The evening world. Newspaper, August 7, 1917, Page 1

GPE CONT te Cremer | eden County 8.4 GERMAN City’s FRENCH IN FURIOUS DRIVES COUNTRY ISTIRED | AWYERS REAPING HARVEST BREAK INTO CROWN PRINCE'S LINES AT snr — “Circulation Rooks Open to All.” | 14 PAGES TE al r | Ee vey MRS. DE SAULLES REPORTED Sigrid, Neudy te ght) Geen te me £oIrion | PRICE eusY _ Police and Firemen Liable to Draft Call DOCTORS ASK CLOSE GUARD FOOD BILL GAB, SAYS WILLIAMS Both Parties Should Suppres Little Groups Who Have _ Inflict Heavy Losses on the German Army on the Champagne Front. HAIG SHIFTS ATTACKS. Main Effort Now Is Toward Lens, With Canadian ‘Troops Gaining Ground. PARIS, Au 7.—French last night broke German Crown Prince on the Cham- troops into the lines of the Line TAREE POINTS TEUTONS ROUTED BY THE RUS ON CALICAN UNE SIANS Been Halting Progress | WASHINGTON, Aug. T—The de bate on the Food Control Bill was rv sumed to-day Williams declared tt well for the Senate to hear Senator was what the country thinks and denounced obstruc Uonists, “It is a time to forget party align ments,” he say that a majority of both the Demo: said, “and I am glad to hrown Back Between) cats and Republicans have done #0 Dniester and Pruth River, | but there is a small group on both Says Official Report. sides who have formed themselves into an antl-Administration and ant-Ameri- pag! ‘ont at three pla » it was ee net vaae (, KIBHINEV, R ~, 7.—|can party. ofictally announced to-day by the KIBHINEV, Russi 4 Ath a ete iaon te French War Department, Austro-German troops between the “tear y or wunconsctously, ee oowing (9 the text of Way's, Dries. and cio Pruth have Weeh, ped’ y-had put Shem. es into War Office report: thrown back on the front ten miles| the gttitude of opposing everything | ‘ that coed to carry on the war. “There has been fairly violent | from Chotin, according to news trom! “ste iy time for the majority of the artiltery fighting in Belgium, the battle area reaching here. Chotin| Democratic and Republican Parties to Particularly in the ne ps is at the junction of the Zarocn and) get together and say to these two or, 4 ort f the River ie preity. Wy Ag rahe iene. (haceauttcun Grae Dalester Rivers on the Galician-Rus- | little groups,” he declared, “you hav jdanced your ballet, have suny you tp ; sian frontier | onne front. The infantry was not a fro pour enn: Amrita is tired of You, engaged, PETROGRAD, Aug. 7.—In the dl-| we are tired of you-we want to do “In the Champagne region we rection of Kimrolung, In Bukowina, | something. cepa Seat e ee Austro-German forces, after a battle| “Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson are sible for us to inflict losses on th the Ttussians, occupied the setting examples, All three have | proven their Americanism, They are the enemy and to bring back — Nelghts at Molit, says the official an-| HOU Nee MMT iA ne House red, th ry is tired, prisoners. nouncement Issued to-day by the “On the Meuse, left bank of the River fter a spirited bombard- Russian War Department, In the is tired and two-thirds of the Senate [1s tired of this constant gabble-fest. Ment, German troops this morn- re,ion of the River Bystritsa| this constant gabbing about nothing. ing undertook an attack between two Russian regiments voluntarily lett} We're lagging through the dog days Avocourt Wood and Hill 304, Met their positions, causing the Rusoian | making se rskz pany ge rinrery ai by a violent fire from our forcgs, troops to re bel with talk on this bi 0 @elivered with precision, our a bgbnlcyhnaelt ea Raia Ge Al ee changing a vote, Why take up the 1 rompelled | y In ‘the direction of Fokshant, on the] ame of the American people with sallants were compelled to return poumanian front, the forces of the at at once to the trenches they had : | this? Merce: “auttering garneplivi Central Powers and their allies began| genator Gronna charged the bill was i CMiNE BERCEDUDIe an offe a and pressed bac ‘ 0 a losses, n offensive and pressed bapk the/ drawn for the benefit of John D. “In upper Alsace there have usee-Roumanian troops across the! tockefeller and tho Standard Oll i Bt ute atrois” | viver Tyrladesus, Company and against the American me SHROUD FN ROL ORA PRLIOIE: South of Grijmaloy the Russians| farmer. CANADIAN ARMY HEADQUATS drove back the Teuton advanced|.““The Dill would absolutely prevent TERS IN FRANCE (By Canadian josey “| the farmers from getting gasoline and ‘ g. 7—-The Cana kerosene unless they paid whatever Prem, Limited), Aug. t—The Car In the region west of the River|the Ol Trust liked to charge,” said jan outposts around Lens have es Zbrocz, on the Russian-Galician fron. |Gronna. tablished a new line in a group of - hallawad houses which is within a few yardy ¢f the enemy front line at that point The Lens-Bethune Road is now afely within our lines almost up to ty the City of Lens. f BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM, Aug. 7 (By Associated Press).—The British tines continue to tighten about the Fre City of Lens, north of Arras. Canu dian troops, who on Saturday nig pushed their positions forward proximately 200 yards along a of @ thousand yards into the fron we environs of the city, late yesteriay added a 600-yard front of a simular depth to their defenses south and west of the outskirts of that mining centre. The Germans have been showing A aigns of decided uneasiness in the Lens sector for several days as bh been evidenced their by practise Au jerman forces ) ve against the 1 Start, Thirte tier Austro-German troop: ment adds, are hastily gathering the harvest, ig. 5 (via London).—Aus- sterday began an usso-Roumanian in Moldavia, on the Roumanian Positions north ; according to the official nt Issued to-day by the German 0 prisoners were and 1,2 en gun of Foks! 8 and nume: ench mortars also were captured. JERSEY CITY'S FINANCES MANIPULATED, IS CHARGE: . Colfax, Washington, made Moore Alleges False Entries nd Confusion Before Legisla- tive Committee. , the state- Senator Chamberlain to-¢ the opposition was about exhausted and a vote would be possible ta-mor- row. He doesn’t expect more than 20 votes against the report ———— EVES OF 78 PER GENT. OF U. S, CHILDREN HELO DEFECTIVE Most of Blindness Nowg Existing Could Have Been Prevented, Osteopaths Are Told. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 7.—Omly 12 | per oent. of the school children In Amer- fea have normal vision, according to @ statement by Dr. C. Bo Abegglen of in an address before the American Osteopathic Asso- ciation here to-day, Boards of Educa: tion are guilty of criminal negligence when they do not insist pon a th Jough examination of the eyes of pupils, he asserted. hant rous “IN DRAFT BLANK SHORTAGE: CALL POLIGE AND FIREMEN a Baker's Order Making City’s Guardians Liable Rouses ts and Adamson, W which have reached Deputy General Conkling, su ore the selective draft, that per- nected with local boards in parts of the elty, taking ad- vante of a shortage of printed forms, have been referring regis. trants to lawyers, who have been charging anything they could get for making out und certifying to affiday- its, were partly confirmed to-day, It was discovered that Otto Hen- at No, 2 Revtor Street and another office at his home, No. Bronx, has been the lawyer and not- ary for District Board 13, in the pub- schel, a lawyer, with an oft Ne school at Jennings Street and Prospect Avenue, Minor O, Russ, a clerk of the board, has handed registrants claiming ex- | emption a typewritten slip bearing the name and Ritter Avenue address of Mr. Henschel. The lawyer ad- mitted to-day that he has been charging from $15 down for making out and certifying to exemption claims, PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE TRANS- ACTIONS, INSISTS THE LAWYER. “There is a lot of work connected with it,” he explained. “I had ta make the prices pretty stiff or I would have been swamped, The trouble ts that the local board has not enough blanks, - “It was a perfectly legitimate transaction In every case, The feo of a notary, or a lawyer, \s optional. He can charge what he pjeases, rather, what he thinks the service is worth,” Russ, the clerk, who admits he has been sefding registrants claiming exemption to Henschel, gives the or, x- cuse that the Board has not b supplied with blanks. Henschel, be said, has aided the Board materially with advice and volunteered to mak» out forms after the printed models and take care of all registrants. H says he had no {dea Henschel was taking $15 from men desirous of swearing that they “are exempt Russ is not a member of the Board H. L. Lippe, Jr, is chairman and Philip Storminger, of No. 1338, Pros pect Avenue, is his associate, M Lippe said to-day:, “Neither Mr, Storminger nor my | self knew anything about the activi | ties of Henschel, While it is true have an insufficient supply of blanks, there is no excuse for a charge of $15, or any such for making these forms. | FOUND LINE BEING FORMED AT | HENSCHEL'S HOME we sum, ou throwing a curtain of fire on the TRENTON, N. J, Aug. 7.—Charges of | It was his declaration that most of the| “My attention was called to this by British trenches each morning at. fraudulent manipulation of finances of | tlndness now existing he country |C, A, Kelly of No. 1917 Franklin Ave- dawn. Je City were made here to-day | pledged the Kasoolali wore B28; nue, a drafted registrant who pa Vimy and Farbus, towns pehind for the Joint Committce of the Legivia- |More research and public health wel-|the physical tests and claimed ex Mea Mrtich line ecuth Gf Lens, alec n Judiciary, Albert 8, Moore, a|f#re slong ‘these lines emption on the ground that he has a en th ene > | certified accountant of New f — ependen ly 4 says we had have been shelled daily by enemy untant of New York, for | dependent family. Russ says we bh meht, alleges that there have| AR Ga iba around: and admlta The rest of the British front has heen fetitious tax rates, misleading pus, Jemption on thp ground and adm calm so-far as infantry actions have unt# books, ‘ilogal expendit |and address and evening office hours been concerned, oki “ veenees eacpieaeaa “Kelly tuld me he found a crowd “a cal 1 and @ general confusion of ac WASHINTON, Aug The ship-| mae i ry Pe aT nee ant BO Stadent Aviate ater Per ping Board ts completing plans tor] ' ay ae University of HM understood Moore represents him- | taking over all larg ant ves-| forming them in line and ta a CHAMPAL Mh, Aug ais er Jersey City, gels (lying the American ay they came. ‘The man in fron Braduation of thirty-n : ma Ided to hear Moore's! 1t waa officially learned to-day the| Kelly handed Henschel, $10—accord to om the University : ual of 6 siecif- Government will soon requisition| to Kelly—whereupon pe Ground Bc nool next Saturday nearl 0 Hianie G tabs " to WIItINR | space on these vease od and! out of the li and hunted me up 1 men will have completed the prelimina Lap all HE be served O4 the troop shipments to Europ ving | ed an Investigat which ha Instruction in aeronautics here, 'Tyo0d Clty ¢ sivn. »peration of the ships In ei atarted an investigation whi group ia tie vet to hee ee hana r put a stop to the irregularity and Students are arri he rw THE BABIES STRON cargoes and movements Will ®e tapes a . ecicine Builds Surength,—advt, wader Government control (Continued on Elghth Page.) ONLY “FLIER,” BUTTS U BOAT SKS 19 SHPS “Asthmatic,” German Com- mander Says, But Destroys 66,000 Tons in 3 Weeks, 4 German submarine captain who! hoketed in the refined English of Broadway that his U-boat was “an 810 Ritter Place, the | asthmatic fitvver* and that neverthe- FOUND SHOT DEAD AS WOMAN PHONES INQUIRY FOR HIM Jordan Wheat Lambert, Wealthy and Patron of Sports, Ends Life. (Mpecial LOUIS, The Fra ng World ) Mo, Aug. tA 0 fr aT terious telephone unidentified finding of mys te mensal man resulted Wheat of the 1 Pharmacal Company, a sulcide 290 Waterman Ave to-day, man in Jordan Lambert, millionaire president ubert in his apartr No nue, here, early oy phone in the Lambert apart ment rang early this morning and a! maid answered. | “WIL you see how Mr, Lambert is? catd a woman in an excited voice at the other end of the wire, “He telephoned me that he was Il.” Tho maid left the telephone and went to Lambert's room where she found him at. tho point of death, Blood was stweaming from @ buliet | wound and a revolver was lying by less It had sunk 19 vessels, aggregat: | ing 66,000 tons of British shipping in three weeks was described to-day by Harold Hansen of Detroit, who had just arrived at an Atlantic port on a) British ship. | “I was a member of the crew of the Artensus, which was torpedoed on July 19," sald Hansen, “We wero in ballast, bound from Glasgow to Hampton Roads, Two days out, about 10 o'clock in the morning, 4 torpedo missed us by thirty feet, Then the sub came to the surface and the captain megaphoned us to get into the boats, “When the ship was deserted the sub crew went aboard and asgripped her of her provisions and instruments. The German commander was a ood fellow, however, for he called all the boats alongside and took care to see that every boat had plenty of pro- visions. He even gave us our course “‘You're 62 miles off Black Rock,’ he said, ‘If you row like hell you ought to make it in 24 hours, And when you do get ashore I wish you'd tell the Efglish that this boat of mio is an asthmatic old flivver with one wun and that I've been out three weeks and sunk 66,000 tons of th ships. 80 long!’ “Then he torpedoed the Artensus) and slipped away. We took his ad- vice to ‘row like hell,’ and in the evening @ trawler picked us up.” CONFERENCE OF ALLIES IS GOING ON IN LONDON nier Lloyd George Presides Meeting Attended by Many Notables, LONDON, Aug. 7.—A conference of representatives of the continuation of was opened this morning in Lon- Entente All * the Par onfer nee Among those at the conference were Mr Ribot and Miniater of War ainleve of France, Baron Sonnino, allan Foreign Minister; A. J. Ba Britiah Foreign and ir Henderson and the other mem of the British War Cabinet All the Entente d by either ambassadors vr special representatives GERMAN SUBMARINE FIRES IN SPANISH WATERS DON, Aug that ‘@ Germar David Lloyd George presided. mier Secretary Allies were repre subma tacked a Spanish fishing Khborhood of Bi 20, Spala, w waters. were severely his side, According to her story, the maid immediately returned to the telephone. ATTRIBUTE HIS SUICIDE TO BREAKDOWN. “Come quick! Something has hap- pened!" ehe says she told the woman who had callod her, but there was no answer, The wite was dead Lambert died before a physictan arrived, Relatives attribute hi cide to a fervous breakdown, W Lambert, a brother of the dead ian, said a possible explanation of the ac tion of the unidentified wt phoned was to learn if Jordan W. Lambert was’ all right. He believes his brother may have prev in dicated to his friends that con templated sutcide, Police are searching for some trace or clue to tho identity of the mys- terlous woman whose message over sul- oster woman sly he the telephone resulted in the dis- covery of the body Mr, Lambert wan a brother of Albert Bond Bambert, 1 aviator and aeronaut, and was himself widely known as a sportsman, He was divorced from hia first wife, His second Wife, to whom he was married in August, 1915, Is In Now York witt? a baby six months old. The Lamberts are understood to have separated last October. ‘Tho millionatre who killed himself to-day had made extensive researches in clatrvoyancy and other occult phenomena, The first Mrs, Lambert was also known to be inter ested in such manifestations and sev ago gained in connection with eral considerab years prominence her experiments | the FEAR “‘ AFT AND DAVISON ARE MAJOR GENERALS Appointed Under a War Depart- ment Order to Expedite the Work of the Red Cross. WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—Officlals of the Red Cross and probably thowe of the Young Men's Christian Asso- clation serving with the American army In Europe will wear the Amert- can uniform, Henry P, Davison, Chairman of the Red Cross War Council, and William H. Taft, Chairman of the Central Committee, will be recognised as major generals, should they cross the Atlantic, Lesser rank will be con- ferred upon lesser officials, Members of Mr, Davison's committee and Mr. Taft's committee will be given rank of brigadier general Operations of the Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A. are being hampered because its officials in Europe do not the recognition accorded to wearers of uniforms, Their com- missions will be signed by the Sec- retary of War, but will confer no military authority, obligations rights. They are intended more certificates of tdentification and of an indication of confidence of the Government, THIS YEAR'S COTTON CROP VALUED AT $1,412,860,035 Prices the Highest in Forfy-Seven Years, Says Report of New Orleans Exchange. receive or BW ORLIANS, Aug. 7.—The cotton crop, Including the seed the trade year ending July 31, valued at $1,412,860,035, a# agalnat $968,200,000 a year ago. The annual report of Becto- tary Hester of the New Orleans Cotton ixchange, made public to-day, said prices pald this y were the highest HER ASTRAL BODY TRAVELED # particular set of en had to do with the projection of he axtral body to geeat distances while | her physical body remained in St Louls, She sald at that time he astral body journeyed to Wales frou er own home three ¢ to bind up the injured arm of a rt a slate mine there, She \ him money for the tf of his| needs, This was tn United Sta wreney and the b¢ ged for Englsh coin at 4 p office ondon. ‘This exchange aid to have been verified late This and several other manit ond attracted deep interest fron students of the oceult, pa t the reason that Mr. La ‘ known, for his ow ations similar lines Lambert was ever ag a sportsmar hased the groun: Union Jockey ¢ Seven years ago he «i New (Continued on Hecond Hage.) FAR, SHE SAID lie in forty-seven years. The average price for middling was 1841 cents per pound, compared to #9 last year short crop, following in the wake of @ short crop and increased de mand, accentuated by the domestic de nd for war purposes, naturally re- ted In the high prices,” salg the re pare etary Hester reported the crop . 140.994 bales, averaging from mid sting t middling, the actual rwih of 1916 was placed at 12 966,000 bales. NEW YORKER WOUNDED BY GERMAN SHELL FIRE Injured While on Duty nerican Ambulance— Ivania Man Killed With Ar John VY. Newlin of ‘ 1, 1, was killed and Julian Mien w York t ts \llen, was Ww a shell wi duly Ambulance ' “ emp Bectlon 29 Allen's is are nol dangerous, — ~ (Por Racing Results Gee Page &) FORMS, DE SAULLESIN CELL MENACES HER LIFE — Slayer of Divorced Husband Talks Only of Her Boy, Despairing of Winning Contest for His Custody —May Be Taken to Hospital Today. Mra, Bianca De Saulles, in the re- action from the bigh nervous tension in which she was when she shot and killed her divorced husband, John Longer De Saull at his country home at Westbury Friday evening, has collapsed nervously to such an extent that her life is endangered. Three phywicians, of whom, one was Dr. Guy F. Cleghorn of Mineola, at- tending physician at the County Jal! and for years principal medical ad- viser to the District Attorney's of- fice of Nassau County, announce | this conclusion to-day as the result of thelr consultation at Mrs. De Saulles's bedside late last night. The finding undoubtedly will be for a demand that De Saulles be removed froin the Jail and put fn an institution, prob- ably the Nassau Hospital, founded by the Belmonts, at Mineola, Henry A. Uterhart, counsel for Mrs. De Saull was expected to make an application for the change to the Supreme Court sitting in Brooklyn to-day, IN STATE OF ADVANCED MEL« ANCHOLIA, Dr. Cleghorn, in explanation of the statement of the opinion of the phy- siclans, @ald: “The young woman {s In a state of advanced melancholia, Her complete Indifference to her plight and to our efforts to find out her physical condj~ tion was in itself alarming. I bave been asked if in such a state she might not aeek to take ber own life. My answer ts that I shall not approve of hageing taken to any place where she not constantly watched and guarded. I have already cautioned the Sheriff that she should never be left alone, no matter where she te. “Drs, J, Sherman White of the Long Island College’ Hospital, Ed- ward Johnson of Johns Hopkins, and myself agreed that Mrs. De Saullea's condition ts grave. She weighs less than 100 pounds. She ts very anaemlo. Shoe suffers from lack of nourishment and seems to be in a state of com- |plote nervous exhaustion. These con- |ditions date back a long time before ast Friday. She was entirely Indift- ferent to our efforts to aid her, Bbe volunteered nothing and we were 4 to ask questions as though examining a hostile witness, She-was roused out of this apathy only whpn lthe questions suggested thoughts of her little boy.” |DESPAIR8 OF WINNING CU8- | TODY OF BOY. Mra, De Saulles knows of the de- termined stand taken by Major De Saulles, father of the slain man, re garding little Jack, and that ber father-in-law, whether right or wrong regards himself as the natural She has legaliy guardian of his son's ebild. come to despair of winning any aort Jor a with membera of her dead husband's family because of though found guilty of in a divorce sult, in get- ting partial @ustody of their son, Mr, Uterhart found bjs preparation of hia f Mrs, De Saulles in the trial, [which Is to be set for next month, al contest his success, immorality Jefense PL ied ingness te have him talk er work re+ free = Sa