The evening world. Newspaper, May 23, 1918, Page 1

Ty eet “If It Happens In New York It’s In The Evening World’’ ity 18, by PRICE TWO CENTS. 0. (The New York World), The | “Circulation Books Open to Al All’ The Press Publishing NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1918, “Cirenlation Books Open to All. 22 PAGES GERMANS RAID HOSPITALS, KILL NURSES WEATHER—Partly cloudy; to-morrow fair. — U.S. GUNS BLOW UP 8 GERMAN BATTERIES EVERY MAN OF DRAFT AGE MUST WORK ORFIGHT BY JULY, DECLARES PROVOST MARSHAL wuscacssrs NEW DRAFT ORDER ' Those in Non-Useful Occupa- tions to Be Put Into Army. 1 | MAY KILL BASEBALL. | LEAVES ONLY 3p Theatrical Performers Ex- BIG LEAGUE STARS American and National Leagues May Be Forced to Suspend by New Crowder Ruling. empted From Crowder Rul- ing at Baker's Request. WASHINGTON, May man of draft age must work or fight under a drastic amend- 23.—Fivery after July 1, ment to the selective service regula- tions announced to-day by Provost Marshal General Crowder. date of Provost Marshal General Mot only idiers, but all draft reg-| Crowder, stating that the new draft tetrants engaged in what are held to | amendment will require be non-useful occupations, are to be sional baseball playera to engage in The most recent official man- profos- the choice of a new job or (he army, track and bucket go to war, Gamblers, race haled before looai boards and given | some “useful” occupation by July 1 or| will practically riddle the major leagues of first-class talont if BIGGEST DAY FOR RED CROS IN GITY SINCE NEWYORK TOTAL $16,438, 108 HAIG TROOPS TAKE PRISONERS IN TWO RAIDS ON GERMANS; ARTILLERY BATTLES KEPT UP American, British and French Soldiers All Eager to Meet Expected Hindenburg Drive. [BRITISH REPORT] DRIVE BEGAN; | Camegie Corporation Swells the Fund by a Million- Dollar Subscription. SUMS ARE GIVEN. Washington Report Fund of $100,000,000 More Than Half Raised. LARGE WASHINGTON, May 23.—Red Cross contributions of the country, reported to Headquarters to-day in the drive for a second $100,000- 000 war fund, amounted to $52,- 150,396, New York stood at 2 o'clock to- | 000,000 quota with a total of $16,- shop attendants and fortune tellers |tne new ruling becomes effective. From a desultory glance at the long only | and head tho lst, but those who will be tee l| reached by tho now regulation A189 | roster of major league players include waiters and bartenders, the- | ¢hirty.six attendanta, Di&s- | there: are above draft age exempt from military Ingpection of the records re’ ore and operators and other atre ushers senger elovator vice. hotels, stores, attendants of clubs, &c., domestics and clerks in store Baseball players, as well as jockeys, rofessional golfers and other profes- Genel sportsmen, Gen. Crowder sald will be lost to baseball to-day, will be affected by the regula-| The players affected tions if strictly, enforced. |rule, together with thetr The War Depertment issued | "es, are ax follows ye Giants—George Burns, twenty- ¢ t rogarding baseball players . eee oe sportsmen,| ‘ine: Walter Holke, twenty-fiv the major leagues under the “useful {occupation or fight" draft amendinent 127 of the best players in both leagucs under this and (otter, professional nine) Walten Holes, besnir Bye) "No ruling as to whether baseball | den, thirty; Joe Wilholt, twent players or persons engaged in golf, | ht: Rube Benton, twent tennis or any other sport come under| elicht; Pol Perritt, twenty-si the regulations regarding idiers and Ferd Schupp, twenty-six; Jeff non-essential pursuits will be made| Tesreau, twenty-nine, has boen ap- Yankees—Ping Bodie, thirty until a specific case pealed to the Provost Marshal Gen- eral'a office.” Hugh High, twenty-etgh' Roger Peckinpaugh, twenty-sev- Theatrical performers were ex-| ©: Wally Pipp, twenty-five; cepted from the regulations at the Derrill Pratt, twenty-eight: Al direction of Secretary of War Baker,| Walters, twenty-five; Ray Cald- who {s sald to feel that the people| Well, thirty; George Mogridge cannot do without all amusement in] twenty-eight ats Browns—Fritz Matael, twenty- war time and that other amuseny could be dispensed with more readily.| nine; Lesiie Mann, twenty-nine: Deferred classification granted on} ‘ieorge Sisler, twenty-five; Nick acoount of dependents will be disre-| Cullop, twenty-seven; Dave Da- garded entirely in applying the rule.| Vehport, twenty-six; Mel Gallia, ‘A man May be at the bottom of Class] twenty-five; Urban — Shocker, One, or even in Clana Four, but if he| twenty-seven; Allan Sothoron, twenty-five, falls within the regulations and re- fuses to take useful employment he Athletics—George Burns, twen will be given a new number in Class] ty-five; Forrest Cady, thirty; One that will send him into the mill-| Clarence Walker, thirty; Vean tary service forthwith. Local poards| Grege, thirty-one; Elmer Myers, are authorized to use discretion only| twenty-four, where they find that enforced change Phillies—Dave Bancroft, twen of employment would result in dis- Eddie Burns, thirty-one proportionate hardship upon his de- Stock, twenty-five; Frod pendents ame, thirty; Erskine Mayer It had been known for somo time| twenty-eleht; Mike Prendergast, that some form of “work or fight" | twenty-elght; Eppa Rixey, twen- plan had been submitted to Presi-| ty-etght, dent Wilson, but there had been no Tigere—Owen Bush, 30; Harry intimation that it was #o far reach-| Hellman, 24; Bobby Veach, 20; ing {n scope. Both the military oM-| Oscar Vitt, 28; Pep Young, 28 ners and Department of Labor off-| Bernie Boland, 26; Harry Coveles- etala pellevo it will go a long way! klo, 31; George Dauss, : Bill In solving the labor problem for far-| James, 28, mers, shipbulldera and munition mak Pirates-Max Carey, 28: George ers and will end for the ent, Cutshaw, 28; Vio Sater, 27 at Jerst, (alk of conscription la- | Stengel, 27; Wilbur Cooper, bor, The announcement to-day gives White Sox—Kddie Co 1 notice slanify nie that the lint of no Oncar Felah, 25; Ey Chick G 5 26; Fred MeMullin, 1 Ray Schalk, } Joo Rena, 1; Urban Fabor, useful occupations will be exiendet from tima to time ax necesulty re quires, ‘The statement of the Provost Mar- Huck Weaver, Dave Danforvh, 28; sha! Gonoral folio 90; Heb Russell, Claude Wi “Provost Marshal General Crowder! jaime, 27; Mol Wolfmann, to-@ay announced an amendment to Cardinala—Walton Cruiss, 98 (Continued on Tenth Page.) (Continued om Tenth Page) * that if the Government intends to raid) , respective | Red Cross war fund dri This rep- resents a gain of $5,080,251 in the liast twenty-four hours—the largest amount raised in one {drive commenced on Monday, day's big leap ahead tn the spurt for $25,000,000 and more was due to eral big donations from philan- pic and industrial Institutions, The largest contripution was that of | $1,000,000 from the Carnegie Corpura- tion, the branch of the Ironmaster's | Churities devoted to the spread of ed | ucation, Henry 8. Pritchett, direct Jof this organization, announced me | bonefaction at the daily luncheon of | Shows day less than $9,000,000 from its $25,- | | 488,708 raised in the four days of the day since the| LONDON, May 23.—Heavy artillery fighting in the Ancre Valley, outheast of Lens and in the Flanders salient, is reported in to-day’s ofti- Following is the text: “The enemy rushed one of our posts in the Aveiuy Wood sector last night. “We carried out successful raids in the neighborhood of the Ayette and Leux St. Marc Wood, inflicting a number of casualties on the enemy and capturing a machine gun. “The enemy also attempted to raid our positions in the vicinity of Riez-Du-Vinage. ‘IRL AVIATOR FLYING HERE FROM CHICAGO WITH LOAD OF MAIL cial statement: Two of our men are missing. He was driven off by rifle and machine gun fire. “The hostile artillery was active last night in the Ancre Valley, south of Lens, east of Robecq and east of the Forest of Nieppe.” take prisoners and learn the dispositions of the troops facing them, are taken here as indications that a renewal of the German drive is at hand, German prisoners, taken in these raids, admitted to-day. that their! | commanders had told them the great offensive would begin the first week | jteady, even anxious, for the fray. |OFFICIAL FRENCH REPORT. PARIS. May 23.—There was intermittent shelling south of the River | Avre, on the Amiens front, the French War Office announced to-day. A} German raid on French positions in the Bois Mongival failed. detachments patrolling in the Champagne brought in a num‘er of pris- oners and some war material. ——E——— ~ AMERICAN GUNS DESTROY EIGHT NE STINSON OUT OF TEN GERMAN BATTERIES KATHERINE STINSON KATHER IN FLIGHT 10 A. ¥. lOne U.S. Aviator in Battle With Three Ger- Red Cross workers at the Chamber of Commerce, and @ special vote of | man Machines Within Twenty Minutes. thanks to Mr. Carnegie was voted | | manne to 3 WITH CHICAGO \ AIL [AMERICAN REPORT| ie he Bolen n Stent Bompany (has WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Wednesday, May donated 1,000, a quarter of < = goen to the credit of New York while : 2 (Associated Press).—The following statement was issued at American |the remainder 1s divided among the} Aviatrix Pes Near Cleve Headquarters at 9 o'clock to-night: various planta of the corporation, i saline at! ? a L Other large contributions ennouncea| 4d, Travelling at 71 The artillory activity has decreased. There aro no new devel- to-day were Miles an Hour. opments to report. American Locomotive Company, Suits i $100,000; Ar in Telephone and) @eVRLAND, Mav 22,—Mise Kath “This morning Lieut, Kurta, pilot im our alr service, fell within Telegraph € 0; Central ice Giinson, in her fight rom Chi our lines and was killed. His fall apparently was duo to accident.” Terabe Compas ¥ i apactidatad sage tn Haw Fash; canned over ee The accuracy of the American artillery fire on the Pleardy tront is swanth &) (COnIE $75,000; IF, w,| Urs. five miles south of here, at 1 ‘attested by information that eight out of ten German batteries which have Woolworth (personally) $50,000; Union| P. M |been active in bombarding the American positions have been destrc a nae ae a | is Po: ave been destroyed Igonn ‘T, Pratt, $15.00; Cardinal Fur-|Newharg. had boon fees 4 by the American artillerymen since their entry into this sector. Aerial |iey, $1,500; Jeremiah ilkenty #95 ME erinutam ay 4d) tne a )| photographs show that direct ‘hits were obtained in most instances, Dunleavy Milbank, $26,000; Alt- fs a] man & Co., ), and Mr. and Mre,| "es a9 F In addition to this, the American guns have been busy in tearing uo Percy R. Pine 000. CHICAGO, May Miss K r-\the enemy's rear lines and setting his ammunition dumps and billets on By divistens of workers the tota eek s left on a | fire, while patrols from the American lines have been harassing the Ger- ralsed in New York is divided as| yor, A. M., carrying ma mans nightly follows Unheralded, Miss Stinson lef! Bie J* 7 . Teams Committee, $8,431,621; | new biplane and flew over Lake M here was groat aerial activity @ le rations Committee, $6,478,116; | gan. she clded to attempt the trip| northwest of Toul. American aviators ]539; Industria] Committee, $129,500. | because Jozen combats, One American aviator from the etion ompany of | sistin f malted] i ithi frome per oat Fas la |chines, one after the other, within "oft ie avian depend epi and at) “Pwo other American pilots fought fe for $1,000, @ hox of} Mineola Field, ne . for half an hour with two German Mole and Seaplane Base Both Badl grape fruit $300 and a keg of naila| by $ o'clock Ne machines at an altitude of 5,500 Damaged, the Ad m |—not classed as fruit by the profea- | about enough g UC EPUCTTLC ak a posh ap Sweety tr Ppa maged, the Admiralty © was raffled — off | last ¢ hours hoses cially Announce | yet the RUNDE ade I “ my aircraft ave been extreme. s rt from Schenectady | Cld spon af 1 wor - vine ha ok ee ONDON M AG Croas headquarters the mail fr the F om Lopate Neral aoc " ' ne local committee | ¥!t Ate ent s pone sarin is have beanl|! me wits eee aoe and f the villages), : | (cont ourth Page.) | tied tn place, and M fon, wit i i " Hawes) by bom sed Nesioh die : & duking Faniare @hout her « ta, | Visited by the hostile aviators present | aviators as : Meeps (aes Wink. Ghe ean os pitiful scenes of destruction, The| ietween M is ow ab a mpecial mail clerk two weexa ago, | Military damage done han been neg- ‘Admirals ; 4 | esses i WO WEEKS AKO | eile, but a number of clviliar v eee been killed, most of them wom ca ESULTS, Page 2 $ SUNDAY WORLD WANTS |children ARE XOU KUN DOWN? ENTRIES, Page 10 The American soldiers and nuraos| DEWFY'S DEW OL, A SYHVE 1oNtC (Continued on Second Pag WORK MONDAY WONDERS, GERMAN AIR RAIDERS KILL OR WOUND SEVERAL HUNDRED NURSES AND THEIR PATIENTS Bombs of Enormous Size Dropped by Large Group of Planes on Many . British Hospitals—Americans in the Same Area Escape. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, May 23 (Associated Press).—German airmen again have bombed heavily British hospitais in the area behind the lines and this time have killed and wounded some ; hundreds among the personnel and patients of many different hospitals | The increased number of trench raids, by which both sides hope to |" the group. Recorded in the casualty list are the names of several sisters who wit! | other women nurses stood bravely by their posts throughout a territic jin June. It will find the Americans, British, French, Belgians and Italians | French | ALREADY IN FRANCE! | deluge of explosives. There is in the nalgbborhood one large American hospital and another in which there are American workers suffered. Last summer a number of American doctors and nurses wero killed and wounded when these same ospitals were raided by the Germans. This latest horror was perpetrated Sunday night, apparently by four | *auadrons of enemy planes which ap- |pear to have comprised more than a score of machines. A great number eft bombs were dropped, about thirty per cent. of them huge affairs which dug vast craters in the hospital grounds and the rest high explosive shrapnel which sent their death dealing bul- lots tearing {n every direction through the crowded hospital tents and bulld- ings. have Secretary] A [WAMERICAN ARMY Baker Confers With House Committee on Plan to Re- move Limit on Number. WASHINGTON, May After a conference between Secretary Baker of the House Military Committee to-day the com- 23. and Chairman Dent mittee arranged to three-seated Airplane was Raker appear late this afternoon at|brought down by gunfire while Gy- , secret session in behalf of his planjing at a low altitude and the occu- to give the President unlimited| pants were made prisoners, The authority, In the Army Bill, as to tho number of men he may call out, |ctemy Captain and the pilot sus- An amendment to the $12,500,000,000 | ‘#!ned comparatively Hght shrapnel army bill has been drawn up by|"eunds, while the observer was not Chairman Dent and other members of|hurt. When questioned why he had the committee, which provides that|directed his men against hospitals, “the President may at any time cal!/the Captain explained in a matter into the military service such forces! 4» eacr way that he aidn't see the Red Cross signs. He sald he wi 4a are necessary to carry into effect | approxi- | Seeking military objectives and had the provisions of this act." The United States has mately 650,000 soldiers in France to-|no desire to molest hospitals, duy, Of this number 275,000 have ur-| With a shrug of his shoulders, the rived overacas since April 1. Ninety German Captain added that if the thousand of the men debarked from | Hattgh choose to bulld thelr hospl- transports from May 1 to May 1 About 250,000 men will arrive in| ‘#!* near ra is they must expect France in the present month, One to get them ed | million American goldiera will be in) ‘The Capt oke excellent Eng- nce on July 4, and If present estl-|iish Asked fe he bad learned te, mates are correct 2,000,000 will be in he plied t 1 been in diplomatic France by Christmas Day. of the; service befd/e' the war, 1,900,000 men who will be in France)“ ‘sunday night's rald wae divided by July, 60 per cent, will be combat | int, two phases, the first of whicn troops and 49 per cent, non-ocmbit Hogan shortly after 10 o'clock and SrORDE ated until 11 o'clock, Not satisfied Theso figures were given to-day by with this the e ny returned at 11.40 ngreseman FR clock and peavily bombed hospitals hard Olney of Mas achusetts, who said he was author- filed with wounded men. zed by hia colleagues on the House fy one building, which was dame tee on Military Affairs to : ; thant Rhown aged most seriously, all the patients ? + % that from were suffering from compound frac: n 200,000 men tures) which e@ necessary theic seas cach im nbs being strapped in the a r rd. ars nha rath hes the terrible bombing ¢ kept going her rounds and SISTER OF PARNELL DIES iveviss: the un‘ortunate’ men,” who night easily have done themselves. PUNLAN, Muy 24—-A weneation wae, One sister was Killed outright while ere to-day by the death in the she was administering to the sol- Vorkhousn Hospital known aa the, ‘ers’ wants, and another was so se Dublin { Mra. En ously hurt died shortly ke ater-of w- afterwar 8 another was é@ying art Parnell, the famous Lrish patriot, | to-days ; ‘ a ee ee ee ee Ce eee eee