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Vol. LXXVII? No. 26,219
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The Tribune Asn'ii]
THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1918
????> rrv-t? *,n Greater New York and
TWO CEXXB j ?it hin commuting distance
THREE CENT?
EUewhere
Foe Forced to Flee Across Somme;
Allies Make Biggest Gain Since 1914
Newsdealers
Ask Court Aid
In Hearst Fight
Injunction Sought to Halt
Revoking of Licenses at
Hylan's Order
Brooklyn Association
Ready for Legal Tilt
Gilchrist Would Compel
Sellers to Offer Papers
They Formerly Sold
The first legal gun in the fight of
the newsdealers against Hearst and the
city government was fired yesterday,
when Judge Edward Lazansky, sitting
in Brooklyn, issued notice to the Com?
missioners of Licenses, Parks and Po?
lice to appear in the Supreme Court
on Friday and show cause why they
should not be enjoined from interfer?
ing with the business of John William?
son, a Borough Hall newsdealer.
Williamson's license was cancelled by
acting Park Commissioner William H.
Muldoon after a Hearst employe had
complained that Williamson had re?
fused, contrary to Mayor Hylan's or?
ders, to buy Hearst papers. The case
is a test, in that it is expected to es?
tablish the rights of a vendor to re?
fuse to handle papers that he believes
are disloyal or that be cannot handle
without loss to himself and damage to
his business.
City to Foot Bills
Lemuel Ely Quigg, on whose motion
Judge Lazansky issued the order, will
press the case for an early decision
no matter how many technical objec?
tions counsel for the commissioners
and Hearst may interpose. As the
commissioners are city officials, it is
to be expected that they will be de?
fended by the Corporation Counsel's
office at the expense of the city.
The filing of the order for a motion
to show cause why an injunction should
not issue was one of several important
developments in the news vendors'
tight on the Hearst publications yes?
terday. Among them were:
1 The United Newsdealers' Protec?
tive Association of Brooklyn, Inc.,
instructed a committee to bring ac?
tion against the publishers of evening
papers other than "The Journal"
who re? re to furnish papers to a
member. >?cause of his refusal to
handle "The Evening Journal."
O The association also voted to
bring action against the news
companies for refusing to cancel
orders for Hearst papers and declin?
ing to sell them other papers in the
event of their refusal to handle
Hearst publications.
3 The joint committee of New
York newsdealers' associations
called a special meeting for this
morning to decide upon further de?
fensive action against Hearst's op?
pression.
A Andrew Stanton, president of
Newsboys' Union No. 1, issued a
cal! for a mass meeting of newsboys
?Saturday night to consider the situa?
tion created by public opposition to
the (?ale of Hearst papers.
5# John F. Gilchrist, Commissioner
of Licenses, in his first public
statement since his vague warning
that dealers must handle Hearst
paper?, declares news vendors are
not competent to pass upon the loy?
alty of a newspaper. He will, how?
ever, he says "hesitate to cancel" a
license where a vender claims the
xelling of Hearst papers involves
financial loss.
g^ Pending an answer to the Pub?
lishers' Association to the request
that they desist from attempting to
force them to handle Hearst papers
contrary to the loyal sentiment of
their customers, the Long Island
Newsdealers' Association proceeded
with their plan to call a conference
Of a!! of the newsdealers' associations
of Greater New York and vicinity.
At the offices of the Publishers' As?
sociation it was stated yesterday that
Ole letter, mailed Tuesday, had not
"??en received.
?Mr. Gilcbrist's statement was inter
??tmjc in that he is the only public
official who has maintained the position
taken In response to Mayor Hylan's
order to punish those licensees who
Might refuse to submit longer to the
Oppressive measure? of Hearst. Ho
?till insists that it is within the power
?' r,,% office to compel dealers to handle
P*per? that they have been in the habit
M offering for gale,
^Responsibility for notices used in the
*<t*.mpt to intimidate vendors Into tak?
ing Hearst papers lacking a Signatare
*?. Gilchrist places upon a printer
*'">m he **?/* neglected to "follow
"''('v." For the circular itself Mr. Cil
M?rt#t said be accepted full responsi?
bility a? an official. He is not, he says,
?* be h?!d responsible for the actions
'? Parsons holding themselves out to
(Continued on htnt ptiy?
Miss Rankin Behind
In Republican Race
For the U. S. Senate
Friends Say She Will Make
Contest as an Inde?
pendent
(Special Dispatch to The Tribune)
BUTTE, Mont, Aug. 28.?Farmers
throughout Montana, with few excep?
tions, despite their No,i-Partisan
League affiliation in twent'-six coun?
ties, deserted Miss Jeannette Rankin in
the Republican primary race yesterday
for the nomation for Senator and cast
a heavy vote for Dr. O. M. Lanstrum, of
Helena. As a result, it was estimated
to-night that Lanstrum would carry the
state by more than 3,000. The vote so
far reported shows: Lanstrum, 10,004;
Rankin, 6,582.
The reversal of the Non-Partisan
counties in part is attributed to the
awakening of the farmers to the loyalty
cries of the Republican leaders and the
connection of Representative Rankin
with the I. W. W. and the radical strik?
ing clement in Butte, which has been
trying ineffectually to tie up the cop?
per production of this district.
Women in Butte who are members
of patriotic organizations combined to
defeat Miss Rankin, and, instead of
from 2,000 to 3.000 majority the I. W.
\V. publication haci predicted for her in
Silver Bow County (Butte), she will
have only several hundred more than
Lanstrum.
Miss Rankin has confided to friends
that she will run independently for
Senator if she fails to win a nomina?
tion.
-,
War Board Forbids
More Schoolhouses
Order Halts Plans for Fifteen
New Buildings in New
York
The War Industries Board announced
at Washington yesterday that no new
schoolhouses may be built during the
war. The decision is particularly dras?
tic, so far as this city is concerned, as
the Board of Eucation had already ap?
proved of plans for the erection oi
fifteen new buildings, at a total cos?
of about $9,000,000. The ruling, it was
said by officials at Washington, wil
apply also to the construction of anj
public buildings, including postoffices
not actually needed for war purposes.
The action of the War Industrie:
Board was taken following a raques
made some days ago by Arthur S. Som
ers, President of the Board of Educa
tion, and C. B. J. Snyder, Superintend
ent of School Buildings, for approval o
their plans for new schoolhouses. Thi
board held that the school? airead;
built will care for the educationa
needs of the country without detrimen
until the war is over.
Frank D. Wilsey, vice-president o
the board, said last night that the rul
ing, naturally, would be obeyed with
out question.
It was intimated that it may be nee
essary for the city to seek relief fo
the duration of the war in congeste
districts by renting buildings whic
may be available as temporary schoo!
houses.
?-?
Empress of Germany
Takes Turn for Wors<
-
LONDON, Aug. 28.?The Germa
! Empress, who has been ill for seven
; days, has taken a turn for the worS'
according to a message received in An
sterdam from D?sseldorf, forwarded 1
1 the Exchange Telegraph Company. Tl
message adds that her heart tlispla.1
increasing weakness.
Emperor William has not been ab
to leave the bedside of his wife, wl
is at the castle at Wilhelmshohe,
is declared that no bulletin on tl
Kmpress's condition will be publish*:
in order not to alarm the people.
Work or Fight
Clause Loses
In Conference
Striking Out of Amendment
Indicates Immediate Pas?
sage of Man Power Act
New Draft Bill May
Go to Wilson To-day
Only Two Minor Changes
Remain Before Congress
Reconvenes
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.?Enactment
by Congress and transmission to Presi?
dent Wilson to-morrow of the man?
power bill, broadening the army draft
age limits to include men of eighteen
to forty-five years of age appeared as?
sured late to-day when the Senate and
House conferrees unexpectedly reached
a complete agreement on all important
disputes after striking out the Sen?
ate's "work or fight" amendment.
Adoption of the conferrees' agree?
ment by both Senate and House im?
mediately after they reconvene at noon
to-morrow was regarded by the con?
ferrees as a certainty. Only disposal
of two minor amendments and drafting
of the formal agreement remain to be
done to-morrow before the assembling
of the two houses.
The "work or fight" proposal was re?
garded as the only dispute likely to
cause delay, and the Senate's managers
consented to its deletion from the bill
largely to expedite its enactment. Seme
complaint is expected from the Senate
majority favoring the "work or fight"
clause, which organized labor repre?
sentatives have vigorously opposed and
the House voted down, but adoption
to-morrow of the complete conference
report by both Senate and House was
regarded as a foregone conclusion.
Two Amendments Left
The amendments left for the final
conference early to-morrow were those
of Senators Penrose, of Pennsylvania,
and France, of Maryland, respectively,
providing that registrants need not
claim exemption or deferred classifica?
tion, and for badges or insignia for
men deferred for industrial or other
service.
Provost Marshal General Crowder,
i who opposes the Penrose amendment
because it would compel revision of
millions of printed questionnaires, and
thus delay the new draft, will meet
to-morrow with the conferrees.
In disposing of other differences be?
tween the Senate and House bills, the
' conferrees adopted the House plan for
I government education .of soldiers,
which authorizes their detail for im
; mediate technical and special training
? under plans already made. The Senate
managers yielded on this difference and
1 agreed to elimination of the Senate
; amendment guaranteeing free education
j for soldiers and sailors after the war
! up to a maximum period of two years.
I The conferrees struck from the bill
?the House amendment author?7in,? rc
! classification of deferred classe- by f ce?
cial examiners of the provost i,iar:?b<il
; general -sponsored by Represe., utive
Continued on -page four
Notice to Newsdealers
In the interest of a!l concerned The Tribune feels obliged
to postpone for one week the inauguration of its independent
delivery system. It will begin Monday, September 9, instead of
Monday, September 2, as was intended.
This disappointment is owing to the fact that the influence
of the Publishers' Association, which is supporting Hearst, was
strong enough to break, up our first arrangements at the last
minute. Even so, we should have been able to begin next
Monday with a 75 per cent delivery, and we asked the American
News Company whether, in that case, it would continue to de?
liver the other 25 per cent for a few days, not at our price, but
at the publishers' stipulated price of $1.40 per hundred. It has
refused to give us a prompt answer, and as it would be very
risky to wait for an eleventh hour answer, we have decided to
postpone the beginning until September 9, when we expect to
be able to give the best distribution in the city.
You understand that the reason you are not receiving
Tribunes at our price of $1.20 per hundred, which went into
effect on August 26, is that the American News Company, a
monopoly controlled by the Publishers' Association, has re?
fused to deliver The Tribune except at the old price of $1.40
per hundred.
In the meantime, of course, dealers who can reach The
Tribune direct will be supplied at $1.20.
Austro-Slavs Massing
To Fight Austrians
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 2j.?A
dispatch to the "Weser Zei?
tung," of Bremen, from Vienna
reports that something like a gen?
eral mobilization is proceeding in
the Polish, Czech and South Slav
districts, and expresses the fear
that hostilities may commence
shortly, with the connivance of
the Entente Powers.
The correspondent mentions
many indications of a coming ac?
tion, ?le says that serious things
are being prepared for in Bo?
hemia, and that the time for ac?
tion cannot be far distant.
U. S. Is Making
3 New Planes,
50,000 Motors
Ryan Says Liberty Enginei
Are Being Built in
Great Numbers
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. -Three nev
designs for airplanes to fit the Libert;
motor have been produced in Americt
John D. Ryan, newly appointed direc
tor of aeronautics, said to-day, and ar
practically certain to be put into pre
duction. Production of the De Hav
land four, the only fighting machin
so far shipped to the American arm
from the United States, is increasini
improvements having been incorpora
ed following experience in its mam
factura and use.
Mr. Ryan signalized his? first day i
? office as Second Assistant Secretary c
War by taking occasion, as he put i
"to give an idea of what work has bcc
' going on in the bureau of aircraft pri
duction during the last few month
1 while investigations and reorganize
' tions have made it advisable to ke<
! silence." It was the first official stat<
, ment made by Mr. Ryan since he b
! came identified with the aircraft pr
gramme.
In announcing that it had been nece
sary to abandon one type of airplan
I the Bristol, after the expenditure i
considerable money and time, becau
Continued on wy& three
Germans Hurled Back 8 Miles;
French Alone Take 40 Towns
Berlin Reports Another "Victory"
BERLIN (Via London), Aug. 28.?The German official communi?
cation issued this evening follows:
"Southeast of Arras renewed enemy attempts to break through
failed.
"North of Bapaume and north of the Somme English attacks
broke down with heavy losses.
"Between the Somme and the Oise there have been forefield
engagements before our new positions.
"French attacks north of the Aisne were sanguinarily repulsed."
Important Gain Made
By "Yanks" and French
By Wilbur Forrest
(Special Cabla to The Tribune)
(Copyright, 101S. by Tin? Tribuno Association?New
York Tribune)
WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN
FRANCE, Aug. 28. - A small unit of
Americans advanced this morning north
of Soissons in liaison with the French
against a fresh Prussian division. Al?
though the action was small, it was of
the highest importance. The Ameri?
cans took over a hundred prisoners.
The French official statement last
night said Americans had valiantly re?
sisted German attacks near Juvigny.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Aug. 28.?The attack of the
Americans against the Germans north?
west of Soissons began shortly after
7 o'clock this morning, and within an
hour the first objectives, aggregating
something more than a kilometre, had
been obtained north and cast of Cha
vigny.
The Germans counter attacked, but
with the exception of part of one wing
the American line held steady. Where
it gave way, about 300 metres, the
withdrawal was due to the necessity
of straightening the line.
The lighting, which for the most part
involved the artillery. continued
throughout the day and was still go?
ing on to-night.
Americans Increase Gains
{By The Asnoriatcd Press)
' WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON
THE VESLE, Aug. 29, 9 P. M.?The
Americans have increased their hold
on the Bazoches region, but the Ger?
mans have recaptured Fismettc, accord?
ing to the latest report. The lines on '
both sectors are wavering from time
to time.
(4 p. m.)? Fighting between Ameri?
can troops and German forces con?
tinued all night in the region of Ba?
zoches, to the west of Fismes. Early :
this morning the Americans obtained a j
foothold on the eastern outskirts of the
town.
Some German snipers and machin:'
gunners are stubbornly clinging to the
northern edge of Bazoches, using cel?
lars and the walls of houses for pro?
tection.
American and?French big guns are
pounding away at tiie enemy, and the
Germans have been unable to bring up
reinforcements.
While the American troops gained
ground in the vicinity of Bazoches,
German forces, after fighting which
lasted all night, gained a hold upon
Fismette. There were numerous hand
to-hand encounters in the town.
BERLIN, via London, Aug. 28.?In
the operations in the Vesle sector the
Germans claim to have inflicted severe
losses on the Americans anil taken
more than 250 prisoners. This claim
is set forth in the statement from gen?
eral headquarters to-day.
FOLKS WITH CHILDREN IN THE HOUSE SHOULD BE CARE?
FUL ABOUT USING ROUGH ON RATS
French Rout Enemy on Thirty-Mile Front From
Peronne to the Oise Below Noyon, and Retake
Many Important Posts, Munitions and
Thousands of Prisoners
Nesle, Keypoint of Teuton Defence,
Is Captured Early in Fierce Attack
British Army Penetrates Further Beyond Old
Hindenburg Line and Occupies Croisilles
in Battle on Both Sides of the Scarpe
?Mangin Crosses the Ailette
August 29, 2:S0 A. M.
The British and French yesterday (Trove i'ne Germans
across the Somme. They won from the foe the greatest area
taken by the Allies in one day in France since trench warfare
began.
Along a thirty-mile front, from the Somme, before Peronne,
to the Oise below Noyon, they hurled the Germans back to a
depth of more than eight miles at some points.
Their new thrust broke the strength of the enemy's resist?
ance and forced him back in precipitate retreat. The French
alone captured forty villages, three trains of war material, be?
sides quantities of other booty, and thousands of prisoners.
Nesle, the railroad centre and key position in the German
defence, fell early in the fighting. The Allies then stormed
their way eastward to the heights along the Somme between
Peronne and Nesle and to the Canal du Nord between Nesle and
Noyon.
Smashing attacks against the enemy's bulwarks before
Noyon captured the defending positions of Pont l'Eveque and
Mont Renaud, on the south, and Suzoy. Vauchelles, Dives and
Porquericourt, on the west and northwest, bringing the French
to the outskirts of the city and making its fall probably a mattei
of hours.
In the north the British on both sides of the Scarpe fough'
their way further inside the Hindenburg line, wresting Oppy
north of the river, and the critical point of Croisilles, to th<
south, from the beaten enemy. British patrols reached Rom;
and Haucourt.
Two traps are closing on the enemy. Large bodies of hi
troops have been caught in the bend of the Somme by th
British onrush toward Peronne and are fighting desperately t
escape. Further south Foch's pincers are closing from wes
and south on the German armies clinging to their Noyon dc
fences.
On the front north of Soissons General Mangin thre^
heavy forces across the Ailette and further south occupied th
village of Chavigny in two new blows at the German flank.
American forces at Juvigny, on the left of the French at
vanee at Chavigny. frustrated repeated German counter a
tacks. On the Vesle front in heavy fighting the America!
pushed their way into the outskirts of Bazoches. Further ea?
the enemy forced the Americans out of Fismette. The Germar
claim the capture of 250 American prisoners in this encounter
It is understood in Washington that the Allies since July
have taken about 130,000 prisoners.
Path Opened by British Troops
To Outflank the Enemy in Nortl
(?v The Associated Press)
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE, Aug. 28.?On both sides of
the Searpe River hard fighting con?
tinued to-day, the British launching
fresh attacks and wresting from the
desperately resisting enemy additional
valuable stretches of ground, many
more advantageous positions and nu?
merous towns, including Croisilles.
In the centre of the wide battlefield,
on which the First, Third and Fourth
British armies are operating, there
seems to be a slight pause.
South of the Somme Fay and Ablain
court were taken by the British with?
out much difficulty, for the Germans,
being hard pressed by the French
south of these points, were ready to go
with slight persuasion.
Since early this morning storm after
storm has been sweeping across this
section of France, but, despite the un?
favorable weather, the forces in the
north have driven deep into the hur?
riedly arranged enemy defences, smoth?
ering with their fire hordes of the
Huns.
These Huns had been thrown into
the fighting in this section in an ef?
fort to keep the British from pene?
trating the famous Queant-liiocourt
switchline, which forms the northern
continuation of the old Hindenburg
line after the British last year heat
the Germans back frorg Arras. This
line has been approached in several
places, and has been reached in at least
one place in the neighborhood of th?
i Sens?e River.
The success of this drive here and
i the breaking through of the old Ger?
! man defence system may have far?
, reaching effects both in the north and
i the south.
South of the Searpe the Canadians
j finally captured all of Pelves after
brisk street righting. Pushing east?
ward, their advanced patrols entered
Remy and Haucourt. The British arc
1 veil cast of Fontaine, and the main
j body of the Germans has retired from
Hendecourt eastward.
British Crush Resistance
Extremely heavy fighting is in prog
| ress from a point south of Lens south?
ward across the Searpe River to the
| Arras-Cambrai road, but the British
j are making progress everywhere, beat
I ing dow-n the German resistance with
I steady blows.
At least two new German divisions
! have just been identified in this fighi
i ing, and more may appear ere long.
j But while they are opposing the Allies,
: and in most cases are battle hard,
! ihere have been some instances in
? which the enemy troops have shown
! themselves to bo excessively nervous,
I which is as it should be. considering
j the pounding they have had and aro
j still getting from" >?ie British cannon