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VOL. XXVII. No. 170. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENT
U.S. WILL RAISE
GREAT AIR FLEET
.& WHIP GERMANS
PRESENT DEADLOCK ON LAND
AND SEA LEADS TO
DECISION
START BUILDING OF
AEROPLANES AT ONCE
Raid Over England Worst Since War
Began; 76 Killed, 174
Injured
New York, May 26.-As though in
answer to the German air raid on
England last night, the training and
equipment of 10,000 air men for the
European front was announced here
today by the United States air craft
production board through President
Hawley of the Aero Glub of America.
On the theory that there is stale-
mate between the belligerent nations
on land and sea, the theory was
reached to "whip Germany in the air."
"Ten thousand air men will be added
to those now at the front," said
Hawley, "to aid us to blind the Ger-
man batteries, execute air raids, and
strike Germany hard and bring the
war to an earlier end."
IHawley pointed out that the allies'
greatest victories have been due to
air fighting, and that not until the
skies were clearedtof Germans could
land victories become possible. Im-
mediate maufacture of 10,000 aero-
planes as equipment for air men, was
announced by Hawley.
There is a big rush to the air service
by young men all over the country,
perhaps more than to any other
branch of the service, and all who
qualify are taken. The most desir-
able, according to Colonel Reese, are
young fellows weighing up to 170
pounds and preferably college men
between the ages of 18 and 25.
London, May 26.-England is clamor-
ing for reprisalsstonight. Incidents
of the day's news served to send flames
of horror against German "kultur."
Seventy-six persons were killed and
174 injured in the worst air raid yet
seen over England.
Dispatches from Christiana tell how
a submarine captain, angered at. a
Norwegian steward for his refusal to
I give information about one of the U-
boat victims, took the steward and his
wife on a submarine, closed the hatch-
way and submerged. There was no
mistaking the clear intent that the
man and woman should drown. How-
ever, both succeeded in keeping afiloat,
though they were dragged below by
the suction of the submarine. The
steward who was one of the survivors
of a Norwegian steamer, told the story
when picked up after long hours in
the water.
If it wre not for the hazy weather,
most Britons believed that the air de-
fenses would have encountered the air
raiders and the damages been insig-
nificant. As it was, bombs were
dropped mostly in one town.
EDISON SAYS HE IS DOING
HIS "BIT" FOR UNCLE SAM
Orange, N. J., May 26.-Thomas A.
Edison, in an address tonight to em-
ployees of his West Orange plant, de-
clared he was "already doing" what he
could "in a certain' direction" to serve
the country.
"It is not something I can talk
about" said Mr. Edison, "but I am
trying to do my 'bit' for Uncle Sam."
William Maxwell, vice-president or
the Edison company, told the em-
ployees Mr. Edison had cancelled a
vacation trip to Florida on the advice
of his physician last February because
"word came from Washington that a
crisis was impending."
"Since then," asserted Mr. Maxwell,
"he has been working literally night
and day for the government. What
the result will be I cannot foretell,
but Mr. Edison has yet never failed
in anything he undertook."
Italians Send Bust to Wilson
New York, May 26.-A bronze bust
of President Wilson, the gift of Italian
admirers, was sent to the White House
WOOLSACK ELECTS
TEN FRESH LAWS
Junior Law Honorary Society Chooses
Highest Freshman
Scholars
Ten members of the freshman law
class have been named for Woolsack,
junior law honorary society. These
men were selected because of their
scholarship, as the highest 10 fresh
laws are chosen each year.'
Those honored are as follows: B. B.
Mathews, F. F. Nesbit, W. E. Burby,
C. L. Kaufman, C. L. Goldstein, L. L.
Pollock, W. N. Snow, A. J. Levin, J.
W. Sargent, and L. E. Waterbury.
An initiatory smoker will be held
Thursday evening at Lane hall.
SOTKALS OPPOSED TO
WOODENSHIP SHEME
DIAGREEMENT WITH SHIPPING
BOARD MAY LEAD TO RE-
VISION OF PROGRAM
Washington, May 26.-Manifest fric-
tion between Goethals, head of the
United States ship corporation, and
the shipping board, as evidenced by
Goethal's speech last night probably
will lead to a revision of the American
ship building program.
Goethals is opposed to the wooden
ship scheme as a means of meeting
the submarine menace, and wants to
proceed unhampered on the ship
board, which is headed by Gunman.
Gunman would make no statement to-
day, holding that it would be unfair
both to him and to Goethals, to rush
into newspaper controversy at this'
time.
Calls Scheme a Dream
Goethls' complaint was that the
wooden ship scheme was only a dream,
and that steel ship' must be con-
structed to stand up in competition,
and that lumber is scarce. Men close
to the ship board say that wooden'
ships are practical as makeshifts in
the present situation, affording a
chance for heavy tonnage without the
heavy cost for building as with steel
ships.
The wooden versus steel ship issue
will come before the house Monday
when the army and navy deficiency
bill is to be considered. Chairman
Fitzgerald of the house appropriations
committeee told the house today that
he understood that at least 150 to 200
wooden ships were to be built.
Representative Huddleston of Ala-
bama had suggested that abandonment
of the wood ship program would seri-
ously affect the lumber business.
REVEAL PEACE PLOT
Stockholm Socialist Conference De-
vice of Germans
By Wm. G. Shepherd
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
Petrograd, May 26.-Full extension
of the German peace "plot" through
alleged peace conferences of social-
ists at Stockholm was revealed to Rus-
sion socialists today.
A message received from German
ocialists of the Haafe-Ledebour group,
true socialists of the central empire,
told their Petrograd comrades to take
notice that every one of the German-
Austro-Hungarian socialists who
would be in attendance at the Stock-
holm meeting is a disciple of kaiser-
ism, and in the pay of the German gov-
ernment.
From authentical sources Petrograd
socialists advised that German delega-
tions in Stockholm are to bring the
message there that Germany will con-
clude the war on the basis of the pres-
ent map of Europe. Their only peace
thought is that of victory. Authentical
information asserted that Austria and
Hungary were in agreement even in
this extremist viewpoint of the Ger-
man conquest.
Prophesies World Peace Parliment
Washington, May 26.-A future
world parliament for the preservation
of peace among all nations was today
prophesied by Secretary of the Navy
Daniels. "The United States is now
engaged in the last great war of the
world," he said, "and we can mark
the time when liberty and justice will
be so completely won that they can
never again be jeopardized."
ALLAMERICANARMYIS
ORGANIZEDIN MNE
PRESENT FIGHTERS PLUS RE-
CRUITS TO PUT FLAG UNDER
FIRE
By W. Pegler
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
London, May 26.-Lieutenant-Colon-
el C. Seymour Bullock, of the Canad-
ian army, former Chicago clergyman,
has completed organization plans for
the first all-American army, to be
fprmed in England to fight under the
Stars and Stripes in France.
If congress will accept this means
of speedily placing the flag in the
trenches, the force will be constituted
as a unit of the United States army,
with a strength of 10,000 seasoned
American officers and men from the
British front. It is hoped to add to
the strength at least 2,000 more from
the civilian American population of
Great Britain and France.
Hopes for Authority by Congress
Colonel Bullock has enlisted Consul-
General Skinner of London, in support
of his plan. The consul-general for-
warded the suggestion to Washington
and Bullock, through his acquaintance
with Senator Smith of Michigan, and
former Representative Gardner of
Massachusetts, hopes to receive the
necessary authorization from con-
gress.
The 10,000 men will not be sent to
France in a body. It is intended to
take over only a small sector of the
line manned by one battalion of Am-
ericans, about 1,000 men. The remain-
ing troops will be held in England as
a reserve force to be drawn upon for
reenforcements when casualties are
suffered. As casualties average about
50 per cent of a fighting force for
every 45 days of aggresive fighting,
there will still be a reserve of al-
most 5,000 men when the American
million is ready to sail for Europe.
Many Americans Are Officers
Officers are plentiful among the Am-
ican soldiers in Europe. The names
already registered with Colonel Bul-
lock, include officers from 18 states,
the, Philippines and Alaska. Privates
in one Canadian battalion alone came
from 43 states, Alaska, Porto Rico,
the Philippines and Cuba. The new
force will be especially well-off for
machine-gun officers and crewos and
bombers.
The allied armies have drawn a tot-
al of 30,000 Americans since the war
began. The extent of their casualties
can be estimated from the, conser-
vative optimism of Colonel Bullock.
He asserts that every "Yank" now
fighting under a foreign flag is impat-
ient to get into American khaki. Yet
his highest estimate of the number ob-
tainable is 10,000 officers and men.
However, the missing 20,000 are not
necessarily killed. Many have been
discharged through wounds and others
have been captured.
COTTON QUOTATION GOES TO
HIGHEST POINT IN 50 YEARS
New Orleans, La., May 26.-The larg-
est single transaction in spot cotton
ever made in this market, involving
14,200 bales, was recorded today. The
value was at least $1,500.000. The
transaction swelled the total spot
sales to 18,894 bales, the high-
est day's total in nearly 20 years, and
spot quotations were marked up 31
points to 21.00 cents a pound for mid-
dling, the highest in more than 50
years.
MEISLES QUARNTINE
MAN IN NAVAL MIITIA
CASE IS DISCOVERED WHILE TWO
DIVISIONS ARE ENROUTE
TO CHICAGO
Quarantine for 14 days was declared
over a member of the naval militia
who left Ann Arbor Thursday night,
while they were enroute to Chicago,
according to a letter received by Ann
Arbor friends from one of the officers
of the two divisions.
The letter, which was rather short
and lacking in detail, failed to give
the name of the individual who had
developed the slight illness.
It is improbable that the entire
Seventh and Eighth divisions will be
quarantined, in - spite of the case of
measles.
U. S. and -Writain
N ay Become Dry-%
PROHIBITION BY EASY STAGES
MAY BE EFFECTED AS
WAR MEASURE
Washington, May 26.-The recent
conferences of officials with the foreign
war missions, it was learned today,
have included full discussions of the
question of war time prohibition.
which, it has been concluded, will be-
come a necessity both in the United
States and England.
It is probable that prohibition in the
United States will come in easy stages,
with the elimination of distilled spirits
first and a later ban on beer, should
the grain situation demand drastic
steps.
In England it is stated, plans have
been formulated for absolute prohibi-
tion about Nov. 1, when the available
supply of malt in storage will be ex-
hausted. This step will be reached, it
is said, by gradual stages, for the Brit-
ish governmentis not blind to the ex-
treme difficuuty of enforcing prohibi-
tion on the English laboring man.
SPY SCARE HOLDS
WASHINGTON AGOG
Virginia Wireless Plant Attacked;
System at Work Throughout
Country
By C D. Groat
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, May 26.-- The .worst
spy scare that the government has yet
experienced held officialdom in its
spell tonight. The German spy system
is at work in full blast.
Hard on the heels of the knowledge
that the German spies possessed ad-
vance information of the United States
destroyer fleet movement came word
today of spy attacks on a Virginia
Beach, Va., wireless plant, and ex-
change of shots between guards,. op-
erators, and others. The government
is making every effort to run to earth
the German spies.
NEW CANADIAN ORDERS KEEP
1,00 MEN FROM WORK IN U. S.
Detroit, May. 26.-Orders from Ot-
tawa that men between the ages of 18
and 54 years must not leave Canada
without permission prevented more
than 1 500 residents of Windsor from
reporting for work in Detroit today.
ANN ARBOR BANKS
SELL LOAN BONDS
Payments May Be Made by iiistall-
ments That Bear In-
terest
You can buy your liberty loan bond
just the same way some people buy
their diamonds-on the installment
plan.
The banks of the city have decided
to sell the $50 and $100 bonds on a
weekly payment basis and at the same
time pay interest on the payments
which the purchaser makes.
Purchasers will deposit 10 per cent
of the purchase price and then pay
$2.00 weekly for a period of 45 weeks.
This money will draw interest at three
and one-half per cent, the amount
paid on the bonds of the liberty loan.
In this manner the banks will as-
sume the task of handling the money
without profit to themselves. Next
week a campaign for the sale of the
bonds will be started. Among the
many plans for carrying this out, one
is to have the county canvassed by ex-
pert bond salesmen, a number of men
having volunteered to devote their
time to floating the loan in Washte-
raw county.
ITl'S MEN WITHIN
14 MILES OF TRIESTE
VICTORIES BRING TROOPS
AUSTRIAN S'I'RONGIIOLD
OF ADRIATIC
TO
By John H. Hurley
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
Rome, May 26.-Italy's mountain
climbing fighters are within 14 miles
of Trieste, Austria's queen city of the
Adriatic today.
Violent fighting along the coast line
and north along the mountains fetched
Cordona's forces nearer the goal, and
brought the total prisoners taken in
Italy's offensive, started May 14, to
14,000 on the front alone.
Today's victories along the greater
part of the front put Italy in a dom-
inating position before the cities which
are the direct object of the great drive,
Trieste and Leibach.
Rome today heard of serious riots in
Trieste, owing to the brutality of the
Aastrian officials. Austria is said to
LXi taking revenge on peaceful Italians
because of defeats sustained by the
Austrian troops.
British Drive Strengthened
London, May 26.-The British of-
fensive has apparently received mo-
mentum tonight for another great
drive. Field Marshal Haig reported
gains around Leas Croiselles, and a
large amount of raiding action in the
air. and also considerable sea action.
The British commander-in-chief re-
ported five German planes were de-
stroyed in air fighting, and five others
driven down beyond control. Five Brit-
ish machines are missing.
McADOO MAY LEAD
DEMOCRATS IN 1920
Treasurer's Trip Around Country
Watched Closely by Both
Parties
Washington, May 26.-Secretary of
the Treasuary McAdoo as Democr-
atic candidate for president in 1920,
is the gossip of the capitol building
today.
Even war cannot stop politics. and
that is why both Democrats and Re-
publicans are watching the result of
McAdoo's trip around the country in
the interest of floating the liberty loan
bonds. No attempt of the Democrats
to conceal their satisfaction over Mc-
Adoo's reception is evidenced.
Apparently popular in the west, and
his success in "delivering the goods,"
one of the 'highest officials in Wash-
ington said today, "this trip of Mc-
Adoo's may prove to be the thing
which first arouses the possibility of
his being a candidate."
Neither Republicans or Democrats
attribute politics to Secretary Mc-
Adoo's present tour, but both admit
that it, is bringing him in touch with
the people in the country, and is bound
to establish him in their minds.:
MASS MEETING TO
BE HELD BEFOREn
REGISTRATION DAY
PROGRAM WILL BE GIVEN IN HILL
AUDITORIUM ON
JUNE 4
ELIGIBLE MEN TO
HEAR EXPLANATION
Badges Are Planned as Mark o DWen
Who Have Reg-
istered
Registration day will be observed
by a huge mass meeting in Hill audi-
torium the night of June 4. and by ap-
propriate sermons by Ann Arbor pas-
tors on next Sunday morning. These
are the lines of observance determined
upon at a meeting of city officials, rep-
resentatives of the University, and
pastors of the local church Friday
night in the city hall.
Governor Proclaims Celebration
This action was taken as the result
of a proclamation issued by Governor
Albert E. Sleeper that registration day
be made the occasion of a general pa-
triotic celebration in order that reg-
istration and conscription may be
rightly understood as the best means
of combining patriotism and efficiency.
Every clergyman in the city was
requested by the committee to make
the combined duties and privileges of
citizenship, as exemplified in the reg-
istration and the subsequent call to
'rvice, the subject of his sermon on
next Sunday morning.
To Provide Badges
The committee on finance was in-
structed to obtain a suitable badge to
present to each man at the time of his
registration.
Every man in the city and Univer-
sity who is within the conscription
age, is urged to attend the mass meet-
ing on Monday night, June 4. The
matter of registration and conscrip-
tion will be explained by an authorita-
tive speaker.
Parade Will Precede Meeting
A parade of all the military and civic
organizations of the city and Univer-
sity will precede the mass meeting.
Those present at the meeting Friday
night were: Mayor E. C. Wurster,
President of Council R. E. Reichert,
City Attorney Frank DeVine. County
Clerk E. L. Smith, Deputy Sheriff
Charles Esslinger, Postmaster H. J.
Abbott, Colonel A. C. Pack, Major
Charles W. Castle, Captain Arthur C.
Volland, Treasurer R. A. Campbell,
Registrar A. 0. Hall, Prof. William H.
Hobbs, Rev. Lloyd C. Douglas. Dr. T.
S. Langford and Messrs. H. W. Doug-
las, John Fischer, William Schultz, G.
W. Wagner, and James A. Rose. Mayor
Wurster and Registrar Hall were chos-
en as chairman and secretary, respec-
tively.
NEED MORE LAND FOR LAKE
BLUFF TRAINING STATION
Washington, May 26.-Two repre-
sentatives of the Illinois council of
national defense and three members
of the Chicago Commercial club called
on Secretary of the Navy Daniels to-
day and urged him to acquire addi-
tional land for a large extension of
the Great Lakes naval training station
at Lake Bluff,' Ill.
The delegation called attention to
the marked enthusiasm of the volun-
teering to the navy and marine corps
in the western states and asserted that
the navy would need a large, perm-
anent training station at Lake Bluff.
The present accommodations are suf-
ficient for only a fraction of the men
to be trained there.
The Chicago men urged the secre:-
tary to buy the land needed for the
extensions. They said that the gov-
ernment could obtain the 500 acres
required at reasonable prices from
owners who would abandon their plan
to build thereon a golf club.
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Presbyterian Church
Huron and Division Streets
10:30 A. M.-Leonard A. Barrett- The Moral Challenge and the
World Crisis.
Noon.-Prof. W. A. Frayer-The Moral Aspect of the World Situation.
6:30 P. M.-Young People's Evening service.
First Methodist Church,
A. W. Stalker, D. D., Minister
10:30. "Optimism and War."
7:30. " The Soul's White Plague."