I THE WEATHER CLOUDY &ND PROB- ABLY RAIN TODAY ~ ai1 UNITED PRESS D AY AM) N I'MIR 1,1 I Tr I i -5 g g 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. ,a * * * * * * ': * * * * * * * NOTICE TO ADIVEIITISERS * ** * * ALL COPY FOR ISSUE 09 * * THURSDAY, MAY 31, MUST * * BE IN OUR HANDS BY 2:00 * * O'CLOCK, TUESDAY, MAY 29. * * THE MICHIGAN DAILY. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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."