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FOUNDED MAY 31,1914.
“ALL FOR AUSTIN
PRICE, FIVE
AUSTIN, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17,1918.
“TRUE TO TEXAS'
AMERICA ALWAYS1
America Gives World’s Answer—NO!
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To Hun-Austria’s Cry for Peac
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ntly be-
the goal.
sary for
even ot
DEMANDS WILL SUFFICE
and its
NG.
TWO GRANARIES FIRED AT ONCE
F. Gohike was notified' at
ager
BRITISH CABLES
PERSHING TO RUSH
the
SAYPERSHING’SFOE
ONTONEWVIOTORY
WAR NATIONS SPLIT
IS STIFFENING UP
ASAPEAOE ANSWER
AS BERLIN JEERS IN
Say It Would Be a Mistake Wilson’s Reply to Be Spoken
AUSTRIA’S TUMULT
the seed destroyed
I
Hoped to Fire Gasoline.
Thesthousanda of bushels of corn
After
cared
three
L. STA-
and would have contained ieter
all
from the farms of the Colorado val-
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(Continued on Pnge Two.)
(Continued on Page Two )
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By Associated Press to The Austin Amerfean
d Of 118
latter Correspondence of the Associated Fi
of the
BULLETIN.
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their
thirst
for
adventure
they
not knowing what
ern.
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er
FACTORY TO RUINS
pe by
CONSTITUTION DAY.
ill
ina.
no
part in druwing up the note.
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yet
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tor.
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common
r a solid
to Regard the Enemy as
Beaten.
Louder From the Mouths of
Cannon.
Emperor Charles’ Peace Pro-
posal Stirs Rancor in German
Breast.
Reuter Tempera the American
Success by Saying That the
Germans Did Not Fight.
$20,000 Worth of Government-Owned Pro-
ducts Destroyed to Cripple Castor Bean
Supply of Colorado River Valley.
DESTROY KAISER’S POWER
IS AMERICA’S FIRST DEMAND
WILSON’S WIN THE WAR TERMS
Secretary Lansing Only Takes 30 Minutes to
Send the Peace-Pleading Note Back
to Its Kaiser-Owned Ruler.
chareeter
son, fizm
AUSTIN AMERICAN
AGAIN LEADS ALL
ent that
for four
IS
; of
ABIES
'RITE
KIRBY
GERMAN SPYS IN AUSTIN
BURN WALKER GRANARIES
TO DESTROY AIRPLANE OIL
Of corrugated iron const ruction and
stood to the south of the stock barns
and the private waterworks system
o’clock
practi.
i placed
for the
ami
lide.
said
on
NOTHING SHORT OF COMPLETE
SURRENDER TO ALL OF OUR
» attempt
the use-
ilding by
ig houses
fire, lighting up all of the Colorado
valley between Congress bridge and
a point a mile below the Montopo-
wind
o'clock
grain
ved that
t human
1
AMERICAN GRIT IS
HARRYING THE HUNS
ALWAYS IN PURSUIT
an un-
. to face
on
by
Lemes WieSerrhke
Clesinget —W
13 MILLIUN MEN
IN THE NEW DRAFT
FRENCH PRESS ON
AND CAPTURE TOWN
ON BANK OF AISNE
iga.
■Ings
rings
Pubiuhet
a, Texea
• mattez
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rers and
entative.
$7 ••
7.00
HUN SPYS BURN
KNOXVILLE SHELL
Aisne
ges.
ml
and
aperoned
woman's
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the un-
me.
READY NOW TO
ENCIRCLE METZ
BUT ST. MIHIEL WAS
BIG CAPTURE
60 -gallon
a small
ley. -
Heans Worth Weight in Gold.
There were several hundred bush-
Today is the anniversary of
the adoption of the Constitu-
tion of the United States.
Answered With American Swiftness.
Austrians proposal for peace discussion was delivered to Secre-
tary Lansing tonight by W. A. F. Ekengren, Swedish minister to
the United States.
Mr. Lansings statement was given out within half an hour after
he had received the Austrian proposal.
Just Long Enough to Be Careful.
It would have been forthcoming almost immediately upon the
delivery of the Austrian note, had it not been found necessary, in
order to avoid the possibility of grave error, to make a careful com-
parison between the official text and that which was received in news
dispatches last nigiit from Amsterdam.
Peace Poison Not in Our Veins.
Thus, emphasis was added to the declination, if any were needed,
the quickness of the reply indicating the existence of no shadow of
doubt in the mind of the administration as to what it should be.
As soon as Mr. Lansing’s reply can be put in form, it will be
handed to the Swedish minister for transmission to Austria.
lighter*
er age
nsent 7
ur ba-
Other divisions accomplished sim-
ilar tanks equally an strenuous.
Sunday issues only, by mail. 280 per month
Austin city deliveries are payable ta mrrW.
Mail subecriptiona strietly cash in arfwana -
GOOD MORNING
AND GOOD LUCK
CTRAL TUAS wEarazz TODAY.
Tueeday. partly eloudy to Ct—Ay.
a—Ur in interler of wouth portion:
Wednenday partly cloudy.
Renlty tranafers of Travte county in full
is the AUSTIN AMERICAN every morning.
insail us
es.
sage of
By Associated Press to The Austin American.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—“I am authorized by the president to state that the follow-
ing will be the reply of this government to the Austro-Hungarian note proposing an unofficial
conference of belligerents:
“The government of the United States feels that there is only one reply which it can
make to the suggestion of the imperial Austro-Hungarian government.
“It has repeatedly and with entire candor stated the terms upon which the United States
would consider peace and can and will entertain no proposal for a conference upon a matter
concerning which it has made its position and purpose so plain.”
Secretary of State Lansing made that statement tonight.
WE SPEAK FOR THE WORLD.
The United States, as was fully expected, has unconditionally rejected Germany’s peace
feeler.
In doing so, the American government has spoken for all the co-belligerents.
tor bean crop of the Walker farm
Anstin American Matt Subierbera
The Austin Amerienn is mniled regularly
every morning if you mtas it. It is the fnult
of some post office Notlfy tbe Austin Ameri-
ran at once, and missing papers will be sent.
went Into’
1«.
Send Your Win-the- War Renewal Subscription Before Your Time Is Up; Don Wait for Your Austin American to Be Stopped; You Cannot Afford to Miss Any Issues
' Inorder.to secure conservation of white paper, which stock because of the war is low, and during period of the war will probably go lower, the War Industries Board at Washington has issued this order-
Discontinue sending newspapers after date of expiration of subscription unless subscription is renewed and paid for.” This is a win-the-war measure and we all must obev it pay un’ is thp m * ,
The ordercarries with it as well that all subscriptions must be pajd for In advance. The object of this order is that newspapers shall only consume white paper for supplying actual nay in advance subscrihert. *
h conformity with this war order the AUSTIN AMERICAN has no alternative but that subscriptions be paid in advance and that all renewals be promptly paid for upon expiration or delivery must be discontinued.
went on and on
to expect next.
for the
action at daylight. July
By Ansocieted Prens in The Auntin American
W ASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—There is some speculation in offi-
cial circles as to what will be the next step in what is recognized as
the great Germanic peace offensive.
Generally, it is believed that the German and Austrian military
leaders will point to the American reply as an evidence that they
have done everything possible to bring about peace and thus try to
strengthen their people for another winter campaign." •
But another view is that, owing to the intolerable conditions in
Austria-Hungary, there is more than a possibility of a breaking up
of the quadruple alliance ; that Austria having gone through the form
of making a peace proposal which was promptly rejected, has thus
cleared the way for her next step an unconditional surrender on
the terms laid down by President Wilson.
sranaries was curling up
declared. took
storehouse built (or oil storage and
FRENCH PEACE VIEW
IS THAT AUSTRIA IS
TIRED OF THE WAR
By Associated Press to The Austin American
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 18.—The note
in which Austria-Hungary invitee bel-
ligerents to a conference for discus-
eton of the possibilities of peace was
dispatched by Baron Durian the Aus-
tro-Hungarian foreign minister, on
the order of Emperor Charles, the
considered to be
gasoline out of
' 1 -
EI
laa been
stored was
white boat like
patch today.
Germany, it
tanks of
consequence of
AUSTRIAN SURRENDER
TO AMERICA MAY BE
TIRED NATION’S NEXT STEP
to the Walker Carme
(Continued on Page Two.)
•v many
Fire, believed to have been set by a pro-German incendiary
wept two immense granaries filled with crop seed that had been
turned over to the federal food administration, on the Walker
Properties farm five miles east of Austin, between 8:30 o’clock
and last midnight.
Airplane Oil Seed Lost.
In one of the granaries was stored a part of the crop thus
far harvested of castor beans, grown on the order of the gov-
ernment. to be used in making the only kind of oil that is of
service for the delicate machinery of the airplanes for the avia-1
tor students at home and the cloud cavalrymen over the battle
Whole Enemy Line to Feel the
Force of a General Allied
Advance.
Complete returns from the more
populous sections of the country have
not yet been received.
and captured Monte-des-Sin-
was discovered the corrugated iron
sheeting on the sides and roofs of
This building was 175x150 feet and point of eafety.
one-story high — H-*--1 - fire
(Continued on page rwo.)
the mules
men rolled
the two
under a
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the bean crop owned
e com-
cannot
te and
Hs bridge, was proved by the fact j day and thatenight,ana
that about a hundred people from : ....
Austin walked out to the fire and ।
there were at least fifty automobiles
--------- sev- 1st mi ion fell below the estimate, but
of them coming some distance in ten of them it exceeded it.
the boys encountering strange Vermont’s percentage of excess en-
terrain wnich appeared to stimulate rollment was the highest, being 121.
f het y thi --t fem na.o-t-- -- «___ < . . . ..
Kaiser's Mouthpieces Reflect
the Fact That Austria and:
Germany Are Drifting Apart.
there from Austin and vicinity-
KoRs of $20,000,
Manager Gohike said the insurance
underwriters had refused insurance
on the granary contents last week
after it passed to the government
control.
He believes $20,000 would not re-
This was done and by t
this morning the firs was
rally out.
Blaze Scen for Loong Ways.
The spectacular character
re limit
military
my and
can be
th cer-
saw smoke coming from the eaves
at the west end of the small gran-
ary and there was a bright glare
in the windows, all of which are
stationary.
Realizing there was a fire he hur-
riedly gave the alarm and called
all hands to wort the private fir*
system, the ground tap for which
is Isas than fifty feet from the cor-
ner of the burnt granary.
Austin Firemen tn the Scene.
It was 8:30 o’clock when Man-
ents de-
one of
re. Halen
and will
i deposit
amies of
r refer-
- Progress or the Note.
The Swedish legation notified the
state department early in the after-
noon that it had received the note
and that it would be presented as
soon as it could be decoded and
translated from the French.
This consumed several hours and it
was not until 6:20 o'clock that Mr.
Ekengren appeared.
He remained • ith the secretary
only two minutes.
All Discusion Now stopped.
There is some reason to believe
{that the secretary acted with thia
unprecedented promptness in a mat-
ter cf such great import with the
design not only to indicate clearly
the position of the United States gov-
ernment, but perhaps to anticipate
and prevent as far as possible dis-
cussions of the Austrian proposition,
which might convey to the enemy a
misicading impression that there was
any considorable element in the Unit-
ied States willing to consider a nego-
tiated peace, such as the ’'non-
binding" discussions proposed by Aus-
tria might develop.
। Notice to Our Allies Also.
I Also it is understood there was a
j purpose to sound the note which
the entente powers might repeat in
'heir own answers.
AI -these powers had gone on rec-
ord formally as accepting the con-
ditions of peace laid down by Pres-
ident Wilson as their own.
Non-Binding Futile.
While no reference to It was made
in the reply which the United States
government is making to Austria
it is known that one of the most
0 ectionnble features of Baron Bu-
rian’s proposition was the secrecy
sugsested for the '‘non-binding” con-
ference.
..It.was realized by oftictals in
wash nEton that the purpose was to
barter awa the rights of various na-
tionalities in star chamber proceed.
inEN so that the victims would have
no knowledge of their fate until it
was beyond recall.
This system of barter was partic.
ularly denounced bv President Wilson
in one of his speeches.
Secret Peace Plans.
That the German people themselveg
Were to be kept in the dark by the
nitary masters and prevented from
having any voice in the peace which
lln, which comments on the Austrian
peace note.
“The fote of all previous announce-
ments as to readiness for peace and
a conciliatory spirit on the part of)
the centra! powers does not encour-
age great hopes that this offer will
meet with greater success ” the news-
paper says
Thoroughly Skeptical, Right!
“After our experiences hitherto
with peace proposals,” says the Lokal I
By Associnted Press to The Austin Amerlenn
PARIS, Sept. 16.—The town of
Vallly, on the north bank of the
Aisne east of Soissons, has been cap-
tured by~the French
The French have continued their
progress between the Oise and the
— — ----- — - huge pine shavings.
the government that is to be thrashed , bighted by Watchman Webb
from the form. of the Colorado V.l- Then the strong northern
place the lost property and
there was but 31000 insurance
each of the granary building*
HUNS FELT THERE
WAS NO HOPE
fields of Europe.
Oolorado Valey output.
All of the castor boa ns grown in
the Colorado valley within a hun-
dred miles of Austin had been or-
dared into the granartes of the
Walker concern by the government
and special thrashing machines are
By Asociated Press to Th* Austin American
AMERICAN HEADQUARTERS IN
IORRAINE, Sept. 14—(Reuter’a.)—
It probably is not an undrestimate
to assume that the Americans In ob-
literating the St MIhiel salient re-
duced the enemy’s strength by the
equivalent of four diviston. ----
The victory of the Americans was
me un-
u may
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16—Com-
plete returns from the registration
last Thursday in sixteen states and
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY'the District of Columbta of men
IN FRANCE, Aug. 8.—When thebetweegthe ages of 18 and 45 years.
Gormans recromed the Marne orth- “acehercrtdeh’ rovost Mar
ward bound with the Americans not. They showed a total of 3,238,629
far behind, one American division' men, as against the estimate of
marched all nisht, part of the next 3,232,267
will have
Ung at a
$25 per
11 be ex-
d rooms,
is, table
By Asnoelated Pre-s tc The Austiv Amerlenn
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Sept. 16 —
The second fire within a few month*
In the W. J Oliver plant, manufac-
turing shells for the United states
government, tonight gutted one unit
of the pattern department
The loss was not announced, but
is said to be considerable.
Colonel Oliver attribute* the fire
to incendiarism.
dean of
of Texas,
wing an-
nterent to
e in Lt.
oblem of
ven more
> iu the
storehouses and fanned forth a vol-
ume of flame that was seen from
tike top of the Scarbrough building
by Watchman Webb. who called
the Austin American by phone, mak-
ing a correct guess that the con-
flagration was at the Walker Prop-
erties farm
1 sec Irrigating Trench.
Chief Woodward end Manager
Gohike agreed that the best way to
get water enough to have any ef-
fect on the fire was to turn on the
irrigating trench pump which would
gtv* them 1000 gallons of water a
minute.
Cologne Volks Zeitung declares.
pg-anm--p, -A---p Berlin Dodges Responsibility.
ESTIMATES CROWDER; b^r" niearegneznonia, nav:
w cording to the Tages Zeitung of Her-
LARGEST CIRCULATION *IN AUSTIN AND CENTRAL TEXAS AND ONLY MORNING NEWSPAPER AT THE STATE CAPITAL
rrrn heaped in the bins on the en-
tire west half of the granary and
the other half contained several ton*
prlarscuha ( ( removed all other olls to places of
Th* fire originated in ihe smaller Made Hot Fire.
one of the two granaries which stood Within thirty minutes after the fire
- alongside, and it was this granary--- *
that bntatned the part of the cas-
eis of the beans in the smali gran
ary wortl about $3.75 per bushel
to the grower, but worth tneir weight
in gold to the government.
Precious btock of <«rain.
Th* smail granary aiso contained
200 tons of baled hay. loose Rhode*
grasa, 1469 bushels of onts, one car-
load of baled alfalfa and small bin/
of seed
Inceniairy Reasons.
Superintendent H. a Lawson and
his aanistant, Wm. Turner, reported
to the management of the property
last night that the reason why they
are sure th* fire was the work of
an incendiary is that they had in-
spected the granaries as usual after
3 o’clock when all were supposed
to be closed and found them locked
as usual with outside padlocks.
Mexicans Near By.
There are seventy -five Mexican
men and women and children living
in small shacks on th* farm and
working in the fields
Yesterday was a Mexican national
holiday and the farm hands had
been laying off and were dancing
and enjoying themselves
Merriment in Progress.
The merriment was in progresa
when Turner passed the small gran-
ary on the way to his home, 100
yards west.
He had passed the place less than
half an hour before and found things
all right.
Show the Flare of Fire.
As he was passing this time he
By Associated Press to The Austin Ameriorn
WASHINGTON, Sept 16—Anoth-
er blow against the German lines as
an answei to the peace proposal of
the central powers is expected mo-
mentarily by Washington military of-
ficials.
The point of the expected attak
the recent military surceases of the
allies.
Austria Went It Alone.
It is reported from a Berlin semi-
official source that Foreign Minis-
ter Durian's move in indicting the
note inviting the belligerents to a
conference constituted an act bind-
ing Austria alone, says a Zurich dis-
his home ta Austin- and he went di-
rect to th* scene, Yollowing several
pieces of Austin fire apparatus with
Chief Woodward of the fire depart-
ment.
Ghoike Thinks Two Blazes.
Although it is not known definite-
ly. Manager Gohike believes there
was fire in the big granary at the
moment it Was discoverod in the
small granary.
This is his belief because, giving
time for a quick communication ox
the fire from The small to the large
granary, both were wrapped in Ilames
within ten nainutes and the big gran-
ary was burning Hef ore the heat
from th* other fire broke the window
glass permliuing fire to vade the
big granary.
baved Um* Mules.
To the north of the burning gran-
aries stood the largest barn on the
fasm, used for housing work mules
It is 3001200 feet.
It contained soventy-five mule*
when the fire started and the work-
men on the place saved several thou-
■and dollars in mule* by driving
them out of the north door to a
You saw this very important
news article on the front page
of the Austin American SUNDAY
morning and DID NOT see it in
any other Sunday newspaper cir-
culated in Austin and central
Texas, but every other newspaper
printed it MONDAY morning.
We call your attention every
once in a while to the dominat-
ing power of the Austin American
as the best newspaper circulated
in central Texas, because it con-
firms your judgment in your se-
lection of the Austin American as
your newspaper.
(From Sunday's Austin American.)
Austria Makes
Outright Bid for
Peace Conference
hers,
merles*.
it —
I open
By Ansociated Press
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 14.—
The Austro-Hungarian gov-
erment toelay iuvited all bel-
ligerent goveruments to enter
into non-binding discussion at
some neutral meeting place
with a view to bringing about
pcace.
The holy sec ami all neu-
tral nation- al-«o will be no-
tifiec.
An official statement from
Vienna making the above an-
nonncement has been received
here.
that had prevailed since 6
■ wept through the two big
By Associated Press to The Austin American.
PARIS, Sept 16—The Austrian
propcsal for a conference of belliger-
ents was not much of a surprise in
Parisinn political centers, where it is
can:
tion or.
v morn-
alars.
Th* national registration is ex-
pected to bo 13,900.000
in six of the states the total reg-
now to thrash the bean seed before
h grinding for oil
• Oder Farming Crops Safe.
Fortunately, not all ot the Walk-
er castor bean crop was in the gran-
aries and very little of that grown
on other f^ims had been delivered
4000 Bushcis of Seed Corn.
The irrepuiabie loss to the farm-
ing community of Texas is the 4000
bushels of seed turn in the car.
Which was in one of the granarles
and which had been turned over
three days ago to Bam Dickson of
the seed grain department of th*
federal food administration to be sold
on credit to farmers who have lost
their crops through drouth.
In Large Granary.
Th* large granary where most of
5 AwAkiNron.TseputncAmrhe"peate terms, referrea wo ln the re-
ply dictated today to the Austrian note, were dearly set out in Presi-
deat Wilson's Fourth of July speech at Mount Vernon, aa follows:
Destroy the Kedmer's Power.
••I. The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that ran
separately, secretly, and of its singie choice, disturb the peace of the
world; or if it cannot ba presentiy destroyed, at least it. reduction to
virtual impotence.
Consent of the Governed. .
"2. The settlement of eyefy question, whether of territory, of sov-
ereign, of economic arrangement of political relationship upon the
basis of the free acceptance of that settlement by the people imme-
diately concerned and not upon the basis of the msterlal Interest or
advantage of any other nation or people which may desire a different
settlement for the sake of its own exterior influence* or mastery.
Civilization First.
"3. The consent of all nations to be governed in their conduct
toward each other by the same principles of honor and of respect for
the common laws of civilized society that govern the individual citizens
of all modern states in their relations with one another.
Covenants to Re Kept.
"To the end that all promises and cevenanta may be sacredly ob-
served. no private plots or conspiracy Latched, no seifish in.
Juries wrought with impunity and a mutual trust established upon- the
handsome foundation of that mutual respect for Heht.
For World Peace. —
"4. The establishment of an organization of peare which shall'
make it certain tlat the combined power of free notions will check
every invasion of right and serve to make peace and -Justice the more
secure by attording a definite tribunal of opinion to which all muat
submit and by which every international readjustment that cannot be
amicably agreed upon by the peoples directly concerned shall be sanc-
tioned."
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