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- = - ESTABLISHED 1876. AUGUSTA _2, 1018 "ALLIES SURROUND VILLE-EN-TARD TURNING POINT OF WAR MAY BE JAPAN APPROVES U. S. SIBER WAR BRINGS END OF IMURDER AND SUICIDE SEQUEL TO JAPAN APPROVES 5 AUTO TOUR BY GREENFIELD PAIR; SPRING BED PLANT MAN SHOOTS GIRL, THEN HIMSELF SHBER] AN COURSE Allies _ —Prog Mass., Aug. 2.—At the necticut cities and were returning wheel et ol Raw Mata). | s e e 2 St e et PRTITSUITTE AL S | Official Word Receiv- e 00 the (lifford G Wright, a mechanic of this [ on the running board of the car or ] t ! terly side of the# e | city, and on the floor of the bridge, | nearby when killed. Wright, ap- i W . ) n | the body of Miss Hazel Tanner, of | parently, did not move from his seat i ed at 7ash|ngt0n The Frericil LABOR MARKET ALSO FACTOR | tuiners it Both nhad been shot | A revolver with two chambers empty. ! ditional tonns il 0 hrough the right temple with a was that Miss Tanner was standing 7o litionz S . s 5 ’.an near a handkerchief which had . " I and WI!SO]'] Has /| Soissons and ® | 1 v e volver. County authorities expressed been pressed close to the head of he belief that Wright had killed the | ; " & it an et ehen's somreier2n | Pennsylvania Town Scores Heav-! Serious Conference| 1he town of girl and then shot himself. of Investigation of a letter found on | through which a bhullet had been 5 Nt fired. Wright was 22 years old and | who also seized thel the bony of Aliss Tanger, Shoed ot married. The girl was 20 years old | ]]y m To[fll 0[ 238 CaSllalIIGS Wlth Baker tant place. The Fr‘ Coal, Steel and Wire—First Non- | \wright and the sirl had been on a 1 motor trip to New York and Con- main and then crossed Secretary Burckahdt Writes to Stock- holders Explaining Shortage and unmarried. Essential to Close Doors Heve, I'he rmans are b ing everything they come Bed Company will convene in a : between Japan, the Entente powers cial maeceting 1esday afternoon, .Ad- L = Y o and America in Siberia is assured. ¢ 7 dation from the hoard of directors R Large Number of Heroes—Roll | AMerican proposal, which primarily London, Aug. 2.—Yesterday's that the real estate and other assets % looks to the aid of the Czecho-Slovaks, | westerly side of the Marne salient of the company be sold at the best Meriden, Aug. —Under persua- “and since that time has been sta- Shows 12 Killed in Action and 48 [ Dow operating in Siberia, and after| _ = e 3 . . el b Sl e exchanges between Toklo and Wash-| @nd penetrated to a maximum dep_th of e’ is that it is the belief of the director et ho was driv. | home last week on a short furlough. | Dead of Wounds. ington, which have cleared up all| News received today. It resulted in the capturei « that a sufficient sum can be secured to | ficer Carroll a soldier who was y Private Gill is on parole from the ) 5 —The army | 40UPtEUl points and removed any pos-| ridge which forms the watershed between the O e par [ing an automobile stopped at Main | state Reformatory at Cheshire, where [ Washington, Aug. 2.—The army | shility of future misunderstanding, a| Aisne, the advices et - value of their stock, Landers, Frary & | and Colony streets this forenoon. He | he was sent two or three years ago | casualty list today shows: complete agreement has been reached. = S e 5 o » Clark will purchase the business. proved to be Private Virgil ¥. Gill | after series of escapades in this Killed in action, 42; died of | The plan of operation will be put into I'he French also captured the entire Neijmiere WoB B Secretary Otto Burckhardt has is- | of New Britain and said as city which brought him into intimate | o i,as 48: died of disease, 7: died | ©Xecution at once. the line to the north of Goussancourt, at about the center o sued notice of the meetinz to the | his way to Fort Slocum. Five min- | acquaintance with the police. £ .1 i i o N Soon after it had been learned that | salient. & o 5 4 of accident and other causes, 7:i | Japs = 2 rccompanied | utes before that Officer Carroll had The Meriden police stated this art-W of accident a 3 | Japan had accepted the American pro- e Ry Ke es P 3 . o e | I severely, 126; wounded, de- | posal, President Wilson walked to the . The advance by the Allies along the western side of the salient is described as etremely important—possibly the most im- been notified from Hartford that a | ernoon that Private Gill, after being | wounded ! soldicr had taken an automobile from | placed under arrest, admitted taking | €rec undetermined, 2; missing, 6; | State, War and Navy building, where 1 | jne conferred for half an hour with | portant thing the Allies have accomplished since the Germans L | Acting Secretary Polk and Secretary| have retired from the Marne. price obtainable. The understanding | = o o'l ool Yod by Trafic Of- pay each of the stockholders stockholders and it is with a letter of explanation of the reasons for selling It is in part as | follows | @ street there, and the machine was | the automobile, presumably to hasten | total, 23S. “Since the beginning of the war in | X . Sl ¢ Baker in the war secretary’s office. the one that the officer retrieved his return to the fort. He has been | The 1 1914 ¢ e e turned over to the Hartford authori- | Killed in Actiou. ik ate Gill's S 209 Maple | ties a as take ack > Cap- ) ; The president and Mr. Polk left the B rivate Gill's home is at 209 Maple | ties and was taken back to the Cap- | (apiain Walter M. Gearty, Phila- . . street. 1Te enlisted in the medical | ital city this afternoon by a polu‘oim‘h,.:“ Lieuts, Merritt Dunbar, Wal. | office together and as they walked R Germans Must Retreat in Haste. el e iy 7 along the corridor had a very serious The importance of the victory, it i explained, lies in the fact conversation which was continued for) that the new Allied positions command the whole area to the corps of the army early in the spring | officer | nut, N. Charles W. W Kild, j NoxtnEWinahiara SMe.; S Herbert B 8 ¢ mitintes bin (frontior Mod Eolkia of- RO 5 5 ! es, Meade, Kas.: James A. Pigue, | gio northward and take in flanks an drear the entire western gate Jo : 3 de A E befare {he president returned to 2 ¥ [lARA[i[ UWN[R BURNEH ,\ e '}I'”K”' ¢ '{.m‘f,!’\}‘”: :y““”" the White House. through which the Germans have been retiring This area is a ochesier; Robert H. rner, States- b iy u ville, nest of German reserves and field artillery. irniture, has shown a in profits. While our sales fairly well maintained, the of lahor and material has | product was not essential in the an, South Manchester, Conn.; Angel The capture of the important ground on the heights to the prosecution of the war has made it S = B 1Ds ) enich e Ny BlicloltyS EellersRCan: tRETna R hes IR B L S the line also means that the Germans will not be lifficult for us to secure the necessary o 4 z supplies to conduct the business, we | Five of Crew of 38 Missing | John H. Smith ‘Showered are not able to sect preference on oal, steel or wire that are used in —OQOthers Land at ur busines and therefore deliverie ot raw ':,’f,“'\‘, ,:,A,‘\Ml‘yr.\u been made prac- Lewes, Del. tecting Property. We have not suflicient capital to e pet rovide equipment for different lines . | | K. Stofflet, Alburtis, Pa.; Corporals | de o 2 1 ““ vison G. Hayes, Flint, Mich.; Own Subway Trains, B'Gosh, and| able to retire in an ordinarily leisurely way, and that they prob- 3 i e (Rl T e, Bob S ot A G (e ibly will have l»uguvhc)und‘lh( river Vesle in their retreat ! With Blazing Oil Pro- i,;” e s B e ] B Ihe situation is considered as extraordinarily good, being | pass S % 3 New York, Aug. 2.—Traffic police-1 described i e advices ¢ I g point of e st >r cam- |(Biighton, Br: i Battholomew AL, | men wers, colied iriol s sirets o S bed in 111} es as the turning point of the summer cam ’|xwr<-n Ernest . Bannister, Cum- | New York's suburbs today to handle| Paign and possibly of the whole w: | ming, Ga.; William J. Bauhof, Phil- | confused crowds massed at Times e | adelphia; John C. Bolton, Schuykill | Square and Grand Central transfer French Press Enemy Toward Vesle. . ;i Newd Y or AT, The Americar Lakeville, Aug. 2.—Jol s Haven, Pa.: Evereit J. Bushweller, | points S “H” system S S manufactured goods, and under ew York, Aug Qo morican Al 2o John H. Smith, Bont of "tho new H ystem. Paris, Aug. 2—On the battleeld north of the Marne the o - i g eross, | marage v, was burned o death | Dunmore, Pa.; Samuel W. Iorman, | Throughout the morning rush hours resent conditions it is doub £ we Poseidon, 1,911 tons gross, | Earage owner, wa c . . h s | z : : ) DURLsRd oubERuT IEAS when his place of business, with 11 | Brooklyn; Milton D. Fulghum, Wa- |hopelessly bewildered masses of hu-| Irench Troops during the night continued to press back the 2ould obtain it ,as we have been oblig- | formerly under the Dutch flag, was Hbia 5 Do 5 1 z 2 : 1 3 : . ol A 2 to reduce our dividend to a five per | sunk in a collision with an American | 20tomoblles in it, most of them be- | tertown, SR James I5. Kane, Jr.; | manity surged fi in one direction| Germans farther toward the Vesle, says the official statement from TR Thedianae: : A | longing to summer residen was New York; Richard Kopplin, Jr.,|and then in another along the station | the war office today. Rls0 o Borlous handioan o b & r . oA BVednesday o TRINERNCIS (P u n S0 5= Uin B B TH el o5= (was about Webster Grove, Mo.; Frank Kuteh, |pdatforms, while guards were power- annot compete with wages offered by | WAFe capes it was learned in marine | $30,000. A 512 Bast Avch street, Pottsville, Pa.; |less to direct them to new points of anufacturers doing war work. We circles here today. Five members of | Smith had been vulcanizing an in- | John IL Leach, Charlestown, W. Va.; | entrainment made necessary by the HUN HIEF N T Americans Move Forward Mile. 15 fotiese Syl e o ot e e e e nenlbineYand g oo lbTE MRS ([70SED T Levanoviteh, Olyphant, Pa; | re-routing of traffic. With the American Army on the! el T e B e A o ; o . |from the vulcanizer ignited a side- | Carl Link, Thomasville, N. C.; Floyd Four persons were prostrated by the Aisne-Marne Front, Aug. (noon), RO O a fc € £ 8. aptain J. Durie, master of the | w11 Miss Jane Smith, a sister, called | D. McGee, Lincoln, Neb. George | heat and many women fainted in the By The Associated Pr )—The whoild been made »”’j‘ he real estatc and fixed ghjp, died as the result of exposure | to Smith and he rushed into the gar- [ Maxfield, Rochester, N. I.; Elic C.|crush. Subway employes found it HIS [;AUSE lS JUST American line moved forward today el OTjonTassets, el bellovel| Bt iar baing landed) { age expecting to save some of the | Morger, Caney, K Amos W. Mor- | necessary to clear the edges of the while the armies along the fank frall b i e e S R el S o o o e ) Minersville, Pa.; Albert M. Mul- | platforms, while guards were power Soissons to Rheims pressed e property.” i 6 ® |landed at Lewes, Del, having been | )-lr\dr‘v; and l\l;c flm‘\; :-]vr:\{\"q(*:u\‘\(“ d(L)\;n ’1’»-"\” |.‘w»nv’m|”.u|!urll;y»:‘]',)yy‘xk‘. ”l :«.]n; l‘s' E. un'n:;[ys_x ‘(‘Lu:\r;‘” s e b against the sides of the German sa- P : e o S Loliontiaciar i bon him. Men got Smith out but he adelphia; ezekiah & fficials predic at el s lient. Their gains were made almost R e i::‘li(\‘(’1”‘;“‘,;:1’\ e d“;.,,yut“f:y Al’L“U':‘]“;j s s Porter, Higganum, Conn.; John E.|elapse before the public, grasping the | Thanks German People For \\‘(H”!m\:ll‘w‘»‘lp[,“‘,l‘» b Made)ain najority of the stockholders will be g y : Many of the men were found clinging SEING G SO R N - s e e e e ‘{‘H is the m:\‘ Anx‘tunf-n m‘.\l“ )1r1~‘.»q“.,,,“m. of lifeboats had been dec-|one story garage . ~ 1 where an industry considered | g PR O 1iEeboa s burned, and the volunteer fire- | Wayne, Custer, 11L; Clarence n on essential has heen forced 1o shut | ™S o ding o the information re- | men only by great exerlion saved | feld, Frankforl, Ind.: George Young- | eration of trains. and left by the French, started early fown because of its inability to se- | coj o e : o «. The b Wil- | inger, Belleville, N. J. ;- Y s hey d 1 { ceived here, the missing men are the | nearby property. The barn of Wil- | inger, B 3 = = today they did not encounter the re raw material second and third mates, a mess boy | liam B. Perry was on fire {hree times. Died of Wounds, RUMELY, N. Y. MAIL, Amsterdam, Aug. 2.In & procla. | USUal machine S - — — and two sailors. The damage to the In the building William Judd had a Major Loui Farrell, Fort Snelling. mati g 1 tol 1 i - L IDRebenifordanyine dnan plowed . e il ) vjor Louls F'a , Fort § g o ation issued to the Geerman people, i URGE REVISION OF American tanker was such that she | barber shop, and Smith and his sis- |y e taing Roseius H. Back, Van- INDICTED AS LIAR | imperor William says ; thicushithe icayySiein soalad e iy sE RE 1 was compelled to enter a nearby port. | ter. and Morgan Ebert and family had | Lo\ er When : James D. Basey, mx G e for nearly a mile | { The Poscido: s e er T elr apar 3 - n he indicatior are ha Ger The Poscidon was taken over in an | their apartment ron, N. C.; Lieuts. Hernan E. Bonsel, — | passed, full of eternally memorable . " \"‘\ i " 1s are that 'h]e b]’i hans will not mak stand unti EW ‘(e ‘ b RISt e . i | 5 NEW ENGLAND RATES | American port by the United States e Parnassus, F Elliott B. Clark, Wel- [ __ - deeds. An example has been given | shipping board with other Holland IN AIR 30 1_2 HOURS SonEN G B ARG Key- | Saufmann, Ex-Counsel. to German | for all time of what a people can do | (€Y reach the watershed north of i;::"f)l;;‘(“<‘l'il""r'nf’“‘:‘yrv = :\]h" was port, N. J.; Charles A. Lewis, Birming- | pmpassy, Also Accused of Conceal- | that stands in the field for a most just | 9 LY | asslgned ta the constwise coal-carry Sl ! ham, Ala.; Sergeant John Susa, Indian cause and for the maintenance of its | ing trade. When sunk she was on a - oy Harbor, Ind.; Corporals Berdan J ing Paper’s Ownership. | existence. age fr 308 o Norfolk Snsign P J. P aris Sabs : el M g !m,u e from Boston to Norfolk. Kenison, Sebago Lake, Me.; Carl M | “Gratefully revering the divine | steamship it th interests of our stock cars. Just then a Barrel of oil ex- | ris, The building was of two stories, of [ Rabineau, Richmond, Va. Russ R. |details of the new routings, will bene- s, Hammered as they have been for wood on the street front. with a metal | Richardson, San Francisco; William | fit by opening of the new lines, which Unselfish Support of days, the Germans withdrew during in the rear. This |11 Rotan, Baltimore; Harvey C.|are intended to relieve the congestion the night so0 that wher the Americans, Wohl- | so far accentuated by the changed op- the War. who were supported on their right | Americans in Bitter ®truggle. London, Aug. 2.—Fighting of the most bitter nature marked the Amer- Public Service Comumissioners Pe- Barnes Establishes New tition McAdoo to Make Changes Vew Y b . i s ' 5 % Ne ork 2.—Federa ict- : World’s Record for Sustained Flight | Glothen, Sheldon, Ta; FEdward L. SViTork, Aue el Indlel | yind which has been eracerully ar | London, Aug. 2.—The Norwegi: Mann, Holyoke, Mass.; Charles J. Re- | Ments were returned here tod: ; e ; ~ brig Alker, of Aredal, was sunk o While in European Waters. gan Charlestown, Mass.: Harry K, |against Dr. Edward A. Rumely, for. | fended over Germany, we may proud- Boston, Aug. 2.—Public service | the coast of Norway on Wednesday Sherman, Calais, Me.; Clarence Sow- |Mer Vice-president of the New Yorl | IV S3¥ We were not found unworthy in respondent on the American front tommissioners of the New England [by a German submarine. The crew| Washington, Aug Remaining in | ersby, New Troy, Mich.; Privates Wil- | Mail and Express Co., and §. Walter | the tremendous task = before which | resbondent on the American Tillast sates L 9,000 word memorial sent | was saved. air 30 hours and 30 minutes, Bnsign | jjam B, Ackles, Red Oak, In.; Francis | Kaufmann, former counsel for the | Providence placed us. =~ Gt Clias ahh ek el oday Director Gen. McAdo; P. J. Barnes, atfached to the Ameri-| gjjje, West Dultith, Minn.; Antonio |German embassy s country I8 LN icasinusE Spouninationge T e e e e urg odification of certain sections | i e can maval air forces in Buropean | Anoetrinta, Lewrence, Mass: Clark |alleged participants in the purchase of | EIVen leaders capable of the hishost polnfislnte rom it sy, con'd Borg f the new freight rate schedule, AIRMAN DIVES TO DEATH waters, established a new world’s | . Ach, Derrv, N. H; Samuel Ben- |the Evening Mail for the German goy. | achievements, it has daily proved by A Mand the approaches on four sides I hi 14 S o o5 - “ , v, W & | fidelity that it has deserved to have and their gun nests out it were con- hict vas set forth, w detri- record for sustained flights in agon Long Island City, N. Y.; Frank 'ernment. | such leaders. FHow 1d th -my | cealed cleverly in the ripening wheat mental to the industrial development e “Blimp" iype of airplanie. the navy | Bericofski, Fynon, Pa.; Warren Black, | _Three indictments we e brought. [Pt s e D e oh i torded ve g f this territory. . S e o ttanes ioant - Braoks, 9 Tan- | One is against Dr. Rumely, chargec ro; ave performed its tremendous : L e e to the situation | eaps From Machine in Flames Near | department announced :’:‘ : Otaraixa iAT ]{“’l’m&’ ok e et res ((vn]r i <x;;111n~t(h|‘<';:n\r,, | deeds if the entire labor at home had his kind of fighting,” the corre- e ence Ebrown, Lebanon, Ind.; William | man, making the same accusation; | N0t been carried to the highest meas- spondent continues, “is slow business and the third alleges that the two de. | ure of personal performance? Thanks | and bad business for the side that i are due to all who, under difficult s to hurry it munles it has an over J. Callahan, Woburn, Mass.; Lee Cole- 2 s ! man, Petersburg Ind.; Willie H. Col- | fendants conspired to commit perjur e desteoitiniey R ; r Cummings, | and to omit from a report made to A. | conditlons, have co-operated in the | Whelmine pow s and in this | task set the state and community and | OPen cspeeially to our faithful unwearying | trated ws tl we for trench attacks. L to the Am- ican advance ecast and southeast of Sergy on Thursday, says Reuter's cor- in Freight Charges. wi afforded excellent cover. lie commissioners said the docu- | Fac Fline L er ea e o . y At o SRt Ldocy, Waco—Brookline Fiyer Killed in | ppRUVIAN PRESIDENT ey ault-finding spirit, as the magni- Accident At Tllinois Fiecld. INSISTS CABINET STAY ude of problems confronting . o . Py e 18, Cairo, Ga.; Stus 1. ;ailroad administration wa e Dallas, Tex., Aug. 2.—An airplanc L et R s 15:&1\:”)”‘»':‘ e A Dozier, | Mitchell Palmer, enemy property cus- Foaihed from Love Field caught fire in the wir Ala.: John M. Fitzpatrick Somerville, | todian, regarding the ownership of ‘Our purpose,” it was stated, “is | near here today. The aviator leaped |resignation of the eabinet, which was | 3 oo SO0 e RARINE o SPS o S e ening: Mail, that 9, res of | ofticial snly to brin to your attention | from the machine after being badly [ (.ndered yesterday. Conn.; Kmil J°. Geliske, Kingston, | preferred stock and 6,657 shares of | the countrymen and townsmen hanges in the present rate structure | burned and was killed by the fall ! Mich.: Charles Lanznor, Asbury Park. | common stock in the newspaper were | #lso the women on whom in this wa ; : 1ich we believe are vital to the wel- = {N. I.; Herbert IT. Milliken, Freedom, | held by the Imperial German govern- | fime so much fall off sthut fellows froni various Garpi re of New England and can be Champaign, 111, Aug. 2-—Cadet & NO CLUE TO TIIEL N. H.; Ehner Nickerson, Province- | ment s e el SR made at the pregent time without | D Rogers of Brookline, Mass, Wis | constable 1. II. Rowley of Newin e [ MAXIM GORKY'S ARREST prought from Kemmel, on the British nflicting with the prosecution of | killed late yesterday in an airship ac- | yon said this aftornoon that the pro (Continued on Fifteenth Page) L0 TO SLOCUM AT 8:01 ORDERED BY SOV L mlanders, by way, or Tl | > s vy had for veral | cident at Chanute Ficld pects of capturing the thief who stol o Grst and second distriet draf | Aug., S fighting guns cannot be concen- pardo has refused to accept the i Thanks are due likewise to Tw sions which secnie mposed : to Mrs. Young s Te o » schedule X , = in-rements who are scheduled Maxim Gorky 1¢ Russian good terial as the other divisior T nearly $1,300 belongin TALIAN KING REVIEWS WOIT IN TURKESTAN at the home of Mrs, Michael Deutsci EATHID for EFort Slocum on August 6, and revolutionary, has been order One youngster of 19 saic hadibe RE A e e WEA 0 @ o v | 1ad bees OUR BOYS IN WAR ZONE AGAINST BOLSHEVIKI BNy slocing : i E entrain at the local passenger s by an investigating commission of the | 2 year in service but this was the thief knew ac 5:04 a, m. The local dra the opinion that + Soviet government, says an Exchar his first fight. He avowed with tears aris, Aug. 2.—King Victor Em- Bu Switzerland. Aug. 2.—A re- | ‘e to look for the money, e Hartford. Aug. —TFore- received notice to this effect i Telegraph dispatch from Copenha- | that he did not like it. Other prison manuel of [taly reviewed thc Ameri- | volt ag the Bolshevik went directly to the spot wherc st for New Britain and vi- omin The second board also T en The Petr 1 correspondent | ers, being asked why the Ameriean n troops who have taken positions | ment in Turkestan has broken out |wmoney was buried in the ground cinity: Fair tonight and prol. ceived instructions to send one black- | of the Daily s eports that | were beating them, replicd . m the war zone yesterday, according [ according to news received here fo- | which was covered over With hoves ably Saturd: nith to Vancouver Barracks, Van-|Gorky's paper s been suppressed i ® ® a Havas dispatch from Rome, day from Ukrainian sources. Jand stones < ouver, Washington, at once. permanently (Continued 5;1 Fifteenth Page)

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