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FRANK GENN FIRST LOCAL , MAN TO DIE ' INJATTLE Former Palladium Employe Dies Hero's Death in France on August 5 Message Received Last Evening. ENLISTED IN MARCH, 17 Richmond is mourning its first war hero. Frank F. Genn was killed in action orj August E, somewhere in France. Tbe sad intelligence came to his mother, Mrs. Jessie Genn, a widow, 204 South Fourteenth street, Wednesday. . The message said: "We deeply regret to inform you that Private Frank F. Genn. infantry, is officially reported as killed in action August 5. HARRIS, Acting Adjutant General." "Hank" had friends by the hundreds in Richmond. As a high school hnv hn was one of the most noDUlar students in the institution. Affable' likeable, with the proverbial "smile I that never came off," cheerful under every circumstance, he paved a way into the friendship of his companions. Was Determined to Serve. As an employe in the stereotyping department of The Palladium. Genu was the life of the room. Sally after sally of wit speeded the work during the rush hours and kept his associates smiling when the "dead line" of edition-time approached. Roy Dennis, an other employer, speaks in highest terms of the young hero. Today he is mourned at home by his former associates, and by hundreds who knew him only as a jovial, happy, cheerful young man. Genn was ordered to Camp Taylor on March 27. 1917, and assigned to Company E, 112th Infantry. Other boys in the company were Frank Lichtenfels, Harry Long, George Stein and nerbert Weisbrod. Four weeks later the boys passed through Richmond on their way to Camp Upton, N. Y. It was the last lime his friends here saw him. A week later his company embarked, but Genn owing to a defective foot, was detained. Patriotically enthused with the cause and determined to see action, Genn, after five examinations finally was passed by the surgeons and upon lifg arrival in France was rejoiced to briS3igned to his old company. Son of Late D. C. Genn. A letter received late Monday under a July date said he was well but unable to give details. His mother is at Cedar Point, Ohio, and his sister, Mrs. E. J. Dykeman is visiting at Indiana Lake, Mich. They will return home tonight. His fathef, the late D. C. Genn. was for many years street commissioner of Richmond, and widely known as a Republican party worker. Other relatives are Mr. and Mrs. Leo Zeyen, Miss Josephine Flemming, C. W. Genn and John Genn. A letter from Genn received here in July said: "Just a few lines to let you know that I am all right and feeling good. I expect you wonder why I can't write more, but I can't because I can't tell anything that Is going on here. After 1 hear from you I can write more as it will give me a chance to answer some of your questions. I hope all of you are all right and well. Give my regards to all." First to Fall Overseas. When news of his death came to his old associates on The Palladium staff, they could hardly believe it. He Is the first of their associates to pay the supreme sacrifice overseas. Memory took them back only a short time fqthe days when he wheeled form3 in7o position for the steam table, made irfatrlces, poured the metal and helpe'd clamp the plates on the press. It was not so long ago that his jokes and bits of humor eased the work and speeded its completion. It seemed incredible that one of the number had found a hero's death on French soil Today his old associates In all departments of the plant count them-, selves happy to rave been his friends, revere his memory and pay tribute to his bravery. The Weather For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau Probably showers tonight and Friday, except fciir tonight in south portion. Cooler in the north portion Friday. Today's Temperature. Noon 82 Yesterday. Maximum SI i Minimum 67 For Wavne County by W. E. Moore Occasional thunderstorms tonight and Friday. General Conditions Thunder snowers have occurred .during the past 36 hours over many portions of the central states. The weather continues unsettled for the next 36 to 48 hours with thunder showers generally over the states. Weather continues very warm excepting over the northwest ar on the Rock Mountain plateaus v.)Tiero it has been as low as 34 do-

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Youngest Captain In U. S. Service

Capt. Roger D. Williams, Jr. LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 22. Captain Roger D. Williams, Jr., of this city, now with the A. E. F. in France, Is the youngest regular army captain in the service. He Is twenty-two. He writes here that he is "acting mayor" of a French town. His father. General Roger D. Williams, who was retired last April because of physical disability, is to resume his duties with the United States army. He is in New York now en route for France, where he will act as a field representative in the military division of the Red Cross. Williams. Sr., has seen thirty-five years service in National Guard and federal service. He was with Cook's command at the time of the Custer massacre and was with Pershing in Mexico. At the time of his retirement he was the ranking brigadier general In the U. S. army. SENATE REPORT ARRAIGNS U. S. AIRCRAFT WORK One Man Control Urged to Speed up Production of Planes. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. The long awaited report of the Senate Military sub-committee investigating air craft production was submitted, with a scathing arraignment of details in the early days of the war. A review of improved conditions and recommendation for the creation of a new separate department of aviation with a cabinet officer at its head. Failure to adopt successful foreign airplanes and motors, waste of millions of dollars of aircraft appropriations, dominance of the airplane program by inexperienced automobile manufacturers; "unsystematic and ineffective" organization, and excessive profits to manufacturers are among the criticisms made by the sub-committee of which Senator Thomas of Colorado, was chairman. Disclaiming wholesale condemnation of the aircraft program the subcommittee praised much that has been accomplished and predicted "we are approaching a period when quantity production of planes soon may be hoped for." The report is impersonal and says all question of dishonesty or official corruption are left to the department of justice inquiry conducted by Charles E. Hughes. Congress is Blamed. While condemning chiefly the failure under the former air craft production board and signal corps control and noting great improvement since John D. Ryan and Major Gen. Kenly were placed in charge of the production and military branches, the committee strongly urges "one man control" in the future. Part of the blame for poor organization at the start is assigned to corigress. Stating that much can be said "in extenuation of disappointment in air craft production." the committee's long report details, delays and failures, including transportation to General Peshing of defective machines during more than a year's effort to secure domination of the air on the fighting front. In suggesting without attempting to fix definite responsibility that favoritism had been shown by the old air craft board in placing contract, the committee says the presence of Dayton interests on the board and the larfce contract given Dayton companies has provoked, "and we think justly of the public comment which made the investigation imperative." The Dayton, Wright and Curtiss companies are declared to have been given "great advantage over their competitors." Ten Ships Added to 1). S. Marine in Week WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. Ten ships with a total dead weight -tonnage of 51,700 were added to the American merchant marine in the week ending Aug. 15, the shipping ! board today announced. Seven of the ships were steel and three wood. Eight steel, vessels and two wooden ships, a total tonnage of 53,850 were launched during the week.

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nana uown uecmon in Private Car Cast After Six Years WASHINGTON, Aug-22 After six years of investigation, hearings and litigations, the interstate commerce commission handed down a decision in the so-called private car case, holding that no additional charge shall be. made for freight carried in refrigerator, tank, stock, heater, coal and other such privately owned cars, except where the ordinary rates is based in transportation in other type of car is cheaper to operate. FRANCIS HEADS INTERNATIONAL BODY IN RUSSIA Allies Form Council to Co-ordinate Action in Russia Bolsheviki Reinforced. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. Because the Bolshevik declared a state of war exists between the United States and Russia, vice council Imbric has lowered the United States flag over the consulate at Petrograd, closed the consulate and placed the affairs of the United States in the charge of the Norwegian government. Americans in Petrograd of whom there are approximately 20, have been warned to leave the country by the vice council. The houses were searched: one is under arrest and one Is in hiding. (By Associated Press! WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. In order to co-ordinate the effort of the allies ! and the United States in Russia an official dispatch from France today says it has been decided to create two international councils, one at Archangel including the entente ambassadors under the presidency of American Ambassador Francis, and the other at Vladivostok to be composed of five high officials. PARIS. Aug. 22 Eugent Regnault, former French ambassador to Japan, will represent France on the Interallied council of high commissioners at Vladivostok. BOLSHEVIK TAKE TOWN STOCKHOLM, Aug. 22. Bolshevik troops' advancing along the Onega river where allied expeditionary forces are operating have captured the vilbulletin issued from the "laborers' army headquarters" on Monday. LONDON, Aug. 22. Japanese reports received in Tien T6in and transmitted to the Exchange Te'egraph company under date of Tuesday, say that the Ussuri front, north of Vladivostok, the Bolsheviki are receiving substantial reinforcements. The allied right wing, it is added, is retiring. PARIS, Aug. 22. The French cruiser Kersaint has joined the other allied warships at Vladivostok. The cruiser arrived there on Aug. 13. DECLARES DISINTERESTEDNESS STOCKHOLM. Aug. 22. The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger, a copy of which has been received here, asserts that it has learned on good authority that the j soviet government in Russia has for mally declared its disinterestedness in, the Irmer Russian Baltic provinces. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. Swedish press reports transmitted to the state department today say that a Colonel Maren, whose status in the Russian establishment at Petrograd is not known here, committed suicide by shooting recently when he was hooted down during a speech at a meeting in Petrograd. Col. Maren was jeered uoon stating that the Germans were In Kresnoji Selo and intended to march on Petrograd and remove the soviet government. Reports from Finland say that Trotzky is at Helsinfors and Lenine, the Bolshevik premier, is on a German ship bound for Revel. German press reports state that Lenine is still at Moscow and Trotzky at the front. ALIENS SHOT FOR ATTACK ON GUARD SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 22. Seven enemy aliens of the third war prison camp at Fort Douglas are in the post hospital with their bodies full of buckshot as the result of an attack upon a prison guard yesterday, it became known today. All of the seven were more or less severely wounded, it is reported, but only one is in a serious condition. The names of the prisoners wounded will not be made public until a detailed report of the matter is submitted to Washington. Merchant Tonnage Loss During July Is 31,011 (By Associated Press.) LONDON, Aug. 22 Merchant tonnage losses in July due to enemy action and marine risk was 313,011, which makes the total for the quarter ending with July for allied and neutral countries 959,392. Ships built in British yards and in foreign yards on British account in July reduced the British deficit to 22,311, which compares favorably with the average monthly deficit during the 'first six months of this year of 90,000 tons.

TORNADO SWEEPS MINNESOTA TOWN; 35 ARE KILLED

One Hundred People Injured and Entire Building District is Destroyed. (By Associated Press) TYLER, Minn., Aug. 22. Between 30 and 35 persons were killed and more than 100 were injured by the tornado which struck Tyler about 10 o'clock last night and tore the town to pieces in a twinkling. Twentyseven bodies have been identified. The tornado tore through the heart of the town, sparing only one building, a motion picture theatre in which 200 persons were sheltered. The greatest loss of life was in a restaurant. Eighteen persons weie in the place when the brick wall collapsed. Sixteen persons were killed and the other two were seriously injured. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 22. A tornado striking Tyler, Minn., a town of 1,100 inhabitants in the southwestern part of the state at 9 o'clock last night, destroyed the entire business section, part of the residence district, and caused death3 estimated from fifty to 125, according to information given out by Great Northern Railway officials early this morning. The buildings destroyed include three banks, the power house, and five general stores. Three solid blocks of business district were razed and the resident districts, east and west of the town were swept. A Chicago and Northwestern passenger train passing through Tyler, was thrown from the track. Twelve passengers were killed and a number injured. The hospital was destroyed and at least one nurse is known to have been killed. Twenty bodies had been recovered from the wrecked buildings at 3:00 o'clock this morning. 397 NAMED IN U. S. CASUALTIES The army casualty list, issued In two sections Thursday shows Killed in action, 37; missing in action, 136; wounded severely, 162; died of wounds 7; died of accident, 2; died of disease, 4; wounded, degree undetermined, 48; prisoner, 1; total 391. The marine corps list shows Killed in action, 5; died of wounds, 1; total, 6. Indiana men named are: Clarence Borror, Winchester, and George Cookero, Indianapolis, killed in action; Lieut. C. E. Ihrie, Kendallville, wounded severely; Private Lawrence H. Capehart, Jeffersonville, died of wounds; Sergeant Francis M. Kellar, South Whitely, missing in action. Ohio men listed are George Poettering, Cincinnati, killed in action; Domenco Cerio, Cleveland, Michael Detell, Youngstown, W'illianf McGuire, Columbus, Myrl F. Untied, Ivazeysburg, and Corporal Wilburt V. Atkins, Bloomingdale, wounded severely; Nick Vestay, Mingo Junction and Walter C. Justesen, Lima, missing in action; I Cook Cecil Reed, Canton, wounded. PUBLIC SYMPATHY GROWING PRO-ALLY IN SWITZERLAND (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. Public opinion in the German speaking portions of Switzerland has undergone a great change recently and those cantons are rapidly approaching In sympathy the French portions of the remiblic which has been proally since tne outbreak of the war, according to an official dispatch from France. The dispatch says that the Frankfort Zeitung publishes a long letter from a German resident of Switzerland which testifies to the change in public opinion. The writer of the letter says: "A great part of public opinion has j become entente-ophile, or else is actI ing as if it has become so. Another J part has remained theoretically neu tral: a very small proportion oi tne population has sympathies for the German cause." The correspondent explains his condition by remarking that the entente is supplying Switzerland with bread and that Switzerland depends indus trially more on the entente than on ' Germany. ' Another official dispacth received here say that the Swiss Federal council has indefinitely postponed the suppression of the Frere Zeitung, the German language paper published in Switzerland. Austrian Losses in , Italy Were 20,000 Men (By Associated Press.) LONDON, Aug. 22. Austrian losses in the British front in Italy between June 15 and 25, were 20,000, according to advices received here. British casualties in the same period totaled 2,500, it is said.

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General Plumer rewarding British woman ambulance driver General Plumer of the British army is shown in the above picture pinning the military medal on one of the women ambulance drivers of the British forces. She has been cited for bravery during air raids in France. These women constantly risk their lives at the front because of the utter disregard of the Hun for the Red Cross insignia and hospitals.

Allies Damage Six German Armies Since July 11; Are Now at Seventh

' (By Associated Press.) PARIS, Aug. 22. The allies have damaged six t German armies since July llvand the British are now eating into the seventh, with the spread of the battle northward and over a front of 70 miles. Whether the enemy is prepared or unprepared allied efforts have had good results and the Germans have been out-generaled and outfought. The armies attacked and damaged in the past six weeks have been those of Generals von Einem, von Mudra, von Boehn, von Eben, von Hutier and von Der Marwitz. The full designs of Marshal Foch are known only to himself and perhaps one or two others, but it is believed generally thaf his aim is not, as the Germans claim, to pierce their line, but to strike a succession of blows to cause the enemy irreplaceable losses in men and material and to force him to make more or less disastrous retreats. If that be the marshal's plan, he is executing it with skill and unvarying success. General Ludendorff is being forced to expend his effectives out of all proportions to his resources on a given sector of the front, after which another blow is struck home or another sector. At no place have the Germans apparently been strong enough to check the attack entirely. Enemy Resistance Desperate. Wednesday the resistance was most desperate on the right of General Mangin's army in the neighborhood of Bieuxy. If the French are able to reach the neghboring village of Juvigny the salient marked by the villages of Juvigny, Gsly and Pasly would become untenable for General von Eben, who would be obliged to retreat beyond the Soissons-Coucy-Le-Chateau road. The German situation there is unenviable enough at present but would become still worse as the French progressed. The Germans also would have to abandon the VesleAisne line and go back to the Chemin-Des-Dames. Military observers that are of an optimistic turn of mind are convinced that the Germans will end their defense by falling back to the old Hindenburg line all along the front at no very distant date. While that may be so, the enemy shows no signs at present cf doing so voluntarily and is fighting stubbornly and skillfully, yielding only when outmanoeuvred and outfought. Never has the situation of the Germans been so serious as at present, which augurs well for the future, say L'Homme Libre, in discussing the results' of Wednesday's fighting. No Longer German Battle. The Germans have been deprived of all hopes of making a lasting stand on their present front and the allied offensive is costing them dearly, the Figaro says. The battle is no longer a Huns Protect Treasures From Bombardment by Allied Aviators (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 22'. An official dispatch from Switzerland made public today says that the artillery collections in the museums at Cologne are to be taken to Cassel and Brunswick, where they will be out of danger from allied aerial bombardments. The German newspapers are asking that the master pieces and treasurers in the Munich museums be similarly safeguarded.

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German battle, declares Le Matin, but the battle of Marshal Foch to whose will all events appear to be subject. The occupation of Lassigny by the army of General Humbert, newspaper j commentatros believe, will facilitate j the copture of Noyon, toward which j the armies of General Mangin and j Humbert are pressing steadily. Lasi signy was one of the pivots of the German defense system between the 1 Oise and the Somme and was defend ed most stubbornly. Gneral Mangin, on Wednesday continued to move toward the Oise. If the German front there has not been pierced, as the Germans claim the French are trying to do, it has been bent back a considerable distance and it i3 believed may have to withdraw to ; the Ailette. Observers here see a new danger for the enemy in the British attack north of the Anore in the direction of j Bapaume. The British already are on tne battle ground of 1916. U. S. AND SWEDEN FORM AGREEMENT (By Associated Press) New York, Aug. 22. Terms of the ; commercial treaty recently formed by the entente allies and Sweden, and which is expected to diminish the sending of supplies to Germany were made public here today by Axel R. Nordvall, head of the special commission of the Swedish government to the United States. It gives to the allies 400,000 tons of dead weight shipping and two million tons of Swedish iron ore. The Stockholm government according to Mr. Nordvall, has given satisfactory guarantee that no goods imported to Sweden from allied countries or any nations whose shipping the allies control, will be exported to any of the central powers. NINE ENEMY PLANES PUT OUT OF ACTION . (By Associated tress) PARIS, Wednesday, Aug. 21. An of ficial statement on aerial operations J says : j "On August 20, nine enemy airplanes were put out of commission and throi ' captive balloons were burned. Forty j tons of projectiles were dropped on enemy concentrations and convoys in the region of Guny, St. Paul-AuxtBois, j Juvigny, Chavigny, Crecy-Au-Mont and ! crossings on the Ailette. Tens of j thousands of cartridges were fired on i the same objectives. ' Last night twenty-three tons of projectiles were dropped on tthe stations, at Mezieres, . Amagne-Lucquy, Chatelet-Sur-Retourne, Conflans and Armanvilliers. Four tons of explosives were dropped on the station at Thionville. Fires and heavy explosions were - observed, particularly in the Mezierez and Armanvilliers station. A total of sixty-four tons of projectiles were utilized with excellent results."

ALLIES GAIN KEY TO HUN LINE WEST OF SOMME

From Heights of Le Plemont French Troops Watch Germans in Retreat Toward the North. 100,000 PRISONERS (3y Associated Prjes.) PARIS, Aug. 22 From the heights of Le Plemont on the Oise front the French troops are now watching the Germans in their retreat towards the north. The French army under command of Genera1 Mangin in its attack on the Oise front today, has reached the line of the Ailette river, according to reports reaching London this afternoon. The allied armies have taken more than ' 100,000 prisoners since July 18, says Marcel Hutin in the Echo de Paris. Between two and three thousand prisoners were captured by the British in yesterday's operations, the statement says. Stand Before Noyon. Fighting their way forward along the southern reaches of the Picardv battle front, French troops today stana before Noyon. This city has been referred to as the key to the whole German line west of the Somme. During last night General Humbert's men reached the Divette river for a long distance west of its confluence with the Oise. South of Noyon the army commanded by General Mangin holds the south bank of the Oise from Sempigny to Bretigny, a distance o! more than six miles, at Sempigny they are only a little more than a mile from Noyon. - It is officially reported that the French have reached the outskirts of Pommiers, a village on the Aisne, less than two miles west of Soissons. MAKE RAPID PROGRESS. German forces in the sector south of Noyon and along the Oise are said by the French official reports to be '"retreating," which may account for the rapid progress of General Mangin's army. It is said however, that contact with the enemy is being maintained by the French. British troops attacked the Germans along the line between the Somme and the Ancre river at 4:45 o'clock this morning. This may be considered a continuation of the attack north of the Ancre at dawn yesterday. The front of the latest attack is about 5 miles long. No details of the progress made there have been learned as yet. North of the Ancre the British have advanced in spite of enemy resistance and have crossed the Arras-Bapaume railway line. This railroad embankment was a serious obstacle to the British advance yesterday. British at Neuf Berquin In the Flanders area the British are closely following the retiring Germans and have reached Neuf Berquin, a village two miles within the German lines, as they stood when the last definite, reports were received from this sector of the front. On the northern side of the Lyg salient in Flanders the Germans have been forced out of a strong position north of Bailleul. The Germans launched a heavy counter attack against the British positions at Locre Hostice but were repulsed. Heavy fighting is reported in this area. Strong German counter atacks are developing near Miramount and Irles, which are near the southern end of the line over which the British attacked yesterday. Eritish Drive STowed Up. In this region, the determined resistance of the Germans seemed to have slowed up the British if it has not checked the momentum of the blow launched by General Byag. The same may be said to be the situation on the hills north of Soisscns. Little progress has been reported In this sector for the last few days. Last night's German official report ' however told of the French reaching the plateau north of Juvigny, but said they were driven back. Noyon, it would appear, is almost untenable. It would seem tnat a retreat by the enemy toward Chauny, farther east, is almost impossible. The railroad leading east of Noyon now is under direct fire from the French guns. The only remaining avenue for a German retreat appears to be the northeast toward Mam. Mount' Renaud, a height which stands as a sentinel to the southwest of Noyon now appears to be outflanked and therefore useless as a defensive position. There have been no reports of fighting from Lassigny north to the Somme. Germans Fall Back. Allied blows on the 120-mIie front frcm Soissons to Ypres continue to force the Germans back and the en- ( Continued on Pace Eight)