i ', r- . ' fsT "T" iainmg public ffieb$er il' i i i i ii r Ok'i-f J -1 -"li " THfr WEATHER k 7 ' S ' . Ntl J . !.' Washington, Aug. J 7. Fair and com firmed cool tonight and Sunday; light northeast uwds. TuairEBATiyiE at kcii iinrn Ml 9 10 111 112 1 I 2 I 3 4 5 170 68 167 I 67 I C8 171 I ' I I I Mi . m THE EVENING TELEGRAPH ;yi -4ar,v PR1PP. TUA PTPMTfl i v VOL. IV. NO. 288 I'ubllthed Dallr Exctpt Sunday. Suknerlpttan Price: 18 a Tear by Mm. Coorrtstit, 181b. fcy tho Publlo tdr Company. PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1918 Catered a feicond Cl Matter at tho Poatomco at Fnlldlpnla, Pa. Under lh Act of Match S. 1ST. U1U1J i 1. W WU1.1 M.KI ",-1' &rm NIGHT EXTRA w It. ir b' R i- 1 ? Rt ?' rC -'1- LAKE LIGHTS TOLD GERMANS PLANS OF U. S. News of the Americans' Ar- rival Flashed Across ' Geneva F BLACK LIST OF SPIES IN NEUTRAL COUNTRIES American and Allied Coun tries Watch Their Every Movement ONE TRIP TO BORDER Apparently Fruitless Journey of Correspondent Has Im ' portant Sequel ' At thr beginning of the Tinropean war Carl W. Ackcrman uns a mem ber of the United Press staff In Washington. Btnce then he hat been in fourteen countries as a war rorresnondent and magazine in iter. In Tet.rvary, 101 H. he sailed on the first passenger ship to reach Liver pool after Von Tlrpitz announced Ms submarine blockade of the British Isles. Until diplomatic relations between the United States and Germany were broken Mr. Ackcrman was the Berlin correspondent of tJm United Press and traveled to all the battle fronts. After scturning to the United States with Ambassador Qerard he wrote "Germany, The .Next Republic?" which n -syndicated by the Evening Public Jjast summer the roller uai In Mexico for the Saturday Krcnina Post, and last winter he studied con ditions In Germany, from hi head quarters In Switzerland, for the lame magazine, lie returned to thli coun try In June, after traveling through southern rrance and vliiting .tnirr lean headquarters on the western front. By CAUL W. ACKERMAN Copurloht, till. Ii' riiille T.cdoer fo By 5 o'clock we codld tell that It 1 was going to be a dark and, per chance, a rainy night. The clouds were den and, although not drifting very low, they cut oft the tops of the mountains on the French shore of Lake Geneva. About a thousand feet above the water, however, the atmos phere was clear and from the cement bound-driveway at Quchy, just bolov Lausanne, we could see the green banks and some snow on the steep slopes opposite us. Evaln and other French towns were plainly Uslble, and, with the low,dlstlnct skyline, tho mountains and the smooth lakes be fore us It appeared as If we w ere look ing across a great amphitheatre. Sauntering along the wide piome nade with Harry Scott Williams, nn v Allied Secret Service agent who had been ordered to Switzerland by his Government to watch the activities of enemy spies, we mingled with the crowd of foreigners who weie out for their evening walk. Passlrlg along among them, our ears, like sensitive wireless Instruments, would pick up the sounds of all those languages which one may hear In a neutral Eu ropean country today -French, Ger man, English, Spanish, Gieek, Serbian, etc. Wealthy Germans, with their tnew wolfhounds (they aie gradually discarding the daschund)L. French In terned officers and soldlei s, a few Tom mies, nursemaids with big carriages, children dressed in gay colors rolling hoops or throwing stones Into the lake, were to be seen along the drive. In rowboats and sailing smacks were oth ers banking In the luxurlousness of a peaceful evening on the waters of a peaceful country. "This should be a good night for signaling across the lake," my com panion remarked. Wnlovlnir. as I was. the calm and tlm rest jifter a day's toll, my thoughts "were wandering far from the war, but his statement orougni me u uw aum leallzatton of his business. I looked at him and then across the lake. I had heard of the Germans using light signals in Spain, but I did not think It possible from a belligerent country. We trekked along in silence. "I think we can catch that damn boch'e tonight," he said after we had walked several hundred yards. "I'll get Lardney's car. Henri and Gus will be ready if I give tho alarm and we'll go up the mountains. Would you care to Join us? It may make a good glory if we land him. If not, you will have the ride." Watched by the .Enemy Not long after I gave my consent we Were on the train bound for a village several miles away from our destlna. tion. We knew that we were watched, because the enemy watches every one in Switzerland: every .one and anyone who has the remotest connection with the war, especially correspondents, be cause the Germans are suspicious of all writers who are not In their confi dence. When the train stopped at a small mountain town we were the only pSwengers'to get off, although some barrage and milk cans were unloaded Da.r.?- n .0 tinnrixrt tn the nost- ana inu mt . ........... . ---- . man. From the'depot we walker" along a narrow mountain path to onj of the fine motor thoroughfares which had been built for the tourists long before thwe was any thought of a European war. The car had been ordered to meet us there .and to pick up Henri and Qua at another point, so we had tn wait" some time before it arrived, 'I did not ask my guide where we were going. I had been In Swltzer land long enough to know that it is not safe to tell any one anything and I feared he would not tell me. even If I were cin-lous. , "We hall-.have dinner some place alorur the oad here," Williams volun tMred this pleasant information, "and - . t.fT .U. 4A.. HM. mill ViAivIn aDOUlAVj'U UW JWJ l."" " "". irnr several mania huh "" wren hav been seelns (ignis truui .i... .? - .A i ii . g Utt4 M I'M Three, Colunii uniu Tbrtt w TO A MARTYR'S MOTHER The following letter from a marine overteas to the mother of another marine, killed in action, a Philadelphian was sent by the mother to Representative J. Hampton Moore to "demonstrate the spirit of the boys in the district you icprcsent." The viother asked that Ilpreirntative Moore call the attention of hit colleagues in Congress to it. It is here reproduced in full because of its unusual appeal. The mother is'Mrs. C. M. Spearing, of 1532 North Fifty-fourth street. The son, Walter Joseph Spearing, was a member of the Fifth Regiment, U. S. Marine Corps. At the Front, June 26, 1918. Dear Mrs. Spearing: There is grief in. my heart and in the Vcarts of all my comrades for the great sorrow that this war has brought to you and to us. We all unite to express our heartfelt sympathy and condolence to the Mother and family of ono who has fallen in a cause as imperishable as will be the nnmes of those who have fallen to defend it. Should there be anything my comrades and I can do to mitigate your grief and to allay your sorrow some little keepsake of Walt as a marine, peihaps; but name it, dear lady, and it shall traverse the ocean to you. Because you Pwvatc pbh "fl- Walter's Mother a p comrade; that makes us two kindled 30uls in common grief for our nearest and dearest. Then too, this letter fulfills a duty that I am bound by onth and will to perform. Many months ago, Walt and I promised each other, that should the "God of Battles" call to one, tho dther would console the sorrowing Mother. Now Walt-has gone West to Home and to you forever, but his figure, his voice, his wonderful personality, will always be living truths to me. I, myself, should the great call come, will go gladly, confident of a reunion and with faith in the eternal truth of that cause for which I die? Beneath the green in Balleau Woods, foiever connected with the "Honor of the Marines," lies Walt with two comrades, dead on the "Field of Honor." Above their graves the stately pines sway in their grandeur, an -imperishable monument. But greatest of all epitaphs is1 that engraved within the hearts of his comiades. "A man, than whom there was no neer in kindliness, in undei standing, in comradeship, beyond compaie." We alone know what could have been, had circum stances so willed it. Whatever befall, whatever soirow fills us, one thing I swear to you, here hard by that lonely giave the very paper that I write upon taken in a captured German dugout. I swear that Walt is well avenged, that he has not died in vain, for his spirit leads us on to ultimate victory. You are proud, I know, for you aie the mother of a martyr a maityr ir a holy cause, Freedom and Liberty. Dear lady, the very thought that you arc in grief tears my heart. Do not soi low. Death, after all, is not so terrible, and here why here it is glorious. . Mother, in tho name of the Twenty-third Company, in the name of the maiines, I salute you and all my comrades salute you. Devotedly, SOL SEGEL. Twenty-thiid Company, Fifth Regiment, United States Marines. FOUR MORE SHIPS QUIT WAYS HERE Two Destroyer Tanker and Wooden Cargo Car rier Launched QUICK WORK AT CRAMPS Four ships q steel tanker, n wooden cargo cairler and two torpedo boat de stroyers were launched from Delaware Hlver ship arils today. The destiotrs were launched at Cramp's shipyards within twenty-four minutes one at 10.20, the other at 10:44. Approxinultly 10,300 tons weie added to Amei lea's merchant marine by the launching of the tanker and the uirKo carrier, ft'he former, the 13 I. Dnhney HI, of 12,872 tons, left the ways at the New Yoik Shipbuilding Corporation's plant, Camden, X. J., at 11 o'clock. The caieo carrlei, of 3500 tons, launched at the jaids of the Traylor Shipbuilding Company, Cornwells, at 12:18 this afternoon, was christened the Bunion Mlsa Xt.ll Walker, of lIuntBVllle. Tex , a nleca of S. V. Traylor, president of th. Tr.ivlor company, was tne sponsor. "13ery ship ou launch Is another blow at Germany." said S1V Frederick iiiaM.- nt the British Admiralty, In orfroiiiL. th"Bhinworkers who gather ed about the ways before tho launohlne. Lady Black also nttenuea me jauncn Inir Captain I3an Thomas I3vans, foreman In charge of the construction of the Buhlsan, was presented with a Iolng cup and a watch by the men who built the ship. Charles McClure. assistant fore man, was presented with a mahogany clock , , CJeotge X. yllearyey. manager of In dustrial relations of the company, made the presentations. Th mihlsiiii Is the thhd wooden ship launched In I'ennsyUanla, all by the Traylor Compan). It Is SSO reel ions, has a beam width of forty-fHe feet and a depth of forty-four feet. It is of the Ferris type The keel was, laid last De cember 20, but delay In lumber ship ments deferred the launching. The launching party consisted of Mrs. S W Traylor, Jr., of Cornnells: Miss Julia Ramsey, of Allentown : Miss Ixiulsa Amsler, Amstead, Texas; Miss Kathryn McGlnley, Miss Elizabeth nipley, San Antonio, Tex,: Mrs A. A. Brunner, Tor retdale;n K. Rlbsam, Trenton, X. J ; Theodore Da is, C ornwells ; Fred Schaf fer, Philadelphia and John Xoble and Warren Traylor, both of Allentown. President Traylor was unable to attend because of Illness. Mm. Itolieny Kpoiuor Mrs. 13 I. Doheny, Jr., of Washing ton, D ., vflfe of Lieutenant Doheny, V. S A was sponsor of the E. L. Doheny HI, which was built for the Contliiiird on l'n Kletm. Column On I.W.w!oSEGOESTOJURY Defendants' Attorney Causes Sur prise by Not Making Speech Chicago. Aug. 17. The I. W. W.cae. which has lasted more than three months, was given to the Jury today. Attorney Frank K. Xebeker, for the Government, concluded his argument In an hour, and Attorney George F. Van derveer, of the defense, surprised spec tators try making none at all. Mr, Xebeker told the Jury their work was as Important as that of men In the trenches, so far as the welfare of the country is concerned. In peace as well "as war Tlin (Jovernaamrs case, lie 1 -o'J vtM proved iariMBpCuments of W yefep- 't.. ,. , do not know me, please do not think it presumptuous tor me to write. .You aie I was his inseparable friend and CAPTAIN BIDDLE ' KILLS PILOT OF 1 GERMAN PLANE Philadelphia Flier Also Wounds Ohs'i;er Mai'liine- is C.ip 1 turcd Tntacl lly the United Preis With the Anierhun Artnlen In France, Aug. IT Captain Riddle, of Philadel phia, forced down a German rumpler plane at Xancy yesterday. The pilot wa3 killed and the observer wounded, but the machine was captured Intact. Riddle receUed a personal letter from General Pershing two months ago, when he was shot down and lnnded In No Man's I.ind, whero he remained moro than a day and escaped under shell fire. American bombing planes again at tacked the railway yards .it Doraraarj Baroncourt, near Metz Several tracks were obsered to hae been destroyed. Captain Charts J. Riddle, In yester daj's news dispatches, was reported as ha Ing brought down a German airplane, but theie is nothing to Indicate whether the foregoing Is a report of that vlc toiy, or whether it Is a new air battle In which he has figured THREE MORE DEAD ON CITY HERO LIST Mount Airy Officer and En- j Glad They're in Same Hos listed Man Wounded pital. But Wishes in Action . Them Home THREE ARE MI S S I NGi Philadelphia Soldiers in Today's Death List Corporal George W. Mini, 1323 South Forty-sixth street. Private James C. Brawley, 1618 North Fifty-fourth street. Prlvato William V. Klutli, 1640 Norlh Itedfleld street, August 11, 1918. Three Philadelphians dead, two wounded and three missing Is the lat est toll of the heavy fighting In France from this city, according to messages from the War Department today. Captain Philip Mills, of Xew York, a brotner-in-iaw or sirs, raui ueuoKia, Mills, of Woodcrest Lodge, St. David's, has also been kflled, according to a re port received by( Mrs Mill". Captain Mills was a member of the Philadelphia Club and made freqUent business trips to this city, Xames of the heroic soldiers of this cljs who were killed, wounded or miss ing after Pennsylvania units, in the face of heavy German machine-gun Are, forced ,passage of the River Vesle on July SO apparently are Just belns re ceived here. Local casualties reported within the last few days were nearly all sustained In the, crossing of the stream and the occupation of Flame and Flamette- Besides those reported dead, today's Continued on l'ato Kletcq Celuiaa Throe MEXICO ALTERS OIL TAX ;AVERTS CrISIS WITH U. S. Carrauza Modifies Decree Impos ing Exccsmc Levy on Ameri can-Owned Properties lly the Associated VeJ BhlllKton, Aug. 17. Jhe threatened crisis In the relations of Mexico with the Entente Allies and tho United States apparently has been acrted by h modification of the new Mexican oil lax decree by president Carranza. It was learned today that on August li, Cananta, In effect, cancoled rpo lslons of tho decre of July 31. under which undeveloped oil lands might ho seized by the Mexican Goernment upon failure of their owners to make declara tions and submit to what tney regaruea os excessive taxation LOSSES OF 110TH PROBABLY HEAVY, MARCH ASSERTS Bases Statement on Fact That Philadelphians Were Were in Furious Battle 1,450,000 MEN ABROAD Chief of Staff Suggests General German Retirement Ts Near By the Associated Press WnslilnRton, Aug IT ' Mora than 1,450 000 American soldiers hie been embarked from the United States, General March, chief of staff said today. This Includes men sent to Italv and Siberia as well as to France General March was talking to newspaper correspondents In his semlweekly con ference. In conference with the Senate Mili tary Altai! s Committee he announcrd that the American nrm now under arms numbers slightly more than 3,000,000 men Approximately 1,1551,000 of these are In cantonments at home. llntli I.oKsrn Heat) Answering a question by the news paper men, general March said the looses of, the liqthjjejiiment WbHafleJ phla troops, tho old First and Third X. G. P Regiments) of the Twenty-eight DIUsIon probably were proportionate to the htay fighting in which that dhlslon had been engaged. He gao no figures, hut pointed out that the Twenty-eighth DMslon had held the American center Uurlng the crossing of the Ourcq and was again In line along the Vesle, where further shirp fighting had occurred. As to the location of other dlilslons, General March said, the Eightieth dll slon (Pennsylanla .md Virginia troops), was training with tho British In Flcnd ers; that the nighty-eighth (Xorth Dakota, Mlnntsota, Iowa and Illinois troops), was In progress of embarkation nnd that tho Eighty-second (Alabama, Georgia nnd Tennessee troops) was In line north of Toul where it arrlted early in July. Reports do not show thnt tho Eighty-second dhlslon, he said, has yet been engaged o Kantern Front Senators were Informed bj Qeneial March that the "Russian situation Is ery bad because of the general corn- Continued on rate Three. Column Four 2 SONS WOUNDED, MOTHER GRIEVES PROUD OF THEIR VALOR A little more than three months ago two husky lads went overseas as frac tions in Uncle Sam's army. Today Mrs. Ross M. Hand, of J010 Ionic street, mother of Corporal Frank P. Hand, Company (., Seventh Infantry, and Ed ward C. Hand, Supply Company, 111th Infantry, received word that they were lying In btds side bj side in a Red Cross hospital Each has wounds in his legs, but bow, when or where It all happened the mother doesn't know, "I know that Frank was wounded during his third trip to the trenches," she said. "I didn't know they would get into the thick of It so soon. I've scarcely got used to thtlr being In France. But I am so thankful they could be put in the same hospital. Edward, whose wound Is not serious, wrote he was so glad he could be near to cheer Frank a bit and help take care of him. God knows I wish they w.ere safe at liome. and yet I'm proud that they have done something and may still be able to help Uncle Sam win the war" 1 Slight and white-haired, the little mother busied herself about the kitchen I as sue tamed surreptitiously she dabbed her apron to her eves now and then, and once stopped her chatter till the choke had gone from her throat, "Frank was a chauffeur," she ex plained, "and Eddie was a roofer, Frank was married Just a few weeks before he sailed. Eddie Is engaged The girls are mighty brave In the face of this bad news. "Yes, I've another son, James, who probably will xo Into service Boon. He Is only twenty-seven years old, but he was in the army for six years. He aeived on the Mexican border and was given honorable discharge because of his family. He has a wife and 'three chll- dren." FOE'S OUTER DEFENSES AT ROYE TAKEN French Plunge to Gates of City in New Advance DR1 E ENEMY BACK OF ROAD TO LASSIGNY Germans Prepare to Evacuate Salient and Construct New Hindenburg Line HAIG GAINS IN FLANDERS British Troops Press Further Eastward in Sommc Battle fly the United Press Paris, Aug 1 The Fiench nip at the gates of Royc. They hne occupied the advanced defenses of the town southward of the Avro Rl er. They have also occu pied the Junction of the Montdidler Estrees St. Denis roids St. Mnrd has been taken, after the llercest fighting fiom house to house The Germans had formidable defenses at this place Boond Loges Wood tho Get mans were pushed hack behind thp Rn. Lassigny load fly the issociated Press Paris, Aug IT. ' The Germans are preparing to, evacuate the Royo-Lasslgny-Noon salient, says tho Echo de Paris. It is Indicated, the paper adds, that German pioneers nnd laborers nro at work behind the German front lines on a new Hindenburg line. The German position in Royejs seri ous. Xot only are the Allies a mile and one quarter west of the town, hut the roads leading out of It toward Peionne, Xeple nnd Nojon are under the fire of Allied guns. In the region south of Roye, French tioops have made further progress In tho Logos Wood (five miles from Royc) and have reached the eastern outskirts vt the ood,'Says"thefoTncIal statement from the War Office today. There was heavy artllleiy fighting west of Roje during the night. Northwest of Rlbecouit the French have repulsed two strong German at tacks, one at Monollthe and the other at Charmoje Farm, tho communique adds u) in u.nciaiea I re-,s London, Aug. IT British tioops acted, with an exemption of 8 pir cent have gained further ground In the foi tiansportation corpoiatloris, 10 per neighborhood of Vleifc Berquln, at the I cent for manufacturing, fanning and apex of the Lys salient in Flandeis, general buslntss and 12 per cent for oil says the official statement fiom Field oper.Mois. mining jiuI otliti harjidous M.itshal Haiff today. They also have I undertakings. gained at Merrls. The advance In the T1"' ctss pmllts tax lrtuallv Ls salient is in the rtglon in which adopted by the committee gives an 8 pel tho enemy recently fell back. The Gci- cent eimptlon In addition to a flat ex mans are heavily shelling, Allied po-, emptlon of $3000 sillnns In the Ypres region. Profits between S and 20 per cent nre Tn Plcardy British troops hae made, tnxctl 40 I"'r cent , a"' !'rofi' above 20 additional progress. The British lines Per cent are ,ae1 60 per cenl have been pushed eastwaid noith of Many committeemen consider these the Amiens Roye road and noith of the' nln "nd '" Iht lh"w '"corporation Ancre, the War Office statement sajs i lnto,th,er bm rhe "V) a compromise I on the Tiensury suggestion that present H ;, II. ,:,.! p,.. i excess pioflts lates tontlnue In force. ' . Parii, Aug. 17. French troops aie within a mile of both Roye and Las signy. Camp de Cesar, a mile west of Rove, has been captured, while the Midian trench and Plessls de Roj e, less than a mile southwest of Lafcslgny, have been occupied. A number of pris oners nnd a great quantity of material were taken. A1SNE BRIDGES BOMBED BY AMERICAN AIRMEN With the American Army on the Vel Front, Aug 17 The Germans launched a combined gas, artillery and alr-bomb-Ing attack upon the French and Ameri cans along the Vesle early yesterday. This was In retaliation for a bombing raid by American nlrmen upon bridges over the Alsne late Thursday. German artillery continued shelling the cross roads south of the Vesle for hours, on the assumption that the French and Americans were bringing up troops Ger man aviators bombed the woodB and vil lages south of the Vesle, apparently working in relays A group of twelve American aviators participated In the laid on the Alsne bridges Early Friday other American fliers went up and took photographs for the purpose of ascertaining the ef- Contlnued on Tare Klevrn, Column Two Girls, What Would You Do? Suppose you had the pioblem facing you that faced Ruth Row land, how would you solve it? Ruth had tivo lovers. One went to war and the olhtr didn't. That's Easy But Wait! Both wete willing to go, but the one she felt she loved won exemption because of a slight physical disability. Later sh began to wonder if her heart really didn't belong to the one at the front. Then Rose the Question: Vill '' S with her word or the way her heart is turning? Solve it for yourselves in the new serial, "A Maid and Two Men," beginning Monday next in l inc Euening public ledger LATEST ADVANCES BY ALLIES ZVillrr- i ' F J 'yantw'' ojTs i lfwn , :s j-CTii-v SarxAv' i RM1NL-- --W-JSHfefeitcALTgsP C Z &x .iff'Wl ) M1'.rqi5j D,mui "trw A lJf r j&S?mV n',r-N? IE2L xw5h5L I I"" "jlP j i Tjmq. nrrvr S . - W3ffl'ortr V?!Sr rnrt,t I V V ' cwtM'"faLi-. -' "g,g ry" I Jroim ''sMr . Bu"m V y$ Paris dialcliiM report rrenrh linops williin a milo of Ito'h Hn and Lassigny, having captured PIcsmp, let than a mile southwest of Lassign). Koads leading toward Peronne, Nesle and Noon are under fire. German retreat to a new "Hindenburg line" is forecast. Further northward British gains along the Sommc in the Albert sector and fur ther northward arc reported WHISKY TAX SET ! AT $8 A GALLON, W. 1 Tr rs ays and Means Commit-j tee Reaches Tentative De cision on Rate mun&K IP fSiiCfcSSAKY lh the United Press nslilueton, Aug IT A ui of SS a gallon on whiskey and other distilled liquors was tentatively decided upon li the House Wavs and Means Committee totlav 'I hp piesent tax Is $3. JO. Tho new iate Is subject to lhange If the commltteo should find Itself short of the $8,000,000,000 goal when the bill is loidv to repoi I jnirs on oiiiei iiiiuiiis ne laiseil in i propori on bill (be tnmmitt e 's with-J noitun mi mat annountenicui fc- two reasons Vssiuaice of extremel) iiBb llquoi laics would cause withdrawal of splili" fiom bond to esi ape tavatluu and loito the coniinllitp into Interim legislation " The present rates are only tentative and may be changed to get more rev enue The committee today was working for final settlement of excess and wai profits, the only other open feature of the bill except liquor taxes I An 3U percent war pronts tax. as asked , b. .,.. TrenHUrv Department, will h .... n-l-a rnmmlttA nln ,.lnr. .1 nnnnni rate of 13 per cent on unearned Incomes. conslsting of Income fiom preferred stock, rov allies and annuities A half-wa provision for publicity of Income tax rtturns was decided upon, the names of Income tax pajers being I posted in every county seat, but not the amount they pay. , ' - ..i. ... ....... I1UI llll COMMISSION 1095 ARTILLEPY OFFICERS CAMP ZACHAKY TAYLOR, N. Y., Aug. 17. Before a great gathering of soldieis and citizens, 1095 candidates teceived com missions as second lieutenants of field artillery at the Hi t graduating exeicses of thelfeld nitillery cential officeis' t nlu ing school heie today. Major General William Snow, chief of the nitillery service of the United States atray, as the principal f-reaker. The candidates came from viltually every Stato in the Union. TYPHOID KILLS FOUR MORE INTERNED GERMANS iloxiEVlLLE, N. C, Aug. 17. Typhoiu epidemic ninony rv.-.ian cfcilois at Hot Sjniiijjs camp has caused foui moxe ucnthb, i ui. jik a total ot fifteen out of 100 caseiAo Tar deveteped. U-BOAT STOPS BIG LINERJ DOESN'T SINK HER AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 17. The liner Nieu Amster dam, of the Holland-America Line, which arrived heie today, re potted about sixty mlless off the Norwegian coast a submarine appeared. The captain of the liner was questioned aboard tho U-boat for two hours, and the commander of the undersea craft then permitted the vessel to continue its voyage. BASEBALL SCORES DETROIT... 0 ATH(lff)'...0 Sauss-Spencer; Watson -McAvoy; umphes, Mo.'ar.ty-Onviifc. K9R1 n.'bf WAR PROFITEERS HIT PUBLIC HARD t i fT ry o I Analysis oi Income I ax Ke- turns Shows Industries' EnormOUS Earnings: , KACStrJi 1U .iUUU V'A i.hSSl 1 Some of Profits Increases Made, in Nearly All Lines "Shoestring" munition companies, 2T.000 per cent. Dailies, up to GOO per rent Flour and grain dealers, BIO to 7134 per cent. Banks, up to 100 per cenl. Laundries, 100 to 1000 per cent. i'ood dcaleiH, 20 to 100 per cent. Canning Industry, 377 per cent. Packing companies, 18 to 2051 per cent. Shoe manufacturers, 20 to 1000 per cent. Bituminous coal nperatots, 1(526 to 5983 per cent. Anthracite cpeiatois, 12 to 170 per cent. . Textile industries, Up to 2oVer cent. Garment manufactuiers, 5 to 700 per cent. Clothing and dry-goods stores, normal profits for larger stores to 191.43 for small ones fly ip Associated Press Washington, Aug. 17 War pioflteers In 1917 were most numeious in businesses devoted to food production and distribution, cotton and woolen manufacturing and dialing, coal mining. lion, copper, aluminum and other metal production and oil produc tion and distribution, according to a Treasure anil) sis of Income tnx re turns in addition, thousands of small con nins in a gieat variety of Industrial and ionimercl.il classifications made profits ranging from 100 to3000 per cent above tbeii normal profits for pre-war vearc, which even then were considered high ' Detailed information on the extent of Continued on rase Kleven. Column l'uur 4ys TEUTONS TAKE i RUSSIAN P0R OF KRONSTAM . - .. (r K Forts Controlling Navdl' Approach to Petrograd1 t Reported Seized MOSCOW CONTROLLED j BY ANTI-BOLSHEVHa- So iets Remove National Bank F'rom Capital, London - Hears RED'S SHELUNG KAZAN U, S. Consul General Poole Determines to Remain at Moscow By the Associated Press - Paris, Aug. 17. (Havas Agency.)- Reports are in circulation In Finland I that tho Germans have seized the Ru. l slan naval port of Kronstadt, accord- Ing to a Stockholm dls'patch to La -Matin Kipnstadt Is twentv miles west of Petrograd at the eastern extremity of tlle Oulf of Finland. It was the pt in- cipai foi tress of Russia Reports r"- celved through Germany early in the. week were to the effect that Premier '-""'n'" nnd War Minister Trotsky had n to Kionstadt from Moscow. It Was added that ntlierlrionnrtmonto r,t '" SoMet Government also would goT there. The fortress conti ols nnvnl aiii pioach In Petrograd. Ice closes the harbor Ave months of the year. Loinluii, Aug IT (By r, jr. 8.). Moscow Is now In the power of the so cial revolutionaries (theantl-Bolshevlkl), said a Stockholm dispatch In the Time today. The situation at Moscow Is critical. . The Soviet Government has rtmnuA the Russian Xatlonal Bank from Moi cow ' German troops are dally ordered to report to Petrograd, sail the dispatch., and occupy part of the railway leartw from the capital to the northern catni?6 SOVIETS ARREST , -i i LEADING OPPONENTSilM fly the Associated Prest "I Copenhagen, Aug. IT. Forty of tha vi most prominent representatives of th "Sv Russian Socialist party have been a. restea Dy the Bolslievlki, say a. telegram 2? . -.. UW...W. ...cmwiviiiieii irom oociajisia) n in TV., Cain T ... .!.. .... ... .Uoc.. ,i ,o iiia it is iearea in v men will be sentenced to death because)' tliey had planned to summon n. confar. ffl2 tnce of ail Russian workers ' Kazan an important city In the Voljrai'.'' iiKion, nas ueen surrounded mil tai .s t oeing Dambaroed by Soviet troops, ao- uuruuiH- 10 a leiegram rrom Moscow re ceived by wav of Berlin. The telegram states that a number of English and Frencli have been placed under arrest at Vologda Civilians between the ages, of eighteen and forty are being mo blllzed b the Soviets for the construc tion of trenches. Bolshevik troops, advancing toward Onega Bay, havo occupied Klrilov, in the government of Xovgorod, east of Petrograd It is reported that violent fighting Is pioctodlng on the southern front and in the direction of Tcherltask for the iwssesslon of the Don railway bridge Out of 1000 officers arrested at Mos cow and Petrograd because of counter levolutlonary tendencies, 230 have been summarily shot, according to Moscow- ad lces to the Kicuz Zeltung, of Berlin. The semlotllcI.il news agency at Vi enna sajs It has received a telegram from Moscow to the effect that the So viet Government has seized several hun dredw eight of American propaganda'llt erature ' puiportlng to explain 'America's polio and to assure Russia of America's filendship" fl) the Associated Press r loklo, Aug 13 The Government to day Issued a statement announcing that under the agreement with China, In Ievr of the danger threatening the border of Manchuria, Japan was dispatching troops thence from Manchuria RUSSIANS TREMBLE AT REDS' THREATS i Special Cable to Eiening Public Ledger Copurloht, 191B, bu Sew York Tlmt Co. Stockholm, Aug. IT." A diplomat who has arrived her from Petrograd gives the following '. news concerning tne situation in Ki, ela: "The population is veiy unnerved i by many alarming rumors and awaits V'i coming events almost with panic, as ti l tney uo not kiiow w nai new trials , 1 tbv mnv hnvA tn suffei-. Tho- Ttal. Ka shevtkl being at the end of their reign. cruelties hitherto unequaled are ejr.j& pectea against tne Dourgeoisie. At ia s laat sitting of the executive commit.; Ida T.enlnft declared! " 'We may he compelled to go away, ". ... : i loniuiura on rat nix, voiomn Tws ffj Netvkl'Year Class Men Must Register Aug, 24, All male persons who shall havi reached thejr twenty-first blrthdy between June b', 1918 anil August 24, 1918, inclusive, must regtstMf' J On AUgUBl -1, A9AO.K j. These men should consult w(i local draft boards as to ovv where they should register - v M ifcjffl m m w uVt ii ex tt "PS A m r4 V 3 i I ty m 5J M t& - X, r E-. 1 1. . J S M ,M?IS ci 'W k i -y. ii v. "o. tir. ..' , ti r. s
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