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HD THE DAILY MTSSOTTLTAN gÉ the * old reliable VOL. XLIV. NO. 349. every day from MISSOULA, MONTANA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. . _ # British Stop Hindenburg's Drive; Reinforcements Throw Back Enemy Mass Meeting Today Starts Liberty Loan Drive for Missoula Community Sing to Be Given as Stimulant to Great < Campaign WORKERS ALL SET FOR THEIR EFFORT Every Citizen Will Be Asked to Buy Bond and Swat Kaiser Bill. Everything is in readiness in Mis soula county lor tho third Liberty loan. The first pun In the hip drive to send Missoula over the top in an effort to lead all of Montana will be fired this nltemoon at a community mass meet ing in the Missoula theater at 3 o'clock. Attorney H. H. Parsons will give the piincipal address of the afternoon and will urge upon the citizens the duty of buying bonds and in this way doing their share in aiding the t'nitod States in the war. Boy Scouts to Get Medal*. Hoy Scouts who won medals in tlio last Liberty campaign will be presented with medals by Mr. Parsons and tlio community chorus will also give sev eral selections under the direction of Professor De Loss Srnitli of the State University. Mayor H. T. Wilkinson will preside at the meeting this afternoon and spe cial musical selections "dll be given by inomlnent Missoula musicians. Winding up the preparations for the Liberty loan Quincy Scott, who has been acting county director in the ub w m e of Mr. Parsons, spent yesterday on the Flathead reservation appointing committees and getting that part of the county ready to open the drive to inoi row morning. Committees and sub-stations have lx on arranged for In every part of the county and in the outlying districts of the city with the view of making it possible for everyone to buy bonds without any unnecessary trouble. Everyone To Bo Asked. The drive "in Missoula county this time will be staged in sueli a manner that every person will be approached and asked to purchase a bond. Boy Scouts will make a house-to-house canvas in the city and those who in tend to buy bonds can leave their or ders with the Scouts. The bonds will also be on sale at all the banks and those who want to make purchases on the instalment plan can do so. Provisions have been made to allow only small payments immediately and in this way the committee hopes that everyone can buy one bond at least. Railroads Respond Well. Reports from the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway announced yes terday that the total sales of the divi sion had amounted to 1150,000, which is twice the quota for the company. Efforts were being made to reach a total of 3200,000 and when all reports are' in it is expected that they will have reached this mark. RUSSIA BLAMES HUNS FOR TURKS' MURDERS Government Protests Against Armenian Massacres. London, April 13.—A Russian wire less message addressed to Berlin says; Tlie offensive of the Turkish troops and detatchments on the Caucasian front has been followed by the murder of the whole Armenian population. The j>eacefu! population of. women and children have been killed without mer cy and their property has been plun dered and burned. The peace treaty which we were forced ot sign at I!rest-Litovsk left the determination of the future destiny ©f the people of the provinces of Ardahan Kars and Datum to themselves. The events which have taken place in the,« provinces testify that the old policy of the annihilation of the Armenian peo pie is still to be applied. "On the Turkish front the advantage in the war was on the side of Russia, and Russia was forced to give up Ar dahan. Kars and Bautin only because Germany was the ally of Turkey. The responsibility for all the horrors which the Armenian population now is suf (Ci^rtfp riued on Page Five) 1 j j The Weather Fair Sunday and Monday, ex cept showers Sunday in oast por tion; cooler in east portion Sunday. LOCAL OBSERVATIONS. Maximum 51 Minimum 30 At 6 a. m. 46 At 6 p. m. . 30 Precipitation .08 inches A. ill showers got busy on their an r.ual a'-sigamenl yesterday, and May flowers may now be regarded as cer tain. Mist and rain And a cold breeze took turns at convincing Missoula peo ple tli :t all ot April is not springlike, t.nilv .tie golfers, whom nothing can deter, behaved as if the day wc^e per fect. STEEL MUST FORCE PEACE ON GERMANY New Orleans, April lo.—Secre tary McAdoo, in an address tonight in behalf of the third Liberty loan îscond shirkers and s«*ditionists. Air. McAdoo declared that in the present situation "there cannot bo any talk of peace, except the peace of justice, rammed down the throats of the military autocrats of Kurope with the* superlative steel of America.'* ARREST HYPHENATE FOR GERMAN TALK SI. Louis, April 13.—A warrant was Issued this afternoon under the federal espionage act against Dr. Charles H. W'cinsberg of St. Louis, president of the Missouri branch of tlie German-American Alliance. The action was based on an al leg'd declaration by Dr. Weinsberg in a newspaper interview that the war will end in six months with Germany as the victor. 0 ________ FOUND GUILTY ON ESPIONAGE CHARGE Minneapolis. April 13.—James A. Peterson, candidate for re-noml nation for United »States senator, was found guilty by a jury in the federal court here tonight on charges of violating: the espionage act. He will sentenced Friday. Counsel fo»- Peterson announced that an appeal will be taken. CONDITION SENATOR STONE IS IMPROVED Washington, April 13.—Senator Stone of Missouri, whose condition bacame serious today as the re sult of a stroke of paralysis Wednesday, was reported by bis physicians tonight as slightly im proved. He was resting quietly and his temperature was lower. a j j 1 j j j j ' ' I GUN HAMMERS PARIS; 26 DIE IN AIR RAID Paris. AprR 13.—The bombard ment of the region of Paris by the ions range gun was resumed today. it is officially announced that Î<> persons were killed and 73 injured in last, night's aerial raid of aero planes. WATTERSON'S ILLNESS. NOT CAUSING ALARM lawitville. Ky., April IS.—Henry Watteraon. of the Louisville Cou rier-Journal. is ill here at the Mor ton hospital. His condition, how ever. Is said by the attending physicians not to be serious. YANKEE PRISONER ESCAPES GERMANY ! l Paris. April 13.—The first Ameri can prisoner to escape from Ger many. says the Temps, has reached Basel, Switzerland. GERMANS ATTEMPTING TO DRIVE BRITISH OUT OF NORTHERN FRANCE Attacks Designed to Force Evacuation of Region Back of Lines. SIX ENEMY ARMIES ASSAULTING FRONT U ith , uith the 1* rcnch Army in France, April l.V 15y Tin Associated Press, All effort« of the (human hi^h com maud for the Present arc directed toward the systematic dislocation of the British armies. Having failed to break the communications between the British and French, 1 1 1 « • enemy 1ms turned his sole attention northward and it appear* likely that the (ierniau« will continue to throw all their avail able strength in that direction. The enemy's plan «•eins to be to deliver a succession « » ! hatnmciin^ blows at different points between the Somme and the sea with the desire of brinauiK about a British * sm imtkui of the entire northern district of Fra nee. Six German Armies in Battle. Six German armies ar participat ing in the battle rasing along the front. They are as follows; Von ArnlmV, Von Guest's, Otto von Billow's, Von Marwtt/.s. Von Untiers and Von Boehm's on the cast of the Oise. Germans, owintr to their possession of interior lines of commun feat loti in side tue sent I-circle formed by the front, ore able to naive their strHle.uie reserves with greater facility than the allies and thus b> surprise attacks with .rapidly concentrated superior forces can compel the* retirement of the allies at any point. Program Not Carried Out. Program Not Carried Out. Hitherto, owing to the areat tenac ity of the allies, tin enemy has been unable to carry out his plans of ad vance according: to his prearranged program. This has been learned from orders captured on prisoners who have fallen into allied hands in consider able numbers these later days during close fighting These orders fnrcsuw the capture of the line alon^c the Lys river on April, whije llothune should have been taken on April 10 but was saved by the wonderful defense of the British at Givenchy. Lik« Operations After Marne. There is a remarkable parallel be tween the present battle and the opera tions after the battle of the Marne, when there was a race toward the sea between the Germans, who were endeavoring to reach and seize the channel ports, and the allies, who suc ceeded In preventing them. The British on this occasion have the task of stopping tin* German push, and al though forced under overwhelming strength of the German armies to re cede some distance they ate presenting a stern resistance to a further advance. On the French portion of the battle line the principal fighting is progress ing; on the sectors toward Amiens, where the Germans persist in trying to pierce the line in order to obtain the moral victory of taking Amiens, but they arc unable to overcome the opposition of the French. During last night the battle here never ceased a moment, enemy assaults being imme diately followed by French counter at tacks, which resulted in the recapture of the important village of Hangard. I •Wealthy German Refuses to Support U. S. in War Hillings, April IS.—Herman Rausch, a wealthy naturalized German farmer, wttp haled before the third degree committee tonight and upon refusal to subscribe for Liberty bonds or aid the Red Cross waa Jailed and will be prose cuted under the sedition law. It being alleged that he said he was against America in the war. RHEIMS IS ON EIRE. Paris, April 13.- Tin city of Rhom» is on fire. Th" French are attempt ing to limit the burning area and are working under a heavy bombardment ! Cost 20c AND SOLD THE COCKEREL. HERE'S THE AD THAT DID THE WORK. ROHE COMB R. I. RED COCK ercl, July hatc h; 528 8. 3rd. The second day brought the de sired results. If you want to sell or buy the in expensive class ad does quick work. WALSH SUPPORTS WHEELER; MYERS WILL OPPOSE HIM in Opposition to Man Now in Office. District Attorney's Patron Issues Statement in Defense. COLLEAGUE STATES HIS DISAGREEMENT ---- r . ____ Will Make Nomination SOOtt Washington. April 13. Senator Walsh stalled the hall rolling In the conlrovcrsy over tin- Montana district attorneyship today. lie n eioumeiul ed to the president tin* r< appointment of Mr. Wheeler. Asked as t « • his at titude in this matter, Senator Myers said : "Senator Walsh and I corferred in this question. We do not agre«-. | have not made a recommendation yet. but will do so noon. That is all I oar-** to say now." Questioned about Ins action today, Mr. Walsh said: "From the time the agitation against the ^appointment of Mr. Wheeler be gan. I have taken the position that. 1 should not be Influenced In my action in any degree by general denunciation, but that I should patiently investigate any particular case In which it was charged by any one that he has been delinquent in the performance of Ids duly. Although my attitude in the matter has been well known, I have y«t to la* apprised from any quarter, ex cept a* hereafter slated, of any in stance in which it Is even charged that he failed in his duties. Ford Backs Up Wh««ler. "I have interrogated the attorney general concerning Mr. Wheeler**■ rec ord and uni advised by him that It Is good, and that lie is uninformed con cerning any case in which Mr. Wheeler should have prosecuted when be did not prosecute or otherwise failed in the discharge of Tils duties. "The Missoulian did, In fact, charge him with responsibility for the lynch ing of Little hecnu.se, it asserted, be had not caused the arrest of that troublesome agitator before be fell a victim to the* vengeance of a mob or tin* instruments of private vengeance* I asked the attorney general to in quire particularly in that accusation against Whceicr, and Ï am advised by (Continued on Page Five) Hin min tisinsni Press and Public Call Him Lukewarm Patriot. Bine»- the entrance ot the, I tilled States in the war and the starting ot a campaign against all disloyal per sons in the country, the public and the press of the state have charge,) that cm ted States District Attorney Jl. K. Whceler lias been extremely lax In bis prosecution of persons who have ope il ly hinder'd the government in its con dtp t of the war. He has shown indifference at all times to th<- incendiary arid anti-gov ernment utterances that have been made by the I w. \v. element in Butte, it Is charged. If he had acted protntd ly in the Frank Little ease last July, the P nching might never have oc curred. many belreve. It Is alleged that lately Wheeler lias tried to make good by shifting the blame to the shoulders of other officials. Mr Wheelers' associate in Butte is Jl. J.. Maury - and it is said that he is an ardent Koch, list and a i- ider of that parly in Hutte. Critics declare that Wheeler has shown litt!' disposition to take a positive position 'against th< activities of the I. W. W. They say that he has not been zealous In the arrest of slackers or deserters or In of If to of ! in their pro«' euttou after they had been' arrested. There have been many In- - stance« where, he iia« fallen down in the prosecution of slacker« and pro Hermans, while other «täte« have been utringent In their punishment of dis loyal persons. On February 23 the slat" house of representative« rebuked Wheeler. Rep resentatlve Mason Introduced a res') __________to (Continued on Tage Six.) i«T SOCIOLOGIST IN m WITtl OF SOLDIER IT WIR Ttupid Boy," Says Spouse of William I. Thomas, After Affair. MAN WIDELY KNOWN FOR LEARNED WORK FLir.-iuo. April 13. lTof«'sst»i William Isaar Thomas, of tin* <k*p;u 1 nn-nt of so ('IuIom.v of th«* Fnlvtrrsil y «T FhictiKo. who wan kmokUmI with Mrs. IV« rl Grank r cr. tin* younp wifV of nil urm> llrutcimnt now nerving in Frum*«\ in a downtown hotol ThurMfia y, «jm nt t* n minutas in jail lato tills afternoon. "Thomas, who Is cnllori "DatMy" by Mrs Graiqror, was arrest«'*! on a war* r.*ilit i harntnt; tli8cmb*tiy ooruhn-t and made returnable In the morula court Monday morning. ID* s« cnivrl his re* Ionse on a ffon bond and limned lut fly roturnod to his homo, whore Mra. Thomas, who was a member of the Ford l'on«*** mlsshm had Klvon refuge to Mrs. Oranger. "Stupid Boy," Say* Wife, l'rofossor Thomas, who is .»;> year» old. with a national reputation and a family socially prominent, was tailed by tils w'ife * a foolish boy who had committed an unutterably stupid act, not wrong, but indiscreet." To Mrs. (»ranker, who is 24 years old, with a baby boy Dvina now with his k rand parents in Fort Smith. Ark., Mrs. Thomas referred as an "lumm lure child dazzled by the distinguished profos«©!*/' Following the arrest of the pro f ex go r and Mrs. Granger after their trip from Washington, .Mrs. Thomas motored down town to visit Mrs. Grauiper and 1er sinter, Miss Delia Haines, an 18* year-old motion picture actress, and took both Kiris home with her to talk oyer the whole situation. "When husband comes horn« 1 will abide to happiness with him and him alone," declared Mrs. Grander, when asked what the further consequences of th* affair might be, and then she added ; Will Be Shooting, She Say». ' But there wifi be shooting—shoot inR, I say— when he comes back! And If he learn It now* he will immediately desert to corne.** Professor Thomas declared he wished to deny that the affair resulted'from a malicious attack ami declared that he was willing to stand the consequence«. Ism K'diig to stick to Mrs. Granger through thick and thin," he said. "She Is u nervous wreck «8 th« result of the questioning's she hns gone ! h rough." The professor declared that Mrs Granger was under the care of a phy* tdriàferi nt his home. Meanwhile then* was a hardily um* semble»! meeting of th«* I'nlversity of Chicago faculty, but if was understood in university circles that no action will h«* taken until next week. BRITISH FLEET HMDS COAST OF FUNDERS Torpedo Boat Lost, Germany Declares. linrlin, \ii* l/undoti. April 13.—An of ficial «tab-merit issued tonight noya British naval force«, consisting of monitor-, torpedo ©raft and aircraft, attacked tl><- const of Klandera Vhttro <Jay night f,at end wan bombard'd with heavy calibre gun« and aircraft bOTTlbcd Z* < brugge. Tb»* attack« werr beaten oft without trouble |>y our batterie«. There was no AlDSKf. A torpedo bon' approaching- Öfter»! vue set afire mid tba crew abandoned it. Wo captured tho boat with its com plot.;'equipment. Motor Boat Missing. London. April 13.--With reference the Herman official maternent claiming that in the attack on the coast of 1-Tan der« a British torpedo boat was net - afire and captured by the Mermans. the [admiralty nuys that only one «mall motor b<«<t 1« missing. Germans Lose Torpedo Beat. London, April 13.—A Herman torpedo ^ tat «truck a mine off Zeebrugge Eri ,la >' - in< ^ ban ^- according to a dfsp&tch the Exchange Telegraph company :from The Hague. j TOMMIES FORCE HUNS 00T OF NEUVE EGLISE AND REPULSE ATTACKS r a Assaults of Foe Continue but Do Not Gain Ground; Yankees Victorious in All-Day Battle in Toul Sector of Line. With the British Army —(By Associated Press.) — April 14. German hordes this morning continued to deliver sledge-hammer blows in the Bailleul and Meryille sectors in an attempt to break through and gain possession of the im portant railway junctions of Hazebrouch and Aire, but the British were still hanging doggedly to the gateways leading • westward. After a night of desperate fighting there was no great change in the situation since last evening, but the position of the defending troops seemed to be more cheerful. The enemy's greatest gain was just to the southwest of Bailleul, where they pushed their lines forward by heavy attacks to the line of the Hazebrouck-Bailleul railway, a gain of about a thousand yards. The British held the town and along the railway and got only as far as Merry, which represented a gain of a few thousand yards. Reinforcements Arrive to Brace Haig's Army. Washington, April 13. -Both French and British rein forcements are reaching Sir Dongles Haig's army in Flan ders, Major General James D. McLachlan, British military attache here, said tonight. Drive Germans Out of Neuve Eglise. London, April 13.—The Germans were driven out of Neuve Eglise hy the British this morning, according to the report from Field Marshal Haig's headquarters tonight. French Gain Along Wide Front Near Orvilles-Sorel. Paris, April 13.—French troops in an attack today north west of Orvilles-Sorel made an advance of several hundred meters along a front of about two-thirds of a mile. IRITISH CHECK HUN DRIVE; LINE STIFFENS UNO HOLDS Associated Prass War Summary. resistance hn# Stiffening Hrllish checked Hu- Herman drive untilhward from the Ly« toward Bethunf and west ward from Mervllle toward« Haze brou"k, near the Helgtan border. 1b' tt my prenHure i« continuing with great weight toward th** notdb and desperate battling is In progrès along the line running southwest from .Mes sines to the front 1 1 of Balllenl. Tin- whole Yf r'-s salient and the con tinued safety "f Hu- channel ports nr" pointed I" by obsorvi i abroad a« at stake in the fighting now II a /.« broucl, r» i I w ny point s Ypn « tin Germans have been held for time at least oil the edg< of the P under wa) rk and I 1 111** ul. important «■♦•ntiTK, m vital f«*«*diiiK nr M«-HMin«* m r 'l*lK«' ami th* sit Inn in K-I UOH i*. J at Forest of Nieppo. as Hue brouek iw * «>n« « ru**«! YANKEES WIN ALL DAY HATTIE; . CAPTURE 36 DENMANS INTICHT By Associated Pres» Thr American forces me con tributing notably to th" mainte nance of Hie line on sectors of the Fu i, h front to the southeast. The nun in the Hector northwest, of Trail added to their laurels Inst night by repelling, in conjunction with the French, another Herman attack on the positions In Brute wood. In tho forest of Apremont, east of St. Mihiel. Enemy Suffers Heavy Casualties. With the American Army in France, April 13.—By the Associated Press.— Yesterday's battle was the first all-day \ ! 1 ] of Nleppe, went of Mervltle, and some five miles away from their objective. The Hermans have been battering away at the British line here ainoe they i «I tured Mcrville, on Wednesday night, trill have advanced only h few hundred vKrda, being stoppid abort of the forest, wditch Is alrout a mile and a half beyond Mer ville. Little, additional light was thrown t>5' Saturday's dispatches upon the «itua around Haillcul, to which the Hermans had worked very close In Friday's fighting. 1 It was revealed, however, finit tlie enemy was attacking heavily In tin- vn Inlty- nt Neuve F.gltse and Wulvurgheni, wlil'dl Ilea In the region to the northeast of Bailleul, between it and Messines. The British are on comparatively high ground here and (Continued on Rage Five) struggle in which thr American troops have been engaged. Two German at t.-x-k« which were delivered In force against the American positions north west of Toul were repulsed with hiavy casualties to the enemy. Includ ing 36 prisoners left In the hands ot 1 the Americans. The American losses were slight. Tlie fighting began with ono of the imost violent bombardment* ever laid ] down in that sector. During Thurofey night the Germans kept UP * hnrrTs Sing fire, throwing many i»s shatl* Into the American position. The tint nt (Contlnued on Page Five)