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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-08-20

BOSTON, Aug. 19.-The remnants
OF the Grand Army Of the Republic be-
gan mobilizing here today for the
ifty-frst annual encampment OF the
veterans. Most OF the delegations
from a distance had already arrived
by nightfall Among those already on
hand are Commander-in-Chief ". j.
Patterson, of Pittsburgh, Pa; Senior
Vice Commander-in-Chief W. II.
Wormstead, Kansas City, Mo-, and
other officials, as we'll as a delegation
of twelve from Alaska and Washing
ton, headed by Department Command
er John J. See. Of Anacortes, Wash.
The encampment formally opened
this afternoon with an impressive pa
triotic service in the new Old South
church. Mingled with the Boys in
Blue in the audience were many OF
the Boys in Khaki, awaiting their
marching orders In the country's new
est war for freedom. Corporal James
Tanner, OF Washington, D. c., past
commander-in-chief, who delivered the
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-08-20
Official Announcement
Of Ex-Czar'S Residence

PETROGRAD, Aug. 19.-It was Of
cially announced to-day for the first
time that the new residence Of Nicho-
las Romanoff, the deposed Russian
emperor, Is at Tobolsk, a western ST.
IBERIA town which recently achieved a
dubious publicity in revolutionary
Russia as the birthplace Of Gregory
Rasputin, the mystic monk, who
welded q remarkable influence over
the ex-emperor's family up to the
time of the priests assassination in
Petrograd last December. The official
announcement says:
Owing to reasons Of state, the gov
ernment decided to transfer to new
residence the ex-emperor and ex-em-
press. who are detained under guard.
The place selected was Tobolsk, where
they were taken after requisite meas
urse to insure their safety. With them
went of their own free will their chill
dren and certain Of their encourage
(Nicholas Romanoff. rs the Russian
ex-emperor is now known, was mystic
riously removed, together with the OK
empress and their children and suites,
from the palace at Tsarskoo-Selo on
Auguts II. Tobolsk. years ago, was
the administrative center for e1iles
banished 10 Siberia. 1t is on The east
ern side Of the Ural mountains and
about 1900 miles from Petrograd)
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GREAT WORK BEING
DONE BY NATIONAL
DEFENSE COUNCIL

WASHINGTON. Aug. ia review
OF the important part played by the
council of national defense in almost
every phase of the nations vast prep
aration for war is given in state
ment tonight by w S. Clifford, director
Of the council and Of its advisory COM
mission. 1t tells how. through the
commissions committees, the govern
ment has reached all over the country
to bring into consultation experts in
every line of endeavor whose advice
or cooperative activity has made pos
sible many of the accomplishments OF
the war and navy departments.
Its Achievements.
Some of the things done are sum-
married as follows:
The active direction and adapta-
ton OF the nations railway facilities
for war purposes; further develop
ment of sources of supply for all
kinds OF war munitions and their COM
ponent parts. from artillery and ma
chine guns to various forms OF motor
transport; unusual progress on COM
lcoHfinnA4 an YA60 Ean-l
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BELMONT OUT
Of NAVY LEAGUE

WASHINGTON. Aug. 10. Perry
Belmont tonight resigned as vice pres
ident and director Of the Navy League.
In letter to Robert NJ. Thompson,
president of the organization, Mr. Bel
mont said:
The good accomplished by the Navy
League in the past Is beyond question.
but its present efforts are jeoparized
by persistent disagreement with the Of
ficial head Of the. navy In time Of war.
OF this attitude disapprove, and there
fore. with regret. tender my resignation
as one Of the vice presidents and d.
rector Of the league
Because Of what he denounced of
false and libelous attacks upon him and
upon the service, issued by the Navy
League headquarters. Secretary Daniels
recently announced that there could be
no connection between the navy and
the league as now managed and Of
ficered
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-08-20
TWO MURDERS COMMITTED SUNDAY
IN THE MARTINS FERRY DISTRICT
COLORED WOMAN AND
FOREIGNER VICTIMS
Lee Cochran, a Prominent
Farmer, is Charged with
the Latter Killing.

Two murders occurred Sunday IN
the Martins Ferry district, the victims
being Mildred Banner, one Of the
most familiar characters in police cir
cles. and the other George kovach,
Hungarian miner employed at the
Florence mine of the Y. & 0. Coal
Company, about two miles northwest
Of Martins Ferry. The Banner woman
was murdered about midnight on the
river bank near the corrugating de-
partment of the Aetna mill. and the
urder of Kovach occurred on or near
farm of Lee Cochran. who lives
the hill just west Of Florence.
lie assailant of the colored woman
ha. not been arrested, while Lee Ccch-
ran, prominent farmer, is held for the
killing of Kovach.
Lying on the damp river bank. which
was stained by her own blood. with
muscles set and body stiff and cold,
and with three ugly knife stabs In
her neck, Mildred Banner was found
at o'clock yesterday morning near
the foot Of Buckeye street, in Martins
Ferry. 1t is believed that she was
murdered about midnight Saturday,
and that her body had laid in the
weeds on the river bank for seven
hours. The discovery was made by
the crew of B. & o. shifting engine.
who saw the body from the engine.
What could have been the motive
Of the man who murdered her Is a
mystery. She was not the kind that
made enemies. and she is not known
to have had any trouble with any
one.
Revenge Probable Motive.
Revenge may have been the motive,
and it is on this theory that the Mar
tins Ferry police are working. Some
time ago the murdered woman had
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| HUNDREDS OF KRUPP
W0RkMEN ON STRIKE;
LEADER under ARREST

AMSTERDAM, Aug. 19.-The Lokal
Anzelger states that several hundred
workmen employed in Krupp's Madge
burg plant have gone on strike owing
to the arrest of one of their leaders
The workmen considered this a dis
ciplinary measure and sent deputa
tion headed by Reichstag Deputy Herr
Brondes to the deputy commander-in
chief, asking him to release the
leader The deputy commander-in'
chief informed the deputation that the
man under arrest was suspected OF
high treason because he had distrib'
uted hand bills melting workers to a
general strike.
LONDON, Aug. 19e-A strike of the
workers in the Essen and Dusseldorf
districts is threatened, according to
dispatches from Amsterdam to the
Exchange Telegraph company. The
workers demand ten pounds of pota'
toes weekly. At meeting arranged
between labor delegates and the war
food department., 1t was declared that
1t was impossible to give the workers
more than eight pounds Of potatoes
during the next twenty weeks.
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GERMAN CHANCELLOR :. ).
TO REPLY TO POPE'S55
PLEA TO END WAR.
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS =: =:
WAR AIMS REITERATION
German Press Comment on
Pope's Note Generally Il
Unfavorable. = - -

BERLIN, Aug 19, via London.--In
connection with the meeting Of the
main committee Of the Reichstag, Az.
gust Fl, there is the prospect of q 50.
cial democratic Interpolation calling
on the government to reiterate its wif
aims.
The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeit.
ung announces that DR.. Michae7is. tee,
imperial chancellor, will take the floor
at Tuesdays meeting or the purpose
of participating in the general discus.
sion, and he also will make references,
to tba o,noI noo,o 49,. -:.S
rNf"' P~NN~ 'oN~' ~
Unfavorabie Comment I
LONDON. Aug. 19.-Thc comment
in German newspapers reaching AIM
sterdam is generally unfavorable to,
the pope's peace note according to-,
dispatches to the Exchange Telegraph
Company. The German Catholic pa
pers express the deepest respect for
the pope's initiative, but consider tie.
note disquietiug so fer as it regards,
Germany's interests. r:'r
The Liberal newspapers view the
note as an appeal Of great hopeful.
ness. The Morgen Post says that It
does not see why Germany should re.
ject the appeal, adding that il Is well
to understand that neither the Alsace. J
Lorraine nor the Trentino questions
can be submitted 10 any tribunal, be.
cause such questions do not exist.
The Tages Zeitung, according to thu
dispatches, declares that the popeS
peace proposals would mean Ger.
many's ruin.
The Fossiche Zeitung asserts that
Germany will rapidly solve the Bel
gian question in conformity with the 1
wishes OF the pope, but declares that
France must also give u7 al hopes Of.
annexing Alsace-Lorr2ine and that
peace must bring IN equilibrium. ~
Bitter Contention. ::s
COPENHAGEN. August 19.-The
pope's peace proposal now is beinK.
dragged into the field Of party polse
tics in Germany and made the subject
of contention between the pan-Gei:.
man annexationists and advocates Of
a moderate peace.
George Bernhard in the Berlin Vos.. :,
sische Zeitung says the pope's action
has cleared up one Of the mysteries
connected with: Matthias EfsebergerG:
recent peace campaign il the Re!c!.
stag and that the adoption BY Hee
Reichstag Of his resolution was-st0-
pave the way for the pope's note. - -.
Vienna dispatches says the govern!
ment newspapers declare emphatical.
ly that 1t is impossible to cedc foot
Of soil to Italy. but otherwise little
vehement objection to the popes note J,
Is heard from Austria
Count Won Reventow. in the Tages
Zeitung continues his cvricai discus.
sions Of German policy. He avo-s, in
reference to the pope's phrase on the
situation Of the moral power OF tas.
tice for might Of arms. that the moral
law exists for the Germans only so tar
as 1t applies to the German empire
and nation. The writer says the Ger.
mans cannot consent to a reduction tn
armaments, which alone have made
possible Of existence Of the empire
and the possibility Of its moral acti.
vities. -,
Count Won Reventhow adds that
Germany cannot bear her own war
burdens and that, therefore. she can.
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Nationwide Search is
On for Noted bOatnnan
Special Dispatch 10 the In,sllI9eucr.

Special Dispatch 10 the intelligence.
CINCINNATI. O., Aug. ia nation
wide police search is in progress today
for Henry D. Lory. aged 40 years. prob
ably the best known of builders Of Ohio
river boats. strangely missing from his
home at 102 Berry street Dayton ny.
Lory arose from his bed late Saturday
night and left home. His favorite boat
Is also missing. The missing man has
fine record of citizenship and has
never been away from his home with
out complete previous explanation be-
fore leaving. Besides his aged mother
Is seriously Ill. Lory Is q noted figure
In national speed boat racing circles
upon all inland rivers and Is thought
to have 4 considerable sum In his pos
session. He Is q prominent member OF
the famous Idle Hour Boat club and has
navigated the Ohio and other inland
rivers for quarter of century.
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CONGRESS To SPEED UP PROGRAM
Of LEGISLATION; QUIT SEPT. 18th

the war tax bill is expected by the
leaders Of both parties. but many Of
the members believe it will go over
into next week. Tomorrow the Sen
ate, having disposed Of virtually all
minor questions. will enter upon de-
cisive and vigorous disputes over the
income, war profits. publishers and
consumption tax provisions. Senator
La Toilette plans q lengthy speech to-
morrow In an effort to increase the
income and profits rates. with Senate
sentiment strong for higher levy on
war profits.
Immediately after the passage Of
the revenue measure the Senate lead
ers plan to give short time to peace
debate on the resolutions OF Senator
La Toilette and others. Adm!nistra-
ton and some Republican leaders ex-
pect to overwhelmingly table pacifst
proposals, probably In open session.
In the House, the "gentlemen's
agreement" under which business has
been suspended for several weeks.
will expire this week. Next Saturday
the ways and means committee will
take up Secretary McAdoo's proposed
new war budget, and the House will
reassemble the following Monday.
prepared to dispose promptly OF both
the bond issue and the new war ap-
preparation measure under prepara-
ton.
Senate committees meet tomorrow
for action on the trading-with the en-
my. Webb export and espionage
amendment bills.
Confirmation Of most Of the two
hundred major generals and, brigadler
generals recently nominated. and Of
former Representative Victor Muir
dock, Of Kansas, to the Federal trade
commission, also Is expected during
tho -AAk
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GERMANS FORCED TO
CHANGE METHOD OF
OPPOSING THE ALLIES

BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE AND
BELGIUM, Aug. 1s.--(By The Assoclat-
ed Press)-The beginning Of the 1our1n
year Of tho war finds the Germans rap
idly making a radical change In their
methods Of defense along the British
battlefront In northern France and Bel
Eium. The continuous lines OF won
derfully constructed forward trenches
with their deep dugouts, in which lived
and fought great numbers Of men, arc
fast passing into the discard
The enemy Is adopting the system OF
scattering his advance forces over
great depth. Cunningly constructed
stropSholds among the Hyraid OF shell
holes along the front now conceal in
Vulnerable small and more OF less isolAt-
ed garrtsons OF men who formerly
fought shoulder to shoulder along great
stretches Of picturesque bitches, through
which communication was not broken
for miles
The Change Forced
This alteration has been brought
about by tho ever-ErowinG rreponderance
81 British artillery which has buried the
German front line trenches under An
avalanche Of shells, left the de1enses
nothing but heaped furrows OF earth
and has made the famous dusouts Ver1-
table man traps in which countless
thousands have lost their lives without
a chance OF shtingi back
The continuous deluE0 OF oTNAA1Ae
steel made repair work on tho trenches
impossible and as the Germans were
gradually pushed back they. OF necessity
were forced to invent another naode OF
stemming the ever-advanctng tide.
Depth Of De1sn1ss
So It has come to be depth OF defenses
upon which tho German depends IN
many places rather than. the strength
Of his rst line trenches. Tho recent Al
lied offensive east and north or -1pres
disclosed many examples OF this new
scheme Of fghtins which bids fair to
take the place Of the tactics OF the last
thre, wears. Wherever tho German
Yront limo trenches have been made un-
tenable or where a British attack Is ex-
pected. one finds the new order OF
things. The first German lines now
often consist Of strong outposts con-
,cealed in shell craters or copses and
considerable distance apart.
Back Of these outposts are chains OK
shell hole nests. each nest consisting OF
two or three craters connected oy un-
derSround passages that often lead TO
dugouts- As the entire territory Is
p:tted with holes, this Is easy OF accom-
plishneut and 1t may be presumed that
the Germans figure It will be hard FOR
the allied observers to pick out the de-
Tended shell holes from the thousands
OF others scattered about
Shall Hols De1snSss.
Where time has allowed. the Germans
have made tho she'll hole defenses with
elaborate care. Each nest Is heavily
protected by barbed wire and the cham
bers beneath are reinforced with TIM
CONTINUED on 1ASs H1ns.)
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WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 19.-
The legislative program remaining fol
The extra session Of Congress has as
sumed such definite form that. the
leaders tonight expressed hope for
vacation about September Is. or MOI
later than October !.
Included in the program for disposa
within the next three or four weeks
ire:
The s2,0o6.oo0.o00 war tax bill.
A new war budget authorizing \
about s7,0O0,000.oO0 in bonds.
probably at 4 per cent. for fur
ther loans to the Allies and to re-
tire the S3S00.o00.000 Of 315 per.
cent. bonds already authorized.
and providing for $2,000,o00,o0o
worth of certificates Of indebted
ness and like amount OF small
denomination war savings cert1h-
Gates.
A deficiency appropriation
measure aggregating between So
900 0o0, 900 and $1,000. 100000, now
being prepared by the House ap-
proprlations committee
The administration trading
wlth.the-eneny bill. which passed
the House July II.
The administration measure FOR
insurance Of soldiers and sailors.
The Webb export trade bill,
peace resolutions in the Senate,
extension Of the espionage act,
and several other minor meas
ures.
Most Of these measures, the leader:
believe. can be disposed OF while tne
var tax bill is in conference. Shoulc
obstructive opposition develop against
the less important bills. some may be
postponed until Congress reassem
Sles.
Pa1laxA by the Senate this week Oh
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-08-20
American Steamship in
Narrow Escape from Sub
Torpedo Misses the Rudder Of
Vessel by Inches-Naval
Gunners Miss U-Boat.

AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 19.-An
American passenger steamship which
arrived from England today was at
tackled by submarine off the Irish
coast on her last outward voyage and
escaped being torpedoed by margin
of inches, her officers said.
The periscope of the U-boat was
observed abeam Of the vessels by one
lookout almost at the same moment
another espied the approach of a tor
pedo. AS the missile came on, it
seemed, judging from its course, the
liner was doomed. Her speed, how
ever, saved her, the torpedo missing
the rudder, the officers said, by not
more than foot.
The navy gunners fired almost in.
stantly but missed. The submarine
submerged but soon the periscope re-
appeared 200 yards astern. the U-boat
commander evidently anxious to see
whether his torpedo had found It's
mark.
The gunners fired a second shot but
that also went wide. The submarine
then quickly submerged again.
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Field Marshal Haig's Britishers Again Make
Big Gains; French Repulse the Crown Prince
MEET
HARD FIGHTING
ON EAST FRONT

Although for the most part the
British and French forces in Flan-
ders and in the vicinity of Lens
are engaged in consolidating posi-
tions won last week from Crown
Prince Rupprecht, the British
near Ypres have made further
advance on a mile front to depth
OF about 500 yards and also in the
Somme region have renewed their
attacks with advantage. In the
latter maneuver Field Marshal
Haig's men succeeded in taking
positions near Epehy and inflict-
Ing heavy losses on the Germans.
The Germans have been feeling
out the strength Of the French
lines in the Fosges mountain re-
gion where, after heavy lombard
ments, they delivered attacks
against the French a.ound Badon-
viller. and north of Celles-Sur-
Plaine. Their efforts, however,
went for naught under the fire OF
the French guns and rifles.
50 Likewise, along the Aisne front
and In the Verdun sector along
the banks Of the River Meuse.
continuation of the attempts by
the German crown prince to break
the French lines met with the
usual result-failure.
The airmen of the allies are
working havoc with the German
fiers and on German positions far
behind the lines. In fights in the
air Saturday, the French airmen
accounted for seventeen German
aircraft and the British fliers
seven. which were completely de-
stroyed or forced to land inside
the Teutonic lines badly battered
from machine gun fire. Eight
British machines failed to return
to their base.
In aerial raids behind the lines
allied machines have bombed nu-
merous towns, railway stations
and cantonments, the raids extend
ing as far as Selzaete, near the
Dutch border, IS miles from
Client, which also received visit
alton. ,
American aviators belonging to
the Lafayette squadron took a
prominent part i'll the French
raids and performed notable exc
cution. One Of the Americans,
Corporal Willis, 4 Boston, was
missing from the luadron when
It returned to its / sc.
German airmen a-so tried their
hand at slipping through the Brit
ish air patrol and bombing In
this they were successful, but the
score was against them in the end,
for the explosives they loosed fell
on . British prisoner clearing sta
ton, killing ten Germans and in
flicting further wounds on nine
men Of their army who had al
ready mat with hard usage at the
hands Of the British guns.
There has been a considerable
stiffening in the front in Rumania,
and also In Russia in the region
Of Wilma. South Of .Grozechti. In
Southern Moldavia. the Russians
have made a stand against attacks
Of the Teutonic allies and repulsed
them and, In the Slanic sector
also have beaten of attempts by
the invaders to take further
ground. In the Lake Narocz dis
trict Of the Wilma front the Ger
mans endeavored to win Russian
trenches, but their attack broke
(0ont1nHed on Page N1ns.)
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GRAND ARMY VETS GATHERING :.
At BOSTON FOR ENCAMPMENT

principal address. referred to their
presence in feeling terms. -.
In the parade Tuesday from ten TO
twelve thousand veterans are expect.
ed to be in line, as compared with tho
forty thousand who marched at the
last national encampment here thir'
teen years ago. There had been some
talk Of doing away With the parade,
because Of the age Of the veterans,
but the men in the ranks would not
listen to any such suggestion. saying
this was no time for old soldiers TO
quit with the eyes Of the new army
upon them.
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GERMAN J|NG0
IN WILD CLAIM
GENERAL Won LEIBERT
DEMANDS BELGIUM
Declares Germany Must Have
Colonial Empire and
Maritime Bases.

AMSTERDAM, Aug. 10. Gen.
Won Liebert in a speech at Rattle:
now, Prussia, is quoted by the
Deutsche Tages Zeitung as saying:
I'VE cannot sign a peace before
we have the Flanders coast, a
colonial empire and maritime
bases. Should we not realize this
now, we must prepare to work for
it after the war in view Of the
next war"
General Liebert's speech was
loudly cheered by his hearers but
it was criticized by the German
press.
Vorwaerts declared:
This may prolong the war until
Germany has been so beaten that
even our Pan-Germans cannot
think Of a next time"
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"oHrAE o1u1oH.

CHARLESTON, ". Va, Aug. 1l,Fl.
That the legislature did not intend ~;
county courts to pay for seixing, tn.
pounding and killing stray dogs. whooe;
owners could not be determined ana
made liable for the amount paid. 10 tho
opinion Of Attorney-General England to-
day, sent to NJ. L. Painter. prosecutiNg;
attorney Of Raleight county. who hA4
asked II dogs could be killed without
notice. Any dog can be seized By ";
flcers, says the attorney general. bot
when a license tag Is on the animal. ~.
tice must be given the owner. Where NJ
no owner Is found. the county cooIS
does not necessarily have to, pay u
costs, he says. 49,
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DEATH IN RUNAWAY.

ANDERSON. W. Va. Aug. 1?.-iiroHer
T:ckcr. who lives near this place. was
killed and n man whose name could not
hr learned. was injured today when
horse became frightened at IN oyer
turned canoG lying beside the Grcenhricr
river road. Tho animal ran away over
turning the buggy. and Baker died In
stantlY.
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TIE WNAFKBA,

wABH1NaToN, Aux. ls.-Horseas:;s.. I.
western rsnnsylAvnIA-Hair Nond1Y,
followed by showers in Afternoon OF
night; Tuesday probably showers. .Sg
ohto-Fsrtly cloudy Monday, shoWpEo
and cooler in north 1ussday pstay.
cloudy.
west virsiniA-Fair Hondsy asa.
probably TussdA1. -"
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CONSTANT|NOPLE POST.
FOR Won BERNSTORFF

AMSTERDAM. Aug. 19.-Count Won
Bernstorff. the. former German ambas.
sador to tho United States, has been
appointed, according to the Berlin roA- Z:
sische Zeitung. to the post at Constau-
tinople. He will leave Berlin inmsdt.
ately.