Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette (Newspaper) - May 6, 1916, Fort Wayne, Indiana THE ef Journal Want Every Get FORT WAYNE THE WAYN E WITH MIGHT AND THE the New wt While It and Promptly out or Distortion 1803 News of the World SATURDAY MORNING MAY PAGES By Associated Press PRICE TWO CENTS IN RELATIONS IF THE KEEPS NEWEST MARK SET BY SOCIETY WOMEN AS GOAL OF THEIR WAR RELIEF EFFORTS WASHINGTON May note has postponed if it has not actually averted a diplomatic break with the United States President Wilson will make the decision after he has read the official text which reached the state department late night by cable from Ambassador Gerard at Berlin It will be deciphered in time to lay it before the president to-morrow morning It was stated authoritatively after the cabinet meeting to-day that if the official text bore out the unofficial version transmitted in Berlin news dispatches Germany's assurances undoubtedly would be accepted and before taking another step the United States would await the fulfillment of her latest promises In such case the United States might not reply to the note and would await evidence i of the actual abandonment of j Germany's present practices of submarine warfare which is declared President Wilson is i described by those close him as being in a position WASHINGTON May cannot question the leaders in the house to-night were j hopeful of disposing of the con- disagreement report and tho rural credits and shipping bills in the next ten days The Porto Rican will be laid aside temporarily to-morrow ing to a plan Majority Leader Kitchin outlined to his colleagues and at- tention turned to the rural credits already passed by the senate Mr Kitchin introduced a rule limiting eral debate on the measure to six hours which will be reported to the house to-morrow On Monday the rural credits will be laid aside for consideration of the report of the house conferees MRS PLAN 10 CLEAR PATHWAY OF THE BALLET OF FORT WAYNE The bigness of each scene of ca's Greatest Pageant is gradually dawning the people of Fort Wayne this littie bit of dence comes forward to Indicate the fifth A group of seventy Wayne women announced im- portant part In the pageant namely to give attention to the securing of the one hundred and forty children for the dance of the scene which will be known as The Ballet of Fort Wayne Mrs Kred H McCulloch is the chairman of the committee to secure the children who will be trained by Miss Larimore Her named to have charge the various groups and nee that they are present rehearsals and cared for In every way Doubtless each Continued on 11 Column 3 FOR KE VVith thu oC ing in less than two weeks for the relief of war sufferers in and other allied countries some of the most prominent society women of New York city are employing their time in behalf of the bazaar to be held June The committee iof the bazaar in composed of the Mrs William tor Chanler Mrs John A Mrs Jay Gould Misa Mary Hoyt Mrs Leonard M Thomas Mrs Le Roy Edgar Mrs ander Dallas Mache Pratt Mrs Allen Charles Mrs Bourke Cockran Mrs Oliver Harriman In the picture may be seen from left to right in the background Mrs Gould Mrs Chanler Mrs Irishman anil Mrs in the foreground left to right are Mrs Thomas and Miss EL PASO Texas May j LONDON May for Telegraphic exchanges between j the Germans northwest of General Alvaro Obregon and j dun are chronicled in both the General Venustiano Carranza j French and German official over the tentative agreement communications North of Hill for American and Mexican the Germans gained a operation in the scattering of ing in the French advanced Villa bandits have been trenches and also occupied it was said to-night French positions west of It is expected General court and several trenches to gon will hold his next the southeast of Harcourt Re- ence with General Scott on the i French attacks against American side of the Rio j German positions west of Le Grande and that a protocol iMort Homme broke down un- i lhp German tire i ho expectation of weather hampering tho ami tlie linal i operations to the meeting with would i latest communication from however it was j Continued on Page 11 Column 1 General still held to tho opinion the American troups I I set a and early date I fur withdrawal It was said a i part of to-day was spent by the j Mexican officials here in convincing the first chief that the tentative merit should he adhered to in the main It is however that there still are a few details not vet sented In by und that these will have to be threshed out iat the next meeting between Generals i Scott and Obregon Persons in a tion know say hat tbe in dispute are so inconsequential that i are bound to Ire adjusted I The only event of the day on i American aide of the Rio was I General receipt of a Citizens State bank here WAS sage from 1 1 in I which he said that Villa bail been 1 01 by a i this afternoon The robber Caster Bailey assistant i officials here inclined to think cashier the only person in the that there a chance the ex- petitionary commander in touch with Villa bands TO OF on the army Reporting that the house conferees had been unable to agree with the senate members Hay to-night obtained consent to consider the the future stand of thes house con- shall be on them The shipping was completed day by the merchant marine com- and will be reported to the house Tuesday and taken up after disposition of the rural credits measure Mr Kitchin said night Debate on it too would be limited by a special rule WTO Wilson Writes Letter Supporting Brand eis WASHINGTON May wrote a letter to-day to ator Culberson chairman of the senate Continued on Page 11 Column 60 On their return yesterday from where they inspected the state penal farm the county announced that they would ask the county council when it meets to-day to transfer new Jail levy of into the county farm fund to provide money with which to establish and maintain an Allen county penal institution where men convicted of petty crimes and misdemeanors can be sentenced and the money they earn turned over to their families commissioners believe that they can erect suitable buildings to care for Chicago Priest Aiding Belgians They unveiled a monument to ny Appleseed yesterday afternoon on the hill to the left entrance in park The word they includes men women and children in every walk of life bering more than The monument wasn't a lofty marble mountain towering above the trees which were just tb shoot their green leaves It was a common large boulder still maintaining its natural roughness excepting cavity had been made for the tablet and metal box The stone stood erect to a peak seven feet and ten Inches above the ground It weighs five tons and on its west side is the bronze tablet eighteen inches square This tablet has inscribed upon it the name of Johnny Appleseed or John Chapman with a number of facts re- on Page 6 1 THE GERMAN REPLY full text of plv to President Wilson's last note will be found on page thirteen THE HAGUE May London May a Rev John B Daville of Chicago who twice gone to Belgium and brought out a large number of Belgian aid men women and children to join their relatives in United States left for to-day to bring out more Owing to the present severe restrictions tho permission of the German authorities was difficult to obtain by Father Deville but after six weeks of suspense eral von Bissing the governor general gave him permission to carry out his program This in- cludes the distribution of among the destitute Belgians sent by relatives in the United States Among the persons Father Deville purposes to bring out on his trip will be fifty young men who are going to join their in America wiH be on Ellis Island Some of the bridegrooms arc said to ba coming to Ellis Island from as far as Oregon The emigrants wrH proceed to New York by way of Rotterdam in groups of hundred It is hoped to send the first group away at the end of May INDIANAPOLIS May eral grand jury submitted Its report to Judge Albert E Anderson of the United States district court late day announcing the return of twenty seven indictments The list of persons indicted who are already under arrest and either in I jail or out on bond follows Frederick C Herrick Brooklyn K T using malts to defraud Martin Devery alias Martin Donald Indianapolis stealing mail sack Harry G Phillips Valparaiso Ind rifling letter box Adrian Fort Wayne Ind theft of government property George Heineger ing United States mail Damon Edwards Vincennes stealing and forging money order Continued on Page 11 Column 1 Views ot the Press on Germany's Reply TJ man note from some of widely known American newspapers NEW YORK are two things he President Wilson can do to sever diplomatic re- lations with Germany immediately The tone of the note in itself would be justification for that On the other hand he can sit down He will not have to wait long is no way out of the differences of the United States with Germany except through Germany abandoning Its gal use of the submarine This it will not do The break seems bound to come ill the very of It would perhaps better to have it come now NEW YORK two nations are so far apart further la mere waste oj time Here is quibbling that was distinctly warned against Germany as ex- hag put the matter up to the United States It is our duty to stand by the president YORK STAATS opening day of the de- has arrived ever the interpretation of the German note may Jig and no doubt there will various interpretations guided the desire any one may have for war thing is on the surface of the answer and that is tbe honest wish of the man nation and her leaders to con- peaceful relations with our NEW con- of note which the statesmen at Berlin have drafted in no spirit but after ions and consideration uvery point involved confirms our tion that the imperial government iar prepared to a very long way ward meeting us We can do nothing else at this moment than call upon him the president to grasp the ex tended hand of Germany to pave the way toward an understanding to ceed with a of such points UK remain at issue know that in this demand are at rme with vast majority of tho American BROOKLYN DAlLi W impossible at- this writing to give to the German note the full and ful consideration to which it but it Is evidently not the re- ply for which the president and American people who desire to Continued on 11 Column 4 and Girls Not in Sunday Schools SPRINGS N Y May 5 who fail to support at the polls proposed members for I I political social reform were j I cised to-day by John G Wooley for- mer prohibition candidate for dent at a meeting of the Methodist t general conference in the interest of i the league Hu asserted that conditions sought by the churches cannot be attained by crowning the hills with temples but that votes and money are essential More than young people in States under twenty years of age do not attend a Sunday school or any religious denomination ing to figures submitted by the day school board at the convention to-night More than are1 enrolled in Methodist schools it was Addresses Were made Bishop William F McDowell of Chicago I gar H Blake the corresponding Henry H Meyer and Dr i man Abbott of New York The identity of a hitherto unknown donor of sums aggregating for church were revealed by the announcement that the late D Willis James of New York be- to the board of con- ference claimants had made the lier gifts anonymously Simultaneously with the receipt of General message came a report to Juarez that Villa been in the state of of any locality s are This far south which American 1 haul him to to enter the vault and then helped himself to the money in the cash drawer He then walked to Fred Stratton's garage and hired Stratton to Service in Mexico Tests Army Equipment Although the nominating primaries are a year in the future the O P in fort Wayne is beginning to test out its timber to find a suitable for mayor So far four have been mentioned in connection with the nomination for chief Hutzell West Main street druggist and former chairman of the hoard of public safety man controller umlor or Jesse Grice D Burns a lawyer anil William H rette who was the regular can candidate for mayor against Mayor Hosey and If Buck the independent candidate None of these men has announced that he will be a but one ofj the G O P workers said that all four of them had frequently mentioned in different re- publican conferences LaTourrette Sure in sure lit in- a date for I know that he in making plans now to get into the race and he thinks he can be nominated The other are at this stage of the game LaTourrette is bext known for the part he took in the campaign of 1913 when he refused to line up with many other republicans of Fort Wayne and join the or independent movement which was de- at the polls name was filed as a candidate fifteen minutes before the time limit was up Continued on Page 11 Column 6 May I of the text of the j for against bandits in Mexico formal notification lhat it has been approved by General Carranza President Wilson will make it public j as soon as word of its acceptance by the de facto government reaches him either from Mexico City direct or from General Scott at Hi The war department had nothing the more than from border Baker however daid j unofficial advices seemed to indicate a i better feeling the Mexicans j since the military conference was ar- ranged General Scott is expected to return to Washington as soon as he has exchanged acceptances of the I agreement with General Obregon Ad- j vices to the ptate department reported that rail communication between Vera Crux and Mexico City had been inter- I since May 1 No explanation i was given Other reports made public I said quiet prevailed in various parts of Mexico heard from REHEARSAL NOTICE Saturday May 5 at 8 X m principals and understudies Scene 6 at 9 p m principals and understudies Monday May 1 at 8 p m ail of this scene except principals Scene l at 9 p m principals and under- studies Prohibitionists Elect Temporary Chairman INDIANAPOLIS Ind May W of Castleton Ind har been selected as temporary chairman of the prohibition jst state convention which will be held here June 6 and 7 tn announcement made at tho prohibition state headquarters day Mr Lough was state chairman of the party from 1907 to 1913 and Is considered one of tho ablest speakers in the country He has in practically every state in the union It is the tion to nominate a complete state ticket well as two candidates for the United States senate at the con- vention ley waa attending to a T patron when the robber entered the bank When the woman had gone the who waw a young man and not masked confronted Balloy with a revolver and ordered him into the vault Bailey was locked in and tor the robber left succeeded in at- attention passers-by and was released The robber told Stratton that he had an important ment in Indianapolis and wished to be taken to the capital at once Stratton took him to Indianapolis leaving him in the heart of district The Indianapolis police soon were of the robbery and them a good de- scription of the bandit 10 START THE WEATHER j WASHINGTON May I Sunday cloudy Ohio and Lower fair Sunday fair weather day and with continued mild temperature F S Hunting general manager of the Fort Wayne works of the General company and the hoard of directors in Indiana for tho industrial survey as part of national j preparedness announced last night that the survey in north pastern would be started next week An ant will be named by ilr Hunting 1 Hie work starts Tins territory in this section over which Mr Hunting will have charge because of serving as a state director will run as far south as Portland City and Marion west to Peru and north and east The remainder of the state will Im divided among the four other directors It is planned to make an industrial survey of all the in tho stato to ascertain the probable strength industrially in caso of The also will give the exact capacity of the factories for war munitions in case of necessity Only Thursday Mr Hunting was in Indianapolis to attend a meeting of tho directors and devise some plans over which to proceed Complete Text ol the German Answer an Villa the expedition into Mexico valuable to the United SLutes of army equipment by use in the field AH sorts of apparatus have been tried wome have proved value while others have broken down under the strain of The picture shown party in the field in a range finder BERLIN May wireless via Following ia the text of the note of the German In reply to the American note respecting submarine warfare ered on Thursday hy Gottlieb von Jagow tho foreign secretary to The undersigned on behalf of the Imperial German government haa the honor to present to liLs excellency the ambassador of tbe United States Mr James W Gorard tbe following reply to the note of April 20 regarding the conduct of German submarine fare The German government handed over to tho proper naval authorities for early investigation the evidence con- the Sussex as communicated by the government of the United by the results that tbe investigation has hitherto yielded tbe German government is alive to the possibility that the ship mentioned in the note of April 10 ay having been torpedoed by a German submarine Jy actually identical with the Sussex The German government begs to reserve further communication on tbe j matter until certain points are which are of decisive tance for establishing the facts of ihu Should it turn out that the com- mander was wrong in assuming tho to be a the man government will not fail to draw the consequence resulting therefrom The Sussex Case In connection with the case of the Sussex the government of the United States made a series of the gist of which is the assertion that the incident is to bo considered hut OIH j instance of a deliberate method of in- discriminate destruction of vessels of all nationalities and destinations by German submarine commanders The German government must em- repudiate the assertion German government however thinks it of little avail to enter into details in the present stage of affairs more as the government of the United States omitted to substantiate tho assertion by reference to concrete facts The German government will only state that it has imposed far reaching restraints upon the use of tbe rine weapon solely in consideration of a neutral country's interests in spite of tho fact that those restrictions are of advantage to Germany's enemies No such consideration has been shown neutrals by Great Britain and her allies The German submarine forces Continued on Page 13 Column 1 4
