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(ree eee ns THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1917. HOOVER URGES CENTRAL paralyzed by that twenty-four hours Annie Bopolucct, mother of John 1. held by th British, Field Marshal _ "BRITISH WARSHIP HERE. a by Attacks made the Victims of wful bombardm: ood cc! “parnicious 4 VIMY f i WI | NESS ‘here peas as Are Moat at ‘Tea Sameer grb gunner killed on the | Haig’s report omitted mention of any While on a" lous attacks” while pat i . submarin ztec, to accept a position rt th ‘ , . canals up State, Mdkisee. Chee a the Ge Ww had thrown down. thelr rifles, ala POWER FOR FOOD C0 TROL ia baaiectrans In (ne Waeetanice wary major fighting actions during the) ALRANY, N. fay Gov. Whit-|to Inquiries from rleatives Anchorage in the North River. Shipping in the upper bay and the ‘North River gave a warm welcome to @ British armored cruiser this morning ‘an it made its way up the stream to though they had previously obeyed the order to fix bayonets against our charge. As our Canadians were fumping down into the trench the Germans were climbing out on the other side— at least, those who were still able to HERE, TELLS HOW Necessary for Successful Prosecu- tion of War, He Tells Senate Committee. yard. Secretary of Navy Daniels rec- ommended the order, Eopoluce! was the United Stat es to lose his life in the sink- Ing of an ‘med merchantman. first man in the naval service of the | night and early riorning, recounting & great number of ratds on both sides, scattered along a wide front- age “The enemy's artillery was active at intervals throughout the night at man declared to-day that in his opin Jon there was no basia for the reports that National Guardemen were being men, Adjt. Gen. Stotesbury formed that no report had of any Guardeman being ing way. to the naval anchorage opposite Grant's The drab visitor was loudly @heered by the commuters aboard ferry- oases and the jack tars lined the rails to reply to New York's welcome. Tho cruiser will take part in tho @eremonies at Grant's Tomb to-morrow © afternoon, when the British and French ' commissioners to this country will pay H their respects to the great Civil War move--and started on the run for their second trench, What followed was not like war. It was like an old time hand to hand fight on a ship. Our men smashed the flying Germans with their gun butts, and those who could not be hit that way because they ran #0 fast were brought down with blows of the fist. The poor devils here and there turned and grabbed at_our men and bit and & number of places along our front, particularly In the sector between | Fresnoy and Loos,” the official state- }ment says, “Our artillery replied. HES made successful raids during | the night In the neighborhood of Netive-Chapelle and Fauquissart. Our positions northwest of Armentieres were raided yesterday evening by a WASHINGTON, May 8.—-Herbert C.| Hoover urged the Senate Agriculture Committee to-day to hasten some con- tral power for control of the more necessary foods. The experience of Europe, he said, shows there must be centralization of control over focd, munitions and other things essential ‘GERMANS BEATEN _ VICTORY WAS WON at IN NEW ATTACKS Hand to Hand Fight When Canadians Took Germans’ Second Trenches, ‘Girls! Juice of Lemons Clears and Whitens Skin a eh +i Sines Eg commander and former President. Is eye-strain the cause of your headaches? Progressive physicians now realize that eye-strain, in a large number of cases, is the under- lying @ise of headaches, neu- ralgia and many direct or re- flex nervous disorders. If you are a sufferer of head- aches, one of our Oculists (Reg- | istered Physicians) will be glad indeed to make a thorough ex- amination of your eyes. If, in his opi scratched, They did not seem to un- derstand rough and tumble fighting. ‘They were more like rats tn a corner “Within a few hours the Canadians had full possession of the German second trench and were in absolute command of Vimy Ridge, 1 think it was the most wonderful fight of Emil Roget, Red Cross man on his way home to Montreal after nearly three years of war, arrived on an English steamship to-day and told the first eye-witness story heard in New York of the terrific battle at Vimy Ridge, Roget is small, dark and pitifully worn and thin. He is going home on leave to rest awhile. | “And as soon as I regain my Matloontat He Was a Government strength,” he says, “I shall return to| Employee—Arrented. | he wounded.” my place of business on the firing CHICAG! May 8.—Capt. Horace B. What |custody by Federal officers to-day on 014. jallegations that he had misrepre- aaa sented himself as an employee of the “You must know already,” he said, | Government. “of the great importance of Vimy Ridge, the highest point on the Oppy |line, which stretches four miles be- tween Lens and Croisilles, and which commands the junction of the old and | the new German lines. I was th during the battle, carrying off th: wounded, I saw a great deal of the| fight “It began at daylight of April 8] with a terrific bombardment all along | contingent in September, the war, and you can seo I spoak | without prejudice because 1 was not | fighting but merely carrying away | {! He went over with the first; Wild, a balloonist, was taken into) to the successful prosecution of tit war. food dictator should be created. Food, Germany. In advocating before H. rs k to fix food prices, for wheat, and $1 a bushel for corn. ——— | Mother of Siatm A Gets Job Thro: WASHINGTON, May Wilson, ident. by executive order, hae | pended civil service rules to enable Mra. 5th Avenue He did not say he believed a} he said, is one of the greatest problems faced by the nation’s warring against the House Agriculture Committee the creation of ford committees of farmers and Nes representing the American tion of Organized Producers and | Consumers, suggested $2.50 a bushel rican Gunner 8,—President (Continued from First Page.) was 120. Northwost of Prosnes we captured a field fort. A strong German attack northeast of Mont Haut against Crete-du- Teton was repulsed. We took prisoners and inflicted losses on the enemy. Grenade fighting oc- curred In Avocourt Wood and near Chambrottes.” LONDON, May §.—Another dead- Inok appeared to have been tempor sus-/arily reached to-day in the fighting along the Hindenburg line positions AROUND CRANE small party of the enemy. After hand-to-hand fighting the enemy were driven out, Teaving a few dead in our trenches, A few of our men are missing. Another enemy raid south of Armentieros was repulsed.’ plahant-heestaenny in te Presented to tRe|) rhe jnice of two fresh lemons ' od States, strained into a bottle containing three LONDON, May 8.—A val “lounces of orchard white makes a tion of Whistler paintings whole quarter pint of the most te- markable lemon skin beautifier at about the cost one must pay for a small jar of the ordinary cold creams. Care should be taken to strain the lemon juice through a fine cloth so no lemon pulp gets in, then this lotion will keep fresh for months. Every woman knows that lemon juice is used to bleach and remove such blemishes 1 t her with the original en- graving plates and many of Whistler's letters, which been assembled by Joxeph Pennell, artist and biographer of Whistler, and Mrs. Pennell cen presented to the United Sta@s Gov- ernment by the Pennells. The gift also includes many books and manu- scripts, No attempt will be made to send the collection to Washington until nea traffic Ia safe, Prepare a quarter pint of lemon beauty lotion at the cost of a small jar of ordinary cold cream q as freckles, sallowness and tan the ideal skin softener and beauti Jost try it! Get three ounces orchard white at any ph toilet counter and two Jemons the grocer and make up a tore of this sweetly fragrant lotion and massage it daily into face, neck, arms, and hands. It urally should help to soften, f1 bleach, and bring out the roses beauty of any skin. It is marw to smoothen rough, red hands.—Advt. James MeCreery & Co. 2 , & y your head- | the Oppy line. For twenty-four hours 34th Street J aches are not the result of eye- | that bombardment did not cease. It y, stre'n, he will tell you so. was the most awful that I have heard wy Li, on the other hand, it is |in the whole war. Fifteen thousand J his judgment that eyeglasses |°f ‘he biggest shells were thrown 4 | say nd pa a (a nto arma pecial Purchase-Sale Now in Progress —depending upon the kind of ee ean nee eon aoe oy lenses prescribed and the | ang dit he ear lloat. daylight 9 : s; mountings chosen. No Man's Land and up the = steep hill toward the German trenches. e e ‘ | Half way up they were met by a ain, ; ’ 'e le | fierce fire from hundreds of German . ee machine guns that had been hidden oy Peutists ANA GSPACANG | sirine tHe mien in the craters dug (0) (0), (O}9) 8) No Approvals No Returns ' 5 “3d St. near 4th Ave, | this side of the German trenches, The ‘i ‘i oe ne © St. near Lenox Ave. |enemy had lit up this ground with si, Wet. Sth d sth Aves, [fights of star shells, and the thick Aves | curtain of smoke between them an } yak SIRES Be | Oe Ne had. hidden the movement ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY 1405 St:Nichotas Av.,bot. 180th & 1818 yy tne machine gun fire, But on the 2629 Broadway, bet | third charge they beter all the peed * chine ‘un: thelr men = une * ° 100? Reoadway,neWil'by, Brookirn | plunged down into the Geaman Art | Annual May Sale Exceptional Offerings { 489 Fulton Bt., opp. A. &8. 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