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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-06
GASOLINE RANGERS"
MAY ORGANIZE HERE

A company of Gasoline Rangers
will probably be organized in Rich
mond. it was announced Monday by
Captain Myron Malsby, who attended
a business meeting of the officers OF
the third battalion of the third regi-
ment, held in Newcastle Sunday Cap
tain Malsby was accompanied TO the
meeting by Lieutenants Verne Pente-
cost and Frank Benn.
A company of this kind has been or.
ganized in Newcastle and is reported
to be doing excellent work The Gas
oline Rangers" are composed OF auto
mobile owners who will patrioticalIy
donate their cars and their own serv-
ices, or the services of a driver, to the
militia whenever they may be needed
on an emergency call. There are 76
members in the Newcastle company
of rangers.
Captain Malsby said this move
ment, is sanctioned by the state coun-
Gil of defense, will be taken up in
Richmond in the near future.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-06
WILL RELATE HIS
EXPERIENCES ON
WESTERN FRONT
Rep. Charles B. Undertake,
Who Speaks Here Friday,
Attended Earlham.

Rep. Charles B. Timberlake of Colo
RADIO. who is to speak in Richmond,
Friday evening, May 10. under the aus
pices of the American Red Cross, is
one of The few members of congress
who has studied war conditions ct
first hand. At the meeting he will
address in Richmond he will tell of his
interesting experiences on the west
ern front. late last fall.
Rep Timberlake at one time at
tended Earlham college and he is look
ing forward with interest to his visit
in Richmond. He has a brother, Ed
ward Timberlake, residing at 603
South Thirteenth street. and nephew
Fred Charles, for many years city engi-
nees of Richmond. A sister resides at
Dunreith, Ind.
Rep. TimberlaEe says that he feels
that he is almost as much an Indianian
as he is Coloradian, although he has
resided in Colorado since 1887.
Is Entertaining Speaker.
This former Earlham student is one
of the best known members of the
Sixty-fifth congress and is very en-
tertaining speaker. He was one of a
to France following the adjournment
of congress, last October. While his
principal purpose in making this trip
was to study the condition of the AL
lied armies on the western front he
devoted considerable time to investi-
eating the wonderful work the Amer
lean Red Cross is conducting in
France.
He became so impressed with the
work he saw this great organization
doing that he promptly offered his
services as a speaker for the Red
Cross war fund campaign which opens
this month. and his offer was prompt
ly accepted.
Following his Richmond engage
ment Rep. Timberlake will address the
National Association of City Editors
convention at Indianapolis, Sunday.
May II. He will speak elsewhere in
Indiana before returning to Washing
ton.
AS the guest of the King of Belgium
while abroad lastsfall Rep. Timberlake,
and the other members of the con-
gressional party, inspected the lines of
the gallant Belgian army.
In one sector, while traversing the
first line trenches they came to a
point within thirty yards of the Ger
man lines. About this time, suspect
ing that something unusual was going
on in the Belgian lines, the Germans
opened up a furious machine gun at
tack.
Rep. Timberlake admits that he and
all the other members of the Amer
lean party promptly got down on their
knees. After they had gone quarter
of a mile the Belgian officer who acted
as their guide refused to take his
charges any farther, fearing they
would be killed. Another Belgian Of
ficer was struck and killed not twenty
feet from where Mr.. Timberlake was
standing.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-06
(By Associated PreSs)

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, May German avlators
are now resorting to unsportsmanllke
tricks in an endeavor to outwit Amer
lean fliers The thickness OF the Ger
man soldier afoot is emulated by en-
envy airmen who are marking their
machines to make them look as much
like allied markings as possible.
The Germans have taken to round
ing off the corners of the cross on the
wings of their planes to make them
look like allied badges. The game of
the German airman is to play around
and get in shot if you can, and then
run. American fliers for fear of at
tacking a probable friend, must get up
close to an enemy machine. usually
after considerable maneuvcring before
opening a fight.
Here is what happens at an airdome
to which Americans are attached when
an alarm comes in. The telephone
bell rings at the hangar and the loca-
ton of the enemy is repeated in a
loud voice by the sergeant A number
of young Americans. overalled. he'll
meted and booted. swing into their
machines. the propellers are turned
OSC1 anu ouC hltCi t1iiOIhCI 'hS iAo
chimes dash across the field. They
take the air quickly and in less than
five minutes from the time the bell
rings the airplanes look like mos
quitoes in the sky.
Back in As Minutes
In three-quarters of an hour they are
back again and compare notes.
Ibid you see anything" one yells
to another.
Zone Hun away back in Germany"
comes the reply.
What were those three machines
north of -?" is the next question.
"They looked like French, but you
never know was the answer on this
particular occasion.
Then the Americans climb out and
sit around and wait for the end of
their tour of duty or for another
alarm. The weather is getting warm
now, but in the air it is still cold. so
the pilots still must wear heavy cloth
ing Because the clothing is cumber-
some the airmen usually sit around
perspiring rather than waste second
should a hurry up call come. The
American airmen are using the same
machineg uns which have been found
most effective by the AngloFrench
army. Some of the Americans are
completing their training in flying in
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-06
No Registration Required for Tuesday Primary

Some confusion exists to the relation of the present
registration Of voters and the Primary Election to be held on
Tuesday in this county
registration of voters in for the gen
era election November bears relation whatever to
the primary election and voter Republican
Democrat compelled register in order to vote at Tues
days primary. =
This statement been authorized by the election ofc
clear the confusion that exists particularly
in of the out-townshps.
you legal voter of precinct entitled
the primary Tuesday The present registration of
has nothing to do with such primary any
Voters urged to go to the polls.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-06
Hun Airmen Resort to Lowest
Trickery to 'Get" y. S. Auiators

formations on patrol in fast chasers,
while others are learning observation
and photograph work
The photographing machines are
getting full opportunity to work free
ly. for the same youths who go out on
the alert call take turns in protecting
the photographers while they are at
work. And while the men in the ma
chimes taking pictures desire to be
let alone their protectors in fast chas-
ing planes hope that they will not be,
for If boche comes near that gives
the fighting airmen a chance for
which they are waiting
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-06
Ten Vessels and lDenty
Seamen Lost By Norway

WASHINGTON, May 6.-Ten yes
sells, aggregating 1904 tons and 20
seamen were Norway's war losses
during April, the Norwegian legation
here was informed today by cable
gram from the foreign office.
The April totals bring Norway's S
losses due to the war to 755 vessels
aggregating 1,115519 tons and the
lives of 1,006 seamen, in addition to
about 700 men on fifty-three vessels
missing. two-thirds of which are de-
clared to be war losses.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-06
DUTCH AND HUNS
REACH AGREEMENT
(Bv Associated Press.)

THE HAGUE, Sunday. May 5.-In
announcing to the Dutch chamber to
day that Holland and Germany had
reached an agreement, Foreign Minis
ter Loudon explained the settlement
of the German demand for transport
over the Dutch railway by way of
Roermond. Germany, he said, had
agreed to exclude from transport air
planes, arms and munitions, while
there never had been any question OF
the transport of troops.
The foreign minister said Germany
had undertaken to limit sand and
gravel sent through Dutch waterways
to a maximum of 100000 tons and
had promised not to use the material
for military purposes.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-06
Alaska Town Claims
Liberty Loan Record
(By Associated Press3

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 6.-Ket-
chikan with a population of 5000
claimed today the record for the larg-
est number of subscribers to the third
Liberty loan in proportion to popula-
ton. Ketchikan's quota was $4,000
More than 1900 subscribers took $685.
400 worth of bonds.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-06
(By Associated Press.)
ELECTION RETURNS

Election returns will be
given out by the Palladium as
soon as they are received
Tuesday evening. Bulletins
will be posted in front of the
Palladium office and returns
will be given over phones
1121, 1872 and 1884. Ar
rangements have been made
to obtain returns from pre-
cincts as quickly as the count
is completed. The public is
invited to make use of the
facilities that have been pro-
vided to obtain returns.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-06
28 Ships Launched In
American Yards In Week

WASHINGTON, May 6.-Ten steel
ships of $685. tons and six wooden
ships of 21. 500 tons were launched by
American yards in the week ending
May 5, the shipping board announced
today, Twelve steel ships of S0.1SO
tons were delivered to the board COM
plete in the same period.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-06
Ask Billion Dollars
For Aircraft Program
(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, May ga billion
dollar appropriation for aircraft pro-
duction was ascked of congress today
by the war department. This would
add to the s640,0OO,O00 appropriation
already made and expended.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-06
u. S. Court Holds Drafted
Man May Be Sent ODerseas

WASHINGTON. May 6. - Federal
court DEGREES dismissing 1abeas cor
pus proceedings brought by Robert
COX OF Missouri, member of the ma
t1onal army to prevent his son being
sent to France was sustained bv the
supreme court today.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-06

For Wayne County by w. e. Moore:-
Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday
Occasional showers.
General Conditions - The western
storm will cross the lakes tonight OF
Tuesday and will cause rain over the
central states. Temperatures ara
lower in the far north and will prob
ably reach the lake region Tuesday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-06
REPORT is DENIED.

MOSCOW, Sunday. April % (By the
Associated Press) s).-Ofiicial denial has
been made by Japanese Consul Uyeda
to the Russian foreign office to rumors
that the Japanese are placing machine
guns in Vladivostok and are arrang-
ing to increase their forces there.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-06
DR.. SMITH TO SpEAk

DR.. S. Z. Smith. superintendent of
lhe eastern Insane hospital at Rich
mond will speak on Mental Defec-
tlVes, Menace to Childhood" at the
conference on child welfare, at In.
dianapolis Thursday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-06
PEACE EMISSARY
OF HUNS MAKES
LITTLE HEADWAy
Alleged Peace Terms of Huns
Would Give Alsace Self
Government.
(By Associated Press)

LONDON, May 6-Foreign Secre-
tary Balfour told the house of Com
mons today that no peace offer had
been made recently by the enemy.
He added:
There is no representative of a
neutral nation in this country who has
made a tentative or informal sugges-
tion of peace negotiation"
LONDON, May 6. Germany's s
peace emissary, according to the
Daily Mail, has been busily working
here, but has made no progress in
any direction. There is reason to be-
lieve, it says, that the German agent.
! who has been reported to be Dutch
financier, returns to Germany to re-
port that there is nothing doing.
A central news dispatch from The
Hague says the Dutch intermediary
is reported to be Jonkheer Colyn, for
mer minister of war.
The proposals made by Jonkheer
Colyn, the dispatch from the Hague
reports, are said there to have been
as follows:
1. Germany to renounce all claims
in the west
2. Restoration of Belgium.
3. Alsace Lorraine to be autonom-
Gus within the German federation.
4. The status in the east to remain
as at present.
5. Austria to make certain conces-
sions to Italy in the Trentino.
6. Balkan questions to be solved by
an international conference.
Z. All colonial questions affecting
Africa and Asia Minor to be settled
by conference of all the beligerents.
8. Germany to abandon all claims
to her former Chinese protectorates
at Kiaochau, but in exchange to re-
ceive certain economic concessions in
China
Jonkheer Colyn went to England
last week at the head of a mission
whose purpose was said to be to ex-
plain to the British government the
difficulty caused by Germany's de-
mand on Holland concerning the
transfer of German materials across
Dutch territory to Belgium.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 6.-Oficials
and diplomats here on reading Ger
many's purported peace terms as out
lined in tcGay's dispatches from Lon
don recalled that British officials re-
Gently predicted "peace offensive"
and said, furthermore, that they ex-
pected that terms to be offered in be-
half of Germany would be framed so
as to appear most attractive to Great
Britain.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-06
Mrs. Potter Palmer
Dead in Florida
(By Associated Press.)

NTy .AsSUEid0eU 7 FeSN'I
SARASOTA, Fla, May 6.-Mrs. rot
ter Palmer, of Chicago, is dead at her
winter home here. Mrs. Palmer, who
was born in Louisville, and was the
widow of Potter Palmer, OF Chicago
where she was a social leader, had
been i'll sometime. Several days ago
her family was summoned and med
ical specialists came here from the
north. She died last night. The body
will be taken to Chicago for burial
leaving here tomorrow.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-06
THE WEATHER

For Indiana by United States
Weather Bureau Showers tonight
and Tuesday. Cooler Tuesday in
north portion.
Tooay's Temperature.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-06

Tooay's Temperature.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-05
NEED $1,000 SUBSCRIPTIONS
To Bring Barre's War Stamp Drive UF
to the Mark.

Not even the Fourth cooled the ardor
of those canyasseTs who have been depu-
tized to solicit investments in war thrift
stamps, and while the central committee
did not urge the campaigners to continue
their work on the holiday, it was evident
to-day that substantial progress had
been made toward reaching Barre's quota
of $2l4,000 in the big drive. Much re-
mains to be done The number of 81 900
subscriptions has fallen somewhat short
of expectations and before tomorrow
night it is hoped that there will be nu-
merous additions to the aggregate of
81 900 investments. Not all of the terri
tory has been covered although canvass
ers were busy to-day, and expect to con-
tinue their work tomorrow.
The Church street schoolhouse is being
utilized as campaign headquarters, and
all canvassers who have covered the ter
ritory assigned them are expected to re-
port as soon as possible. Owing to the
complex nature of the canvass, the com
mittee was unable to-day to give any
figures, or to make any definite forecast
as TO what Barre will have accomplished
when the drive ends Saturday night.
That much work remains to be done is
generally conceded, and now that the
campaign is approaching the eleventh
hour period, people who have not sub
scribed are advised that the fate Of
Barre's end of the drive depends largely
upon their patriotism. Barre's fulfilled
quota is necessary to send Washington
county over the top. 1t is up to youl
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-05
DEATH OF WATERBURY MAN.
W. E. Town Passed Away This Morning
of Bright's Disease.

Waterbury. July 5.--W1lliam Evan
Town, who has been sick for long time
with Bright's disease and who grew rap
idly worse yesterday, died early this
morning He was born in Wolcott 52
years ago, being the son Of Luther and
Katherine Uyon) Town. He went to
Richmond, where he was engaged for a
time as barber He came to Water.
bury 20 years ago and was first en-
gagged as barber, after which he was
employed by the telephone company
Mr.. Town married Luna Griffith of
Duxbury 26 years ago, and she sur
wives him, together with three children,
Heath Town, who is in service, but who
is home at present, and Lawrence Town
and Miss kathryn Town, also of Water
bury.
The funeral, which will be under Ma.
sonic auspices, will be held Sunday aft
ernoon at $3.50, and interment will be
in the village cemetery.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-05
THREE MILLION
MEN IF NEEDED
Secretary of Interior Lane
Promised Inside Of
a Year
CANNON OFFERED
WITHOUT LIMIT
Every Industry and Every
Dollar Pledged for AL
lied Victory

Pittsburgh, Pa, July 5.--Three years
of negotiation, patience, and appeals
showed the United States that there is
only one language Germany can under
stand--from the mouth of the big guns
There win be no limit to the number of
troops and cannon this country viii send
against the forces Of the Teutonic autoc-
racy. Every industry and every dollar in
the land is pledged to support the war
until victory for the allies.
This, briefly, is the governments eight
until victory program, as outlined by
Franklin X. Lane, secretary of the in
terror, in an address here to-day
Secretary Lane said 100000 troops
would be added to the 100000 already
in France, if needed, year from now.
I'VE realize now what we are fighting
for" Secretary Lane declared. "We are
not fighting merely from pride because
Germany fouted us. We are not fighting
to make page in the history of wars
out of desire for martial glory. We are
not fighting merely to protect interna.
tional rights guaranteed by treaty and
by custom.
"We are at war, when the last word is
said, for the preservation OF what we
call Christian civilization, which is the
recognition OF the fact that physical
force must be limited by moral force
that the world is not to belong to the
strongest"
Secretary Lane made a plea for the
teaching of Americanism. American
ISM" he declared, "is neither interna-
tionalism nor intensified nationalism but
growth and the right TO grow There
are 5,500,000 illiterates in the United
States 100000 Of these are within the
draft ages, Secretary Lane said declar.
ing it is shame that public schools are
open only half year and "a disgrace
that teachers in them are paid less than
day laborer."
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-05
MRS. CAROLINE E. BANCROFT.
Died Yesterday in Williamstown at the
Age of IS.

The death of Mrs. Caroline L. Ban
croft, much respected resident of Will
Jamestown, occurred Thursday, July 4,
at the advanced age of s5 years. Mrs.
Bancroft was born in Bethel, Caroline f.
Fisher. She was twice married Her
first husband, Daniel Granger of Bethel,
gave his life in the war of the Rebel
lion, leaving three children, @. Elzira,
Ella L. and Walter L. Granger, of whom
only Walter Il. of Long Beach, Cal, sur
wives. She leaves one brother, Edison
Fisher of Bethel; four grandchildren,
Walter Downing of Spencer, Mass, Leon
Downing of Aver, Mass, Charles n Bar
Der, now in Spartanburg, s. c., and
George j. Barber of Davenport, Ia. In
the early seventies she married jackson
Bancroft of Barre, who died in 1877
Funeral services will be held in the
Methodist church, Williamstown, Satur.
day afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. Mr..
Robinson officiating,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-05
MORE THAN 1900 GERMANS TAKEN
BY BRITISH AND OVER 100 MACHINE
GUNS AND TRENCH MORTARS SEIZED
ANXIOUS FOR PEACE
NOT BY VAR MAP
Socialists of Germany Advance Some
Peace FeeleTs, Declaring That
Germany's Economic Forces
Are Not Inexhaustible.

Amsterdam, July SIN a leading ar
ticle, the Socialist newspaper Vorwaerts
Of Berlin, declares that the desire of the
German people for speedy peace with
honor is so strong that a sensible ac-
commodation from the other side would
be bound to lead to its realization.
"0ur enemies to-day" continues the
newspaper, "haye the opportunity Of OBJ
tanning peace not prescribed by the
war map, but based on the equipoise of
the military and economic forces on both
sides.
'The policy of truth demanded by
Philip Socialist leader)
requires an admission that the economic
forces of the German people are not in
exhaustible, and the fact that we are cut
off from overseas raw material is being
increasingly felt.
"The more candidly we speak of this
matter, the more readily will our enc
mics believe us when we say this oppres-
siye situation can only induce us for
years to make greater military efforts,
but not to accede TO conditions dishon-
oring the German people and damaging
their interests permanently.
"The conclusion of peace with hon
or thus corresponds to the interests of
our adversary in the same degree as our
own'
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-05
THREE SPECTATORS
TAINTED, ONE CRAZED
Condemned Men Were Con-
victed of Outraging a IT.
Year-Old White Girl

Camp Dodge, Ia, July 5.--Three negro
soldiers, convicted by court martial Of
"assaulting and outraging" a l7-year-old
white girl on the cantonment grounds
the night of May "a, were hanged here
to-day with virtually the entire division
witnessing the execution.
The three traps were sprung stimuli
taneously at 9:09 a. M, and death was
almost instantaneous. The negroes
marched onto the scaffolds singing God
Have Mercy on Ny Soul" The negroes
were Nelson johnson of Tuscamba, Ala,
Stanley Tramble of Stroud, Ala, and
Fred Allen of Georgiana, Ala, all Sc
lective service men.
Johnson and Tramble were declared by
military police officials to have confessed
their complete guilt, but Allen, while
admitting his presence when the crime
was committed, maintained he had not
outraged the girl. Three negro sol
diers among the spectators tainted when
the men dropped to their death and an
other ran amuck He started on dead
run directly toward the scaffold, but
guards overpowered him. A white SOL
dier also tainted.
-Four negroes were arrested the morn
ing after the assault, which occurred
shortly before midnight May "a. One
suspect was acquitted when it was es-
tablished that he was not near the scene
Of the crime.
With a young soldier escort, the girl
was sitting on hillside when, according
to her story at the trial, four negroes
approached. One of them, representing
himself as q military policeman, struck
her escort blow on the head and in the
stomach, dazing him. The girls screams
and the alarms sounded by her escort
when he recovered, aroused the camp.
Military police threw out dragnet that
resulted in the arrest of the men early
the next morning. A summary court
martial started few days afterward,
but the finding of the court was not an
nounced until yesterday, after it had
been reviewed and approved by President
Wilson. Both the girl and her escort
were from Des Moines.