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ALL MERCHA??BISE A0VBR TISED IN THE TRIBUNE IS GUARANTEED Fir?* to Last?the Truth: WEATHER Fair and continned cool to-day and t#> morrow; diminishing north? west winds Vol. LXXVm No. 26,152 Editorials - Advertisements iMb*MW,R~ 1bun? Ass*n] SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1918-SEVEN PARTS-SIXTY-TWO PAGES * * ? FIVE CENTS " Ter* CMy Battle Won, Orlando Tells Italian Deputies; U. S. Sends 100,000 Men to France in Week Sugar Limit Fixed; 3 Lbs. A Month For Each Person Ration Cards Being Designed to Force Reduction of Con? sumption July 1 Ice Cream Supply Will Be Curtailed Action of U. S. Offi? cials Caused by Seri? ous Scarcity Both Here and Abroad ?By The United Press) WASHINGTON, June 22.?Drastic re? strictions on sugar consumption were announced by the food administration to-night They include: Reduction of home consumption to three pounds a person a month. ' Reduction of less essential manu? factured products, including sweet drinks, to 50 per cent of their normal sugar requirements. Cutting of ice cream manufacturers to 75 per cent of their normal amount o? sugar. Food administration officials are working en details of a ration card by which they will enforce the tr.Y'ee pounds a month rule. Scarcity Now Serious TJiis rationing plan follows a serious reduction in the available sugar supply for the United States and the Allies. Shipping shortage, the destruction of more than 200 French sugar factories and losses of thousands of acres of French and Italian beet sugar lands have combined to create a serious scarcity of sugar, according to the food administration. The strain of America to provide sugar for the Allies is in? creasing. Only strict conservation will enable food ' officials to tide over the crisis without being forced to more drastic steps and increased prices. '-. The new rationing regulations are ef? fective July 1. Every manufacturer will be required to certify his sugar needs to the food administration before he can obtain sugar. Products Not Affected Only the following products will get their full amount of sugar under the new rulo: Canned fruits, canned vege? tables, explosives, meats, catsup, chile sauce, drugs for medicinal purposes, apple butter, packers of preserved fruits, mincemeats, glycerine, insecti? cides, capsules and ant poison. Under the less essential class, which, will get only half its sugar require? ments, instead of 80 per cent, ns now, Mr. Hoover has included barrooms, brewers, California fruit cider, cough drops, dental preparations, dessert pow? ders, druggists who buy sugar for re? ducing concentrated syrups, honey manufacturers, hotel bars, gelatine, finger ale, glue, grape juice, ice cream cones, ice cream powder, jelly powder, marshmallows. malted milk, maple su? gar compounds, molasses and syrups, patent medicines, pickles, roller? for printing presses, preserving salmon eggs for sale to fishermen, table syrup, vinegar and whiskey. Soda Fountains Hit Hard 'n the case of grape juice the food administration announced it possibly Vculd allow sugar, if necessary to prc y-nt fermentation of the grape crop, but no increased sugar would be al? lowed merely to produce a sweeter drink. ?>oda fountains arc hit hard by the new regulations. They are cut to 60 Per cent. Preserved fruit for soda fountains must adhere to this limit, although fruits preserved for normal domestic use may have the full amount of sugar. Ice cream has for? merly been allowed unlimited use of fcugar, but after July 1 only 75 per cent will be allowed, and where ice fream is manufactured on the premi? sa of any dispenser it will come un? der the 60 per cent limitation. ?.? Class of 1918 Soon to Get Questionnaires WASHINGTON, June 22.- Draft ex ?eutives of ?11 states to-day were di? rected by Provost Marshal General Crowder to begin on June 25, and to ??ntinue for three days thereafter, the ?"ailing of questionnaires to regis? trants of the class of 1918. Twenty-five per cent of the regis? trants of each board will be provided w'th questionnaires each day. Boards *?re instructed to leave serial and order number spaces blank until classi? fication takes place, probably some time in July. -?W Uarsrave. Una St., near Co!. Av?. -.?i-"*- rate?, %Z and up, tar??, coo! room ?Uh bath.?Advt. ! Americans 'Bad Boys/ Germans Decide * : : (By The Associated Press) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN ! FRANCE, June 22.?The American sol : diers now arc regarded by their Ger? man antagonists as "bad boys," for I whom the German soldiers are cau ? tioned to "look out," according to a young German deserter who sur? rendered in the American lines on the j Marne last night. This willing prisoner added that con I ditions in the German lines constantly j were growing worse. He had deserted because he was war weary and under i fed, and he declared that many of his j fellows also would desert if they had j the chance. There have been lively machine gun | and rifle fire actions and intermittent j artillery fire in the northern section of j the Belleau Wood, where the Ameri? cans gradually are smoking out the remnants of the German machine gun ! nests. Otherwise the Marne front has been quiet. The 28th German Division has been i relieved by the 87th. The newcomers I are said to be. only a second rate di | vision, whereas the 28th was con I sidered by the Germans as one of their ! best. Wife at Door HearsHusband Kill 3 Children ?Thomas J. Shelley Then i Ends Own Life Behind Locked Barrier _-_ Thomas J. Shelley, a jovial Tammany politician until a few months ago, when , ! an attack of melancholia sent him to a j sanatorium, shot his three young chil | dren yesterday and killed himself | while his wife beat frantically at the I locked door of their apartment at 1229 Madison Avenue. On the other side of the door she could hear the children screaming and a frenzied scrambling. Then came five shots and silence. When she succeeded in entering the rooms with the help of John Caldwell, ! superintendent of the apartment house, i her husband and their youngest child, ? Dora, twenty-one months old, were ?still breathing. Grace, six years old, I and Thomas, jr., four, had been killed j outright. Mr. Shelley and the baby j died shortly afterward in Flower Hos? pital. 'It was just before 1 o'clock when ! Mrs. Shelley rushed downstairs from ! her apartment on the fourth floor and | met Caldwell. Found Dead on Floor "Hurry and get into my rooms," she I said to him. "I'm afraid something j terrible has happened. I just found j the door locked and heard shots and my i children screaming." Caldwell, closely followed by Mrs. j Shelley, hastened to the fourth floor, where he failed in an effort to unlock the door. He entered the adjoining apartment of Daniel O'Leary, father of Jeremiah A. O'Leary, crawled out onto the fire escape and entered the Shelley apartment through a window. Grace was lying dead in the hall. Her little brother's body was on the floor between the two parlor windows, where he had been building a toy cas? tle with blocks, and Mr. Shelley was lying on the floor of the back parlor, his body almost concealing his baby girl. Caldwell stepped to the door and met Mrs. Shelley. He told her two of her children were dead and that her hus? band and baby were dying. She was assisted into the O'Leary apartment, where she told what she knew of the tragedy. Had Hidden Revolver "He had a revolver in the house and I hid it where I didn't think he could find it," she sobbed. "Oh, why didn't I throw it away? Our friends told me to throw the weapon away, but my hus? band was so good and kind and gentle that I didn't dream he ever would do anything like this." Caldwell said the position of the hodies indicated that Shelley had first shot the little boy as he sat by the win? dow with his blocks. He then shot Grace, who apparently had run into the hall in an attempt to escape through the door, and a moment later turned the gun on the infant, who, it is be? lieved, had been following her father, and then shot himself and fell across the baby's body. Grace was shot twice in the breast; the other two each were shot once in the left breast, and Mr. Shelley was shot in the right temple. He emptied a five-chamber revolver, which lay beside bim. Mr. and Mrs. Shelley had lived in the same apartment eight years, going there immediately after their wedding. The three children were born there, and were favorites among the other apart? ment dwellers. Born in Yorkville Mr. Shelley was born in Yorkville and I had been associated in the real estate | business in an office at Eighty-fourth Street and Lexington Avenue with his brother, Edward J. Shelley, for twenty years, until he suffered a nervous break? down about a year ago. He virtually retired six months ago. He apparently recovered, but suffered a second breakdown and was taken to Rivercrest Sanatorium several months | Continued on Page 9, Column 4 HylanOrdered To Pay $2,000 In Libel Suit Justice Cropsey Awards Extra Expenses in Execu? tive's Two Actions Judge Criticises Mayor's Course Reasons for Asking Delay of Trial "Palpably In? sufficient/' He Says Justice James C. Cropsey, sitting in Supreme Court, Brooklyn, awarded the Press Publishing Company, publishers I of "The New York World," late yes- ! terday afternoon, $2,000 extra ex- ; penses for preparing to defend the two libel suits brought against it last fall by Mayor John F. Hylan. This sum is additional to the expenses of the action which were assessed against the Mayor when he asked permission on June 3 to withdraw his suits. In announcing his decision, Justice Cropsey spoke frankly of the attitude Two-thirds of All U-Boats Destroyed PARIS, June 22.?Two-thirds of the German submarines launched are already at the bottom of the sea, according to a statement made to the Deputies by the Un? der Secretary of the Navy. "And," continued the Under Secretary, "we are destroying them twice as Sast as they are building them." U. S. Urged to Launch Drive In Balkans Austria Believed Ready to Quit Under Blow at "Back Door" By C. W. Gilbert (Special Dispatch to The Tribune) WASHINGTON, June 22?Shall the Eastern front be reconstituted by way of the Balkans? That proposal is re? ceiving much attention since the weak? ness of Austria has been shown by the breakdown of her drive against Italy and the renewed political and 900,000 Now At or on Way To the Front General March Announces America Is Five Months Ahead of Programme Balance of Man Power Up to U. S, Chief of Staff Expects An? other Offensive in the Near Future (Special Dispatch to The Tribune) WASHINGTON, June 22.?General March, Chief of Staff, in his weekly interview on the war situation an? nounced to-day that this country had now passed the 900,000 mark in ship? ping men from American ports to France. This includes the men now on the sea and non-combatants as well as combatants. The striking fact about the an? nouncement was that the figure was 100,000 larger than that given out last week. Apparently a record was made in the last seven days and one will be established for the month of June, for NOT NEARLY AS SICK AS THEY WILL BE BEFORE THEY GET THROUGH of the Mayor throughout the course of the proceedings. In his memoranda accompanying the award. Justice Crop sey said: "The charges made in the various articles are most serious in character. If untrue, the plaintiff would, undoubt? edly, have been entitled to large dam? ages. The action was commenced during the last municipal campaign and prior to Election Day. Reasons Insufficient "The reasons given by the plaintiff for asking delay were so palpably in? sufficient that there was nothing to do but mark the case 'unready.' The plain? tiff had more than seven months since the actions were brought in which to prepare for trial. Besides, a person who claims that his character has been assailed should be prepared to meet Continued on Page 6, Column 2 economic disturbance following upon the failure to seize the promised loot and food across the.Piave. No one here expects the imminent resignation of von Seydler and the strikes and riot3 to lead to any'such catastrophe like that following the failure of Kerensky's offensive in Rus? sia. Germany probably will be able to hold Austria together. Had there been a Germany among the Allies, and had she been a neighbor of Russia, prob? ably she could have held Russia up after the forced offensive that Russia made had failed. The State Department believes that starvation has steadily become more common in Austria and that no relief is in sight until August. Moreover, the internal political difficulties are increasing. Von Seydler has failed to Continued on Page 6, Column 3 I the best previous month showed only a i total of a little more than 200,000 men shipped. 'i his country is making a stupendous effort to restore the balance of man power on the West front. General March said that it was now five months ahead of its programme. Apparently some satisfactory prog? ress is being made in this direction, for General March said that the lull in the fighting in France had been of great advantage to the Allies in per? mitting them an opportunity to build up their man power. Presumably the extra efforts, which arc reflected in our sending about 100,000 men in a single week, aro not confined to this country. All the Allies are striving to be bet? ter prepared for Hindenburg's next blow. Such a surprise attack as that which was accomplished by the Ger? mans between Rheims and Soissons should not be so likely in the future. But another drive is expected soon. Continued on Page 3, Column 5 Germans Admit Having No Food to Aid Vienna PARIS, June 22.?-A dispatch from Basel, Switzerland, to the Havas Agency says General Ludendorff, first quartermaster general of the German armies, in reply to an appeal from the Mayor of Vienna for assistance in the food crisis, said: "My best thanks for the expression of your faithful sentiments. I would, from my heart, help the population of Vienna in its serious dif? ficulties, but it is unfortunately impossible from German sources? more than ever before. All the importations of cereals from the Ukraine, Rumania and Bessarabia have been allotted, without exception, to Austria. "Notwithstanding the difficulties of our own food situation, I placed in April, May and June shipments destined for the west front at the disposition of Austria. But no w there are no more reserves of this sort and I am not in a position to furnish other aid." In a similar vein, the Mayor of Budapest, after expressing his sympathy for Vienna's situation, declares it is impossible for him to aid the inhabitants of the Austrian capital. He added, however, that he was passing forward the request for assistance to the Hungarian Food Minister. Bulgare Split With Turkey Over Spoils Dr. Kuehlmann Tells of Dif? ferences in Address to Reichstag AMSTERDAM, June 22.?Dr. von Kuehlmann, Foreign Secretary, said in a speech in the Imperial Reichstag yesterday he would not go into the question of the punishment of the per? sons guilty of "the highly regrettable prisoner horrors," but that-"in more intimate circles" he would make com? munications which would completely satisfy all just claims. His address was made on the first reading of the Rumanian peace treaty. [Dr. Kuehlmann's reference to "prisoner horrors" is not clear, owing to the fact that two sections of the dispatch bearing on this phase of his speech were delayed in transit, and have not been received. It is pre? sumed, however, that the Foreign Min? ister referred to war prisoners in Ger? many.] Differences have arisen between Bul? garia and Turkey over the division of lands taken from Rumania under the peace agreement with the Central Pow? ers; Dr. von Kuehlmann indicated. "We will take the standpoint," said the Foreign Secretary, "that the pro? visional arrangement, which we desire shall continue as short a time as pos? sible, must find its rational solution in the union of the Northern Dobrudja with Bulgaria, in accordance with the desires of the Bulgarian people. "As, in the present case, it is a mat? ter of a difference of opinion between two of our allies, which will be bridged, we must, bound as we are by exactly equal ties to Bulgaria and Turkey, avoid everything which could evoke the impression abroad that the German policy favored the claims of the one at the expense of the other. Both Nations Highly Excited "The question of Dobrudja or of the ? compensation due to Turkey, if this | question be solved in the Bulgarian I sense, has' in a high degree excited pub? lic opinion in both countries, which are looking with keen attention for every expression of the Central Powers." Dr. von Kuehlmann alluded to a speech preceding his own, made by Dr. Gustav Stresemann, who, the Foreign Secretary said, had "used a phrase which might have caused the impres- ! sion that there was an inclination on our part to favor Bulgarian wishes?to j lay less weight upon the claims of j Turkey." I "There is nothing further from the j minds of the government and the en-1 tire public," the Foreign Secretary as- j serted, "especially the leading parties j of this House." Distrust of Rumania Referring to a certain mistrust of i Rumania expressed in some of the j speeches, Dr. von Kuehlmann said: "Certainly, after the experiences of ? this war, complete and undivided trust j cannot return immediately. A waiting! attitude toward that country will neces- ! 6arily have to be adopted as regards policy and public opinion, but this judgment'must not be marked by open mistrust." The speaker expressed the opinion : that the great majority of the Ru manian people was driven into the war | by "a small number of politicians and business men, some of them selfish, j some light-minded ami some criminal." j Georg Ledebour, Independent Social-: ist, interjected: "Just as in other countries," while another member added, "In America,; perhaps." Dr. von Kuehlmann con- ] tinued: "The attitude so far taken by the i Rumanian Cabinet with which we con eluded peace is the government's guar antee that those persons whose guilt; can be shown will be brought to ac- ' count. The fact thafc it comes from the ' Rumanian people without any pressure j from outside snows this act of national ! Continued on next page, Column 5 j Plot to Kill Kaiser Karl Is Reported Amsterdam Hears Attack Was Made on Emperor; Strikes Sweep Nation' LONDON, June 22.?Reports are cur? rent on the Amsterdam Exchange to? day that an attempt has been made on the life of Emperor Charbs of Austria, says a Central News dispatch from Am? sterdam. The reports are unconfirmed. Nine strikers were killed and thirty | six others wounded in a clash to-day with the police at the government rail? way shops in Budapest, according to a telegram received in Amsterdam from the Hungarian capital. According to the Vienna "Nieue Freie ! Presse," during serious street riots in Vienna the police and military were called out and took strict measures, and issued warning to parents making ! them responsible for the actions of I their children, says an Exchange Tele j graph dispatch from Copenhagen. Great Strike Reported According to the "Arbeiter Zeitung," of Vienna, a great strike rrovement has developed in the Austrian capital, though its full extent is not known. Other Vienna newspapers print stories of street disorders which in? clude the derailment of trams and at? tacks on'stores and caf?s. Bakers' wagons also have been pillaged during the agitation over the reduction of the bread allowance. The police are tak- ; ing rigorous measures to prevent a re- | currence of the disorders. Public Buildings Guarded "The Times" correspondent at The Hague is informed, through a Dutch ! source, that the remnants of some se? verely tried Austrian regiments arrived I in Vienna on the 16th, many of the men being slightly wounded. These troops v/ere employed on the 18th to patrol the city, but their bearing was such that they were withdrawn the following day. All public buildings in Vienna arc now guarded by cavalry. From the same source it is learned that a Bulgarian commission has ar? rived in Vienna to negotiate with the Austrian government concerning a ! change in relations with Germany. "The Times" correspondent cites in? formation apparently from Vienna that the collection of the harvest in Austria, Germany and Hungary will in the fut | ure be strictly a state aflair. owing ?o the fa--;t that Austria now enters the i.ew harvest year without any supplies whatever. The burgomaster of Vienna, it is learned in Switzerland, has toid the Municipal Council that it would be. im? possible to distribute potatoes after the week-end. Strikers Shot Down Dr. Alexander Wekerle, the Premier, speaking before the Hungarian Cham? ber of Deputies y este-?day, says a Basel telegram, made a statement con? cerning the industrial strikes, and re? ferred to the serious trouble in fac? tories and on railways and the exten? sion of the strikes to several plants. The Premier told how the workmen in a locomotive works stoned the police and in return were fired upon, four of their number being killed and nineteen wounded. The workmen demanded a wage in? crease of over 160 per cent, which would place them on an equality with the employes of private enterprises. The strike lasted for a whole week after this demand had been granted. Dr. Wekerle said an inquiry would be instituted to determine whether the use of arms against stiik.-rs was neces? sary. Hungarian Premier Discusses Alliance AMSTERDAM. June 22.- Count Theo? dore Batthyanyi, discussing in the Hungarian lower house the negotia? tions for a renewal of the Austro-Hun garian-German alliance, said that the statement of Friedrich von Payer, Im? perial German Vice-Chancellor, in? dicated the complete unification of Aus- ' tria-Hungary and Germany. Dr. Alexander Wekerle, the Hun- ? garian Premier, in replying said that ! negotiations for a closer alliance was i only in the initial stae/e. He considered | it important that customs duties should j be reduced and a free list, far reaching i Continued on Page 5, Column 2 j I Enemy Drive At Standstill Along Entire Piave Front j | Only Local Engage | ments Reported Dur? ing Day; Austrian Attack Broken Up - Foe in Desperate Plight at Losson Teutons, Cut Off by Floods, Receive Sup? plies by Air? planes 1 The unsuccessful Austrian drive ha come to a complete standstill. Beaten on the mountain front an* held along the Piave River line the enemy has made no mere im portant offensive efforts. "Th battle has been won," Premie Orlando told the Italian Deputie: Only local conflicts marked the day' fighting. The Italians broke u an enemy assault against Lossoi west of the Piave on the lowe river front, where th? Austria forces, cut off from their supplie by the flood, are in a de^peral plight. Pushing the advantage gained o Friday on the extreme right, th Italian army, aided by naval ai tillery, again drove back the Au? trians at Cava Zuccherina, on th border of the Adriatic. In th operation the Italians enlarge their bridgehead on the old Piav and captured 150 prisoners an considerable booty. Forty thousand prisoners are no claimed by the Austrian?, an i? crease of 7,000 in one day of con parative idleness. Among the mountains on the Italia left the Austrian guns hammer* the Allied lines with renewed vii lence. The Italian artillery ai swered in kind. Local thrusts t Austrian infantry units again the Allied lines on Mount Grapf on the left, and on the Montello, the centre of the battle line, brol down without results. The Austrians are throwing fre? ' reserves into the battle area. O servers look for a renewal of tl drive. Greatest pressure is e peeled to come against the mou tain front in a supreme effort reach the plains. A French con spondent on the West front sa the next drive there will cor between Soissons and Rhcims. Czech-Slovak troops were taken pr oner, the Vienna statement sa and executed immediately. The Berlin War Office again a nounced the "repulse" of Ame can attacks northwest of Ch?te Thierry on the front in France. Austrians Unable To Bring Up Heavy Artillery on Pia\ (By The Associated Press) ITALIAN ARMY HEADQUA TERS IN NORTHERN ITAI June 22.?The second week of i great battle on the Italian fr< opens with the outstanding fact t! the Austrians are unable to go f ward. Notwithstanding seven di of desperate struggling in an tempt to strengthen their footh on this side of the Piave River, p. ticularly on the Montello and San Dona di Piave, the ene forces have been held. Italian military observers c sider that the invader's position such that he must abandon his tempt to obtain possession of b banks of the Piave, just as he ^ compelled to do last winter. At present the Austrians on < side of the Piave are fighting nit ly with machine guns, rifle? i bavonets, as they have been una to 'ring heavy artillery acr< They, 'herefore, are reduced fighting for a few hundred yards