Dixon Evening Telegraph from Dixon, Illinois • Page 1

elegraph OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY OF DIXON BY ACT OF CITY COUNCIL. YEARDIXON, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1,1918 DAILY YEAR -98 ON WEST FRONT BATTLE LINE TODAY ISSUE WARRANTS FOR ARREST OF MEN WHO DODGED ARMY SERVICE Reward of $50 Offered for Avery Lievan and Joseph Witt, Registrants LIEVAN LEFT TOWN? Men Who Were to Go to the Army Barracks Today Failed to Appear One Lee County registrant, Avery Lievan, of South Dixon township, son of Louis Lievan, is classed as a deserter and a reward of $50 for his apprehension was offered this morning by Chairman Henry Dixon 6f the Local Board, for the government. Lievan was slated to be one of the forty selectmen to go to Jefferson Barracks this morning. He failed to appear yesterday afternoon for roll call and also failed to show up this morning. Lievan appeared before the Local Board, Monday morning, and asked for an extension of time from his call, claiming that he was needed on the farm.

His claim was refused, and he was told to be at the court house for roll call at 2 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. It Is said that he did not go back home after he left there Monday morning, and the office has information which makes it appear that he left Dixon hurriedly by train Monday afternoon. Steps have been taken for his apprehension. Hts description, as issued by the Local Board today, is as follows: 24 years old, American, 5 feet 6 inches tall, weight 156 pounds, grey eyes and brown hair. Joseph Witt The Board also states that Joseph Witt, formerly of Dixon, is subject to arrest and a reward of $50 is offered for his apprehension.

Witt was also In today's call, and failed to show up. The board has not heard from him in some time. His description is: 25 years old, American, 5 feet 8 inches tall, weight 160 pounds, brown eyes and brown hair. He is said to have left Dixon, where he was employed at the cement plant, about a month ago. Roy Carlson and Joseph Heckman, two Lee County registrants who were AN APPEAL BY GOV.

LOWDEN The United States Shipping Board is seeking 50,000 first class men he tween the ages of 21 and 30, to train as seamen, firemen, oilers ten ders, cooks and waiters. These men will serve in the merchant marine They need not have sea-going exper ience, and in view o' the urgency of the situation they ar eexempted, by special regulation, from military du ties. Applicants may apply to any one of 403 enrolling stations now estab lished at drug stores in Illinois. Ocean going transportation is the supreme need of the hour. We must transport our troops to the European battle-fronts with all possible speed To do this, we must man our mer chant marine.

Failure to do this will result in disaster. I earnestly urge therefore, that Illinois make prompt and hearty response to this call. 111! nols. so far in the war, has not failed the government in any demand that has been made for men. If it realizes the present urgent need, I am sure it will not fail now.

FRANK O. LOTTDEN. W. S. 3.

-------------IRISH CONSCRIPTION DELAYED ONCE MORE BY BRITISH ORDER Desire to Pass Home Rule Bill First May Be Reason for New Delay WASHINGTON PLEASED United States Officials Relieved That British Did Not Force Issue By Associated Press London, May order in council has been issued for further postponement of conscription as it respects Ireland, beyond May 1, to which date it had been previously postponed. Some of the morning newspapers say the postponement is due the government's wish to introduce a home rule bill and see what measure of to also failed to it gets before proceeding with appear, but it has been established that the failure was not the result of willful negligence, but. was caused by the failure of the men to receive their notices, due to recent changes the Irish conscription act. By Associated Press Leased Wire Washington Relieved. Washington, May it In address.

These men are asked to was fully anticipated, the annuunee- communicate with the Local Board and give notice of their present addresses. iyif DYNAMITE UNDER WIRELESS TOWER ment from London of the postponement of the application of the conscription act with Ireland was received with great relief by officials here. Grave concern had been felt over the situation. It is indicated in Washington that the administration has let Premier Lloyd George know that in) the judgement of the president, tue application of the Irish conscription act should follow and not precede the home rule act. ------------w.

S. BIG FISH Guy Merriman caught a 26-pound ANOTHER GROUP OF LEE COUNTY BOYS ARE OFF FOR BERLIN TO KAISER WILLIAM AND mm Wf-V- I 6 -TT i p' .1 vy ri 2' a ir. i CONTINGENT OF LEE COUNTY BO VS WHO I APRIL 26. (Photo by Hintz) The above young men were photographed just before they boarded the train at the Northwestern station last Thursday, en route to Cam Grant. Those in the squad were: A.

F. Clem, William Loftus, N. K. Knapp, H. S.

Bosley, S. H. Butler, Hans Peterson, Ive Schmal. Richard Long, C. E.

Carlson. Leo Rynski, E. L. Stevins, W. T.

Brannigan, C. R. Brown, R. E. Bogard, J.

A. L. Koch, T. D. Timmons, C.

E. Nelson. W. F. Root, John Duffy.

SCHOFIELD BUYS CHOCOLATE SHOP Ed Schofield yesterday afternoon purchased the stock and fixtures of the Chocolate Shop, at sale, the bid being $845. Mr. Schofield has not determined what disposition he will make of his purchase, but may decide to operate it. CHICAGO HERALOlS ABSORBED BY HEARST EVERY TOWNSHIP IN LEE CO, WILL MEET LIBERTY BOND QUOTA Fine Reports Made in Three Towns Not the OLD AND WELL KNOWN PAPER PASSES OUT OF HERALD AND EXAMINER By Associated Press Leased Wire El Paso, May sticks of dynamite, thirty reet of coiled copper wire and detonating caps were discovered late yesterday buried under the base of the steel wireless tower at Fort Bliss. The explosives were found by an officer who was training catfish in the river early this morn- hls men in intrenchment work near and is now threatening a "whale" the HOB supper to his many friends.

CONTINGENT OF FORTY-ONE LEE COUNTY MEN START IN BUSINESS OF LICKING THE KAISER Hundreds of Relatives and Friends Were at I. C. Depot This Morning to Bid Goodbye to Large Group of Lee County Selectmen Who Went to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, Today Hundreds of Dixon and Lee County boy; John Francis Carroll, Amboy; people arose early this morning to Ephrlam B. Johnson, Naehusa; Harbe at the I. C.

depot and hid goodbye: vey J. Kersten. Ashton; Walter 01- to the latest contingent of Lee Coun-, son. Amboy; Edward N. McBride, ty selective service men to start on Amboy; Alfred M.

Johnson, Lee; Eu- their way to war. Forty-one mien; gene F. Henry. Compton; Elmer E. left Lee County this morning for Jef- Berg, Dixon; John Allen Carnahan, ferson Barracks, in response to Compton; Lewis R.

Jorgenson, Bothe War call upon thelloit, Jeremiah Haley. Amboy; local board of this county for that many men. They left at 7:22. The station and platform was Amour A. Lauer, Sublette; Peter Kitchmark, Rock Falls; Thomas O.

Dooley, Milltovvn. Fred Card- crowded long before the train West Brooklyn; Albert M. Dirk- rived, and mothers and fathers, sis- isen, Ashton; Edward Montavon, ters, sweethearts and friends werejWest Brooklyn: William F. Stewart, there to wave goodbye to the boys Dixon; Thomas F. Atkinson, Amboy; as their train pulled out.

They had George E. Keifer, Amboy; Floyd F. an extra coach for themselves. They Lambert, Dixon; Peter P. Kelley, Chicago Tribune: The Chicago Herald passes out of existence with this issue.

Its disappearance from the Chicago newspaper field ends a career of almost four years under the management and editorship of James Keeley, who, in May, 1914, consolidated the Record- Herald and the Inter Ocean under the name of the Herald. The Herald has been bought by William Randolph Hearst, who today ill absorb it into the Chicago Examiner, and who announces that it will be conducted under the title, the Herald-Examiner. Hearst Takes the Paper The purchase of the Herald plant made by the Illinois Printing and Publishing Company, which is the corporate name of Chicago morning paper, the Examiner. Mr. chief editorial writer, Arthur Brisbane, is announced as the new editor of the Herald-Ex- atr It was announced last evening that Mr.

Keeley will go abroad at once at the invitation of the British government to make some investigations regarding the war. One other report was that he would be affiliated with the Creel bureau and in Washington it was said he might ultimately supersede George Creel as the head of that bureau. A Variety of History The history of the papers that one after another became components of the Chicago Herald, which today will be extinguished, runs back to 1881. The Herald was established as an independent newspaper, hut later John R. Walsh, the banker, took control.

In 1895 it was combined with the Times and became known as the) Times-Herald under H. H. Kohlsaat. In 1901 the Times-Herald was combined with the Record and appeared as the ltecord-Herald. In 1902 F.

Noyes became the editor, but in 1910 Mr. Kohlsaat again assumed the reins. In 1914 Mr. Keeley took control. Buy Liberty Bonds ------STOLE GERMAN ROOKS FROM AMBOY SCHOOL will arrive at their destination this evoning.

Sublette; John L. Murray, Amboy; Harold W. Edous, Dixon; Fay F. COUNTY PER CENT 136 Good Work Continues in Every Community in This County HONOR TOWNS. ALTO WYOMING MARION CHINA WILLOW CREEK ASHTON DIXON AMBOY NELSON BROOKLYN PALMYRA BRADFORD SUBLETTE REYNOLDS VIOLA.

MAY EAST GROVE HAMILTON MOOSE MEETING THIS EVENING Incorrectly Tmo Telegraph last evening announced the big meeting of Dixon Lodge L. O. O. at which the new officers will preside for the first time for Thursday evening. The meeting will be held this evening and every member is urged to attend.

HARMON METHOOiSTS RAISE SERVICE FLAG JOLIET PREACHER WILL OCCUPY PULPIT THERE ON SUNDAY At noon today the committee in charge of the Third Liberty Loan campaign in Lee county felt safe in predicting that South Dixon, Harmon and Lee Center townships would go over the top before Saturday, and thus make every township in the entire county honor units. The reports to the County Chairman were very encouraging: South coirrr.it- tee chairman said tnere Is no doubt at all the town will go across, Harmon lacked but $1,000 of her minimum quota last night and Lee total was but $750 below the allotment. And the other townships are keeping up the good work. The total of Lee subscriptions reported to the Federal Reserve bank in Chicago last night was $902,300, which is 136.71 per cent of the minimum allotment to the county. Washington, Apr.

30-Liberty Loan subscriptions yesterday totaled $17 4443,000. the record for any single (Continued on page 4) EVERY BOOK IN THAT LANGUAGE CONFISCATED MONDAY NIGHT The original call wa: Tor 40 men, Snow. Paw Paw; Arthur F. Irwin, One more was added at his own West Brooklyn; Silas J. Heng, Dixon; urgent request.

Warren Meanger of Otto Freese, Dixon; William M. Lee, was the extra man. Herbst, Naehusa; John Claude Mur- The boys who went away this phy, Dixon; Raymond A. Mansfield, morning to start in training were: Harmon; John E. Busser, Compton; Lester Edgar Potter, Paw Paw; Peter Harry W.

Maronde, Franklin Grove; Deitig, Steward; Joseph J. l)eitz, Thor G. Rydholm, Steward; Warren Andrew Auclistetter, Plummer, Ashton; Warren Meanger. Sublette; Perry John Remsberg, Am- Lee. THE WEATHER Dr.

P. S. Lent of Joliet, 111., who preached at Harmon Methodist church, last Sunday, will occupy the pulpit there again the coming Sabbath, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p.

m. The theme of his morning sermon will be, "Christian and a service flag will be raised at the evening service, with stars for the former pastor, Rev. J. E. M.

Chambers. who has been called to Army Y. M. C. A.

work, and other members of the congregation who are in the service of the government. The subject of the evening sermon will be, "The Privileges of American Citizenship." Rev. J. M. Phelps, D.

district superintendent, hopes to have a regular pastor assigned to the Harmon church within a few weeks. HAVE BOUGHT BONDS i ILLINOIS HISTORY FAMOUS RACER IN AT DEATH OF May 1, for Canal Convention issued to be held in Chicago on the first Tuesday in the enlargement of the canals between the Valley of the Mississippi and the Atlantic. E. 13. Washburn and Isaac N.

Arnold among the signers from both houses of congress. --------------W. S. BENEDICT TO ISSUE NEW PEACE PLEA ON MAY 19TH GERMAN AIRMAN Captain Hall and Lieutenant Rickenbacker Shoot Down Hun POSITIONS IMPROVED New Offer to Be More Pressing Than Before, Is the Prediction British and French Improve Positions in Local At- S. Quiet TO OFFER MEDIATION By Associated Press Leased Wire The Hague.

May 1 (Brtish Admiralty per Wireless Benedict intends to issue a new peace offer or Whit-Sunday, May 19, a Cologne newspaper announces. The document, it is said, will be of a more pressing nature than formerly and will contain concrete offers of mediation by the Pope and possibly co-operation by neutral sovereigns. Similar information has reached Berlin, where it has been received sympathetically. Other reports emanating from Germany have said that (he Pope was preparing a move for peace. It has been held in the ailied capitals that Germany would launch a "peace offensive" if the offensive against the allied lines in the west failed of early victory.

Buy Liberty Bonds ------STARTER OF WORLD WAR DIED IN CELL OF DISEASE TODAY Assassin Who Killed Archduke and Wife Expired in Prison Today BULLETIN By Associated Press Leased Wire British Headquarters in France, via Ottowa, May 1 batteries are constantly shelling Mount Kemmel and unless the enemy can push on beyond this isolated stronghold the hill top may become virtually a death trap. PRECIPITATED A liy Associated Press Wire London, May Prinzip, the assassin of Archduke FYancis Fer dinand, heir apparent to the Austro- Hungarian throne, and his wife, at Sara Jevo, Bosnia, died yesterday in a fortress near Prague, of tuberculosis, says a Hague dispatch. PRESI DENT W11 A SU ERS APPEAL TO ANOTHER TODAY. Wednesday, May 1. By Associated Press Leased Amboy.

111., May pupils of the Amboy high school came to school Tuesday morning they found that during the night someone with an(i Thursday. Friday fair, very strong American sentiments had entered the school and confiscated Sunday every text book and dictionary in Monday the German language. There is no Tuesday trace of the books or of the parties Wednesday who engineered the affair. By Associated Press Leased Wire Washington, May records of the number of subscribers to Liberty Loans was broken today when the treasury announcement showed that approximately 12,000,000 people have bought bonds of the third issue. Total bond sales up to date are $2,509,814.600.

Subscriptions to the first loan were made by 4.500,000 peo pie, while 9,500,000 people subscribed to the second loan. Another The "Buy Another appeal reached President Wilson today and although he had already subscribed for $20,000 of Third Liberty bonds, he agreed to buy a $50 bond on the installment plan, in accordance with the standard suggestion of the "Buy solicitors. The president said he hoped a million other Americans would buy bonds. casualt list HAS 72 NAMES By Associated Press Leased Wire Washington, May 1 casualty Prinzip shot to death the Austrian Archduke and his wife while they were on a visit to the Bosnia capita! June 28, 1914. Out of this double murder the great European war developed.

Prinzip, who was a student, was found guilty and sentenced to 20 imprisonment. NON-H. BOARD HELD MEETING At the meeting if the Non-High School Board of Education of Lee county held in Dixon yesterday for the purpose of organization, at which time Director-elect W. Long of West Brooklyn was seated, President Mrs. Anna E.

Risley of Shnws was unanimously re-elected. Several claims for tuition were favorably considered yesterday and adjournment was taken until May 7th at which time it is expected final action will be taken on all the tuition lais. All such claims should be in the hands of Co. Supt. Miller, who i-: ex- officio secretary of the board, before that date.

Bt) Associated Press Leased Wire official statement reveals no breaks in the comparative quiet on all the recently active battle fronts in Flanders and to the south. I The heavy defeat the Ger- jmans suffered on Monday forced them to pause and bring up fresh troops before continuing the drive toward the hill positions in the Kemmel region. Emperor William appears to have been an interested and active visitor in the, Flanders region yesterday. According to prisoners, he made the usual flamboyant speeches to his troops and said the other day that the Germans put the British back on the English Channel where they An important conference between Premiers Lloyd George, Clemenceau and Orlando is being held at Versailles. and warmer tonight t-or today contains 7 2 names, di vided as follows: Killed in action.

8: died of wounds died of accident. 1: died of disease died of other causes. severely wounded, wounded slightly, 51; missing in action, 2. 6345 5344 .5040 ,45 27 CHICAGO LOSES 1,000 SALOONS By Associated Press Leased Wire Chicago, May 1 Chicago has but 5,000 saloons today, 1,000 having to renew their licenses yesterday. Buy Liberty Bonds CASE ON TRIAL.

Jury trials were resumed in the circuit court today when Judge O. E. Heard called the case of Bower Delhotal, in which recovery is sought for corn alleged to have been sold by the plaintiff. S. ------------LICENSED TO WED Marriage permit has been issued to M.

Dulen of East Grove and I Mias Jessie Fisher of May. By Associated Press leased Wire With the American Army in France, May Ger- jman airplane was shot dawn in enemy territory last night I by Captain Norman Half of and Lieutenant Edward V. Rickenbacker of Columbus, Ohio, who is famous in the United States as an automobile racer, after a duel over the American lines in the Toul sector. I The German made a des, )erate attempt to escape and returned the fire of the Americans, several bullets from the machine guns piercing Hall plane. The Americans peppered the machine with bullets, and drove him down until he fell behind the German lines.

Eddie Wants Speed New York, May Rickenbacker resigned as chauffeur of oa Col, 1 1.