Detroit Evening Times from Detroit, Michigan • 1

A Pledge for Every Page -s If The Times prints It, The Times believes it TKKNTII YKA R. NO. ctjffli HB BBB AH BAH flfl HI hBW GOVERNOR SLEEPER TO TAKE OFFICE TODAY OS CONDON DOOM SOLUTE New Year Will Be Gala Day In State Capital i FLOWERS DECK LEGISLATIVE HALL Friends of Newly ed Officers Crowd City mdent United Prttt LANSINO. 1 thi firing of a of 17 by naval reserve battalion of Detroit. Albert Sleeper will be ushered Into office as governor at noon today.

The salute will follow immediately the administering nt the oath of nflUe by Chief Justice Kuhn, nf the supreme court. The installation of the new governor and other elective officers of the slate who assume thetr positions i today will take place Monday In representatives hall, the somber dig nlt.v of which was relieved by a wealth of lowers, token of esteem fr-itn frivols of the new state offi dais. The ceremonies will be wit lies sad by a Urge nun. her of members of the incoming leaLdaturc who arrived early for with their friends, admitted to the floor of the legislature chamber by card, ard bv a packed gallery of hour of noon approaches thi governor and officers elect, led by the chief justice, will inter chamber, filled with pectators, a door at the front Justice Kuhn will mount the -trikes the hour, the governor followed in turn by others will oath, then return to ir to impromptu receptions to thrir or in the routine of the Preceding inauguration exercises hand from the Industrial St bool for Boys played in rotunda of the building This evening the resumption ct of government puhltean administration after tour of control will he further celebrated by a public reception the governor and other fifhi and ti supreme court Justice- and by dancing In the corn tlortt of the capitol to music fur- nisheri by the hand of the Mo tor Car company The attending the Inaugural wt re arranged Col. Walter Roger rrtiaaUT gen era) of the Mlehigan National guard, arranged for bringing of the nl reserve battalion to parttel It ai.llnurd on New Oil President Was a Store Clerk -im iJR A Medford and as dr.V goods Clerk in IASI.

Hr Juat became of the Standard Oil. Sue Into lohn 11. Arehlatld Medford president and a his promotion lie ts hi. ICY MIST GREETS 1917 IN DETROIT Weather Conditions Are Anything But Ideal for Holiday ADVENT MARKED BY USUAL DIN Real New Eve Observance Was On Sunday Night Jan 1917, greeted a much fatigued Detroit, with mild but unpleasant weather. A fine hitst arrhed in fin- city early in the mom ing.

which turned to ice it fell end promised to make dangerous the conditions on pavements an I streets. clebrnting the coming of anew year 21 hours in advance so that The opportunity to of the gayety that in found in cases and club rooms Isn't In accordance with idea of how ihe thing should be properly done. Thin -orlkinglv apparent at 12 o'clock Sunday night when 6 went away Into the past IMI7 into existence. Many Wait for Sunday. Itecausc the last of the w-jir fell on a Sumln).

there was a tele, ration Hnturday mpht in hotels and Cases Hut it wo not a general ervance The maeses who Jam the streets to give nolsv to the new anil hid farewell to the old year did noi con.rnt to ceb-bratc before moment when the celebration w.is done Sunday night, however, the real, old fashioned customs obcerr ttd The voices of hundreds of deep, throated whistles routed or scream'd. hells ring and in the downiown streets thousands upon of inert and women equipped with varl- II nntlnirD I'agr Twtl BRITISH TROOPS REPLACE FRENCH Khaki lad Soldiers of King (ieorge Steadily Relieving of Primer Pu WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS (SinU I'orrenponiU'nt ft ited Preti WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IV FRANCE. -lan Nineteen seventeen finds the British line gradually extending More and more the soldiers of Britain relieving the horl or the blue of the Prench poiltis. The process has been going on ever tdnoe 1914. And today mammoth expeditionary force is hoMi from the viewpoint of number of men and equipmen answer rail the council deems desirable Is a vast difference today from IlHfi.

when a thin, tagged line, larking reserves, miraculously clung on. despite an apparently impossible tliuation The most striking nreas the trenches and the sea retenihle England more than France. The British French forres have completed taking over a section of Ihe French front, and the British Is now longer than ever before Wmynr I'svlllnn at foot Third night Finest floor and archest ra. Spe. Hat New Monday, I 4tt DETROIT TIMES SOLONS IN LAST LAP OF SHORTTERM Much Remains To Re Accomplished Before Adjournment MANY IMPORTANT BILLS ARE PASSED Immigration Measure Likely To Be Passed Again WASHINGTON, I The short session of the sixty-fourth eort gress Is on the last lap of a whirl wind race.

Following is a review on what has been accomplished and something of what remains to be done. These, measured by public Inter est. are the most important five tasks accomplished by the ty-fowrth congress. The army and navv bills earry- Ing appropriations of gigantic sums, a long step towards preparedness. Establishment of federal reserve banks to eliminate danger of financial panics.

Purchase of Danish Wesi Indira at a cost of S22v.OnA.Oftn another stride towards preparedness Federal farm act. of great It nnllnurd ah I'agA Tm.l Tn Oar UiAllng Sr the I S. l.nnAo Ca. Main SIMM. Ad.

MONDAY, JANUARY 1. 1917. PEACE NOW CONDEMNED BY CLERGY Distinguished Divines Urge Nation Not To Be Stampeded SHOULD CONSIDER MORAL ISSUES Ending of War Must Not Be Triumph For Evil WASHINGTON. Jan. I In an ap to the nation Issued here today more than distinguished clergymen arnl laymen of various denominations unite in a warning to the American people not to be stampeded Into supporting a prema sure peace in Europe Among the signers are Lyman Abbott, President Hlbhen.

of Princeton; former Attorney General Bona parte, Winston Churchill, the au thor. President King of Ohorjin eol lege, Gifford Plnehol. I ieorge Wharton Pepper. Philadelphia; Rev William A. (Billy) Sunday, James Speer, chairman of the lgymsn's missionary movement; Rev.

C. Nelson, Episcopal bishop of Atlanta; Joseph F. Berry. Methodist It AAllnnrtl Wa-rnn Rnlter Rink of Third-st. Three sessions dally.

features so? New Year WHAT A GREETING! DEATH TAKES MRS. H. FYFE Wife of WeH Known Shoe Merchant Dies After Brief Illness Mr? 1,. Rice Fyfe, wife of R. Fyfe died Monday rqornine.

at o'clock, in family hum No MP WootUaru following a feyfe one of Detroit? best known society women, and intersted in manv charitable and philanthropic and in patriotic societies. Os a rather quiet and reserved na tore. Mr? PS fe In former years, however. a notable hostess, and entertained with much hospitality in the family homes on Woodward and In her summer home at Pi aeon set MKs? Mr? Fyfe was an ardent patron of music and the arts and was prominent in the membership of th Chamber Music society, tile Detroit hestral association, Fine Art? soeietj St. Clair chapter.

A. Mt. Vernon society. Society of Colonial New England society, the Old cluh, and the Needlework guild Arrangement? for the funeral 0 have noi been made Tke Rrr. Hons.

pnalor (if Ihr oml Hnpllal rknrrfc, was recipient Mtjtnmnblle as a Christmas sift from a a roup of men in hi? rnnsrrgstmn, rind made pubic the gift from hi? pulpit, Jtunday evsnlng IT said that lie re aretied in marhine had paid its first Hit to reps shop as a fesii.ll his hut that harnna a few he a himself Hotel New year's I elfhrslUn Saturday. 10. Isglnteng si tS? i Cabaret Cherry SOLDIERSON WHY HOME Th i rty -First Michigan Leaves Border Camp For Detroit REGIMENT LEFT MANY FRIENDS Border Citizens Bid Guardsmen Fond Farewell KL PASO Tex Fan. I The Thir ty first Michigan regimen- broke amp here Sunday night, and en trained for Fort Wayne. on the outskirts of Detroit, where It will he mustered out of the federal service.

Fifty-nine cars. In three trains, were required to transport the 1.17D men and their equipment Only six men were left behind because of Illness None of these case? is serf on? and It is expected that all will he to come home with the Thin y-shcond. Michigan regimen' expected to leave the border Kina! order? to entrain were received late In the afWrnoor it had been the intention to strike tent? in the morning, but a heavy rain srfp.ked the making too wet for king As as the tents hail dried out the men en to work with a will, and in a It oslinaol on I AFTERNOON EDITIOR NOTE TO AMERICA WILL EXPLAIN IN OETAIL WOT PEACE WAS REJECTED RELEASE OF MRS. POPE IS OELAVED Parole Papers Have Not Reached House Os Correction PRISONER IS GREATLY UPSET Welcome Awaits Her When She Reaches Rescue Home Mrs Nellie D. Pope was still Id the House of Correction Monday morning alfepfct-ee of collapse as a result of a delay in the receipt of her parole papers, necessary before she can be released.

Wor dwas received from the governor last Friday that he bad granted a request for the parole of the noted prisoner and that the necessary legal papers would follow The first mall Monday morning failed to bring them, however, and Mrs. Pope, her heart made sick by the long deferred hope, appeared about to collapse The woman has had so many disapitolntmenta that. will not believe that she is actually to have her liberty until she gets beyond sight of the grim gray walls that have housed her for more than two decades. Trip Is Postponed Tt was expected that the l-Hease order would feach House of Correction Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Pope was ready to on a warning Mrs.

Robert gg. Miss Clara Dyar and Staff Captain Duffy, of the Salvation army, drove to the prison ip Miss Dyarw automobile to take her away They learned that the document a had not yet arrived and that MYs Pope would have to remain until Mon day The women who have interested themselves In Mrs liberation are praying that the parole will I come Monday, which they say will he a good a of Happy New Year for the w-onian who cannot remember such a thing as happiness. When Mrs. Pope reaches the Sal vaMon Army Rescue home, on near Twenty-fourth-st, she will participate in the first religious service she has been permitted to at 'tend for 3b long years. Since shwas first confined she hac been denied the consolation of any a privilege accorded other prisoners of whatever retini Inclinations Soon after she began serving her life sentence Mrs.

Tope showed an Inclination to disturb the her actions finally culminating in thrilling leap front the haJcori' of the chapel down among the men prisoners who wete on mam floor Despairing of convincing woman that she should not disturb the worship, the prison authorities decided to leave her In eel I I while the other prisoners gathered for the church services. The women who have come to her I i assistance now and worked so long to bring about hrr release feel that the prisoner was. treated unfairly tn this regard, but the prison authorities declare th it. was because of the woman's own actions that the services were of no benefit to Mrs Pope and i the other prisoners annoyed by beT actions, so had choice tn the matter'" "Welcome Home For Grandma When Mrs Pope reaches the ns AN IN DETROIT: ONE CENfJ Chorus of Approval Greets Rebuff to Germany SCRA POF PAPER PHRASE REVIVED Reparation Demanded For Teutonic Outrages 1 By ED. L.

KEEJt. 1 Correspondent United FfM) LONDON, Jan 1 word of the allied reply to OwnuM? supported by press and public. terest today centered on Juet hoar much further the Entente woald got in specifying its stand In its reply to President peace aofee. The general belief today tree that the Allies, having: outlined la broad general way in the Oerautt note the position. they must with reran! to German peace posals, would make the reply tm America a sort of supplement.

wfeMh would go exhaustively into thfejfagd and animating thyhfclfal in their detertuinu'ion to comfond the war. In some quarters tt WBB held the reply note to Orman? wan full and sufficient answer America. Most offlctals, howewwh privately expressed the belief that England and her Allies should Mt their position before the peutval orld even more explicitly bjr am, r.m pll float lon in the note to lea. There was only one note of cisf today In the general ehorue os, approval of the answer wfc Germany. That was in the ial comment of the Daily NeWi which feared faulty translattadn into English of the French word in the note's teat mtrht lay the Allien open to the chaise af.

vindictiveness. The Daily MrdW pointed out that some newspapers hao translated the word penalties" iind some and wyat The French word "sanctions" the editorial asserted, "is rather a synuo.vm for guarantees, h.in a blunt threut of puninhnMgit which would probablv stimulate tho. to fight to the last man; lather than The note to Germany as handw to neutral in Parle flol lows: The Allied gnv.rnmetiT* of glum. France, Britain, ItalmM onllnu.d on Putt Tnw) Stars and Stripes Flew When His Ship Went Dows 8 N.fIAC Capfatn Duffy, commander of the Araertcso ship which an Auc Irian submarine sank est the coast of Spain, hat Jufll come bark to the Untied ItiMH When submarine comnandw fold him to hau) down the flag before th'' vessel was to sunk Duffv refused. Hsdl the submarine, and he twfl the Austrian sink the ship with IMM still np He was later landdJfl In Simln.

from which he inkdo jfl to United IS.