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The Indianapolis Star SHIP SINKS PROGRESS ALSO HON BOAT IN BRINGS THREAT IGHT GERMANY HAL HOUR DUEL TO ST QUENTIN 1 Great Increase to Allied Armies will Be Resulrtf ive Draft OUR ARMY GETS MOST GOES BACK TO 1916 TWO SHOTS HIT MARK ALL EYES ON OGH causing serious VAN NUYS IN SPEECH SCORES GOP CHIES strength of SCHOOL BOARD MAY START BOOK STORES to and Stewart i The twenty ninth shot hit her "Just for with high bow and had She fired in salvos twelve I Republican votes Of the Democratic votes seventeen were for the measures has Vote brazenly and un The at perl i WEATHER ORECAST rMR5 Shall we go back of of HOOSIERS HUN PRISONERS candi 7 CONTINUED ON VAGE NINE CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO CONTINUED ON PAGE OUR CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO AN men between 18 and 48 years of ae except thoee previously registered or now In service MUST register for the army ThtfTkday Spt 11 to be AH men between 18 and 48 years ef ago ffxoopt those previously registered or now jg eervfoe MUST register for the army Thuroday Sept 18 Havrincourt a little far per cent This be no dispute 7 7 twenty eighth shot from apparently hit her stern on the organizations 19 and 20 years old the ages of 32 and be the first called to i and near bora three feet sub tWQ Vi AJ? were and Revolt Stirs revolution spirit IN the by for of i ad and GOMPERS SAYS AMERICAN LABOR WILL SURELY STICK Treaties Negotiated by the Here at last when compelled to Rife Is rife In the Democratic State Chairman lays Hays New and Watson Hits Record and 36 the an by GRIP AND INLUENZA GAIN IN NEW YORK AND BOSTON Congestion at Regular Deposi tories Brines Proposal for Distributing Branches 0 2614 to he Berlin paid range found score the near St a rn an enemy on the starboard The submarine 48680 TO REGISTER IN CITY TOMORROW Maj Baltzell Expects 600000 to Be State Every thing in Readiness TURKS BULGARS NEAR CLASH ON SPOILS WAR PARIS Sept 10 (Hava Agency) There are three German lines of defense behind the Hindenburg line the flrat closely paralleling It and the othera providing for retreats ealong wide fronts according to an outline of the German defense sys tem printed by the Matin today The first line In the rear of the Hindenburg position according to the newspaper starts from the south of Lille and parallels the Hinden burg line at an average of from three to six miles The second comprises a line running from Lille to Metz the Intermediary points on the newspaper does not Indicate This line would be about 180 miles long inally the newspaper adds ther Is a fourtir retreat line on which i the Germans now are vigorously working It rune from Valenciennes twenty mllee west of Douai In a southeasterly direction to Glvet on the Meuse at the Belgian border The front thus Indicated extends for about sixty miles Ottoman Army Is Sent to Ally's Border Where Conflict Impends Britishers Especially Seek Citizen ship to Be Acquired Under Stars and Stripes Next Move Now That Hindenburg Defenses Have Been Reached Holds Chief Interest Statement on Eve of Registration Drive Proves Republican Loyalty in Congress British Improve Positions South west of Cambrai and Re pulse Counter Attacks by Germans American Gunners Get Range and Clever Maneuvering Defeats Sea Wolf Enemy Vanishes in Terrific Ex plosion and Dense Curl of Smoke Off Atlantic Coast Captain Reports sum to the depart Holds Democratic Slogan Kept Us Out of Aid and Com fort to Enemy AMERICAN SHIP SUNK 400 MILES RANCE which seemed alm and range marine saw our hers she hauled that time she the of range our the after gun German Said to Have Triple Line of Defense Captain of Hoosier Battery Ends Dispute Over irst Shot 300000 ALIENS IN AMERICA TO naval officials that the raiders operat ing on this aide of the Atlantic are con verted merchantmen of the Deutsch land type Officer Who Gave Command to ire Says Sergt Alex Arch of South Bend Sent Shell on its Way WEDNESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 11 populace are not satisfied with the sit uation one right Is the about voters of Indiana is party is the war that the Demo deserves neither for the prosecu Our two United GO KEYNOTE SOUNDED CIVES PARTY'S RECORD VOL 16 NO 98 Jan 18 1908 at portofflee Indiana polls Ind under the act of March 3 1879 NEW S'ORK Sept Naval offi cials said today that 1109 cases of grip had been reported among the men of the irst Naval District since Aug 28 Thirty six of these cases devel oped into pneumonia twenty men died Every effort w'as being made by naval physicians the officials said to stop the spread of the disease and the measures were apparently meeting with sij cress Today the radio school at Cambridge was placed under quarantine and all instruction was suspended Command ing Officer Nathaniel Ayers said a number of the men had heavy colds such as had been expected with the first change in temperature from sum mer to fall weather Reports that the disease prevalent among the naval men was Spanish in fluenza was denied at the headquarters of the irst Naval District of Bennington flcatlon of the a few vote Mas: Clement 10758 Howe 8972 Aug 24 4140 men attaining the age of 21 since June 5 filled out registration cards Thus far 279619 men have registered in this state Maj Baltzell estimates inai aoout oouwv men will register morrow which will bring the total yona 600000 disease Dr cloudy proba bly in north orecast for Tn dianapolis arvl vicin ity for Wednesday and Thursday: Partly cloudy Wednesday and Thurs day of health be be most serl kent Isolated The disease is con submarine shrapnel were near to us some of the on our dock amidships course frequently upset the As soon as the sub range was equal to away from us Up to had been closing on us PARIS Sept 10 The allies now are al most back to the lines they occupied ba v' fore the German offensive after six weeks of unbroken victory and the war has en tered a period not of calrp but of pre caution with a promise of just as won derful things to follow The dry and tl'e whole fine weather which helped Marshal och to turn the tables on the Germans so fast has ended and a wet stormy speii nas sei in The fighting yesterday soutn the three WASHINGTON Kept Wartime prohibition moved a step nearer to day when the House agricultural com mittee decided to report favorably the food production bill Including the amendment added by the Senate mak ing prohibition effective July 1 1919 The committee inserted a provision permitting the importation of Italian wine until May 1 1919 as requested yesterday by the Italian government through the State Department As passed by the Senate the bill would stop Importation Immediately Senate amendments to appropriation items In the bill were disapproved by the commitee Prohibition Readers In Congress expect the House to follow the committee's recommendation and send the measure to conference with no issue on the rider Senator Sheppard of Texas said later there would Lje no opposition to the amendment permitting importation wines until May 1 ha amendment isolated towns rnisslna Darling 80 few will the theirs for the aklnc daily is being brought nearer in thia general movement which apparently has as its ultimate objective th re capture of Lille i ield Marshal Haig In an order of the day declares that the dark days have passed never to return again Ho says that in four weeks the British troops have made 75000 Germans pris uiici aiw lanen ji ineir bUHb WITH THE BRITISH ARMY RANCE Sept (4 m) (By Associated Press) Although the sistance from enemy rear guards increased all along the line especially in the center areas where a much greater volume of machine gun artillery fire is being encountered the British troops have made further prog ress Rain has fallen Incessantly and the battle field in many places now Is covered with soft mud and the shell craters arc filled with ooze which makes rapid progress difficult Generally the armies are still at a pause and what forward movements have been carried out have been more in the nature of line straightening and for the suppression of active German positions Epehy wood has been the scene of hard fighting The British attacked it today but details are lacking The line northeast and southeast of Heshecourt east of Roisel has been advanced by Australian troops In A driving storm and posts have been es tablished well to the eastward of the former front In Hhe same general lo cality the British forward movement continues today Better Troops Opposed The machine gunners the Germane have thrown out are from fresh divi sions They are holding out a little better than the troops they relieved who had become so fatigued or die heartened that some of them during recent days surrendered without firing a shot when they saw the British ad vancing The Germans delivered a number of counter strokes but all except one broke clown In one attack the Ger mans penetrated the forward British po sitions but the line was immediately re stored without much difficulty HetT? artillery firing is reported especially from the German big guns in the valley 'a of the River Scarpe British troops now have drawn their lines closer about the coal center of Lens ALLIANCE Neb Sept Twelve people were killed and eighteen injured when Burlington train No 43 west bound was wrecked seven miles west of here this afternoon The passenger rrn head on Into a work train tele scoping the first two rars of the pas senger train All of the dead and in jured were In the second coach Misunderstanding on account of the change In time between Mountain and Central time Is ascribed as the cause of the wreck A bend In the track ob structed the view of both train crews BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The critical military position of the Germans from the region west of Cam brai southward to the St Gobain massif and around this strong bastion eastward to the territory north end northeast of Soissons continues to hold the eyes of the world The heavy rains of the past few days have' turned lowlands throughout the fighting zone into quagmires but on those sectors of the high ground be tween Cambrai and Soissons the storms have not kept the British and rench armies from moving forward nor have they served to lessen the the resistance Near Gouzeaucourt and th British have nressed on ther toward Cambrai in the former re gion after having put down counter attacks by the Germans who endeav ored to reclaim the high ground won by the British in Sunday's fighting Near to Both Cities To the south the rench rrom the district w'est ot St Quentin southward to the western side of the St Gobain forest have pushed eastward toward the Oise River which they are virtually upon all along this front with their naiiKS now resting dangerously both St Quentin and I a ere Quentin now stands only a little more i than three miles away while Laere is so closely encroached upon from the west and outflanked from the north that seemlrgly it soon must fall The maneuvers of the rench have added materially to their program of turning the St Gobain forest from the west and also the capture of St Quen i irrencti ana Amer rna who are fighting shoulder to snoulder northeast of Soissons continue to successfully a corelated movement having the conquest of the St Gobain in view and also the outflanking of the German positing to the east In their latest endeavors the ranco American forces have made some slight progress in the face of the extremely stubborn resistance of the enemy Like wise in the sector east cf "oissons the rrencn ana Americans have gamed dltlonal ground between the Veale Alsne Rivers Close to Armentleret ar to the north the British now nearly upon Armentleres that a more strides forward seemingly place them in a position to make one time cotton spinning center Eauassee also LONDON Sept 10 delay In entering the war was defended by Samuel Gompers head of the American ederation of Tabor In an address at the American Luncheon Club today Mr Gompers said he was one of those who was impatient! during the period while America was maintaining neutral ity but that he had found that wisdom of the President of the United States far outbalanced the judgment of all Mr Gompers pledged American labor to stick through the war to a victorious end The American workers he de clared had no Illusions regarding the conflict They knew' what the United States and the allies were fighting for The workers of America did not only talk freedom Mr Gompers pointed out but they had lived it He had visited Germany several times he added and had never heard more tunes sung to freedom In any other country But he said it and practicing it are two different Mr Gompers declared that only men who were willing to make sacrifices supreme sacrifices knew what freedom or liberty meant He quoted the phrase vigilance Is the price of lib and added that men who were unwilling to ngnt ror nneny were deserving of it m' unv i I duct the sales of books and i was discovered nn thn in 2 zu nnu niiifw ui puuiuni inc near the schools of the hesitancy of buying sufficient PROHI RIDER PERMITS ITALIAN WINES IMPORT United Stales Weather Bureau Special tu jHrt for 'J he Indianapolis Star ALMANAC THE DAY rises at seta at 7:01 I for a Thursday: a 6 TWELVE DIE IN NEBRASKA WRECK 18 ARE INJURED tele as New and and Dr tlon iniits taking over of the railroads ana express companies and other util ities as a matter of war expediency Will RflVS noUrmnl cay vz4ic'1 vuuii Hid ii ana self constituted exponent of simon pure Americanism repeatedly refers to the era of "Bolshevik which he predicts will follow the war as the re th58e radical war adopted by the administration at Washington Same During Civil War "Similar conditions and similar leg islation marked the progress of the civil war This is what Governor Mor ton said at that time: politicians seem to'ignore the fact that there is a vast difference between war and peace and Insist that war shall be carried on just as we carry on peace They do not comprehend that war froni Its very nature Involves the exercise of powers which in times of peace are unneces sary andare occurs to us that a quiet hour in the library with the published works of Indiana's greatest war Governor might be more conductive to the war than a constant flitting from state to state in a purely partisan ambition to build up political machines "The constructive critic was abroad In 18ti4 We have him with us today I quote from Senator Harry New at the late Republican convention who read from manuscript the following choice bit of constructive criticism: forget not one other thing when it comes to dictating the peace that is to follow we mean that the terms shall be as nearly commensurate with the 'aw ful sacrifices we have been forced to suffer as resolute men can make them The making of them must not be left to the dreamers the social upllfters the pacifists and Bolshevlkls who are now undoubtedly' so much in evidence and who appears so prominently among the Quotes Governor Morton "It does not take the erudition of a 'Philadelphia whether the above criticism signed by the senior senator to out its errors in order that they may be or was intented as a de nunciation which seeks to bring the government into contempt and render it odious to the The keen in sight and unswerving loyalty of Gov ernor Morton has classified our con structive critics for us In these trying days of 1918 Morton's criticism of Democrats who did not support the administration and stand by the Pres ident was as follows: patriots thought only to save their country these men thought only to save their wander what Governor Morton would have thought of the efforts of a national chairman whoralses 11500 000 in the shadow of the dome of the capital at Washington as a campaign fund to be used through the different avenues with which that chairman is so centered of St height vital restated the al Ourmut vy Rrtlfrv is becoming active from Arras to Rhelms Indicating that Geo Ludendorff fears no further removal will be forced upon him sil No Respite for Huns Military critics here are attempting to guess what Marshal och will 4s next Critics credited with having side information are displaying mnoh V1 ingenuity and variety in their desert tions of the coming moves on the ferenk parts of the front but the belief 9 is fixed and conRdent thrangfappt rr rance that there Is Uttlp danger ok Gen Ludendorff being allowed to bt to determine was de The Bulgarian army and among the civilian population according to reports The Bulgarians want more territory and are said to be determined to secure all of Servhi and oven a portion of Austria They already have secured a strip off northern Turkey including one half of the 'city of Adrianople Another causa for dissension is the fart that when Bulgaria was awarded the Dobrudja in the Roumanian peace treaty dictated by Germany Turkey de manded the cession of that portion of I Its northern territory that had prevl ously been given Bulgaria as a reward for entering the war on the side of thecentral powers The recent resignation of Premier Radoslav of Bulgaria Is said to have been caused by his inability to secure more territory and his unwillingness to betray the central powers The new premier Mallnoff Is believed here to bea figurehead who will accept the dicta 8TA CORRESPONDENCE WASHINGTON Sept The fight ing strength of the allied armies will be increased by at 300000 men by the treaties which have been or are being negotiated for drafting Aliens resident in the United States All these men will be in the service of this or a co belligerent country before the end of the year Subjects of Great Britain and Cankda who are) within the military agesand are eligible for service will enter the British or Canadian armies or will go to a cantonment in America not later than Oct 12 for as is generally known the treaties between England Canada rand the United States have been ratified by the United States Senate Subjects of Italy and Greece will follow their British and Canadian brothers shortly Treaties with these countries have been signed and tu become effective need 4 only ratification by the Senate The treaty between rance and this country is nearing completion It is doubtful whether treaties with other co bel ligerent nations will be projected be cause of the small number of availables involved Servia has only 2000 subjects in this country while Belgian citizens number only 3000 The twenty odd countries of Central and South America nave registered only 5000 men One Alien in Nine Wip Of the 10000000 men who were reg istered June 5 1917 1243000 were aliens It is presumed that approxi mately the same proportion of one in eight will be revealed by a study of the records of the 13000 u00 men within the extended military ages who will be reg istered Thursday In other words 1 600000 of the new registrants will be aliens Thus it is estimated that one in nine of the 2843000 registered aliens will enter the military service The aliens who registered a year ago were divided into three groups co belliger ents neutrals and enemy and allied enemy Statistics' which have been compiled in the last year show that of the 1248000 registrants 772000 were co belllgerents 148000 neutrals and 838000 enemy and allied enemy aliens It Is generally believed that the same proportions will be maintained in this registration The legislative and executive branches of the government always recognized that the class made up of enemy and allied enemy aliens should be excluded from military obligations No country can make soldiers from such material There has been a square division of opinion however between the two branches of the government on tne treatment to be accorded to subjects of neutral and co belligerent countries The legislative branch has felt that perhaps subjects of neutral nations should not be compelled to fight but that if they declined to enter the armed forces of the land of their adop tion they should be expelled from the country and denied the right to ever re turn The legislative branch also has held that the subjects of co belligerent certainly unless some treaties stood in the way should be forced to fight for the common cause The lead ers have been firm in their stand that the accident of residence should not excuse them from their just obligations End Delay The Department of State has taken the contrary position that neutrals should neither be called upon to fight nor be exposed to pressure designed to induce them to fight urther it has been held that co belligerent subjects shoula be taken Into our army only after specific authorization by treaty with the country involved This conflict of opin ion delayed action for nearly a year and a half a delay broken only by the signing of the so called between Great Britain Canada and the United States last June Secretary Lansing vbegan negotiating with the co belligerent nations more than a year ago So much time was wasted in conducting the negotiations that leaders in Congress were at the point several times of taking matters into their own hands Months ago the House adopted a resolution to expel! aliens who refused to bear arrrus for America from the country but the reso lution was never allowed to see the light of day In the Senate Even when the man power bill was before Congress a couple of weeks ago leaders in the House attempted to attach an amend: mem lu ii iu uraii an aliens tempt was unsuccessful British Get 42000 'But the time has come Wnost of the aliens will be do their share in prosecuting the war to a successful conclusion Treaties have been completed with four of the prin cipal nations and it is said that the treaty with rance is about to be con sumated Of all the co bwlgerent sub jects in this country from England Scotland Wales and Canada more than 47 coming from Canada alone Men born in Ireland Australia and other parts of the Brit ish Empire where conscription is not in force do not come within the pro visions of the treaty recently negotiated and hence are not included in this compilation or the paet year and more the British government has been conducting an active recruiting cam paign among its subjects in America Up to Sept 1 this campaign has yielded a total of 42577 volunteers These vol unteers were of all ages from 18 to 45 years the British recruiting limits but enough of them were between 21 and 81 years materially to reduce the 84000 total The other three countries with which alien draft treaties have been or are about to be negotiated had many sub jects register a year ago Greek regis trants totaled 68000 Italian registrants 245000 and rench registrants 3500 All five treaties taken together conse quently will account for 400000 men be tween 21 and 31 years pr more than half of all the co belligerents In the country within the ages first stipulated Of the remaining 375000 some 275000 are Russians and to say the least It would seem to be somewhat difficult to negotiate a treaty with Russia today It it expected that the same proportion in respect to countries of origin will againprevail when the 13000 000 men regis ter Thursday The situation which may bt expected under the new draft may be easily and fairly accurately fore catted by doubling the figures already known by Gen office The time is now at hand when the subjects of England and Canada must MONTPELIER Vt Sept Perci val Clement of Rutland was nom inated for Governor by the Republicans in today's primaries according to press returns tonight He is president of the Vermont Local Option League and made his fight as an opponent of rati fication of the constitutional prohlbl on amendment i otner dates for the nomination Judge Charles Darling of Burlington and former 'rank llowe advocated ratl Wlth the Chairman Edmund Wasmuth of the Republican state committee read a statement at a meeting of representa tive Republicans at the Severin Hotel yesterday afternoon that is to stand as the party organization In the present campaign The meeting was held for the purpose of instructing the committees that will asist the county organizations this week in the three day registration drive starting this morning It was one of the best organization meetings held by the Republicans thia year Henley secretary of the committee explained the plan of regis tration and urged that every effort be made to register the votes The state commitee is sending two men to every county Some counties have canceled the arrangements for registration Thursday lest zthey conflict with the registration of the draft men The dates for the party registration were made prior to the announcement of the War Department that the registration under the new draft law will be made Thurs viia11 ii Hii wsmiirn coiri tHA iPAmv I licans will make plans this week for participation In the fourth Liberty Loan drive expect the activity of every Re said he is no time for a timid Republicanism We must pro claim our party loyalty and as a party we must point proudly to what we have done and are now doing and herald in advance our purposes for the fu ture Politics Not Adjourned He said the Republican party has been the greatest force in the govern ment for fifty years and it now seeks to use Its force in defense of the na tion and for care and protection of Its Industrial life He declared that tics i8 not but Is given free rein by the Democrats and is Running riot throughout the country today vvmufh continued Chairman Wasmuth we have sustained the gov ernment loyally in Congress We have had desire to compare the records There would have been no necessity for such comparison except for these vicious charges made against the Re pubhean party and for the cry from the Democratic organizations that in order to Stand by the you niust for Democratic congressmen nnedUbvS7h Here is: the recorl com curity Natlonal Se" 'Prior to the declaration of war there were six measures of preparedness upon which the league based its meas support of the government We know now how important these meas ures were There were eleven Demo' cratlc representatives from Indiana at that time and two Republicans On these measures there were cast there fore sixty six Democratic and twelve AW 1 I I I A BOSTON Mans Sept The out break of Influenza in this city which started during the last week of August Is assuming larger proportions accord ing to Dr John Hitchcock of the state board of health Many of the cases are developing into pneumonia In warning the public to take every precaution agamf'C tne Hitchcock said: stale department lleves the outbreak may ous patienis should lie to protect others WASHINGTON Sept Destruc tion of an enemy submarine Sept 3 off the Atlantic coast by gun tire from the American steamer rank IL Buck was reported to the Navy Department today by the master of the stbamer He said that two shots were observed to hit the submersible which sank after a The submarine the captain opened fire on the steamer at of 1400 yards but when it 1 after an Interchange of three shotsthat It was outranged by 600000 48680 Local Eligibles In Indianapolis Maj Baltzell esti mates that 48680 will register tomor row The three previous registrations in the city have totaled 33374 If regis tration totals tomorrow equal the esti mates the total of all registrations in Indianapolis will exceed 80000 Registration places will be open from 7 a until 9 and it is expected that the clerks will work all night in getting the reports ready to forward to the conscription office on the following day More than 800 clerks will be re quired to assist chief registrars in Ma rion County There are 165 precincts in Marion County and five registrars and assistants will be required In each precinct Maj Baltzell said that possi bly some of the men enlisted in limited service will be utilized to help in the registration Prominent Men to Sign Many men prominent in the city and state will register tomorrow oley chairman of the State Council of Defense will teach his forty sixth birthday Sept 14 and comes within the law by just two days I Lewis chairman of the Indiana Public Service Commission comes under the terms of the selective service act by about five months as he lacks just a few months of being 46 William A Roach sec retary of state is 43 years old Other men who will register but who are not near the age limit are Mayor Jewett of Indianapolis Paul Haynes of the Indiana Public Service Commis sion Carl Moto secretary of the commission Pliny Wolfard deputy sec retary of state rank Lltschert secretary to Governor Goodrich Uz McMurtrte state treasurer and Bernard Urbahns deputy state treasurer had a special gun crew made up of the other sergeants who were in command of gun sections in the battery all of whom were anxious to have a hand in the job Arch himself set off the range and acted at No 1 pulling the lanyard at my command Twenty four shots were fired thaj morning Capt McLendon continued and added: i firing of the first shot was an event which our division commander Gen considered worthy of special mention and record and ordered the shell cases of the first eight shots sent to his headquarters with a view to their preservation Iater the com mander In chief of the American expe ditionary force ordered the gun which fired the first shot to be withdrawn from service and I understood that it has been or wit) be sent to the states to be kept as a relic of ttie great war Wants Record Straight question of who fired this firsthot is not a personal affair at all It is something which concerns not only this battery but the Sixth ield Ar tillery and the irst ield Artillery Brigade as a whole The men of this brigade are proud of having beeh the first to fight And we have not stopped fighting and do not expect to stop until the last shot of the war is Regarding Arch Capt letter dated Aug 12 says that Is still living and still fighting the Hun firing the first shot are still living and fighting jid the old battery Is still in the game and going ISSUED EVERV DAY AND SUNDAY I DAII by Carrier 3520 a Year TWA kBY STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY Mall 55 Cents a Month 7 VJCjXH and forty nine against them Of the Republican votes nine were for them and three against You can figure it out for yourself just as the National Security League figures it The Dem ocratic members were right 2 per cent of the time and Republican members 75 per cent of the time But since war was declared what has been the record? There have been two measures voted on There are in the Congress nine Republicans and four Democrats rn at makes eighteen votes cast by Re puuiicaijs unu eigm oy vemocrats or these the nine Republicans cast two wrong votes and the four Democrats rne Kepunncans are 89 per cent tne iernucraLS oiyj record There can Spurns Disloyal leaders without weighing their words charge the Republican party with seeking the votes of disloyal citizens and Germans and whisper that they will produce evi dence that two years ago our organi zation had a said Chairman Wasmuth party is not seeking disloyal votes but spurns them and its whole history as well as its present attitude rings true As for two years ago the strongest appeal then made was by those who said: by the President He kept us out of Analyze that slogan Whose votes was it intended to catch? It would have been absolutely impossible to have uttered a cry that would have been more pleasing to the ear of the German Kaiser and his sympathizers in this country he did not want America to enter the war and he was cheered and encouraged when he heard the cry go up from the American administra tion's friends and supporters kept us out of The Republican party never did and never will give such aid and comfort to our enemies as the Democratic party did in 1916 The less the Democrats refer to the cam paign in 1916 the better it will be for them We have gone the in everything There is no stand ard by which loyalty is meaured that will show poorly for the Republican narty in mis war that? There was 1861 and 1898 We are ready for the Chairman Wasmuth said that the great economic questions now arising require consideration of the best minds in me duliou ji disaster is to avoided things are out of proportion with each other just said Chairman Wasmuth" are nigh but food and raiment are higher Some are drawing unheard of wages while oth ers are unable to increase their earn ings to meet the ever increasing cost of living Some industries flourish and yield fabulous profits others lan guish or perhaps must stop urtlrely Cites Railroad Losses operation of our railroads by the government is resulting In a loss which will itself if the present rate of loss Is continued be In excess of the total expenditures of the government previous to the war The United States has expended during the first year of the war more money than anv other nation engaged In the conflict with the exception of Great Britain has expend ed during the entire four years of war Necessarily in such profligate use of money and such haste the distribution Sun WEATHER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY Relative 3 a rn81pctil 65 pct 18 77 pct Amount during 24 hours ending at 7 Total amount jdnre Jan Accumulated departure from normal since Jan 1 (deficiency) Temperatures a 591 Ma ximum 68M)nlnium or the Sarne Date Last Year a 4Maxtmum xn WASHINGTON Sept Informa tion reached here today from a source usually reliable that Turkey has sent a large force to the border of Bulgaria where trouble is brewing over division of territorial spoils of war between these two allies of Germany and Aus tria Hungary The possibility of open conflict be tween Turkey and Bulgaria is watched here with great Interest and is known misgivings at BY A STA CORRESPONDENT LOGANSPORT Ind Sept The junket of the Democratic state com mittee and candidate on Xhe state committee under the leadership of Chairman red VanNuys ended here to day with a meeting of the party work ers of the Eleventh restrict George Rauch of Marion took advantage of the event to deliver his keynote address as a candidate for representative in Congress He was defeated two years I uy rvepresenauve Milton Kraus Republican who seeks to succeed him self Mr Rauch this afternoon and to night attacked the 'record of Repre sentative Kraus on war measures ac cusing him of opposing the conscription act and other parts of the war pro gram The 'speech delivered by Chairman VanNuys this afternoon was the feature of the meeting He quoted from speeches made by Governor Oli ver Morton during the civU war to show that present day leaders are en tirely out of harmony with the war He also called atten tion again to speeches attributed to Senator James Watson at ort Wayne and elsewhere in which he is charred with saying that the United states i not concerned about what be comes of Alsace Lorraine and that it is none of the business of this coun try to say what kind of government Germany shall have at the end of the wa5 He challenged Senator Watson to make the same speech publicly Chairman Speech Chairman VanNuys 'said: Chairman Will Hays in repeated public utterances and in gaudy billboard and street car advertisement is making strenuous and expensive ef torts to convince the that that the Republican party of today and cratic administration credit nor confidence tlon of this wn wul twv U111LCU states senators seem to have adopted the lead of the national chairman is the source of considerable en lightenment to compare the protesta tions of these three leaders of that party with the pronouncements of greatest war Governor Oliver Mor during the progress of the civil war enit us to cite an instance or two The metropolitan press announced quite recently that Senator Watson was scurrying back to Washington to op nnHA thtt 1 uci ui ine graph and telephone lines waj jueiuiure senators Watson have consistenly sistently obstructed the Crew of 85 Rescued While Convoys Drop Bombs After Desper ate Enemy LONDON Sept 10 The American steamship Dora formerly under the Austrian flag was torpedoed and sunk on Sept 4 approximately 400 miles off or ecast CLEAR for Indiana Wednes a LAERE APPEARS DOOMED BY RENCH ADVANCE I The steamship wasitruok at 6:20 In the morning a calm sea enabled all the crew of elghty flve to escape They were piexed up by de stroyers The submarine daringly took up a Position about 150 yards from the star board side of the convoy column about an equal distance from the i est destroyer and flred al the 1 which was heading a column (t 1 vessels The lookout reported seelnir a scope just after the wake of the torpedo pul running more was i np UirriAdD struck aft throwing the cargo of army supplies as high as the mast tops but only one member of the crew was hurt The escorting ships immediately dropped numerous depth charges where It was believed the torpedo earns from Owing to the speed with which the warships acted and the close proximity of the boat it is considered possible that the submarine was either destroyed or badly damaged This attack Is somewhat different from the recent methods of boats in firing on lone vessels and giving no attention to protected convoys and it shows more reckless daring In an effort to sink convoyed boats thsn has been usual during the past few months Wet wins in Vermont WASHINGTON Sept Among thirty four Americans listed as prison ers in German camps ytsterday by the War Department were Delbert Stephens of Bedford Ind at Baireuth rank Wilmer Westport Ind at Camp Ro statt Dollie Kelly Osgood Ind and armer Keller South Whitiey Ind south of Cambrai Quentin xand to north of Soissons spots for the Germans who brilliantly but unsuccessfully forward thrust The NEW YORK Sept 10 The story of the first shot flred by the American expeditionary forces In the war with Germany a shell sent screeching into the German lines about as dawn was breaking on Oct 23 1917 is contained In a letter sent to the Associated Press by the coffimander of the Indiana battery which performed this important action in American history Alex Arch of South Bend Ind a sergeant in this unit Battery of the Sixth ield Artillery is the veteran soldier who according to this letter yanked the lanyard of the pioneer gun to speak for the United States on the soli of rance Newspaper correspondents who in spected the gun on the day it was flred were permitted at the time to say in their cablegrams only that this sergeant was red headed and was from South Bend The honor of firing this first shot hadt been claimed by another mem ber of this same battery Capt Idus McLendon in command of Battery in writing of this event expresses his con viction that the people off the United States should have an available and au thoritative account both because of the significance of the deed and because In his opinion credit should go to the man to whom the officers of Battery say it is due Sergt Alex Arch Gives Arch Credit 'Alex Arch of South Bend Ind is'the man who pulled the lanyard and sent the first American shot into the hostile lines on the morning of Oct 23 1917 at 6:05 Capt McLendpn says present during all the firing of that morning In the gun drill of the field pieces the gunner a corporal lays the gun for direction only cannoneer No 1 sets off the range and at the command of thechief officer of section fires the pieces The chief of section merely repeats the command which is ordinarily given by the lieutenant who acts tas battery executive officer this particular morning Arch was then that the ship put in the two shots which lhe captain believes de stroyed the enemy Duel Lasts Half Hour The narrative and his fellow soldiers who helped in niarizrd the report ment follows Sept 3 at 8:35 submarine was sighted beam at l4oo yards opened fire with two six inch guns We answered fire with forward guns We saw the shot fall about 400 yards short and immediately swung stern forward to submarine using after guns Our shots were very close to the submarine and the bursting very pieces falling ward of the conning tower near and under the water line The bow Inw dlatelv shot up into the air very sud denly then settled and went down out of sight the stern making a half turn toward us and then it disappeared shots striking the submarinewe saw very closly a terrible explo sion and black smoke which enveloped the submarine am positive that we destroyed hr fihe sank almost in stantly after the shot struck her engagement lasted twenty nine minilteS gOYriR Ilf friicrmantc nf auunmrine reu on our decks and tn I up by the quartermaster i chief gunner's mate Sub ires Sixty Shots ana on schools was appointed by the board to! submarine was about 300 I long of the early type of German marine six inch guns close to the conning er fore and aft using about sixty shots altogether She was camouflaged and flew no The Navy Department announced that the captain of the Buck highly comrnndd the efficiency and conduct of Chief Mate Joseph Steffens and the entire armed guard under his command The summary was made public with out comment and pending receipt of more detailed reports naval officials reserved nofnlon as to whether year because of the narrow margin of i marine actually had been destroyed profit which is specified by law as 10 i Description of the submarine by the per cent smaller dealers form captain was accepted erly acted as agents because it brought out the previously expressed belief of me enuoren into tne stores and tnwy spent their pennies for candies and sweets but since the Tlirift Stamp and War Savings Stamp campaigns the chil dren did not spend their pennies and nickels so Mr Graff said the dealers had informed him of this condition there were fewer subdeposltories this Mr Graff explaineB This was assigned as the cause of the rush at the three cen tra depositories The school stores may be located in the school buildings or con venient store rooms Mr Graff told book dealers about supplies although the books and sup plies are all prescribed man told me he had to wire tn nnafen Mass for a music reader for his child I rance as the result of an attack on because the local supply had been cargo convoy: cAiiiuncLi auu nvite ui ine dealers ex pressed a willingness to order the book" Mr Graff said Mr Graff said that in many cases it was three months after school opened last year before all the pupils were sup plied with the necessary books and supplies because the dealers hesitated to order sufficient stocks "They seem to believe the school authorities over estimate the needs and they want to have anv books left over they say" Mr Graff said Commissioners Holtz Crlppln and Barry the only commissioners present expressed a belief the board could con on the 10 ner rent LahIh profit In addition to providing selling conveniences to the studentH and their parents Thirty Three Teachers Resign Mr Graff recommended the accept ance of resignations of thirty three teachers and the granting leaves of absence to twenty four He also rec ommended the appointment of fifty one new teachers to fill vacancies HIh recommendations were accepted by the board Mr Graff attributed the targe number of resignations to the fart that many of the teachers had entered military service a number have taken up wel fare work' among women employes In Industrial and commercial fields and others left the teaching corps to engage In government work many taking clerical portions at Washington Miss Anna Kline 2620 Bellefontaine street Instructor at school No 15 was granted a leave of absence to enter the Army School of Nursing A contract for uniforms for high schools cadets prepared by George Hitt business director of the schools was accepted by the board It is ex pected 500 uniforms will be ordered by students before Oct 15 and 1250 by Dec 15 The board will meet un call of the president next week to consider a plan for organizing bands among the cadets Edward Birge director of be Thu rsday snowers portion Maj Robert Baltzell state con scription agent? said last night that everything is in readiness for the Se lective service registration Complete instructions and supplies have been sent out to the 120 local boards in the state and the finishing touches nave been put Young men men between inclusive will colors in the new draft under rules nounced1 in Washington yesterday Provost Marshal General Crowder By Thursday night about 600000 men will have registered in Indiana On June 5 1917 255850 men registered un der the act which required that men be tween the aeps nf 21 and 31 rpffitar cin June 5 of this year 19629 men reaching I 21 during the previous year and on Srj The Indianapolis school board may go into the business of selling schoolbooks and supplies Congestion at the three depositories 1 GICWAJL Company 44 East Washington street the New York Store and the Indian apolis Book and Stationery Company 225 South Meridian street Monday caused the board at Its session last night to consider establishing depos itories and selling places for conven ience of pupils Commissioners Herbert oltz Clar ence Crlppln and Charles Barry 1 i i vv8M vi uruugne to inern persons who had to wait in line hours at the depositories because the rush Mr oltz declared it was unjust send 30000 or 40000 school children purchase schoolbooks nn nriA Uav IT uiuH superintendent or tne tv form nlif tn vi iiiuun in ai ix Him ini i i in i vai tive to the establishment of selling sta tions by the board While the depositories are specified by the state board of education accord ing to thepresent state laws the school board has the right to sell books and supplies if the members believe the dis tribution at hand is inadequate Mr Graff Informed the board Hesitancy Among Dealers Mr Graff pointed out that schoolbook depositories and dealers told him there was a hesitancy among the drug stores and corner grocery stores near the schools to act as selling agents this OL 8 mi i iiii im mrfmiii REGISTER!.