The evening world. Newspaper, August 20, 1917, Page 3

4 —, i VESSELS. BURN INST 000,000 FIRE AT BROOKLYN PIER | The First Big Definite Task DO YOUR KNIT Fier tmeror omen we ie rf) ae 2 PS DO yo od ————4 Explosions One Steamship Cause Phot 4 t Rumors of arly + frene Bireet hips and burned and Aistinet explosions Believed that incendiar Plotters were re sible. Fire Marshall Thomas Brophy reported, however, that spon taneous ignition of some burlap bars was the caus oft blaze The Plosions, he eaid, were due to rockets and rifle ammunition on one There are 500,000 women of the ships, the Haron Jedburg! ke F The damaged steamships are the | knitters in and about New Baron Jedburgh and the Christian | York, Ward Line, Hilda of the New York Central, No. 441 of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Filzabeth, No, 26 and No. 30, the ownership of which is not known, and the Eden Tom The flames were first discovered on dock, which was piled with gen- eral merchandise. many reports Baron, both owned by Furness, Withy Our army and navy need Se Fe | Bearatann a “FOR NAVY LEAGUE Hunker, owned by Hunker @ Co, K. | 2€x¢ six months, J. Moran, owned by Moran Bros, and Knitting colors for the Mastodon, owned by the Boston Sup- | army are gray or khaki, bly Co.; the lighters Lakeport of the Knitting colors for the navy are gray or blue. Knitting color for marines is khaki. Knitting colors for selfish knitters are pale pink and purple, Not to know how to knit the scow Aid Won't Stop Making of Comforts for Sailors, came to headquarters regarding the explosions which were heard, that | @7&ues yourself unknown, Despite reports that Secretary of Lieuts, Barnitz and Bussey of the te | the Navy Dantels has brokert off co- Bomb Squad operative the Navy were hurriedly sent to By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. relations with investigate, while repeated alarms ORWARD the Knitting Brigade! ‘SEN, SIGEL’S GRANDSON League and ts declining further aid brought reserves from four stations “American women must knit madly,” Miss Florence Marshall, | from that ization, “bust on) and ambulances from the Brooklyn, madly,’ 88 i) at organization, ness Director of the Women's Bureau of the Red Cross and President of the | Manhattan Trade School, sald to-day. CHANGES MIND; WILL FIGHT “Knitting ts the first big, definite task laid upon the | Goes Before Board With Widowed Women’s Bureau and American women. We must not Mother and Withdraws His Long Island College and Jewish Hos- pitals. | Owing to sugar in some of the cargoes a pall of heavy smoke bear- usual” was the order of the day at headquarters of the Navy League Comforts Committee, at Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street ing a strong, sickening, sweetish odor fail. We shall have other work to do in the near future, P . xbniAah spread over the water front and lower but we must not negl Claim of Exemption. Bc opome mips, Ventas on “ : . neglect this labor, swing. Women were sitting in every Brooklyn and was carried up as far| “For it can be enlisted the services of so many| Among the men accepted for the Na- as the lower bridges. It had a peculiar | effect on the eyes, affecting the lachrymal glands and bringing tears. available chair in the large room bu lly intent on their knitting, tional Army in New York City is Harold Robert Sigel, grandson of the late Gen. Franz Sigel of the Civil War. He live women who can do nothing else for their country. The ‘busy housewives, the invalid shut-ins, the high schoul girls, their grandmothers at home, can spare, severally, while For an hour the firemen worked un- f at No. 555 West One Hundred and] the finished garments, which formed a der considerable difficulty, as the pall ‘eo BREN at least a few minutes each day to knit for the Nation. | rifty-first Street, and when he appeared| huge barricade at one end of the of smoke made it next to impossible} Let each girl and woman do her part. before Board No, 146 a week ago|room. A truck load of express pack- claimed exemption on the ground he was supporting his mother, a widow. Yesterday young Sigel appeared again to discover to what craft the blaze ages containing garments which had been sent in from out-of-town work- ers had Just’ been delivered to the re- before the board, accompanied by his * $y mother, who aald to the board. mem. (| celVing desk, and half a doxen women bi | were employed in opening, sorting and ? checking them, Mra, Woodward, Secretary of the committee, T least 00,000 women in and @—<@—<— — re eae AX™ ,sonna New York have taken to The fire was discovered by Charles! knitting in the three years since the Lehmke, 4 watchman employed by| peginning of the war, but 500,000 the New York Dock Company. His) more knitters are needed to-day. alarm brought Fire Chief Hefferman Thousands have knitted for the with the first apparatus. Hefferman| Reigians and our other allies, More sent in a third alarm, bringing twen- chee thoumada bore He pounds of wool, and can buy double that amount if it 1s needed. High cost of living has hit even the sweaters. Red Cross wool is now $2 @ pound, having been advanced recently from $1.75. ‘The bureau says that within the present week h local chapter of women that wants wool will be sup- “We have thought {t over, and I think I can manage {f my boy goes to war. His grandfather, Gen, Sigel, a é ; | ps plied with as much as 4 required for |fought for Lincoln and liberty, It 1s Secretary Daniel's deciston would ty-two pleces of apparatus, five fre) cured wool and needles from the Potting a fiying mart on the now order aie right my boy should also do his | have on their work, sald: boats, three salvage corps and six) Comforts Committee of the Navy) from the front share in the new fight for freedom. | “We are going ahead with our work chiefs, with Deputy Chiefs Laimbeer| League, which sends sweaters, socks| With patriotism as a apeeder-up the |v means @ sacrifice to give my won| juge oe r and O'Hara, who took charge. and other warm garments to the sall-| knitting women of America should be-| "1, menns & sneriyce to Bue fis mee dae as usual, We do not anticipate Larry O'Toole, employed by a pri-|ors, On every other piazza women! Come Bromision of industry has both the tneliwation ond:the oppor: ies tere will be any further fric- vate detective agency, told the po-| are knitting for the Red Cross, which OUR really accomplished knitter] tunity to help perpetuate the name of | 0" t any rate, the work to which need watch her needles no more than a piano player or a touch typist lige tho Baron Jedburgh was equipped with a 4.7 gun, and that at the out- we have devoted so much time, en- ergy and money must not ‘be sacri- has pledged itself to send 1,500,000 knitted sets to France at the earliest Sigel In our country’s history.” | The young man, on being accepted rounds of ammunition. Sixty members of the crew of the Baron Jedburgh, aroused by the ex- plosions and the penetrating smoke, fied from the ship in a panic, They swarmed down the hawsers and o click faster than ever, “Highty stitches cross the back,” the measure of the soldier’s sweater, must be chanted by other thousands of women. The cre- tonne market will go right on being saved, for'the de d for the gaily eys. She can knit and watch for service, expressed the hope he|ficed to personal misunderstandings. break of the fire he and several others| possible moment. her keys, 8! % | a " f * 50 hia » jes must| the children, knit and read—above| would make good soldier. |The spirit of these women's work is PRAY buyers AUST TEFeW Cv O6s UEt Tay Teh Gime ie (ne ee all, knit and talk. Under the barrage | tire of the needles th: vance many centimetres Not to know how to knit argues yourself unknown. peas WAR TAX BILL T0 DRAG gossip may ad- Our boys will need the garments which we are making in thelr hard service in France, and as there seems | to be no supply elsewhere it would be | mont unjust to permit them to re- UNCLE SAM WANTS MEN FOR LONG PHONE SYSTEM the side, some dropping into the| flowered knitters’ bags will be larger Fi AN 1 Coast Guard Recruiting Electricians | ue in needs . water and swimming ashore. The|than ever. The ghosts of the bridge, OR 0 HER WEEK Sgt _The work of the committee has been vessel was finally pulled into mid-| dancing and skating fads must cower to Man Line From Eastport going on since April and 40,000 gar- ments have been shipped to sailors, stream and the fire fought from that position. in the outer darkness, while the shin- to Rio Grande. Completed and Cloture Will Not Be Invoked, but aht train, traini And the million must knit to order, / LED BY A MINISTER ound, , tsburgn — yesterday q - > mi e killed instantly, another] Did you know that you can tell a died lay and traffic on three tracks] patriotic knitter by her color? The [: f Ae tie: main Vins Of the: DadnavWvania loos APOE PE HEE OOF a iy 3, | Sheriff Fires in Air as Alleged Crap he Taal Nine Of Ene anna pretty young woman who extracts 1 eta DRAFTED WITH BROTHER feel pits , BE eee aenvnnbers of the crew or {fom her Poppy-strewn knitting bag ple Mir rips ti voters Flee and One Is : nondescript wad of pink wool can- i coat Mon Found Wounded = hot get away with a reputation for | re en \ for the tirat} Second Son of Millionaire Must Ap- yiyeriumeap, no ¥ A Racine Disabled. patriotism. They don’t wear pink ay A Tee oat pear in Toms River To-Mor ' t Brown Jr, twenty, was shot tn rc PORT, Aug. 20.—T sweaters in the army, is 1 GiERto ea sous forsHxamindtion abdomen late last olght in a raid merican ved waa brow t | wa yy the mem. dad sean od spon An building in wh Mt sero ie a ae het tug, which found|....0. he army they want gray oF| inty ‘Demos rath a RIVER, N. J. ved deer ung men wer her disabled off Cape Cod. yesterday | haki-coloyed sweaters, The navy's ner of whieh | TOM's cat cae ANE ) pa. Tt id ate n | \ + ‘i | Jeorge Gould of Lakew has ng craps. ne raid was led by with leaky boil T sel, formerly }cvlor 48 preferably gray, although | 3 4 Paul BE, Edwards of n tho Great Lakes # was on her| blue will be accepted. ‘The marines | Fucke ara | need summoned by Bherlf Alfred Ws | sc iodiat church, He was aan way to an Atlantic port to be remod-|ask for khaki-colored sweaters. So Br nx County Brown to appear mg this place o ff A. W. Biggs, Jai olled into an ocean tug. » ralnbow-hued wool is outlawed. oer sree MASON. Vn veraityeeen dts vif oF, nuyas as examination for x and Charles 2 0 live . e e National Army. 0 er of the ehure Neither does the mere displayal of | nue, the Bronx, 84 ay See | te nike teothas Slnbdan wee f Pei POH nd cea ta ne of those billowy, blossomy bags |a3 mag n Essex Market Court r, Gould edon wa. ight or ten young men wlarantee the owner's undiluted 4 yesterday. among those examined in the first known as Hall Mill ¢ ? cae quota and was passed as physically % raiders approached votion to national duty. They 5 Auote and wos passe y ‘ aR BRP HAY Raat See DANE) LORRI OR BRITISH SEAMEN, Jat. ito witt be summoned to Toms !ff and Mr. Nesbitt remained outside been known to hide a half-embroid pie hs el . epee i 1 the minister and warden entered ncaa tetas i | River on Sept. 1 with one-third of a E ~Wh a le jover—even & palr of) point ‘of aiicers and Mon’ tal ongings 169 men who aro to leave men inside fled oA 4 6 = dancing slippers. rine 1 27, ; ¢ Brown, who was found wounde . fe Meareent Marin ot re , | Ocean County for the trai camp ME Wied eee Le trea “en TY Wo members of many Red ee re g.o2T otticora and men of the| &* Petersburg, Va., on Bept, 6 Tite ANA AIEEE ial faunas @Oula GAVE pos Cross chapters in this vicinity | pritish me tile marine, =, ruck Brown js @ mystery felt ot the: have complained that their knitting | (hose me Ad Was dobs im Wadacal saeeles: Bo, wud needles are stopped because they @ fost live civil § examinations f inn Cabinet nase of win inable to Ket wool dein cai manand er \ 180 scription D: The Red Cross Supply Bureau, t of ste ie AWA, Ont, Aug, 20.—Hon, Rob 1 Madison Avenue, declares 4 ister Put Work delays in transportation, Tho bureau eae y wake war Domeatla uwe teservation, Tuimpl pier art ription, into says that Its in possession of 500,000 Leet, 16.01 Btaten Island, als per pound, —Adve, others were sorting and numbering | when asked what effoct | ing needles click their requiem, So Uncle fam ts looking for several hun-| Ih many cases “whole ships were | Except for the Christian Baros, all Main Points of Measure Wil dread experienced @lectriclans to man| e EO: SERRE AES TERS WON. Seeiroyes olga A a A piaahled Be Discussed what will be probably the longest tele- | wristicts and Remove socks, mufflers, ‘The Baros and Jedburgh were both its members is the goal erected GLI URS RE, phone system in the United States. This! Ce Clothing which have been made, in only recently from the Plattc|by the Atlantic Division of the Red) waignGTon, Aug. 20.—The third! system will be part of the Coast Guard| Heavy gray wool is used and. the River, loaded with manila, hemp and | Cross, which includes women of New] week of Senate debate on the Warland its wires will stretch from Eastport, | articles are all made by women who oline. York and New Jersey. This division| Tax Bill opened to-day with prospect |Me., along the coast to the Rio Grande. | ive thelr services free. ‘Tho wool is Leg +n © of knitted gar- ¢ bill's passage would be delayed| The recruiting officers of the Coast/ sold to the knitt at cost by the While the other vessels were burn- | Will send RH Bt SE pee Ce Less fee i Guard. service in the United States| committee, and a fund of $6,000 has ing, fire from an unknown cause] ments to France at the & s «’ dincusston was|barge office in Battery Park have re-| een Taised to supply wool to those Gunnar adt: an’ the didi ob the sible moment, and New York women] Several more, rays" discussion was} barge, office tn Haltery ark tars Tel who wish to do something but are bs ? 2 he dge selves to knit 25,000| promised for the Importan ceiver je io ome ,.| unable to buy the material ship Esperanza of the Ward Lape satel os Se Wier og fauestions — remaining—income, war] Tho men enlisted will be rated as act-| "Ning, Herbert Le Satterles, Chairman docked at the foot of Joralemon | each of swes ae Ge auch Pe voca|[Drofits, consumption and publishers’ ling electricians and thelr pay will be f the committee jis largely responsi. Street, having arrived yesterday from | WTS! anc p Of socks. Mazes 4 month with $10 mont ‘or quarters| ble for the gratifying results which ; : vo weeks the New York branch re the Senate discussion began ent a day for rations have been accomplished, She w Cuba and Nassau. Capt. Curtis gave | than two weeks t Before the mn: is cents a day | h Sh the alarm and the blaze was quickly {ot the Comforts Committee of the| to-day the Fipance. Gommitiae iy Coast Guard alvo wants a number | fluenced hy Mra. Janes Carroll Fra- estinguiahed by a detachment of fire- | Navy League expecta to send 4,500/8"d cacidi’ Tit “Siting the next few |Of young men Whe are ambitious to/ fo wie & Cnelman Of the Was t he other bias Iknitted garments to Washington, days, however, Chairman Simmona ex-| become radio operators. Young men| iin committee in w York shortly men from the other pects to ask that a date be fixed for al with high school or academle educa | after our dec ration lion of war, - MILLION KNITTERS in New| finsl vote on the prominiat ateations in| tion, between the ages of 18 and bree Trainmen Ki York and its vicinity will bel siesippl toda J the committee to|are desired and they will be sent bound | fs jh tral sallors are to keep warm this wint in he Trumbull, iw taba THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST 20 | tigation dleciosed that the parent was) jemption of the| 1917. NOUT OF 46 GIVEN EXEMPTION HUGHES BOARD Make m—Y« 85, Mot Plea for Only wing Man With Salary Loses. for exemption ret Board im ¢ to-day only seven Of forty sie ctaten heard wy Veters: ¥ were granted ding Hhort work was made of what wee reported by one of the committess as the prite application received to 4 Alfred Huclier appealed from the 4e cision of Local Board 144, on the ground of « dependent father, Inves- Limeeif seeking ¢ son om industrial grounds, the eld |man being the chief owner of @ oor- | name was withheld, {that the appellant's father was dead too fine and unselfish to permit that. | | work in the trench: |MOTHER PLEADS | poration that paid the younger man & salary of 6.000 « year. The appil- cation was unanimously denied. ‘The law was liberally interpreted in the case of an plication from « ruling of Local Board 106, whose It was shown and his mother was inourably insane and confined in an asylum. The ap- pellant te caring for a young brother and @ sister, who also is mentally | weak. Daniels’s Reported Refusal of | The District Board held that while both parents were not dead, it was fustified in holding the insane mother to be dead in the spirit of the law and reversed the Local Board. WILL OBSERVE SPIRIT OF THE LAW, BAYS HUGH Chairman Hughes approved the de- cision and announced that, while the closest attention would be given to the claims in every case, the epirit of the law would be considered in every individual case, Herman Phillipa, who appealed from the decision of Local Board 169 on the ground of a dependent wife, | failed in his appeal. James C. Alexander was exompted in spite of an adverse decision by Local Board 19, because it was shown he was supporting a mother and two sisters and had already contributed $700 to thelr living expenses within appealing from the decision of Local Board 113, advanced the novel plea that he was suffering from mental rupture. fe furnished no medical diagnosis to explain this | condition, and the District Board de- cided it would not interfere with his Ia Brooklyn an agricultural dis- trict? Judge Cullen says he wants to know because his sub-committee had been surprised to find that J. Harry Bergen was dissatisfied because Board 41 did not rtcognizo a gar- dener in that borough as a farmer. Bergen lost his appeal. Louts Toch, appealing from Board 60, claimed Hungarian citizenahip. but as he could give no proof of tt he may yet fight. Max Liberman could prove hie Austrian birth, but, as he has taken out bia first papers, his application for exemption was denied, HELPS SUPPORT PARENTS AND HE 18 EXEMPTED. Joseph Mendolos was pansed by Local Board 69, It was shown that Mendolon had for some time paid $750 a year to an aged father and mother, who at!!! (had to look to him for support. The District Board exempted him. Jacob Kommel appealed on the ground that he had teaking valves and produced doctors’ certificates that he had advanced heart disease. Board 144 had two other physicians {n addition to the examining doctors of the board look him over, and all three found him fit. He will serve. Tra G. Katz, passed by Board 19, was exempted, as it was shown that the local examiners hind ‘admitted that he was not physically fit. Benjamin Brescher said he had co sctentious objections, Objections ove ruled. Pasquale Lupo, whose claim to Hoard 63 on the ground of a depend ent wife and child was denied, was able to prove he is badly needed at home, He will stay there. On June 80, 1917, Adolph Moritz married, He appealed to the Dis trict Board from the deciston of Board 104, The sub-committee’s re t read: “This man was married on June 80. Decision reserved.” Rudolph Mosbaum thought he ought not to serve his country t ause he works in a butcher's shop onducted by & member of Board 19. before which he was examined, Ay peal dented Irving Levy considered that Board 164 should not have him| when he was subject of chronic hay fever, The District Board sneezed his appltcation, and he may take sea voyage cure, IN VAIN FOR EXEMPTION OF SON. “T have an only son, and he ts 6 to serve his countr: was the reply of one of the members of the board No sooner had Mrs, Shapiro ste ing Jown than a scene was pre by Mrs, Stanley Werthelme wppeared to assist her husband's |claim. The young woman, who has chr appendicitis, and whose father nd m rare seriously sick me t ‘ , ’ 1 . * and 0 ai i The Ohaten . 4 thet wpe * he tow 1 *™M j had done the same t oumht for agr me INSTRUCTIONS I88UED To AT TORNEYS FOR LOCAL BOARDS. Opening @ a new drive on oh ot New York were fired this morning when Atte Koger Hh. Wood, jn charge of the I vere mpuon woarda, issued epecife instruct, ons cov o appealing of mption Mr. Wood urged the lawyers to use! sharper eyes in taking appeals for the Government and to + their efforts to get at the facts of each cane wedily an possible. He ad mitted t umber of appeals will run high, probably 180 to each dis trict, but urged that no individual case be overlooked bpeals are running unusually high,” said Mr. Wood, “and lawyers are becoming more f with their duties they are fndin, going over records @ #econd time, 150 cares to a district is not to piace the figure. “This would make approximately 24,000 appeals canon, Fully 60 per cent. of these are for dependency and re- quire the closest examination, The other 40 per cent. cover appeals on exemption for physical disability, in- dustrial and agricuitural claims, re- gious objectors and mariners’ en- #aged in the merchant marine.” Mr, Wood cited the case of Arthur Smith, the lawyer in charge for the Government at Local Board No. 125, at Public Bohool No. 87 at Amater- dam Avenue and West Seventy- eventh Street, Up to Saturday Mr. Smith had taken ninety appeals for dependency alone and has asked for seventy additional blanks, Mail coming to draft headquarters daily 1# full of information, much of it anonymous, regarding men who have falsified as to their age or fraudulently claimed exemption. Mr. Wood aaid that if such information 1s went to local boards the work will be greatly speeded, Many women claiming to have been deserted by husbands are appearing at draft headquarters and urging that the men in question be forced to serve. —_~— TO FIGHT AGAINST BROTHERS John Muller, Marriage , Denied hy Draft Board, Jghn Muller of Hoboken who, untit recently advertized his services in facilitating marriages, will have to give up that lucrative occupation to serve in the draft army, Ho claimed exemp- tion on the ground that he had three brothers fighting in the German Army and he did not see why he should be forced to fight against them. “Brother fought against brother and father against son in our Civil War and you are no better than they were,” was the ruling of Mayor Griffin, CI of the local boar 1 Exemption for Firemen, WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Secre- tary Baker ruled to-day that the draft law cannot be construed to pet mit any genoral exemption of police- men or firemen, These classes may present claims for exemption on grounds of indispensability, but the Secretary of War feels that, as a rule, the man really indispensable will be above draft age, Sheriff and Judue A Violation of Draft Law, RUSSELLVILLE, Ky. Aug, 20.— Sheriff James 8. Taylor, a member of the Logan County exemption board, and County Judge J, W. Ed- ward were placed under arrest here to-day by Deputy United States Marshal B, M, Richardson on the charge of conspiring to violate pro- visions of the Selective Draft Law. <>. SELECTIVE DRAFT LAW DECLARED CONSTITUTIONAL Dec e ‘olice ented sion Rendered by Georgia Fed- Judge on an Appeal Made |Generals in automobiles PERSHING PAYS SURPRISE VISIT T0 ae nee Acc aia % by Gen. Petain, French Commander in Chief, He Inspects Troops. WITH THE AMERICAN HXPR- PATIONARY ARMY FRANCK Aus 20-—Gen Pershing believes Me idiers are “progressing setiefaes rily” in thelr atte tretaing, he sald so to dey, following @ eurpries inspection visit of yesterday “1am entirely sattefied with what T have seen.” the American som Mander asserted. “One thing that | Impressed me forcibiy was the epirit | of the men.” The first notice the American troops Dad of their commander's visit waa an excited burst of bugle calls about dawn, The men tumbled hurriedly from their bunks and lined up at ae- sembly, Then the word spread over | the camp that Gen. Pershing and Gen. Petain had quietly slipped into the adjacent town during the night. The United States troops stood at attention while a dust cloud grew Digger and bigger on the snake-lik¢ road heralding the approach of the’ Then came the formal reception at camp head- quarters and the inspection. The two Generals passed between long rows being particularly Interested in the sharpshooter and marksmanshtp med- als worn by numerous American fighters. He stopped to examine them and to talk to the men thus deso- rated. Petatn and his staff wore the French horizon blue uniform, con- “O. D.” of the troops they were in- specting. At one point tn the inspection tour a little red-haired girl from the vwil- lage came to the offictal party and presented Gen, Petain with a bouquet, The French commander stooped and kissed the Gen, Pershing hesitated and then did kewtse, The American fighters were pleased with their own showing at the inspeo- tion. It afforded them an opportunity to demonstrate that they had profitea by previous criticisms and acquired more snappiness, GIRLS STOLEN EVERY DAY Letter From Italy, Quoting Slayer of Ruth Cruger, Says He Hid at Priest's Home. What purports to be the transiauon of @ letter received by Mra. Alfredo Cocchi, wife of the self-confessed siay- er of Ruth Cruger, from her sister-in- law, Mrs, Aldo Baroncin,, to whose hug band Cocchi first confessed, was to- day turned over to Assistant District Attorney D, A. Kelly by Aaron M. Mar- cus, attomey for Mra, Coceh!. ‘The letter, it 1s alleged, states that Coccht remained hidden in the home of Rev. Caspar Moretl, Mr, Kelly bas asked for the original letter, wishing to make his own translation, Investigation, he said, into the movements of Cocchi immediately following his filght, @is- prove his statement. ‘The letter also states, according to the translation, that when Baronein! expressed surprise at the police fafiure to unearth the body of Miss Cruger, Cocchi told him that missing girls were common tn New York, “They steal girls every Gay over there.” he said, ‘and the police never bother very much about them, ‘The mounted police are good friends of mine and didn’t make much of a fuss about searching my place, It ie in- probable that the police will discover the mystery of the murder soon, ae they are such good friends of mine, T didn’t make any attempt to conceal the body except to cover up the hole.”* Raroneini, his wife writes, sald Cocoltt told him he had come to Imola, Italy, to join the army; but Investiwation showed Baroncini that Cocchi's class had not yet been \called, —>—_—— by Tom Watson. (Spectal to The Bren ng World.) ATLANTA, € Aug. 20.--Judge Speer of the Southern District of Georgia upheld the selective army plan in @ de inion rendered Sunday night to t f. that the law is constitut The decision was the result of an up al may by Thomas FE. Wateon as a test of the law, At @ hearing here turday Watson, tn the case of Albert “DRAFT OF UNEMPLOYED 1S ON IN BALTIMORE | Twenty-six Had Reported as Idle | Up to Noon—Law Makes. Work Mandatory. BALTIMORE, 20.—Maryland’s Aug. & negro charged with violating | | ition for the labor draft became made a plea that the statute) Mkisralion Ut Ui venty-six men in Watson submitted a brief ar Thay law will make work mandatory ynaldson, United States District | ..° Seeee man between eighteen and At y for the Southern [ ict Of rirty throughout the State, Men who joorgia, made a brief argum | refuse to work will be forcibly drafted half of the Government Speer! into a labor army, and those who can- k the case under ad nent Without! nor find work will be assisted in @b= lay, rendering hia decision last night,| taining employment ~ | phe statute hits the Idle rich m PROMOTED IN THE 7TH less than the penniless hobo, Failure © dN tare er (8 punishable by @ heavy Howard H, Met ning Work Advan Howard H, McLellan, one of the men who left the staff of The Evening World to join the army, has been pro- moted twice tn less than a month, He is a corporal now in Company B, Sev enth Regiment by Capt Charles Bo Crane Last May MecLallan Je ed the Seventh e ka ago he became a. fir 4s private. and the } came last Thureda, H about how ted it er Evening World men commanded There are oth in the same wo hysterioal that it was with diit- e command, fine To Remove Indigestion, ee Thfive minutes take 6 Bell-ans in acup | of hot water. Druggists refund rag if it fails to ee the worst attack. 25e BEL LANS of the American troops, Gen. Petain trasting vividly with the dull colored” child on both cheeks.’ IN NEW YORK, COCCHI SAID: