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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-09
", U, PRESIDENT
0uIzzED BEHIND
CLOSED DOORS
Consider Reporting of Iele-
phone-Telegraph Resolu-
ton to the Sixth.
cBy Associated Press)

WASHINGTON. July 9--Senators
demanding investigation before ac-
tion on the house resolution author
izing the president to take over tele-
graph, telephone. cable and radio
lines won partial victory today
when the senate interstate commerce
committee heard testimony behind
closed doors. on the telegraph situa-
ton from President Carlton, Of the
Western Union telegraph company
A decision regarding further proceed
ings was deferred.
After examining President Carlton
nearly three hours the committee ad-
journed until three o'clock for an ex'
ecutive session to consider immediate
ly reporting the resolution to the sen.
ate Chairman Smith stated that no
more hea rings were planned.
In brief the situation In the senate
as far as the status Of the resolution
is concerned was today exactly as It
was when that body convened yester.
day Administration leaders won a
short-lived victory yesterday when
the committee voted to dispense with
hearings and report the resolution to
the senate. An attempt by Chairman
Smith to report the measure drew pro-
tests from the opposition and Sena-
tor Hitchcock. of Nebraska, presiding.
Senator Penrose. Of Pennsylvania and
sustained a point Of order raised by
returned the resolution to the com
mittee. ruling that majority Of the
committee and not majority Of the
committeeman present must vote in
favor of reporting a measure.
Administration leaders today pre-
pared to throw their support to reso-
luton introduced by Senator Smith of
Georgia proposing that the resolution
be returned Immediately by the com
mittee to the senate and that the
committee be discharged from further
consideration Of It.
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DIR. RUmELY
RELEASED ON
$4,000 BOND
BY U.S.C0URT
Man Formerly Interested in
Local Company Charged
With Using German Funds
to Run Paper.
DENIES He IS DISLOYAL
(By Associated Press)

NEW YORK. July 9.-Assertions
that Edward A. Rumley, publisher of
the Evening Mail, placed all his re-
cords at the disposal Of the depart
ment of justice during personal visits
to Washington, led to bail being fixed
at $4,000, instead of $4,000, as orig
inally asked by federal council. when
DR.. Rumley ,>as arraigned today be-
fore U. S. Commissioner Hitchcock on
a charge of perjury.
Hearing in the case. involving alle-
cations by the government that the
Mail is owned by the German imperial
government, was deferred for two
weeks.
While waiting for his bail to be
furnished, DR.. Rumely made q state
ment to newspaper men in which he
asserted that the Mails editorial pol
icies. controlled wholly by himself. had
been squarely behind the government
and that his return made to the enemy
alien custodian would be found to be
truthful in every respect.
DR.. Rumely declined to discuss his
associations with former Ambassador
Won Bernstorff and DR.. Heindrich Al
bert. through whom the Mail is alleged
to have been financed, but added he
might say something definite in this
connection within "a hours. Regard
ing the Maii's war policy, he said:
/, Claims Government Booster
They have been under my abso-
lutte and sole control. The paper. the
editorial page, in particular, has been
an exposition Of my attitude on public
questions and influenced by no con-
sideration other than my own judg-
ment of what was the right thing to
do from the standpoint of of America s
interest. The Mail has backed up
every war activity Of the government
to the limit of its power and has per.
formed a work second to no other pa
per in developing policies for the eff.
cient organization of our country i
forces necessary to the war.
MY return to the alien property
custodian regarding the note which
personally had outstanding, will, am
convinced when all the facts are avail
able, be found truthful in every re-
spect."
TContinued on Page Two1
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tav Associated Press)

NEW YORK. July 9.-Dr. Edward
A. Rumely. vice president and treas
urer OF the Mail Express Company.
publisher OF the New York Evening
Mail. awaited trial today on charge
OF perjury, allegedly made by him in
a report to A. Mitchell Palmer. alien
property custodian.
Rumely was arrested last night In
the office OF Attorney General Lewis.
The warrant was issued by Fed
eral commissioner upon the complaint
OF Attorney General Lewis. who has
been conducting an examination for
some time INTO the affairs OF the Mail.
The attorney general charged that
Rumely purchased the stock OF the
Mail and Express company In June,
1915, from Henry L. Stoddard. and that
in doing so he acted in behalf Of the
imperial German government
The complaint against DR.. Rumley
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CONFIRMS REPORT OF THE
MURDER OF HUN MINISTER

vealed. Rumors yesterday that q
statement from the white house was
under consideration could not be con.
firmed today
Possibilities Of endangering the pro-
gram to be carried out through infor-
nation reaching Germany was regard.
ed as the cause Of the universal retic.
ence in official circles. Interchanges
on the Russian situation between al.
lied capitals are proceeding 1t is
known and 1t was assumed that the
subject OF such communications was
taken up at a conference yesterday
between President Wilson and the
British ambassador.
Furnishing OF aid to elements In
Russia or Siberia opposed to Germany
through the taking is regarded as the
most feasible in the opinion Of OBJ
servers not conversent with the plan
believed to have been actually decid-
ed upon by the government. Military
experts, however: continue to hold
that the dissipation OF strength
through the landing OF large military
forces at either of the two points
would be a mistake as Germany must
first be given a decisive defeat on the
western front
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VonBernstorff jointly, in this city.
The total SO far traced, he added, is
$1,361 900.
The transfer Of money, MI Lewis
said was concealed in this manner:
Albert procured various banks,
where the German government had
accounts, to issue cashiers checks to
the order of one Walter Lyon, a mem
ber Of the former Wall street firm of
Renskorf, Lyon & Co. This firm in
turn paid the money over to Rumely
or to the s. S. Mcclure Newspaper
Corporation, which had been organized
by Rumely for the purpose of the
transaction.
Tracing the Payments.
"In some cases Albert drew the
money in cash and delivered it to the
attorneys OF the embassy, Messrs.
Hays, Kaufman andLindheim, who
| took the cash to Renskorf. Lyon & Co.
! They in turn made payments to Rune
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FARMERS START
THRESH|NC IN
TWO TOWNSHIPS

Threshing in Wayne county was
started Monday and Tuesday in Wash
inGton and Franklin townships. and
by the latter part Of the week work
In almost all wheat and oat fields in
the county will be under way.
There will be big saving this year.
]. c. Kline. Wayne county agriculture
agent said. II the threshermen will
comply with the governments request
and eliminate all waste.
Il have been asked to request the
threshermen to place canvass beneath
the feeder and sacker OF their ma
chimes, and this undoubtedly will save
many bushels of wheat" Mr.. Kline
said. Il have also requested tho
farmers to see that the wagons In
which they haul the shocks to the
threshing machine are tight enough
to prevent stalks slipping through on.
to the ground
Ordinarily, the county agent said,
there is an average loss of 31a bushels
out OF every 100 threshed, because Of
carelessness on the part of farmers
and threshermen, and it is this loss
that the government is trying to over
come.
Men on the reserve list for work In
the harvest fields. who have signed to
give a part of their time to helping
the farmers, may be called upon in
few days to gointo the fields. 1t is
not thought that the labor shortage
in Wayne county will prove very ser.
ious, and only those who have stated
they are experienced In their appli-
cation pledges. will be called upon.
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ly. In one transaction $4,000 in bills
was handled in this manner. Rumely
then drew his notes to the order OF
Walter Lyon, covering the transfers
of money, and pledged stock in the S.
S. Mcclure Newspaper corporation to
secure the loans.
''Dr Rumely, in his report to the
alien property custodian, made no dis
closure of his relations with Albert or
Won Bernstorff, or the imperial Ger
man government. Instead he report
ed that he owed 100000 to Herman
Sielcken, now deceased, upon note,
and he also reported that the notes
which he had given Renskorf, Lyon
& CO., accompanied by a pledge OF
stock of the Mcclure Newspaper cor
poration, had ben surrendered to
him in exchange for the 100000 note
in September 1917. In other words,
by giving his note for 100000. he had
obtained a return of notes aggregating
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Rumey Held Charge of Being dden Hand of Gnn

in excess of $1,3OO,O0O and stock repre-
senting a controlling interest in the
Evening Mail.
"Rumely has claimed recently that
it was Sielcken who put up the money
in the transaction. Previously he had
stated that Mrs. Busch had contribut-
ed to the fund. Mrs. Busch, however,
denies 1t, and the Columbia Trust
company, executor of Herman Sielck-
en-, as well as Mr.. Sielsken's partners
in the firm of Crossman & Sielcken.
state that as far as they know. Mr..
Sielcken had nothing to do with the
transaction"
Attorney General Lewis declared
that the Mrs. Busch referred to in
his statement was Mrs. Adolph- =
Busch, widow of the st. Louis brewe,
who was questioned recently by gov
ernment officials upon her return from
Germany.
DIR. Rumely's interests were varied.
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Six Wayne Physicians
Commissioned in Army

Five Richmond physicians are
named IN the list Of $50 physicians
from Indiana to be recommended for
commissions IN the medical officers
reserve corps during the month of
June The majority Of the doctors to
receive commissions last month ap-
piled in April and May.
The Richmond doctors to receive
commissions are. Allen L. Bran
kamp, John NJ. Fouts and Rollo j.
Pierce, recommended for captains,
and George Beam Hunt and Solomon
G. Smelser, recommended for first
lieutenants.
William G. Squier. Of Cambridge
City will be commissioned as captain.
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Positive orders to enforce the new
work or fight" regulations which be-
came effective Monday, July l. were
received Tuesday morning by the
Richmond selective service board
from Harry Smith. state adjutant gen.
eral. A report of the boards investi-
cations Is to be made to the state Of
flee twice each month, In order that
the state report may be sent to the
war department on the first and fif-
teenth days of each month.
Il know of several cases in this
county" Chairman Carr of the Rich
mond board said, where young men
Of draft age are working in non-essen-
tial positions. We are going to IN
vestigate all OF these cases and men
who are not willing to change their
occupation, II the board adjudges 1t
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for besides being engaged in the news
paper business he was secretary of the
NJ. Rumely Company of Laporte, Ind,
which manufactures agricultural I'm
plements, and as founder OF the Inter
laken School, of which he is president,
has written several books embodying
novel ideals On educational matters.
Moreover. after having attended the
University of Metre Dame, Ind, and
the University OF Heidelburg, he stud
led at the University of Freiburg,
which in 1895 granted him the degree
of doctor of medicine.
Although the attorney general s
statement termed DR.. Rumely vice
president and treasurer of the Mail
and Express Company" the newspa-
per's editorial page shows him to be
vice-president and secretary.
In statement issued late tonight
Assistant State Attorney General
Becker said:
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The entire amount which went into
the purchase of the Evening Mail was
derived from the sale of German war
bonds in this country. and American
citizens furnished the money to &C.
quire the paper, which was to be used
for the purpose of carrying on German
propaganda.
stoddard in Ignorance.
while the deal was made with
Henry L. Stoddard for the paper there
is no evidence that Mr. Stoddard knew
1t was German money. Mr.. Stoddard
retired from the management Of the
paper and still holds most of the out
standing bonds When the United
States declared war against Germany.
Mr. Stoddard threatened to foreclose
the bonds unless the Evening Mail Ox-
pressed loyalty to this country In
every way"
According to Mr. Becker, st. Louis
[Continued On Page Slx.l
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THREE BILLION
BUSHEL CORN
YIELD, CROP
REPORT SHOWS
First Official Estimate of Corn
Crop Shows Bumper Yield
Wheat Set at 89l, ,00O,-
900 Bushels.
CROP PROSPECTS GOOD
(Bv Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, July "a reduc-
ton Of 100000 bushels in the pros
pective wheat harvest was shown to-
day in the department Of agriculture
July forecast, which is S91, ,0o0.0 900
bushels compared with 931.000,00O
forecast In June. Deterioration dur
ing June reduced the prospective win.
ter wheat crop by 30.Oo0.0O0 and the
spring wheat crop by 100000.
The corn harvest promises to be
the largest on record with total of
3,160, 100000 as forecast for the first
time this season by the government.
The acreage Is almost five per cent.
smaller than planted last year. the
total being 1885, 900 acres.
Record crops Of barley, rye. sweet
potatoes and rice are indicated, while
forecasts of the oats. white potatoes
and tobacco crops show they proba
bly, will equal their record If they
have good growing conditions.
Only half as much wheat remained
on farms on July / this year as was
held on that date last year, and the
quality was about one-flfth Of the av-
erage hold over Of the five years,
1926.
LAST YEARS PRODUCTION
Interest in today's monthly crop re
port OF the department Of agriculture
centered about the forecasts of pros
pective production Of the country's
great food crops, especially wheat and
corn. The report gave the first offi
cial indication of this years prospec
tive yields OF corn. white and sweet
potatoes. tobacco, fax and rice; revis
ed estimates of the enormous wheat
crop and the yields Of oats, barley
rye. hay. apples and peaches, estimat
ed from their condition on July / and
the quantity of wheat remaining on
farms.
The forecasts of production an.
nounced today, with the forecasts an
nounced from June conditions and
statistics OF last years crop and the
average for the Ave years, 1926
quantities in millions of bushels, that
is. "000,000s omitted) follow:
Cron Juno 1919 6-Yr
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-09
" American Bluff'' Says
German Paper at News of
Million Yankees in France

WASHINGTON, July 9.-Publica-
IN Swiss papers Of the text Of Secre
tary Bakers letter to President Will
son giving the American troop move
ments to Europe by months caused
German authorities to permit it publ
cation in Germany, according to dis
patch received from Berne.
The Kolnische Zeitung published
the letter under the heading "Ameri-
can Bluff" the dispatch says, and COM
mented as follows:
"Mr. Baker thinks he will be able
to dissipate all doubts about exacti-
tude OF his figures with his recitations.
1t is. however. only the usual Ameri-
can bluff. We know from reliable
sources that the figures in question
are exaggerated and in no way cor
respond to the truth"
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100 KILLED IN
RAILROAD Wreck
IN TENNESSEE
BULLETIN.
(By Associated Press)

NASHVILLE, July 9-One
hundred persons; most of them
negroes, are believed to have
lost their lives in a head on COL
lision early today between two
passenger trains on the Nash
vile, Chattanooga and St. Louis
railroad, seven miles west of
Nashville.
Nashville hospitals are crowd
ed with the injured who number
more than 80. AS the engineers
and firemen of both trains were
killed, the cause Of the collision
may never be known. One of the
trains is said to have disregard
ed orders.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-09
Protest Against 'German
Moose" Endangers
Germans in Russia
(By Associated Press)

THE HAGUE, July 9.-Germans re-
turning from Moscow recently. says
the vossische Zeitung referring to the
Won Mirbach case, have expressed fear
that complete anarchy there might en-
danger persons who In an orderly
country. would be safe from harm. 1t
gives the following alleged quotation
from a speaker at railway strike
meeting in Moscow:
ut is time to throw of the moose
Won Mirbach has put around our necks
otherwise a shameful death threatens
u.s. Away with German capital! Away
with Won Mirbac hand his whole coun-
ter-revolutionary band!"
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FOOD SITUATION
BEST SINCE war
INV Associated Press)

WASHINGTON. July 9,-Deflnite
assurances that there Is no danger
OF a sugar famine were given by the
food administration today. and the
food situation generally was declared
to be better than at any time since
America undertook the feeding OF the
allied world.
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FRENCH TROOPS STRIKE
(8y Associated P-sss)


French troops hit the German leads
the area almost directly north Of Paris.
where the Germans were stopped after
five days Of fighting In their thrust
toward the capital In the last and least
successful of all their 1918 oftensives.
about month ago.
The attack was delivered along a
two and one-half mile front and at
some points General Petain's troops
pushed into the enemy positions for
the distance Of a mile. Two farms
were captured and a counter attack
which was delivered against one of
them was repulsed. Some $50 prison.
ers were taken.
South Of Matz River
The area chosen for the blow was
just south Of the Matz river region,
northwest of the Compiegne forest, on
the front between Montdidier and the
Disc.
The attacking forces were assisted
by tanks in their drives. Apparently
all the terrain gained has been main
tained impact.
There has been considerable artil-
lery fighting and raiding along this
front on the last few days. but this
mornings was the flrst infantry oper-
alton OF noto that has occurred there
since the Germans June offensive was
crushed on the Matx, largely throguh
the effective counter attacks delivered
on the third day Of the offensive along
the line to the northwest OF Anthuil
toward Montdidier.
Hold Railway Center.
The new advance will serve still
further to protect the important rail-
way junction at Estrees-St Dennis.
which lies seven miles southwest OF
Antheuil.
Further to the southeast along the
line the French continued to develop
their success of yesterday. gaining
additional ground on the Marne front
east OF the Retz forest by forcing the
Germans back further in the vicinity
of the Cbavign farm. On the British
front there were only raiding opera
tions. The Germans, however. appa-
rently are contemplating a further ef-
fort to regain the positions recently
taken by the Australians with Ameri-
can assistance in the Amiens area
south Of the Somme. The German
guns last night were actively bombing
the British lines In this region.
The French war off1oe reports con-
siderable artillery activity to the west
and north of Chateau Thierry on the
Marne front. 1t Is in this sector that.
the Americans on this front are hold
ing several miles Of the line.
Continue "NibbIIno Tsctlcss
French troops again have been sue
cessful in a resumption OF the nib
bling" tactics which the allied COM
mand has followed while the Germans
prepare for a new blow. The fighting
activity on the western front. how
ever, still Is much localized. From
the enemy lines come no indications
that the Germans are about to strike
Important positions on a front Of
two miles to a depth Of two-thirds Of
mile and $50 prisoners were taken
by the French in their latest effort
in the region OF Longpont, northeast
of Villers-Cottrels. The sector on
which the gain was made is just south
OF where the French last week made
important local gains In the region
OF st. Pierre Aigle and northward for
six miles toward the Aisne. No
ccunterattacks have been made by
the enemy, nor has he struck back al
Continued on Page Eight.)
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CUBA TO HONOR BELGIUM.
(Ry Associated Press.)

(By AssOciated PreS00
HAVANA. July "a resolution
naming July 21 the Belgium Independ-
ence Day, as a Cuban national holiday
was adopted last night by the senate.
An appropriation Of $4,000 was made
for celebration purposes.
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81 i. S. SOLDIERS
KILLED FIGHTING

WASHINGTON, July 9-The army
casualty list today contained fifty,
seven names divided as follows:
Killed in action. IA; died Of wounds.
10; died OF disease. l; wounded seve-
rely, 1S; wounded slightly. 2; missing
in action, II; prisoner, l.
Marine corps casualties today num-
bered fifty-two names divided as fol-
lows:
Killed In action, II: diod of wounds.
10; wounded severely. 13: missing, II.
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Work or Fight Regulations to
be Strictly Enforced Here

non-essential. will be Immediately IN
Quoted into army service"
The board will send 48 men to
Camp Taylor some time within the
five-day period starting Monday. July
%. but the exact date has not been
set.
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Acreage figures last year We're:
Corn, 119,755.0 900; white potatoes.
100000; sweet potatoes. $4,000; to-
bacco, 1,447,000; fax, 100000 rice.
$4,000.
Wheat remaining on farms July l
last year amounted to 1851 900 bush
els. and the FIVE year average is
39,066, 900 bushels.
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WOOLEN GRANTED LEAVE
(By Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, July 3-Evans
Wooden, fuel administrator Tor Indi-
ana, has Eeen named director Of the
Bureau of State organizations OF the
United States Fuel Administration
during the absence of Walter n Nope,
Of New York, who has been granted a
temporary leave of absence, an an
nouncement today said.
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FRENCH GAIN GROUND

VIENNA, Via London, July 9.-The
entente pressure against the Austrian
lines in Albania is being continued by
forces advancing across the river VI
yusa. according to today's war Office
announcement. A gain of ground by
the French along the upper Dvon is
reported. Fighting also is taking
place in the interior southwest Of
Berat-
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FRENCH GAIN
IN SMASHING
ATTACK IN
PARIS AREA
Allies Press Into Enemy Posi-
ton and Make Ground Gain
Progress Made Against
Austrians in Albania.
TAKE $50 PRISONERS
(Ry Associated Presal

ROME, July 9.-The allied offensive
in Albania is continuing. the war Of
fee announced today. New progress
has been made along the left wing. on
the Adriatic coast, the land force be-
ing assisted by British monitors.