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EDITION PRICE ONE CENT In Grenter New York and Mudson County, N. J. TWO CENTS elnewhere. ee by The Press Publishing w York World). RAIDERS SINK _NEW ‘YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, ‘Columbia Trust Company Sub- scribes for $7,000,000 More of Bonds. DISTRICT STIL BEHIND. ® Aviators “Bomb” City Wich Appeals To-Day and | rades Spur on Investors. The third week of the Second Lib- | erty Loan drive ended to-day with sub ecriptions in the New York distri¢t | totalling $650,000,000. With only six} days left a tremendous increase in| subscriptions will be necessary if the | district is to raise its maximum lotment +1,500,000,000 before books close one week from to-day, The total announced to-day shows that the New York district is still be- hind the amount that should have been | subscribed in three weeks if the min-| imum of $990,000,000 demanded by the on the basis of a $3,- The the Government 000,000,000 loan is to be realized. maximum expected from the district | is based on a $5,000,000,000 loan | More than $2,000,000,000 has been raised throughout the country up to to-day, according to estimates of the) Treasury Department, whose officials feel confident that the subscriptions will pour in during the last six days of the drive in a volume that will| carry the loan over the $5,000,000,000 mark. MEETINGS ALL OVER CITY LAST WEEK OF DRIVE. Managers of the big undertakin| in this district are planning a whirl- wind finish to the campaign that ts expected to bring every tardy citizen into line before next Saturday. Meetings to stimutate the sale of bonds will be held in every part of the city at almost every hour of the day next week. “Liberty Bonds” will be the two words in everybody's mouth during the remainder of the drive if the comprehensive plans of the managers work out. A subscription of $7,000,000 from the Columbia Trust Company, bringing IN the company’s total to $10,000,000, was among the first recetved to-day, Other subscriptions reportéd were: General Motors, $1,500,0¢ United Motors, $1,000,000; Greenwich Savings Bank, $1,000,000; H. L. Doherty & Co. $1,000,000; Niles-Bement-Pond Co, $600,000; Chevrolet Co., $500,000; Union Trust Co., $900,000; Orange National Bank, Orange, N. J., $509,000; Ameri- can Hide and Leather Co, $800,000; | General Hide and Skin Corporation, $160,000; J, H. Rossbach Bros. $100,- 000; Barnet Leather Co, $100,000;] Newcastle Leather Co., $100,000; em-| ployees of Richard Young Co., $100,-| 000; Charles Kuh, $100,000 B. B, Cadwell & Co, $ L. F. Rothschild & Co 10; Strong, | Sturgis & Co, $200,000; Foster & Lounsbery, $150,000; Goldwyn Pic- tures Corporation § MM; City Save ings Bank of Brooklyn, $100,000; Ladd & Wood, $100,000; Viscose Ax Co, $100,000; Wilcox & Gibbs, Sewing Ma- | chine ¢ $1 Westinghouse Church & Kerr Co, $100,000; Meurer Steel Barre ; Austin- Nichols & ¢ $7 Pennsylyonia Wate wer Ou pa yo Ds Sap Hy ' i “ $ NG SULTS, Page 2 ENTRIES, Page 4 ———— ~$650,000000 OF WAR LOAN TAKEN HERE AND NATION'S TOTAL PASSES TWO BILLION pnscamaia ‘VINDICATE OUR HONOR,’ WILSON’S LOAN APPEAL SENT BY AIRPLANE The following letter from Presi- dent Wilson to Mayor Mitchel was dropped by one of the Ators who flew over the city with Liberty Loan appeals to-day “The White House, "Oct, 18, 1917. avi- ty “My Dear Mr. “This letter comes to you in an but in unusual cir- cumstances. I write it not be- cause I have the least doubt that your fellow citizens will respond with patriotic devotion to the call for subscriptions to the Liberty Loan, but because I want to send them a personal message. That message is this: “This war is the supreme test of the principles and energy of the people of the United States. The whole world looks to us to omit nothing that will bring about the complete triumph of these princtples and the complete vindi- cation of the honor and sover- elgnty of our Government which have been #o grossly violated and invaded. The response ought to be such a will put America the front of all civilized people Incerely yours, OODROW WILSON.” unusual way RESERVOIR AT U. S, ARMY POST BELIEVED POISONED Commandant at Fort Leavenworth Gives Order That All Water Be Boiled. LEAVENWORTH, Kan,, Oct. 20.—Fear that poison or disease germs may have been placed In the reservoir supplying Water to the army post here is said to be responsible for an order to-day by Col. William A. Shunk, Commandant at the fort, that all water must be boiled before being used. OMicera in the post laboratory made an analysis of water from the reservoir that supplies both the army and the city of Leavenworth, and it ts said that it was on thelr recommendation that the order to boll water was Issued. A man crawling through the under- dy 1 abd Colds: a9 Bausea! Bdamwaaves 1917. 12 PA ~ ZEPPELINS IN TWO GREAT RAID ONK CENT in Greater New York County, Nd. TWO CENTS elsewherts eee GES PRICE | sti vf the Ameri Almighty God for his divine aid in the successes of our arms; and > VPrstteseesseassssseesessssesssssess Stes ssssessesse always asserted and defended with fresh ardor and devotion and, for the benefit of all the free peoples of the earth. blessed with high achievement.” | OPAPP OOOOPOSOseesenneeesasessssonsaceceseseseeeeee dncncecesacaconcesoscesesescsscocecossesesonssece President Wilson Asks U. $. to Pray Oct. 28 for War Success WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—President Wilson by procla mation to-day declared Sunday, Oct, 28, as a day of prayer for the success an arms in the war, in accordance with the recent resolution of Congress. “Whereas, The Congress of the United States, by a concurrent resolutior October in view of the entrance of our Nation into the vast and awful war, which now afflicts the greater part of the world, has re- quested me to set apart by official proclamation a day upon which our people should be called upon to offer concerted prayer to The proclamatic dopted on the fou “Whereas, It behooves a great free people nurtured as we have been in the eternal principles of justice and of right, a Nation which has sought from the earliest days of its existence to be obedient to the divine teachings which have inspired it in the exercise of its liberties, to tum always to the Supreme Master and cast themselves in faith at His feet, praying for His aid and succor in every hour of trial, to the end that the great aims to which our fathers dedicated our power as a people may not perish among men, but be last upon enduring foundations through the divine blessing, set at “Now, therefore. 1, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, gladly responding to the wish expressed by the Congress, do appoint October 28. being the last Sunday of the present mowth, as a day of supplication and prayer for all the people of the Nation, earnestly exhorting all my countrymen t0 observe the appointed day according to their several faiths, in solemn prayer that God's blessing may rest upon, the high task which ts laid Upon us, to the end that the cause for which we give our lives and treasure may triumph and our efforts be FAMINE IN SUGAR French Down TS WORSE; HOTELS | CUT TABLE SUPPLY ;Many Stores Have None in Stock—Union League Ado)ts Air Cruisers Attack Western Battlefield and British Capital at Night. One- Rule LONDON, Oct, 20.—Germany has ne-Lump Rule. revived her Zeppelin campaign on A igre ene large ncale, Just when it was No hope for immediate rellef from! thought allied defenses had made the | he sugar famine in New York is seen air monster: ineffective, two big |by members of the Federal Food Ad- raids over France and England were ministration Committee and officials announced to-day, of the large refineries, The situation, Twenty- instead of growing better, is lkely to ven persons we killed and 53 injured in England, and seven Zeppelins took part in thi become | first crop will filter into the retail market. more acute until after the of December, when the first new ks attack. They flew over the ern counties and penetra- ted to part of the London district. French defenders to-day de troyed four Zeppelins of a raid ing fleet which flew over French territory to the East. One of the aerial cruisers was brought down at 7 A. M. by anti- aircraft fire near Saint Clement, in the department of Meurthe and Mo- selle. Stringent regulations were adopted in many parts of the city to-day to sugar supply. Large numbers of small grocery stores were conserve the entirely out of supply, and the larger and luckier stores took steps to re- s to a few pounds to a cus- It bevamo practically impos- sible for any person not a regular a grocery establishment strict 5 tomer, customer of : Another came down In flames in the region of Rambervilliers At the French defensive fire, [Rambervilliers 1s in the Vosges, to obtain All selling price the basis of 8.35 cents per pound for sugar that their continues unchanged on refiners announce least two others fell vic (Continued on Second Page) » guns in distant districts, tim to] 4 Zeppelins; Raiders Kill 27 in England; Part « of London Attacked |NO HARBOR TIE-UP NOV. 1; ISSUES TO BE ARBITRATED Shipping Board Representative and Parties to Dispute Agree to a Committee. Following a conference to-day be- tween Chairman Stevens of the ad- of the United soventy- New York the Tow- justment commission States Shipping Board and five representatives of the Loat hoat Owners’ Association, Exchange and various railroad companies, it was announced that there would be no tle-up of the port on Nov, 1, as threatened “The meeting resulted,” Chairman Stevens said Inter, “in that m the employers are willing to # Qgreement with the Government, which will be through the Shipping Board, to submit all of the questio relating to increases of wages, hours —In fact all labor questions—to @ committee to be nominated by the Government. ‘This committes will consist of representatives of the Unit- ed States Shipping Board, the Depart- ment of Labor and Department of Comme ELEVEN CHILDREN FINED FOR RIOTING AT SCHOOLS the toma" LJ ~ wm Says rth day of the present month of yeererreverery yy: Srrercercs seveeve cevevevecvesccove coovvecssseveerere eoveereryyyey cere vesetrereererees) ANTILLES SUNK BY UBOAT WHEN FAR OUT AT SEA Submaring Apparently Lay in Wait for American Transport] —Stronger C Zoavoys Planned WASITINGTON, Oct. 20.—Sinking of the United States transport An- return trip last Wed- nesday with a loss of seventy lives officials tiles on her hsa convinced Government that U boats are making special ef- forts to raid American transport steamers. It is likely to result In In- creasing the protection given to homeward bound steamers, The vessel was probably well out at nea when attacked, since the din- aster occurred Wednesday and no report of it was received at the Navy Department unt! Into yesterday. Perfect discipline must have marked the conduct of every man on board, since the list of the dead is so small, It is considered altogether likely that every man lost was Instantly killed below by the force of the explosion and that every unwounded man was taken off by the convoying fleet, OMctals of the War and Navy De- partments sent urgent cables to-day | brush near the Teservolr recently was) ane granulated, which 1s the Food| aixteen miles northeast of Epinal to their representatives abroad, ask- | supply, but he escaped "| Admintstration figure. The quota- [St, Clement is @ village in the ing immediate particulars of the eed tions of drokers and large Wholesal-| bordering province to Helgium. |Parents Pay for Four and Seven} sinking. Until theso details are re- huster roll o 08 RED CROS ers likewise conformed with regula-| Te battle line runs through it Are Held-—One Little Girl beable celles gt fs Lisokey ore limit them to one-fourth} 24 {ts principal city ts Nancy, ‘ Ir Gomplemant has ‘been P tions, which limi : A in the Round Up. with a list of the survivors, It will be| nt a pound matgan of profit over| Where recently @here have been | BROOKLYN PHYSICIAN i poor ey tice numerous German aeroplane Thirteen children acused of having | !Mpossible to furnish a complete eH @ refinery price | vith the exception of | te the pubilo fa required) to pay | Taide taken part in Gary school riots in the| at lie ress With at e580 ae ie fe public sixtee erican soldiers ret Charges Against Dr, Ryan in Con-| more then the prefiteer Is the retailer,| All the big raids on England in| Bronx were arraigned in the Bronx| fron Sees na thur caval aniialed zetlon WITH Work in Serb SRO talC the pale of government [Fecent weeks have been conducted by | children's Court to-day. leven were| men, tt 19 believed all tho dead were | nection With Work in Serbia conteel and reasonable retail/means of airplanes, which proved} found guilty and fined $1 to $10| 4) elvilt Moers and crew of the! Disproved, ayer + granulated sugar in New|@xtremely dificult to combat on the] Four fines were patd by parente lrenstore om Oere # 4 hould be moonlit nights they chose for thelt|The other seven children were held| ROME, Oct. 20.—Pathetie etc ot | York to-day should be not more than 237 men on the Antilles. Seriaraitan operetta paayt ns of 9% cents per nd, for what amall/Operations. After the last series of|in custody of the Children’s Society Peg ss Were 27 men o ARM .. the Serblans were told to-day ky re-| amount is ava raids, during which heavy casual-| Thore fined were: Emanuel Hell- arge number of high army an genes: casgibers 6h tha America: Met vou hotels measures were takzn|tles occurred, 1t was announced that|man, eleven yeurn old, No. 49% Clare- naval offers, w no have been observ. bp pbiaaa sion we Panera . a reprisal policy had been decided| mont Parkway; Jacob Jaslowita, thir-| ing war conditions and who wer mn. They arrived direct! to cut down unnecessary consumption, teen, No. 3872 Third Avenue: Arthur, thelr way home to act as instructors, from the Serbian front and expressed | ne full howl was removed from |UPon by tho British Government Vaslvey Na dts aoe leith Wesel eran te to th u nd e full sug ERE Nae paeanee nat | ONO e a h| were saved, ‘The vessel went to the the highest praise for the Serbian hero-| 1.9 tables in numerous hotels and| The material damage dono by Inst Samuel Kabak, fifteen, No.| bottom in five minutes, It 1s be lam and determination restaurants. In serving coffee one or|P!sht's raid on England, tt was of- Longfellow Avenue; Philip AN=| tieved the test loss of Ife oc. It 1g unoMclaily unierstood that the! oo imps of sugar only were given | Mclally stated, was confined to houses witz, fifteen, No. 1691 vk Ave 2 LL siolieap : mialon’s court of ing completely |" ‘in order. A few hotels sought |@nd business premises. nue; Emil Glahnert, twelve, No. 305 acres FE NRG Baller: BA8 Arik inB FADE ITted ‘Cre Hie ee ae gcoklyn. al emake a profit out of the acarcity hy| It was the first Zeppelin raid OM} Rast 140th Btreot; Murry Leventer fills SiG Hal earth A lite? tons lor inhi ee ee Imposing an extra charge of five or| London in twelve mc and few] eleven, No. 1575 Washington Avenue;| tiles did not o large body 0 ae - ae mE var sugar. This ts wholly | Persons saw the raiders, which few|David Haskin, thirteen, No, 681 Beck| troops, In addition to the returning a ten cents for sug ‘ t ta] Street; Sldney Seldel, thirteen, No,|OfMfcers, there were thirty-three on FOR SOLDIERS’ CHRISTMAS warranted, as the hotels have not|@t & sreat helght, and dropped but a : unwarranted. a8 the DOtle Bere vs cew pare an the metrop: area | 764 East 156th Street; Louis Podolaky, | Msted men, of whor cen were Pee SIERIrED been oblige to pa D1 s twelve, No, 3! Third Ave and | saved. roms Packages Ap-~| gid a month ago for thelr sugar, and the outlying districts, Rebecca Ziss, fourteen, No. 1687 Bath-| ‘The whereabouts of the survivors porttoned to Thirteen Divi {Whatever sugar t9 available from} “The atlent raid” is the nam gate Avenue is not known, ey were undoubt WASHINGT: wh ale retail houses is ee Lit Zen y a Rebecca was the only girl in the! edly picked up by the escor war- can soldier and sail g sold at the fixed price Many Le ‘liot and she received the minimum|ghips, but whethe ! been the ted Cross & Christinaa package, ay * t'nion J Club set the} Mornin, of $1, Bhe wa ed of in-| returned , 1 4 on ene IALAD & Le And con lard t clubs for] Was a @ citing others t rder board other t ying bacon, writin ries its restaurant| view ——- leet und conti way to raale ven uth organs t as ‘ wl of granulated | the evening : a . In Without Cause. ee Hoe prob Heals | Ne oa ik ed handhorchle : her a was pliced on tha} house for the sound of aR | AG i. vee naay Wat mie AL Sina, in « sand n Ate | Ae by @ rumor jay that Cot als ey D4 weneral mana f | table Ar : at wanting more| went tobe 4 believing 4 1 nel Roosevelt was shortly to visit | antic Meet in the w ne, some of+ ' rent ied neily Af gar Ww call for it and] been intercepted of the lene ttallaw front | ficlals believe the survivors have Boned tn tanking of the packets to th 1 be se but the club en-| Then, suddenly, two | a | been taken b. val an port, the country Mas bes nmeR o thoughtless waste, | startled light sleeper failed on the telephone Colonel| though they point ut the report to iri ids Ge ph, appointed bp| followed, a majority | Roosevelt merely remarked Admiral Sims may have been sent by — ei | - merely was the firing of ar “Don't ask me nonsensical ques-| wireless and the feet have continued 0p toward an American port, Sciatica FRIFIFCEF FFE G FSET FEFFFPP PS FFGFFSD Men Will Re C1 | Wilson has approved the new dratt NINE CONVOVED STEAMERS, TWO BRITISH DESTROYERS. ARE SENT 10 THE BOTTOM Two German Raiders Destroy Mer- chant Ships in North Sea After Torpedoing Warships and Then Take Flight; Destroyer CrewsLost LONDON Oct. 20.—Two German raiders attacked a convoy in the North Sea on Wednesday and sank two of the British escorting destroyers, it was announced officially to-day by the British: War Office. The destroyers sunk were the Mary Rose and the Strongbow. DROP LOAN BOMBS OVER GERMAN LINE were sunk without warning. All the officers and men of the Mary Rose and the Strongbow iementieneass Bombed the Trenches With | 14,000 Posters Depicting American Efforts. were lost. The War Office declares untrue a German report to the effect that the attack occurred in the territortal waters of the Shetland Islands. The raiders, which were heavily armed) had evaded the British watchers, Thirty Norwegians wer hy British patrol boats raiders, which were heavily armed, showed anxiety to escape before they could be intercepted by British forces, and made no attempt to rescue the crews of the sunken destroyers [A despatch from Berlin de- scribing the attack says that eleven merchantmen and the Brit~ ish destroyers 929 and 931 were destroyed. by Hght German sem forces off the coast of Norway. It says the only crapt to escape was 4 fishing veasel and that the Ger- mans suffered no losses.) ' The American achooner Jennie By Righter, of 647 tons gross, was sunk by a Teuton submarine on off Cape Villano, Spain. Nine men of the schooner were landed to-day at Mujia, The Jennie EB. Righter hailed from New Haven, Conn, The Jennie B. Righter was a three~ masted schooner and was built at Madison, Conn, in 1887, Apparently there was no loss of life, as the records of the United States Shipping Commissioner show that the vessel carried only nine men w! #he left New York on Sept. 12 for javre, France, in command of Capt, Stephen Black. These included five Amertcans — Dennis O'Neill, mate, Boston; Albert T. Young, seaman, East Boston; Charles E. Blatchford, cook, Gloucester, Mass. and two mate uralized seamen, John Grant of Nova Scotia and Alfred J, Rowe of England. The schooner, owned by the Shep- ard & Morse Lumber Company of this city, was valued at $60,000, She car- ried 3,500 barrels of lubricating oll, owned by the Vacuum O1] Company, FRENCH GENERAL KILLED IN FIRST-LINE TRENCH Paris Reports Death of Baratier, Who Figured in Fashoda Incident WASHINGTON, Oct, 20—Amert- can aviators in France, the Treasury flying over the German lines to-day drop- ping tens of thousands of Liberty Loan Posters, Large supplies of the posters were sont sdme time ago to General Persh- ing and arrangements were made to Department announces, are have American aviators on the west- ern front shower the German lines with them, simultaneously with the aerial campaign of dropping paper bombs from coast to coast in this country to-day, The posters aelected for use on the front depict Uncle Sam with an army of millions and an air fleet of tre- mendous proportions, Another pos- |ter selected for this work was the lone depicting the Statute of Liberty. Still another carried President Wil- son's battle cry “Make the World Safe for Democracy.” Altogether seven designs were repre- sented in the consignment of 14,000 posters sent Pershing. Bo {mport- ant was the loan message to the Ger- man forces considered by officials that the supply sent Pershing was trom the first batch printed, heeds lak NEW PLAN FOR THE DRAFT. Needed tn War In Called Last. WASHINGTON, Oct. 20,—Pr. ident regulations which will be promul gated soon to govern the selection of the remainder of registered men for the National Army. Tho new plan aime to classify each of the 9,000,000 not yet drafted in his place in the national acheme of de fense and to postpone the drafting PARIS, Oct. 20.—General A. Baratier men most needed in war industries |has been killed in a first line trench, and those having dependents, He was © Captain of the Frama pessisbted it — command under General Marchand, IN COMA WITH $4,750 whose occupation of Fashoda, in .750, ian in 1898, Brought about o clash a = Lord Kit ner which threatened Unidentified Man Found tn Street 1 sit in Wee between France and Dase With Large BIL |Great Brita A man b by the police to be | wk about sist) yeues ole AMERICAN DOCTOR WOUNDED, vad “ known, was picked up at| — rT hh Street and Virst Avenue this af- |B. G. hs ary nm state of coma.| Servi Ho Was sent to Bellevue Ho WASHIN( me was lifted from the ambulance |1/n, Medical Olficers’ Reserve Carpe, A a shower of silver tinkled ove ned to the British foreta, was he oor, Nurses and attendants col-| wounded Oct. 5. the War Department oted the sliver and, with bills of larce unced to-day denomination, found in’ his clothes.| His emergency address on file ts W, possesion, Girest, Richmond, Va ote sh baal