The evening world. Newspaper, August 26, 1918, Page 1

“i It Happens In New York It’s In The Evening World’’ » 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), a BRITISH TAKE TOWNS ON HINDENBURG LINE SENATE SPEEDING MAN POWER BILL; MAY PASS 10- DAY Clear Trac’ Given to Hurry| Measure Through—Wo-k | or Fight Clause in. : CHANGI of Soldiers and Sailors} Not Disqualified for U. S. Positions. S MADE WASHINGTON, Aug. 26—A clear] track was given in the Senate to-day to the Man Power Bill, passed Satur- | by the Droadening the army draft a day House, © limits to eighteen and forty-five When the Senate convened under} years, to take up war time Sheppard an agreement prohibition, of ‘Texas. prohibition advocate, moved +o] aside, Senator that measure debate temporarily lay It was agreed amendments to the Man Power Bilt| to, and on was remused, with passage late | day or to-morrow expected To expedite and simplify procedure, the House bil] was substituted for the draft which has been pending in the | Senate, The Senate Military Commit- | tee reported the House bill with minor | amendments, after adding the Senate | amendments, including, the “work or| fight" proposal The Senate Committee struck out} the House amendment providing for appointment of special examiners by | Marshal General to re- in existing deferred the Provost classify men classes. The Senate accepted the commit- tee amendment providing that the wife of a soldier or sailor shall not be disqualified for any position under he Government because she is mar Senator Shields of Tennessee posed a substitute in effect the Civil Service laws insofar as they would affect such women, rejected 40 to 30. pro- aiving: which was to-| = JULY 1, 1919, MAY SEE NATION ON WATER WAGON FOR DURATION OF WAR Date Suggested. by President Opposed to Liquor Legisla- tion Now in Congress. ASHINGTON, . Aug. 26 President Wilson, Senate Prohibition leaders de clared to-day, 18 not opposed to legislation pending in the Senate for national prohibition during the war, but has suggested that the proposed time for its becoming effective—Jan, 1 next--be ex- tended Negotiations to that end, it was said, seemed to assure an agree- ment for passage of the bill and also for some extension of time to liquor interests. Senator Sheppard said that at a recent conference the President did not object to action by Con- gress on the legislation, but dis- cussed extending the effective date of the restrictions, Addi tional time, the President was sald to feel, should be given many in- terests involved in the liquor busi- ness to close up their affairs, in cluding banks holding bonded warehouse certificates. July 1, 1919, was the new date suggested. Thyt time also should be afforded for social adjustment was said | have been suggested by the President WOMEN SOON TO SHAVE! NO, NOT THEMSELVES; MEN “They Have Artistic Touch,” Says Shop Owner—Thinks They Will Replace All Males. the woman ba On several previous occasion tempts have been made in New York to operate barber shops with women barbers, without much success, but to-day J. B. Schusser, President of the Master Barbera’ Institute and pro- prictor of the Waldorf-Astoria bar- ber shop, announced his conviction | that women barbers would soon sup- plant men almost entirely. “Women barbers must come In New York just as they have come in Chicago, London and Paris," said Mr, Schusser, Several months “owing to war conditions the Master Bar Insitute established a girls the barber trade in New and soon a good supply of ac- York, complished barbers will be turned out Women take to shaving naturally hey have a light hand, and hair- Another committee amendment F ing, massage, and other phases of adopted provides that men under ng, massag : aan rey nie danied enna |the trade are easily acquired. They meena, all not be denied CoOM-| nave the artistic touch, you might missions or entrance to officera’ train- | ney ing camps because of their youth Mr, si erted that the bar- A toa th m. | bers’ str practically broken, but The Senat accepted the COM=Junion — officii claimed) they ‘were mittee amend nt providing the | winning. education after the war at Govern aa “ment expen f boys under twenty Steam Vacht Vega Released, one years of age, who either enlist AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug The or are drafted into the military or|steam yacht Vega, held for investixa- naval service by the naval authorities, wax re is naed to-day (Guards placed aboard HIGH COST OF “LOVING HIGHER ere removed and nadian port as are favorable ~ she will proceed Koon 48 Weather by condition: © ok to Drive With A ‘Werth #1 8 is So Daly mm Canadian Flyer Killed, Aro trtin ¥ Plows M The high of loving hus hit kill rite day and Fonkers, a ut Ht i. 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"AMERICAN AVIATORS. RAID COLLISION IN AIR KILLS THREEFLIERS OFF FIRE ISLAND Ensign Pero “One of Those Lest as Men and Machine Sink After Crash. OTHER PLANE SAVED. | Navy Department Announces Vain Search for Victims of Accident. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Lons of @ naval seaplane with her crew of j three, including Ensign Donald C. Pero, in collision with another sea- plane off Fire Island Saturday eve- ning, was announced to-day by the Navy Department. Pero's machine is believed to have sunk immediately after falling into the water. Minesweepers searched the vicinity but could discover no trace either of the crew or of the| | plane. | Ensign H Jother plane water y Stevens, piloting landed safely on his mechanic and ant and aided in the unsuccessful search, The accident occurred about 7 o'clock in the event: The two men mis with Ensizn | Pero are W. C. Jaegel, Chief Machinist Mate, and F. A. Newman, Machinist Mate. the the| assist- Enlisted While Student. PRINGFIELD, Mass. Donald Pero, t son of and Mrs. George Pero of this enlisted in the naval aviation ser- Pero Collewe Aug. 26.—n- ty-two, city vice while in his first year at Massachu- setts Institute of ‘Technology. He | trained at Miami, Florida. He has a brother, Joseph, a photographer in the naval aviation service, ——<>_—_ AUSTRIAN NAVAL BASE: Airmen Dive and Rescue Pilot Who} Fell Into Sea, Then | | Destroy Plane. ROME, Aug. 26.—American airmen raided the great Austrian naval ba of Pola, on th Admiralty Adriatic, Saturday unced to-Bay the ani During the fighting one airplane fell into the sea, Other alrn dived and d the pilot, then destroyed the 4 machine At the same time British and It aviators bombed Durazzo and ( a while British airmen, operating e, | bombed Cattaro, obtaining direct hit on a@ railway station, submarine depot and a hangar. Pola is nearly # southeast of Venice. Curzola ix on one of the Dal mation islands. Cattaro is in the ex-| southern tip of Austria, Durazzo is in Albania. From Pola to Durazzo is bout 400 miles, in an airline Cattaro and Durazeo 100 to 150 milex of mth MRS. ALLINSON. QUESTIONED CHICAGO, Aya. 2 Allinson, mother of turzola, | within | Coast. | Itali Mrs, Thomas W pacifist and poet, now twenty-year sentence in the ‘a prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan,, for | here to-day It Was learned Mrs Allinson wa Questioned regarding a of the rty at which she presided, She was veleased, however, after she promised to refrain from making any statement n the future in opposition to Am participation in the war, 4 FRENCH MOTHER NAMES HER BABY DAUGHTER FOR PRESIDENT WILSON Eleventh Has Been Christened Wilsonne Edith Vander Eecken. ARIS, Aug: 15 (correspond Press).—While avenues and bridges are being named in honor of the President of the United States and hundreds of newly born French boys christened with his name, it remained for Mme. Julie Vandr Eecken of Ognes to adopt the name for her newly born daughter, who has just been ba 4 Wilsonne Edith Vandr Eecken, The child is the elev- enth of Mme. Vande Eecken. TROTZKY REPORTED LIVING ON FORMER CZAR'S YACHT, LENINE ON°A BATTLESHIP <.,, Child of Ognes Woman NEW BLOW EAST OF ARRAS; ‘Strong French Forces Push Across Ailette River—Germans Fighting | Desperately to Save Bapaume as British Continue to Surround City —Troops Reach Longueval. LONDON, Aug. 26.—British troops attacked this morning in the Scarpe sector, east of Arras, and good prog- ress is being made, according to the official statement issued at the War Office to-day. Washington Hears Nearly All Bol-, Neuville-Vitasse. sheviki Leaders Have Left Mos- cow and Petrograd. 2h. WASHINGTON, Aug. Nearl In a few hours the British made an advance of two} miles on a front of four miles, according to advices received y| all the Bolsheviki leaders have lett here from the battle front. and Trotzky aboard the former Em- dis- peror Nicholus's yacht a short tance below Petrograd This report is denied by the Swe dish press, but the formant said it was current when h left Petrograd. His message told ing held at to get the against the were about address by Troizky, Cxecho-Slovaks. Ther 7,000 present to hear a Dut it was be persuaded th Czechs, to move against —~— EX-CZAR'S SON MURDERED, IT IS REPORTED, BECAUSE HE WEPT FOR DEAD FATHER “A Dog's Death for a Dog,” Said Bolsheviki in Telling of Death, Says Report department's in- also of a meet- Kronstadt in an endeavor soldiers to agree to fight inti- mated that most of them could not | Petrograd and Moscow, and it is) Monchy-le-Preux, Guemappe and Wancourt, 4 lide less than fiv almost impossible to see those Who! miles south east of Arras, have been taken in to-day’s atlack. Further | are left, according to information| _ reaching the State Department to-| uth the British have taken Mory and made progress to the southeast ot day through Stockholm from a man| the village. who left Petrograd Aug. 23. He rer} (The towns of Monchy-le-Preux, Guemappe and Wancourt were ported Lenine, the Bolshevik Pre-) on the Hindenburg line as it stood prior to the German drive on March micr, on a battleship at Kronstadt.) 9), In this secttor the Germans drove ahead slightly, but were held up nearer Arras. ° | Cojeul River and the Scarpe and adds about four miles to the length of | the battle front.) | Fighting is reported proceeding at Heninel, | | | after the second day of the fighting and after that time could not get | This morning's attack was apparently between the i. Wancourt, Heninel, Eaucourt-l’Abbaye, Martinpuich, lows: Monchy-le-Preux, Guemappe Croiselles, east *lof Mory, Favreuil, of i: Bazentin-le-Petit, Mametz and Carnoy, and then proceeds to the Somme just to the west of Maricourt. There is little change south of the Somme, except that the British line has been improved to the east of Chuignes. FAVREUIL, NEAR BAPAUME, CAPTURED Favreuil, a mile and a half northeast of Bapaume, has been captured and the British have advanced beyond the village, the War Office state- ment says. | The British lines have been advanced slightly astride the Somme and {| progress in the direction of Maricourt, four miles northeast of Bray, the tatement says Early to-day British troop Avesnes, west were reported to have entered the outskirt LONDON, Aug. 26.—A Russian Prince of Suzanne. two miles east of Bray-Sur-Somine, and to be near Cappy, who recently arrived in London, av-| Jess than two miles southeast of Bray on the south bank of the Somme gonning fo the Daily Mall conticms (| GERMANS BEATEN ON WHOLE LU vague rumors of the killing of Alexis, the son of the former Emperor. After WITH THE BRITISH FORCES IN FRANCE, Aug. 26 (by the the father was executed went to the son, saying We killed your father for a dog.” the a dog's deat Alexis burst into tears and one the band then shot him dead. ‘The bo was fourteen years old on July PARIS, Aug It epurted here Jthat Alexis, the former Czareviten Kussia, was assa ed by the Bol sheviki, following tne killing of r, the deposed Caar boy \tat ( was shot with a revolver, tt had been put to death. ine Bolsheviki his h because he wept when told bis night the Germans counter-attacked and got back a slight portion of thesr Associated Press).—The battle this morning again extended the active front to the northward. fresh British forces launching a new attack from the River Scarpe to what heretofore has been the left flank of the battle of line. Everywhere the German line is reported to have been beaten in a ¥ the British troops push forward. With the customary ash’? bombardment the British : 3 o'clock thi and seem to have made good progre: been considerable activity north of the River Searpe, fay took In the course of h went over at morning There also has where the British ye’ . some ground, the losses, Travin's Name Certified for Ha In the south there was new activity. Below the Scarpe the British ALBANY, Aug The ant ' . nee continued to push forward lastenignt and to-day A vicious German in the ase. counter-attack at Eaucourt-L’Abbaye was repulsed with heavy losses fi eonveng é the enemy while additional pr were captured by the B ‘ontain the name M The Briti yps in their new drive on the Arras front { Tray and amuel E t y f , Lee far the 4 to have entered the town of Monchy-le-Preux and t ive captured State Comptroller, ha © Orange Hill the ¢ missioners of bi ne Secretary of State North of Bapaume the Germans have been driven further back. *| Sois The line of battle, starting with Fampoux on the Scarpe River, fol- | EN. MANGIN OUTFLANKS COUCY FRENCH TROOPS ADVANCE IN THE AILETTE SALIENT; STRONG FORCES CROSS RIVER Prepare Way for Decisive Drive Toward Somme in Ham-St. Simon Region— Fresnoy-les-Roye Taken. PARIS. Aug. 26 (United Press).—The battle was resumed on a larg? scale between the Oise and the Aisne to-day. H The French are pressing northward and eastward in the Ailette salient This morning’s attack was launched between the {,) force the defenses east of Noyon and west’ of Coucy-le-Chateau, pre- pe River at Fampoux and the heights northeast of | paratory to opening the way for a decisive drive toward the Sommé in the Ham-St Strong Simon region. forces have pushed across the Ailette, and Coucy-le-Chateau already outflanked from the north, The Germans are resisting ener- | getically along the ridge and forest north of Coucy. East of Bagneux, French troops have passed sons-Chauny railway LONDON, Aug. 26,—In the battle area south of the Somme, Gen. Debeney’s French army has captured Fresnoy-les-Roye, about three miles eastward beyond the north of Roye, according to to-day's despatches. | Gen. Mangin’s army has also made a slight advance between the | Ailette and the Aisne. Four hundred prisoners were taken by this army yesterday. PARIS, Aug. 26 ‘Associated Press))—The Germans to-day at- le against the right wing of Gen, Mangin's army in the region betwee /Vailly and Soissons. The at- tack utterly failed Gen. Mangin's army repulsed the German onslaughts everywhere, and in some instances gained ground. The French flung back the al- tacking troops even beyond their starting points. |tempted a counter-offensive on a large f According to a report from the front lines, the British have reached the Bapaume-Beugnature Road and have established themselves there. The Germans are making great efforts to hold Bapaume, but the town is gradually being surrounded. The British success this morning in pushing back the German line southeast of Arras considerably relieves the position of that city, BAYONETS MEET GERMAN ATTACK. South of Bapaume the Germans this morning launched another heavy counter-attack. The British permitted them to come up to the British trenches and then met them with the point of the bayonet. Numerous Germans were killed or captured and the others fled rather | than face the British steel | In many places where the Germans have been forced to retreat the British are progressing cautiously because the Germans have placed in the roads in the hope of delaying the advancing artillery, trans- | port The British, knowing the ways of the enemy, howevei, o far have not been caught by these devices. | mines and troops, More prisoners, heavy guns and machine guns have been taken in the past twelve hour: The Germans apparently expected something was going to happen outh of the Somme. Late yesterday, when British patrols pushed in outposts, the enemy counter-attacked, but he was forced to retire without ining any grourd, | Everywhere from River Searpe to Lihons the battle continues to-day and the British are making progress despite a stiff resistance from the German machine gunners. Astride the River Somme the British have materially advanced their lines. 1,500 PRISONERS IN ONE DAY, BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, Aug. 26 (Reuter's Limited).—British troops yesterday took another 1,500 prisoners and made a further collection of guns, trench mortars and machine guns, Field Marshal Haig’s forces swung forward as tar as Longueval in thei > north of the Somme PARIS, Aug. 26 (Havas).—The number of prisoners taken by thy itish since Aug. 21 has reached 20,000, Le Petit Journal declares, scoring to Le Journal, three new German divisions have beer