. British casualties reported during the week ended today aggregated 36,620.