The evening world. Newspaper, September 4, 1918, Page 1

“If It Happens In It’s In The Evening World’’ New York 1918, by The Prese Publishing New York Werld) Che “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ NEW YORK, “WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, “1918, 13 TOWNS FALL TO BRITISH: FRENCH AND AMERICANS GAIN. HUNT FOR SLACKERS SHOWS LOYALTY OF MEN IN DRAFT AS 50,000 ARE QUESTIONED Saati Less Than Two Per Cent. of Those Held Up Are Actual War Duty Shirkers. 450 ARE SENT TO Sait | More Discretion in Interrogat- ing Men as Enlarged Force Continues Search. a slacker city. abundantly New York is not Proof of this has been supplied by the results thus far of the wholesale raids and arresia made by 25,000 agents of the Department of Justice. Out of mave than 50,000 men chal- lenged less than 2 per cent, have been siackers. And found to be actual even of this small number, accordin to the best ertimates, a majority are , but men who have not New York: come here from every corner of the identity in the | that the country to hide their crowd. Federal authorities agree unprecedented dragnet ~which is still being operated and will continue to be —has more than justified itself in two by bringing in the } by proving the we. First. ing slackers; second, loyalty of the overwhelming majority of the draftable population. In Brooklyn, out of 12,000 to 15,000 who were questioned, fewer than 100 cases of demonstrable slackerism have been recorded: In Manliattan, out of many more arrests, only 450 have been ordered into the army and only are held in the Tombs as doubtful cases for further examination. ‘The first batch of suspects to ar- rive at the 69th Regiment Armory this morning came from the Gran¢ Central Station, 75 of them. Many carried suitcases. They had been stopped as they were about to board trains for various parts of the cqun- try. It was said this afternoon that the number of detentions might be about aa great to-day as it was yesterday despite the public warning that all men have received WOMEN GATHER AROUND ARM- ORIEC AND POLICE STATIONS. Women in crowds gathered to-day as they did yesterday around the armories and ations where thier male relatives were held. brought the magic s that meant release. Others brought Joleful stories about the cards et A mass those sent half of cities awaited the police ns only hay of out y arrested telegrams terday fr nm men examine Most of these led to the release ¢ men named in them, but Hold him if he ts physica A new examining 1 was put into effect at the 69th Rogiment Arin- ory, and cases were disposed of at the rate of fourteen a minute. About 000 were handled this morn Military police from Hoboken combed lower Manhattan from City Hall south, stopping every man of (Continued on Second Page.) ———— HB WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU, ‘Ascate, Puliteer (World) Butiding, 08 Park Row. N.Y. City, Beekman 4000. and parcels open dag ond ccaretien® ete tor ng been | answering | BOMBARD CONSTANTINOPLE ON 4 SUCCESSIVE NIGHTS Turkish War Office and Seaplane Base Attacked—Ostend and | Zeebrugge Raided. LONDON, was bombarded on four successive nights in the latter part of August, the | | | Sept. 4, — Coetelaitand miralty announced to-day The Arsenal, dock yard, Turkish War OMice, airdrome at Galata and the sea- plane base at Gallipoli were attacked. ‘The raids, which weve carried out by the Royal Air Furee, occurréd on Aug 25, 28, 27 and 28 On Aug and Sept. 1 the Royal Air Force, co-operating with the Navy, car ried out su ful bombing raids on Os- tend and on the Belgian coas' of bombs were droppe statement @ ‘BOSTON FIREMEN THREATEN COMPLETE STRIKE MONDAY Increased Wage Demand Made Basis for Defiance to City Authorities. BOSTON, Sept. 4 of the city of Be — Every firefighter ton will go on strike Monday morning t 9 o'clock unle: | the firemen's demands for higher wages are granted, it was announced. | Thomas G. Spellacy, President of the [International Association of Firefight- and the Mayor will have a confer- Friduy in an effort to avoid the The $900 for the first year and $1,400 for the fifth, They demand a minimum wage }o, $1,200 for the first year and $1,700 in the sixth year of service. \WILL CLOSE THE SCHOOLS | Authorities Decide to Let Draft Of- ficials Have Sole Use of Some Buildings Sept. 12. Arthur 8, Somers, President of th to close the schools that will be used > Draft Registration Boards Sept. 12 ‘The order applies only to the buildings to be used by the various boarda ‘WOULD BAR REMARRIAGE OF WIDOWS IN GERMANY BECAUSE MEN ARE SCARCE ‘CURCI SEPARATION As- |such as the disposition of 250,000 francs i firemen are now getting} USED FOR REGISTRATION | Board of Education, and Supt, William| L. Ettinger, after a conference, an-| nounced to-day that they have decided DUE TO HER WISH TOBE U. 8. CITIZEN, Manager Sued by Husband Offers This as Explanation | of $250,000 Suit. | ‘The ali¢nation of the famous singer, Amelita Galli-Curct, and her husband, Luigi Curcl, is the climax of a conflict of the New World spirit of freedom of women and the Old World idea of wife to Charles L.| Wagner, the singer's mahager. possession, according Of course there are points involved, worth of Government bonds, the pur- chase of automobiles and the livelihood | of a husband and a brother-in-law. But, according to the manager, they would never have been raised by a wife in- stilled, or rather subdued, with the proper Latin marital obligations, | “Madame Galli-Curci's domestic | troubles started when she became {m- bued with Americanism,” Mr. Wagner | told The Evening World to-day, “That | spirit made her resent her husband's | attitude toward her financially “She was earning the money. according to Italian custom, upon handling it. She American notion of He, insisted preferred the a wife directing the use of her own funds, Besides, sho claims, he squandered her earn- ings, She so declared herself. This led to many annoyances, especially as she was preparing five programmes with which she is to open her season on Sept, 18. Then came the break. “Ever since Mme. Galli-Curci's great triumph in New York last year she |wanted her husband to take out | naturalization papers, that might an American citizen Curct has steadfastly refused to comply with this wish, and under the existing naturalization laws a woman who Is the wife of a foreigner can only attain Guzenship through her husband. | “She is enthusiastic over the coun-/ try, the people and the customs, It) has been one of tho great passions | of her life for the past year, and her | husband has refused to listen to it. | His attitude has been, ‘Carry on your career here, then we will go back to Italy.” “When I talked with Madame and her husband I told them that I was very old-fashioned and opposed to separation, I suggested that Curei| gb away for @ year and try to ac-| complish something wita his paint-| ng. 1 promised that I would do everything in my power at the end | of that time to help him exhibit and sell his work. The brother-in-law, Gennaro, was to have a certain sum! to help him start in his carcer, Ma- dame also gave him a letter acknow!- | his 80 she become course this claim was grossly untrue, MSTBRDAM, Aug. 20 (Cor- | and his making capital of Madame's A respondence of the Associ- | name was intensely annoying, ated Press).—Knactment of “As a result of this situation I a law in Germany to prevent | wrote Madame a letter in which I widows from remarrving so as to | told her ‘to put the soft pedal on leave the few available men for | Gennaro.’ single women is urged in a letter In the past few weeks conditions tot by a Munich doctor, | have been such that Madame could Mar 1 Hert | not prepare her programmes, It was He points out . the question of one automobile not hrough remarry tt being the husband |he rt ed ma chine, Ma | dame's t r they on , | there were in Germany about (Continued on Second Page.) 300,000 widows between the ages sip oaesaaeeteg of eighteen and forty-five. At a De in very modest estimate there are eT Bam soqoog® ei ne i, aera | - si alae Ie. erences BOMB IN CHIGAGO FEDERAL BUILDING GERMANS EVACUATE LENS, edging his help as a coach “Gennaro represented himself as the teacher of Mme, Galli-Curci, and| young women were constantly calling me up and asking my advice about his ability to train their yoicess Of EXTRA KILLS 3; 79 HURT gesenes SEE Entrance Wrecked and Down- Patrols Have En town District Shaken—Per- petrator | Reported Caught. CHICAGO, Sept. 4.—Three persons were killed and 75 injured this after- noon by the explosion of a bomb in the Adams street entrance to the |Northern France to-day. The British, it is stated, are re- $13,000,000 Federal Hundreds of windows were shat-| buiding, FRANCO-AMERICAN SUCCESSES FORCING GERMANS FROM VESLE ~ BUT FUMES OF GAS THEY LEFT BEHIND KEEP BRITISH OUT tered the French Coal City and Report That Enemy Troops Are All Out. LONDON, Sept. 4.—The City of Lens has been evacuated by the Germans, according to reports from fraining from occupying it only because of the gas fumes tered In neighboring structures and| rémaining there. some of the injuries occurred these. | in It was rumored that the perpetra-| ¢ity.and found it clear of the enemy. tor of the deed had been caught, but this is not yet confirmed. Shops and offices in the neighbor- | hood were filled with injured, The great granite entran of el Federal building was wrecked One theory was that a suitcase con- | taining the bomb was sent by par post | THIRTY U. S. PLANES FLY OVER GERMAN LINES; BOMB LONGUYON TWICE Successful Raids by American Air Forces in Lorraine Are Reported. HE AMERICAN FORCDS IN T LORRAINE, Tuesday, Sepe 3 (Associated Press).—Amer- ican airmen successfully bombed Longuyon twice to-day. About thirty airplanes flew over the German lines last night and dropped a few bombs. BODIES OF U.S. DEAD TO BE BROUGHT BACK Those Who Lose Lives in War Will} Lie in Marked Graves | Till Its End | WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—Amerteans who lose their lives in the war abroad will be buried there only temporarily Where ide ion is possible the bod. j tes will be placed in marked gravea, ty |e taken up When tho war is over and brought home, ‘This plan of the War Department was | disclosed to-day by the publication of articles of 8 en who 4 m the nm ships United States are to be returned to the United States on the ship on which the death occurred pies FIRST OF WORLD SERIES OFF BECAUSE OF RAIN Ea waits ae tm Albany. Goy, Whitman left the city this morn: ing on tae Empire State xpress out of be arebd Weuese sretium bud soiminue ¥ Patrols protected against the fumes have entered the 1,600,000 TROOPS SENT ABROAD | UP TO AUG. 31, MARCH REVEALS; | GEN. GRAVES AT VLADIVOSTOK Chief of Staff Identifies American Forces) Engaged in Fighting on British and French Fronts. WASHINGTON, 4.—The Lo Gece ca amma ines tue Wisonae| SPANISH INFLUENZA ON SHIP REACHING U. S, all American | French Vessel Held at Quarantine Has Several Cases Among Sept. rival of Gen, to take command of forces ‘fighting on the new eastern front was announced to-day by Gen. March, Gen. Graves took with him from | the United States forty-three officers | Its 471 Passengers. and 1,888 men, who will Join the rest-) A wrench steamer that arrived at an ments from the Philippines @reedy | jviantic port this morning was detained on the ground, Gen, March announced that the) total embarkation of American sol- dlers for all fronts, including the SI- berian expedition, had passed the 1,600,000 mark Aug. 31, In answer to @ question, |in Quarantine on account of a number |of cases of Spanish influenza that had | developed during the voyage Whether any deaths had occurred among the 279 cabin and 192 steerage passengers could not be learned. This is the fourth ie Gen. | steamer to reach this country with cases March said it was estimated that) of this sort aboard. more than 250,000 had landed in ° France during August. The record Cees athiy shipment, be added, was| GERMAN EMPRESS FAILING, 985,000, Victim of Arterio Sclerosis The Chief of Staff identified the sieadt toeaaa. American unit which participated in the Flanders advance as the 30th Di- yislon, componed of troops from Ten- AMSTERDAM, Empress has suff orman f weak: His Full Retreat Before British, Who Have Driven to Canal du Nord and Occupied Strong Positions— Berlin Admits Reverses in Flan- ders, at Noyon and on the Aisne. LONDON, Sept. 4 (7 P. M.).—French and Amer- ican forces to-day crossed the River Vesle at two places. They pushed over the stream at Bazoches and north of Fismes. 4 Fires are burning in the region north of the Vesle, and. there are other indications that the Germans are withdraw. ing from the river. LONDON, Sept. 4.—The Germans are contemplating a ga+ eral retirement from the Vesle region, where they have been fac- __. ing the Americans and French along the river, according to indi« cations reported from the battlefront to-day. The recent Franco- American successes in the south apparently have prompted such a@ move. Large convoys, the advices state, were seen moving toward the rear in this area to-day. The report issued by the Berlin War Office to-day admits | British successes in Flanders on both sides of the Noyon. It claims that attacks of the French in co-operation with Americans and | Italians betweeen the Ailette and Aisne Rivers were “repulsed in | many instances after bitter hand-to-hand fighting.” WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, Sept. 4 (Asso- ciated Press).—The Germans are in retreat on the French front east of the Canal du Nord. French cavalry was in pursuit during the night, and this morning had pushed to within two miles of Guiscard, on the Noyan-Ham road. BRITISH DRIVE TO CANAL DU NORD. WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, Sept. 4 (Asso- ciated Press).—British troops were reported this morning to have taken the town of Moeuvres, 31, miles southeast of Queant. (Moeuvres is near the lower end of the new switch line reported to have been constructed by the Germans east of their shattered Wotan line. It extends northward to Brebieres, a little southeast of Drocourt, and from there runs to Drocourt. Capture of Moeuvres, which is five miles south of Cambrai, would indicate the smashing of the lower end of this new line of defense.) The Germans are in full retreat in the region of the Canal du Nord and appear to be more than ever disorganized.. A thousand more prisoners were captured last night by Field Marshal Haig’s forces. The British are establi: Canal du Nord, *— In the Drocourt battle zone the British have occupied ing posts on the western bank of the ness and heart trouble in Increasing nesses, North Carolina and South| measure, according to a Cassel despatch Carolina, to the Wes ung of Bremen, Th The French advance north of Sois-|@mpress is suffering from arte 4 sons, resulting in the capture of| *lerosis, and has been ordered by he ¢ 5 physicians to kevp to “er bed and avoia| Terny-Serny, was participated In by | veneer ent the 824 Division, composed of Michi-| Gontrary to accounts from some gan and Wisconsin troops, under Ma-| sources, the despatch sayx (hat Hmperar jor Gen. Haan impression of veins Gen, March said the 49th Division, ly “ pt aby appeared to ag composed of Arkansas, Mississipp! | congiderably. and Louisiana tre was now In| ~— process of landing in France, while} SUBMARINE SINKS U BOAT, the 36th Division, composed of Texas British Venset Sends Enemy Down |and Oklahoma troops, has completod lits disembarkation, The Divi sion, composed of Missouri Yand Kan troops, Is stationed in the Vosges: in 15 Seconds, LONDON, Sept. 4—The sinking of German submarine by a British 5th rine on a1 is repor the The 27th Division, composed of | Centra ; rk Brit High New York troops, i# still in training |wighted ¢ TORAH Inadantan. with the Briti#h in Flanders, and Gen R 4 March said the identification of the] goth Divis 4 the one engaged with | onds. \the British near Mount Kemmet {1 - _> —- cated that the » had not be Bz-Chaneciior Delbrucck's Yon Killeg volved In that fighting. ai easueit aon oe The total number of wounded and) meng Delbrucck, former German Impe | | wick returned i — ee Z to the United States! rial Vico Chancellor, ——_-- the battlefront, SMcatinuse om Second Page) wilated by Oie Ze: has been kilied on cording to @ despateh Zettuns of Zurich, eae. | ground east of Inchy-en-Artois and are holding the canal crossings northwest and northeast of the town, In Rumaucourt f urty F rench civilians were found. They were over- joyed at their liberation. “The British hold Lechelle. Field Marshat Haig's forces have entered Ytres, southeast of Bapaume, ari&northeast of Peronne the enemy still is retreating. | (Ineluding Mouyres, Lechetle and Ytres with those mentioned fp | the London despatehes Haig has captured ten towns on the Arras front and three in Flanders.) —<+. ‘: BRITISH, FRENCH, AMERICANS DRIVE AHEAD ON FIVE FRONTS Haig’s Troops Advance on Arras and Flanders Fronts—Franco-Americans Cross the | Vesle—Allied Gains Along Ailette, | LONDON, Sept. 4.—British, French and American troops tinued their advances to-day Sik aT - Sr sea “| i ‘ U ’ ’ “