Piqua Leader-Dispatch (Newspaper) - October 11, 1916, Piqua, Ohio REPORT ly rising temperature Delivered Every Evening at Your Home at lOe the Week THURSDAY IB REGISTRATION DAY EVERY VOTER MUST REGISTER VOLUME PIQUA OHIO WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 11 1916 PRICE 2 Release Seen From Ally Advance Worry Near Somme NO GROUND FOR DRASTIC ACTION Wilson and Lansing Discuss Submarine Raids and May Offer a Suggestion That Will Avoid Impending Trouble Over At- tacks Operation of Submarines in Close Proximity to the Territorial Waters of the United Fraught With Danger Lons Branch N J Out dent Wilson and Secretary of State Lansing were In conference here Gorman submarine attacks on Sunday off the Now land const were discussed length It was indicated by officials that facts so far collected through mental agencies have disclosed no grounds for drastic action by the United States government because of the attacks No evidence Is at hand whether international Jaw violated by the rine or submarines Tt was under- stood however that the president anil Secretary discussed the dom or pointing out to Germany the of operating her In close proximity to the waters of the United Administration officials took the po that transferring of warfare so close to was fraught with grave per because of the possibility of made by submarine com- that strong sentiment ex- ists In for the resumption of submarine warfare on a broader scale Mused some alarm among officials An announcement of Counsellor Poll of Ibp stale department in thn tbo States will re- turn to tile contention of the en- tenle that neutrals should the use of their harbors to all rines preceded the arrival of tary Lansing here The president and secretary of state went over this point In connection with the discussion of the entire Issue The arrival of James W Gerard American ambassador to Berlin in New York shortly before Mr Lansing left city for Shadow added Interest to the meeting between the president and Mr Lansing because of the fact that the secretary saw Mr Gerard at luncheon In New York fn discussions of the submarine at- tacks Sunday officials hero referred to diplomatic correspondence between the United States and Great beginning In in which the ican government protested against the of the American coast out- fide the three mile limit by British warships This was to as providing a precedent for protesting against the proximity of Gorman submarines to the American coast Submarine Near Savannah Savannah Ga Oct ence of n submarine of undetermined nationality off Bur below vannah reported to local customs house officials and fo the con- sul here refused to say where their information enmc from but each the statement that It was entirely unofficial OHIO GIRL PLAQUE VICTIM MUST WITHDRAW TROOPS Ort n Two hundred women living in North nail n of Simmons college were because of the ment of a case of Infantile paralysis Miss Elizabeth Miller of Warren O R student in that dormitory was found lo bo ill of be was ro- lo the Officials of the ban students said that It probably would not be closed DRIVEN FROM HOMES BY FIRE Cleveland OH burn an was rescued and ty people were driven to from their de- of property en Euclid Snn Antonio Tex Oct chief nf staff to Plrst Carranza said Hint an to withdraw American troops from irn must be signed and a for withdrawal must be set before any other questions Mexico can bo successfully up by the commission at Atlantic City WHERE SANK TWO BRITISH SHIPS IS AMERICAN WATERS AND HELD UP AMERICAN STEAMER LOCATIONS OF GREAT LINERS ship about 120 miles southeast from Newport At same time the Ar- row No 1 a freighter of the lino was In the neighborhood bound to Europe with cargo the Philadelphia a big American liner Arrow No 2 waa bound for land with many passengers the Arrow No 3 of the British Anchor line was moving toward New York and the Espagne Arrow No 4 ot the French lino was bound for Bordeaux This map shows where the man submarine which made the remarkable voyage from to Newport reaching there Saturday a little more than twelve hours later sank the two ships West Point Arrow No 6 on map and Arrow No 7 and held up the American steamer Kansan Ar- row No C off Nantucket SCALL WHAT HUGHES WOULD DO REPUBLICAN NOMINEE DIS- CUSSES THE MEXICAN PROBLEM DIED ABROAD Marlon 0 Rowen ho American blc In is dead fit Gone a received hy his brother Colonel C Bov en or Ibis pity The Mr son of the Into Ohio supremo court Justice SEEK INVESTIGATION BY CONGRESS Unorganized Railroad Men Also Want Eight Hour Law Oct T eler Jr of Nashville chairman of employes SO cent movement his report to the 80 per of railroad employes not wl In Hie provisions of the Adamson hour law Mr Frailer and P W went to Washington when heads and railway presidents mot there and attempted lo tne In the 6T any law lie passed The report details to a henrins al the lime or sinco Tne 80 per cent movement Mr Pra- explained in making his report is designed to attain justice for men outside the brotherhoods We are now preparing petitions asking to investigate en- tire of railway hours and com- said Mr The Adamson simply raised the wasoa of he highest of railway employes Wo the SO per cent outside brotherhoods are op- posed to fo these men if they advances M lower paid In if there is lo he the sub- ject of tve want It to cover the field fairly and Baltimore Oct Hughes in tbo course of in address here outlined the policy toward ico be would pursue If president lie 1 have been asked what I would do with respect to Mexico if I am elected president no man on earth can tell what sort of n mess we will Ind in Mexico next March But I will say There nre certain principles that we can lay down to which we propose lo adhere They are ant not only with respect to Mexico but to Latin-America to all nations If entrusted with executive I propose lo adhere to them Tbo first principle Is that we will not meddle with things that do not concern us The second IB that we will not merely talk about the rights of small states but we vaill observe them The third is that it shall be un- thai at all events the lives and property of American citizens will be protected throughout the world Mr Hughes assailed Mr Wilson's policy as president toward the tion of American trade abroad He The adequate protection of American and their interests abroad according to their right under law is the cornerstone of a policy to promote American en- throughout the world Thin protection has been deliberately and deplorably refused by this tion ROBBED BY WOMEN BANDITS Elyria O Oct auto bandits figured In R holdup on the road between this city and when Ezra Knowles station agent nt was robbed On his way home he was stopped by two men and two women In an auto At the point of a the men held him up while the women went through his pockets They tool in cash a check for and a gold niu GASOLINE SCARCE IN GERMANY POTATOES AND TOMATOES ARE GROWN FROM SINGLE State College Pa Oct fully matured tomatoes and as many life-sized potatoes growing on a single In the vegetable gardens of Pennsylvania State college marks tjie advent the newest of freak plants in the vegetable world The experi was conceived and carried to completion by C 15 Myers professor of experimental vegetable growing at tlie college A was and on the produced there was grafted 1 tomato shoot The union was with wax and bound with ratlin as is done in the ordinary ino of fruit trees A luxuriant growth of vine was produced On the vine there were many tomato blossoms and these developed into normal matoes Tudor ground nl the same time the potatoes thrived ns if they were ing under the stimulus of their own vine RIOT AT EASTERN OIL PLANT TWELVE MEN SHOT WHEN VOLLEYS ARE EX- CHANGED TEN HURT IN COLLISION O Oct sons wore Injured one probably ly when a and Ohio roml car loaded with paving bricks crashed into a ley railway streetcar bound for New in Kast Youngstown SCHOOLS CLOSED O Oct has closed schools and all en- in and caused dentil of of Mr and Mrs Forrest Green services boon called off Kew York has become so Marco In Germany since Ibo war started said Ambassador Gei ard on his arrival here thai he is com to got Ills personal supply from Holland in sealed cans Berlin cabs nre not allowed to use hoy have a good substitute hi benzoin WETS WIN Manchester 0 Oct the cal option election in Manchester the wets cast in voles and the 10 A saloon was opened in this township Aug 5 It Is the only one in Adams county and the only one within twenty mifes of Manchester LLOYDS DOUBLES RATES COUNSELLOR FOLK'S RULING SUBMARINES WILL NOT BE BARRED FROM UNITED STATES Oef doubled in- surance rates on Atlantic shipping off he American Is riven as the reason Washington Oct States flatly refused to heed England's request that Herman submarines he barred from American Secretary of State Polk an- thai this government had in- formed the allies that the States permit submarines to en- ter American ports under the same conditions a are applicable to other warships notwithstanding the note re- Tuly from entente allies protesting against this Submarines may remain hours and fuel anri supplies Bayonne N 7 Oct were shot in a battle by ing employes of the Tidewater Oil company after they had been attacked by a mob They returned the fire and eight of the strikers wore wounded four of them so seriously they may die None of the policemen were dan wounded The strikers several hundred In assembled near Die plant of the company and resisted the efforts of a score or more of policemen to disperse them Thn officers were un- der orders not to fire unless fired upon but when they approached the nob one of its leaders began shooting and the battle became general A ley from the policemen's guni soon dispersed the strikers The wounded officers were shot in the arms and legs and three of them continued on duty Most of the in- jured rioters were shot In the heart and four of thorn are not expected to live All the wounded civilians were taken to hospitals The Standard Oil plant ployes about men closed after company's refusal to grant the demands of the men for a wage In- crease SPANISH WAR VETERANS ELECT Findlay O Oct was selected ns the 1517 meeting place for the reunion of the Second Ohio of Spanish War Veterans Frank of Kenton was elected president Kent Hughes of vice Prank Bell of Urna torian and A C of Van Wert secretary SCHOOL GIRL POUND DEAD FRENCH BENDS GERMAN LINES Make Gains Over Front of Two and a Half Miles and Take Town in Operation in Somme Region German Forces in Transylvania Sharply Pressing the Retreating Roumanians Taking Prisoners Guns and 800 Cars Laden With Food Stuffs London Oct troops fighting south of tie Somme region la France have brat back the lines considerably over a front of about two and a half miles from tie village of to the Chaulnes wood capturing In the operation tho village of Boyent the north and west outskirts of and most of wood Along the river southwest of In Greek Macedonia he forces of the Teutonic powers have evacuated the towns of Mali and west of Serei the British have taken from the the towns of Ka- lendra and Berlin that alone the Cenm the entente allies hare twin rew all attacks The usual are In program in tne theater forced mm Berlin's tions in Ol both sides of troops sharply press Moated Row Twenty-five Connors Ing thirteen of heavy caliber More than 800 railroad can mostly Men with among the booty taken by army ant prisoners were taken The Romna the says suffered very henry and Woody losses The Berlin office admitted the allies obtained small advantages against the Bulgarians On tht Somme front all French and British attacks wore repulsed It In tho Teutons took by storm the village of on the Jovka river making 204 AS IT Main nail of the of was destroyed by fire John Margolin waa killed and Darld Hathaway ly injured at Pittsburgh when a ledge of earth collapsed While In his sleep William plunged from a second story window at O and ed serious injuries Mrs Cecil wife of a ton planter near Oklahoma City was shot and seriously wounded at her by 4 right All eastern grades of oil advanced 10 cents a barrel Pennsylvania again New Castle Corning ami KILLED BY Cleveland Oct Bolti was instantly killed while on top of a boxcar on a New York Central siding An engine ed into tne car throwing him to the track Tho wheels of tbo ear over his body EIGHT HOUR AS SEEN BY HERRICK Discusses NIC Adamson Act Before Business Men New York Oct with her own book strap after being Tillie an old school girl was found dead in the cellar of a Monroe street tenement on the lower East Side The girl had been missing since Monday when she ed to return home from school AUTOMOBILE OVERTURNS O Oct W R Deemer well known Fremont cian and his nineteen were their cur which turned turtle into a after Ins with a motor truck Both are hurt GOES TO CLEVELAND 0 Ot Florence Evans secretary of the Young an's league here resigned to RO lo ot industrial department of the V W 0 t Cincinnati Oct A of business men here T the hour as I believe in the hour work day tie the inevitable consequence of growing efficiency of labor through the use of improved machinery as a matter of economic advantage It will comu by tho of by arbitration by agreement by mutual of its tn all of labor lo which It is applicable The farmer for in- can not cultivate his crops nor harvest them nor feed his stock nor do the other things necessary on R farm on an hour schedule Whether the Adamson law has Ad- or retarded the establishment of an hour day Is a mooted tion I should like to see a copy of thn law in the of every American Tt Is short Section 1 provides that eight hours shrill be deemed a work and the standard for reckoning compensation for certain classes of railway em- ployes There IR nothing in this or in any other section of tho law ing a man working more than eight hours or that will an em- ployer for discharging Tilth If he -n fuses to than eight hours The only thing guaranteed to the workman during the experimental period fthat iUs law ne force Is fliat shall lie for hours work the same he Is now for more than eight hours work and that for the honn he works in excess of wight he be- al the same rate Section 2 a ston of to observe the operation and effect of the act and report and congress in not than six more than nine months at Its discretion Section fl provides that for y period of thirty following the report ol the commission the wages of the rail way employes affected by the act snail not be reduced That Is the same as saying that the railway managers following the thirty day period And in the absence of another law to the con- trary may reduce the of the employes Such action Is the and immediate end of the ror law What good may ultimately coma ol the Adamson law will be the fruits Of Investigation by the np to the operation and effect of ins by law in a and i business apd these such ol value tuat I If in would not vote to tuib tho in Its work The American lalion was by people who to to escape autocratic government and It Is well to take we drift Into in our less of ably wo want to to government the right fix our hours of labor and our rVe of In our industrial shal continue to and years Tf government OTII hours and increases own pay In gomt years it ean Increase the hours and reduce pay in
