Piqua Daily Press (Newspaper) - March 28, 1916, Piqua, Ohio WANT Will sell your house or rent your rooms It will find a buyer for other things you want to sell Try a PRESS want ml LEADS BY 24 HOURS THE PEOPLE'S PAPER FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE UNITED PRESS NEWS IN MIAMI slightly colder Wednesday partly cloudy PIQUA OHIO 28 1916 ALLIES WAR CONFERENCE DECIDING EUROPE'S FATE Plans For Pooling Of Military Economic And Political Resources Considered SCHOOLS CLOSED EPIDEMIC RACES Action Taken In Troy Preventive Measure By United Press PARIS March fate of Europe for many decades Board of Health if not centuries will be settled before adjournment tonight of I Although the number All of the schools in Troy were ordered closed today be- cause of an epidemic of scarlet fever They will not be opened until notified by the State the allies great war conference The sessions were resumed today at the foreign office in the room called the Hall of the Clock salon was held the historic congress of Paris in 1850 folio the Crimean war Before nightfall the ring about the central empire's will be pooling of their military economic and resources nightfall the ring about the empire's will be tightly closed The details of the plan worked out here may not bo made known until years after the war hn ended of cases reported is not alarming this move is taken as a pre- measure In Command Of Aero Corps In Mexico The said the Temps are fully aware that harmony of tions on fell fronts is the price of tory They arc willing to make will be able to hasten under the best conditions the end of the marc that has been weighing down civilization for twenty months ual sacrifices When the conference Germany is aware her danger adjourns The Verdun drive was the mightiest tonight the world's mightiest attempt to stave off defeat Failing rations for war will be complete All j at Verdun she must now await our resources will be in play The Indictments Against Companies Quashed HOUSE PASSES ARMY DEFICIENCY MEASURE By United Tress WASHINGTON March a of 373 to 1 the house today passed an army deficiency ing to cover the cost of Mexican expedition It will enable the department to recruit the army up to full strength and to buy aeroplanes motor trucks and other equipment The vote is taken as an ment by the house of the Mexican expedition Representative London of New York cast the negative vote By United Press YOUNGSTOWN March 28 against Judge Gary the United States and five other steel companies were ordered quashed here today by Common Pleas Judge W S Anderson Judge Anderson -in ing the motion to quash held sthe indictments charging con- to maintain prices and keep down the wages of com- mon laborers were vague in- definite uncertain The five companies Youngstown Sheet and Tube com- pany Republic Iron and Steel com- pany Carnegie Steel company Brier Hill Steel company Youngstown Iron and Steel Judge Anderson also ruled that labor was not a commodity and therefore did not fall under the vision of the Valentine act Prosecutor Henderson who had charge of the grand jury tion refused to say whether further action against the steel companies is planned It is believed here that no attempt to return new indictments will be made AMERICAN VICTIM OF DISASTER IN CRITICAL CONDITION By United Press LONDON March George IT Crocker the three Americans seriously injured in the Sussex dis- aster is in a critical condition at the Dover hospital today and may not recover Crocker who suffered a fractured skull and other injuries rallied had a relapse last night The other Americans arc ing CLEVELAND MAN HERE LOOKING OVER POLITICAL SITUATION FOR HERRICK STRIKES ARE SERIOUS AT MUNITION WORKS By United Press LONDON March strikes among the machinists at Clyde are holding up the ture of big guns Christopher son under secretary for informed the house of afternoon The strikes were inaugurated to force the government to repeal the conscription act and other ures Addison said Six of the tors have been removed from the factories and the government is con- punishing them and taking sharp measures to meet the situation The munition works at Clyde have of propaganda for several months On one occasion minister of munitions was hooted by a crowd U S WILL ASK GERMANY Inquiry As To Nationality Submarine Decided By President and Cabinet BY ROBERT J BENDED United Press Correspondent WASHINGTON March Wilson and cabinet decided today to ask Germany for any knowledge may have concerning the wrecking of the Sussex by an plosion Inasmuch as evidence in hand has practically S the state department the Sussex wias torpedoed by a submarine the inquiry to Berlin is expected to forward soon This decision was reached in the of much feeling among some cabinet members that if the Sussex was a pedo victim there was no necessity for asking the oil the submarine since only German submarines have the waters in which the disaster occurred o The administration attitude ward the suggestion that disavowal j will be promptly forthcoming from i Germany if one of her submarines vas guilty was not changed by the cabinet session It is still apparent that the sition of the white house and state department is to demand more than disavowal and that the breaking oft of diplomatic relations is not considered too drastic a step in order to obtain it Decision to interrogate Germany vas reached after Secretary Lansing had laid before the cabinet all of the official reports COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD CAPTAIN BENJAMIN D FOULOIS By United Press PASO Tex March Another Mexican border raid and an official message ing Villa yesterday at El Oso were the principal ments of the last twenty-four hours in the Mexican situation A number of bandits were FOR CAVALRY March General Hough said today he has re- no order from the war de- or any other source to mobilize the Ohio National Guard cavalry No mounts have been chased R A of Cleveland ar- rived in this city yesterday for the purpose of taking a look at the ical fences for Her rick who is very anxious to become a United States senator Her rick though has sition in the Republican ranks in one Mr but what Mr found out has caused that gentleman to feel as if there is very little to worry about a stampede of the rank and file to Daugherty has been all through this section of the political pasture and finds that Herrick is the choice of the rank and file in the Republican party Several of the county are lined up for Daugherty but individuals in insufficient bers never elect aspirants to office In this diggins the tion through its newspaper columns are hustling for It is yet to be seen in the power of the Republican press especially in Piqua at Clyde when he urged the workers driven away from the Fabens Ranch of C E Kelley or of El Paso by two small de- of the eighth to speed up the production of tions TWO MINERS KILLED IN GAS EXPLOSION By United Press BLUEFIELD W Va March Bodies of two miners victims of an explosion of gas today in the King Coal and Coke Company mine at Vivian W Va were taken from the workings Sixteen men all badly burned were rescued It is expected several of the injured will die About 100 men were in the mine at the time of the explosion Colonel Cano who is one of our chiefs closest to Villa Both ours and the American forces Villa The latest official advices from the American expedition Villa in full flight southwest toward the hills of the Sierras with American detachments in his wake Mexican residents in districts where Villa was once an idol gave his pursuers news pf his route and supplied them with foodstuffs at record high prices in American money TWO DIE IX FIRE By United Press CLEVELAND March -A fire and vicinity is strong swing support of the enough to Republican rank and file into Daugherty's com- pany of mysterious origin today claimed two lives injured two persons haps fatally caused slight injuries to other persons and ty damage when the Foster ments burned ry and four Texas rangers About 100 shots were ex- changed in a running fight of several hours before the cans escaped across the border in the darkness The raiders ob- nothing Sheriff Peyton Edwards after an investigation announced today that he was unable to account for of the raid on the Kelley 0 ranch Edwards said the ranch was not lested Troops Summoned Kelley insisted that his foreman L M Baker saw the bandits in the act of rustling cattle about dusk and summoned troops at the nearby Wingo ranch Kelley said his Mexican caretaker was assaulted by the raiders General Gavira of Juarez made public this message from General Francisco Bettani commander of the Carranza garrison at Villa Located Villa is at El Oso Believe that PARTS OF TORPEDO METAL A HOARD By United Press LONDON March of metal picked up by British nava officers aboard the Sussex immed after the explosion ably were parts of a torpedo the By United Prese WASHINGTON March federal suffrage amendment known as Cock is dead The house judiciary committee this afternoon linked the suffrage measure with the prohibition amendment and ed to postpone both indefinitely ACTION ON TWO BILLS IS URGED PROBLEMS OP TRANSPORTATION SHOULD BE PRESSED SAYS PRESIDENT By United Press WASHINGTON March dent Wilson today in a letter House Leader Claude urged that the problems of transportation suggested by the now pending in congress the shipping and it tion of railway ibe sed to early ELOOD DANGER IN IS OVER BRITISH STEAMER SUNK By United Press LONDON March British steamer Empress of Midland has been sunk All aboard were saved The Empress of Midland is a steel screw steamer of tons built in 1907 and owned and registered at New Castle NURSE MURDERED By United Press DALLAS Tex March police were today without a clue to the identity of the murderer of Miss United Press was informed by an I Cramer 24 a trained source today The admiralty has not yet issued an official statement based on the finding of the metal fragments It stated however that there could be no possibility that the metal pieces were fragments of a TO RELEASE MINISTER CINCINNATI March dore Klumper commissioner of lic of Covington Ky today telegraphed Chief of Police Carter at Columbus Ohio to release Rev Robert F Kirby former Cincinnati pastor who was held on complaint that he deserted his invalid wife and daughter and married again without being divorced nurse found dead yesterday morning at the rear of the Oak Cliffs High school building No motive for the has been GUN SHOT IN APPENDIX MEMPHIS Tenn March Surgeons who today operated on Miss Margaret Quinn a normal school student for appendicitis found 14 gun shot two pieces of glass a small particle of oyster shell and a chipped particle of iron in the By United Press COLUMBUS March danger was considered past here A slight drizzle and together with early reports there had been heavy rains north of here in the night still caused anxiety however Columbus west side the scene of Devastation three years ago was practically deserted last night Thousands of families spent the night with friends on the east side At least 300 r west side refugees slept on army cots city hall school houses and churches on the west side hill top and at rescue homes of the Salvation army and of Adjutant general Hough and ernor Willie were at the state house until long after midnight ready to call National for relief work in case help was asked State reservoirs are all safely within their banks with no danger to surrounding territories from floods Frank R Fauver state tendent of public works this report to the governor today stating that on all reservoirs are capable of carrying off surplus wa- ters TROY TO PLAY HERE The fast Troy High school ball team will play the Piqua High five here Friday night s NEGRO SOLD FOR RAGS By United Press ELIZABETH Ky March Slavery was recalled wnen a negro was sold to a junk dealer here for his weight in old rags A negro boy escaped from a sack supposedly ed with rags after the sale was made Russians Renew Fierce Attack Against German Army to Avert Retreat BY CARL W United Press Correspondent BERLIN March on saving themselves from a ed retreat on a front of more than 100 miles the Russians are renewing their attacks against Von Hindenburg's ar- mies with a great fury Teh Slavs have suffered no greater losses since the able retreat from the jec began nearly a year ago But German officers pointed out today that it is absolutely necessary for General kin to continue the attacks or else admit defeat Von Attack During Von Hindenburg's great offensive of last year he drove the Russian line down the northern and eastern slopes of the rise of land extending in a curve from Riga to south of Dvinsk The German field marshal halted his drive when the Czar's troops had fallen back to land knowing that nature would come to his aid in spring Within a few weeks the spring thaw will set in in the northern The Russian trenches in the lowlands will be flooded it will be necessary to withdraw the whole Slav line The Germans will suffer somewhat from the floods but will not be forced to give ground to any considerable de- gree For this reason the Russians are wasting ammunition extra- In an effort to seize on high ground be- fore the spring freshets be- gin Confidence Prevails Despite the fury of the sian attack the utmost con- prevails here A German officer writing to relatives from the tor on March 18 said that the Russian marksmanship was so poor and the German defenses so well constructed that his battalion though under heavy fire all day lost but two killed and 17 wounded Officers report that the sians have changed tactics of- now charging with their men In previous fighting not more than one officer was cap- tured to men The ratio now averages one officer to sixty men Reports from the western front say that the artillery ex- changes arc now spreading to sectors which have been quiet for several days as if in cation of heavy spring fighting German Report BERLIN March fighting around St where the British launched heavy at- tacks against the German lines is developing into what may prove to be a strong enemy offensive the war office re- ported this afternoon The British areN continuing their attacks though made no further important gains It is thought possible here that British troops ing advantage of improved weather conditions on this tor may be planning a drive aimed to force the withdrawal of German troops from Verdun The situation around dun and in the whole region between the Meuse and Moselle regions unchanged On the eastern front the Russians continued their at- tacks last night in the region of Postawy but without re- ault French Report PARIS March troops captured an enemy works in the 15 miles east of Nancy killing or cap tut ing all the German occupants the war office an- this afternoon The withdrew after blowing up the position Aside from this skirmish on the Lorraine front the was calm AM artillery in the teflon ot
