Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette (Newspaper) - September 16, 1916, Fort Wayne, Indiana TRY THE CLASSIFIED WAY FORT WAYNE THE WAYNE WITH MIGHT AND MAIN NEWS OF THE WORLD SATURDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 16 PAGES BY ASSOCIATED PRESS TRY THE CLASSIFIED WAY PRICE TWO CENTS TARGET AT YARDS IS FEAT OF BIG GUNS Robert B Shirley and County Candidates Speak in mee Township They Have Smashed the man Lines Six Miles North of the Somme ARRANGE HUGHES DETAILS j BULGARIAN POSTS TAKEN B B Hanna Selected Serbs Capture man of General Committee Germans Fight Stubbornly to Greet G 0 P Nominee to Hold Possessions Voters of Maumee township ed the Roberts near j burn last night to hear live Robert B Shirley and the county candidates discuss the issues of the j campaign William Gerbhart presided at the meeting Mr Shirley spoke on Americanism and he said it was i and necessary that Woodrow Wilson Thomas R Marshall and ai democratic house and senate be turned to assure a continuation of j peace and prosperity Mr Shirley Drought the crowd to its feet he j A vote for Hughes Is a vote I for Roosevelt Roosevelt has been j taken into the bosom of Hughes and It is to the interest of the American people that this combination be broken up and defeated The republican party while to er give the people It promised In 1912 it made the same promises but the people refused to j trust it The democrats have carried out their platform pledges man Cline voted for all the progressive measures passed in the he I ought to be returned to congress The prosperity which we are enjoying Continued on- Page 10 4 Sept the German line on a front of six miles north of the Somme in France the j British forces have made probably the most notable advance since the Anglo- French July 1 Three towns two woods and the j sion of nearly all the high ground be- tween Combles and the aume road fell to No only dld the Germans lose these points but the British drive imperils the Combles and positions at either end of the British front The gaining of the high ground north of Combles gives the British command of the to Bapaume The advance on the northern end of the front was for a distance of two t miles east of j and north of the road and south of the road fell into the hands of General men Farther south they took Flers and the high wood making cure their possession of Ginchy The Bouleaux wood north of Combles also was lost to the Germans The Germans under Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria fought bornly to hold their ground London Continued on 10 Column Z Hughes Secretly Opposed To Suffrage for Women NEW YORK Sept Charles S Thomas of Colorado throws consternation into camp in a letter which the New York World will publish day morning This document contains interview said to have been granted by Mr Hughes to a committee of in which he stated that he had always been opposed to woman but that he might be forced to The Thomas letter is as Political discussions having at times during the campaign assumed an Interrogative form I am moved tb the following inquiry to the for president not say committee of comprising A G izen I reserve the right of giving ms views if it seems desirable that I shall do so and 1 reserve the right ladles of changing my I dp not say that 1 will make any announcer ment or that I will not I should pre- fer not do so but it be possible for me to go through the strife of campaign ly of this political campaign and keep I shall not go into the usually one or the other because my own arise from entirely different point of view There may be who j disagree with I cannot see how any candid mind can study conditions and that votes perma be to The in- active to Hitting a target at yards with j fourteen inch guns probably will put j our navy above all others what the dreadnoughts Pennsylvania Oklahoma Sid in Chesapeake lay i Pennsylvania No 2 Oklahoma's fourteen inch guns No 3 turret of San Marcos pierced by shell Women are Poor Risks for Insurance DEFEATED HE TO Moose Nominee for ident Says Policies of Wilson Are Right I WILL TOUR THREE STATES Sympathetic Walkout Is Ex- to Assist New York Carmen UNIONISTS HOLD SESSION Country Must Not Be Turned Monday Morning Is Date Set I Over to the Republican for Tradesmen to Lay i Machine He Asserts Down Their Tools NEW YORK Sept M Parker progressive vice-presidential candidate in a telegram from Pass I Christian Mississippi to New York World published to-day sets forth the reason why he speaks j Mr Hughes in the campaign I he proposes to conduct in Ohio New York and other While j Mr only announces that I I shall speak against his i tion is made clear by his declaration I that he will show what progressive policies which have been enacted into law under the Wilson administration clone for the nation His sage Because I have thought to vote as j i and shall fearlessly express i my honest opinion regardless of because with j great respect for Mr Hughes i sonai character in my humble ment the greatest calamity to this tion would be to again turn it over to Continued on Page 10 Column 1 NEW YORK Sept thousand workers in crafts closely affiliated with the operation of York's traction lines are expected to go on strike Monday it was at the close of a meeting of tral Federated union here late night Representatives of unionized employes were at ing it was said and panted tion calling on each trade to tain the sentiment of members re- garding a general strike in sympathy with the carmen here who places September 6 A referendum has been In progress among many of the crafts for several days Ernest Bohem secretary of the Federated union said Hurt i trades which would be drawn strike now were the harbor i longshoremen teamsters i firemen and plumbers Some i Continued on 10 Column S of Navy Department Plant of Aetna Company IS Delivers Address Before the i Wrecked Near Oakdale Atlantic Association Superintendent Killed Sept Ford and Miss be- fore his formal acceptance of the that I have always been op- posed to woman suffrage probably be- cause Mrs Hughes has always been opposed and my daughters so far as they have thought at all think with their mother My mother all the women of my family have found their needs and duties in their homes I am talking to you not for publication If I have anv announcement to make publicly I prefer to make it when the time comes through the usual nels as a presidential candidate I shall not add to nor take away from the party platform As a private Mrs my mind makes the ultimate granting of votes to women lamentable evitable The feminists are not going to drop this fight We shall have a constantly intensified effort feminists perfecting their organization and a constantly increasing struggle and bitterness between sexes unless we give it to them Sex antagonism and the subversion of national issues into petty personal Issues is to me more lamentable still more ruinous to our womanhood and our country than the doubling of the electorate or votes for woman calamitous as that may be Negative answer to would be interesting this question J Plans of i I found risKa Further faV and write policies on uy limited amounts News From Bedside Insurance companies have on the lives of the former NEW LONDON Sept of Mrs Anne E Howe President Wilson's is dying and at higher or under tions according to T A Phillips of St Paul address before the American Life Insurance tion here to The losses suffered by companies on women's lives are greater during Br Ei aay trav batt fti -i j m mi b ui uei CA PHILADELPHIA Sept imperative need Inland waterway which in advantages would be of j timable military value In time of was pointed put by Secretary Daniels of the navy department and Admiral Benson chief of naval in addresses before the members the Beeper Waterways tion Philadelphia navy yard ior The ability of to erse these inland cabals and of to find a in case both I speakers as one of the greatest in at the establishment of ports to Holland Are to Be Investigated Secretary Daniels promises the j delegates the earnest and enthusiastic I of the department in any practical plan looking to the j improvement of the Inland waterways along the coast who entered the inclosure rounding the plant asserted knew that least five persons were dead A body Identified as that p Rodds night superintendent of plant Samuel Paul an from Injuries in a Pittsburgh L of the company refused to to that it In a small which is need ij miles and many persons were debris WASHINGTON Sept the absence of information detailing what commodities are affected by the new here grew steadily worse to-day Dr Mrst flve years or ot uj H M Cee her physician was in con- I Phillips said and the British restrictions on American trade at the bedside are greatest on married women Holland and the Scandinavian and did not usual evening bulletin her con- dition The morning bulletin stated that Mrs Howe had grown weaker in the LONG BRANCH President Wilson's campaign plans were the receipt of from New London Conn that his sister Anne Howe i who is Critically ill there spent a 1 less night last night It appeared probable that Mr Wilson would cancel St touis j tember 20 to speak before an under- writers The president saw no callers to-day but divided playing among spinsters rate is lower than men ried women widows arid at about the same rate as men v According grow but divided his time Men Trailed bv Department or and working on 111 J 1 Accused of Tied Hand and Foot Ind Sept Baker a blacksmith living in Harrison county was tortured Wednesday night and robbed of that was hidden in his house The robbers threatened his life and forced him to reveal the place where he kept his money Alter getting possession of the blacksmith's hoardings the robbers tied him hand and foot He is a bachelor and lives alone and his condition was not dis- covered till yesterday Bloodhounds were obtained without delay The dogs trailed Allen and Charles Holyoke and John Rogers to their homes and they were arrested last night charged with robbing Baker They were placed in jail here to-day Not Want Investigation in Chicago to Continue CHICAGO Sept ment of justice at Washington called a halt on federal investigation in Chicago of the increase in bread prices This department does not wish an investigation made at this said a message from 1 Bruce Bielaski chief of the department's j bureau of investigation to G Clabaugh of the department's Chicago office What effect the department's ruling I would have on the beins made by U S District Attorney was not made known to-night i Bakers who have appeared Clyne recently have cited a mass of figures to show the increase in cost of manufacture of bread justifies an in- crease in wholesale and retail prices He plans to spend and Monday quietly at Shadow Lawn un- less he should be called to New don While golfing to-day Mrs Wilson were caught in a severe rain and were forced to run to shelter Confidence of a victory in Nebraska was expressed in a tele- gram from Senator Hitchcock by the president to-day lira Foch Allies Believe Will Be Able to Smash German Line countries officials here are uncertain just how heavily American exporters will suffer Steps to secure this in formation already had been to night and it was indicated that should any sweeping extension of restrictive i measures be revealed It would be re- as a serious in the j controversy legality of allied i blockade methods i i In addition to the new order state department officials are investigating an arrangement effected by Great Britain and France for establishment Attorney at Harbor Wishes Proof of Death But Finds Man at Poor Farm BRITISH DENY TRADE SECRET THEFTS LONDON Sept p David Lloyd George British secretary for war to-day gave the Associated Press the following There appears be a deliberate campaign set on foot in the United States by German agents to throw doubt on the good faith of his ty's government in regard to the use of information obtained through the censorship These German agents with whose underground methods of working we are quite familiar appear now to my statement in the house of commons on August S though that statement was fully ex- by Lord Robert Cecil ister of war trade on August 9 and most explicit assurances on the same subject were given by him in a later interview on August 25 In spite of this these dists are trying to dress out my ment as something new nullifying Lord Robert Cecil's assurances which followed it Let me say now on be- half of the military authorities what has already been said on behalf of the foreign when information Is passed on by tho censorship to the Dr J H Gilpin secretary of the board of public health received a sage yesterday from an attorney at Benton Harbor Mich asking for a certificate proving that John Vance had died here September 1 1915 An examination of records showed that Vance was at the county Commission Does Not Believe That Dual Patrol System Would Be Satisfactory government in the conduct of the war ary jn April 1916 Vance feu from We affirm and challenge any one to a se a window sustaining in- i deny it that honest business inter- time were thought ests and trade secrets of an American D fata Afterward he recovered 1 merchant or manufacturer are safe in the hands of the military censors and of every other government department as they are in the hands of the ican sufficiently to be removed from the hospital and was sent to the poor fann He has been an inmate there since then The attorney gave Dr no in- formation as to why he wanted proof as to the man's death In the house of commons August S Mr Lloyd George in answer to questions concerning the use made of a letter written by a neutral BELG ANS COM NG TO facturer and examined by the military censor said according to the London Times report of the debate that the letter in question was not stopped in the sense that it was not allowed to proceed to its destination but the I I other departments it is for the sole been used to assist Britis purpose of the action of with peaceful neutral war secretary added It is of course the practice to communicate to the public department concerning any in- formation on matters of public Inter- est which may be obtained through the censorship for such use to be made of it as the particular department may consider desirable Lord Robert Cecil in his statement of August 9 said that neutral In no single instance had used to assist British THE UNITED ROTTERDAM via London Sept 1C i steamer Nieuw Amsterdam sailing to-day carries fifty Belgian women and children who go to Join relatives In the United States They were assembled in and brought here by the Rev J B Deville of Chicago THE WEATHER i- of bureaus to effect an exchange of merchandise on the list of prohibited imports Official confirmation lias heen received that such ment has been consummated but un- effects are understood no formal protest will be made TO Hanly Says Liquor Dealers Have Defied AH Other Kinds of Legislation NEW LONDON Conn Sept A suggestion that the Mexican create a constabulary lor der duty similar to the rurales of the Diaz regime was made to-day during a brief session of the ican joint commission concluding the second week of its deliberations the plan for a joint police force previously discussed was j as Impracticable after the com- missioners had conferred with Major SMOKELESS POWDER HURT Del powder at least six of them seriously explosion of several thousand pounds of smokeless powder at the the Dupont Powder company at ney's Point N J to-night flares originated in a tower in what is called the finishing area and while the company has not the cause the opinion is ad- that a piece of metal may found its way into the powder which was being worked through the All the workmen were in the tower but when a small sheet of flames shot up all made their escape through the safety chutes They were burned while from the PORTLAND Ore Sept of a federal amendment to stamp out the Liquor traffic national candidates to-day and to-night in cities of Washington and I Oregon both dry states You cannot get this issue solved by states J Prank Hanly the presidential candidate declared You can only do it by national for the liquor have defied every other kind of legislation from township local to state-wide prohibition You can solve it by voting ticket nationally and either electing Ira i Landrith and myself and a favorable COi Continued on Page 10 Column 4 j TELEPHONE ASSOCIATION I RE-ELECTS F E BOHN i Sept officers were elected to-day by the Indiana Independent Telephone association Just before the ment of a two days convention President H F Hartwell Terre Haute urer Frank E Bonn Fort Wayne di- rectors William Fortune Indianapolis Walter J Uhl Logansport Samuel Tomlinson Plymouth F R Franklin S M Isom Mitchell F R Parrett J A Brown chester William Dailey Richmond W A Harbaugh E E South Bend W R Nebo Tipton W A Stoops Nappanee and T E Teal Brookston Arthur Waltonen Held in der Case in Ditch by Track NEW YORK Sept Waltonen who was arrested in wood Mich in connection with the murder of Mrs Elizabeth Nichols a wealthy widow of this city leaped from the New York Central train on which he was being brought to this city in the custody of detectives early to-day as it passed through mon N Y The train was brought to a stop anil Waltonen was found in a ditch beside the tracks severely injured He brought to the city and hurried to a hospital His condition was said to be serious GRECIAN KING'S VIEW OF WAR CRISIS TATOL Greece Sept ingress or giving us such a vote that p Cora ne -received a correspondent o platform without a prohibition plank in it CONGRESS PASSENGERS NO WORSE FOR TRIP Ore Sept of the passengers of the burned steamer Congress left here at 4 p m to-day on a special train lor Seattle All but a few were in the best of health and spirits Two miles off Coos bay the ened hulk of the Congress lay with smoke still coming out of her but in small volume The steamer which had won her race with death last evening and brought her passengers and crew to was completely burned out Via Paris of the Associated Press in his summer palace here just previous to a visit from the British minister at Athens The king said that Greece is ready to join the entente allies whenever she could see her definite and certain advantage in so doing The king expressed indignation that it could be thought that he is bound by any pledge to any one not to make war or that he has been moved in his course hitherto by any reasons save those he conceived to be for the est good of his country He declared that the situation up to the Bulgarian invasion of Greek Macedonia and mania's entry into the war had not re Photo by American Press Association K GRANDSON OF CHARLES recent photograph of Genera commander of the French troops in the attacks on the Germans at the Somme river The allies think very highly of General abilities as a Ohio Saturday and Sun1 riling j strategist and say he will German line aMo tn able to with sufficient certainty the ad- try must take but as he put it the vantage to be gained by Greece to com- I hour will come when we want the voice Greece He laid stress on the ences between Greece's situation and Rumania's in respect Quite frankly the king admitted that the presence of Bulgars in Macedonia and Rumania's entry into the war would greatly complicate the situation constituting a new which might easily alter the premises upon which the policy of Greece hitherto has been based The king added that the new elements now were being thought over and the course of Greece would depend on the result of that consideration and on else With profound earnestness King Constantino stated it was not the ment to talk of his deciding the fate of Greece nor of the government de- ciding nor any political party in Greece indicating the action the try must take but as he put it the DICKENS IS KILLED LONDON vantage to be for the risks and able cost in lives and property bound to follow Greek participation in the war The king said the world regarded with callousness due to ignorance the real situation concerning the attitude of Greece criticising the country and of the soul of Hellas to dictate the ture of our race The received the correspondent lyins on a sofa in a darkened room Physicians and nurses are still in attendance upon him on account of the fever and continual irritation of the wound which keeps the king con- fined to his room and in a state of constant physical annoyance wben not in actual pain
