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- 2000 YOUNG OFFICERS FOR PERSHING Weether—Unecttiog T Morrow, > lation Booka Open to All.” 16 PAGES “Ctre 1917 t PRICE); e« te sarees dmwm County, ® ALLIES CAPTURE BELGIAN CITY; TAKE 1200 GERMAN PRISONERS FIRST REVIEW OF U.S. TROOPS TAMMANY FIXES PRIDE. OF TRAINING CAMPS 89 LAWYERS AD vp prqppe INNQUNCES pros. CPTIRE OF LANGEMARCK Soe sec PLATSBURG TD SEND 250-<.--—=-.-- BY THE BMH AND FRENCH for Present Posts—James 16, YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST One Attorney Assigned to E District in City to Advise = 3, i : Gene f? he Local Board: E. Donegan for Register. , : the Local Boards. aie e (Gen. Sibert Declares Himself | War Department Has Assigned (oRWeRAL WHO REVIEWED ‘ 5 ' RY 3} While the ra of N ork's i H : Proud of the Showing Having explored the Great un-| 2,000 Young Officers for || THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS) wn raising of New York's! Flaig Suddenly Switches His Attacks . eae BEHIND FRENCH FRONT | quota of the National Army ts pro- | M By the A: known and extracted therefrom Judge S t F ] ade By the Americans. ervice at Front. ie ceeding satisfactorily enough, con to Fland F t—Alli PLANT ) FOR 69TH John F. Hylan of Brooklyn as the albnecoee , y wh, con. | anders Fron ied TOOps t doo ooo Idering the tremendous difficulties I MPORT j candidate for Mayor, Tammany Hall A aye ” : (OR HISTORIC | ; L Oe Tiiy ate dune, Gain) CERSHING'S REQUEST associated with the task, ateps toex-| Fight Way Across the Steenbeke ; —_——- — Pedite the work were inaugurated to- 2 s emerged at 1 o'clock this afternoon “ 7 van — i First Appéarance of New Ma- ; Three First and Seven Second ayy ‘From'this tiie on maey Thor River—Canadians Hold Hill 70. proudly displaying David H. Knott as Zs : “ @ [cuts td the accomplishment of the chine Guns on Carts an the candidate for Sheriff. Lieutenants From Each : duties of the local bourds will be LONDON, % : ) Aug. 16—Capture at noon to-day of the i Amusing Incident, None of the district leaders around Company Are Listed. TEagT 00: tawyers, ail. vetsgieete f 1. k Fa 4 d th dashes iyceie ' Tammany Hall would admit intimat r * era! of Langemarck in, Flanders was announced this afternoon i May Not Leave for Mineola y t ° Seceruleg’ at. the headauhriors. af Ss afternoon in the House of, AMERICAN FIELD HEADQUAR-| |) Gatindan Don. [totusintence with Mr. Knott. Ex-| WASHINGTON, Aug, 16.—The, Wak |Thirty-neventh Street and Seventh! Commons by Premier Lloyd George. He said that Field Marshal Haig @ORS, Aug. 16—The review yoster- Me jor ‘amination uf we ity. irestory shows! Department has aasignad to duty th ‘Avenue. After listening to an address faq telegraphed that 1,200 ppisoners had been taken and ttat, fI¥e-mrut day by Major Gen, Wiltam L. Bibert ovan Succeeds Sidman, —_|that he ts one of the proprietors of| France about two thousand graduates by Deputy Attérpey General Conklin 4 , . guns ©f all the troops of his command in the Berkley Hotel at No. 20 Fifth| of the Officers’ Training Camps who who is an expert on the selective draft had been captured, } Avenue. sone! law, the lawyers scattered throughout 4 ried a| The departure of the One Hundred | have just concluded their three « In addition, the Premi training for the trenches afforded land Sixty-ffth Infantry for Mineola! District Attorney Swann was desig-|months of instruction in various| the city, oné being detalled to each : reise. 060, Gam military spectacle of international ity infantry for Mineola’ nated for renomination, as was County | parts of the country. On on av oo! of the 189 local boards. | HOOVER STOPS TRADING | British troops gained ground at many significance and historic import. It| {18 to be a triumphal march from the /Cierk William Schneider. As evidence|seven second lieutenants and ‘bre al $y The lawyers will act In a dual eapa-! points, Severe fighting is continuing, was the first time that the troops of | Sixty-ninth Armory to the Pennayl-|that Mr. Schneider mado his influence | first Heutenants have been detailed | ¢ ® ‘elty. ‘They will advise board members IN SUGAR FUTURES HERE | ith tne resutt undetermined, this particular unit of the American | vanla Depot. To-morrow was sup-|felt as Chairman of the Democratic/ from each company in all the train-| ® § on questions of law and procedure and The French, Livyd Georgo added, Fusion Committee of 170, comes the/ing camps to this branch of the serv- is ® wil rlso act as the agents of the Gov- ae aa ii assemblod | Posed to be the day of leavetaking, bd ips to ench 4 ad 3 gibt y Yo co rar Ex-|had been co-operatin, | 2 army in France had been ig Milica ondesatt ved [BOWS that his present counsel, James|ice. The Plattsburg camp will fur- ° ernment in appealing to the District! New York Coffee and Sugar Ex-|had been perating most effectivery in its entirety and the display they ra to move were recelved| 4 Donegan, was designated by Tam-|nish about two hundred and fifty | 7 xx Board all exemptions allowed to men! change Puts Ban on Deals at |°" the British left. The Canadian in- ’ made was deeply impressive. up to noon and Lieut.-Col. Latham R.|many as nominee for the office of| men. | me be claiming to be the support of depend-| Request of Food Administrator, |fntry, he sald, had won conspicuous — There have been other reviews of/ Reed, commanding the regiment, | Register. Generally the men selected are ents. gee yy -. o_ lauceuen } American troops in foreign lands—!n| gtated that in his opinion the regi-| City Court Justice John V. McAvoy| young, unmarried and without de | Maj GILLIAN t. SIBERT %| All. thane examptions ate automat: | ‘PA+ Mew York Catton and Gusee Mier at eats a the Philippines, Cuba, far away! nent would not leave before Satur-|#*t# the nomination for Justice of the) pendents. The news that they had e * {cally appealed by tho Government, | Change has been requested by Herbert ; y of nearly 84 Guam and Panama—but there seemed 4 Supreme Court ‘ominees for the|been picked out for foreign duty sur mn © but there are forms to be followed |» Hoover, the food administrator, to|!nhabitants, is a little more than five to be an entirely new meaning to the | 44, maybe later. City Court are Lewis Valente, a law-| prised and elated them. sug- | and tho lawyers will see that every |cease trading in sugar futures, it was| Miles northeast of Ypres on the read eturdy tramp of the men of raguatena ‘Tho possible delay ts due to condi-| yer of No, 130 Fulton Street; Edward] gestion had been m that the gra SPARE THIS GREAT COOK | app al reaches the district board inj announced at the exchange to-day leading to Poelcappelle, and just in France to-day. One saw in them | tions at Mineola, not to unreadiness of |F. O'Dwyer, Peter Schmuck, John L.| yates of the officers’ school—except | pr legal form. This will greatly| Acting on the suggestion the EX-|jopo4, the Steenbeke River which | the symbol of their country’# new (tio regiment. Yesterday Lieut. Col.|Walsh and Alexander Finelite (re-| those assigned to the Regwiar Army OR THE COUNTRY IS LOST expedite the work of the district | change suspended trading in sugar) ‘ Li adventure, | Reed reported to Major Gen, J.|nominations) and Abraham G.|—were to see foreign service until board futures until further notl et was crossed to-day by the Brittem “They made me feel very proud,"| Franklin Bell that the regiment could | Meyers, at present an Assistant D! they went abroad with the National! Digesti fK a jimes In cases of appeals by registrants | aS Cae actin ” A Bary Bh and French troops. It ts a little over declared Major Gen. Sibert, echoing} be moved to camp on six hours'|trict Attorney Army. gestion of Kruttschnitt, Railay | trom the decisions of the local boards | (ange, except that involved in closing |fUr miles east of Bixsehoote, the sentiment of a small but enthusi-| notice, To-day he went to Governor’s| James F. Donnelly, @ Bronx at-| The graduates of these schools al-| Adviser, Depends on Danzer, | the lawyers will act in an advisory! \\) business. ‘The volume of trade in|FRENCH AIDED BRITISH mt atic little handful of Americans who| Island and revised the report by say-|torney, was designated by the execu-| ready, in France have shown such in- Says Exemption Plea capacity and seo that all these ap-| futures on the Exchange has been un- | TAKING CITY. were permitted to see the martial] ing he could lead the command out| tive committee of the Bronx Demo-| dustry and adaptability that the War , ed peuls are properly filled out and certl- | usually heavy lately, almost every day! ye), propaple that both Fi h isplay. The setting for the review) of the armory within one hour after |cratic organization for Sheriff of the|Department has determin Pride digestion of Julius Kruttschnitt.| fied, Here ts another line through | seeing a new high record Stehitevey aber ere wench and, was one of rare beauty. It was held] getting his orders. Bronx at a meeting held to-day. This} this budding talent as an sty Bay ell the: sy Committee | which the work of the district board _- thee psesivie gg par feta v 4 upon a broad and somewhat rocky} “I have not been approached by|completes the Hronx Democratic] on foreign soil. Important. member of the volunteer |22 be accelerated, Hereafter, the WILL URGE THE PRESIDENT oe a SORE Oe plateau in the rolling fields of F ai anybody with regard to a demonstra- | ticket The lucky youths ticketed for | hoard of railroad men handling the army |4!strict board will not pay any at Tho Premier was advised of the rippling away in every direction, all) tion on the occasion of the departure| Donnelly will be pitted against| France will tgain there, under the !n-|and industrial transportation war prob-| tention to appeals which are not 10 TAKE OVER COAL MINES cAGliig of Lateaeave ue nc green and brown with glowing crops} of the troops," the Colonel said, “but | Fugene McGutre, Fusion choice. Mc-| struction of French officers, They |lems of the Government, figures promi-| made out in the proper form or a fet Oocscettnn ella tea shi Ree HIE CHANGING so far as I am concerned, {f we re-| Gere is an independent Democrat who] will go to the front, observe the|ently in a claim for exemption from} not accompanied by the proper sup- battle in Piaaaers waa exit rene SCENE ONE OF celve orders to entrain, I will march| split with Arthur H. Murphy, the|progress of modern warfare, and] Military service fled to-day with the) porting affidavits. * E s rattle de 8 : + * Heese ro Seraap of Kansas to Start for] he 4 oke “lande! BRILLIANCE AND SHADOW. | tho boys trom the Armory to Fitth|Democratic County Chatrman for|when the National Army arrives at| Vitel Bourd by Charles K. Panzer of) jioarg 99, at Rivington and Lewis Gey, Capper of ‘Ran: v ape fires Broke 30, melee Here and there picturesque Avenue and up to some good cross| years ago. The selection of Donnelly|the front it will find 2,000 up-to-date | pengee ig are Keri vachtta wetvate| Streets, which takes the place of the} Washington To-Night to Nese ee rich fol uid ae pee tr 4 French villages, white wal street to Elghth Avenue and down to| was delayed by opposition from mem-| young officers, trained to the minute, | chef, board dismiased last week for irreg Personal Appeal or ae lowed held up furthep red roofed, snuggled amid the trees! the depot.” bers of the executive committee who| waiting to take active commands. Danger sets up that he has been cook-|Ularities, continued the task of FINK) 1 a jug, 16.—Gov, Arthur Cap: | th 2 ee ae ete bier, | of matchless valleys. Occasionally) ‘Phe colénel added that the news-| submitted the names of other can-| Gen, Pershing some time ago m Mr. Kruttsehnitt's meals for years,|}over all the work of the old board | 7 sl Menke waleaus n a a ROW 1B proariyt. these valleys were bathed ! sun-| papers would receive information of|didates at the mecting of Wednesday |a special request of the War Depart-| 4 that In view of Mr. Kruttschnitt’s|to-day. The re-examinations thus far|Per of Kansas w vi can *~— in full force. shine and again they were hidden in| the departure of the regiment in time| night Bent for b lara number of your ‘alue to the nation as a railroad con-|have been confined to men who were |night to make a personal appeal te With the attacks that are being the gray mist of rain, The scen€)to notify the public, so that every-| The Bronx County ticket as it now | ticers. sulting expert It is vital that his health] passed by the old board us physically | President Wilson and the Federal Trade|made on Lens, apparently on the was ono of changing brilliance and|pody who wanted to eee the Sixty-|stands is; Borough President, Con-| Nothing can be eald about the a ine tained at a high standard. !Ae, Out af eighty-five examined thus | commission to take over the coal mines vere of eae! ie present prep= shadow, the deep blue of the harvest/ ninth, previous to its sailing for gressman Henry Bruckner; District] method by which this continge t|! ny i anser armue js dependent| ear eight have been found to be ne lok tha asunioe ahhe and establish | @"ations on the western front ave the sky and dazzling August sun being | Fr would have the opportunity. Francis Martin; County] oficera shall be assembled or when| Mee ierutchaie crave: extensivery|#estly wnt physically for duty in| fair and impartial prices." resent since the Rete «Uae masked now and then by masses of] DEPARTING TROOPS WILL GET :, ‘allahan; . y : ip iis > Apspeiaadinambcag PCM Trt He made this statement to ‘the Inter- | Somme. se | lerk, Joseph M. Callahan; Register,|tiey will start for the firing i hoMaieais ban AeA GAdser nesam cumulous storm clouds driven along BIG SEND-OFF, mavad’ Bolak:) Sherif; amume Wel When atesthar env. ot theusende oblicanlas tie, rand Panzer accom-|" Angelo Bont, twenty-seven years |state Coal Conference here this after | HAIG SUDDENLY SWITCHED HI@ by a stiffening gale There 1s no doubt of the nature of| ponnelly their fellow officers, who are just now | Jer considerat The board old, a fruit vender East | noon cate ATTACKS T° FLANDERS: . At one time during tho review &|the send-off the poeple of New York| ‘Pye Executive Committee also de-| preparing for the tedious task |reveat if Mr uttschnitt has filed «| One Hundred and Nin Ame | ree Pei bala Tage a8 ms pl eaeettde ct dial M4 spd hal Hee rain storm broke over the marching : cided on the designees for Justice of | training the raw material which wili | ¥Pporting aMdavit as a ray of sunshine to the Ars Piece suichy fi the books of| one Ye Ye troops, but it was only of brief dura-| (Continued on Second Page.) the Municipal Court. In the Firat|soon be-sent to the cantonments > headquarters to-day and brig THANG & Barer, here Of the Woon) © |nnpneament victory, had showm tion and there was not a falter in any est ase District Alderr Harry Robttzek | the National Army ‘$50, 000, 00 U, RAIN up the corner, In these days w ffort to ascertain @ just price for an heh H bait BEAGiAD soon ne part of the line. ere is an oficers' | ¢ Yi and Justice Peter 9. Shell will oppose — 0 S. 6 so many are trying to escape m holding 70 and other posite bombing school near the f wwere | MEATS HIT SKY LINE Julias Tobias and Justic. John Boyle AIRPLAN § B M | CORP i Itary duty Angelo, who was born Ix statement was made by an offi-|«round Lens, which they captured the review was held and t ighout | = lank E i] BARD | OR: 10N CHARTERED this city of Italian parents, is a rare al of the Ilinola Coal Operators’ Asso-| yesterday against three more furlews G UP; jr., the Fusion choice the time the troops were assembling | ’ gs : . a Misiziot Qustice | specimen. ation. jerman counter attacks, British and and marching by loud explgsion NEAR HUNGER PRICES ]} sichaci J. scanion, a Democrat, will A ENICE| , Food Administration Licensed in| He 1s registered in Hoard 160, at/i4y anti-Deatters Charged With h sroepe ware siihne ee hand grenades in the near dlatance oppose Assistant Corporation Counsel enrerenens | Delaware to Cons Supply No, 316 East One Hundred and Inciting Rebellion, hlows at other sectors of the Frameny gave a touch of war reality 10 '°|} GHICAGO, Aug. 16—Get ready | Thomas G. Price, Fusion nominee, | Four Tons of Explosives Dropped, | pane pane IPPIY | Street, In the lottery draft his MALEATER, Okla, Aug. 16—-One [Belgium front \ picture, for a vegetarian diet. Hogs sold The Executive Committee of the : . ' and Control Distribution | ber came out away down t undred and forty-seven alleged anti tching his main attacks to thirty Very early in th 7 at $18.15 @ hundred pounds here | Ropublican Fusion Committee met Causing a Number of DOVER, Del. Aug Fooa| Pay by day he has been visiting the |/raft agitators from Hughes, Semi- | mites north of Le on, Haig swong were on the moy to-day and at 18.45 in East St. fi to-day with the Judicial Nominating Conflagrations, \miniatration Grain C a; ne| board and watching the pr De Oe Eee cor erase har tarsi 4 einet the Gime tered in a dozen o: r Louis there was a scramble to get || Committee of the organization in an| VIENNA (via London), Aug sshington was incorporated here to- | selecting soldiers cack Chaveas ik ane plasaia fill | = a & front ofa villages and cach regin was ae | them. The price has gone up| attempt to designate a County Court] Four t is j lay with a capital stock of $ 00 They've got nearly enour MATS 9 3 vo |: French struck simultanes smbed tn a yulag ; $2.66 in two weeks, To-day's mark Hi ude und two Supreme Court Jus-|sirsianes Tuestay morning ee tell ear ee rye eer nme tiered Beda upina ace La Ae 4 y for the’ Eastern Oklahoma MSA 1Ab0Gt TOPOT Seam quarters had been estab) was 40 to 65 conts above Tue tices for Kings County. The names| i 5 “ pels trol of th U-leral Conkling. “There isn't A trict, with “inciting reb and both ons were push» The new army regiments are |f gaye Fe villlam J. Kalig, {time Arenal at Venice causing @ 1 mn of food products | that I will be selected. I want to get] similar offe neluding conspiracy |ing forward entless fury. fated on’ ths Hu standard, || "Esttle are 25 conte to 95 conte fi mentioned wore William J. Kelly, ber of conflasrations ting t The corporation pald the State @ 8x | into the army and I asked evade the selective draft. ‘They |From Berlin came the announcement quite different from the .cld American |T higher, selling to-day at $14.90 and Frere ey eee tepublienn, | creucial stat Austrian Warlvany incorporators, are: Herbert| #KIP @ Dundred number be held to await action of a Fed-|that the Allies had begun an offend reg nd when on the march |} gig, tloe: Louie te Fawoett, & Hepublioan, |Oftice c ABRGrRRTASGrA AFA met il anal Bue thee won't’ Now, {eral Grand Jury wa of eleven mien oe : line J or Co} Judge o aander Saber nee peat ver, Midgar Rickard end Curtle Hi, | % i is P yesterday in column of fours the line Rarihatwararasrantatal tor County , Q ; ndley how am I going to get to tho f The tish wn their blow & seemed to stretch an interminable dis- |] increase of $2.50 Fee ay an a Republica r she other @upreme sohast Two Days of Big Sale, _ with a gun?” Bried fm River. | northeast of Ypres. From opposite tance along beautifully paved French || weer, Court Justices woe HOB" Clotting Comen iter, | Deate land Was Cavtured Is He-| ‘There being no way opi Ar Tee vane af. eoeseercnde FAM | polvecs about four and a half ds ed with giant tr As the i Independent qcratic members rner Barclay St. (Opp. Woolworth Hef tn Washingt t Nalin s jedman, 1 V notysaixta | of Ypres, to the roads lin ) e bech. 38 Bi There Ie an acute scarcity of |! + tne committee objected to the se. \Buliding), will sell to-day Friguy the | WASHINGTON, Aug That the| to the National Arm red rp red de talaga Ypres, to the june. Americans passed through the French |] jive stock, say the buyers, and the |” ie co! ‘ae ad Rlanc Ate $10 & $12 Men's & Youns Maan TFERIeh anriannecatine oauie vised to enlist in the Regular A Hundred a tion with the French | six miles diss villages en route to the reviewing Meld |] priges of meat must go much high- |, e°t!on# and the c Ly ee adjourned Men's Bute, iain or Pinch- Backs, blue nA raat Mean casa het son, |Forthwith he went to 7 y ot a few dass ano,| tant, the forces of Field Marshal Haig the French peasant folk gared at them | er unless the Government inter- || "°U"! making a choice. mixed’ cleo wanuine Wale Aesth Bult ed into @ war submarine umored| Street and Seventh Avenue and en m the r o-day | advanced after perfect preparation, ; (For Racing Ri Page 2) | Broadway, corner Barleay t.—Advp. no official word, however Kort Slocum and bie coveted gun. strike withtbat of the British, crossed ti vane