The evening world. Newspaper, August 18, 1917, Page 1

oe PRIC ndene County, &. a (OPE OPNT te Grester Mew York and FRO CENTS einem here |“ Circulation Books Open Copretaht, 191T, ty The Frese The Kew Vert World), to All.” BERLIN ADMITS PRESIDENT TO TAKE ACTION AT ONGE ON CUAL SITUATION; WILL ORDER PRICES CUT GERMANS LOSETI4. tliat Can Take Over Output and Resell It Under Power Con- ferred by Food Bill. DEALERS BROKE PLEDGE. | Three-Dollar-a-Ton Plan Ig-| nored—Control of Mines Not to Be Taken Over. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—President Wilson to-day moved to take prompt and direct action in the coal! situation. ‘(°The President's intention, it was hemmed authoritatively, tt-to red the present prices, not only at the mines, but of jobbers and retailers. The Trade Commission's report indl- cates that operators can sell thelr bituminous at a price far below the maximum of $3 fixed at a recent con- ference between managers and Government off handsome profit mine 8 and still make @ Evidence hes been given to the President that operators have failed to abide by the $2 a ton reement and that they have been selling their products for any amount they could get. Shortages in somo parts of the country have made it possible, it is said, for them to obtain extortionate prices The Trade Commission gave to the President, specific recommer ons as to its ideas for handling the situ ation, It was suggested that the President immediately put into op- Food Con- Government and resq! to 4 eration provisions of the trol Bill which give the authority to take over the public all 1 intr ABOUT TO SAIL, SEIZED AS DRAFT EVADERS Federal Authorities Hint at Wide- spread Movement to Dodge Army Service. e Federal authorities, According to & Widespread movement to evade m tary service was uncovered to-day when Herman Julius Feinberg and Carl John Johnson were removed by agents of Department of Justice of United States from a Scandinavian-American ner. Both werg registered on June 6 in Brockton, Muss., as citizens of the United Gtates. When arrested, however, teplayed passports signed suppc by the Swedish Consul here, stating they} were Swedish subje They were promptly charged with] eonspiring to evade the draft law and, | when arraigned before U. 5, Commis sion Hitchcock, declined to offer any explanations. Special Agent Marcus Borchardt of the Department of Jus tice, who made the arrests’ told the commissioner that the men represented a large class of such “evaders of ser- vice,” and that an investigation would bring to light an amazing traffic tn forged passports to enable slackers to et abroad, Both men were beld in $5,000 ball each al Six Canadians Killed at a Mimte aitle. LONDON, Aus. 14.—Six Canadians were killed and twenty-three injured In the accidental explosion of a mine dur ing a mimic w the manoeuvre camp at Hampshire Thursday, accord Mail. ane Wer Racing Results See "Page a) ing to the Daily 4 BiG POWDER PLANT BLOWUPIN CANADA; MANY LIVES UST: plosions edit es the| Series of sands Employed in Works. RIGAUD, Quebec, at plant Aug. 18.-—The rere of Curtis & Harvey, Limited, explosives manufacturers, | Was totally wrecked to-day by @ se- ries of terrific explosions, and buried {beneath the ruins of a dozen or so AEROS IN A WEEK; BRITISH LOSS IS 40 Kaiser’s Airmen ia Gales | Get Range of Enemy's | Guns or Die. | structures that comprised the factory | are an unknown number of dead. | Several thousand male and female workers employed at the plant were in the danger zone for hours. An placed the number of killed at about 250, but indications were this after- {noon tha: ITH. THE BRITIGN ARMIES IN) 1, casuaiticn. THD FIELD, Aug. 18.—A total of 114° 4 relief train arrived from Mon- German airplanes have been brought treal at noon, bringing doctors and down during the past week in fierce nurses, sky fighting that has been in progress from tho burning ruins of the plant, they were unable to approach. No in fed of- the allted of- ‘ceath list can be obtained until the ruins cool, The loss in the value of buildings were destroyed outright and 62 were and stock will reach well up into mil- lions. The first explosion was caused by the overheating of the machinery in out despite unfavorable weather, and ang nitric acid building. The flames were marked by extreme daring. leaped along through the building A check up to-day showed forty and another explosion occurred. Most British machines missing, following of the workers, however, are believed the week's fighting. to have had ample time to escape. Tro Prussian filers took great| Other explosions occurred every five chances in their efforts to commun!- | minutes or so, shaking the surround- cate artillery ranges back of their|!ng country liko a series of earth- connection with fensive, Sixty-two of these enemy machines driven down out of control. The aerial operations were carried Surrounding Country—Thou- | early estimate, based on first reports, | there were comparatively | but owing to the flerce heat) | LATEST PHOTOGRAPH NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1 cr irculation Book: Open to All. 10 PAGES 917. PERSHING SOUNDS WARNING TO AMERICAN PEOPLE! ‘*This War Cannot Be Won by Talk. It Must Be Won by Hard, Forceful Blows.’’ WEATHER—Faw to-night one te ¢ SS OF LANGEMARCK Wilson Will Order Coal Prices Cut at Once OF NEW COMMANDER | OF 69TH | REG! ver. 220 MORE OF 65TH SIX SUFFRAGETTES GET BIG SEND-OFF ON WAY 10 CAMP Another Advance Detail Sent to| Mineola to Prepare for Rest | of Regiment. To the strains by the other detail of 226 men from the Sixty- of regimental band, “Garry Owen,” played an- ninth Regiment who will help prepare camp for the balance of the command marched out of the armory this aft- ernoon and boarded the train for Mineola, L. I. The advance detail, made up of men from various com- panies, was under command of Lieut. | Sherman P. Platt. Inasmuch as this advance detail | will not return to New York for the| farewell parade of the regiment, the relatives and friends of the men,| notified ‘by telephone .of thotr de-| parture, assembled outside the ar- mory to «ive the boys a eend-off.| They were loudly cheered as they | marched away and many of the! youngsters in khaki had difficulty in | concealing thelr tears, Captain Mangin in charge of @e Supply Company is busy loading tentage for 2,700 men tn ‘the freight yards at Long Island City. Anticl- pating Monday as farewell day it has been planned to have the com- mand merch from the armory over ‘Twenty-seventh Street to Fifth Ave- |nue and thence north to Forty-fifth | Street | Col. Charles Hine was this morn- ing oMcially notified that he had been appointed to the command of the One Hundred and fixty-ffth, the old lines. It was learned they wero un- |auakes. Altogether fifteen detonations Sixty-ninth, He immediately phoned ter orders to get the ranges or die in| were counted |Lieut. Col. Reed at the Sixty-ninth the attempt. One of the explosions blew down a Armory, who had not yet received _ number of houses ia Dragon, where notification of the change. French Aviato most of the workers live and farm The new Colonel made a hit with Pounds of Projectt houses in the vicinity also caught fire. the rank and file of the Sixty-ninth ARIS, Aug. 18.—French aviators ebisbastd Minit right at the start. When they meet yesterday shot down soven German him personally the hit will be com- airplanes and a captive balloon tn ad- HOGS UP 45 CENTS MORE; ‘ » . plete, for he ts just the kind of a se Pickets Dec! t dition to eight German machines ABOVE LAST WEEK White House Pickets Decline to} Commander to win not only the es which were compelled to land, badly $2 Pay Fines of Ten Dollars ‘em but the hearts of the fellows of damaged, behind the line. The fol- a = |the Sixty-ninth. His first act was to lowing is the official account of! price Is Now $19 Per Hundred Each, inform Lieut. Col, Reed that he would 1 activities 4s in Chicago—Up in St not appear at the armory, but would paren airplanes dropped bombs| Pounds in ae ‘ Pp ‘ ° WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—-Six Suff-| receiv the regiment when it reached t 1 of Nanoy. There its ) n in on won north of Nanoy, Ther Louis and Pittsburg! rage pickets who rafused to pay $10 ay aps een ere CHICAGO, Aug. 18.--Hogs sold here ay Aout, Col, Reed has been in com- "On the day of’ Aug. 17 and tholyor $19 a hundred pounds to-day-—45| cree Were to-day sentenced by Judge !pand of the organization since the nt of August 17-18 our bombarding |conts higher than yesterday’s record.| PUSH tn police court to thirty days p-tirement of Col, Haskell and had squadrons carried out numerous ox-|This is an advance of $2 over @ week|in jail each. They will go to Occo- mado all the arrangements for the peditions over the enemy Ines. One|ago. _ quan, Va., prison ¢eparture of the troops; had ar- hundred and eleven airplanes took! In Kansas City hog prices continued) | oo arias : ringed for a parade for the people of part in the various sorties, in the |S0aring. Top was quot 6 at DE 98 hen are Miss C. M. Flana-\\.w york, had ordered his command course of which 28,600 rounds of pro- reported hese bringing pad PAP eATY Ronn + Miss Natalie q attend in a body the baseball game | jectiles were thrown on enemy estab- . ‘es ay, ‘olorado Spring: ‘ Mrs, |g, he Polo Grounds to-morrow; and Ushments, ‘Two of our machines did | yg\tqh!aouTeh rarecord pies. ed up} Lavina Dock, Philadelphia; Miss with all theso arrangements the new | RET cation, ? Bn Lucy Pwing, Chicago; Mrs. William| colonel declined to interfere | “Aviation grounds at Colmar, Fres- | § RAGUE'S § ALIMONY Upton Watson, Chicago, and Miss! ‘rhe command of the Sixty-ninth 1s] cat! and Habisheim, aviation read he P Edna Dixon, Washington, D. C the fulfillment of a boyhood dream of in the region of Chambley, railway CUT $4 900 BY REFEREE Assalling the military pickets 1n| (ol, Hine, He made no secret this station at Fribourg en Brisgau, ’ Gnaparing terms, Senator Myers of! 1 eine of his pleasure at this ap- | Coneuraer Maat Piacracecal | ied aca Montana to-day introduced a bill to| ointment. stl Seal r White House picketing. 1 Justin, Grand Pre, Challerange | ¢ matlanu trace Drohibit ¥ P ing Iam very much pleased with my e alle xtravagant an -} a need! t \ and Dun aur Meuse and encampmenta| one !s Called Extravag 0 Alel” tne arcosedings have been ou lacpointment,” he eald, “My tather| in the forest of Spincourt were| lowed but $2,600 for Herself and | rageous, scandalous and almost trea- | yng an officer during the Civil War showered with bombs, Many ex-| $1,500 for Her Sons, sonable,” he sald. think people |in the Fiftleth New York Engineers aiA Racal bai are disgusted with the proceedings. |, 4 4 >, : | plosiona and several fires were ob-| \r.1.o1m sundhelmer, referee to deter- oe td , Proceedings. |i, the Army of the Potomac, and I served nine how much alimony Marguerite K.| 56 hy resident, out of the generosity |wags brought up on stories of the “On the night of Aug. 16-17 the rail-|gorague should receive from her dt- pe cay eens, the. women |Fighting Sixty-ninth, A brother way station at Cortemark was at-!vorced husband, Dr. Shirley F. Sprague,| sixty days. I think he erred. ‘They {maior tn the campaign of Santiago in| tacked by our aviators, who saw 4 / for the support of elf and two sons,|ought to have been compelled to|1i98 was the late Michael Emmet | large fire there. to-day recommended that $2,600 be al-/ Serve out their sentences. It 1s time | ‘rell, who Was the color bearer for "Yesterday seven German airplanes | lowed her for herself and $1,500 for her|COngréss acted to stop these insults]... sixty-ninth in the Civil War and and a captive balloon wero brought |children, As Justice Greenbaum allowed | the President, won the Medal of Honor for gallant down by our pilots. Hight other her $9,000 p which re- es nduct. So you can see how I have! enemy machines were forced to land sulted in behalf, the| ABt@ Skids; Man Killed, Wife and)" ’ how oll ips ceaaen ean Tainuea’ een wrapped up In the trad of in the German lines, badiy damaged." | F¢ e's de Nr |, will mean y | a out ce $4 400 Spectal b» Tho Bven.ng World \ 6 old organization and what a ae ’ —— rag a ; t dispute that Dr,|_ ANCASTER, # Aug. 18--L. K./4 honor it appears 2 to be RIALT & 42) St Neat Ween a eocaivea a hae ic | Buda Shinty-five ra old of No. 6 commanding offi . ee , v | Milton St. Mt. Airy, Philadelphia. was 1 wags Nas i x ; $24,000 a ye ¢ ares the plain- |killed this morning ‘at Bantord. by Hine will relinquish his com Sunday World Wants Work tiff was extravagant, and that he saw w ute skidding an an o led road and tt ad of Trains and Military foe 4 . list of seventeen pawn tickets, repre. |'R turte in a gutter 8 wife and flv »-morrow and will then go to J 4 ar-old won Howard were also in Monday Morning Wonders, senting sewelsy pledged by Mra, Sprague, Yona’ ola to inspect the camp, 4 jing of minor disputes of the Japprehenston of the futility U.S UST STRKE HARD TO WIN WAR, | PERSHING WARNS Every Man, Woman and Child Should Support the Admin- istration, He Says. PARIS, Aug. 18.—Major Gen, Per- shing, the Amerioan odmmander, told the Associated Press to-day that the war can be won only by hard and forceful blows delivered by a well trained American army working in conjunction with the Allied armies. ‘Every man, woman and child,” said Gen, Pershing, “should support the Administration In its determina- tion to arm and equip the American army and to keep up its moralé and ; that of the allied armies, This war will not be won by talk or by sub- scribing to the Red Cross. The Amer can people must come to @ full reall- zation of what the war moans. It can |be won only by striking hard and | forceful blows, not otherwise.” The General was very emphatio in | the statement of his views. ONE GENT TOLL ON CHECK CUT OUT OF WAR TAX BILL Senate Retains One Cent Charge or Parcel Post Packages Over Twenty-five Cents Cost, WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. —In ispos- far Tax Will, the Genate to-day, by a vote of 38 to 24, struck out the provision Inserted by the Finance Committee for a on cent stamp tax on bank checks, drafts and certificates of deposit, designed to raise $10,000,000 in revenue. The Senate retained, 28 to 27, tho Finance Committee's provision for a cent stamp tax on transportation of parcel post packages, amended so as to exempt packages coating under cents, For each additional 25 cei charged @ further 1 cent tax imposed, From the parcel post 000,000 In revenue ts ta satiated, a would be tax $2 TAFT, MUGH BE] BETTER, DERIDES TALK OF PEAC Says Allies Have Been Fighting for Us—Now It Is Our Turn to Do Some Fighting. MONTREAL, Que, Aug. 18.—"The United States ts in this fight to stay, was the emphatic declaration of Former vresident William Taft to-day, “We enlize that It 1s as vital to us as to England or France to win. Wo realize that they have been fighting our battles for us, Now our turn has come, and we are bracing ourselves to face it. “I have no patience with this talk of peace, Peace is not possible until the Prussian military caste has been driven out of power and awakened by the German people into @ truthful and clear of the pol- fey of Germany, and the burden that Germany and the world carry in tho Kaiser and his military party, Taft was en route to his country home at Murray Bay from Kansas where he has been seriously {11 with acute Indigestion “I am feeling much better, * he said. Warned Story ~The United Btates tasued @ atateinent warning against stories that Aterica has Invited Russian officers and Ser- bina to Join the army, offering JarKe ary rewards. Belleving these ta genuine, many Russians late have been applying for adinission to t Ainerican Army, ‘The Attache declares the reports have been spread by Ger- man agents and aim (o cause confusion in Ure army, ary Attache hai BiG ARTILLERY FRENCH GAIN CANADIANS sitions Near Le Win on Meuse SCOUTING SHIPS HAVE A BATTLE ON NORTH SEA German Destroyer and Several Mine Sweepers Damaged by the British. LONDON, Aug. 18--An engage- ment betwoen British and German scouting ships, in which one German destroyer and several mine-sweepers were damaged, was reported to-day by the Admiralty, ‘The biggest type of British vessels engaged in scout work took part in the fight, The British opened fire on the German destroyer, damaging her, Dut she escaped, as. did the mine- sweepers the destroyer was convoy- ing. Several of the latter were dam- aged. “We were unab stroyer and mine- to follow the de- weepors,” saya the Admiralty report, “owing to a mine- field, During the engagement sub- marines attacked our light forces also. In this second action we were un- damaged.” BERLIN (via London), Aug. 18.— “On Thursday our guard patrol in the North Bea encountered enemy cruisers and destroyers on the fringe of the British barred zone,” an Admiralty statement announced to-day, “We attacked them and the largely superior enemy under well placed Ger- man fire withdrew hastily, We suf- fered no losses." BRITISH SHIP OUTSPEEDED U BOAT IN MOONLIGHT Liner Had Thrilling Four-Hour Race With Submarine on Voyage From Europe. AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 18,—Om- «of @ British steamship which ar rived here to-day told of @ moonlight race with @ German submarine about | forty miles off a French port on Aug. 4. The submersible was sighted at 2.30 A. M., the oMficerss said, and for four hours the two vessels were in @ race, the steamship managed to keep the U the German successfully to launch a torpedo. The oubmarine gave up the chase shortly after daybreak. The ship's Cap- j tain valid the bright moonlight made it | possible for him at times to distinguish the enemy clearly, Ho described the |submarine as of exceptionally large | type, with two deck guna. No shots were tired by either vessel, and while the gun of the British ship | was trained on the U boat {said he made no attempt to open the |fght, preferring to eyeed. boat astern, making {t impossible for| the Captain | BATTLE ON: NN FLANDERS; HALT ATTACKS ————-4 2 ___ Furious German Drives Against Po- ns Rolled Back for Third Successive Day — French and Aisne Fronts. a BERLIN, ‘Aug. 18 (via London) The War OMce announcement of to~ day says the Germans occupy post tions in front of Langemarck. They lost Langemarck after a strong local attack by the enemy in the afternoom {The Belgian town of Lange+ marck was captured by the Brite ish in thelr recent attack, an@ yesterday the Germans announce@ that they had retaken it. The British official Press Bureau dee nied this claim.) ‘The artillery fighting has again tne creased to the utmost intensity along the coast in Flanders and ngyrtheast of Yypres, LONDON, Aug. 18—London and Paris report important successes om the Lens and Flanders fronts, For the third successive day the Canae jdians firmly met attacks of massed German troops, and hurled them |back. y ‘Tho French last night made further progress in Helgium, north of the jroad between Bixschoote and Lange- |marck. They captured a strong point of support cast of the Steenbeke River. German attacks on the Aisne front were repulsed “To the northwest of Lens early this morning the enemy again counter attacked our new positions,” Hajg’s statement said, “They were completely repulsed after sharp fight~ ing. A few prisoners were taken here and northwest of Ypres. ‘There was considerable artillery firing during the night. The British and French have sent back to their collecting stations twenty-four German guns, including some heavy siege pieces, and a total of 3,000 prisoners from this week's fighting. Enemy territory beyond Lange marck already is being dow inated by the British long-rango have been advanced almost into the firing Ine. Beyond Langemarck the German defenses are weaker and will not require so long a time to reduce, The concrete redoubts that dotted the region west of Langemirck are fewer, Instead, one can glimpse the green cultivated fields of invaded Belgium, a striking change of scene from the countless fortifications through which the Allies have just broken, A little further advance and the Entente troops will be fighting in the open field, for the first time im two years or more, PARIS, Aug. 18.—French troops oon- tinued to advance In Flanders to-day, capturing a strong position east of the Steenbeke. Progress was made Jnorth of Bixschoote along the road to Langemarck A brilliant counter attack on the | right bank of the Meuse also threw the Germans out of ail pysitions they took from the French on Aug. 16 and ]17 in Caurieres Wood, the War Of- j flee announce | North of the Alsne, man raids | were repulsed and in the Champagne, near Massige a ( nan attack was broken up by artillery In Alsace lively artillery exchanges were reported, with a German attack pear Steinbach repulsed, guns, which -