"WHfK? EVENING PXTBKIO LED'GEI-PHIEADEEPHIA, MONDAY ! FEBRUARY j 17, 1013 f J . -M- PICTURE ARGONNE AS A SHAMBLES Allen Charges of Saerifice of American Lives Re peated Before House Committee OFFICIAL REPORTS READ They Show Inadequate Artil lery Battle Won hy Bravery of Infantry DISEASE GERMS WEAPONS PREDICTED FOR NEXT WAR Dr. Isaac Slutrrfcst, President Emeritus of llavcrford College, in Talk Against Compulsory Military Training, Says Biologists May Decide Conflict NEGROES FROM HERE FOUGHT CONTINUALLY ' Ity a Staff Correspondent U'nriilnKton, Feb. 17. Volumes of official reports and signed memoranda of officers who fought with the Thirty-' fifth Division In the Argonno foreit bat tle wero read to the House llulcs Com mittee today by Governor Henry Allen, of Kansas, to support the statement he wade In the newspapers about a month ago that lives of thousands of American soldiers were needlessly sacrificed In Prance through illure to supply horses, artillery and airplane support The charges made by Governor Allen of wanton sacrlflco of the lives of the Infantrymen made such a profound Im pression upon the committee, that Chair man Dent nsserted early In the hearing this was only a forerunner of a very comprehensive Investigation that will be made by Congress Into the different phases of tho war with regard to which there has been lnost Berlous complaint. Governor Allen repeated the charges he had previously made. The principal assertions to corroborate which he pre nented official reports and signed mem oranda, were as follows: First. Tho Infantry was totally un urotected by artillery. What little artil lery flro there was fell short and hilled and wounded many of tho American force. Second. Because of lack of American airplanes the American artillery was un. directed or misdirected and was in effective In aiding tho American ad v ance. Third. Because of absence of American airplanes the Germans completely con trolled the air directing the German artillery to make havoc In tho American lines. Fourth. The German airplanes Allied the air and unmolestod flew so low that they killed and wounded hundreds of the American soldiers and hilled hun dreds more who lay on the ground u ounded. Fifth. The men went Into the battlo and fought six days and nights without proper food, with summer underwear In October and with poor shoes. Sixth. The wounded lay twenty-four to forty-eight hours In mud where they fell for lack of enough ambulances or medical supplies. Seventh. Tho divisions were not equipped with guns to fight off the Ger man airplanes which terrorized them from aboe. "It was my observation and that of the Infantry officers and men who were in that battle that every branch of the army supposed to help the Infantry fell down flat." continued uovernor Aiitn, The only tiling that held up and won the victory was tho raw American man hood, that stood out strongly and brave ij- at all times." N. Y. HONORS NEGRO HEROES "Old Fighting Fifteenth," 3000 Strong, Has Parade New Ycrk, Feb. 17. (By A. P.) The 3000 members of the 360th Infan try, formerly the Fifteenth, New York's negro regiment, who made a great rec ord In France, are guests of the city to rt a v. The regiment came by train from Omp Upton fcr a parade up Slfth ave nue. The reviewing party Included Gov ernor Smith, Major General Barry, Rear Admiral Gieaves and aldermen and other city officials. The Rocky Mountain Club today call ed on all New Yorkers who formerly lived west to join the movement for a welcome to the famous Rainbow Di vision and other divisions including western boys when they land in New York and give them the "western hand shake." HONOR LOGAN BOYS ' Disease germn, rained from tho sky on armies ami, cities, may be the destruc tive agents of tho next war, Instead of high explosive shells, bombs and bullets, declared . Isaac Sliarpless, president emeritus of Itaverford College, In speak ing against compulsory military training In the public schools. Doctor Shnrpless. who engaged In a debate yesterday of the "Main Line Forum" in the Woman's Club of Ard more, paid tho war just ended was a war of chemists. The next "conflict would be a wnr of biologists, ho predicted. The thought outlined by Doctor Sharp less was used years ago by Jack Lon don, who, In a fiction njory, told of the conquest of China by airmen who hurled down bacterla-nlted glass tubes on the Chinese people. Strong support of military training In the schools was voiced by Prof- R. T. Shaw, or tho West Philadelphia High School, and by Inslgn Stephen Knowlton, V. 8. N. ' Professor Shaw asserted that military training was not only of value to the nation but helped In the physical and mental upbuilding of tho youth of the country. In dwelling on the possibility of the use of disease germs in warfare Doctor Sliarpless said: "While this may be too horrible even to contemplate now, nevertheless It Is a posMbllltyi and oven a probability, to bo reckoned with, and certainly It should be most seriously considered beforo wo begin to burden ourselves with tho In evitable costliness of military training. For It certainly will be costly, and we, the taxpayers, will have to pay the cost." Most of the resulting debate was In' opposition to tho stand taken by Doc tor Sliarpless. Miss Kllcn WInsor, of Ardmoro, however, Insisted that tho only way out of any situation was to give the women the vote. She declared mili tary training to be the essence of Prus-slanlsm. Officer of 368th Regiment De clares Men Behaved Gallantly main force of tho German army retired but they left behind them a line, of ma chine guns and field artillery which did very effcctle work, picking off our men as they advanced through the wire Them wero some 300 casualties In tho regiment, and nlno officers nnd six men wero cited for heroism." TRANSIT SUBSIDIARIES , WIN WAR TAX SUITS More than 80 por cent of the 36Sth j C., ,.,,.., f1r Affirm,. In,l regiment are negroes from thU city and I ol,I,nl,lc rl "irillh JIHlg- ment Against Holding Com pany, Involving $363,000 Captain Richard M. Phlller, who sArvcd through some of the hardest righting In Franco a n company com mander of the 368th (negro) Regiment, has arrived at his home, 1811 Do Lancey place. After a few days rcit he will icjoln his command at Camp Upton. Captain Phlller was transferred from the Seventy-ninth Division at Camp Meade to his present command, known as tho "Buffaloes," and tho regiment sailed for France on the transport George Washington last Juno IB. Their baptism of flro camo the fol lowing August, when they were sent to tho front In tho Vosges section. After a short while there they were sent to the Argoniro front, and were placed ni a llason regiment with the Seventh French army, and when the armistice put an end to tho hostilities they wero In the McU sector, having been In action con tlnouily for almost four months. "The Argonne battle was one of the most effective nnd bloodiest battle of the war," said Captain Phlller. "The pliin.i are being made by prominent neg roes to give them a royal welcome homo Tho Colored Protectlvo Association nnd committees from various negro churches wilt arrange tho reception, which will probably be In tho nature of a street parado and numerous demonstrations. It Is not known Juit when they will ar rive here. flenger Railway Company, and George Wharton Pepper for the Philadelphia Traction nnd tho Continental Passenger Railway Companies, Tn the lower court tho cates were decided In opinions writ ten by President Judge Mc.Mlchael, and Judges Terguson and Davis. The de cision was ngaliiBt the P. R. T, and ruled that the transit company must pay the taxes for tho Philadelphia Traction Cum pnny. the Germantown Railway Com pany, Thirteenth nnd Fifteenth Streets I'ntnnntiV- !h 1hltiifljtiMn rltv l!i,..n. Under nn order rend by i hlef Justice ger Railway Company, tho Union Trnr- BRAVED DEATH FOR COMRADES V James T. O'Neill Cited for Oh tnining Food Supplies Under Fire For crossing the Vetle River near Flsmes under a hall of machine-gun hut lets nnd obtaining food nnd medical sup plies for his comrrdes, Private James T Hrown, the State Supreme Court, toilnv nnirmcd the Judgment of Court of Com mon Pleas No. .1, which was ngaltiKt tin Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company In ten of tho thirteen suits brought by Its umlerljlng eomiwnlci ngnlnst the P It T. to recover the Income mid excess profit taxes levied by the government on tlu- Income of the subsidiary lines Pajincnt of these war taxes, vvhlih. It whs estimated, amounted to iiIhhii $300,000, was the subject of u bitter tlon Company, the Ridge Avenue Pas. scngcr Railway Company, the Prankford and Soutliwark, the Fnlrmount Park and Huntington, the Citizens' awl the lleston vllle, Mantua and Falrmount passenger Railway companies. As to tho three nilts brought hj the Continental Passenger Rallwaj Com pany, the Philadelphia and Darby, nnd ihe Ureeti nnd Coates streets companies, tho decision of the lower court, n'tllrmed by the Supretni- Court, was In favor of the P. It. T. and icllevcd that rompiui) 14,000 SILK HANDS END STRIKE. Only About 3000 Workers No)v Idle in Paterson, N., J, I'uirrnon, X. J., Feb, 17, (By A P.) Fourteen thousand of the silk workers who went on strike here early this month In an attempt to enforce a forty seven-hour week returned to their looms today. Ten thousand dyers called their strike off last week and only about three thousands workers now are Idle. These, It Is expected, will report at the mills tomorrow. Tho teturned strikers Included many memtiers of the Industrial Workers of the World, who demanded a forty-four-hour week, refusing to Join the United Textile Workers In their stand for a forty-scven-liour week. The resumption of activities was called temporary, pending Investigation of local working conditions by the na tional war labor board. l-n! nnirn,i. flu. ..,., iin. i,.. ' oi pn nig wira iiinuuiiung hi mure wiun O'N'elll.f Aldan, a member of the 110th chief counsel for the P. R T., nnd former1 'll'000, Ambulanco Corps, wat' cltted for brav- Judge Peltier, his iiiclntr In certain of cry. the cases, opposed the pametit of the CliincM- Mi"!on Hcuil Named O'.Velll crossed on a small, hastllj I ,n- their main contention being that I r.lilnitton. Feb 17. Appointment niit'ii urn icitM.'n wvii' uiauf ii" putn ,A i iraouunnry obligations as war taxes Chinese legation, us head of the Chinese were contemplated In the piovlslon which. 0,Hicatlonnl mission to tho United States mndo the P R. T assume nil obllga-' , announced bj Chnrge d'Af tlons of tho underljlng companies fnires Yung Kvvai. Mr. Wang succeeds Joseph Gllflllan represented the Union j,- T (; -Vong, who. with two f.f his all, being wounded In the lft leg on his last crossing. O'Neill Is twenty jears old. He comes from a fighting family,. Ills grandfather, Jonn 11. uavis. Having served with Admiral Fnrragut, and his uncle, a marine, taking Spanish-American War. part In the Traction Company, vvliilo Owen .1. Jloh Icrts appeared for the Rldgo Avenue Pas- assistants, wns shot and killed recently In tho headquarters of the mission Humanta Denies Revolution Parln, Feb 17 (Uy A. P.) Reports of a revolution at Bucharest are denied by tho Rumanian press bureau here. SPANISH To help sou In the development of lulurin with South America wn hAV nrrnnned a cIbkk tn Commercial Hpanlah for Tuewlnv nnd Thurnday evening, bculnnlnjt Kbrury IS at 7 o'clock. Particulars will be Riven on rwiueit. CENTRAL Y. M. C. A. 1421 .MICH STRKET Organ In M. E. Church Dedicated 'to Service Men In memory of the bos of the Logan M. E. Churcli, Thirteenth nnd Rockland streets, who are In the service, a victory pipe organ was Installed yesterday morning with appropriate ceremonies. During the evening service a bronze tablet In the panel of 'the organ on which was Inscribed the names of the flft" men In the service was unveiled by two little members of the congrega tion. Misses Janet Grant Williams and Klla Louise Reiyes. Speeches were made by Joseph Maclughllu, Director of Supplies, and K. J. Lafferty. FORD SUIT BEFORE COURT Judgo Will Name Place Today for $1,000,000 Libel Trial Detroit, Mich.. Feb. 17. (B A. P.) The million-dollar libel nult brought by Henry Ford against tho Chicago Dally Trrhune. Is to be brought befoio Circuit Judge Mnndell here this afternoon for dec'slon as toa trial court In the change of venue granted on motion of tho de fendant company. Motion by the Ford attorneys to va nite the order or change of venue will njso be decided by Judge Mandell. Suldtcr Describes German Prison Corporal Leroy Congleton, of Company ), lOL'il Infantry, told the Bible class of Calvary Methodist L'plscopal Church, Forty-eighth street and Baltlmoro ave nue, yesterday of his eight months In vIiTinan prison camps. Corporal Con gleton was captured during the fighting itt Chemln den Dames and was confined ii Darmstadt and Obladen. Ho told how the Germans took from the prisoners their fcltoes and clothing because of the scarcity of leather and cloth. Paper clothes were furnished. The corporal was forced to stand In the sun seven hours a day for two weeks because of h'.H refusal to work for the Germans. ' Darby Boy Rescuer Ship's Caipenter Lieutenant J. II. Macdonald, a Darby boy, residing at 4H Spruce street, com mander of the United States miner sweeper Pennington, leaped overboard on the night of January 31 and irscued from drowning John Gil bert, ship's carpenter, who- fell over board when the gangplank upon which he was walking tilted. Lieuten ant Macdonald dived after the man had disappeared for the second time and then swam to the ship's side, when a ropo was thrown to him and both were hauled on board. Wounded Yanks See Show Wounded soldiers Just back from over itftii and other service men from various uuarters were the guests yesterday ttfternoon at a special performance of "A. Tullor-Made Man" at the Clurrlck Thfatre. The actors and musicians vol unteered their services for the occasion. 833-35 Market street I No C. O. D.'s No Approvals No phone or mail orders for this sale I 333-35 Market street One Day Specials $1.00 Camisoles, 75e Wash satin, lace and ribbon trimmed. $2.50 Chemises, $1.85 Envelope style in crepe de Chine. Lace and rib bon trimmed. manner's Main Floor BLAUNERS One Day Specials $2.00 Kid Gloves l.OO Washable Cane and Lambskin Gloves in all sizes, but in broken lots. Black, white, tan, gray and pearl, in tclf or contrasting stitching. manner's Main Floor trftAND LlEAM MM OF WINTER 3T0CKS IND SPECII i PUMASB FOR AM HTMORDIARf SALE AT Jt SALE Wh 4.00 Values up to 10.00 Lisere straws, trimmed with burnt goose and ostrich, wing-trimmed Turbans, smart Sailors, and many graceful mushrooms adorned with flowers, fruit and ribbons; also contrasting facings in fashionable shades. 2.50 Values up to 5.00 Smart new Hats, including Turbans, Tarns, Sailers and Mushroorfis, of straw, fancy braid or Georgette. The styles and trimmings indicate the higher values of these most.attractive Hats. Blauner'a Third Floor mm VIM 1 vOTAWvJ M l II ft ii 'J'sH twHRI III 1.00 JcY- Reductions on Between-Season Frocks 1 12.00 Values 16.50 to 19.95 C ..-. M.JA1. Z - aT-i. J .!ll. 1 1 v hJiimii iiiuucis in serge, ituiciu uiiu ourw uic tiiurKCu down to nearly half price for final clearance. A score of stunning styles excellent for spring. 18.00 Values 22.50 to 27.50 Beaded or braided Georgettes, in elaborate designs, as well as smartly fashioned serges, tricotines, ve lours and Jerseys. Drastic reductions. Blauner'a Second Floor The Blauner Policy is to start each season with ALL NEW STOCK, clear ing out all merchandise, even though recently purchased, at reductions that insure absolute disposal. Certain departments have made special and unusual purchases to maintain the extraordinary standard of values for this Sale Day. Two Coat Clearances Second Floor Tremendous reductions have been made on Coats of velour, kersey and beaver plush, most of which are fur-trimmed. Values up to 25.00 A very special assort ment of velour Coats have been reduced to half price. Many fash ionable and becoming styles. Values up to 3.1.00 Wonderful values in Coats of velour de laine, Bolivia and silk plush, luxuriously fur trimmed. All exclusive styles. Values up to 15.00 Clearance Price 9.so Clearance Price 14.so Clearance Price I8.00 Downstairs Store Black Thibet, plaid felt and corduroy Coats in full or "sports lengths. Values up to 5.00 Velvet or cloth Coats, lined throughout. Many with beaver plush col lar and cuffs. Values up to 12.00 Melton, cheviot or pompom Coats, many with collars and cuffs of plush. Values up to 15.00 Wool velour Coats in stunning styles; many with collars of Coney or plush. Values up to 20M Plush Coats, full length, many elabo rately trimmed with beaver plush. Guar anteed linings. Values up to 25.00 Clearance Price l.oo Clearance Price 3.00 Clearance Price 5.oo Clearance Price 7.00 Clearance Price lO.oo -J? WAIST J $5 and $6 Blouses, 2.75 Exquisite Georgette Blouses, featuring silk embroidery, frills, beading, two-tone combinations and fine tuckings. Suit and pastel shades. All designs are new and smart. $3 and $4 Blouses, 2.00 Georgette, Crepe de Chine and Sports silks in stunning trimmed and tailored styles. Trimjoings of tucks, pleats, embroidery and beads. y $2 Voile Waists, 1.00 Waists of colored Sports stripes, also dainty styles showing lace and embroidery trimmed styles. Jap silk Waists also included at this price. 79c Voile Waists, 29c .White-striped, colored -striped and blocked voiles, in corded effect, trim med with tucks or embroidery. There are many good sstyles. Blauner's Main Floor , ' All Skirts at Half Price Serge nnd novelty Skirts in fashionable styles. 50c Velveteen, khaki, s e r g o and novelty Skirt, j 5Q Winter weight black and navy nov elty weaves. n ff 4 Serges, poplins, vel veteens and novelties in stunning styles. 3.00 Blauner's Third Floor 2.00 jl) i V ' v is r'ySVS. iff T. -. T, () i . ti sh .
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