The evening world. Newspaper, October 31, 1918, Page 3

THE EVENING WORLD, THO RSDAY, OCTOBER 31 191 A PAGE OF AMERICAN WAR NEW ~ KASERS BEST GENERAL TOLD TO STOP AMERICANS, FAILS, DESPITE HIS ———— Further Advances by-Pershing Will Place German Armies in a Trap. FACE TERRIBLE ORDEAL. Yankees, by Gruelling Fight- ing, Play Great Part in Foes’ Defeat. By Lincoln Eyre. + Seman, at ae iat WITH THEY FIRST AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Oct. 31— “Though the mills of the gods grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding fine.” This maxim might be applied to the progress of the 1st American Army norta of Verdun. With relent. less strength, with flery ardor un- ‘quenched by villainous weather, vhysical fatigne or the sight of death in most hideous forms, our American boys are gradually grind. ing to dust the enemy’s power of re- sistance. On either side of the Meuse, Prus- sianism is battling with the fury born of despair. The empire's finest soldiers have been slaughtered in droves, in order that their hard- pressed comrades to the west and north might escape the trap in which they would be caught were Per- shing’s divisions to forge ahead too fast. Three Gays ago sixteen, to-day nineteen, German divisions are striving with dogged desperation to. bar our advance, At several points one American battalion is facing and forcing backward four German bat- talions, which, taking into account the proportionate strength of the op- Position units, means about five Ger- mans to twe Americans, KAISER SENDS HIS BEST GEN- ERAL TO FACE PERSHING. Oue of the most distinguished of the Kaiser's commanders, Gen. von | Marwitz, hurriedly summoned trom | the scenes of past triumphs against | the British, has just taken over the direction of the enemy forces on this front. His instructions, as he passed | them down to his subordinate Gen- erals, are to prevent the Americans! from realizing any further appre- ciable advance, “whatever the cost cf holding them may be.” Above the German high com- mand is resolved to keep us from attaining the heights between Dam- villérs and Dun-sur-Meuse in the cast and between Dun-sur-Meuse and Buzancy in the west, Losing these hills the foe would lose his only means of bringing supplies to all his armies in line from Flanders \o Argonne, for from the slopes our guns would knock to pieces that ail- important lateral channel of comma- | nication, the Mesieres-Longuyon | railroad, AMERICANS ARE FACING MOST PAINFUL ORDEAL. GREAT LOSSES may be said that nowhere has the enemy beén able to punish any American “annie 80 ely as to jahting, jen while my ivisions engagea against us at least a dozen were rendered unfit for service in an active | sector in less than one month; and | while the onslaughts of Gens, Pe: shing and Liggett have been by tho | army,,a corps qr a division, Mar- wita’s counter thrusts have been limited to battalion or regimental at- tacks. AMERICAN GUNS FIRE TO ONE FROM FOE. The Germans engaged in these local affairs have fought with cnstomary | In_ their detensive | kill and valor, tactics against our big scale drives they have been wide awake and stub. bornly tenacious, The dreadful stia\n of this unending struggle has becomo | evident, however, in parts of the line | where activities have been temporar- Uy confined to artill quelling and patrol encountérs. physical weariness has resulted in lethargy, of which the Americans have been quick to take advantage. Our gunnere never slacken up, as their adversaries do Cor juently there are.never less than six Ameri- ean shells burstin, by | on German ter- ritory, to one falling in our area. Wherever an enemy machine gun silent for a while our scouting parties find out why, To-day, opposite Landres-8t, rges, an Ameri- can patrol which was investigating one such instance of inactivity crept to within a dozen yards of the em- placement without drawing fire. The explanation was simple. Ali four members of the German crow were lying sound asleep beside their mm, One of them awoke and jet | By a grenade three seconds before a Yankee bayonet pierced his heart. Of the others, one was atopped while | trying to escape, one got away and the third was taken prisoner, The captive was so sleepy he could hardly stand. He eaid the four ma- chine gunners had been continuously on the job for seventy-two hours and simply could not keep awake, WAR WORK DRIVE LEADERS BEGIN ACTIVITY TO-MORROW Representatives of Organizations to Gather at Waldorf While Boys Meet at Opera House. ‘The New York division of the United War Work Campaign, which is going to make a drive’ for $170,000,000 throughout the country from Nov. 11 to Nov. 18, will begin Ka activities to- morrow night when representatives of the various organizations wili meet @t the Waldort-Astoria. Another meeting of 6,000 bove, rem resenting 200,000 boys who wil take part In the campaign also will be held in Manhattan Opera House to-morro v evening, Col. Roosevelt and John Rocke- feller jr. will speak there, The money to be raised will be di- vided among the Y. MC. A, ¥. W. C. A., National Catholic War Council, K. of ©, Jewish Welfare Board, War Camp Community Service, American Library ‘Association and the Salvation Army. It was announced this morning that the 1,000,000 workers promised by the | Catholic Church for the campaign were ready to take the field. 1X SHOTS | ere the foe's | Lacking a sufficiency of man power | ¢o9,000 Da Pont Gift to War Work | and perhaps of ammunition to strile on a grand scale, von Marwitz must | fritter away his resources in small but costly counter attacks here and there, This form of resistance is accompanied by a concentric artil- lery fire whose violence recalls tho first battle before Verdun, and it is the most painful ordeal ‘which tne | American troops have yet had to|A fant: hig! on the cede | e right, ¢ ey centre, | iverywhere the fighting is inces- | sant, Mostly it is dull, drab and! dirty; always it is bloody and heroic, on the part of the enemy as well as by our own boys. The coming of the dove of peace is inaudible out here. Its faint note 1s buried beneath the roar of cannon and the crazy, crack- | ling chorus of machine guns. | Gen. — Ludendorff’s —_ resignation leaves the doughboy cold. To him | the Imperial Great General Staff is | meaningless, He visualizes contem- poraneous events in the light of the| fighting qualities displayed by the! group of gray-green Boches just op- | fying !n an American naval bombing »Y posite him. In that light the down- | fall of Ludendorff, the abdication of | started from Calais and were drop- \N J the Kaiser, armistice and peace all seem vague, remote things, with which he has little concern. “YES, THE WAR |S OVER—OVER THER I overheard an exchange of views | between an infantryman just back irom the front line and a chauffeur of the automobiie staff, whose duties seldom take him into the fighting zone, “Looke like thie war was about over,” observed the chauffeur, “Over!” exclaimed the doughboy sarcastically. “Sure it’s over—just over that hill yonder.” ‘The American Ist Army fairly feels that it has played no mean part in| inflicting upon the foe the reverses that have led to the retirement of Gen, Ludendorff, In the six weeks following ite birth St. tured close on 40,000 prisoners, moro than 300 guns, 1,000 trench mortars Mihiel front the army has cap- and machine guns: It has freed sevy- eral hundred square miles of terri- tory in France, and !t has killed or wounded at least 150,000 Germans. While disclosure of ou) caeuul! is forbidden under the ceusorship, it ) ( | $115,000, mpatcn, WILMINGTON, Del. Oct. 31.—The du Pont Company's directors have voted a dividend of 1 per cent., amounting to $600,000, te the iinited War Work campaign, which begins its drive for $17,500,000 on Nov, 11. year ago the du Pont industries declared a 1 per cent, dividend for the 2 per cent, dividend for the second Red Cross campatgn, —_—__ FLYERS DROP 5,000 FEET. New York Officer and Co wi Bom Foe. AMSTERDAM, 31. — Lieut, Oct, Frank Nelms of Philadelphia and Lieut, John Frederick Gibbs of New York, the aviators who were interned at The Hague after making a forced landing near Schoondyke, in Dutch Flanders, Sunday afternoon, were (Picked up on the Somme battlefield his Captain, has been elved biplane of the latest type. They had|»Y. Mrs. Mary Tice of Westfield, Corp! Tice died on Oct, 7 of Ping bombs on the German lines in| Wounds received in battle Aug, 81 Flanders when their machine was|The Bible was given to him when struck by bursting shrapnel at a|he went to camp with th height of 5,000 feet. sey National Guard Divi Pieces of shell hit the propeller emergency address was given in the and also made holes in the benzine casualty list as No, 720 Avenue J, tank, The biplane landed safely ana| Flatbush. That is the home of his neither occupant was hur fiance, Miss Florence L, Wetaler. Corpl. William Muhz, a Hacken- atl sides otal 5 MORE CAMP ENLARGEMENTS, | $1,024,028 for Camp Kearny $115,000 for Watervitet Arn: WASHINGTON, Oct. 31—Construc- tion of additional buildings ai Camp Kearny, Cal., in order to accommodate 9,000 additional men will be started at onee, the War Department announced |Munz had an ear shot off, at | to-day. The cost is estimated $1,924,023. Additional construction wiil be under. taken at Watervliet Arsenal, Four two-story barracks for enlisted men and two barracks for officers will be added to Camp Travis, Tex. plan: to be tn rthur at $50,00(, ‘ex: | Red Cross, and followed this with a| costing @ private in Company K, | third line trenches of the Germans, tion at an ancient fortress A CAPT. M'DERMOTT COMPANIONS DIE Brooklyn Officer in in 27th Di- vision Had Miraculous Es- cape, Nurse Writes. Capt. Arthur V. McDermott of the 106th Infantry, 27th Division, one of four sons given to their country’s service by Mr. and Mrs. Michael Francis McDermott of No. 80 St. Mark's Avenue, Brooklyn, Las been wounded in action in France. He was struck in the chest by fragments of a shell that killed five of his command, who grew up with him as boyhood chums in Brooklyn. In a letter written from the hospital where he is recovering, a Red Cross nurse has told his parents of the captain's injuries, She wrote: “He has come through one of the severest battles of the war and it. is miracutous that he escaped death, which hundreds of his companions bravely met,” the nurse wrote. Capt. McDermott went to France with his regiment last May and was assigned to the Operations Intelli- gence Service, Of the captain's brothers, Edward is in the 306th Field Artillery, Gerard is in the aviation service at a Texas camp and Frank is on one of the submarine chasers. Lieut, Meredith Wood, listed among the wounded in to-day’s casualty list, is one of three sons of Dr, J. Scott Wood of No, 172 Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn, who are Lieutenants in the Army. Meredith was gassed on Aug. 27, but has since written his father that he is back on duty with the Headquarters Company, 308th Infantry, 77th Division, In his letter he told of following a wire into the returning in safety, He had been over the top three times he wrote. Lieut, Wood, who received his com- mission at the first Plattsburg camp, is a graduate of Williams College. Lieut. Kenneth Wood, one brother, is at Camp Upton, and Lieut, Evérett Wood is with a tank corps in France, ° fly leaf of @ Bible carried by ‘her son, Corpl, Raymond 8, Tice, and sack boy with the 165th Regiment, who some months ago helped capture his own cousin, whom he had never seen, has been wounded for the third | time, but writes his mother he hopes |to get back in line again in two or three weeks. On the first occasion Four Asbury Park men have been | wounded, according to word received! | by relatives to-day. Joseph C. Couse, papas rere: troops are here shown in occupa- Talerry district after they stormed the place | Princess Serge T American Boys Capture Old Fortress And Rest i. in a 5 estoric Tower’ 8 Shadow in the Chateau- our boys occupy! BROOKLYN OFFICER IN 27TH WHO ESCAPED WITH WOUNDS WOUNDED AS MANY | 8S SOMMOES Wee xtuen A Ne M*= DERMOTT Corp. Kenneth Wotherspoon of Com- pany H, same regiment, was shot through the throat and will be in the hospital for several months. Four members of his squad were killed, Wotherspoon wrote, Lieut, Claude A, Lyon, formerly an Asbury Park dentist, now dental of- ficer in the 108th Machine Gun unit, was wounded and is in a Paris hos- pital. Lieut. Lyon wrote that the unit had suffered heavy losses in a recent engagement. Lieut, Harold Steiner, Yale ate and well known amateur now in the Aviation Corps, wi burned when an aeroplane up: was In the hospital six weeks, has recovered, Corpl, Edward C, Lee, wounded on Sept. 26, enlisted two days afver war was declared, when he was only se enteen years old, and had just grad- uated from the Southampton Hi hool. His parents live at Pacific Street, Brooklyn. Ferdinand Frerichs, son of Mr, a Mrs, F, J. Frerichs of this y 180 Underhill Avenu was killed in action on $ was twenty-four years old first Sea Clift boy te enlisted about y and was the 27th Machine was a well known gradu- solfer, badly He but No, and killed in the the war a year ago In the ter transferred to Gun Battalion, He swimmer and held and rid it of a garrison of Boches. The photo shows ‘ing a corner of the courtyard below the historic Tour-de-Nesles shortly after the battle. U, S. TROOPS BACK HOME Based on Present Force Abroad. WASHINGTON, Oct, 31.—The United States Shipping Board estimates that Gen. Pershing’s expeditionary forces wil! mined that they may be safely with- drawn from the war zones, Complete plans and estimates have been made for converting cargo vessels into transports for this purpose. ‘The eotimates are based on the present strength the Expeditionary Force which ta about’ 2,000,000" men Should | wooo, ramme of sending 4,900,000 men worked out, six montns will bé required to return them to tals coun- ry. —— CHURCHILL ON WORK BOARD. Former Education Head U. S. Employment Service. Thomas W. Churchill, former Presi- dent of the Board of Education, was ap- pointed yesterday by Henry Bruere, Federal Director of the New York Em- ployment Service, as counsellor charge of recruiting and mobilizing volunteers for war work from non- fal industries and for substituting n for men. Other appointm: erday by Mr. Bri arnes, former Federal State Supe tendent of Labor, as Assistant Federal orge W. Kirchwey, former Solumbia Law School. Mrederat Director; J. Til Adamson, Controller, and. Wililam Houghton, Director of Publicity Information. REE EIS FRENCH LAUDS AMERICANS. Says Ties of Anglo- Are Cemente BELFAST, Oct. 31.—Marshal French, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, speaking here at the Lord Mayor's luncheon, said the blood sacrifices Ald announced yes- were Charles B, of the Ameitcan Army have for all time cemented the Anglo races. “Those immortal heroe sleep side by side on the battlefields ot France,” he exclaimed, “have joined forever with issoluble bonds the future of our great race that will bring a lasting peace to a troubled world WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Paris wil) show its appreciation of the work achieved by the American Red Cross in F bration planned by the Municipal Couneil for 14, said a cablegram received to-day at ted Cross headquarters here from Paris, Seatt 5 | NO LET UP IN WAR WORK. | | | Chief Warns M kers Against Peace ASHINGTON, Oct, 31 ns workers not to slo Sa result ¢ 4y by Major w “We are still at war,” Gen, Williams stated. “Our boys in. France do- pending on us for guns and. ammuni n. ‘The ene talking. pe but we of the Or ¢ Department. have othing to do with peace talk. For us there Is no peace, Our business, our | awiul responsibility is war." pole eth Pah 3 AVIATOR WEDS PRINCESS. Widow of Prt Trowbetekot Bride of Major Stoever. PHILADELPHIA, t a Aviat sity, wore Major Edward Royal Stoever A n Service, U. 8. of this a 107th In- fantry, and st son of President! William J, Couse of the Asbury Park Trust Company, wrote from an Eng- Ich hoepite’ that he was wounded in une head by a machine gun bullet. | ried on Oct, formation mother, Mra. The ‘bride w and wa stho Kiev, Rus wife of ding to in- Stoever’s re! Major Demitcoff, Troubeta- be Serge ho wae kulled in’ the fret year of the’ war. |mist of No, William Wilken, fifty-four, a drug 5 Second Ave arraigned be Magistrate in the Men's Night Court last night on complaint of Bugene gert, | a private detective, No. 2202 Palmetto Street, Brooklyn, who alleged Wilken said the President started the war by putting his finger in the pie, that the Germans wanted no armistice and Wilson would be sorry before the war is over, The Magistrate re- manded Wilken to the Tombs with- out bail pending investigation, atten stan Xbb | NAVAL CASUALTIES. | | WASHINGTON, Oct. 31,—Licut. George E. Richardson, Lancaster, |Mass,, naval reserve, died of pneu- monia while on board the U 8 | Huron, the Navy Department an- nounced to-day Other casualties follow: Arthur Lee Day, U. 8. N., Pullman, Wash., died Oct. 26, and Joseph B. \Corbey, U. 8. Ulster Park, N. ¥., | died Oct. 24 from drowning. TWo naval reserves were accident jally killed Oct. 25 while attached to! e U. 8. 8. Abarenda. They were aco Maglint!, Gavito, Philippines, bing Quidado, Vigan, Philip- 3 MONTHS AFTER mu & Shipping Board Makes opie be brought back to this country within | three months after it has been Geear | ARMY AND MARINE CASUALTIES OF 351 MAKE TOTAL 63,664 11, 743 Killed in Act in Action, 6,080 Severely Wounded and 7,525 Missing. WASHINGTON, Oot, $1.—The latest army casualty list of 330 and @ Marine Corps list of 21, issued to-day by the War Department, brings the , total casualties abroad to 64,664. Of ‘this number 11,743 have been Marie | in_action, \, in addi to thone killed #m action |3eq" 6,080 have been severely wounded, 18,602 have bean wounded to a degree undetermined, and 7,525 are reported missing in action. | Those on the latest army list from | New York and nearby points follow: KILLED IN ACTION. VEDDER, Am C., Casenovia, N, DIED OF DISEAS henectady, WOUNDED SEVERELY. Corporals, cbt hth Bivan’ saat: &, bedi ae oe 44g &, BRAY ogo ¥ 1PM nn rss hy DEGREE MINED, Lieutenants, Otani Hii Alisabdet tee Si Wa a. "Gerpeanta, BYRNES, John J., 2457 Valentine Av, New Malls, can in MONI HAS, in V,, | 86, at ARNON, William J, o8oT Fifth Ay, Rie Wiliam, H., 629 Oceanview Av, Voor haven, STRARSLE: Uoorme, 186 Autumn A Breokiyn. CUMMINGS, Dennis ¥., Wappingers Falla, Ne ¥, UNDETER- sas COrPOrale. 1460 17th Bt, Brookiyn, TAWIUR. Widuey._O6i Jefferton Are, Brookiya, LINCOLN, Lloyd’ D., Port Byron, ASTIE, Charles ING; Vrederick Ea? an yetitt rork City, ICE, Raymond B., 120 Ava 3, oN YY arthur Prancis, iil’ We'vOe Bt, New VAN WANT, J. Durand, Osal Musician. SHABSHELOWITZ, Abrabam, 591 Eastern Park- way, Broo Mecha KLEMM, Joseph H., 1128 Sterling Place, Brookiyn, Cook. BRIGGS, Lawrence P., North Coling,M, ¥, Privates, BIANCO, Matthew, Biscioss Maidore: Yo" Mase” fie a Bh he Walter V., 433 Lorimer Street, Tirook| , Street, Brooktye, CAC yore sl oulevard, Mockaway “ity. EEE Hk tee 8d Av. New Torn Cues, ining, Since, “ae los “Eimer, Canai Patrick, "Conia, conDt: 2 DOOLEY. James, I. AMIS ey re de Sree 08 Ths Pate sy Charles, 64 vitae ‘Biwet. “ Brklyn, RSE ihc tbl BaD: Wilkin M., 60g MoDonough Street, a York | wail ita’ Cn Lat Nar i 8 ine steatine hs Tiga ‘Kinget a fa, ae Ase a | 170, fia 1 Eee Wiliane re Hare Beal Frank, 25 ¥ront beter W. vyaldiberty, 4 Sty Ryookim, St. Besokirn, ©. Moffalo, 4B. Liou) st Hobert W. it Beasheood How Ri SKY.” Philip, 181 Throop Ar... Brookiyu, Metin, U4? econ n° New York i miflenry dh otk Hrookiyn; KUBSO, Angelo, 6.0 Preadent St... Brook POUCHER, William R,, 08 Macon @,, Beodt i DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION, PREVIOUSLY REPORT- ED SEVERLY WOUNDED, Private. Abraham L, OMMUNT Brooklyn, 324 Beckett St, nidad Into Oar W \. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Inhabitants of Trinidad, in yep ciation of the efforts of the United States in the war, have subscribed for $85,000 of the Fourth Liberty Loan bonds and have bought $2,000 worth of War Savings Stampa Pat $37,000 HKG So Fone, [00% Park Place Avenue, Brut. | 2 ae eres |e WAR MULSTRUL. WORK GOTH ‘ vin Federal Employment Assistant Di. | AP Aseted Pac rector Sdys They Can Earn voters tag 14.50 2 Day. Violators of the Ald to striking waiters who want to et into war industrial wr wae prom: propaganda was a favtor a the strike. Mr. Kirchwey was asked (9 address © mass meeting of strikers in Bryant Hall. ‘The hotel men may they are satiefied Weimer, No. 63 Division Street, With the situation and that the scevies of | Juus Krimsky, No. 89 Division manage- ment, willbe opened to-day with vegro ‘walters, At the Astor, sixty waitresses are in the main dint room, aecorting to A. Snyder, maitre d’hotel. pissed nine vealed FIRST NAVY DRAFT CALL. ene er York Is Asked for 450 Men by Nov. 8, ALBANY, N. Y,, Oct. 31.—The first call for draft men for service in the United States Navy was received last | night by New York State Selective Service Headquarters, A total of 450 men is asked for, to be entrained Nov. | 9 and sent to No. 9% Hast 23d Street, New York City, the navy mobilization | headquarte: King Alfonse Over Grippe. ; MADRID, Oct 31.—It/s here th suffering has bee The salesmen at frien stores know that ts che tose of volien ant Glet good shoes, but the selling Govect ocyice thot Aad o Test our ability to please copperamiths, rds, food and LE I TSE, GARFIELD’S SON DECORATED wi Frem WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Lieut. Stanton Garfield of the French Fieid Artillery, youngest son of Fuel Ad- ministrator Garfield, has been dec. orated with the French War Cross for valor at the front in France, Dr, Gar, field was notified to-day, ——_——— Jolie Stimede Mt Head Uw. Army Narse, WASHINGTON, Oct. 81.—Mise Julia Stimson of Worcester, Mass., former. ly Chiet Nurse of san perengriarnd Red | Cross in’ France, inted | gave bap ted of tne Ameren pedi~ tionary Force, in duties early in Nov: Wi tans tering the Red Civse eservice Miss Stimson served with American hos- pital units attached to the British ' Pai SRLIPE ES a Theodora Booth Reaches Fron: A cablegmam was reecived to-day the headquarters of the Girls’ National Honor Guard that Miss P Praga Booth, President of that society and daughter ee sen a Me, oot France and Joined her ¥. oe A. unit, Cyril Maude, the ‘English a actor, will speak on “The War Work of Women in England’ & meoting of the Na- tional League for Woman's Servic this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the bull- room of the Hotel Biltmor: Pp to Engineers, WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—An en. | gineer training camp, with accommo- | dations for 16,000 men, Is to be built at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. The War | Department announced to-day that work wil} begin at once at an esti. | mated cost of $5,000,000, the contract | having been awarded to the W. M. Southerland Building and Construc- tion Company of St. Louis, 30. # Special. S%U—K 30,°35 Dresses In Great Sale. ‘Train Were ever such truly aristo- cratic dresses offered for so little? The very style leaders - which have been pictured and; talked about since the presen! WENDEELT Philip Le, 332 Hidgowood v., Brook 3 OEE sis hee has et mana Colors | Materia = Navy-—Black MARINE CORPS CASUALTIES Tan— Gray MISSING IN ACTION, Dark Brown Privat New Blues A brilliant and 0 from which most becoming tions may be readily made. No Charge for Alt ra ee