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SEVENTEENTH YEAR. NO. 174.
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*ll FRANCE TO SOUTH OF
AISNE FREE OF INVADER;
DRIVE STILL GAINING
Panic In German
Ranka Indicated,
Says Paris
ioo gun¥are
Nearly 20,000 Foes Are
Taken Prisoners
To Date
PARIS, April It. — Capture of
Monohcut and aavaral heights.
Including Hill 227, in further
pregreee of the great Cham
pagne offensive, wee announced
In teday** French official state-
PA RTF, April It—OerTnanr’e sol
diers are rnarhlng the panic eta«e
as the great drive of the Franco
British forces sweeps onward with
Its ghnatiy toll of Teuton dead.
A week ago first evidence of a
breakdown in the morale of the
Oerraan defenders was observed and
reported b> British commanders
around Lens.
Today, with Oen. Neville’s French
forces In some places more than
five miles behind the German lines
in the Sotseon-Rheims sector official
statements told of German retreat
In great disorder, of abandonment
of big quantities of supplies, of
something akin to terror among the
Germans heretofore held stolid by
the iron discipline of the militarist
system.
Tbs tremendous number of prl*
oner* captured by the French drive
also attests demoralisation of the
enemy, due to tbelr fearful losses
not alone In the fury of the French
artillery fire and the dash of the
troops themselves, but In the slaugh
ter the German commanders forced
on tbelr own men by forlorn hope
counter attacks By night It Is as
pect ed to total of Oerman prisoners
will reach fO.fXX) Nearly 100 guns
have already bee ntaken.
The French were still driving
north of the Aisne toward laton to
day In the meanwhile consolidating
their gains of yesterday—the most
important since the great drive
started.
For the first time since the battle
of the Marne, the German Invaders
have been driven north of the Aisne
river. Not a German soldier re
mains tn French territory to the
south.
GIRL AND THREE
MEN HELD IN
HOTEL ROBBERY
Three men and a girl were ar
rested Wednesday by Detectives
WiNon and Johnson In conn«wilon
with n series ot thefts from the
Gratiot halel. Woodward ave, and
Larned-et. The men. Barney Bar
nett, 24 years old. No. 242 Brew
ater-et.; Morris Raider, It. No. 490
•L Antoine st„ and Ramuel Marten
berg, a guest In the hotel, are
charged with burglary. The girl,
Julia Kevno. 18. No 712 Casper ave.,
la being detained as a witness.
PtVrllm—<fe* elate seat Nls4—that
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WOMENRET
PRESIDENT
Limited Suffrage Bill
Passes State House
By 64 to 30
IS NOW READY
FOR GOVERNOR
Rep. “Bill” Martz Casts
His Vote For the
Measure
BY W. L. CALSOS
{.Staff Correspondent Detroit Time*)
IJIXBINO, Mich., April 19—The
Damon bill, providing suffrage for
women In the choice of presidential
electors, wgs adopted by tbs house
late Wednesday afternoon by a vote
of 64 to 30. The bill went thru lust
as passed by the senate and has
gone to the governor for his ap
proval.
Rep. Charles Flowers, of Detroit,
introducer of the proposed amend
uient for complete suffrage for worn
en, steered the Damon bill In the
house.
Rep. Flower* recognised the oppo
sition based on the fact that his
amendment proposal for complete
suffrage was pending, but said the
legislature waa empowered under
the United States constitution to
prescribe the method end manner of
choosing presidential elector* and
that thl* much eitenaion of suffrage
could be had without awaiting an
other referendum vote.
Referring to the two previous
vote* on suffrage In Michigan he de
clared that It had been counted out
the first time and defeated the sec
ond by the eipendlture of 1250.000
by forces which fesred the women
of the state.
Several members who voted
against the blll % reserred the right
to explain their votes. All of
took the position that suffrage will
be voted upon again In 1918. before
the presidential elector voting could
be done, and that if the people adopt
complete suffrage the partial auf
frag* contained In the Damon bill
would be unnecessary, while If the
people defeated suffrage again the
legislature would be passing a law
not wanted by the majority In the
state.
The vote on the bOl stood
Yeaa —Reps Bllnn, Brower, Cha
pin. Chow, Crawford. Croll, Curtis.
Deuel, Diehl. Eaton, Bvans. Furrier.
Flowers, Foote R L. Ford, Fpi.
FVancle, Frost, Galloway. Garde.
Green. Griggs. HalL Hallett. Haseen
ger, Hopkins. Houghton, Ivory, Jack
eon. Kteller, Hoovers, Leighton,
land. laswls. IJMieJohn. McArthur.
Marts. Msniman. Moore. Newkirk,
DETROIT TIMES
U.S. Destroyer Attacked By Submarine? m Gmn Crew in Action
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Upper picture: Forward gun crew of the “•mlth" flHng. Lower picture: American warship en which German
submarine fired.
A German submarine fired on the American destroy er '’Smith’* 90 miles southeast of New York city Just after
midnight Tuesday. April 17. Sha then disappeared. The wake of the torpedo was plainly seen SO yards from
the war vessel.
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O'Brien. Olmsted. Ormsbee. Person,
Petermann, Quintet. Read. C. J.
Reed. Robin non. Root. Rone, Roes.
John Schmidt. Frank A. Smith.
Soars, Toe pel, I’pbam. W'agner,
Ward. Warner. Welsh, llej, Tonne
and the Speaker—44.
Mars —Reps Anon, Bosch. Clark.
Copley, Cowan. Culver, Dalgneau.
Dapmto. Edwards. Ewing. Sheridan
Ford. Oettel. Glasple. Hulee, Jerome,
Jonee Lamphere, Levsque. Nelson.
Peterson. H. L. Schmidt. M. H.
Smith, 8. J. Smith, Stearns. Bt*ven
son. Tsube, elssert, Wells, Wood and
Woodruff—lo.
Rep -Bill" Marts signalised hie sole
and countered on those voting nay
and reserving the right to explain
by declaring loudly:
"I vote aye and can't explain my
vote."
A resounding laugh greeted Bill.
The passage of the bill was ap
plauded from the floor and the gal*
lerles for two minutes after the an
nounrernent of tbe vote.
FIX GAMPS
FOR OFFICERS
RcAervists To Be Given Intens
ive Training Beginning
May 1
WASHINGTON. April It -Orders
for establishing Intensive training
for the officers' reserve corps
in esch army department were Is
sued last night by the war depart
ment. The general plan is to train
tbe reserves three or four months,
when they will be full fledged oft.
(«rt. and then place many of them
at training recruits.
The ramps will be open May 1.
The camp for Michigan will he at
FVrt Sheridan, near Chicago.
Tn Sk* ««S»r fr*e nwsasiles,
Mt Clsmsna waters will help row -
an*
THURSDAY, APRIL I*. 1917.
TWO KILLED BY
WABASH TRAIN
%
Antal st, Bttnded By Storm,
Meets Death With Compan
ion At Waterman-ave.
▲ speeding Wabash train. Toledo
bound, crashed Into a touring car
lata Wednesday at the Waterman
ava. crossing, killing the driver, Pc
ter Denscbak. 66, No. 2227 Jefferson
ave. west, and his companion. Tony
Horner. 48. No. 61 West Rndeve
Horner was killed instantly, while
Demchak died early Thursday In the
West End branch of Harper hospi
tal. Hie skn)l was fractured sod
one leg broken.
The accident occurred during a
heavy thunder shower. It 1* beltev
ed Demchak. unable to beer the sp
proach of the train, because of lb*
storm, drove on tffe tracks before
he was aware of the dange:
Both were thrown some distance
by the force of the Impact, which
demolished their machine. Horner *
body, badly mangled, wa* taken to
the county morgue.
Six persons were Injured, one se
riously. Wednesday, when a C., H
A D. train. Cincinnati to Detroit,
was derailed near Hand station, on
the Wabash railroad
John Baker, a chef, Cincinnati,
suffered a broken leg He waa r<>
moved to the Boulevard sanitarium
>'on<* of the passengers wss se
rlouely hurt, rail roed official* an
oounced.
New Hampshire observes today
se s Fast Day, In pursuance of a
proclamation Issued by Gov Keyes.
■ ATMrmc ron kiddiids
on Saturday at the WHm Theater
SttrkneV* Educated Ihige and Pontea
Will eleaee them rive other great
vaudeville arte and Feature rhoto
plays AU for One Admission. 19
and Mt-Adv.
SPEAKER RICE
REMEMBERED
BY LEGISLATURE
BY W L. CALNON
I Staff Correspondent Detroit Timet)
Mich., April 19 —The
nearness of the legislature's closing
was noted in the house of repre
sentatives Wednesday afternoon by
the presentation of several hand
some gifts.
Members of the house presented
to Speaker Wayne R. Rice a mag
nificent chast of silver: to Speaker
Pro Tern Lynn J. Lewis a traveling
!>ag; and to Sergeant-at arms Harry
J. McGrane a silk umbrella. The
commit tee clerks of the house also
presented Speaker Rice with an
electrtc lamp and ahade while the
house messenger* gave him a ail
ter coffee percolator. Assistant ser
geants and other employes present
ed Sergeant McGrane with a hand
some camping outfit.
U. S. ACCEPTS
PACKING PLANTS
CHICAOO, April 19 —The United
States government bae accepted the
offer of Chicago meat packers for
the use of their great plants during
the war. according to an announce
ment* made by representatives of
the packers who returned from
Washington last night.
The government will be In com
plete control of the establishments,
but the trained men of the present
organisations will be retained to
.tuparvlse productions.
The army and navy will be sup
plied first, and distribution to civ
ilian consumers will be made with
an eya to preventing excess profits
end manipulation by middlemen
matlue—«*• ylaa »«at Mb4—«ka«
la liftN-Tlais Ml Deg*.— Mala 43sa
REFUSES TO ACCEPT COMPROMISE
MEASURE REPORTED OUT BY MSI;
COMMITTEE; WILL APPEAL TO COUTH
GERMANS OF
UIH BltC
imnLVL VTTvL
IN REVOLT
Three States In Arms
Against Federal
Government
CENSORSHIP
IS IN FORCE
By CHARLKS F. STEWART.
(Staff Correspondent United Frees )
BfUffsTW A TRIOS. April 19.
BravH's great German population In
at least three states has revolted
Dispatches from Montevideo
(Uruguay) today asserted tha Teu
tons ware well armed-even with
some artillery—and plentifully sup
plied.
Brasil’s censorship la down tight
on any details.
Tha rebellion apparently cantered
In the Brasilian states of Rio
Grande, Parana and Santa Gathar-
Ina.
The German population —mala and
female—ln thla section has been es
timated at 600,000.
Uruguayan dispatch*# today de
clared they had already attempted
to dynamite the railway bridge at
Santa Marla.
The government of Rio Orand*
province waa said to be concen
trating Its strongest and most loyal
troops to oppose the rebels at Porto
Alegre In the meantime the Uru
guayan government Is massing its
troops on the frontier fearing the
Germans may invade Uruguay.
Officials were quoted In the
Montevideo dispatches as asserting
their belief they will be able to
withstand all raids. The Brasilian
Germans were to have been pre par
Ing to move against Uruguay. Tbelr
preference waa for occupation of
Chile—which country la rich In ni
trates and therefore desirable In
war —but Chile was too great a dis
tance from tbelr base.
Brazil baa a strict censorship in
force now and It was Impossible to
obtain complete verification of the
revolt or of what steps the Brasil
lan government had taken to
quell It %
From the very start of BrasH’e
crisis with Germany tke greatest
apprehension had been expressed
as to the course which the repub
lic’s very large German population
would adopt. More than 10 days
ago dispatches said that under cov
er of needing troops to avert an
outbreak In an old boundary dlsput#
between two Brasilian states, the
government had dispatched very
strong forces to the states where
the Germans were most numerous.
I>rvaa •« rll vti wtlfc NttU ■wy.
CMh or Orodit. fl p*r week The
Lion Cos.. ISO Mlrhigaa-av*—Age.
REAL PERIL
IS SEEN IN
ARMY DELAY
Congressional Dispute
Sure to Hearten
Germans
U. S. OFFICERS
ARE ALARMED
By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN,
(Staff Correspondent International
Nows Service.)
WASHINGTON. April 19.—Army
chiefs who know the exact situa
tion, openly declared today that the
present delay on the army bill, and
especially the open difference* be
tween congress and the president
are sure to have an til-effect In
Germany The German newapapers,
by direct order, have done every
thing possible to make the German
I>eopl* believe that the entrance of
tha Unttad States Into the war was
In opposition to the wishes of th
people generally The army men
point out that they are certain to
emphasise the difference between
the president and congress over the
right way to raise an army as proof
cf this fact
In thl* very connection, all
branches of the service today be
yan taking steps to check the rap
Idly growing belief that as a result
of the successes of the French and
British on the western front, the
ond of the war la In sight. That
resumption, tt 1* ststed. I* discour
aging preparation and 1* especially
interfering with voluntary enlist
mente. Germany Is far from belrg
ciushed. officials say. and there I*
very little doubt thnt the armies if
the United State* must be pound
Into the trenche* to bring abo it
ultimate and complete victory
PLAN ARMY OF
• 500,000 AUG. I
To Be Chouen By I»t From
Among 7,000,000 Youths
Who Are KligiMe
WASHINGTON. April 18 Antlcl
pating passage of the conscription
bill the war department Is rapidly
completing plans for placing an
army of 600,000 men In the training
camps by Aug 1.
It la estimated by the department
that there are 7.900.000 men in the
country between the ages of 19
to 26. Os these about 60 per cent
would be eligible for service
ft te planned tn draft the first
690,000 by lot from among these
NOON
IN DETROIT; -OME4|m!'
Senate Favers Wfleea
Selective Unit
Plea
MY ROBERT J. JJfMOflft
1**917 Csrrsegejgeal (7*4*9* FMA
- w Ai i ifYiC ! yi i ff l rtt
ministration it determine* iMlpy
itiee shall not defeat tha omsBSOF
Uoo army MIL which army
la absolutely vital ta tha safety gs
the nation.
The president will stand for MB
compromise. He faovrs tha Cham
berlin bill which provide* selects**
draft without modification and vMX
fight for the passage of that mat*
sugar
It Is hie purpose to gat tha biß
thru tha aenata, then put tha let
squarely before the bouse It ar
rears inevitable now that tha kill
will be thrown Into conference be
fore final action la taken on It. Ito
house will vote on Its bill, whioh In
clude* a volunteer feature, nest
Monday. By the terms of the mesa
ure the president would be auther
lzed to sail for 600.009 volume eve
and if that fails ta resort to eelee>
five drafting; or If the president
desired—he could put the draft sys
tem into affect Immediately and Is
sue no call for volunteers. This
plan shifts the whole responsibility
for any oonseriptlon oats the presi
dent.
The senate may reach a vote an
Its bill, which is only slightly chsng
ed from the one the president wants,
before tomorrow night and tha ad
ministration feels no doubt as ta its
passage In the upper house.
W’hile respecting the Individual
viewpoints of those who oppose se
lective draft, President Wilton la
understood to feel that this Is net
sn opportune time for prolongs* dis
cussion of details when It la vitally
essential to the welfare of tha ac
tion to rale* an army at ones.
For that res son It appears likely
there may *oon be something in tha
nature of a blast from tha White
House to Jar congress into actio*.
The president Is expected to re
sort tn his usual method of putting
u pto the country the question of
support mi measures on which he
and some member* of congress dif
fer.
Nothing Is contemplated aloof tha
lines of hi* “wilful twelve” excoria
tion. but when he speaks It will be
to let the country anow that theea
responsible for delay on tha imj
bill are Jeopardize* the safety st
the country-
With completion of work oa tha
army bill In eight, the eroergaaaff
war program la nearing its end ae*
congress Is again talking adjourn
ment
Many believe now that tha aaa
stnn can he ended by June t. Lead*
ere of both parties ere litaff
out member* as to opinion on tfeda.
The house committee on military
affair* last night voted 12 to • ta
favor of an amendment to tha e -
ratnlstrat ion bill providing tor Mm
call for volunteers.
The senate committee by 1# ta T
agreed to report tha MM prartMatty
as received
• t l-eate w 4 Si rpfc gaga
Hr i ti » a every Ntphg
durln* AprlL Ghatr Oar*. —-AMfL
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