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4.000 GERMAN TROOPS, DESERTING
COLORS. FLEE TO HOLLAND INSEARCH
OF FOOD: ALLIES PUSH GREAT DRIVE
Hindenburjf Line Now
Menaced at Several
Key Point*
FRENCH DRIVING
WEDGE INTO FOE
Entente Artillery Is
Hammering Rear Os
Teutons
THI. MAQUt, March Sf«~
F*ur «K«(MMMi apONUR lIWIOM ‘ -
have crwMMtf th* ltrt« into Hol
land oooMng food, oocording to
frontier rogorto rocoivod boro
today. They have boon Interned
at Zwolle.
LONDON. March J7.~Tbe Al!ie«l
pursuit continued hotly today, mark
ed by violent (Ightlng of both
aod maaard character at half .1 doz
en points along »h<* 3C-mile front
tiow rapidly nearing the pcrraanmi
Get man line.
The Frcn h were within lesa than
a mile of ihe "Hinueabutg line'
and progressing rteadily despite
inundation- and incren.dngl) strong
reriataAch from the enemy.
The nearest approach of the Brit
Isb to the line was around lagnl
court, about 11 miles west of Cam
bra). There was bitter fighting >u
this neighborhood today, Herman
massed forces desperately attiring
to re-tlke the village But the
British held Arm and beat off all
attacks.
Two heights commanding the Ger
man forefront were under especial
ly heavy drive by the French. EL
algny. one of these, has already fall
en tato FTench hand*, and today was
under fire of German counter-attack
Another near Benay, was being del
uged with French artillery. With
both In the Allies hands, military
critics assort the safety of the Ger
man line about St. ,guenUn would
be seriously impaired.
G«n. NlveHe’s wedge, which seek#
a split In the Oenuan line, la being
driven forward at (hi* point.
FIREMEN SAVE
2 FROM DEATH
Trapped by Smoke and Flame*.
Garage Workers are
Carried to Safety
Sterling Ibiaken, 21 years old. of
No. 81 Ford-eve.. and Albert Hogan,
26 yearn old. of So. 314 Farnsworth
are., wore itacued from the second
floor of th** Elu*b<th RtiV", No.
P&-S7 HhrHethst *a.«t Tuesday
uu rmnr. ■ » o'cl-v k, hrn
atnok*- an l fir*- cui off th**lr es
cape.
Fir* in* ir iilm and i Ih<l l* t to the
window and < »rrle*i th# nten out.
cfter th* y had b* rn > Iteml;- burned.
Thry wi<rc removed to receiving
hr-epttsl. -rod later wart taken to
their born- -
The J.imay* i j automobiles *n tiro
giiag* In estimated a* If.“ft'’, two
cni! b* litt'eatroyr * Th* '’amage
to the budding I* l pitted at $' 100.
The Are start *<l from an explo
alon of gasoline which the •wo men
were removing from one automobile
to another Th**y tiled for .»*-veral
ndnutea to ettlngnl“h the blare, and
when the> finally concluded to sum
mon the flre department, the way
to the atalra waa H«*ckTd by amoke
and Riuim.
1,500 DECLARE
AGAINST WAR
Harmonic Hall Meeting Adopt*
Keioohitioii I rging Comtry
to Remain in Peace
More than 1 *AO uereona met In
Harmont* ball Monday night and
adopted resolutions urging America
to keep out of the war that la now
devastating
Ista, all of whom were enthusi
astic for peace, were Dr Charlee
*R Ruesskamp. Henry Andrlea and
Andrew Toe pel.
Alt of the speakers declared that
It would be the part of wisdom for
this country to listen to the word*
of Washington and keep out of for
eign entanglements The speakers
a?reed that the war was being
foisted upon this country by ib>*
mun'Tion makers shipbuilders gnd
others who would profit by such a
war.
Max Cohen presided over th*
meetinr which adopted resolutions
In keeping with the remarks of the
orators. The following signed the
resolutions: August Marxhauaen.
Dr Charlee H Ruesskamp, Dr Emil
Roainger. Henry Andrlea, Wilhelm
F Tblemt, Jacob Mack. Edward J.
Meeserich. Jacob Duschtnsky Carl
Bauer. Henry Pfeiffer, Oust Mlech.
TAXI OFFICIALS
ARE EXONERATED
Coroner's Jury Holds Driver
Wan (furelem and Did
Not Obey Rolen
Coroner Morgan Parker's Invasti
gallon into charges of reckless driv
ing on the part of taxicab driven
of Detroit baa resulted in a com
plete exoneration for offtrtala of the
Yellow Bonnet and the Yellow Taxi
cab com pan lee
The jury Bitting In the tnqueat
Into the death of Alma Elkholm one
of the taxicab victims. decided Mon
day afternoon that the driver of
thr taxicab, Frank Mayera, waa
careless and reckneaa Mayera waa
arreeted after the accident, and la
new free on SI,OOO bonds.
Both Dr. Parker and Aasiatant
P-oaecutor Merrlam stated after the
Inquest that the taxicab company
officials. including Oeorge F. Mon
achal president, and John E Mur
phy, treasurer of the Yellow Taxi
company. had proven conclusively
tuat the company tries in every
w;.v to discourage Its chauffeurs
fr* in violating any laws or ordl
n n<* I >vlrx gone ao far 'as to
It ipo-*c severe fines upon employea
who are found guilty of Infraction*
of the regulations.
ll** "«t R*S«Mt«aa risk will
•**•>«• *r«* IMlkllr Krl<ln%
C'ahf *s-1 li.*ien tn *d<ii • from
. for * arlona offices.
I’h' i ■ " ill *•*- ,* «*niker and a
.-miiO* till*' pifttnm In addition tu
the spell-binding.
W**rr thns WO m*« sent «• the Beard
nf < »i*»w»rr» Weeds t sms sea
afflred their signatures to the
loyalty pledge, which ir to ti« for
warded to President Wilson. Al
ready more than men have
■•gned thr pledge and It Is hoped
that low.oftc will put their names to
.it before it Is sent away. Moving
picture men sere preecnt with
their cameras and made motion pic.
tores of the men pledging them
■elves to defend their country.
DETROIT TIMES
MAN SLOTS
WIFE; CUTS
UIS THROAT
y ■ • ,v ’ 4 .
If won fNferny Is
Dying in Receiving
Hospital
COUPLE WERE
ESTRANGED
Tragedy Follows Hus
band’s Vain Attempt
to Win Her Back
No bop** wu held out sh receiv
ing bospi'ul Tuead.iy morning for
the recovery of IDiman Dulauy, 26
years old. former Illinois school
teacher, who killed hla wife. Bea
trice, with a raxor Monday night and
then slashed hla own throat. In the
hospital,*lt was said his death was
< xpected at any hour.
Duiany’s act came after a three
months' separation from hla .nate,
end many futile attempts to win
her back. He met her as she was
going into the house where she
roomed. No 200 Caitfleld avc. west.
He talked quietly with her for a few
minutes as she was standing at the
foot of the step# leading to the
porch. Then he pulled the razor
from hie pocket and drew It across
the woman’s throat.
Mm. Du lan y a*ak to the side
walk ; her husband walked out to
the curb and there tried to kill
himsolf When Grace hoapitni am
bulance arrived Mrs. Dulanv was
dead and the husband was uncon
aclooa.
The Dulanya were married a v«wr
Kgo and reaided In Raat 8L Touts.
111., until last December Before
that Dulanr had taught school in
Da hi gran, 111. In Bast flt. L*ouis he
waa employed aa n special tax col
lector. When the couple separated.
In December, Mm. Dolany came to
L’etrott and obtained work In a
downtown department store Pulany
weot to Chicago and early last
week he came lo Detroit, and
begged hta wife to return with hlho
to live In Chicago.
According to Mm. J. D. O'Connor,
who conducts the Canfields ve
house, Mrs Dulany told her hue
land she would meet him In Chi
cago laat Paturday. making th«-
promlse ao that he would go away
(com her. She addressed a letter
to him to Chicago before Saturday,
>a>lng she could not meet him be
cause she vw ill. Dulany le sup
poeed to have returned to Detroit
immediately after receiving thi*
Message.
Sunday lie tried rlx times to get
m communication with her by tele
phone, hut without success
Mm Dolany waa 1:8 years old. at
tractive, and possessed several val
uable diamonds.
Her body was taken to th* county
morgue,
Try Oar Wasting *> ik* l.b ««•■•.
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TI’ESDAY. MARCH 27, 1917.
She Led Succemful Campaign for
Woman Sattpage in Ontario, Canada
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MPSARORMSty
Mrs A B. Ormeby. chairman of the Ontario Equal Suffrage Association,
has Just conducted a winning flgh' for woman suffrage In that province of
Panada. The legislature ha* voted in favor of suffrage for women after a
long fight.
JEWELS WORTH
840,000 STOLEN
Police of AD Citie* l>ooking
For Pearls Taken in
New York
NEW YORK. March 27 —The po
lice of cities In ail parts of the
country were set to work today to
look for Jewels valued at ItO.Ouo.
stolen from the home of Mrs. Wil
liam McNair, No. 6 Seventieths*.
Included with the Jewels Is a
pearl necklace valued at $30,000,
composed of 60 perfectly matched
pearla. Two diamond rings a pair
of diamond earrings, pins, brooches
and smaller rings were tak*n. Oth
er Jewelry lying on a dreasing table
In the room where the theft was
committed, was not touched
McNair, who la Interested in west
ern railways and mines has offered
a reward of $2,600 for mrovery of
the articles
Police declare the robber* one of
the largest from a private dwelling
In the city’s hirtory.
TWO DIE WHEN
WALL CAVES IN
Coroner Morgan Parker and Chief
Building Inspector Henry A Dupont
are conducting an investigation
tfito the collapse of a wall adjoin In '
the Coliseum theater. Field and
Jrfferson-aves.. which took the lives
of two workmen and fatally Inju.' 1
another Monday afternoon.
Tbe men who met death are Jo
peph Hunt, 62 yearn ok! of No I?* ;
Adains-ave. east, and Thomas Rig
n*y. yeara old. whose address is
not known. William Chapman, 2S
years old, a Negro, was so badly
crushed that he la dying in receiv
ing hospital.
The theater is being remodeled,
and the wall which collapsed Is re
ported to hare been reared recent
ly The cement blocks In it were
still damp, according to a repot*
which reached Dupon*. Coroner
Parker has decided to hold an In
*|t.eat
SPRING VISIONS
ARE SHATTERED
Snow Follows Drop in Tem
perature of 34 Degrees,
After June Day
Detroit’s vision* of spring bright
ened by severs! days of warm and
sunn) weai her, were shattered by
heavy snows and a drop In tempera
ture of 34 degrees Tuesday.
When the city avroke this mom
Ing anon flakes that seemed as big
an a dollar were blanketing the
community with whiteness. The
snow was heavy and the sidewalks
and streets were soon covered with
slush.
Condition* which prevailed over
Detroit affected the entire state.
The high tem|>erature in this city
Monday was M degrees It dropped
to 34 degrees by this tnomlnr. Snow
or rain were reported rhmmit tfcf
slate The disturbance was central
over Detroit and Toledo laet night,
but thia morning It had moved Ip*o
the Georgian bay region.
Indications are that the day will
remain cold and cloudy, according
to Weather Observer Norman B
Cong*r.
DOMINION LOAN
GREAT SUCCESS
' V
Third War Inmie la Over
subscribed bv Sum of
$100,000,000
OTTAWA Oot.. Match 27— The
thiid r.-mad.an wur lo>«.n has h» »-n
ever-subscribed sldo/"JO.(MK> The
yovernment asked | I50.0t»0,0o0 and
? 250.000.000 has »H*en subscribed.
Only the amount authorized will be
accepted
Including the loan Just floated the
amount subscribed In the three
h.ans totals s36o,Mn.(h>n in eicess
of the total net. debt of Canada
when war w*a declared
«roT«—vtTii k—*< or*
St. Andr-v i Highland and Inter
national Pipe Hand. Special Night.
Wayne Hardens. Friday March *■*
ailvar eijp for heat Juvenile l*anc*r»
adv
LEADERS PREPARINO RESOLUTION
DECLARING TIME HAS COME TO FHRTjj
RESPONSIBILITY PLACED OR BERLNf
council TO
RECONSIDER
POUCEFIIND
Aldermen Stage Battle
Over Couzens’
Estimates
ALLAN HEADS
OPPOSITION
Sharp Tilt With Aid.
Glinnan Features
Session
Taking the stand that cutting of
• p item from Police Commissioner
Couiens' estimates for 1917-11
would bring blame for crime preva
leuce on the members of the edg
ed, 19 aldermen voted Monday aft
ernoon to reconsider the police esti
mates. revising them item by item
Fifteen of ttf'ealdermen, led by Aid
Allan, chairman of the committee
on traffic and police regulation,
fought against a revision of the
estimate* but lost out to the other
faction, championed by Aid Tom
Glinnan and Charles W. Burton.
A move by Aid Glinnan to ig
note the report, of the committee,
which had cut about $?©0.000 from
toe police estimate* of ncirly 12.-
509,000. preeipitateil the warmest
fight that has been heard In the
council chamber since consideration
of the budget was begun. Aid Gltn
nsn asked that the estimate. - ! be al
lowed Just as Commissioner Couz
ens had submitted them to the con
f roller. Including '» supplemental
ei.timate of sTo<v> for chief of de
tectlvM
Aid Allan was on hi* feet imme
diatelr and commanded the floor
"The council might as well dis
charge every committee if ft intends
to Ignore the work of Its committee
on police, which has put In a lot of
time and study on those estimates,
he said. M Tf the council takes tlu
salaries, as submitted by the com
missioner it will find that few will
conform to the salary ordinance
that the council intends to adopt
.i?ter the bPdret bt" been com
niched The committee cn’ Af> p*
tr Imen md a service s' «t;on and
gorsge The commissioner and h*r
• errefsry told ii* tba’ they could
g» * alone withrnt these items
Aid Allan st length reviewed th r
corotnlttee’s work prowlni * ■ -n.
ur der the collar ltl < » r h *
In. word Flnallv. he retorted
"T*m not lined up «ith any of the
men In this council who eav Give
the police commissioner everything
he asks for and let him hang him
«tlf.’ So you ran do as you damned
please about It. It's up to you. not
to me ”
Aid Glinnan pral**d the police
commissioner. Aid Allan wanted
tr know why one commissioner
•hould be "placed on a pedestal and
told ’There you are the czar We
n.e von everything you a*k ' ** AM.
Jacob Outhnrd said the committee
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NOON EXTIUI
FORMER DETM.IT
MINSDIDME
( hark* E. TownneiuL Efficien
cy Expert, Kills Self
in New York
NffW YORK. March 27.—Charte»
E. Townuend. ao efficiency expert
formerly employed by the Crowley-
Mliaor ompstM of^Detrott^com
tel Vanderbilt by shooting himself
with a revolver
Townsend was the second man
with business connections in De
troit to kill himself In the Hotel
Vanderbilt within two days. The
other was D. W Dailey, president
of the Dailey Grocers’ company. In
corpora ted
KING GIVES UP
DANISH ISLES
Wishes Former Subject* n
Happy Future Under
U. S. Flag
COPENHAGEN. March 27.—King
Gustaf formally bade his former
subjects in the Danish West Indies
farewell today, wishing them ’’a
happy future" under the United
States flag. He Issued a formal
proclamation thanking residents of
the Islands, now sold to the United
States, "for their centuries of lo>
alty."
State conventions of the Woodmen
of the World are to be held todsv
st Orlando Fla . New Iberia. loa.,
*nd Waco. Texas.
Day in Wake of German Retreat
Would Rouse Most Peaceful Man
To Fighting Pitch, Says Writer
By WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS
( Staff Cerretpondcnt United Prett.)
WITH THE BRITISH ARM TUB.
(in the path of the German retreat 1,
March 27. —One day spent in the
territory Just wrenched from Ger
man domination by Franco-British
-irm* would make the most tlmi.i
pacifist the bitter foe of the Pru*
*f«m military autocracy.
If American voter* could spend
an hour among the pinched faces
of babies, could hear the stories of
wronged women, could see pillaged
(owns sacked cities and the de
vastated country aide—then any
V.’ashingtnn politician refusing to
help resist the kaiser's decision to
tre * American" In the same way
would find himself suddenly
sr.ctchcd from his chair by the nape
of his neck and hustled where the
whang-doodle mourneth forever
more
"Is America coming into the
war?” a woman with a sick hus
band and several small children
asked me at Neale.
“Tell your readers for God's >ake
for everybody’s sake—help us
Stop the war for It won't end utnil
those horrible Prussian* are beaten
And with America in. fhev'll b»
beaten quicker. If you had lived
a* T have lived, for two and a half
IN DETROIT: ONI C»|lf
Declaration Will lM
cite German Agwj
sions AgainotU.BL^|
1
WILSON BUSY Wriß!
HIS WAR MESSiim
Congress Expected flB
Act Immediately On |
It. Delivery jg
»r wm j. unm Sag
t stuff narrmptmdmt
WASH inn TOW March 17. M
resolution V> bo paaaod in cohftPffli
on April S. Immediately after daT*
preaideut conclude* hia »Mmi Itj
the Joint aeeatoo, will deeUre HUH
the time haa come when the
States must vindicate cWJetvely MM
honor and its rights.
It will declare that by the adit ]
of Germany a state of war adtH ■
and that congress places at the 41st- •{
position of the president the UMaflft.i
of vigorously prosecuting the «W»
and thereby hastening the reetocm- 1
tion of peace.
( ongrese meets April t, but tH <
first day will be devoted to orftMft j
Ising. The president expects am
day sufficient for organisation aai
will address the body the following
day—Tuesday.
While President WUaon la com
pleting his indictment of GenuM? '
this week, the house foreign affair* ■
committee is preparing the war raft*
olution
-AirHcjpsting the trend of the pres
ident's indictment*, the oinmlttee. '
according to present plans. wtD
draw the reaolgtlon along the fol
lowing lines
That wanton violation of tftn
rights of persona and property of
our citizens, committed by Oer
many; her repeated acts of bast
faith and utter disregard of solemn
years to kop-tow to
them like a servant, yould under
aland “*
“My 20yearold aliiter, with Into
of girls and women, was sent swag
b 7 these Prussians —to where sad
to what fa»e we don’t know. Mg
husband was not taken hocanae be
was ill; my babies, berauae they
were too young We had mav,
hvsee. chickens, pigs, and the llho
—but the Germans took all. At tret
they paid for them notes
scribbled on any scrap of paper
handy Rat’for over a year now
they have taken what they wanted,
without even giving ue the note*
"Before they left I asked them If
they wouldn’t give me a little oaah
In place of some of their notee, hat
They laughed In ray faoe.
’* Take-them to Poincare,* th«V
said, ’or to your British Wends,
they'll pay you' -and then they
laughed some more."
This story of the woman with
the bablea and the tick husband
was not unique, or unusual. It was
duplicated many times
Another woman pith a « ndaged
hand said a German nfßrer Hum*
into her hedr.iora and y bat her hand
h«d been cu» by his sword .Min '
she was trvtpg to defend
against Ms advances