28 June 1917 Page A - Green River Republican, Butler County, Kentucky *********************************************************** Submitted by: Butler County KYGenweb GRR Transcription Team Date: 11 Jun 2007 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** 1917 June 28 Page A This transcribed by Beverly Carroll Hodges from images scanned by Alice Warner To be proofread later by Alice Warner, original images available online at http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/butler/photos/grr/28Jun1917.pdf You will need Acrobat Reader or another PDF viewer to open the image President Wilson Vice Admiral William S. Sims U. S. N., has been appointed to take general charge of the operations of the allied navel forces in Irish waters, says an official announcement issued at London. DOMESTIC The entire Ludicek family, consisting of Mrs. Joseph Ludicek, her two sons James and Albert and daughter Helen were found dead at the Ludicek farm eight miles northeast of Toledo, Ia., by Joe Buresh, a son-in-law of Mrs. Ludicek. A donation of $5,000,000 in the Red Cross war fund by the Rockefeller foundation was announced at New York. Sheriff J. K. May and City Marshal August Leker were shot and killed at the Louisville & Nashville station at Nashville, Ill., by H. C. Rice, a coal miner. The marshal shot Rice in the stomach and the latter probably will die. Emma Goldman and Alexander Beckman called the two leading ----- of this county, were indicted at New York by a federal grand jury on charge of conspiring to induce young men not to register for the elective draft. They pleaded not guilty and were held in $25,000 bail each. Column 2 EUROPEAN WAR NEWS Russia’s consecration to a war to the end with Germany autocracy was avowed by Special Ambassador Boris A. Bakhinelleff, head of the Russian mission here. In a statement issued at Washington to the American people. Only through victory, he said can a stable world peace and the fruits of the Buggloaf revolution be secured. Minister of War Keretisky at Petrograd discarded the pleasant phrases of oratorical persuasion for iron-handed disciplinary measures to force Russia’s troops to fight. Contracts for ten more steel merchant ships complete and for 24 additional wooden hulls were ---at Washington by Major General Goethals, general Manager of the emergency fleet corporation. French troops captured 1,642 yards of German traders between Mont Carmiflled and --- --- Champagne taking 40 prisoners one of whom was an officer. It was officially announced in Paris. The British transport Camerohlan, with a small number of troops on board was torpedoed and sunk in the eastern Mediterranean. It was announced officially at London. Sixty three persons lost their lives. Francis S. Peabody, chairman and his fellow members of the coal production committee of the council of national defense at Washington rejected the recommendation of the federal trade commission that coal production and transportation be pooled and that the government operate both allowing the owners a normal net profit. Registered men must keep themselves informed as to whether or not they have been drafted. This pronouncement was issued by Provost Marshal General Crowder at Washington. Food speculators have been taking $50,000,000 a month for the last five months, a total of a quarter of a billion dollars – from American people. Herbert C. Hoover told senators at Washington in explaining the purposes of the food control bill now before congress. Secretary Daniels has ordered coal and oil producers to supply the enormous quantities needed by the navy at prices to be fixed later by the president when the federal trade commission has determined a fair rate. Similarly steel for the entire navy building program is being bought at a rate fixed when Secretary Daniels rejected the proposals of the steel makers as too high. Column 3 Lexington – William Jennings Bryan began at Shelbyville with a series of speeches in behalf of state wide prohibition. His Itinerary covers 13 points and is made under the auspices of the Democratic Forward League a wing of the Anti Saloon League. Mt. Sterling – Ben W. Hall of this city: C. C. Turner of Frankfort, and J. B. Ledford of Frenchburg, have formed an oil company with $100,000 capital and will open offices here. The company owns 1,275 acres of rich land in Manifee County right in the center of the oil sand. __________________________- Lexington – Dr. Ben F. Van Meter, one of the first Lexington physicians to offer his services to the government, has been commissioned a major in the medical corps of the army. D Van Meter is a veteran of the Spanish American War, having served three years as an army surgeon. Henderson – Bishop Woodcock of the Episcopal church confirmed a class of nine at St. Paul’s church. The class was presented to the bishop by the Rev. George Ossman, in the absence of the Rev. Robert N. Ward, rector, who is ill in a hospital recovering from an operation for appendicitis. Louisville – Dr. G. L. Everly of Rockport was elected president of the Kentucky Eclectic Medical Association at the twenty ninth annual convention of the association here. Dr. R. C. Burrow of Cunningham was elected vice president, and Dr. J. C. Mitchell of Louisville, secretary and treasurer. Louisville – The Kentucky Pharmaceutical Association elected W. C. Montgomery, Caneyville, president. G. O. Patterson, Hawesviulle, William Votteler, Louisville; N. J. Black, Newport; J.J. Reynolds, Flemingsburg and W. H. Tibbals, Somerset, were recommended to Governor Stanley for appointment on the state board of pharmacy. Guthrie – Dr. Charles M. Gower of Trenton, this county, has been notified by the adjutant general’s office that his examination was satisfactory and that he will be commissioned a first Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps. Dr. Gower saw service in the Spanish American War and is one of the leading physicians of his home county. Lexington – Testifying before the Kenton county grand jury F. A. Johnson, assistant superintendent of Kentucky House of Reform, declared that Robert Weber fourteen year old Covington boy was spanked because he attempted to escape. Mrs. Katherine Weber, the inmate’s mother alleged the boy had been punished severely at home. Lexington – A final effort to have Dixie Highway completed this year is being made by representatives of Detroit, Toledo, Lima, Piqua, Hamilton, Lexington, Richmond and Kanyville commercial organizations and automobile clubs who met at Cincinnati and heard representatives of Kentucky mountain counties state the necessities under which they labor. Lexington – A warrant was sworn to before United States Commissioner George C. Moore, at London, Ky. charging Mrs. Bessie McClure, assistant postmaster at Lexington, Ky., with rifling the mails. For several months numerous packages to be distributed out of Lexington had been failing to arrive at their destination. When questioned by inspector, she confessed. Mayfield – Oscar Elmore was convicted in circuit court and sentenced to two years in prison on the charge of uttering a forgery by changing the date of a certificate of stock in the Young Men’s Building and Loan Association. Franklin – in the preferential election held by the business and Professional men to determine whether E. L. Gillespie or Charles Jackson should retire from the race for Mayor. --- votes were polled, Gillespie winning by a majority of 38. Column 4 Lancaster Swift McGulik Georgetown - ----- a bugler detachment of the ---- regiment leading inspiration, ---- Cantrill thrilled the Scott Company Defense League of America and --- --- citizens on County Court ---draft was pronounced by many there --- speech he ever made, Paducah – The – G. C. Falo, who has just been graduated from Vanderbilt University, has arrived in Paducah from Nashville, Tenn. And assumed charges -- ---City Mission. He succeeded this --- -- F. Blackard, who recently --- ---stated chaplain at the penitentiary. ---Nashville. Tenn. Bowling Green - The summer season of the ---- Kentucky State Normal School --- -- with the largest number of students. --- assembled at the opening of a --- session . Mr. and Mrs. M. L. W---de, newly elected directors of --- education departments, -- ---upon their work. Franklin - ---- ----grand jury and --- --- Circuit Judge John S. Rives ---- both until Thursday of ------- in order to give all -- ---- an harvest the wheat---------------------------- in this grand jury ------- -- --- of the war situations and the great responsibility resting again upon the --- of America. Elkton - ---- that the defendant -- -- --to marry her in August and that he violated said agreement and married another, Miss Hazel McIntosh, daughter of Deputy Sheriff H. T. McIntosh. -- --- against Sam B. Colman a prominent farmer, and the present Representative of Todd County in the General Assembly, for $10,000 damages. Covington - ----- Jesse Lambert, 23 years old, L----, reached into an old rain bucket in a shed at his home to pick out a few nails there was an explosion in the bucket, Two fingers and a thumb were blown off of one of Lambert’s hands and two fingers cut off the other, and his face was cut. The cause of the explosion is a mystery. _________________________- Nicholasville – Mrs. Raymond Clayton, who lives here on a farm near town, heard a noise in her bedroom, where her baby was sleeping and upon investigation found a weasel under the bed, When she endeavored to dislodge him h showed his teeth. Taking her baby in her arms she ran from the house calling for help. When help arrived the weasel was gone. Owensboro – A county association of the Kentucky Pure-Bred Livestock Association was formed at a meeting addressed by Gordon Nelson, of Hopkinsville; County Agent J. W. Whitehouse, and Secretary Shrepshire explained the object of the association, and pointed out the necessity for raising purebred stock and more of it at the present time; Shelbyville. Ky. – The annual meeting of the Kentucky Veterinary Medical Association was held here. Governor Stanley delivered the address of welcome to which Dr. C. A. Cary, state veterinarian of Alabama responded. Among the speakers on the program are Dr. John R. Mohler, chief of the ---- of animal industry, Mat S. Cobain, commission of agriculture and member of prominent Kentucky stockmen. . Walton – The residences of D. H. Williams and Mary Kendall and Mrs. Kate --- were entirely destroyed by fire -- - started in the Williams residence from a spark. Most of the household effects were saved. The loss is about $8,000. Central City – At a meeting of the City Council C. W. Wells resigned as mayor the reason of having been ---- - -- -- Mine inspector.------and half years-----Fred Wallace was --------------term Taken from: Column 5 Western Newspapers Union News Service. Washington – There will be no serious delay in construction of the candidates for the national army. Secretary Baker staff and all of the establishments probably will be ready about September 1, the tentative date considered for summoning to the colors the first 525,000 men. The progress of selecting the men, the Secretary indicated, probably will be set in motion early in July. Regulations for the exemption and selection processes have been prepared and will be made public next week. President Wilson is understood to have approved the general scheme worked out by the War Department to obtain fair and unselfish application of the law through local officials. Minor modifications are being made, but plans will be complete in a few days. Machinery for the great task of constructing the cantonments also virtually is complete, and in some cases actual physical preparations have begun. Most of the contracts have been let, army officers have been detailed to oversee construction, and under an order published the engineer units of the national guard of fifteen states will be mustered into the Federal service immediately to aid in technical features of the work. At such cantonment all construction operations will be under the direction of a Constructing Quartermaster. Seven of the men designated for these posts are regular army officers and the other nine are successful civilian engineers who have been commissioned as Majors in the Quartermasters Reserve Corps. Columbus, O – Without waiting for the slowly moving Federal Government authorities to act Governor Cox and state authorities are to ascertain whether relief may not be brought in the coal situation through the Ohio Branch Council of National Defense. If relief can be attained it will precede that which is designed to be brought about under the Federal action. The matter has been in trusted to A. A. Augustus, one of the large operators of the Cambridge field, who is a member of the Governor’s War Cabinet. The principal coal operators of the state are to meet in the Governor’s office next Friday. It is indicated that the state authorities do not believe the Federal Government will find it expedient to take over the coal mines and operate them under the present conditions. In the Governor’s view the immediate necessity is coal at a lower price than is now charged by those who sell it. Girl Locked in Vault by Bandits Marion, O – While Miss Florence Durfee, assistant cashier of the Marion Building, Savings and Loan Co., was alone in the company’s office two unmasked bandits entered. While one leveled a gun at her the other leaped over the counter and shoving the woman through the open vault door turned the combination lock. He not only locked up Miss Durfee, but the bulk of the money, amounting to several thousands dollars. Grabbing up $600 in gold and currency which they found on the counter the men escaped. Destruction of German Fleet New York – Destruction of the German fleet at its base by torpedo planes, which are styled the most powerful and mobile of weapons, was advocated in a letter which Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, retired, sent to the board of governors of the Aero Club of America. Such a weapon, Admiral Fiske declared would give the allies complete control of the North Sea, even the shallow waters along the German coast, and would prevent German submarines leaving German ports. Plans were endorsed. Column 6 Shipbuilding Delay As Senator Weeks has said, what the people are beginning to want is results, and what business wants is assurance that progress is being made. Our best hope is yet far in the future. Senator Underwood named it when he announced that one --- company had guaranteed to turn out the fleet steel ship in six months and there after one a day. If the shipping board had been awake it would have started that week six months ago and the yard would have been turning out a ship a day now. But the yard itself is not yet in existence if as is supposed the 60 acres bought by the American Bridge company at Newark has been bought to form its site. The board’s delay becoming a national danger. Chairman Denman is reported as saying that ship construction is vital to American success in the war, and that a billion dollars is a cheap price to pay if it turns the balance between victory and defeat. Very good, but surely victory is delayed by the delay of that which is vital to victory. If the president could rush the work we might be almost persuaded to bow to him as an autocrat Something Possibly Overlooked According to a dispatch, Secretary of War Baker has chosen as his third confidential adviser Mr. Felix Frankfurter a law lecturer at Harvard. The other two are Frederick Paul Keppel, dean of Columbia University and doctor of literature, and Walter Lippman, one of the editors of the New Republic. There is a something about these names that suggest confidential confabs over a “Dutch lunch,” and the gentlemen will undoubtedly have pleasant intellectual communion, But ought there be a man in the bunch who knows something about war!” Unreasonable Request A Mexico City newspaper asks Ambassador Fletcher to make --- declaration of the policy of the United States toward Mexico – as if 99,999,999 of the 100.000,000 people in this country had not been endeavoring for more than four years to discover what is the policy of the United States toward Mexico! Column 7 The nation’s rural road system needs replaning. Prof. Frank A. Waugh of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass. today told the delegates to the convention of the American Civic association. “Our present rural road system was planned years ago and in some sections they were laid out a hundred years ago,” he said. “Traffic conditions were vastly different then, the automobile had not been invented and a large portion of the crops produced on each farm were consumed or manufactured at home. “Up to the present time major improvements have been confined to direct truck lines connecting large centers of population. Such roads there fore are especially valuable for the movement of heavy freight and are now being used effectively by automobile trucks”