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RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1918.

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THREE BILLION BUSHEL CORN YIELD, CROP REPORT SHOWS

First Official Estimate of Corn Crop Shows Bumper Yield Wheat Set at 891,000,000 Bushels.

CROP PROSPECTS GOOD (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. July 9 A reduction of 40,000,000 bushels in the prospective wheat harvest was shown to

day In the department of agriculture's July forecast, which is 891,000,000 bushels compared with 931,000,000 forecast In June. Deterioration during June reduced the prospective winter wheat crop by 30,000,000 and the spring wheat crop by 10,000,000. The corn harvest promises to be the largest on record with a total of 3,160,000,000 as forecast for the first time this season by the government. The acreago Is almost five per cent, smaller than planted last year, the total being 113,835,000 acres. Record crops of barley, rye. sweetpotatoes and rice are indicated, while forecasts of the oats, white potatoes and tobacco crops show they probably will equal their record If they have good growing conditions. Only half as much wheat remained on farms on July 1 this year as was held on that date last year, and the quality was about one-fifth of the average hold over of the five years, 1912-16. LAST YEAR'S PRODUCTION Interest In today's monthly crop report of the department of agriculture centered about the forecasts of prospective production of the country's great food crops, especially wheat and corn. The report gave the first official indication of this year's prospective yields of corn, white and sweet potatoes, tobacco, flax and rice; revised estimates of the enormous wheat crop and the yields of oats, barley, rye. hay, apples and peaches, estimated from their condition on July 1 and the quantity of wheat remaining on farms. .The forecasts of production announced today, with the forecasts announced from June 1 conditions and statistics of last year's crop and the average for the five years, 1912-18 (quantities in millions of bushels, that is, "000,000s" omitted) follow:. Crop June 1916 5-Yr. Forecast Av'rage Winter wheat... 687.0 416.0 652.0 Spring wheat 344.0 233.0 257.0 All wheat 931.0 651.0 809.0 Corn 3.159.0 2.761.0 Oats 1,500.0 1.587.0 1,296.0 Barley 235.0 209.0 202.0 Rye 81.0 60.1 44.5 White potatoes........ ' 443.0 362.0 Sweet potatoes 87.1 63.5 Tobacco (lbs.) 1,196.0 1,033.0 Flax 8.5 17.6 Rice 36.3 28.9 Hay (tons) 107.0 94.9 95.4 Apples (total)... 203.0 175.0 214.0 Teaches 42.9 45.1 49.6 Acreage figures last year were: Corn, 119.755,000: .'white potatoes, 4,390,000; sweet potatoes, 953,000; tobacco, 1,447,000; flax, 1.809,000; rice, 964.000. Wheat remaining on farms July 1 last year amounted to 15,611.000 bushels, and the five year average is 39,066,000 bushels. . . FOOD SITUATION BEST SINGE WAR

American Bio" Says German Paper at News of Million Yankees in France

WASHINGTON. July 9. Publicain Swiss papers of the text of Secre tary Baker's letter to President Wilson giving the American troop movements to Europe by months caused German authorities to permit it publication in Germany, according to a dispatch received from Berne. The Kolnische Zeitung published the letter under the heading "American Bluff," the dispatch says, and commented as follows: "Mr. Baker thinks he will be able to dissipate all doubts about exactitude of his figures with his recitations. It is. however, only the usual American bluff. We know from reliable sources that the figures in question are exaggerated and in no way correspond to the truth."

100 KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECK IN TENNESSEE

BULLETIN. (By Associated Press) NASHVILLE, July 9 One hundred persons; riost of them negroes, are believed to have lost their lives in a head on collision early today between two passenger trains on the Nashville, Chatanooga and St. Louis railroad, seven miles west of Nashville. Nashville hospitals are crowd

ed with the injured who number; it -v M At f

more than u. Asxne engineers and firemen of both trains were killed, the cause of the collision may never be known. One of the trains is said to have disregarded orders.

DR. RUE1EIY RELEASED ON $35,000 BONO BY U.S. COURT

Man Formerly Interested in Local Company Charged With Using German Funds to Run Paper.

AMERICAN LADS ARE HAPPY AS VAUX IS TAKEN

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(Br Associated Press) WASHINGTON. July 9. Definite assurances that there is no danger of a sugar famine were given by the food administration today, and the food situation generally was declared to be better than at any time since America undertook the feeding of the allied world.

The Weather

For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Wednesday. Little change" In temperature. Today' Temperature. Noon 78 Yesterday. Maximum 73 Minimum 52

W. U. PRESIDENT QUIZZED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Consider Reporting of Telephone-Telegraph Resolu- , tion to the Sixth. t. . . ; . ' ... , - ' -; (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. July 9 Senators demanding investigation before action on the house resolution authorizing the president to take over telegraph, telephone, cable and radio lines won a partial victory today when the senate inter-state commerce committee heard testimony behind closed doors, on the telegraph situation from President Carlton, of the Western Union telegraph company. A decision regarding further proceedings was deferred. After examining President Carlton nearly three hours the committee adjourned until three o'clock for an executive session to consider immediately reporting the resolution to the senate. Chairman Smith stated that no more hearings were planned. In brief the situation In the senate as far as the status of the resolution i3 concerned was today exactly as it was when that body convened yesterday. Administration leaders won a short-lived victory yesterday when the committee voted to dispense with hearings and report the resolution to the senate. An attempt by Chairman Smith to report the measure drew protests from the opposition and Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, presiding. Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania and sustained a point of order raised by returned the resolution to the committee, ruling that a majority of the committee and not a majority of the committeemen present must vote in favor of reporting a measure. Administration leaders today prepared to throw their support to a resolution introduced by Senator Smith of Georgia proposing that the resolution be returned immediately by the committee to the senate and that the committee be discharged from further consideration of it.

DENIES HE IS DISLOYAL

(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, July 9. Assertions that Edward A. Rumley, publisher of the Evening Mail, placed all his records at the disposal of the department of justice during personal visits to Washington, led to bail being fixed at $35,000, instead of 50,000, as originally asked by federal council, when Dr. Rumley '.ras arraigned today before U. S. Commissioner Hitchcock on a charge of perjury. Hearing in the case, involving allegations by the government that the Mail is owned by the German imperial government, was deferred for two weeks. While waiting for his bail to be furnished. Dr. Rumely made a statement to newspaper men in which he asserted that the Mail's editorial policies, controlled wholly by himself, had been squarely behind the government and that his return made to the enemy alien custodian would be found to be truthful in every respect. Dr. Rumely declined to discuss his associations with former Ambassador Von Bernstorff and Dr. Heindrich Albert, through whom the Mail is alleged to have been financed, but added he might say something definite in this connection within 24 hours. Regarding the. Mail's war policy, he said: Claims Government Booster "They have been under my absolute and sole control. The paper, the editorial page, in particular, has been an exposition of my attitude on public

questions and influenced by no con

sideration other than my own judg

ment of what was the right thing to i

do from the standpoint of of America's interest. The Mail has backed up every war activity of the government to the limit of its power and has performed a work second to no other paper in developing policies for the efficient organization of our country's forces necessary to the war. - "My return to the alien property custodian regarding the note which I personally had outstanding, will, I am convinced, when all the facts are available, be found truthful in every respect." Continued on Page Two

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FRENCH GAIN IN SMASHING ATTACK IN PARIS AREA

Allies Press Into Enemy Position and Make Ground Gain Progress Made Against Austrians in Albania.

TAKE 450 PRISONERS

(By Associated Prcaa.) ROME, July 9. The allied offenEfr In Albania is continuing, the war office announced today. New progress has been made along the left wing, on the Adriatic coast, the land force being assisted by British monitora.

French cavalry in Chateau Thierry, at top, and American troops on British front.

The upper picture, a French official photograph taken before the Germans captured the place, shows a French cavalry patrol passing through the

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where the Australian and American troops gave. the enemy a severe beat

ing and took the town of Vaux. They held it succesfully against counter-attacks and took, according to Field Marshal Haig's official announcement1

1,000 prisoners. The lower picture shows how confident and happy are the American troops. These men are marching to the trenches on the British front and are passing British soldiers resting by the roadside.

CUBA TO HONOR BELGIUM.

(By Associated Presa.) HAVANA. July 9 A resolution naming July 21 the Belgium Independ

ence Day, as a Cuban national holiday! was adopted last night by the senate, j An appropriation of $2,000 was madoj for celebration purposes.

FARMERS START THRESHING IN TWO TOWNSHIPS

Threshing in Wayne county was started Monday and Tuesday in Washincton and Franklin townships, and by the latter part of the week work in almost all wheat and oat fields in the county will be under way. There will be a big saving this year. J. C. Kline, Wayne county agriculture agent said, if the threshermen will comply with the government's request and eliminate all waste. "I have been asked to request the threshermen to place canvass beneath the feeder and sacker of their machines, and this undoubtedly will save many bushels of wheat," Mr. Kline said. "I have also requested tho farmers to see that the wagons in which they haul the shocks to the threshing .machine are tight enough to prevent stalks slipping through onto the ground." Ordinarily, the county agent said, there is an average loss of 3 bushels out of every 100 threshed, because of carelessness on the part of farmers and threshermen, and it is this lossi that the government is trying to overcome. Men on the reserve list for work in the harvest fields, who have signed to give a part of their time to helping the farmers, may be called upon in a few days to golnto the fields. It is not thought that the labor shortage in Wayne county will prove very serious, and only those who have stated they are experienced in their application pledges, will be called upon.

Protest Against "German Noose" Endangers Germans in Russia

(By Associated Press) THE HAGUE, July 9. GermanB returning from Moscow recently, says the Vosaiscbe Zeitung referring to the Von Mlrbach caee, have expressed fear that -complete anarchy there might endanger ' persons who In an orderly country, would be safe from harm. It

gives the following alleged quotation J

from a speaker at a railway striKe meeting in Moscow: "It is time to throw off the noose Von Mirbach has put around our necks otherwise a Bhameful death threatens us. Away with German capital! Away with Von Mlrbac hand his whole counter-revolutionary band!"

CONFIRMS REPORT OF THE MURDER OF HUN MINISTER

Six Wayne Physicians Commissioned in Army Five Richmond physicians are named In the list of 150 physicians from Indiana to be recommended for ccmmisslcns in the medical officers' reserve corps during the month of June. The majority of the doctors to receive commissions last month applied in April and May. The Richmond doctors to receive commissions are: Allen L. Bramkamp, John M. Fouts and Rollo J. Pierce, recommended for captains, and George Beam Hunt and Solomon O. Smelser, recommended for first lieutenants. William C. Squler, of Cambridge City will be commissioned as captain.

31 U. S. SOLDIERS KILLED FIGHTING

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, July 9 The army casualty list today contained fiftyseven names divided as follows: Killed in action, 14; died of wounds, 10; died of disease, 1; wounded severely, 18; wounded slightly, 2; missing in action, 11; prisoner, 1. Marine corps casualties today numbered fifty-two names divided as follows : Killed in action, 17; died of wounds, 10; wounded severely, 13; missing, 12.

. (By Associated Press) : WASHINGTON, July. . Ambassador. Frahci3 at Vologda, la a message dated July 7, bringing the first word received from him by the state der partment since June 24. has confirmed the report of the assassination of Count von Mirbach, the German ambassador at Moscow.

GERMANY HOLDS OFF. LONDON, July 9 Various reports of 'happenings in Russia in connection with the murder of German Ambassador Von Mirbach lack official confirmation. Germany, apparently, has not yet acted. An advance toward Moscow has not been reported although the Germans have had large forces of troops near Smolensk, 250 miles west of Moscow. NO ANNOUNCEMENT OF POLICY (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. July 9. Statement as to the details of the new policy toward Russia, believed to have been definitely decided upon was not forthcoming from high officials today and it was intimated that the line of operations to be followed would not be re

vealed. Rumors yesterday . that a statement from the white house was under consideration could not do con firmed today. Possibilities of endangering the program to be carried out through information reaching Germany was regarded as the cause of the universal reticence in official circles. Interchanges on the Russian situation between allied capitals are proceeding it is known and it was assumed that the subject of such communications was taken up at a conference yesterday between President Wilson and the

i British ambassador.

Furnishing of aid to elements in Russia or Siberia opposed to Germany through the taking is regarded as the most feasible in the opinion of observers not conversent with the plan believed to have been actually decided upon by the government. Military experts, however? continue to hold that the dissipation of strength through the landing of large military forces at either of the two points would be a mistake as Germany must first be given a decisive defeat on the western front.

Work or Fight Regulations to be Strictly Enforced Here

Positive orders to enforce the new "work or fight" regulations which became effective Monday, July 1, were received Tuesday morning by the Richmond selective service board from Harry Smith, state adjutant general. A report of the board's investigations is to be made to the state of-

ifice twice each month, in order that

the state. report may be sent to the war department on the first and fifteenth days of each month. "I know of several cases in this county," Chairman Carr of the Richmond board said, "where young men of draft age are working la non-essential positions. We are going to investigate all of these cases and men who are not willing to change their occupation, if the ooard adjudges It

non-tssential, will be Immediately Inducted into array service." The board will send 48 men to Camp Taylor some time within the five-day period starting Monday, July 22, but the exact date has not been set.

WOOLEN GRANTED LEAVE!

(By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, July 3. Evans Woolen, fuel adlmnistrator for Indiana, has been named director of the Bureau of State organizations of the United States Fuel Administration

during the absence of Walter N. Nope, ! of New York, who has been granted a temporary leave of absence, an an-! nouncement today said.

FRENCH CAIN GROUND (By Associated Press VIENNA, Via London. July 9. The entente pressure against the Austrian lines in Albania is being continued by forces advancing across the river Viyusa, according to today's war office announcement. A gain of ground by the French along the upper Dvoll ia reported. Fighting also is taking place in the interior southwest of Berat. FRENCH TROOP8 STRIKE (By Associated Prss.) . French troops hit the German leads a smashing blow early this morning In the area almost directly north of Paris, where the Germans were stopped after five days of fighting in their thrust toward the capital in the last and least successful of all their 1918 offensives, about a month ago. The attack was delivered along a two and one-half mile front and at 6ome points General Petain's troops pushed Into the enemy positions for the distance of a mile. Two farms were captured and a counter attack which was delivered against one of them was repulsed. Some 460 prisoners were taken. South of Matz River The area chosen for the blow was Just south of the Matz river region, northwest of the Compiegne forest, on the front between Montdidier and the Oise. The attacking forces were assisted by tanks In their drives. Apparently all the terrain gained has been maintained impact. - - . . There has been considerable artillery fighting and raiding along this front on the last few days, but this morning's was the first infantry operation of note that has oocured there since the Germans' June offensive was crashed on the Mats, largely throguh the effective counter attacks delivered on the third day of the offensive along the line to the northwest of Anthuil toward Montdidier. Hold Railway Center. The new advance will serve still further to protect the important railway junction at Estrees-St Dennis, which lies seven miles southwest of Antheuil. Further to the southeast along the line the French continued to develop their success of yesterday, gaining additional ground on the Marne front east of the Rets forest by forcing the Germans back further in the vicinity of the Cbavign farm. On the British front there were only raiding operations. The Germans, however, apparently are contemplating a further effort to regain the positions recently taken by the Australians with American assistance in the Amiens area south of the Somme. The German guns last night were actively bombing the British lines In this region. The French war offloe reports considerable artillery activity to the west and north of Chateau Thierry on the Marne front It is in this sector that, the Americans on this front are holding several miles of the line. Continue "Nibbling Tactics" French troops again have been successful in a resumption of the "nibbling" tactics which the allied command has followed while the Germans prepare for a new blow. The fighting activity on the western front, however, still is much localized. From the enemy' lines come no indications that the Germans are about to strike. Important positions on a front of two miles to a depth of two-thirds of a mile and 3S0 prisoners were taken by the French in their latest effort In the region of Longpont, northeast of Villers-Cottrels. The sector on which the gain was made is just south of where the French last week made Important local gains in the region of St. Pierre Aigle and northward for six miles toward the Aisne. No counter-attacks have been made by the enemy, nor has he struck back at (Continued on Page Eight)

Dr. Edward A. Rumely Held on Charge of Being "Hidden Hand" of Germany

v AssocUted Press ) NEW YORK. July 9. Dr. Edward A. Rumely. vice president and treasurer of the Mall Express Company, publisher of the New York Evening Mall, awaited trial today on a charge of perjury, allegedly made by him in a report to A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodian. Rumely was arrested last night In the office of Attorney General Lewis. Tho warrant was Issued by a Federal commissioner upon the complaint of Attorney General Lewis, who has been conducting an examination for some time into the affairs of the Mail. The attorney general charged that Romely purchased the stock of the Mail and Express company In June, 1915, from Henry L. Stoddard, and that in doing so he acted In behalf of the Imperial German government The -complaint against Dr. Rumley

charges that in making a report to the alien property custodian regarding the transaction, he failed to disclose his relation with Count VonBernatorff, German ambassador to the United States, and Dr. Heinrich F. Albert, commercial attache of the German embassy. The attorney general charged that the German goverment paid to Rumely in several transactions connected with the purchase of the Mail, $1,361,000. The payments. It was alleged, were concealed until their details were discovered by investigators for the Department of Justice and the New York state attorney general. In an announcement tonight of the arrest of Dr. Rumely, Attorney Geneial Iiewis declared that the money was raid to Rumely from deposits of the German government standing in the n?r:- rt Dr. Albert, or of Albert and

VonBernstorff jointly, in this city. I The total so far traced, he added, is ! $1,361,000. , , - !

The transfer of money, Mr. Lewis said was concealed In this manner: "Albert procured various banks, where the German government had accounts, to issue cashier's checks to the order of one Walter Lyon, a member of the former Wall street firm of Renskorf, Lyon & Co. This firm in turn paid the money over to Rumely or to the S. S. McClure Newspaper Corporation, which had been organized by Rumely for the purpose of the transaction. Tracing the Payments. "In some cases Albert drew the money in cash and delivered it to the

i attorneys of the embassy, Messrs. Hays, Kaufmann andLindhelm, who I took the cash to Renskorf, Lyon & Co. iThey in turn made" payments to Rume

ly. In one transaction $75,000 in bills was handled in this manner. Rumely then drew his notes to the order of Walter Lyon, covering the transfers of money, and pledged stock in the S. S. McClure Newspaper corporation to secure the loans. . "Dr Rumely, in his report to the alien property custodian, made no disclosure of his relations with Albert or Von Bernstorff, "or the imperial German government. Instead, he reported that he owed $100,000 to Herman Sielcken, now deceased, upon a note, and he also reported that the notes which he had given Renskorf, Lyon & Co., accompanied by a pledge of stock of the McClure Newspaper corporation, had ben surrendered to him in exchange for the $100,000 note in September, 1917. In other words, by giving his note for $100,000, he had obtained a return of notes aggregating

in excess of $1,300,000 and stock representing a controlling interest In the Evening Mail. "Rumely has claimed recently that it was Sielcken who put up the money in the transaction. Previously he had stated that Mrs. Busch had contributed to the fund. Mrs. Busch, however, denies it, and the Columbia Trust company, executor of Herman Sielcken, as well as Mr. Sielsken's partners in the firm of Crossman & Sielcken, state that as far as they know, Mr. Sielcken had nothing to do with the transaction." Attorney General Lewis declared that the Mrs. Busch referred to in his statement was Mrs. AdolphBusch, widow of the St Louis brewe. who was questioned recently by gov ernment officials upon her return from Germany. Dr. Rumely'B interests were varied.

for besides being engaged in the newspaper business he was secretary of the M. Rumely Company of I.aporte, Ind., which manufactures agricultural Implements, and as founder of the Interlaken School, of which he is president, has written several books embodying novel ideals on educational matters. Moreover, after having attended the University of Nctre Dame, Ind., and the University of Heidelburg, he studied at the University of Freiburg, which in 19C6 granted him the degree of doctor of medicine. ' Although tha attorney general's statement termed Dr. Rumely "vicepresident and treasurer of , the Mail and Express Company," the newspaper's editorial page shows him to be vice-president and secretary. In a statement issued late tonight Assistant State Attorney General Becker said:

"The entire amount which went Into the purchase of the Evening Mall was derived from the sale of German war bonds in this country, and American citizens furnished the money to acquire the paper, which was to be used for the purpose of carrying on German propaganda. . . Stoddard in Ignorance. . "While the deal was made with Henry L. Stoddard for the paper there is no evidence that Mr. Stoddard knew it was German money. Mr. Stoddard retired from the management of the paper and still holds most of the outstanding bonds. When the United States declared war against Germany, Mr. Stoddard threatened to foreclose the bonds unless the Evening Mall expressed loyalty to this country tn every way." According to Mr. Becker, 8t. Loots Continued On Page Six.