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SKVENTEENTH YEAR. NO. 24 3.
20 ENEMY AEROPLANES RAID!
LONDON: DAMAGE WITHHELD
BERLIN TO OFFER PEACE
ON BASIS OF STATUS
EXISTING BEFORE WAR
Holiweff To Exploit ‘No
Annexations’ In
Speech
GIVES IT HOPE FOR
RUSS DEFECTION
New Effort Will Be
Made To Escape
Reparation
AMSTERDAM. July 7 German
Imperial Chancellor von Rethmann
Hollweg 1- to announce Germany’s
adherence to the principle of "no
annexation and ?o Indemnities” in
a speech Ttc la expected to deliver
at the meeting today. ac
cording to reports received here.
Germany, It was indicted, looks to
the speech a« affording immediate
opportunity for opening of peace
negotiations The chancellor. It wa*-.
indicated, has lone supported the
"no annexations, no indemnities’’
principle, but because of opposition
of other governmental forces has
made no announcement of this
stand Th • fa< » tha 1 all opportunity
of a separate peace with Russia
seems now to have failed has im
pelled the German government to
decid-' on n**w peace announce
ment s.
The term "pence without annexn
tlons and without indemnities’’ was
first agitated in connection with
the German efforts to call “a Social
Ist peace conference’’ at Stockholm
It was coined, apparently by Philip
Seheldemann and other pro govern
ment German Socialists German
propaganda in Russia was strenu
ously directed to have the Russians
approve such a slogan, the German
propaganda system even going so
far as »o distort the Russian prin
ciple of “no enforced annexations,
no punitive indemnities" into the
shorter form
" No annexations and no Indemni
ties’’ would mean in effect restora
tion of the status quo ante in Eu
rope. Restoration of the former
situation in •Europe, as President
Wilson has pointed out in his Dec
oration day speech, would merely
mean that Germany, thru her alii
ances with Austria. Bulgaria and
Turkev. would still menace the
world peace thru her Mlttel Kttropa
scheme of empire.
U.S. STEAMSHIP
ORLEANS SUNK
WASHINGTON. July 7. -The
American steamer Orleans, a steel
vessel of 2,808 tons, formerly on the
great lakes, has been torpedoed nnd
sunk by an enemy submit ine with
n loss of four of the crew, It was
announced last night. All members
of the naval -pin crew were saved.
The Orleans, under ( apt. Tucker,
«nn fame as the first American
steamer to cross to France in de
fiance of »h* German decree pro
claiming ruthless submarine war
fare.
Today’s Games
American
Washington in Detroit, rain.
Boston in (Heevland. clear.
Philadelphia In Chicago, clear.
New York In St. l/iuls. clear
National.
St Louis 1n New York (21. clear
Chicago In Brooklyn, clear.
Pittsburgh In Philadelphia, dear.
Cincinnati in Roston (2) f clear.
THE WEATHER
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lit. iii *nn«ln> KMirmllt fair, not
•nm h rknnir In temperntnrei moH
« » •«•*•**» a Init*.
I.anrr MlrkUnm t.rnrrnlly fair
nmnnUt ul«hi ntttl Sunday | warmer
Sunday In *f»l portion.
Printing—tfce plain nr«t hind—that
u rlahl—TUMlJrh Uut-dUIatUL
14 HURT IN N. Y.
ELEVATED SMASH
NEW YORK, July 7. Knur p»r
sons were s»rlously hu sand in
others less seriously injur* and early
today when two cars of a Broadway
elevated train plunged from a trestle
at Myrtle and Vernon ave**., Brook
hn Upwards of 50 passengers were
in the cars.
The train was on its last trip to
Rorkawny. A dead train being
switched from express tracks to lo
cal, unobserved by the motorman,
was struck Two cars, one of them
crowded, plunged to ihe street.
SUSPECT
CLAIMS HE
HAS ALIBI
Allen Livingstone De
nies He Killed Irene
Alexander
STILBER GIRL
IDENTIFIES HIM
Sheriff Green Directs
Checking Up of Ac
cused Man’s Story
Sheriff O. H. P. Green, of Oakland
county, came to Detroit Saturday
morning to personally direct the
work of cheeking the rather vague
and disconnected statements which
Allen Livingstone has offered as an
alibi to disprove the accusation that
he Is the slayer of Hope Irene Alex
ander, 13 years old
Livingstone, who is 3.7 years old,
was positively identified as the child
killer Friday afternoon by Elizabeth
Stilber, 10 years old. who was with
Irene Alexander when she was
killed and was herself shot In the
neck and shoulder by the degen
erate.
Two other prisoners and two
newspaper reporter« were led be
fore the girl with Livingstone in the
Stilber home. In Royal Oak town
ship All five men answered the
general description of the man
sought.
The girl had been told not to say
anything In the presence of the
men. It was the sheriff's Intention
to have her look at ihem first and
then tell him afterwards whether
she could recognize any of them
This plan, h ethought. would pre
clude any outburst of excitement
on the part of the child, who has
not fully recovered from her wounds
an dfhe shock of her terrible ex
perience.
Milt little Elizabeth’s lips dirt not
stay closed She looked hastily nt
all the men. then her eyes rested
upon Livingstone.
"'That’s the man.” she said, as she
pointed at IJvingstone. “I can tell
him by that big nose"
The hone Just below the bridge
of Livingstone’s nose is unusually
broad, so much so. as to be an easy
mark of identification
"My God. I wouldn't do a thing
like that.’’ rxrlaiftted the accused
map, “The worst thing I ever was
arrested so rwas being drunk."
Livingstone whs arrested Thurs
day night in Ttetroit, at (’atherine
st. a*.d Gratlot-nve. Te was what
is known in police vernacular as a
"pick up"- merely a suspicions per
son against whom no specific* of
sense can he charged at the time of
arrest. In police headquarters It
was noticed that the lapel of hla
coat was blood stained and Lbat. La
DETROIT TIMES
“Hoch! Hoch!”—The Mayence branch of the Pan-Orman League decides that the whole
British Empire Must be annexed by Germany.
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answered the general description
given by the tSilher girl.
Wednesday afternoon, when Irene
Alexander was shot to death in Syl
van gardens. Woodward-ave and
Nine and One-llalf-Mile-rd., Living
stone attended a ball game, accord
ing to his statement. He could not
remember just where the game was.
He said he slept in a box car Wed
nesday night, tho on other nights
he said he stopped In cheap Jeffer
son ave. iodging houses. Detectives
Rlack and Frahm declare they found
a piece of cord in Livingstone's
pocket, not unlike the kind that was
used to bind the two children.
The positive manner in which the
Stilber girl identified Livingstone
has for the time stopped the organ
ized man hunt, in which L\ S sol
diers. police, nnd posses of citizens
Joined Nevertheless, Sheriff Green
has instructed his men to keep a
lookout for other suspicious char
acters.
Livingstone, in the Oakland coun
ty Jail, denied *hat he had been any
where near the scene of the crime
on Wednesday.
He gor into a fight, he said, on
Wednesday morning, near Receiv
ing hospital in Iketrolt. He and an
other man had a bottle of whisky,
he said, nnd his companion became
enraged because he, Livingstone,
was drinking too heartily. He
struck Livingstone on the nose,
causing the bloodstains, according
to the suspect’s story
To disprove Livingstone's state
ment that he was in I>etro|t Wed
nesday and to show that he was In
Oakland county. Is the first big task
upon which Sheriff Green has set
out James S. flutler. road commis
sioner of Oakland county, told Green
that he saw Livingstone lying in
the grass at Woodward-ave and
Twelve Mlle rd. on Tuesday night.
Jl ST K«H rt'N
Amusement*. Under cover. c>pen alt
rt.iv today Jefferson st bridge. One
price nrtmtts t*» ail —Adv.
I.wring lit*.hand.
allow their wives to sleep while they
breskfsst in Mote) orlswnld Csfe
terla. 4:30 to 11 a. m. Sunday. 730
Am Jl2 m - *4rU.
SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1917.
IMNV FACE
ARREST IN
SPY HUNT
Wholesale Round -Up
of Enemy Agents
Is Imminent
U. S. CENSORSHIP
UNDER HOT FIRE
Congressmen Incensed
At Lack of Secrecy
About Transports
BY CAM D ffROAi.
Fin ft Correaponrtrnt t'uited
WASHINGTON. July 7 Further
strangling of ihc German ?-p> sys
tern in this country, thru arrests of
enemy agents, was predicted here
today as imminent.
Just wheie these hauls will be
made, or what the cases against
these men mny he. was shielded fiom
the public lest premature publica
tion iliwart plans by giving the
spies a chains to escape
If was Indiciit. *d. however that in
arres*s of two alleged Teuton ,»K*nts
In New York the government had
only scratched the surface In Its ef
fort* to round up Oermany> tipsters
who infiiinod the kaiser of Amer
ica's troop mnvcn.enfj.
Meanwhile the American censor'
ship ir. under fire
It is condemned so- omission
and commission and both senate
and bouse members threatened to
introduce today resolutions for in
vest (gallons
In tho first placn some congress
men are wroth at the fact that load
ing of the transports .was so open
that everyone with eyesight might
know of if Secondly there is dis
satisfaction at the manifest opportu
nity of German agents to get tbei*
messages out of the country both
oy mail to the south or by cable to
neutral countries adjoining Ger
many. *
Meantime the secret agents of all
branches are helping in the round
up of spies.
The state department is the clear
ing house for the secrei service ac
tivities and probably will be given a
fuller hand to direct the work of
departments.
The navy ami war departments
propose to act more secretly when
they send further troops to France,
probably using a smaller port than
the one they had on the first trip.
PLUCKY WUHAN
FUILS BURGLAR
Awakened By Intruder, Nina
Thayer Quietly Summons
Police. Who Nab Him
Awakened Jiv a noise in her room.
Miss N'ir.a TANARUS!» yet No. 11l Baggst..
discovered a burglar In the act m
putting hii rwci in hi coat
I ocket. Instead of .'creaming sot
help. Miss Thayer left ihr- room and
notified the police without attract
tng the attention of the would bo
robber.
Tbe police flyer responded to the
call and IVtecMvrs fiihble, Kunatb
nnd Staples apptrhenjert the would
be burglar before be lei; the house
He was registered at police head
quarters a: Sindy McGregor, 2*>
years old, no home. He |: b»lng held
on a charge of breaking and enter
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Adv.
If lea Have llhenmatl'ia
Take Mount Clement mineral baths.
—Adv. i
LORD FRENCH SILENT IS TO RESULT
OF LATEST GERMAN SKY ATTACK;
HAIG GAINS GROUND IN DELOIUM'
BOOZE HELD
IN ROND IS
smyssuE
Fight To Reconsider
Ban On Its Sale Is
Quashed In Senate
BEER AND WINE
SAVED, 52 TO 34
Fiery Oratory Features
Liquor Debate In
Upper House
“The man who will pour
a soldier is worse than an
liquid hell into the bosom of
enemy."—Senator Sherman
in debate on dry bill.
WASHINGTON’. July 7.-The sen
ate this morning faced a renewed
fight over the Cummins’ amendment
to the dry provision of the food bill
which would not only prohibit the
distillation of spirits hut would for
bid the importation of hard liquors,
and would prohibit the sale of the
stocks of spirits now held in bond
The amendment was adopted lasi
night by a vote of 54 to 30 after
the senate had previously refused
to include beer Pnd wines in the
proposed prohibition of spirits by
52 to 34.
Immediately after the passage of
the Cummins’ amendment a cam
paign for reconsideration was
launched.
Senator Underwood then called
attention to the fact this would cut
off somg 1250.000,000 revenue, nnd
would choke millions of dollars in
volved in the whisky business with
out compensation to the manufac
turers. He held this unconstitu
tional
This threw the senate into a small
panic Senators Brandegee, Hard
ing and Penrose supported Under
wood's contention.
Finally, the senate took an nv* r
night recess without voting on clth
er the Chamberlain or Robinson
amendments. These concern th
main issue of prohibition. Ihe first
leaves beer and wine to the diser*
lion of the president; tlie second
merely abolishes whisky wdthou
saying anything about oilier li plot
The fight for reconsideration •
the Cummins’ measure wdl »•
i strongly pushed today.
I The debate on the Cummin
amendment was featured by heated
orator>:
Senator Underwood made th*
point that th* provision w.i- unju
and unconstitutional brrjrtrvr it stop
pod th* us*» of ptoperty wi’hctj mi.
pensation Senator Cummin *d* n * i
this, saying it merely held th*- ptop
erty in abeyance until after the wai
At that time, said he, if prohibition
continued, the government could i
Imbursc the manufacturers s*n'
Hnr*ling supported Underwood, bu
Senator Sherman made a ti<*>
speech to the southern Demo* rat
"Your fathers had millions <on
flscatej by th* government and they
were never reimbursed.” said he
"They wetr -eftemb-w *tf tfrn grrr
ernment. There’s a difference be
tween confiscating the property o.
an enemy nnd that of a citizen " in
terjccted S nntor John Sharp Wil
liams. of Mississippi \
“It is a distinction without n dif
ference," replied Sherman "The
I man who will pour liquid bell into
the bosom of a soldier Is worse than
any enemy."
The “drys" made a hard fight to
get heer and wines included in the
prohibited bf verages. Senators
Curtis and Myers both offered
amendment*. It was Myers’ amend
ment which the senate refused by
the vote of 52 to 34.
CHICAGU MAYOR
ESCAPESREBUKE
Council Evades Resolution To
Censure City’s Chief
Magistrate
CHICAGO, July 7. —Mayor Thomp
son today stood acquitted of the ac
cusation of “gavel rule,” which pre
clpltated a riot in the city council
chamber two w-eeks ago.
The council last night evaded ac
tion on a resolution to censure hint
by voting adjournment for the sum
mer, 37 to 2*’>.
Ihe fight against Thompson was
the culmination of bitterness toward
his alleged pro-German and pacifist
attitude. It reached a climax when
the council revoked confirmation of
new appointees to the school board
by which the mayor had obtained
control of that body.
TRUMBULL-AVE.
HOME LOOTED;
THIEVES CAUGHT
Burglars ransacked the home of
Charles A. Stanley, No. d2fi Trum
bull-ave.. In the absence of the fam
ily Thursday and made away with
Jewelry and silverware valued at
$1,500, a report given out by the
police Saturday states. The police
say ihe thieves are under arrest
but are withholding their names.
Part of the loot has been recovered.
It makes a difference whether pin
money goes for diamond pins or
rolling pins.
Turkey From Hl.iomflrM Ifltla
served every Sunday at Motel Ori**-
woM *’«feterl« Lunch 12 to 1:30.
Supper f> to s Adv.
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NOON
IN DETROIT: ONE CENT.
Reports Advance In
Extension of Mes
sines Offensive
DEEPENSWEDGE
IN VITAL SPOT
Big Strategic Advan
tage Thus Accrues
To Entente
LONDON, July 7.—A fleet of
"probably 20 enemy aeroplanes'*
raided London today.
Lord French, commander-in-chief
of the home defense forces, made
the preliminary announcement early
today, but without firing: details.
Previous to this announcement Os
the Ixindon raid, Ix>rd French had
issued a statement saying::
"At 9:SO this morning hostile air*
craft in considerable numbers and
in two parties have been sighted
off the Isle of Thanet and the east
coast of Essex."
The raid on London occurred at
10:30 o’clock.
"The enemy aircraft approached
Ijondon from the northeast and pro
ceeded north and west," Lord
French stated. "They crossed Lon
don from the northwest to the
southeast, dropping bombs at vari
ous places."
The enemy aeroplanes were at
tacked by anti-aircraft guns. No re
ports of damage or casualties were
announced in !>ord French’s first
statement of the raid.
LONDON. July 7.—Field Marshal
Haig struck today east of
ete. advancing the British line
slightly, according to his formal re*
port to the war office.
"East of Wytschaete our line was
slightly advanced." was the Brltich
Commander-in-chiefs laconic report.
On Thursday Haig reported a
drive by the British which gained
them additional ground around
Hollebeke. Today’s report is of an
other push forward in practically
the same region, probably around
Oostaverne. Both cities lie In the
sharp angle formed by the River
I.ys and the canal from Ypres to
Ulle. The two waterways converge
at Comines. /