The Huntington Herald from Huntington, Indiana • Page 1

Bf UHII STATES VESSELS III 'By International New tJerrlce: Washington, July 6. A Ger hiant submarine has been sighted in Fjmpton Roads, it was announced today. Secretary Daniels officially Reported that officers in the Atlantic fleet had advised him Bhips(had sighted the periscope of a Geftnan boat. TAKE PEP OUT OF FIERCE OF I FEN8IVE OF THE GERMANS. Try.

Jo Win Railroad Leading to Lent berg Counter Attack Are Made. By International New Service: Paris, July 6. The Germans ceased their infantry attacks along the Aisne river heights and at Verdun last night falling back on their artillery. There was some infantry activity, in Champagne, the War office reported today, the Germans attacking west of Carnlllet: They were eaally repulsed by the French lire. The Germans tried a raid north of the Aisne but failed.

Between the Aiana river and Lamiette and north west of hill No. 304 on the Verdun front, there were violent artillery duels. The German counter offensive on the Aisne river heights and at Verdun collapsed, French military experts declared today. Especially severe was the defeat administered to the Germans along the irocfcy heights known as the Chemin des Barnes or "the road of the ladies," poutp of Laon. The German crown prince had massed all his available reserves of men and guns In that sector and the French nosltlons were heavily bom I barbed for several days before the In liantry assaults Degan.

me uennau iruuyo ncio flung forward time 'after time with a not seen since the great effort at Verdun last winter. All of the French positions were Jield and when the Germans were rolled back they left a battle field thick with dead and wounded. The dominating heights which the Germans attempted to recapture from positions of the greatest strategical Importance in the defense of Laon, the powerful German fortress at the southern end of the Hindenburg line. Laon for a long time was the seat of German great headquarters on the western front and was frequently visited by the kaiser. BjI International Newe Serrtoa: JiOndon, July 6.3P.nly minor actly fltyi was reported from the British front today.

In the sector of Bulle coirt, opposite Arras, the Germans mjpe an unsuccessful attempt to raid British trenches, the war office announced. Gennhn prisoners declared that Vhere is general complaint over the By international News Serr'c! American headquarters In France, July 6. There has been a shortage of the water supply at the American camp, but this is now improved, and today the soldiers from America are enjoying an abundant supply. Troops are being shifted in the direction of Paris from their port of debarkaton, and it is expected that they will all be massed, before long. The health of the camp continues FRENCH BREAK VERDUN ATTACK RUSSIANS FIGH HARD I (Continued on Pige Ton) TROOPS ARE CLOSER TO SHIFTING waters Secretary Daniels wired' Admiral Mayo at once to ascertain full details regarding the tooat and send them to Washington immediately.

Asked if it were certain the submarine was a pcrman boat, the secretary replied his reports indicated it could be none other. DRAFT RUMOR WITH GREAT NUMBERS ALLEGED TO BEEN DRAWN AR POSTED. HAVE BOARD IS NOT, YET THROUGH Rumors that drawing of numbers for the selective eaft amy has been started spread, at least through the central part of fndiana, last night with astonishing rapidity. Fourteen numbers were posted in several places here, purporting to have been drawn at Washington, Thursday. At Marion, Wabash and other cities similar, lists, but not Identical, were passed about as having been the first drawing.

Members of tdraft exemption boards here and in the other cities could merely say that had no notice of any governmental action, and that the rumor was undoubtedly without foundation. The list of names, numbers and addresses, which is to be sent to Washington for the draft, is still being 1 made here and will not reach. Washington before Mondav. The rezlstra. draft numbers, i 1 uuvb ueeu beni 10 aajuiam uenerai Smith at Indianapolis.

Many cases of misinformation as to the draft were disclosed by the rumor. A large number of men still believed that their precinct number was the one that would designate them, if drafted, Instead of the new number. As quickly as the list of names and draft numbers i3 completed by the board here, it will be posted in a public place and those subject to draft may learn their number. Prior to that no information will be given out BAND WILL ATTEND I The Huntington band will act as an escort for the body of John Buffing to'ri at the funeral Sunday. Mr.

Buf fington was a member of the band. He was injured July his death occurred Thursday morning. The band members will meet at the Bufflngton home, and will htad the procession when It leaves the house for Warren. The band will marc'j to the end of the pavement, form in open order and allow the cortege to pass. The death of Mr.

Bufflngton was the first lossr of "a member of tfie new Huntington band. PROLONG REICHSTAG. fff International New Service! Amsterdam, July 6. A bill prolonging the life of the German reichstag has been approved by the Bundesrat, according to Berlin despatches. THE EIRIII6 LINE excellent.

The men are going through the stiffest work of their lives, for it requires Intensive training to be prepared for the fighting which awaits them. Physical drflls are part of the order of the day as well as training for proficiency In tactics. The men at the port of debarkation have been enjoying sea baths, a relief from camp duty in the present warm weather. SPREADS RAPIDITY GO FUNERA HER 'HUNTINGTON OPPORTUNnYS GATEWAY" Thirty tfiird Tear. HUNTINGTON, INDIANA, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1917.

NO. 157. 3 Mysterious Stranger May Be Using Abandoned Bippus Wirele ss HMPWM MOMS PERISCOPE IS SE State to By International Nowi Service: Indianapolis, July 6. Ed. Jackson, secretary of state, handed his resignation to Governor Goodrich today, to become effective if he is admitted into the second officers', training camp, which will open at Fort Harrison, August 27.

Ko succeinor will be named at present, but i.f Mr. f. Jackson accepted In the train ing camp, Pliny Wulford, his deputy, probably will be named secretary of state. Both Jackson and Wulford liv ed in Newcastle. "I have been making speeches over the state, urging men to enlist, and I thought that I ought to respond to my own speeches, and enter the of ficers' camp," said Mr.

Jackson. Jackson has been prominent in Re publican politics. Mr. Jackson is well Known in num ington county, having made' speeches Sun rise 4:22. Sun set 7:17.

Forecast for Indiana Thunder showers this afternoon. Saturday partly cloudy. Temperature: .7 a. 73 10 a. 84 1 p.

m. 86 STILL FIGHT COAL PRICES GOVERNOR MAY CALL EXTRA SESSION OF THE LEGIS. LATURE. Say They Are Going to Stand Pat and Get All Tney Can. (By Ellis Searles) Indianapolis, July 6.

More and more the probability of a special ses sion of the legislature looms up for the purpose of handling the Indiana coal bituation. There was a conference at the state house yesterday after noon, between a number of Indiana coal operators and the coal committee of the state council of defense, at which an effort was made to arrive at an agreement on coal prices in this state, but nothing was accomplished. The operators stood pat and made no concessions. They declared that they proposed to stand on the agreement made at Washington last week under which the price of Indiana coal at the mines was placed at $2.75 a ton. This Is a higher price than the operators had been charging for coal be fore the conference was held at Washington, and it is difficult to see just how the people of the state ate to gef any benefit" out of the agreement that permits and authorizes an in crease in coal prices What the pub lie wants, and what Governor Good rich, the public service commission and the state council of defense have been trying for is a reduction in the price of coal, and they say they pro pose to Continue on the job until the coal operators conio down oft their high horse and listen to reason.

Present coal prices In the state have been denounced by the public service commission as outrageous and unfair, and the proposed increase has been referred to generally here are nothing short of highway robbery and sandbagging on the part of the coal operators. The operators continue to stick to the attitude that they propose to get all the profit out of their business that they can pull 'out of it, regardless of how It affects the public There was a Viet Httle conference, following the meeting of the operators and. state officials, yesterday afternoon, out of which there may come definite action. Governor Goodrich, Will H. Hays, chairman of the state council of defense, and a few others were there.

There Is suspicion that Emtar OPERATORS STUBBORN 1 (Continued on Page Ten) racer Resigns Training Camp I i ED JACKSON PETER MARTIN AND DEFENSE COUNCIL AID IN THE PLANS. IS Showt Number of Farm Animals, Silos and Loew to Talk on Canning The county council of defense, Pe ter Martin, chairman, and F. Loew, county agent, have completed ar rangements "for the three silo and canning meetings to be held in the county on July 12 and fa. The meeting July 11 will be held at Clear Creek Center beginning at 8 Immediately before the meeting at 7:30, the boy3 and girls cliib members will hold a half hour meeting. Tho July 12 meeting will be at Monument City," at 8 o'clock in the evening, and the July 13 meeting will bo at Lancaster Center at the same our.

A representative of Purdue univar slty will be present at each meeting to talk on silos and ensilage, anC Mr Loew will give talks on canning. According to statistics recently gathered there are 2,178 farms in Huntington county, and 219 silos. This makes one silo for every ten farms. The same statistics show tnat there are approximately 7,815 horses and colts, 6,498 dairy cattle, I8.74S cattle of all kinds, 35,963 hogs and 4, 999 sheep on the farms. The object of tho tilo meetings is to, arouse interest in silos and ensilage.

Ensilage gives ftock succulent ood in winter, and utilizes corn stalks that otherwise would loss about fifty per cent ot their value as food. The ensilage is palatable and cheap, and the making of ensilage Is one way of conserving feed to pro duce human food in the form of milk and meat. Thus tho county council of defense is baccklng the movement. Oscar Colclessor has been placed in charge of the meeting in Clear Creek township; Emerson Fisher is advertising and talking up the Monument (City meeting, and Henry Heas ton Is charge of the Lancaster township meeting. The meetings are the first to be announced by F.

A. the county agent, but it Is certain that he will have others from time to time. Mr. Loew is in a position to command the services of specialists from Purdue university, and his own wide gen. eral knowledge of how to do will help In making the meetings interesting.

Mr. Loew is a practical canner, and knows the conditions that obtain In ordinary households. He can tell the women how to use the facilities, although they may be limited, that they have in order to produce the best re sults. CONCERT POSTPONED. The regular weekly band concert was held at the high school Thursday evening.

The concert was postponed from Wednesday to Thursday because of the program that had already been arranged for the Fourth. SILO MEETINGS ARE SCHEDULED CENSUS TAKEN here on several occasions. He is an athletic man, though he Is modest about his physical fitness. It ig his custom a fact not known to many of his friends to make long hikes before breakfast. When he was in Huntington for a speech in the last campaign, he went for a long walk before breakfast, probably getting better acquainted with the hills about Huntington than many Huntington people.

He was dressed in a rough, strong suit and walking shoes. The early morning hikes and his" liking for the out of doors keep him always tanned and in robust health, and his friends here believe he is sure to pass the examination for the camp. If he succeeds in getting into the camp, he will be giving up a very lucrative position for one that pays him $100 a month. Jatkson formerly was circuit judge of Henry county. RE CALLER EARLIER liy International News Servrce: 4 Indianapolis July G.

Adju 4 tant General Smith today re J. celved instructions from Wash Ington which led him to believe J. that the Indiana national guard will be called into federal ser vice before, August 5, the 001 4. 4 cial date. 4 4 International News Service 4 Columbus, Ohio, July 6 The 4 war department notified state 4 4 department officials here.

today 4 4 that the Ohio national guard 4 4 will be called into federal ser 4. 4 vice July 15. The soldiers prob 4. 4 ably will be mobilized at their 4. 4 home stations, and after two .4 4 weeks they will be sent to the 4.

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NINETEEN COMPANIES PATROL RIOT DISTRICT IN EAST ST. LOUIS. St Louis H.g to Care for the Refugees Regulars at Globe, Ariz. Thirty companies of soldiers J. are on riot duty in the west.

'4 fr Nineteen companies of guards 4 men today patrolled the riot dis 4 trict of East St. Louis whero forty three are known to have 4 been killed." Four companios of 4 United States regulars are on 4 guard duty at Globo, to 4 cope with the copper strike sit uation. Seven companies of 111 4 4 inols national guardsmen were 4 called Cloomington, 111., to 4 day following street car strike 4 I riots. 4 a Ja Rioters Gain Point. By Intern tlonal New East St.

LouiB, 111., July 6. Rioters here evidently have galled their point. There will bo few negroes in East St. Louis hereafter. The holocaust and slaughter of be 'tween forty and seventy five blacks Monday night lias struck terror among negro re'ugees in St Louis.

Despite assurances from civil and military authorities that safety and protect'on would be granted them, hundreds of negroes absoluely refused to go back to their work across the river here today. Bloomington Quiet By International News Service: Bloomington, 111., July C. Bloomington was quiet today "after a night of rioting and property destruction, an outgrowth of the street car Btrlke (Continued on Page Eight) THINKS GUARD WILL MANY SOLDIERS Otl II DUTY NEGROES GOING SOUTH SUSPECTED GERMAN SPY TOPS BE8HTEL WIRELESS AERIALS THEN LEAVES COUNTRY Two Beghtel families, living1 near Bippus, are much excited over the appearance of a stranger at their homes last Monday, and his actions in connecting some kind of a portable instrument to the aerials formerly used by members i of the families for amateur wireless telegraphy. The families are those of Jacob Beghtel and his son. The families fear the stranger was a German spy, and if he was, he was very bold.

The stranger drove up to one of the homes, stopped his car, unpacked some kind of a portable instrument that stood on a tripod, connected one wire to the aerial, and another to an iron pin which he shoved in th? ground. Then the stranger produced a note book and proceeded to write in it for about half an TO DRY FEDERATION WANTS" TELE GRAMS SENT TO MEW AND WATSON. WILSON WOULD COMPROMISE H. J. Hall, head of the executive committee bf the Indiana Dry Federation, has 'written letters to various men over the stat urging that telegrams be sent to Senators New and Watson asking them to stand for the prohibition of wine and beer as well as whisky, in the vote on the proposed food registration bill A letter was received Friday morning in Huntington by W.

White lock, president of the Huntineton county Dry Federation, and move ments were started immediately to have various persons in the city to send telegrams The bill at present would prohibit the distilling of whlaky and brandy, but at the suggestion of President Wilson, the framers decided not to prohibit the making of light wines and beer. The dry workers are try Ing to have the bill contain the pro hibitlon of beer and wine, although president favors letting such drink be manufactured. WARD CHAIRMEN. A special meeting of the ward and precinct chairmen will be held Sat urday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the library. This meeting pertains to the women wno nave been taking tne war under the auspices of the uquai francnise league.

By International News Pervtce: Washington, July 6. Machinery for the draft is not reedy for opera tion, and it win be several days before America's young men will be drawn for service. July 7 was the day Bet by the provost marshal's office, on which all the states were to have their arrangements made for the drawing. Many of the state have not completed arrangements, and will not have them completed for perhaps, another week. The war department will not, authorize any part of the draft until all 6tates can handle tho work simultaneously.

"All information published concerning the dates for the draft is mere surmise," the provost marshal's office said today. "We are not making public any informatton until we can make sure there will be no slipup in the plans. When we know the GIT ZENS DEMAtIO BONE DRY hour. a a After leaving the first home the stranger did the same thing at the second Beghtel home. At both places the young men who had had stations prior to the war were afraid to approach the stranger, fearing he was a government agent.

Now they are afraid that he was a German spy, and promise that he will have a chance to tell who he is if he comes back. listening over the second aerial, the stranger packed his instrument, jumped into his car and drove away, He has not 'been back, and nothing has been heard from him since. When the war broke out the two station instruments were dismantled according to the government orders. The aerials were not taken down, because nothing of the kind was ordered. The powerful instruments the young men of the two families used were able to detect messages sent by ships on tho Atlantic, and the messages sent out from the government station at Arlington were easily recorded.

GETS AFTER SMBBLEB: PRESIDENT AND CABINET TAKE UP QUESTION OF ESPIONAGE. Law Provides Death Penalty But Officials Fear Effect on the Public. By International Newa Washington, July 6. rresident Wilson today made an effort to get to the bottom of the German spy question when he met the cabinet. It is understood he threshed out the whole problem, as well as probed the Fourth of July submarine story.

Not all of the kaiser's spies in this country are German or even natives of the countries allied with Germany, rroof. of this is before depart ment officials now. it was learned to jdav. Accordingly the task of round ing up these agents is doubly difficult and officials do not conceal their con viction that it will be Impossible to wipe out absolutely the German spy system. The moat that can be hoped for Is its minimization.

The question of what to do with the spies when they are caught is one that is also bothering officials today, although the rule9 0f civilized warfare Bpcciflcally provide for their prompt. execution on conviction. Of course. officials are united in the conviction (Continued on r.ige Ten) date on which the drawing will be made, we shall'announce it." It was intimated that the chief reason no advance reports are being issued is the fear that many armed with the report, would bo able to find some means of evad'ng the draft. General Crowder was expected to see Secretary Baker at once in regard to the new plan to draft 1, 000,000 men instead of the originally announced 650,000.

The added number will be used to fill the quotas of the regular army and the national guard. By International Newa Service: Indianapolis, July 6. All draft boards in Indiana must send in the renumbered cards to Jesse Eschbach, state conscription officer, by tomorrow night. Today Mr. Eschbach had heard from only thirty of 125 boards.

Indiana's draft machtoery will bo ready by the first of next week. EXECUTION CONSIDERED 1.