Wooster daily Republican. (Wooster, Ohio), 1917-06-08

              Da. orn WIRB OT2W8 . la ao late you do not haT to wait UU tomorrow morning's papers. , ' TK2 X7EATHL.: ; Probably local -thunde? showers tonight and Satur day. J Vol XXXI, No. 7 woosteA.ohio, , JUNE 8, 1917 PBICE 2 CENTC WOOI ICAN Big,XieldOf ' Spring Wheat V Washington, June 8. The excellent outlook for the spring wheat crops has caused the abatement for fears of a wheat famine, for the coming winter, which would place not only the United States but her allies on bread rations. The American crop estimating bureau, in this month's estimate, placed the probable yield for the United States this year, at 656,000,- i 000 bushels, as against 640,000,000 for last year. The heavy acreage pit summer makes the estimated yield of spring wheat 283,O00,0Q0 bushels this year, as against 158,000,000 last year. UBERTYLOANDRIVE WILL BE . CARRIED TO GREAT MIDDLE CLASS One Week More Remains to Subscripte Money for U. S. to Carry on War. BY JOHN EDWIN NUVIX Washington, June 8. One week from today America 'a second objective repiy to German aggression will be made. On that date the subscription list to the libVty loan bond issue will clone. During the coming seven days a drive, the like of which seldom has been witnessed i ntlie U. S. will be made to empty the "concealed socks", tomato can? and chests and. utensil of their . stored nurplns of gold. Officials make no secret of the .fact that they have workedand are working, to secure a record oversubscription for the initial loan. 'The more it is over-subscribed they ,point out, tne greater will be the, moral effect In Germany. ShouU ' the statistics conclusively prove tint the people of the U. S. who are old, or too young, called to "do their bit" in shedding their blood on the field of battle, are anxious and willing to do their part with the. money they have saved it mast have a vital impressive effect on the German poople ns a whole treasury officials said today. The treasury department chiefs decline to give out any figures at the present time, which would show the total subscriptions to date. This, however, is not done to deceive the people. Many communities have withheld their figures in an effort to bring their total far above the quotu which had been set up by Secretary McAdoo as the likely figures for the community. This has ' made statistics here available, far from accurate and consequently It wi'l not be, possible to give any definite figures until the subscriptions close on June 15. Tins coming week is to he devoted more than ever to getting popular subscriptions from the people who cannot speak in thousands of dollars, BaaBBjaaaaa. St. Louis, June 8. The nine-hour Visit of Secretary of the Treasury .McAdoo was worth $2,000,000 to tbe local liberty loan campaign according to local bankers. It was estimated todav the sale bond:-, yesterday reached this figure as a direct reauk of the secretary's visit. St. Lottis expects to buy $40,000,000 of liberty bonds. rJiirtnnnti. June 8. Having pass- ' d the nnota of $.17, 170,000 of lib erty bonds, Cincinnati lon.iy n working furiously to reach the $25,-000,000 mark, beiore the campaign cjoses. Denver, Colo-. June 8. .million and a ouarter more for the liberty loan in Denver's aim. The latest tovl show Denver's iiubi'cription of $8,844,000. To make a total of $14 000.000 for the state Denver . ..!... n mill IWHI was Burposeo. io riu-- . Chicago. June 8. Patriotic pock- etbooks have cut away the branches and the trunk and now hewing fit the roots of the $;i25.0o.tioo lil- ertV bond tree alloted the Chicago district. A $1,000,000 subscription by the 8tudebaker corporation and $1.04T,00 subscrijtion by 3.ir.; in- dlvldtia'a sharpened thp Chicago ax yesterday. Policemen on the south-. wMt aide subscribed 5.000. ' " ' : - Cclura'bus, June 8.-AlnpupU Coluni'ms today has exceeded its qnota of liberty ; ,ixd salt the Mtnnafarn will ho1 1 OW Inlh fl "tuilUT the next seven days with the tloa of msklng the snhsiriptlou to- Ul I6.600.00U., arms and hands. Ushouldnaiur.il- ' J v help to whiten, soften, fieshen "iMtsbarg. June S. More than br,n? out tue ro8PS an(1 (i.auty $53,000,000 haa been nubwrihed to(of any pkn It i!t tru,y m,irvf loiis ilia iihrtY loan In the Pittsburg i fn ninni. rnm-h tA hnrf dtetr't. it was learneu. iwu- " lkiir of the campaign here, th allotment recently was increased to f 59.000.000. Th succeed ' of 2.000 lusursnc agents wbo save been selltef . has not ben announced. . . out in spring wheat this WILL IIAVK BAKUKCl'E Columbus, Jiuie 8. A barbecue will repluce the Friendship Supper of former years which brought the Hoys' and Girls' congress of the Ohio Sunday School association together the day before the . annual convention, scheduled this year for June 27-2!) at Marion. STATU WON'T HI V LAM) Columbus. June 8. The state emergency board has just refused toSUamer they could not distinguish buy 35 acres directly east of the 1 ,1Pr nan,p- state fair grounds for $230,000, as recommended by the state agricultural board. EXTRA JUROR CHOSE TO TRY THIS WOMAN San Franetaco, O., June 8. The infrnctton of evidence nR the trial of Mrs. Kena Mooney for alleged mufder growing out of a bomb explosion during the preparedness day parade last July, will begin Monday. A thirteenth juror to sit as alternate in case of incapacity of any of the regular panel, was to he selected today. The state charges Mrs. Mooney entered into a conspiracy with four others to stop the parade. ITALIANS DENY AUSTRIAN TALE OF BIG LOSSES Washington, June 8. Official denial whs received today to the claim of (he Austriau war office dial 127,000 Italian soldieni hn been captured since May 111. TOO OLD, II K Sl'K'IDKS Cleveland, June 8.- Despondent because he would not be acceptfd in the army because of his age, Valentine 1'itls, 52 Klyria committed suicide on the public square this morning by swallowing poison. . . . . . . t . t . . k A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A A Tl TTT TTT I , - I 'I I TTTTTTTTTt ! GIRLS! MAKE A BEAUTY LOTION WITH LEMONS At the cost of a small jar of ordinary cold cream one can prepare 'a full quarter pint of the most wonderful lemon skin softener and corn- i rilexion hp.iut ifli-r. hv Kmiperlnr thp juro of twn frpsn Pmon!, )nU, a )l0ttie containing three ounces of orchnrcl white. (..UP si)0uld be taken to strain the iru a filP cf)th R0 no pn,nn pu)p pp(;, ln thP, lhi(, Io1on wl kepp frPsh for nlont. Kvprv wo. ,nan ,noW!, tiat emon juice Is used fo ,Parn nn(1 rf.n,0ve such blemish- M f,P,.kles, sallowness and tac nn.lia the Ideal skin softener . smootheiier and beautifier. , Jll(!t try lt! Get thre ounces of orfnanj white at any pharmacv jmd wo iemong Tom the rocPr ani Vo ,,n u nnartr ninr nf 11,1a inten-jBweetly fragrant lemon lotion and masBaffe jt daily Into the face. neck. ' I,.-C-vJ MA2R BALSAM MM Help tsrMUtMndruL Far SmMu Coir, tj Baatrty bCnr arKarfarf Hu.l THREE ARE DROWNED AS SKIFF OVERTURNS Kast Liverpool- June 8. Search was being made today in the Ohio river for the bodies of John Davl. son, 30, his wife, Elizabeth, 24, and Davison's fathcfr-in-law, frank Grimm, who were drowned last night when 'a- skiff In-which they v:re returning from liabbs Island struck n opp stretched across the water and capsized. SURVIVORS IN BOATS SHELLED BY SUBMARINE V Unknown U. S. Ship is Torpe doed and Sunk in English Channel, Sailors Report. Paris, June X. An unknown Am erican ship has been sunk by a Ger man submarine in the English channel. Doats containing survivors were shelled and sunk. News of the destruction of .the ship and the subsequent attack upon the survivors was received at a French port today from survivors of the French sailing ship Jeannie Cos- dann,er. The French sailors were in small bouts, their own ship having been sunk by a U-b6at, when they wit nessed the torpedoing of the Ameri can vessel. lioth ships were sunk on May 31. The French sailors suffered great hardships but finally managed to reach Havre. They said they were so lar (sl ,rom lne American BAKER SELECTS ANOHIOCITY Washington, Juno 8. Chllllcothe Ohio, and Petersburg, Virginia, were todav selected bv Secretary of War Batfer as" places of '' eaafonVieal-?ff the new United States army. DENTIST WOULD SAVE : MANY REJECTED ONES (ii-veiand, June 8. Ten per cent of the men rejected for military service could be reclaimed ' with proper dentistry. That is the claim of Dr. West on' A. I'rice, Cleveland one of the tour 'dentists acting for the council of national defense, made fore the sixtieth annual convention of the Ohio dentists In session here today. He said the government was planning to recruit an army of fi,-000 dentists to care for the teeth of the soldiers and sailors. Many of the dentistry colleges will turn their gradua'es over to Uncle Sam. Tonijiit a patriotic banquet will b held at the Statler and an army officer will talk. SEEK BOND BUYERS AMONG MIDDLE CLASS Cleveland, June 8. The very "rich and the workingman have done fuclr bit in the purchase of liberty bonds in Cleveland. The well off class, the middle portion, has not. Twenty-thousand volunteers were called upon today to act as salesmen, and interest this class and sell the remaining $10,000,000 of Cleveland's $45,-fiiio.ooo quota of bonds. There remain eight days in which to turn the trick. As an example of how the workingman has rallied to the call it was announced today that one-third of the street car conductors and mo-tormen in Cleveland have bought bonds. STl 1 KB WII-'K'S MOITU WITH ItAtiS AMI LF.I T Columbus. June 8. After tying his ife to a bedpost and stuffing her mouth with rags, George V. Hardin, aecording to his wife, went to tho union station to hoard a tr.iin. This is the gist of testimony given by Mrs. Hardman in municipal court. The Ju,,RC tnpn KaVP 'itnl,nan a suspended workhouse sentence. t'olumbu"!. June 8. -Among the placards being distributed about the tate and placed in street cars by ,h nio n,' Feneration are: "Wal.f has the saloon il e: done to What has the saloon don to you? "We will post 5.011ft of these placards," naid James L. White, nt Columbus, chairman of the federation "The placards will be changed every few dayg and the series kept ported untll November 6, when we hope Ohio will go dry. Thit starts the $100,000. The Uearn company men's division. A state headquar-publiclty campaign." manufactured inanitions. '.-, ., ters will be established in Columbus. BR0 URi UK 1IVE . MlANS Accesses by rman Ooun- Fdllownitll ter Attic!::. London,; Jun? ; f-The British drlvo In Belgium Seontlnued today the crater of wba ate ridge, laoutrt ami German' sol. with demon-like f, All England 18 i . for Field Marshal 02 thrills wlth,v pride that thu British at is once Wysch- iA'press, British . a' are V If 4 fighting 'tig with praise b army, and ?r the news till pressng r i 'ta of the first j)ew offensive onward. . Tho concrete day's fightlngin i. 1 An advaoeei "jfrom one to three mllea along iae mile, front, 'j,- the famous stretched into een Ypres and 2 Destruction ( German salient' thi. the British line be' Armetit!erea. J , t ; ' 3 -Capture qf.'m "e than 5,000 German prisoner , . i ?v 4 Occupation tr ihe British of the villages of; Wytt itaete, Messln-es and Oosttavorne.j s and several pieces of Woodland. ,( 5 German press, t against the British garrison . in Yyr& relieved. 6 OpenB tbe'wa,vIor tho 'first 'deps in nn enclrcli g movement against the . great rC rmftn base of Lille. K ' After thp British l id swept for- ward, and occupied t e German po sitions, the German g ,118 opened and , i . . i. V nti.. u 0 nomuurueu iu ihjw s niiinn nuiu with great violence. 'Afterwards the Ceriums- made v counter attacks against the gouthert end of the British line fronjft. direction of I'logsteert wood, V' " they broke down under the- ga; g fire of the Kngllsh batteries n .the machine guns. : -f Practically all the -edit for the big victory goes ,t- the British themselves, although fcey received some assistance fro lie Belgians In the, aitllery stage the action, ; iiispatches front ;i front- ajr tnat the fighting wh ollowed the long and furious D i- bombardment was the,, mos- ' r ' ot the war. Mlneau T?eu more than twd yt met ware net off slmultr v- miles away, so great waa tne tores of the detonation that the ground rocked like an earthqunk of earth ind uprooted trees J Were thrown down for miles. The Germans lost heavily. All the German troops in trenche above "the mines were blown to bits. One million pounds of high explosives were detonated. By ihd oreuing of this arlve the allies offensive on the western front enters a new phnRe. The Ger- nii'ii lines are being pounded at three separate points; In Belgium, on the Atlas front, and along the AiBiie iver-Champagne line. FAMILY IS MURDERED AND HOME IS BURNED Klemlngton, N. J., June 8. Grue some evidence of a brutal triple mur der was discovered early today by residents living on the outskirts of this community'' when the charred bodiefl of Wm. Queen, well known tanner, his wife and grown daughter, were taken from the ruins of their h'-mo which had beep destroy- d by fire. Neighbors were attracted to the Queen homestead by a glare of light against the sky, but when help ar- ived It was too late to save the family. The condition or the bodies, when recovered, proved to local authorities that the family had been murdered and the home aubseuuently set afire and destroyed. No reason Is known for the mur der. The Queens enjoyed a wide ac- inaintance and had no known ene mies. IXSI'KtT OHIO FMH'K .MILLS Columbus. June 8. More than 2n men .whose services have been loaned without expense to the state by lire insurance companies, today are inspecting Ohio's flour mills. The .late has been divided into 22 districts for this purpose. The men, who will work under tho direction of s;t -. Flrn Mirlml Fleming, have been sworn . In as deputy state fire.ering together representatives or an marshals. They will continue in- the local women's organizations, spections throughout the war. I This may extend to a ward organ- Various factories and plants will izatlon throughout the state ,al-be thoroughly inspected. Reports .though the possibility was raised to-will be made dally to Fleming and day of Ohio confining its organlza-wlll form & basis for improving con- lions to county units, dltloim of property nd methods or i There will be subdivisions to have industrial operation with a view to chare of departments for the minimising fire hazards. - branches of work: Organization, finance, registration for service, home MDIUV " ' 'propaganda, protection for women IHFQ IN RIP FIRF ' workers, health and welfare of chlld-LvuLO 111 D1U riALjr(.n mjjoai Hertlon. courses of in Columbus, Jane 8. -The four story J. C. Hearn machine works was gutted by fire today, and flames were spread t-o. adjacent buildings and lumber yards, causing a loss of OHIO NEWS Newark, i O., June : 8. Several thousand delegates of , the United Commercial Travelers are here for the annual- convention which opened this morning with an address of welcome from Mayor 'Bigbee. A (barbecue at Buckeye Lake this afternoon was a feature of the day. Marion A big oil strike has been made on the Frank Uls farm. Oil was struck at a depth of 2.G95 feet. Youngstown: A new steel plant for the manufacture of 84-inch plate will be erected at a cost of $2,-000,000 it was announced today by James C. Campbell, president of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. The new mill will employ 500 men. VOLCANOBURNS SAN SALVADOR CONSUL CABLES Washington, June 8. Sari Salvador was visited today by an earthquake which Was accompanied by volcanic eruptions. Consul Long cabled the state department today that the tremors lasted for over two hours. In the midst of the tremors tho volcano of Mt. Quet.altepenue went .into eruptions. The tire and smoke dropped all over the city, and one portion of the business section was burned. While the American legation was ruined, the records were saved. SEVERE EARTHQUAKE IS RECORDED TODAY Washington, June 8. A umiMU-ally severe earthquake was recorded on the Georgetown University seismograph last night, It was announced today. Tho tremors began at 7:57 o'clock and continued until 9:25 o'clock, The maximum dlstur. bAnce wan recorded at 8:1 r.. The estimated ' distance from Washington wis 2,000 miles. 1 1, i- ..' BADLY DAMAGED Marlon, Ohio, June 8. Reports from the Scioto valley from Screen-camp to Agosta, state that hundreds of acres of crops were destroyed by storms, today. OHIO WOMEN PLAN WAR REGISTRATION Columbus, June 8. Ohio women are to be mobilized tor war time service by an Immediate consolidation oT the efrorts of every women's organization in Ohio under the direction of the women's committee of Hie 'Council for National Defense, Ohio division, formation of which was begun here today. Ily some plan, there is to Im complete registration of Ohio women; an eniollment similar to the registration Tuesday of the fighting youth of the state. This registration is to Indicate the training of each woman and the part she can play in war time work. The first great outstanding problem the women will approach will be that of food conservation and home thrift. Representatives or twenty-seven Ohio iirgiiniyali.iim of women have been asked to join in the session here which is the first formal step in coordinating women's activities in thi.J state under direct instructions from the council of national defense nt Washington. It Is contemplated, under the national council's program, thai the state division organize as a committee and name a chairman for each city and town. These local chairmen are to form citv and town committees by gath- (relief, allieri relief, production, con- 'servation and thrift, educational struction and conservation of the moral and spiritual forces of the na tlon. It Is not unlikely the Ohio branch. Council for National Defense, will be asked to turn over a share of emer- eencv annronrlatlon funds to the wo- SCiOTOfROPS MAJOR GENERAL PERSHING SAFELY (. IN ENGLAND; ARRIVAL PUTS LAST I BRANCH OF SERVICE INTO THE WAR Commander of U. S. Expeditionary Force Will Proceed at Once to France to Plan Training Camps for Amwican Soldiers. vl London, June 8. General John J. Pershing, commander of the U. S. expeditionary forces in Fiance, has arrived at an English port. General Pershing was accompanied by his staff. it la believed that the trip was without incident and that no submarines were sighted. NewH of the safe arrival of General Pershing was given out official ly. General Pershing was in good health and tine spirits. When told that the news of his departure from tho U. S. had been suppressed- ho successfully, he expressed great sur- nrlse. . "1 didn't, expect that,1' -said, tho American soldier. .General Pershing's ship was escorted through the danger zone by three U. S. destroyers. The American commander was officially welcomed by Ilar Admiral Stilenian, Lieutenant Sir .'Pit cairn Campbell and the lord mayor of Liverpool. As the party stood upon the deck of the ship, the. band played the American national anthem, and af terward "God Save the King." All presunt stood nt salute until the band ceased. Included In the Pershing party were detachments of engineers and nurse's. They aald that a aqundron of destroyers Joined the American convoy about 100' miles off (he Irish coast. "We are glnd to be the standard bearers of our country In this 'mighty war for civilization," General Rerhingjta. Twl&uLui Kasliuk soil and receive such a' welcome' is significant.' We appreciate It very deeply. We expect to be helping with our par(, soon; Wo will have a large part on the western froijt." During the voyage a concert was given on hhip board at which Gener-il Pershlpg made an address. Washington, June "Illnck Jack" Pershing, soldier par excellence and Major General of the U. S. regular army, is in F.ngluttd. liable advices announcing his arrival at. n Urillsh port reached Tiere today. With the sense of gratililatlon which was expressed by olHeialdom generally over his safe arrival, came a realization that nt last the entire U. S. service is In the war. From now on every branch of the service, will proceed to France by selected routes. Pershing's initial omtnand will he made.up of regulars and marines. Other divisions, comprising such additional regulars is can be spared anil selected nulla of the national guard which saw service on the Mexican border will take their places from lime to lime on the line. Later on these forces will bo followed by Ihe new auuy tj be' made up or tno selective conscripted -.roups, who will be taken from the noie than lU.OOO.l'Oit men who reg-stered last 1 uesday. The Fr.-r,,-!; :t:!:islon told the President, and his cabinet and the war college that, what was needed most on the west, front was men. Two classes of organizations were demandedrailroad men to take over the transportation system and re build and reorganize the railroads if France, nnd fighting men to re-nlace the exhausted French sellers ilong the wide battle front. i'he request was not allowed to go unheeded. Pershing and his t loons were Immediately put under orders and the war college working day and night, rushed along its plans to throw every fighting unit that could he spared across the Atlantic so that all the warring people- friend and enemy-might realize that the l S. intended carrying nut the 'Injunction of the president, and the utilizing of all the man power and the gold power of the country to secure the continuation of democracy. Naturally all plans for sending the troops to France will be shroud-ad in absolute secrecy. Secretary f War Itaker has pointed out the danger of speculation as to who is 'n go, or the way they are to go. There will he no announcement at my time of units that are going, although after certain troops arrive it s expected that the war department will from time to time authorize ipnouncetient o.f ttlir sne arrival. The only reports of the passage of General Tershing and his staff inn to the press associations by cable, these cables having been passed by the British censors. Official news of the arrival had ' not reached the war department up to o'clock and It was said that, while General Pershing undoubtedly would report his arrival in regular course of time, he had been given ' no orders to hurry any such report. "We took It as a matter of course that he would get through all right" said General Bliss, acting chief of staff. "I presume he will report la. his own good time." U.S. AVIATORS REACH FRANCE Washington, June 8. The " first regular American fighting force to-day was on French soil. It compile, ed 100 expert and prospective naval aviators, who are to cooperate with, the French navy in meeting the submarine peril off the French coast,' and also to aid the badly pressed American aviation section on ; the western battle front. '' These experts are all officers of the U. S. navy. They landed at a French port today and will proceed to get into active service Immediately. The expert aviators inclade among others, Lieut. Gratton O. Dichman. Lieut. Kenneth Whiting, and Lieuta. Grade Godfrey ' Oa Chavaller, and Virgil C. Griffith, a well as others who have already mad their mark in the U. S. naval aviation . service. , . SEE THE WOM KIDNAPPING CRY i Trafri of Captured Babe Sriii&f Numerous Women Into Cwh tody of Authorities. . ... mmmm m i Chicago, June H. "Scarfac' John Itiley, rcxrted the brains of the organized Rang of kidnappers that stole baby Lloyd Keeta at Spi Ingflehl, Mo., wan captured, today, in u garage at Austu, Ilb i( suburb of Chicago. ' I Springfield, Mo., June 8. Greene county officials, full cry upon the trail of tho kidnappers of "Buddy'' Kent, today gave a wholesale twist to the prime advantage of crime "Seek tli'; woman." i Seven women were In custody, be Ing hunted or under surveillance la the weird mystery that came with the ravaging of the little blue and - u ' ' -. crib in the Meadowmere bungalow, 'But the latest of these rounded up by the detectives under the direction of Prosecutor Paul O'Day, were Aline t'iersol and Mabel Pler-roI Zanrlper, sisters of "Doc" Claude Piersol, the confessed lieutenant of "Sc.-ir Face" Riley. They were taken into custody in Kansas City and today reports came to Springfield that both were being brought here. The handwriting of the Xanrlper woman Is said to be identical with the 'woman's handwriting in ihe first letter received by .1. Holland Keet, father of the stolen heir to a fortune. '.' Two women servants employed in the suburb of Meadowmere were to lie questioned by routity officials today It is reported that one of them had been nri intimate of the Riley eaiigsicrs. itoth are known to have made many trips "home" secretly, one of them to a town from which Keet inter received one ot the gang's letiers. , .. A woman already questioned by detectives is Mrs. W. R. Piersol, a mother of the Kansas City suspects and "Doc." The sleuths today were hunting the "sunbonnet woman." a typical female of the mountains, drab and pale.-yed, who first was seen wandering about Meadowmere thres days before the kidnapping. After "Bud-dv Keet disappeared, she disappeared, too. ... SLACKERTS SOUGHT AS SLAYER OF MAN . Cleveland, June 8. Police are on the bunt for a slacker and a sliyer today. The slacker and slayer 13 one man, an employe bf the Ohio Foundry Co., who enraged at the taunts of a fellow workirsn failure to repister stahbed him Jn the temple with a sharn file. The taunter, Charles. Bnttn. died Instants ly. . The slayer leaped thru a window and escaped. Batto leaves A wife and five ohildren. . ,.-.' 5