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PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1917
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BASEBALL SCORES
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AGE FOR ARMY
DRAFT WILL BE
SETTLED SOON
h 'Final Details of Selec
tion Bill Now With
Conferees
kEADY FOR WILSON'S
'SIGNATURE THIS WEEK
Question of Liquor Sales to
Soldiers Also Will Be
Threshed Out
ROOSEVELT STILL ISSUE
Legislation Before Congress
for Prosecution of War
CONGRESS will take up this week
the following bills, to further the
preparations for war with Germany:
First. To punish acts of inter
ference with forcifni relations and
the foreign commerce of the United
States, better to enforce the crim
inal laws of the United States and
to punish espionage.
Second. To legulate the produc
tion and sale of foodstuffs.
Third. To authorize the Presi
dent to control the lailroads, tele
phones and telegraph.
Fourth. To give the Government
control of exports.
Fifth. To prohibit trading with
an enemy.
Sixth. To lemove certain restric
tions under the anti-trust laws on
exports.
Seventh. To raise levenue to the
extent of approximately $2,000,000,
00U for war purposes.
Eighth. To provide for the ex
penditure of $3,400,000,000 by the
army and nayy.
WASHINGTON'. April 30.
A compromise providing for selective
draft of males between twenty-one and
thirty-five cars of age probably will be
.reached at tho conference on the uimy
bill to which tho Senate nnd House are
xpcctcd to ngroe today. Tho chief dif
ference In tho bills passed almost simulta
neously by Senate and House Saturday
Jtlght Is In tho ace icqulrements. The
House provides for the draft of men be.
twecn twenty-one and forty, while tho Sen
ate makes eligible for military service men
between twenty-ono and twcnty-seon
j ears.
As the Houso recorded Itself by an over
whelming vote against the selection of mi
nora, tho conferees will confine themselves
solely to the question of raising the mini
mum draft ace. Tlilrtv-flve Is taken to bo
a good mean Dctween the House minimum
of forty and tho Senate's limit of twenty,
seven. Tho vote taken in the House on tho
proposition to restore tho army General
Staff's ngo provision of nineteen and twen-ty-frto
years received only six votes. House
leaders declare this means American men
and not boys must light the war.
The authorization of tho raising of a
division of volunteers by Theodore Roose
lt for service in France and a Senate
provision authorizing the sale of intoxi
cating liquors to ofilcers nnd men In uni
form are two other difficulties upon which
the two Houses of Congress have been
divided. The prohibition feature was tacked
on the bill In the Senate It will meet with
strong opposition In the House, as "wet"
leaders are prepared to fight If an attempt
Is mado to attach a prohibition rider to the
kill.
Tlcprescntatlve Dent, chairman of the
Souse Military Affairs Committer) and head
of the House managers, In conferenco was
to discuss the Tloosovelt nnd prohibition
features today with Secretary Baker. Sup
port of the Roosevelt Idea was found more
enthusiastic In the Senate than In the
House, The lower body rejected the plan
without a record vote. House opposition Is
based upon tho conviction that If tho war
in to bo conducted under tho draft prin
ciple It would be manifestly Inconsistent to
make an exception In the case of one divi
sion of volunteers who had not had special
training,
The suggestion is made that Roosevelt, if
(Jontlnned on Tare Five, Column Two
SUES WOMAN TO RECOVER
51297 FOR UNPAID GOWNS
London. Firm Starts Suit in Philadel-
phia Against Mrs.. Kath
arine Pcttit
1 Mrs. Katharine Pettlt, said to be living
t the Rttz-Carlton Hotel, was sued today
for $1237.68, alleged to be due the London,
England, firm of Faro, for wearing apparel.
Among the items listed as -having been
bought by the defendant are these:
Model cloak In cut sleet and pearl.. IJ10
utumn embroidered model cown.... 170
Hlurk embroidered union cloak.,..,, 130
Oray Ureal embroidered WO
J, oral union tea cown ion
Hluo straw tonus 8
Suit waB entered In Court of Common
Pleas No S by John W. Brook, Jr.. and
y.ryjK Gourley, attorneys of record for
J'UJQPPaascolne, trading as "Faro." The
gowns and other apparel are alleged to have
been, bought lit July and August, 1011.
Fire on Lancaster County Farm
liANCASTER. Va April 30. Another
fit A fit invatAtklniin nstll 1u....j1 ika tnit
Jr. nd caTlage house on Christian Klrchner's
arm, near Strasburg, during1 the night.
Btarqng In the wagonhouse, flames, spread
p rapidly the live stock juan saved with
ffloulty. Loss 13000.
U.S. NAVY OFFICER AND GUNNERS
AMONG MISSING IN TORPEDOING
SATURDAY OF MERCHANT CRAFT
Captain S. S. Harris, of Vacuum, Also Re
ported Dead Three Jackies Rescued.
Ship Was Returning in Ballast
to New York
LONDON, April M0.
The American steamship Vacuum was torpedoed and sunk
Saturday, it was announced today. An American naval lieutenant
in command of the sun crew, nine American naval Runners, the
captain of the Vacuum and part of his crew were reported missing.
Three naval gunners were among those saved.
Those rescued included the chief mate and seventeen men in
all. The survivors were attended to by the Shipwrecked Mariners'
Society today.
NEW YORK, April .JO.
Captain S. S. Harris, residing at Lempston, N. Y., was in com
mand of the oil tanker Vacuum when she was sunk and Lieutenant
Thomas, U. S. N., commanded the American navy gun crew aboard
her, according to information obtained here today.
The Vacuum Oil Company, owners of the ship, today received
the following message:
Vacuum torpedoed twenty-ninth, MO miles west of
llarra. Number one lifeboat with captain and others
drowned. Number two with chief officer and following
saved:
Simpson and Williams, engineers; Lingren, carpenter;
Lotes, quartermaster; Witzen, Gissos, oilers; Parde, stoker;
By Singros, Vimegephan, seamen; Dia and Andrews, stew-
ards; Hatton, wireless; William Orell and Nichola Hilson
and Lasker, naval.
Captain Harris was in the one lifeboat reported lost, with the
American bluejackets and their lieutenant and other members of
the Vacuum's crew still unaccounted for.
Unless the American naval lieutenant and his gun crew, now
missing, are.later reported rescued, they will be the first of America's
fighting force to lose their lives in America's war with Germany.
The naval lieutenant will be the first officer killed.
J. I. Epolucci, a boatswain's mate., U. S. N., is still missing
from the Aztec torpedoing and he may be the first of America's!
fighting men to die.
At the offices of the Vacuum Company it was stated the Vacuum
was a regular cargo boat, not an oil tanker as first reported. She
had delivered a cargo taken on at New York at Liverpool and was
returning home in ballast.
The cablegram received by the oil company and cabled advices
indicated that a total of sixteen men, including Captain Harris and
the American gun crew, were probably lost. The Vacuum's crew
numbered thirty-four men and eighteen were reported landed in the
reports from London. Fifteen members of the crew were Americans.
With the gunners and the lieutenant in command the Americans
aboard numbered twenty-five.
The oil tanker Vacuum was last in Philadelphia on August 28, last year,
when she left the Point Breeze docks. She is owned by the Vacuum Oil Com
pany, which has offices in the Brown Building. Twenty-eight men were carried
in her crew.
The Vacuum was a 247-foot steam screw ship, with a tonnage of 2351 and
developing 1350 horsepower. She was built at Ecorse, Mich., in 1912 and orig
inally wa3 known as the Bayamon. The name was changed to Vacuum in the
latter part of 1916, Now York was her home port.
At the Philadelphia offices of the owners it was said that tho ship cairicd
two guns mounted fore and aft. She had been in use in the traffic to Europe
since 1914.
DEATH FOILS HIS PLOT
TO MURDER PRESIDENT
Man Who Expired in Trenton
Also Planned to Kill
Roosevelt
TRENTON, Apill 30
It was learned today that Charles 'O.
Mueller, of Indianapolis, who fell dead of
heart trouble at Barlow's Hotel late last
night, had been plotting to kill President
Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and United States
Senator Taggart, according to letters found
by Coroner Uray. of Mercer County, on tho
"V loaded revolver was found In tho dead
man's pocket nnd his pocketbook contained
many clippings reporting lecent munitions
plant explosions. The Federal authorities
aie tracing his movements In an effort to
learn If he had confedeiatcs Mueller ca,me
to Trenton Wednesday and registered at
Barlow's Hotel.
Flairs Stolen From House Front
Three big American flags and ten small
ones, which decorated the front of the
homo of James N. Johnson, 6317 dray's
avenue were missing when Johnson opened
his front door this morning. Only the
brackets which held the flags were left.
Johnson reported the loss to Lieutenant
Ewlng. of the Slxty-flfth street and Wood
land avenue Btatlon, and at the police roll
call the day force was told, to warn house
holders to keep an eye out forlhe safety
of their flags. District Detectives Print
and Qulgley were ;ent out to find the thief
who took the Johnson flags.
U. S. EMPLOYE HELD
ON TREASON CHARGES
Meat Inspector Said to Have
Made Insulting Remarks
About Flag
Tieasonable statements said to have been
made by James Sutton, a negro employed by
the United States Government ns meat In
spector, caused several score emp.oyes of
the packing firm of D. B. Martin, at Thir
tieth and Market streets, to quit work this
morning.
They said they would not work with a
man who insulted the flag and defamed
his country. News of the trouble reached
the police and Sutton was arrested, with
the result that the men went back to
work.
When taken before Lieutenant of Detec
tives Scanlon. Sutton said he had not said
anything, 'but later admitted that he might
have mude some rash statements during
"the heat of the argument." Just what
these were he refused to say.
"Any man -who says the things jou are
supposed to have said has one place only
the Morgue," remarked Scanlon.
Scanlon' referred to the fact that Sutton
was alleged to have declared his Intention
of refusing to fight and, If force'd to do so,
of "laying down." He was locked up In a
cell and will have a hearing ths after
noon. He has been a meat Inspector since
last October and has been making lnfla.ni.
matory statements, according to complaints
made by Dr. C, K. Kelter, another Inspector,
for the last two weeks,
BRITISH STRIKE
AT YPRES; PUSH
SCARPE BATTLE
Struggle Virtually a Dead
lock as Germans Rush Re
enforcements FRENCH PREPARE BLOW
BERLIN (via London). April .10.
Tremendous losses of British attack
ing troops were revealed in todav's of
licial statement. "It is estimated," the
War Office declared, "that on Saturda;
the English losses were (iOOO fallen and
1000 taken prisoners. Fifty machine
guns were captured and ten tanks were
dcstro)cd."
LONDON Apt II 3I
As an Indication that tho Hrltlh offensive
Is not taking all tho strength of tho Ilrit
Is'i nrmv In llio Arrns-to-M Qucntln fnint
1'leld JInivli.il Halg biaged a etioiiR raid
north of Yprcs tod ij
"At night, noith of 'V, pros ;i siieecsful
raid was i.uiled out" the British coin-mander-ln-thlof
icported "Eighteen pris.
onets and a midline gun wore laptuted"
Ypros is ncnilv llftv miles north of the
Arras sector whcio tho British push was
still powerfully everted against tho loin
nants of the northernmost tin! of the "Wo
tan" lino
"Between Moncli.v-lc-Prou and the
Scatpe. In a nun 1 1 operation wo look a
fow prloneis and Improved out position,"
lialg icported of the lighting in this -.ec-tlon
Tho fighting In the loiindeil potior In
front of (lav i olio, Itoouv. Mondiy mid Guc
mappe was niipaictitli In u 'ollncli" to
day, tho armies on both fides being mole
or less deadlocked
With jestetdaj'H enptutes of Goiin-iu po
sitions mound OpP. the ililtlsh forces
have now leached broken, lrtegular ground
where tho nituial adt.iqUges of position
am with the encim i:ery dispatch from
the front todav likewise mentioned the ox.
traordlnary numbei of fresh troops which
tho (let mans were Intel posing nnd tho vio
lence of their countct -attacks
Tho slopes and ridges of tho Scatpe val
ley offer unusually excellent hiding places
for German machine-gun crows und the.
German positions along the dominating
heights arc strategically sltu-Mcd for pour
ing tire down on tho advancing British
Pi out dlspitchcs today spoke of now
(let man long.rango cannon now brought
up and put Into action against tho British
drive. The intensity of the Herman lire
has likewise increased, although as jet it
does not an) where appro ich the violence
of the British deluge of steel.
I'AIHS, April 30
l'oiecastlng ,i resumption of (loncial XI-
( mitliiuril en Pnse Sum, Column Two
BRITISH DEMAND
NAVAL CHANGES
Public, Led by Northcljffe,
Insists on Reforms in
Admiralty
WANT TRUTH ON U-BOATS
LONDON. April 30
Tho British Admiral!) was under u blast
of public clamor for rehabilitation today
Lord Noitlullffe, the man who led tho
crusade In 1915 that lesulted In the great
shake-up of the War Ofilce and I.lojd
Oeorge'H appointment as Minister of Muni
tions, wan behind todav's movement for
reorganization of the naval in .inch I'ress
nnd public appeared to agtee with him In
the liveliest fashion
The Admiralty Is under attack from
three directions b'lrst, tliero Is vvldespieatl
criticism of Its failure more successfully to
combat tho Herman uubmattne menace;
second, the Admit alty Is blamed for in
sufficient coast protection, permitting a
number of Herman dcstroier raids on sea
coast clt,les; third, and probably most Im
portant, the public Is nroued over sup
pression of full facts as to the seriousness
of the submarine campaign and Allied
losses.
Lord Northcllffe Is leading the wav In this
criticism, directing most of Ills energy to
watd forcing the Admiralty to give full
facts on submarine operations
OAitsoN di:fi;nds colmisi:
Tho opposition to the Admiralty reached
the House of Commons today when ques
tions were asked of the First Lord of the
Admiralty, Sir IMvvard Carson.
"As tho number of German submarines
Is Increasing we must expeot a correspond
ing Increase In the danger of shipping," he
replied, referring to tho statistics of sink
ings Lord Northcllffe advances the theory In
which ho Is much supported by the pub
lic that If Kngland was avvato of exactly
how great the Inroads on her food con
sumption have been, due to submarines,
the government would have an easier time
applying economy. The misleading state
ments of losses, Issued weekly by the Ad
miralty, have given a false Impression of
England's security, according to North
cllffe and his fellow crusaders, and they are
threatening to adopt the same tactics
against the Admiralty that they put Into
effect at the time of the shell agitation two
years ago. '
At that time their efforts divorced Lord
Kitchener from his exalted position as dic
tator of all' army matterrs and made a divi
sion of the work at home and at the front.
Lloyd George, master djnanio of England,
was put In charge of speeding up the manu
facture of munitions.
At that time Northcllffe and his fcllovv
leformers achieved tehabllltatlen and
strengthening othc Government by telling
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COTTON SHIP BELIEVED SUNK
NI2W YORK, Apt II 30 Tlmt a steamship cairyltiK cotton had been blink by
tt submtiilnc or initio was Indicated by cables from Liverpool, vvhlilt lcpotttd
covering in the RnglHi market against cotton mink.
BILL ENABLING ALLIES TO RECRUIT' HERE BLOCKED
WASHINGTON, April 30. Tho Administration bill authorizing tho Allies to
i remit their subjects now residing in tho United States was at least temporarily
blocked today by Senator McCttmbci, of North Dakota, who objected to Immediate
consldcintlon of the measuio 'because adequate measures luivcn't been taken to
asuro safe passage of any one on the high seas."
JEWISH STUDENTS AT PENN TO AID WAR SUFFERERS
A campaign to talso $1000 to icllcvo the sufferings of tho Jews on tho enstern
battlo ftont In Europe was launched today by the Jewish students of the University
of Pennsylvania. The campaign Is to continue nil week Houston Hall will bo
tho headquarters of tho campaign workers, whero prominent Jewish btudents will
receive nil contributions Ptnvust lldgar Palis Smith has given his approval to
the campaign. He described It as "most necessary ancj worthy und deserving
of the support of nil."
GERMAN AIRMEN SHELL FIVE FRENCH CITIES
PAItIS, Apt II SO The War Otllco announced todav that (icrtnun nir lalds
on Dunkhk, Nancy and llelfott had failed to Inflict any casualties." Chalons nnd
Kpcrnav were alo bomliai ded liv Cciman ntrmen, wllh several civilian victims
repotted
ITALIAN MISSION TO U.
PARIS, Apill 30 An Italian mission
savs a dispatch fiom Romo todav.
CHINESE PARLIAMENT TO DECIDE ON WAR SOON
PHIC1N", Apill SO The question of China's cntrj Into tlio war, which 1ms
ahcady been recommended by the conference of military governors, will bo put
up to Pailiament within about ten class, according to reports current today. Thcro
was a leccptlon at tho presidential palace on Sunday, at which President I.I and
Dr. Paul Rcinscli, United States Minister to China, both tpoke. Doctor Relnsch
received tho mtllttuy governors and fcpoko of tho close tics between the American
and Chinese Oovcinmcnts. There vvns a dinner at the American'1 College on Sunday,
at which Dr. Wit Ting-fang, former Chinese Ambassador to the United States, spoke.
BRAZIL PROCLAIMS NONINTERVENTION POLICY
HUUNOS .VIRUS. April 30 The Lltuiliaii Clov eminent, despite Its diplomatic
itiptutc with Germany, has Issued n ptoclamatloii announcing It will not Intervene
In tho war between tlm United States and Germany, snjs a dispatch fiom Rio
Janolio todns. The news cume in a big burprlse.
ALLIED AIRMEN SHELL FOE'S BASE AT ZEEBRUGGE
AMSTERDAM, April 30- Allied airmen bombaided Zcobiugge, tlio German's
ivavul base in Relglum, on .Sundav, savs a dispatch to this city today. The aviator
dropped many piojectlles despite violent fire against them from German high
nnglo guns. It Is learned that during tho preceding nlr attack two harbor walls
at Sicebruggo were smashed bv bombs.
CORPORATIONS PAY PREPAREDNESS TAX
Moio than r1000 lias been oluntnill t emitted to the ofllco of the Collector
of Internal Revenue In Philadelphia by corporations anticipating their share under
tho corpoiatlon pieparedness- tax of Scptembei. 1910. Ulghty thousand dollars of
this amount was lecelved last Sntuidas alone. $40,000 of which camn from one
corporation. Individual bills on this tux -cannot bo sent out until the assessment
rolls mo returned from Washington Collector Lcderer. of tho Internal Revonuo
ofilce here, announces he will be unable to answer emeries concerning tho bills
until then.
AMMONIA AT SUPPLEE'S
IMPERILS SIXTY-FIVE
Men and Girls Alrtiost Overcome
When Broken Pipe Re
leases Fumes
Sixty men and flvo girls were Imperiled
and a horse was killed today by ammonia
fumes when a pipe lino broke, releas ng
1000 gallons of ammonia from yL tank (it tne
Supplee Alderney Dairy plant. 3331 Market
street.
The onc-ond-a-half-lncn supply ptpe lead
ing from the main building to a tfour-story
concrete building being built In the rear,
was snapped In two, supposedly by a plank
falling from the roof of the addition.
Instantly a dense cloud of gray mist
arose, enveloping the plant and spreading
for a radius of three squares Choking
and coughing, the fifty workmen In the
nddltlon scattered for safety, The em
ployes In the offices, Including five girl
stenographers and clerks, rnn to the street
as tho ever-growing cloud of ammonia va
por Invaded the building.
Many of the workmen were trapped on
the third and fourth floors of tlio concrete
building. Bleeding at the nose and mouth,
workmen stumbled out of the structure.
The blinding fumes hid the sourco of tho
leak.
About a dozen workmen were carried
out by men who donned oxvgen hoods,
Among the rescuers were Captain Joel Scul
ly, Lieutenant David Gallop and Hoseman
George Iaimbert. of Knglne Company No. S ;
Policemen Johnson and Rooney. of the
Thirty-second street and Woodland nvenuo
station, and August Will, 253C Oxford
street, and Lawrence Kllcullen. Atlantic
City, workmen; Howard Green, 605 North
Eleventh street, and Joseph L, Clark. 2231
North Fifteenth street. Supplee employes,
and Arthur Hemphill, Kgg Harper, fore
man of the Tork Manufacturing Company,
which has the contract for the new building.
Wind, ucklly awept the c'oud away from
the building and the leak was found. Those
Injured by the fumes, werMreated In nearby
stores with the vlnegar-and-beer first-aid
remedy or ammonia; .poUonJng.
tu1 Thom.vi. TUcConniols ;uvi CouuUly.
S. SAILS, PARIS HEARS
has already balled for the United Stales,
ONE DEAD, ONE DYING,
IN CRAMPS EXPLOSION
Twelve-Inch Steam Pipe Supply
ing Riveting Machines
Blows Out
Ono dead, one dslng is the result of an
explosion today at the plant of tho William
Cramp & Sons Ship nnd Knglne Hulidlng
Company, Port Richmond. Both men wetc
pipefitters.
Tho dead man. Joseph Barberry, twenty
six, 4012 West Glrard avenue, was blown
fiom a room through a window and fell
forty feet fo the ground Ills body was
scalded with steam and maiy bones were
fractured In the fall
The dvlng man Is Joseph Rulou forty
seven, 219 Wlldey street Scalding from
steam Is the sole extent of his Injuries,
but phjslclans do not expect him to tecover.
Both men were working In the new power
house on the river front, below York street
They were making some repairs on a
twelve-Inch steam pipe which feeds tho riv
eting machines throughout the plant. The
steam was rushing through the pipe whllo
they worked, and suddenly and without
warning there came an explosion, lifting out
a whole section of the pipe, which emitted
clouds of scalding stoat".
Barberry was blown out of a window
and the sight of his body hurtling through
the air gave emplovcs In the yard an Idea
of what happened. The steam was quickly
shut off and rescuers ran to the place
where the accident happened. They found
Rulon lying unconscious near the spot
where the pipe had exploded. Both men
were taken Immediately to the episcopal
Hospital, where Barberry died a, little before
1 o'clock.
About fory gangs of riveters are thrown
temporarily out of work. Repairs to the
pipe will proh'ably be made by tomorrow
There are six riveters In each gang.
4I.O I.BUM Ul lilt? OA1JIVBIUII linn I1UI UCC11
determined,, but It Is believed tho pipe was.
The cause of the explosion has not been
being subjected to too heavy a pretaure.c
v x. ,r i
HUNDREDS ON EACH SHIP
Mission Would Not Stop Food
Transport to Move Big
Bodies of Men
WASHINGTON, April 30.
It will be only a matter of a fow dajs
bcfoio tho United States National Guard
unltn now mobilized In this country nro on
their way to tho western Uuropeun front,
and not Jess than six weeks before they ar
actually embattled with tho Germans, If the
Allies' urgent lecotuniendatlons to the
United States Government today meet the
nppiovat of the Administration.
It became known today that the Allies
want Atueilcati troops In batches of sev
ial hundred to go nt once to Kurop
aboard every ship that sails.
This will obvlnto necessity for the con
t puliation of great masses of men In one
plaeo and tho crippling of food und muni
tions service to carry them.
POR TRAINING IN KRANCR
Tho Allies want mobilized National
Guild units which were at tho border,
because they feel those men were equipped
bv their border work to go at onco to the
western front and train within sound of
thf big guns so they will bo tempered for
battle In not longer than llvo weeks.
Theo American troops, the Allies liav
assured this Government, will not be fuse
with Proiich, Rngllsli, Russian, Indian or
other troops, but will fight ns American
units under their own colors.
Tlio Allies' lecommendatlons today vvcr
Intended to wo m this country awayfrom
tho Idea that before American troops go
abroad they must bo trained hero for
months
They pointed to the failure of the one
nnd oneshiilf cars' training system of
Canada
Canadian troops, after this long course,
went to Kuropp In large units and. vvhllt
considered leadj to fight, had to go through
the flvo weeks' Intensive training within
sound of tho guns Just tho same.
MUST HU SPECIALIZED
The Allies' Idea Is to take small Anerlcan
units and specialize them, ns must be done
In this war.
This specialized course Is vitally ncces-
saiy, tho Allies pointed out, because "they
cun develop bomb squads, snappers, snipers.
trench experts and other highly specialized V.
groups from each unit In a few wecka j-Hk,
The fnlluio of tlio Canadians after their "''j
vear and n half of tialulng came In the
fact that theie was not a bomber, sapper,
sniper or other cipert among them. They
lud been drilled to open or partially covered
mass battle tactics
Theso American units would bo sand
wiched in on the fighting front between
seasoned fighting groups and would be
gradually absorbed into the front lino of
attack c
"Not only would this help our fighting
strength " said a high Ally commissioner
todav 'but It would havo a most depressing
moral effect on tho Gentians nlong the
eiitlno front."
"When the urgent, liumodlato need for
American fighting men nt tho front has
been threshed out and is moro thoroughly
understood b.v tlio American Congress,"
said the commissioner "I am sure It will
deslro to boar a complete statement of the
--ise by Vivian! and Joffre."
llio Importance of this Allied declaratloa
gathered credonco fiom today's activities
among American Administration olltclals
RAKER SEES PRESIDENT
Secretary of Wat Baker, the man who
would have active charge of dUputchlng
American troops to Europe, was In con
ftrenco with President Wilson nt th&
I White House just before Vlvl.inl arrived.
une pict.cni aliunde or tno Administra
tion, becictai Baker said, was In post
pono tlio actual dispatch of troops to
Pranco until the conscription bill should
actually become law.
The visit of Vivian! nnd Joflro to th
Pnlted Mates Senate was postponed for
the tlmo being for the same reason. It li
believed
COURTROOM "WEEPS" WHEN
ONIONS GIVE TESTIMONY,
Strong Evidence Brings Tears to Spec
tutors' Eyes as Thief Gets '
Ten Days
Without tho least warning.
Andrew
Ronnie this morning sneaked up oh a cast' "&Li
of on ons stundlnir In front or the 1'hlln.' -'L-.ea
delnhla Cold .Storatre Comtianr. Thirtieths "i'
and Ludlow streets, hoisted them upon hl, tyjpi
shoulder and trotted away. Policeman Con
way saw- tho theft and dashed after Itennle.
who promptly unshipped tho onions lit that vijw
middle of the
or me street, aim uusneu on uiii,vl:
ed. Conway finally captured him atir !
-first and Market streets, He led- fi
impeded. Con
Thirty-first
him back through a lane of curious folk f1lft"
When Rennle was artulgned before
Magistrate Harris in nis omce mo (oilovvH
aintnc-itf. mistllcrt 1
Magistrate -"I II give you ten days,JJ
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Muclstrato (glancing at the haii
onions) "A iery strong case" tsSi
'It was the time for laughterJ-but
room was full of tears." Two cetito'ali
music store, a
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