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i 7KK COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 1918. Pals On Three Battle Two Bandits Under Arrest TIED! LOAD FLAG CONTEST Will Return As 11! eflld UL destrians suffered alike from th( bandits. Monday night Charles D. Ross, c. the Lincoln apartments, was going home when two young men walkd.

up to him and one thru3t a pistol a. his stomach. Ross walked backward The youth with the pistol lost hi. nerve for some reason and suddenly started running. Ross began to call for police and a woman nearby opened a front window in response his calls.

He told her what had happened and she immediately notified police headquarters. The police took up the chase. Later Ross was picked up by a friend in an automobile and they took up the search. Near Second and St. Catherine streets they caught sight of the men and again notified the police.

Lieut. Archer and a squad of policemen hurried to the scene. The men were followed to Brook and Joseph streets, where. It is alleged, they were preparing to stage another holdup. 0 Police Flush' Quarry.

Policemen suddenly pounced upon the men. They fled through streets and alleys. The police fired. Anderson Is said to have returned the fire. Anderson's companion halted when the police closed in upon him.

He was taken to the county jail, where a charge of highway robbery and carrying concealed a deadly weapon was placed against him, after a revolver was found in his hip pocket. He gave his name as Meri-mee Ray, and proved to be Ander-' son's former companion in crime. Ray told the police that his companion was Anderson, with whom he had served a sentence in the Frankfort penitentiary. Sergt. Fitzgibbons, who could always be relied upon in cases of the kind, was sent to Anderson's home to watch for his return, following the of Ray.

Quarles and Fitzgibbons had been in waiting for over two hours when the shooting occurred. Perhaps' no man of his age has figured in police crime records as has Anderson. Although he Is only 23 years' old, he' has been arrested scores of times. He was able to "beat" many of the cases. Following the sensational automobile robberies In 1916, Anderson and Ray were arrested and sentenced to serve a two-year term in the Frankfort penitentiary.

Both were released about Christmas, having been allowed time off for good behavior. In 1915 Anderson admitted he was with Alfred Annan, a Louisville youth who was killed in Cincinnati while robbing a restaurant. Other robberies, including the killing of a policeman, were laid at' the door of Anderson's campanlons, but somehow, oh account of his age at the time, he escaped extradition to Ohio. He then became implicated in numerous holdups In Louisville and was sent to the Greendalo reformatory. He escaped from there.

His reformatory term did not seem CLIF RODES, KENNETH ALEXANDER, LIEUT. LEACH, U. S. N. 4 raa.4l 1 0 11 MERIMEE RAY.

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This war is America's greatest achievement, and we are all anxious about every detail of it. AL1 GROCERS WANTED At once men and boys over 16 years of age to work in bottling department. prepared for work. Fehr's Bottling Department, Fehr avenue and Preston street. embodied In the bill, which I beg leave to introduce to-day.

Our first proposal is to raise the military age up to 50, and In certain specified cases we ask for powers to raise it to but that only when a man with special qualifications Is needed. For instance, it may be necessary to do it in the case of medical men in order to secure their services. It may be necessary in certain special classe3, with special training and special experience, to secure their services for the army. B.aising Age Limit. "When vou come to the question of raising the age to 50.

it does not mean mat men between 42 and ou are necessarily to be taken in order to put them Into the fighting line. It may be, that there are men of that age who are just as fit as. men of 25, but I am sorry to say that that Is the depend upon men of that age alto- setner to mane ine nnest ngnung material. "There aro a good many services in the army which do not require the very best physical material, and it would be very helpful to get men of this age to fill those services In order to release younger and fitter men to enter the fighting line. There also Is to be borne In mind the fact that we have to prepare for home defense, so as to be able to release men from this country and fill their places bv men between 42 and 50, who I have no doubt will fight very tenaciously tor their homes if there were an invasion.

"The proportion of men from 42 to. 50 years of age whom we expect to be available Is not very high something like seven per cent. That Is. only seven per cent of from 42 to 50 years will be available for the army. "I only want to reassure people between 42 and 50 that all the men of that age are not going to be called up to the fighting line.

I gave a sort of rough estimate that it would be this age who will be likely to come under the provisions of the bill. "I now come to the question of Ireland. When an emergency has arisen which makes it necessary to put men of 50 and boys of 18 into the army iu the fight for liberty and independence (Josenh Devlin hero inWrrtinlni and small nationalities. And espe irmen within a wheel. The beauty of this rose garden is said to be unrivaled.

A rustic path connects the rose garden with the. rock garden, in which has been constructed a waterfall. It is here that the campfire suppers take place that arc such a pleasant part of the social life in Lexington. One of Mr. Alexander's hobbles Is the collection of pheasants.

In the park are found pairs of the birds from every country in the world. The grounds are freely thrown open to the public. Mr. Alexander entered the first Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison. He decided after several weeks not to finish course, but obtained a transfer to another branch of the service.

At his own expense he fitted out an ambulance and, in company with Clifton Rodes, went abrond and served for nearly a year on the battle fronts in Italy, France and Greece. When the American Field Ambulance Service was taken over by the United States, Rodes and Alexander returned to their homes in Kentucky. have been equally easier for them, while concentrating troops opposite our front, to maneuver them In the same way opposite the French. I am only referring to that in order to show how exceedingly difficult it is for Generals on the defensive to decide exactly where, In their judgment, the attack is coming and where they ought to concentrate their reserves. "I may justsay a word here.

This problem was considered very closelv by the military staff at Versailles, and I think It right, in justice to them, to point out that after a very close study of the German position and of the probabilities of the ease, they came to the conclusion, and they stated their conclusion to the mill-: tary representatives and to the Ministers in the month of January, or the beginning of February, that the attack would come south of Arras; that It would be on attack oh a very wide front that it would bo an c-n the widest front ever yet assailed: that the Germans would accumulate ninety-five divisions for the purpose of making that attack; that they would throw Uio whole of their resources and their strength Into breaking tho British line at that point and that their objective would lie the capture of Amiens and the severance of the British and French forces. "That was the conclusion SirHenrv Wilson (chief of the Imperial Btaff) came to and which was submitted at that time, two or three months ago, and I think it was one of the most remarkable forecasts of enemy intentions that was ever made. "As a matter of fact, the attack was made up, I think, by about ninety-seven divisions. It was an attack on the widest front that had ever been engaged. Its object undoubtedly was tlse capture of Amiens and the severance or the British and French forces.

So that almost in every detail, that very remarkable forecast has been verified In the event. Another Prediction. "Another remarkable prediction was that it might probably succeed to the extent of penetrating the British line to tho extent of half the distance of the front attacked. They came to that conclusion from a close examination of the offensives of war. "There was another There was, first of all, the advatitagc which the Germans had from having the Initiative.

There was a further advantage tney tiael, and this un doubtcdly. was the greatest tage, from having a united command opposed to a dual one. The Germans unaouDtedly relied on this to a very tAieiiL tor ineir success. They owe much of the success of this attack tn this. "It was reported to me on good authority that the Kaiser informed ex-King Constantino: 'I shall beat mem, lor.tney have no united coi which shows that that was what they were relying in the main upon, that although their numbers were slightly inferior they knew the importance that was to be attached to the fact that theirs was a perfectly united command.

"And that is an obvious advantage, for, if the risks in one particular part of the line are great, and In another part of the line are great, but siiustantiaiiy less man in tne former, with one command there Is no hesi tation In the mind of the comman der-in-chief as to which he will make the greatest provision against. Separate Commands. "With two separate commands the problem is a difficult one; It Is more difficult to adjust the balance of risk, and the general aiways naturally inclined to give (himself and his army the benefit of any doubt. That may be because if anything goes wrong tnere ne alone is to be held responsible to his own countrymen for tne safety of his army. "The enemy have another incident but.

as it turned out. very import ant advantage that of weather. Ex ceptional weather favored his designs. It was both dry and misty. ino attacK wnicn succeeded was made on that part of the line where under ordinr.rv spring conditions the ground would have been almost lm passable.

"I want the House really to consider what that means. There Is a menace to our Eastern Empire through Persia, because through Persia you approach Afghanistan, and through Afghanistan you menace the whole of India. Had it. not been for the blows inflicted upon the Turks, what would have happened? Before these attacks there were Turkish dl- -rvisions helping the Germans in Rus sia. They would have been there helping the Germans on the West exactly as they helped them on the East.

"I want the Honse to consider for a moment what the plans of the enemy may be as they now are revealed. It was never certain he would take this plunge, because he knows what it means If it fails. But I he has taken It Thcr battle proves that the enemy has definitely decided to seek a military decision this year, whatever the consequences to I himself. "There is no doubt be has overwhelming reasons. There is the eco- nomic condition of his country and tne critical economic conditions of his allies.

He now is at the height of his power, and Russia Is at the lowest, while America has not yet come in in its strength. So, this year, the enemy may put forth something which approaches his full strength. Buff soon he will grow Nearly One Hundred Communities To Claim First Place In Race. SECRETARY MAKES PLEA Washington, April 9 (by A. National recognition for first place in the race for the third Liberty Loan honor flag will have to be divided among probably a hundred communities which subscribed their full quota within a few minutes after 9 o'cloqk last Saturday morning and reported in such close order that it is impossible to give each an individual rank.

Consequently the Treasury has declared the contest result a multiple tie, and to-night gave out the names of forty-five communities in five Federal Reserve districts which are to share the honors. Reports from other districts later are expected to swell this list to more than 100. The forty-five already tied at the top of the nation's honor roll are: New York District Athens, Cedar-- hurst, College Point, Far Rockaway, THewitt, Interlaken, Inwood, Larch-mont, Lawrence, Lodi, McGraw, Marathon, New Baltimore, Pearl River, Htchfield Springs, Spring Valley, yVoodmere, New York; Barnardsville, Cranford, Englishtown, Far Hills, Lodi, Mendham, Pompton Lakes, Woodbridge, N. Newton, Conn. Philadelphia District Pitman, Penns Grove, N.

Ambler, Wayne (Delaware county), Catasaqua, Hamburg, Woalrich (Clinton county), Jen-kintown, Everett, Mann, Monroe, East Providence, West Providence, Snake Spring. Southampton, El mer, N. J. Boston District. Boston District South Borough, Maes.

Cleveland District Ironton, O. Atlanta District Lagrange, Ga. In addition to the race for the honor of representing a full subscription first there remain a number of contests for the ranking by population classes. For Instance, Lynn, appears to be the first city in the class between 50,000 and 100,000 population (1910 census figures) to reach Its quota, and Sioux City seems the first between 25,000 and 50,000. Joliet, 311., with a 1910 population of 35,000, and Burlingame, Vt, with 20,000, also are among the first to report In their class.

Reports to national headquarters to-day on the total subscriptions already obtained were few, as a result of-Secretary McAdoo's order that local campaign committees should give out only official figures gathered from -banks, and that figures for the nation should be based Only on Federal Reserve Banks reports. The Treasury is hoping for some official reports' tomorrow and for enough to furnish a comparative idea of the loan's success In the whole country within two or three days. A number of newspapers and committees protested against the order to-day, but officials repeated that It was necessary to guard against overestimating the daily progress of the loan campaign. Asks Oversubscription. Secretary McAdoo's plea for a very-large oversubscription of the minimum of the war credit was a development of the day.

In announcing to-night the awarding of tie honors to a number of com-jnunities, It was! reported, application blanks were distributed to subscribers before the campaign opened, and these were turned into local headquarters within a few minutes after the clock hand passed the hour of nine. South Borough, sent a representative to Washington Ian on the desk of the publicity manager shortly after nine o'clock a report ths.t tho town had oversubscribed. LaGrange, similarly sent a worker to the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank to turn in a check for the first payments on its over subscriptions and to file a sworn statement relating to its honor flag ranking. Delivery of flags to the community has already begun and will be continued as fast as full certification of local records are. made to the Federal Reserve bank district Exhibit Train Stalled.

From the Atlanta district to'day came reports of enthusiastic interest in tho war exhibit trains which are "bringing the war home to the people." At Watertown, one exhibit train was stalled long past its leaving time because thousands thronged about the engine, and made it almost Impossible to start. Seventy-one Canadian officers, all ot'-vho have seen actual service on tho western front In Europe, have been released by the British Government to conduct a speaking campaign throughout the United States during the Liberty Loan campaign. In ad dltlon, 120 men of tho American army have been assigned toald in the speaking campaign. Sixteen of these have been members or uen. persh ing's expeditionary force and all have suffered from shell shock, gas or in-Jury.

Some of them were In the first clashes in wnicn tne American expe ditionary forces engaged on the west em front. Lieut. Vincent D. Wlerzlbickl, a member of the French High Commission, also has joined the speaking forces. The oratorical broadsido In behalf of the Third Liberty Loan Is more pretentious than that ever before used behalf of any enterprise In the his tory of the country.

Men experienced In the management of speaking campaigns declare that even national political campaigns are insignificant as compared with the Liberty Loan speaking propaganda. 10,000 Meetings Held. Tho records of Charles F. Horner, manager of the Speakers' Bureau, indicate that more than 10,000 public meetings were held In the United States on the opening day. Not a single speaker Is being paid compensation for his or her efforts and many are bearing their own Although an order from Washington prevented the loan committee rrom Issuing to-night a report on the total subscriptions, it was reported unofficially that large subscriptions to-day amounted to more than to say nothing of thousands of smaller sales.

The largest subscription was that of the United States Steel Corporation for J35.000.000, of which will be sold on the installment plan to employes. Other large subscriptions were: Prudential Insurance Company of America. $10,000 -000; Mutual Benefit Life Insurance ''Buddies" while driving ambulances on three fronts for almost a year, Kenneth Alexander, owner of one of the show estates of the Blue-grass, -and Clifton Rodes. secretary and treasurer of the Starks Realty Company, of' Louisville, yesterday were sworn In together as naval aviators. Alexander, who is about 34 years old and unmarried, is the youngest of the three children in the family.

He Is the brother of Mrs. Will Simms and of Dr. A. .1. Alexander, of Woodford county.

All of tho three have adjoining places in the country near Lexington. Kenneth Alexander has the old place, which is or.e of. the show places of America. Around the beautiful old home is a magnificent park containing a deer reservation, an outdoor concrete swimming pool and tennis courts and a rose garden of 10,000 plants arranged to form a wheel these proposals under conditions which will be far removed from any suggested of panic. Great Battle Rages.

"I shall now come to the circumstances which have led to the present military position. It is very difficult at this time to present a clear, connected and reliable narrative of what happened. There has been a great on a front of, fifty miles tho greatest battle ever fought in' the history of the world. Enormous forces have been engaged; there was a considerable retirement on the part of the British forces, and under those conditions it is not always easy for some time to ascertain what actually happened. "The will recollect the difficulty we experienced with regard to Cambrai.

It was difficult to piece together the story' of the event for some time, and Cambrai was a very trivial event compared with this gigantic battle. "The Generals and their staffs are, naturally, engaged and have to concentrate their attention the operations of the enemy, and until the strain relaxes It would be very difficult to institute the necessary inquiries to find out exactly what happened and to furnish an adequate explanation of the battle. "However, there are two or three facts which stand out. and in stating them I should like to call attention to two things which I think above all must be avoided. The first is that nothing should be said which could give information to the enemy; nothing should be said which would give encouragement to the enemy, and nothing should be said which would give discouragement to our own troops, who aro fighting so gallantly at this very hour.

At Beginning of Battle. "And the second question Is that all recrimination at this hour must be shut out. "What was the position at the beginning of the battle? Notwithstanding the heavy casualties in 1917, the army In France was considerably stronger on the first day of January, 1918, than on the first of January, 1917. Up to the end of 1917 up to, say, about October or November the German combatant strength in France was as two to the Allies' three. Then came the military collapse of Russia, and the Germans huiiied up their released divisions from the Eastern front and brought them to the West.

They had a certain measure of Austrian support, whiqh had been accorded to them. "Owing to the growth of the strength of our armies In 1917, when this battle began the combative strength of the whole of the German army on the Western front was only approximately. though not quite equal to. the total combatant strength of the Allies In infantry. They were slightly, inferior 1 in artillery.

They were inferior in cavalry, they were considerably inferior; and. what is very important, they were undoubtedly inferior in aircraft. "The Germans, therefore, organized their troops so as to produce a larger number of divisions out of the slightly smaller number of infantry and slightly smaller number of guns. They had fewer battalions in a division and fewer men In a battalion. That is entirely a question of organization and it yet remains to be seen that their organization Is better than ours.

It is necessary to explain that. In order that tho House should realize why, with approximately tho same number of men, the Germans have a larger number of divisions on that front. "According to all the facts which have come to hand as to the losses of the battle, that roughly represents the relative strength of the combatants on both sides at this moment. The Germans had, however, one or two important advantages. The first the initial advantage, which is always commanded by the offensive, Is that they know where tney mean to attack.

They cnoose tne ground; i they choose the location; they know the width of the attacie; tney Know the dimensions of the attack; they know the time of the attack; they know the method of the attack. All that Invariably gives the Initial advantage to the offensive. Defense's Advantage. "The defense has a general advantage. Owing to air observation concealment is difficult At the same spite of all that, owing to the power of moving troops at night which the Germans exercised to a very large extent, there is a large margin for surprise, even in spite of air observation, and of this -the enemy took full advantage.

"I should like to say one word here as to the difficulty which tne allied tjcnerals were confronted with in this respect. Before the battle the greatest German concentration was in front of our troops. That was no proof that the full weight of the attack would fall on us. There was a very largo concentration opposite the French lines. There was a very considerable concentration I am referring now to the German reserves on the northern pact of our line.

"After the battle began or Immediately before the battle the Germans by night brought their divisions from the northern part to the point where the attack took place. They also took several divisions from opposite the French in the same way and brought them to our front. But it would IRVIN ANDERSON. FITOTBOES DEAD; BANDIT UNDER ARREST (Continued From First Page.) have stopped and given battle but for being out of ammunition. Chief of Police Petty took personal charge of the hunt for Anderson.

Every possible clew was run down. Chief Petty directed his men to ascertain where every one of Anderson's relatives resided. It was soon learned that his grandfather and an aunt Jved near Underwood. Ind. About mat time someone telephoned Chief Petty that Anderson had gone to Indiana.

The Indiana officers were notified. Sergt. Craddick, accompanied by Detectives Yourell and St. Clair, Chauffeur McCorkhill and Deputy Sheriff Baird, of Clark county, Indiana, went in an automobile to the scene. It was 6 o'clock when the farmhouse was reached.

Some of the officers went to the rear. After a consultation Deputy Sheriff Baird and Sergt. Craddick approached the front door: An old man answered their knocks. Grandfather Opens Door. When asked if Irvin Anderson was there, the old man answered; "1 wont' say whether he is or he isn't." He demanded a search warrant.

This led the officers to believe Anderson was in the house and two of them went to Henryville to procure the warrant. Before they had returned, the old man opened the door and announced that his grandson would surrender, but would not return to Kentucky without a warrant. Anderson, on his way to Jefferson-vflle, cursed tho two detectives and said he would return with the other Louisville officers but not with them. Arrangements will be made this morning to secure requisition papers from Gov. Stanley.

Anderson told Sergt. Craddick that he had escaped from Louisville, following the shooting, by boarding an Indiana car at Floyd and Madison streets. Th's was within a few hundred feet of the city hospital, where his victim lay dying. Anderson told the police he threw the revolver into the Ohio river as he crossed the bridge on the electric car. He protested vigorously against a charge of robbery being placed against him and said an effort was being made to lay the recent robberies at his door.

Shot While Doing- Duty. Patrolman Fitzgibbons was shot down by Anderson when he attempted to arrest the young bandit at the latte home, 929 South Fourth street. Fitzgibbons and Plainclolhes-man Quarlcs lay in wait for two hours behind storm doors for Anderson. Both were dressed in citizens' clothes. As Anderson stepped into the doorway the policemen suddenly pounced upon him and Fitzgibbons exclaimed: -'1 got you, You're under arrest." The sentence was followed by a shot.

Anderson had suddenly drawn a 45-caliber revolver and shot the officer through the abdomen. Fitzgibbons, although he had received a mortal drew hia revolver and began shooting. Quarles drew his revolver and began firing also. An owl car was passing at the time and passengers saw the revolver flashes. Quarles was unable to give chase to the bandit immediately.

As Fitzgibbons emptied his revolver he fell heavily into the arms of his fellow omcer anu yuarles was obliged to lay the wounded man gently on the doorstep. Even then Fitzgibbons, who was known to be one of the gamest men In the police department, raised himself to a sitting posture and began reloading his revolver. Quarles Chases Anderson. With three cartridges left in his revolver Quarles chased Anderson south on Fourth street to St. Catherine street, firing as he went.

He was oblidged to give up the chase. He then called police hpnrffit.nrrfo.-a and told of the fate of Fiztgibbons. iruiu central and the Sixth district station were hurried to the scene. A. general police us auuiiuea ana tne search for the bandit began.

Fitzgibbons was taken to the city hospital. Although weak from loss of blood, which flowed from a gaping wound in his abdomen, he talked freely of the occurrence. He repeatedly asked if he were fatally shot. From the first physicians at the hospital saw there was no hope of saving the life of Fitzgibbons. He was placed on the operating table, where he remained sevaral hours.

Later he was able to speak a few Words to Lieut Callahan and relatives at his bedside. For the past three months auto bandits have been robbing citizens nightly on the streets of the city and the highwavs of the county. Standard Oil stations, drug stores and pe Company of Newark. $3,000,000: Hamilton Trust Company of Brook lyn. $1,600,000, and Dime Savings Bank, $1,000,000.

I $2,100,000 In Half Hour. In addition, members of the Pro duce Exchange subscribed more than $2,100,000 in half an hour. Large sales were recorded at the "Liberty Theater" in front of the public library, where Rear Admiral Nathan iel R. Usher, standing in the ram, delivered an address. It also was announced that the pa rade here last night of 25,000 members of the State Guard, re-enfofced by 300 loan speakers, had resulted iu sales of $3,600,000 worth of bonds.

After a service at at. Paul's chapel this afternoon, when the flag of tho nurses' base hospital No. 33 was blessed, the Rev. Dr. William Mon tague Geer, vicar of the chapel, held a loan rally, at which he said: "We are selling Liberty bonds on the porch of this sacred and historic edifice to show you that the church of the living God is behind our boys in the trenches." Nearly 100,000 parochial school children In this city have joined with 500,000 public school pupils in a great loan drive, it was announced to-night.

Out of sixty-four counties in the Western district of Kentucky, of the Eighth Federal Reserve district, more than 50 per cent, has already oversubscribed their quota of the Third Liberty Loan. James C. Willson, vice chairman of the Western district, expressed the opinion last night that the entire nation is. responding with unprecedented generosity and enthusiasm to the Liberty Loan appeal. Somerset Buys Bonds.

Special to The Courier -Journal. Somerset. Ky April 9. At a pa triotic demonstration this afternoon, attended by 3,000 citizens of Pulaski county, subscriptions to the amount of $125,000 were made to the third Liberty Loan. This amount was sub scribed in about two hours' time.

The meeting was held in the operahouse and was addressed by George R. Hunt, of Lexington; Sergt. Shoun, a Pulaski county boy just back from the trenches, and the Rev. L. B.

Bridges. Pulaski's quota is $176,000. Before the meeting the High School Cadets gave a battalion drill In the square. The High School band furnished tho music. Owensboro Buys Bonds.

Special to The Courier-Journal. Owensboro, April 9. There were 1,979 men, women and children in the city of Owensboro who subscribed for $493,190 worth of Liberty bonds to-day. Daviess county's-quota is $600,700. The drive in the county next week is expected to net an additional $300,000.

It is believed that before the drive ends, close to will be subscribed for in the entire county. For the Second Liberty Loan there were only 1,390 subscribers in Daviess county. This was surpassed in the city alone to-day. Shelby Goes Over Top. Special to The Courier-Journal.

Shelbyvllle. Aug. 9. Shelby county went oyer tne tpp in the Third Liberty Loan drive to-dav when citizens subscribed $133,500 of the issue. The campaign will con tlnue through to-morrow, when it is expected bonds to the amount of will nave been purchased.

Of the bonds sold to-day $61,000 was sold by. women. Shelby county's quota of tne issue was 229,900. Franklin Drive is On. Special to Tho Ccurler-Journal.

Frankfort, April 9. Franklin county raised $285,550 of Its $360,000 for the Third Liberty Loan the first day, with several county reports out. Tho county Is going after 3,170 subscribers. Bowling Green Responds. Special to The Courier-Journal.

Bowling Green. April 9. The first day's canvass of the third Liberty Loan in Bowling Green amounts to between $75,000 and $100,000. Says The United States produced about forty billion feet of lumber during the year 1917. Struck sells all kinds of lumber.

Lumber Zuilder Mill Won City Main feebler and weaker in comparison with the allied forces. "Everything, therefore, points to the definite determination of Germany td put the -whole of her re sources into seeing a military deci sion this year, and this means a prolonged battle from the North Sea to the Adriatic, with Germany and Aus tria throwing in the whole or tneir strength. "There are still seven or eight months within which the fighting can continue and everything depends upon keeping our strength right to the end, whatever the strain upon our resources may be. "With American aid we can do it. But even with American help we cannot feel secure unless we are prepared ourselves to make even greater sacrifices than we have hitherto made.

I know what the Government wish. I know also what will happen If the demand which the Government is putting forward is not responded to. "It is idle to Imagine, as some people very light-heartedly seem to think, that you have got an unlimited reservoir of man power In this or anv belligerent country. We have already raised in this country for military and naval purposes very nearly six million men. We cannot here the same proportion of men per population as you can in other belligerent countries.

I have repeatedly emphasized that in the House of Commons. Greatest Navy In World. "We have the greatest navy in the world. The command of the seas depends not merely for ourselves, but for our Allies, upon the efforts we put forward. That Is not only a question of manning the fleet; it is also a question of building, of adding to the numbers of ships and of repairing the ships.

Then you have got a mercantile marine, wlthbut which the Allies could not continue the struggle for a single month. "All that must be borne in mind, and whatever happens and whatever proposals we put forward to-day, it would bo folly to do anything which would interfere with the one fundamental condition of, success to the Allies -that the navy and shipping must be first. "Wo have also got -to supply coal largely to our allies, as well as steel. But, owing largely to improved organizations in the various Industries, to the way they are adapting themselves from day to day to new conditions and to the' increased numbers and greatly Increased efficiency of woman labor, there Is a reserve of men. which, consistent with the discharge of these obligations, may yet be withdrawn In great emorgenoy for our battle line.

Not without damage to industry I do not forget that and not without, to a. certain extent, weakening the economic strength of the country and not without imposing restrictions and perhaps privations, but without Impairment to the striking power of the country for war. "Nothing could justify such drastic action except an overwhelming emergency precipitated by a great military crisis. May Be Long Fight. "I want to point out specially whittle steps taken now are steps which will be useful in this battle.

First of all, It is a battle which may last for months. The decision may be taken not now or next month, but may be months hence. But beyond that, the Allies at the present moment have the same reserves of man power to re-enforce their armies as Germany has, without taking into account -those great reserves In America. "The Germans, however, are calling- up another which will produce 550.000 efficient young men. These will be prepared to be thrown Into the battle line.

This is the 1920 class, aged 18 and a half. These can bo thrown into the battle line before this fight is over, and we must be prepared for their advent in this struggle this year. "Therefore I have to submit to Parliament the totals for increasing, and increasing very materially, the reserves which will be available for rc-enforclng our armies In the field during this prolonged battle, upon which we are only just entering. I will now give roughly some of the proposals we intend to make in order to increase the number of men available "We already have raised for armed forces during the first quarter of the year more than the quarter's proportion of the original number of men, which it was estimated was the minimum required for the present year. We also are effecting a very strict combout of some of the essential Industries.

Very large levies have boon taken from munition works. They iwlll amount, I think, to something j. mini, "That has been done already this year and it will, of course, involve the utilization of other labor to a very large extent In munition works. A call for 500,000 has been made already on the coal Industry, and these men have been rapidly recruited. I regret to say that military, needs will necessitate the calling up of another 150,000 men from this industry.

These men can be spared we are convinced, after entering Into the matter very carefully, without endangering the essential output of coal for national Industries. "I now turn to the new oroposal to do much good and his career of crime began anew in Louisville. It was following a series of robberies in the Highlands and other' residential sections, in which bandits In automobiles figured, that Ray and Anderson were arrested on several charges of highway robbery. He was identified by Ray Northheimer and others and given a prison term. Identified As Bobber.

Not all of the recent robberies can be laid to their doors. Both men have been repeatedly taken before victims of recent robberies but were not identified. Yesterday J. V. Wathen, druggist at Preston and Breckinridge streets, identified Ray.

This was followed by identifications by Robert Brown, saloonkeeper on Story avenue: A. Snyder, druggist nt Brook street and Ormsby avenue: Lieut. Matthews, of the Signal Corps, and Standard Oil stationkeep-ers. "Ray gave the police his address as 655 South Eighth street. He said he lived there with his mother and married sister.

He said he was a chauffeur for the Kentucky Laundry. He told the police he had not figured iu a holdup since getting out of the penitentiary. He said he thought Anderson was stopping to talk to a friend when he stopped Ross at Fourth and St. Catherine streets Monday night, and the failure of the robbery was because he walked away, fearing trouble. Anderson soon followed.

He said the identifications were mistakes. Ray readily told on Anderson, following his capture, and it was his confession that led to the fatal wounding of Fitzgibbons. 0 Fearless and Honest. Fitzgibbons was always known as an honest and fearless officer. He was in his twenty-second year of service.

He was appointed to the force September 28, 1890. He was a sergeant under the Barth administration and under Mayor Bingham became a lieutenant. During the Grin- stead regime he was a captain, but was reduced under the Head administration. He was promoted to sergeant under the Buschemeycr administration. He was one of the few policemen still holding on from other administrations.

He worked day and night Ho was supposed to be off duty Monday night, but volunteered to work In plain clothes to run down the bandits. Only recently Fitzgibbons was stabbed by a negro. Other police asked him why he didn't shoot the man, but Fitzgibbons replied that he knew he could best him by physical force and didn't want to shoot anybody. He watched some of the "toughest" beats dn the days of the "Chute." He lived with his sister at 902 South Sixth 3treet. CONSCRIPTION FOR IRELAND IS CRY RAISED (Continued From First Page.) land was that Gen.

Foch had been appointed supreme director of the strategy of the allied armies on the western front which is taken to mean that he has superseded the Versailles War Council. We have now entered the most critical phase of this terrible war. There is a lull In the storm, out the hurricane la not over. Doubtless we must expect more fierce outbreaks, and ere It is finally exhausted there will be many more. World's Fate At Stake.

"The fate of the empire, the fate of F.urope and the fate of Liberty throughout the world may depend on the success with which the very last of these attacks is resisted and countered. i "The Gcvernment therefore proposes to submit to Parliament: to-day certain recommendations in order to assist this country and the Allies to weather the storm. They will involve, I regret, extreme sacrifices on the part of large classes of the i. pu- latlon and nothing would Justify tnem out tne most extreme necessity and the fact that we are fighting for all that is essential and most sacred in our national life. "Before I come to the circumstances which led up to our submitting these proposals to Parliament, I ought to say one word as to why Parliament was not Immedately summoned.

Since the battle began the Government has been engaged almost every hour in concerting with the Allies the necessary measures to assist the armies to deal with the emergency. "The proposals which we intend submitting to Parliament required very close and careful examination and I think there is advantage in our meeting to-day. rather than immediately after the Impact of the German that we shall be considering cially, as I am reminded, to fight for liberty and independence and small nationalities, I am perfectly certain it Is not possible to Justify any longer the exclusion of Ireland." Mr. John Dillon: "You will not get any men from Ireland by compulsion; not a man!" What Is Position? "What is the position?" continued Mr. Lloyd George.

"No Home Utile proposal ever submitted in this House proposed to deprive the Imperial Parliament of the power of dealing with all questions in relation to the army and navy. These invariably are in every Home Rule bill I have over seen and are purely questions for the Imperial Parliament so that I am no more claiming any national right than was ever claimed in this House. The Defense of the Realm Act also was extended to Ireland. "The character of the quarrel in which we are engaged is just as much Irish and English. Slav I sav It Is more bo.

It is more Irish, Scotch and Welch than it is even English. Ireland, through Its representatives at the beginning of the war. assented to it. (Mr. Devin here Interjected: "Because it was a war for small "Ireland, through its representatives, assented to the war, voted for the war, supported the war.

Irish representatives and Ireland, through its representatives, without a dissenting voice committed the empire to this war. They are as resopnslbls for it as any part of the United Kingdom. May I just read the declaration issued by tho Irish party on December 17, 1914, shortly after the war be-ean? Bryne Interrupts. (Mr. Bryne interrupted with: "Wa 'have had a revolution since Is the declaration of the Irish party: "A teat to search men's souls has arisen.

The empire is engaged in the most serious war in history. It is a war' Pvoked by the intolerable military despotism of Germany. It war for the defense of sacred, rights and liberties of small natlono and the respect and enlargement cf we treat principles tt I I i.