The evening world. Newspaper, September 17, 1918, Page 1

7 a ni le SeeNt i ti ae ° “If lt Happens In It’s In The Evening World’’ Yt, LT ll New York MA Two c ENTS, Coprsant, 1918, by The Prese Publishing Co, (The New York Che “ Circulation Books Open to All.’ orld). NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, Cirenlation Boo 1 BS 18. Open to All. 26 EAGER WEATHER—Fair atl cooler to-night and Wednesday, ' GERMANS RETREATING TOWARD METZ; BURNING TOWNS IN MOSELLE VALLEY TWELVE GIRLS DEIN FRE; FFTY REPORTED TRAPPED NVA BURNING WAR PLANT Dozen Bodies dos Pilen from Fac- tory of New Jersey Button Company in Newark. OTHERS. SEARCH FOR * Flames Burn Fiercely and E tire Department of City Is Called Out. Twelve girls are known to have been killed and perhaps fifty mors are trapped in the blazing factory of the New Jersey Button Company, at ‘ Morris amd New Streets, Newark, the police stated at 3.30 o'clock this after noon. The factory employed more than 200 girls and over seventy of them have not been accounted for yet. The potice stated that they had taken out the twelve bodies and they were now awaiting transportation to the morgue. Several more, they said were sent to the City Hospital, and may die of their injuries The cause of the fire was known, The flames were burning fiercely and fears were entertained that the entire plant would be de stroyed. not ‘The entire fire fighting equipment the bedside In the Cardinal's summer) crushed and the Ger ‘of Newark was called to fight the flames, ‘The plant is engaged in war work, making buttons for army uniforms, it * was stated. Crowds were attracted by the fire and the police reserves were called very high and his respiration yery| other way can we justify to keep the etreets clear City hospitals sent a number of am Wulances to the e with pulmotors. MAN ARRESTED AS ALIEN REFUSES TO OPEN MOUTH "Suspect Fails to Speak Since He Was Taken on Jersey City Pier— | Ragged, but Has Money. Department of Justice agenmia are in-| veatigating a “man of mystery” held in 1 Street Jail, Brooklyn, who to be a German and has re-| fused to speak since his arrest He alien enemy permit when be was a by guards at Erie Pier No. 2 in Jersey City, and al though his ciothes were mgked, he had $50 in cash and @ bank book showing $2,000 on deposit in a Staten Island bani Perry Armstrong of the Bureau said papers found indicated b was born in Havari He is believed to have lived at No. 289 Taylor Street West New E carried on ‘ested onemy Allen rton. “WAR GRY “OVER THE TOP” GOES OUT OF FASHION; TPS “THE JUMP OFF” HOW ‘And Instead of “Zero Hour” Attack Americans Say “HH Hour.” ITH THE AMERICAN W ARMIES IN FRANCE. Sept, 17-—"Zero heur” and “ower the top” are expressions which have passed from the Amer fean Army after long popularity with the British, America’s attack in the Lorraine seoter has brought ont twe typ!- cally American exprosalons. “Over the top” is now “the \ Seep off" and “Zero hour" has | @panged to "HI hour,” for an CARDINAL FARLEY REPORTED DYING BY HS SECRETARY eins ght Improvement Noted, but Not Considered Basis for Recovery Hope. A slight Improvement tn the condition of Cardinal Farley was reported hia afternoon by Mar. Lavelle, vicar general of the arch- who sald the news had been the| dloce: sent to him from Mamaroneck, Cardinal's summer home. The improvement was wo slight, however, that it was not considered a basis for hope of a recovery. And Mor. Thomas “Is he dying?” the Cardinal's secretary, Carroll, when anawerod: “Yes.” | Officials of the diocese the prayers for the dying last night at| asked, said home at Mamaroneck. Among them were Bishop Hayes, Mgr. Mooney and the Rev, John Farley, a nephew of the Cardinal, | Physicians in attendance said this) morning that the Cardinal's pulse is rapid. Since Sunday he has been in| a comatose e almost Constantly. | The venerable prelate was sur- rounded during the night by his of- ficial family and hia physicians, At 6 P. M. yesterday he rallied slightly, opened his eyes and asked for a} drink of water. Atl’, M. be sank again into a stupor. His physicians said the only reas son he had been able to hold out so | long was that his appetite bad al- | ways been good, and he was able to take nourishment, For three days his | | heart action gradually | weaker, U.S. MARINES, AMBUSHED, KILL 20 IN SAN DOMINGO With | has become Americans in Two Clashes Bandits but Suffer No Casualties WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 bandits ambushed Col. George Cyru Thorpe, and ten men of the United States Marine Corps at a ford north of Dos Ros Sept 7. A brief report on the ineldent reaching Marine Corps headquarters to-day said that in twenty minutes of brisk fighting twenty ban- adits were killed and the Marines suf, | fered no casualties Another report told of the kifling of | three bandits by the Dominic tional Guard, officered by Mui a skirmish near Higuey on S Standard Of Raises Prices, — | | ‘The Standard Of] Company of New| |¥ork to-day announced an advance |60 points in refined petro for export, making the price 19.2% per gallon um in cases centa| _ ACING | ESULTS, i’age 2 ENTRIES, Page. 4 | posal | Germany SENATORS INDORSE WING UP MUDPIES, PERSHING IMPROVES LINES; WILSON REJECTION OF PEACE PARLEY THREENEAR DEATH = a_i GIRL OF 4 RESCUES —_—— OLD 69TH CORPORAL WHO Lodge Declares Germany use| Calls Aid After Mother Tries to. CARRIED THE IRISH FLAG Be Put in Physical Bonds. WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. Un- qualified indorsement of President Wilson's rejection of Austria's pro- for secret and non-binding peace discussions was given in th Z by te to-day Senator Lodge of floor ninority member = aseachusetts, Republican leader and ranking of the Foreign Relations Committee Senator Lodge said the President's Prompt and curt refusal was right and wise, and that he was sure It would receive universal approval. Tho Senator said he believed the President's action would put an end to loose and feeble talk helpful about Austro-Hungarian peace offers, “America’s position is becoming so plain,” the Senator declared, “that even the Central Powers soon will be- gin to understand it. Germany, hav- ing brought unnumbered woes upon an * Innocent world and appealed to the luat of conquest,” he concluded, “she shall not now resort to talk and bar ruin fora decision, We mean to pu r in physical bonds. Germany muat know, the said, that we have arguing with them | peace around a table “When Prussian Senate no intention of about militariem ans throw up their hands," he continued, “ther he United § tell them th they es and her terms of are to accept. In ped no other w can the world be made safe against German wars of conquest. In no our en trance into the war and our sacrifice of our best and bravest “Until complete vietory is reached on German soil any negotiations or discussion with our enemies would mean that the war was lost, our macrifices in vain and our high pur poses defeated. ‘There is much hard fighting yet to be done, many seri fices still to be made, but the light of vietory is shining upon our armies and upon those of her Allies GERMANY MUST BE MADE. UN ABLE TO STRIKE AGAIN. end worthy of attainment reached. Germany has broug numbered w upon an innecen world, She mu put in a p HAIG CONGRATULATES PERSHING AND MEN ON MIHIEL VICTORY Says All Ranks of Briti Armie: France Welcome Achievement With Unbounded Ady tion ONDON, Monda Field Marshal issued the following spe order of the da ma tion of British troops in Fr jon, Pershing ‘Headquarters American Ex; ditionary Force “All ranks of the British armie in France welcome with unbound ed admiration and ple 6 victory which atter in armies under your personal cor mand "I beg of you to accept convey to all ranks my best con gratulationa and those of all ranks of tho Bgitish armies under my com nd to | Kill Herself and Twin Baby Sons. Muriel Ray 151 Smart ir years old, of Ne Pushing making mud ples tong Street stopped enough this morning to save her mother and twin six-months wife of a patrolman, ld brothe Mrs. John Ray ra from dent! that had first taken fodine, turned on all the gas jets and then locked herself and bables tn the Murie rd her faint ran to a neighbor and summoned aid in such good time that physicians be lieve they will be able to save all, Muriel, in lisp, told officers that she was making a bate her childish of the nicest mud pies one ever saw in front of her home at 10.20 o' ‘his morning. when she thing that sounded like said she tried to get int but it was locked. ‘Then the rear, door » to me, dearie what mamma ash do “itt rt told the ou whose lap she was si In‘ want to die snd Mrs. Walters a Walters lives N Street, a few doors away Ray ho She met Mra, Frank Godder of Laburnam Avenue, and the tw them hurried to the Ray home back door was closed but unlocked Mrs. Ray atretehed out on % cou | with Harold cuddled up in her arms they said. lodine was on Mps. Ray's |face and spits of it on litte Harold's dress, they added. An ty bottle waa on the floor. aeph, the other twin, was found wdroom with @ blanket over his hea thr were un is, Gas f house, Dr, Jo: C. Seymou ight Along A pulmotor nthe t Hosy tal. He ked over Mra. Ray for half an hour before she regained con sclousne Her first words, aceord-| Ng to the police, wer my God, where are m The tittle ones were f be suf. fering from gas alo n lieve th ir 1 i Hoof saving Mra. J \ OW \ hospital 1 tinin n.¥ . | and oft wi it ie aod ' 1 whe ’ od " f these a n veral month U.S. NEGRO SOLDIER WORE MONOGLE OF MAJOR, CAPTIVE Look What This N ) para As h the road. 98 captain ‘Lemoy, done got!” passed the alled out look here what he | this nigger} “OVER THE TOP” AT MARNE | ~~ GOTH HERO KILLED: «HE GARRIED IRISH ~ FLAG OVER THE TOP Corpt. Robert A A. Foster Meets Death in Action—Emblem Sent to President. Corpl, ft A. Foster, hero of the fighting w York | the an Whe r Hothe T wer the t at the J ot the a 1 k 1 tion Poster met death inaction The Irish flag he carried ver p brought back to America and sent ty President Wil at Wa In M ry Fomt w Jecorat with the Croix de Guerre. In a tette written June 1 », M Emma MeGeechan b b trand nade h ue 69th Ww 1 f w 1 Id ont 1 i} t wer nieuw. of 1 of font rand I \ ! 1 w for ' \ na tly | 1 fuerte \ On, Ww ‘ , ' I ‘ ' ul ! r y ik 1 " 1 a aon “iki 3 BONDS ‘tS cn ead Agvibe 10 aati Soi ahr" 200 42" wa aa (KAISER HAS SUFFERED NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, IS REPORT IN LONDON Very Despondent, According to Per sistent Rumors That Reach British Capital. Kalser ONDON, Sept. 17.—The Ka | has suffe a nervous breakdown and lw very des pondent, strongly persistent rumors, WILSON ORDERS BRIDGEPORT STRIKERS TAKEN BACK Notifies Munition Companies to Re- instate Men as New WalkOut Is Threatened. according to Sept. 17. President upo Remington Arm Company, the Union Metallic Cartridge Company, the Laberty Ord oo and « manufas turers at Bridgeport, ¢ to rein state all striking employees who seek to return to work in reaponse to the demands Conn, Sept, 17 hinista’ and tool dup Chie ate D trikers returned to the factor (hic morning, Reports of discrimination eainst the men were filed at unton Jquarters late net by business ag da telegram demanding an been dexpatehed Samuel Lavitt, to the House meeting of t 1 for 8 o'ele strikers has been night a JAPANESE WIN THE RIGHT TO OWN CALIFORNIA LAND May Real Estate if Born in vurt Decides in Vest Case VEnstpr Acquire Cal, Sept: 17.—Japan © born in California may acquire ind retain title to real estate, and ni lation he Alien Land Law re vita, a fing to an opinion handes Jown to-day by Judge Hugh EL ¢ f the Superior Court here in ace of the Beople of the State of slifornia v#, M, Harada Thin Was considered a teat case TAKEN IN NAVY UNIFORM, Man Arre: Lieut. ¢ Riverside Drive ted in New ommander Haven Garb Gave Addre: NEW a railrond train here New York llway police man arrested on by Chief MeMahor and Hartf was to-day he ot the rd & 1 by the D New Haver and t , NEW FUEL OFFICIAL NAMED, MoU. Moseley eb nervatte wen Chief af » York Sta N i New York He retaing the position of Asatstant State Fuel Administrator, in which ca pacity he i# also serving the Wederal jovernmenk lunge in the salient east of St. Mihiel, it appears, ‘U.S. PATROL BRIN’ in | HAVEN, Conn. Sept. 17.-A| balloon wa | parachute STAFF OFFICER IS WOUNDED nn Americans Progress North of St. Mihiel and Capture a Town Only a Mile and a Half From German Border — Metz Under Hourly Attack by Allied Aviators. WITH THE AMERICANS ON THE METZ FRONT, Sept. 17, 2 P. M. (United Press).—Gradual progress of the American line at the right and left extremities continues as the Germans fall back toward the Metz defense: The principal advance is being made between the Madine and Moselle Rivers. The Germans are digging in along the Hinden- burg line, while our positions are being steadily strengthened. AMERICAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN LORRAINE, Monday, Sept. 16 (Reuter’s).—Evidence is accumulating that the enemy intends withdrawing behind the Hindenburg line in Lor- raine if he is pressed any further. He is burning towns along the Moselle. Prisoners taken report that the entire artillery of the 31st German Division was captured in the American operation on this front. The division that was used to bear the brunt of the attack in the was the 35th Austriaa It was ordered to maintain a bokdin action until all the Ger- man troops were witadrawn. In consequence of this it heavy losses, especially in prisoners. BACK PRISONERS. WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN LORRAINE, M, (Associated Press).—An American patrol in morning in the general region of Haumont, Vhiawcourt, captured five non-commissioned officers and kisled seven other non-com- missioned officers. Division. suffered very 17,3 P. early this Sept a raid made northwest of The German prisoners said they had received orders to hold their positions unless strongly attacked. The non-commissioned officers were from an officers’ school in the vicinity of Confians. aid they had been ordered to the front. for practical experience Fighting yesterday was featured by the gallant action of a staff officer. When he saw there wax danger of part of his advancine forces being outilanked by Germ chine gunners, he personally | led his men in a charge against the gans, He captured one ean him- self and his men took the others. The officer was wounded, probably fatally, American and Allied aviators carried out extensive bombing raids on They | Bayonville, Frescay, La Sablor and in the direction of Metz Monday after- HE GIVES VARIOUS NAMES |: - ni. Fires were observed at La Sablon. One of the American planes ; down a German balloon near Preny Lieut. Duckstein, observer, and Lieut Richardson, pilot, tagked by an enemy machine bearing Prench markings. They were forced to land inside the American lines, but were uninjured. An American shot down yesterday, but the observers escaped safely by were al- TOWN TAKEN CLOSE TO GERMAN BORDER. PARIS, Sept. 17.—American troops have reached Vandieres, within 1 mile and a half of the German frontier, La Liberte announced to-day. Vandieres is in the Moselle Valley, three miles north of Pont-a-Mousson. The Americans are continuing their advance along the west bank of ie Moselle River and are nearing the Hindenburg lime, There is still a space of three miles between the main body of the Americans and the Ger- man: This space is filled with machine gun nests that are being mopped up by fighting patrols, an& the fighting is hard, although of minor char- acter. . re Metz is being subjected to an incessant bombardment by American, British, French and Italian bombing planes and tons of bombs are being dropped hourly upon the fortifications and railways. DE HAVILAND PLANES A BIG SUCCESS. The Liberty motor and the De Haviland fours, planes, purely American made and operated by American aviators, have iow had their first real test under grave battle cc onditions in a major of- fersive, and they have made good beyond the dreams of their builders, The American flyers, though aided by many British, French and Italians in the faster pursuit planes, have kept up their intense aerial at- tacks all along ‘the line, while our reconnaisance planes fhade 120 photo: two seater battle. aese ee