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SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS VCll. XT TV "Nfl Palladium. Est 1S31. Consolidated VUJj. AXiiVXNU. 10 wlth sun-Telegram 190T. RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, 1919 YANKS ALONG RHINE EAGER FOR ADVANCE REEVES WITNESS ENEMY CRISIS TO POSTPONE FINAL ACTION ON NEW PACT What Will Happen if Germany Should Not Sign Army Worm Havoc in Henry County FOR TRIBUNE IN SUIT BY FORD Richmond Man, Now Profes AGAINST FOE sor in Michigan University, Testifies as Expert.
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Stirring Activities Among Troops After Absence of
Seven Months From WarShow New Life.
PREPARED FOR ACTION
(Br Associated Press) COBLENZ, June 21. Divisions of the third army, after being away from battle fields and war scenes for seven months, have again been plunged. into 1? the stirring activities which generally precede the actual thunder of war. An army, unperturbed by the work of the peace conference and thinking much - of home, has suddenly been galvanized - into the life the soldiers knew before the armistice and endowed with renewed vigor. It is today moving forward toward the edge of the great cemi-circle which marks the dividing line between the occupied areas and the neutral sections of Germany. This was a most stirring day at third army headquarters and among the first and second divisions holding the east bank of the Rhine since the Americans moved in about six months ego. Late yesterday, orders were flashed from headquarters in Coblenz to the divisions across the Rhine, ordering them to prepare to march into the zone of concentration. Within a short time the orders were transmitted to officers commanding companies and
soon non-commissioned officers were
routing their superiors out of their billets and clubs and relaying the con
centration orders which had come
from Marshal Foch. -
While the civilians in the small
towns looked upon the military activl
ties, simetimes with bewilderment, the soldiers rushed to finish their packing and to find their helmets, rifles and gas masks, which had been issued
previously. Second First to Move. The Second division was the first to move, getting under way early today. Under the Sayne Valley, which meets the Rhine hear , Neuweld, which has been the division headquarters, the Second, with its infantry, machine guns, artillery and all the parapherf nalia of war, pushed forward. Ordinarily, the Sayne Valley is cool and peaceful in summer, but today it appeared somewhat like the valley of the Ourcq last summer, when the Americans were driving the Germans back to the Vesle. All day clouds of dust followed the movement of the tractors and guns of the Seventeenth field artillery, which moved from the fortress of Ehrenbreltstein out to the edge of the bridgehead, where the great valley stretches away toward Berlin. Snorting and trembling, but ever moving forward.
the tractors surprised civilians along
the roadway into some realization of
real warfare.
The American soldiers sleep beneath
the sky in the open fields, while the
country In every direction is dotted
with smouldering fires where the sol
diers hurried supper had been pre-
neers, sanitary trains and signal corp
men who strung wire as they went i ahead. Even observation balloons moved up to get a better peak into Germany if the allied peace terms are not accepted. The concentration of the first division is well under way and will be completed before tonight. As the men worked and marched today they sang as only American soldiers can. Officers said the doughboys wanted Germany to sign the treaty and after that to go home, but "If the Germans did not Bign look out Germany."
Figures and arrows indicate points from which allied forces will start to In
vade and isolate Germany and direction in wmcn Torces win mov.e. In case the Germans decide to refuse to sign the peace treaty Marshal
Foch has the following plan of operations:
1 The Belgians will advance from Dusseldorf and take Essen ana tne
rich Ruhr district. They will then go on and hold the fortress or Minaen.
2 The French will converge their forces upon the fortress of Ulm. After
taking it they will advance to Nordllngen and outflank the Khoen mountain
defenses.
3 The Americans will move up the main valley to the Bohemian border,
cutting Germany in two. The south Germans will not be able to receive help
from Austria, for the latter is now utterly defeated.
4 After crossing Germany the Americans and allies will strike at Silesia
through Bohemia. When this is taken, Germany will be paralyzed Industrially.
6 It is expected that the Germans will make a stand at Wurzburg ana
in the rugged Rhoen mountains.
6 They also may make a stand along the Danube between Ulm and In-
golstadt.
7 They will also probably attempt to hold the Thlerlngla forest and the
fortress of Erfurt, guarding the Saxon plain.
8 The British fleet will maintain a tight blockade and harass the coast.
STRONG ARMY READY TO BE THROWN ACROSS BORDER TO PUNISH VILLA
fBy Associated Press') WASHINGTON, June 21. Recent developments along the southern border and within Mexico itself, It was learned officially today, has brought a radical- change in the attitude of this government towards Mex ico. It can be stated on positive authority that "watchful waiting" has been discarded for "watchful preparedness." The war department has perfected plans to throw a punitive expedition of adequate strength across the Rio Grande the moment official word is
received of reprisals on the part of
Villa for the Juarez Incident, or in case of other contingencies tending to bring the Mexican situation again to
a stage approaching the crisis or last
Sunday.
Orders for the advance of this column, however, it was said, would be
accompanied by instructions for the
military occupation of territory necessary to Insure the safety of the expedition and absolute protection of the border through the creation of a neutral zone south of the line. Further movement of the expedition would depend entirely on subsequent developments. Military observers here placed little credence in the report that Villa had
STRENGTH AGAINST LEAGUE LEARNED
abandoned his offensive to the north. Economic as well as military necessity, it was pointed out, call for the elimination of the Carranza garrisons stationed on the flanks of the territory Villa now controls and for possession of a principal frontier entry-port which would give the rebel chieftain
fresh sinews of war in the shape of customs duties and equipment. Although three federal generals now are operating against Villa in northern Mexico, confidential reports to the
war department are not optimistic re
garding the success of the Carranzlsta
campaign there, while the withdrawal
of badly needed troops from the south J
it is expeciea, win do ioiiowea u
further Incursions of the Fellclstas already at the very gates of the capltol. The Carranza military establish- ( Continued on Page Five.)
Prof. Jesse S. Reeves of Richmond, now a teacher of political science in the University of Michigan, was a witness yesterday in the trial of the damage suit of Henry Ford against the
Chicago Tribune for slander. The case is being heard at Mt. Clemens, Mich., and Prof. Reeves, as a witness for the Chicago Tribune, testified that in his opinion some of the attributed statements and interviews of Henry Ford were of the anarchistic type. Prof. Reeves testified that in studying many of Henry Ford's ideas, as expressed in the Edward Marshall interview and In Ford's advertisement "Concerning Preparedness," he had found special applications of ideas found in practically all anarchistic writings. Ford's attorneys objected strenuously to the Reeves testimony, but after a long argument the court admitted it. Attorney Elliott G. Stevenson questioned Prof. Reeves: "I want to ask you," he said, "if you find in the Marshall article. In
which Mr. Ford expressed his views, anything that is identical in substance with the teachings and writings of the well known and recognized anarchists of the world?" . "I do." " Prof. Reeves pointed out sentences that he hal in mind, and read further from the Marshall Interview: "The men in authority have wanted more authority, and, being stupid, have seen no way of getting it except by violently seizing it. Why do vast masses of mankind allow themselves to be led off to the slaughter, when in their hearts they know when they die it will be in no good cause, but will be merely to satisfy the ambition of some greedy individual?" Prof. Reeves said of this idea: 'All anarchists, with whose writings I am at al familiar, express the idea that government is something that has been imposed upon, and slipped over, the people."
The professor read again from the Marshall interview: "Such events as now rack Europe wiuld wreck faith in human nature and in Providence if it were not my firm belief that really there is no bad In the world. To my mind humanity
may make mistakes, but cannot do anything worse.
The .professor commented: "I think
tb44athe fundamental doctrine of all
anarchists."
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Erzberger Asks Modification of Indemnity Terms arid Ex
emption of Former Kaiser for Trial.
Courtesy Indianapolis News
Upper picture shows a stalk of growing corn after the. blades had been eaten by army worms in Prairie township, Henry county. Lower picture shows a group of farmers sitting and standing behind a trench in Henry county where a hard battle against army worms Is being successfully waged.
DAVID FORMS CABINET
(By Associated Pressl BERLIN, June 21. Mathias Erzberger, (mentioned as probable head of the new German peace delegation) is reported to have sent a note to Premier Clemenceau as president of the peace conference, asking whether the allies will agree to the Immediate admission of Germany to the League of Nations. Herr Erzberger also desires to know if the powers will consent to the limitation of Germany's indemnity to 100,000,000,000 gold marks and renounce their effort to have former Emperor William surrendered. MUELLER EFFORTS FAIL. PARIS, June 21. Dispatches received over the American military wires into Germany early this after noon stated that Herr Mueller, having failed to form a cabinet. Dr. Eduard David, former president of the Nat
ional assembly, had been asked to assume the task.
AMERICAN AID TO BE GIVEN TO BELGIUM, DECLARES PRESIDENT
BRITISH BALLOON FLIES OVER; BALTIC
(By Associated Press) EAST FORTUNE, Scotland. Friday, June 20. The British dirigible R-34, which left here Tuesday, returned today after a flight into the Baltic for the two-fold purpose of learning whether there is any unusual activity in German shipping and to further test the machine before attempting . to fly across the Atlantic. The giant machine had $ rough trip and it is unlikely she can be ready to start for America under ten days. The ship, it is learned went abreast of Berlin during the trip, flying just out-side the three-mile limit. It is estimated that the total round
trip of the Baltic by the airship to
taled 2,000 miles.
.(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. June 21. Conferences of senate leaders opposing the League of Nations continued today in an effort to agree on some plan of action that would reveal the exact strength of senate opposition to ratification of the league plan. In some quarters it was predicted an agreement would be reached bring
ing developments on the senate floor before the day was over. It was the last legislative day on which the sen
ate could give notice or its position
before conclusion of the peace nego
tiations, and there was considerable sentiment that some action should be
taken.
Leaders favoring the league were
on the alert for any such move, claim
ing they had the votes to defeat any measure designed to advise changes
In the treaty. They predicted there
would be no further effort to do that, i
and that the next step of the league opponents would be postponed until
next week.
GOMPERS REELECTED
TO HEAD U. S. LABOR
(By Associated Press)
ATLANTIC CITY, June 21. Samuel Gompers was today re-elected president of the American Federation of Labor in convention here. Mr. Gompers in a speech said the selection was American labor's answer to Its traducers and opponents. '
BATTLESHIPS TO END SERVICE AS TROOP VESSELS
Warships Will be Withdrawn From Transport Duty July
1 5 Arrivals Due.
German Delegates Have
"Peace Champagne" To Celebrate Developments fBy Associated Pressl VERSAILLES, Friday, June 21 The
82 attaches of the German peace delegation remaining here have been kept informed of developments in Germany by press telegrams received by cor
respondents of German papers in Ver
sailles. They appear to interpret
(By Associated Press) BRUSSELS, Thursday, June 19 At a reception in his honor held here at the Hotel De Ville by Burgomaster Max and the city officials, President
Wilson spoke in part as follows
thing of that individuality of the municipality which was characteristic
of the middle ages and which brought the spirit of self government through
that dark period when nations had ceased to govern themselves but
assert
I know something, sir, of the his-when localities continued- to.
toryrthe independence, the self-confi- their right to self-government, dence of the municipalities of Bel-j "So that I feel welcomed today by gium. I know there has been persist-1 those whom I fain wound believe to be ed into modern times something of : my friends and the friends of the
TO ASK EXTENSION. WEIMAR, June 21. It looks more and more as if Eduard David would be the successor, not only of Philipp Scheidemann, the chancellor, but of Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau. the foreign minister. His tenure of both offices will undoubtedly be for only a short time, but he Is accustomed to that, having held the position of president of the national assembly for a brief period, being supplanted by Konstantin Fel.renbach. The cabinet held a meeting this morning and gathered for another session this afternoon, party leaders being present at the second sitting. It is believed Germany will ask tho entente for an extension of the time limit to permit the settlement of the cabinet crisis. . Pret Urges Signing. Mathias Erzberger probably will head the German peace delegation. The opposition attitude of the
that solidarity of the commune, some-; American people, as the American ; Democrats and German Nationalists
SERBS FREED OF BLAME BY HUNS PRECEDING WAR
people are certainly your friends.
They are your friends in a very deep
and true sense. They understand what Belgian liberty signifies. They understand what Belgium's suffering signifies; and it is, I believe, one of their deepest ambitions to satisfy the duty of friendship as toward the Belgian people. They have tried to do
so in the past.
on the Question of the treaty probnblv will exclude Count von Brockdorff Rantzau and Count Bernstorff from the government. The German provincial press is strongly urging the speedy signing of the treaty. Berlin advices show the sentlmert throughout Germany to be In favor of accepting the peace terms. The
this trip to be accompanied hy my
fellow countryman, Mr. Herbert Hoover, who I know has had Belgium written on his heart throughout this
,o.. v.,- 1 tt .. jr CL. T.1 V7 war and whose pleasure It has been
M - ""7 "l naraen onowb i eiegram vv touching to see as, in going about iuon.
the country, we have seen healthy children and robust men and women
the
receiving
manifest
peace treaty and are
news irom uermany wun
joy. : . '
A special dinner was ordered for them tonight with "peace champagne".
OXFORD TO HONOR PERSHING (By Associated Press) PARIS, June 21 General Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary forces, will go to London Monday and from there to Oxford university, where on Tuesday he is to receive the degree of doctor of civil law. He will return to France Wednesday.
Weather Forecast
For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Probably showers in central and north portions.
(By Assoc!.ted Pres
WASHINGTON, June 21. Battle
ships and cruisers now used in trans
porting American soldiers from France
will be withdrawn from that source by
July 15. Those now In Atlantic ports will not return to France but those
overseas or enroute will complete
their present trips. Assignments to early convoy an
nounced today included the following
units:
Three hundred sixteenth service
battalion; 319th service battalion;
company D and headquarters; 345th service battalion, company C; 305th,
312th, 313th, 314th and 320th supply j companies; 338th service battalion, ' company D, refrigerator plant company No. 502 ; mobile laundry company 320; transportation corps companies
Nos. 61. 164, 125, 133, 845, 8444 and 875; butchery companies Nos. 333, 323, 347, 319, 320, 342.5447th engineers, headquarters and companies C and D, 113th mobile ordnance repair 6hop; balloon company No. 101, 3rd pioneer infantry, company G, 811th pioneer infantry, detachment company I; 295th military police; motor sanitary train 311, headquarters detachment and companies A to D inclusive; 806th pioneer infantrty band; fire truck and hose companies 317 and 321 ; railhead supply detachment No. 301, salvage
company No. 6, 332nd engineers, com
pany D. -
Expected transport arrivals an
nounced by the war department are: battleship Louisiana, Newport News, June 30; Harrisburg, New York, June
28; Ordund, New York, June 28; Antigone, Newport News, June 29 ; Lake
Benbow, Charleston; Powhatan, Char
leston, June 30; Aeolus, New York, June 29.
advices cover Leinsie. Dresden. Chem.
"It has been one of my pleasures on ' nitz and other representative regions.
Geographically analyzed, the advices indicate that all the southern German states are favorable to the acceptance of the treaty, while the Prussian re
gions are maintaining some opposi-
Sent Exonerating Serbia on j
July 13, 1914
(By Associated Press) BERXE, Friday, June 20. An official telegram to the Vienna foreign office, exonerating Serbia of responsibility for the Serajevo murder, has been published by Maxmillian Harden in
the Berlin Zukunft, as a part of the leagues with whom I have been In
mass of evidence to show German ; counsel throughout the war and whose responsibility for the war. j thoughts I can tell you have been conThis telegram, dated July 13, 1914, ! stantly upon the methods by which states plainly that the Serbian gov- Belgium could be helped; whose ernment, against which no evidence thought now is upon that subject, can be produced, has no responsibility whose hope is that some method will for the murder. ; be worked out, as I had the privilege Ultimatum Substituted ! of saying to your parliament today, by
This document, Herr Harden said, which systematic .help soon can be
was canceled and ten days lated the rendered to Belgium. I ultimatum to Serbia was presented.! "I bring you the warm greeting of
In addition, he said, seven days before j the people of America. I am sure I it was drafted the Potsdam war coun- j express their wish when I say long cil already had arranged a plan oflive the prosperity of Brussels and of action in anticipation of Russia's in-1 Belgium and of her king and her
Noon
Today's Temperature
Yesterday
UKRANIANS ADVANCING.
'By Associated Press) WARSAW, June 21. An Ukranian army is concentrated between the Bbrucz and Dniester rivers. TJkranians have penetrated into the town of Tarnopol and the population is fleeing.
Maximum Minimum
82 88 63
For Wayne County by W. E. Moore
Occasional showers and thunder
storms this afternoon or tonight, Sunday unsettled, probably thunder show
ers. ...
General Conditions Although the
weather has continued generally fair, it is becoming quite unsettled from the
lakes southward with local rains during the past 24 hours over portions of Wavne and adjacent counties, al
though in most places the drought has
been broken. The temperatures continue high east of the Rocky mountains, 98 at Medicine Hat, western Canada, and 110 at Phoenix, Arizona.
KOHENZOLLERN, AT BENTINCR CASTLE,
CUTS 5,000 TREES (By Associated Press) AMERONGEN, Thursday, June 19 Friederich Von Berg, formerly chief of the civil cabinet of William Hohenzollern, dined last night at Von Bentinck castle, where the one-time monarch is staying. Today there was a continual running of motor cars from and to the castle. This morning the former emperor engaged in his usual task of sawing trees, of which he yesterday completed his five thousandth. This last tree has been cut into 1-inch discs,
many of which have been distributed : this decision was taken and registered
among Herr Hohenzollern's attend-ion July 6, before the kaiser left tor ants and advisers. The tree was six the north, and he who had to chooso
inches in diameter and each disk was between war and peace had alrearty marked by the sawyer with his ini-i chosen war. A hundred million indi-
tlal and the date.
After the sawing was finished, just
before lunch today the former emperor. Von Berg, General Von Gontar, Dr.
Kriege, of the German foreign office and Herr Van Eseback were observed, in animated conversation in the grounds of the castle, but nothing
could be gleaned as to the subject of
conversation.
Dutch gendarmes guarded the es
tate in stronger force than usual, possibly owing to the recent visits of parties of American soldiers and sailors from Rotterdam, whose arrival, seems to have created some nervousness.
whom he could properly believe were served by the food which came from America. I believe that I have the privilege of speaking his thoughts (one of the peculiarities of Mr. Hoover is that he is too modest to speak for himself) and therefore I am proud to share with him some of your welcome. "I am accompanied by other col-
Today Longest Day Of Year;
Has Fifteen Hours And Six
Minnies From Sun To Sun
Today, Saturday, June 21, is the longest day of 1919. Sol's rising time
was scneaulea tor 4: 28 o clock sun
time (5:28 government time), and he
will set at 8:34 o'clock government
time, making exactly fifteen hours six
minutes and a few seconds of day time
which is in minutes the same length
as Friday, but In seconds slightly
longer.
owing to his non-appearance
throughout most of the day the maxi
mum temperature was only 88 de
grees. The thermometer stood at 82
degrees at noon.
tervention. "Von Bethmann-Holweg may
forgotten it," Herr Harden says.
viduals were thus received.
queen.
have "but
DEPORTATION OF RADICALS PLANNED
Consider Continuation Of Economic Mission
(By Assocrarcd Press) PARIS, June 21. President Wilson met the American members of the
Refusal Held Impossible Theodore Wolff, editor-in-chief of the Berlin Tageblatt, has telephoned that newspaper from Weimar that those In favor of signing the treaty are bo active and numerous among the Majority Socialists and the clericals that a peremptory refusal to sign the terms Is hardly possible. Members of the assembly who take thi stand, Herr Wolff says, are being given support by several Majority Socialist members of the cabinet, who now are openly urging the appointment of Mathias Erzberger to head the new cabinet. Herr Wolff states that the solution now being sought will be In the na
ture of a compromise. He believes that Count Von Brockdorff-Rantzau, the foreign minister, can hardly be expected to stay if the compromise represents too great a concession to the elements now clamoring for the signature of the treaty. General Groener, former Prussian war minister and successor to Field Marshal von Hindenburg, as chief of the German general staff, arrived here from eastern Germany yesterday and conferred with the members of the cabinet about the Polish situation and the entire eastern front. He reported that West Prussia, East Prussia and Silesia have determined to form an
Independent state free from Prussia
supreme economic mission today to i, -
SINN FEIN CHIEF LANDS IN AMERICA
NEW YORK, June 21. Announcement was made here today that Prof. Edward DeValera, president of the Irish Sinn Fein republic had landed in America and would be in New York city Sunday. Apartments have been engaged for the Sinn Fein leaders at the Waldorf Astoria. Prof. DeValera left the British Isles sixteen days ago, according to Harry J. Boland, his secretary, and la now
In seclusion in this country. His mis
sion to America was made in the hope
of obtaining official recognition of the Irish republic by the United States government.
(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, June 21 Information that the government has under consideration wholesale deportations of Bol-
sheviki. anarchists and other radicals
in thi3 country was obtained here today from what was considered an au
thoritative federal source. It was declared that the plan called for return
ing troop ships to take alien agitators back to their native lands.
Sixty Bodies Recovered After "Movie" Disaster
. (By Associated Press) SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Friday, June 20 Sixty bodies now have been recovered from the ruins of a motion picture theatre at Mayaguez, destroyed by fire last night, according to latest reports. . The injured number a hundred and fifty, many of whom may die.
Women and children were trampled or crushed "to death In thepanlc that followed the alarm of fire. The frame
theater building was destroyed within 15 minutes.
consider whether that body should be
discontinued. It is understood that Herbert Hoover, director general of the Inter-Allied Relief Commission; Vance McCormick, chairman of the American War Trade board, and Bernard H. Baruch, vice president of tho sub-committee of the Peace conference to stu'dy measures of control and guarantees, are in favor of a discontinuation of the commission and the return home of the American members, whereas the British favor its continuation with broader duties, including shipping and other branches
formerly conducted by a separate committee in London. The economic commission was created for the period of the armistice which expires with the signing of the treaty. '
He said. the inhabitants of the three Etates are bitter at Germany, claiming that she had "deserted them and swapped and bartered away portions of those states for the sake of others." The government says it cannot sea where any bartering enters into th situation; since it got nothing in return in dealing with the allies. Fighting with the Poles Is said to be cer
tain, forces of the independent Noske guards or the German imperial troops
being the participants.
Red Cross Relief Worker Reported Dead In Serbia (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. June 21. Reports of the death of Catain Harold V. Aupperle, of Grand Junction, Colo., at Nova Varosh, Serbia, where he was stationed in charge of American Red
Cross relief , operations in western
Siberia, was received at the Red Cross
Aupperle, the report said, died after
if an illness of fourteen days.
CONFERENCE GETS NOTE PARIS, June 21. The councit of four of the peace conference Teceived a note today from the German peac delegation asking if Premier Clemenceau's note explaining the reparations clauses of the peace treaty was a binding part of the treaty and having the same force as the treaty itself. - The council at its morning session considered this note, calling In its experts on the question of reparation. Baron Sonnino, the Italian foreign minister, was present Before receipt of the German not the council had resumed consideration of the uncompleted portion of the Austrian treaty. f ? ": - : According to a Berlin dispatch Friday night, the German note to the peace conference cites twelve instanContinued On Page Fifteen. -.