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-tw ""TpW r , -"r -? v -n" (Today AiJam and Ere's Manage. No More Veirasberg. "Wktrimelslt?" Dear little Doggie. A little Tainy, but cheerful this Jnorninsr, considering the news. , The Italians defy the attacks of Germans and Austrians united, as might have been guessed by """ylcnowing Italy. The French and English com- mned have made a pleasing hole In the "unbreakable Hindenburg line. The Wotan line and the Sieg fried line have discovered that their namesakes are ont of date. Speaking In Wagnerian terms, the Kaiser,had his pleasant Venns- fcerg moments at the beginning of the irar. But soon is coming the tJoetterdaemmernng, and in that gloomy dusk of disillusion will be heard a motif of the Mame and of the. United -States that -will give t the Kaiser many a sad moment. -An able young -man named Lei ter is said to have remarked 'in his Infancy, "Anybody who thinks .ie can corner all the -wheat in the , world is a rdamphool., " Anybody who thinks he can eor- ' 5- Intelligence and power of the "world acd impose his divine will -on all mankind at this date when human beings are able to ed might be called a "super- In Washington every day thir--eeo' thousand people call tele phone central and ask, -"What time " Aa advertisinjr suggestion for men that sell good watches. What will they do with Mrs. De Saulles. who shot her handsome football playing husband? They will set her free, accord ing to well-established tradition. Those that criticise her acquittal will be nasty. When Adam.married Eve, he did k for better or for worse, and got little of .each.? When a football i beauty -Marries a temperamental Chilean lady and transports him self and his affections tothe highly Illuminated' regions, he must take thecossequences. The, "double standard of moral ity,'' .much bemoaned in moving pictures, is nullified to somertwfeti ceat-oy tne single standard of pis tol "practice, which allows .a lady onder, anjjatasonable jcircnm. stances to express ner opinion of thedouble standard. J Another dear little doggie"' has -Utted a child, a little boy of six. -The boy's face is torn, but dear little doggie's owner protests that 'it must have been some other dog. If all dogs were done away with, ror kept chained, or in cages, as they should be, like other wild beasts, there would be no difficulty identifying the particular dog that tears the face of a child, or helps other dogs to kill an old woman, as recently happened near "Balti more. v You are told that mills must close for lack of coaL Why do not the learned railroad gentlemen carry coal in box cars of which jthousbnds travel empty through the coal regions. Coal Is not poisonous, would not hurt the cars. A big box car could easily carry twenty tons of coal or more. Not convenient to load and unload, per haps, but better than NO COAL. Ask the average citizen what he thinks of Gabriele d'Annunzio, and he will answer, "First-class aviator." Ask him which he thinks the best of d'Annunzio's poems and he will reply, "Didn't know he wrote ANT" which shows the power of advertising. Ten men will Identify Nancy vrnk as a trotting horse, for one Xht will identify her as the mother of Abraham Lincoln. England gives the franchise to boys of nineteen, and a very re stricted vote to women of thirty, "only if they have husbands also entitled to vote." A boy of nine teen is supposed to know much more than a woman of thirty, even when the latter has a husband to keep her from being too foolish. Nice compliment for English women. Los Angeles abolishes saloons and will permit the sale of no alcoholic drink containing more than 14 per cent of alcohol. Too high a percentage. 10 per cent should be the limit for natural wine and 4 per cent for beer. California wines, extraordinarily hi&h in alcohol, often dosed with additional alcohol, are almost as poisonous as whiskey, and should sot be sold. Mr. Villa is enjoying himself in Mexico on our borders. He killed forty yesterday, and Americans are driven to the border. Wouldn't it be possible to trade Villa for some one of the Russian Bolshe vik!, or even for Kerensky? There's a great field for Villa in Russia,and it would be a blessing if the United States, which Is unable to deal with him, could eet rid of him in some diplomatic way. Let Root hand him a hundred million dol lars and escort him to Petrograd. The news comes that "English men in the United States are soon to be drafted." This seems reason able. When Americans here are drafted to fight "over there," it does not seem excessive hardship to & Sagiiahmea fit walla WEATHER: CLOUDY AND COLDER TO NIGHT: FRI DAY FAIR. NUMBER 10,355. ALLIES What Has Been Done Can Be Done Again, Is View Suc cess of Tanks Vindicates U. S. Experts' Confidence. By DAVID LAWRENCE. tOeprrtant. IM7, br New York rTenmg Poet Oo&paar). Enthusiasm and a real stimulus is felt in the National Capital as a re sult of British success on the west ern front. ' . Russia's disintegration and the Italian reverse had been depressing and no news could have produced more cheerfulness and genuine satis faction Jhun the breaking of what had hitherto been regarded as an al most' unbreakable line. Today the slogan Is: What the al lies, have done once, they can do again. And a natural feelinz of im patience to marshal America forces and.-get into the fight was observed in military circles here. Biggest Event Since Hsraei With- miDi asrefcd out JmIof tiiem. the army wat'stidents eetrcrly seized upon successive .ktuletln from the (root to measure .the -scope or the Brttlsua'vaace, -i- -. The surprisaaftaek Is "VlwecTbr momentcraa rcWtajTrlavent on tnml westaraf front since tha -battle of the Mama. Thar point out that tha wide wedre cdrlveri Into the "Hlndenbnrs line haa practically doubled tha ax STeaalva reaourcea of the British and Frenclj by cirlnr them tha opportun ity to outflank the German line al most at will. From the Tprea salient they can command a portion of the Belgian coast country, while aouth ward they can threaten tha dafenaes of Lille. Ukewlae at Cambral, the Drltlah menace Lille from the aouth, while with the French attack on the Alane the German defenaea from San Quentln to Laon have bean endan gered. The beat military Judgment here U to the effect that there muat be a vaat chance in the German llnei In tne weit not later than .spring-, and perhapa aooner. Jar-Orer Taaka' Wark. Keen Joy t felt over tha work of the tanka, whilh military men aay have now made Jt lmpoailble for the Germane hereafter to hold any por tion of the western front -with heavy barbed wire entanglements or light gun power. The way the big cater pillars have mowed down the Ger man defenses and made possible the recovery of more than one hundred square miles of French, territory with comparatively light lose to tha at tacking- force pleasea the American offlcera Immensely, aa they have been great believers from the start In the efficacy of these land mon stera. Sneerea VnSereatiaiated. Army officers incidentally sounded a warning lest the country misunder stand the meaning of the British suc cess because of the modest assertion that "two lines of intrenchments" had been carried. Each of these "lines" consists of outpost intrench ments. a firing- trench, at least one strong supporting trench sufficiently large to hold great quantities of re serves, and probably a number of enfilading trancbea placed at every point of vantage between and behind tha front lines. The British have run aver two of these vast systems of network trenrhes, with their barbed wire de fenses, thereby giving cavalry a chance in the open field for the first time alnce the beginning of the war. If the British had planned their drive for the very purpose of remov ing some or tne gloom that has hunr over the entente camp since Russia and Italy began giving concern, thev could not have more effectually accom plished ineir purpose in Washington. At no time naa nope ebbed away. On the contrary the darker mo menta have led to renewed determina tion In an atmosphere characterised for the moat part before by overcon- fidence. Ifews gtlasnlatea. But the newa from the British front la a stimulus of Incalculable value. That the German lines can be broken at this time gives ground for the feeling here that when the Ameri can forces, freshly trained anoV sup ported by more tanka, mora artillery, and mora aeroplanes thsn have ever been aaaembled on the westeern front before, a decision la br no means lm. ipoasuie, out stpeaale, ALUED GAINS CHEER WAR OFFICIALS IN WASHINGTON fjitwateaftmlftw CONTINUE VICTORY, SHELLING CAMBRAI D. C. Boy Lost in U-Boat Zone FOR U. S. .. ,. -f i -41 Th second Wsshtnri&iunother to --' siee . lore'dTone In the submarine war lone, tiis,, Gertrude Wadderburn, of . - celved official notification' today that her son. Lieut. Charles Fester Wed derburn. had gone down with the United States destroyer Chauncey last Monday. Mrs. Wedderburn refused to believe1 newspaper reports of the loss of her son, being under the Impression that ' he was tranaferred to another veaael some months ago, and today called at, tha office of Admiral Leigh Palmer, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, for Information. Admiral Palmer con firmed the press dispatches. In addition to Lieutenant Wedder burn, three Maryland men were lost on the Chauncey. They are: llonore Martin Claggett. Jr., of Poolesvllle, formerly of Laurel, and well known In Washington: Ensign Harry O. Skinner, of Mt. Washington, and Nicholas H J. Wagner, shlpfltter, first class, whose father lives at Fullerton. One Waaklngtealam a urrlvor. One Washington man, Joseph P. Claxton, of 3371 Tenth atreet north west, was among the seventy survi vors of the Chauncey. A cablegram announcing the rescue of their brother waa received here today by Alfred B. and Arthur B. Claxton. brothers. No particulars were given. Claxton la twenty-three years old His two brothers are veterans of the Spanish-American war. Lieutenant Wedderburn was the son of George Wedderburn, for many yeara an examiner In the Patent Of fice. He died two yeara ago For a long time the family lived In Chevy Chase, Md. Young Wedderburn went (Continued on Pace 2, Column 6.) "Salodnless" Washington today sup plies two cases of whisky selling, and two cases of Intoxication for trial in Police Court. Aaron Hatcher waa found guilty of selling liquor In violation of the new dry law. He waa sentenced to pay a fine of $300 or serve thirty daya In Jail, and an additional .sentence of thirty daya. Olivia Burton, colored, was charged with aelllng liquor to William Gor don. Gordon was awaiting sentence for being drunk when he testified against her The court dismissed the ease against the woman because he f elt-Gordon'a testimony might be In fluenced by the fact that he had not been sentenced. Gordon waa fined $23. William Franela Campbell, of Balti more, waa tried for being drunk In the Union Station. He aald he pro cured his whisky In Baltimore, and . . ,. . ..,..-. 4.l.4f.. .- CHARLES F. WEDDERBURN. MOW HEARS SON DIES FOUR LIQUOR CASES IN DRY CAPITAL'S COURT "n..r" T'"'h: w.. 5 'S.o laid out "The Box 126 or fifteen days. MERCURY GOING DOWN. The mercury la slated to drop about ten dr,M tnnta-ht- according tntnome. near Valparaiso. Chile. Then ...... . la the way tha bureau statement I 'J' IjotaK. tne weather iiureau. -uiouay and " lul' aeiana or ner snoppinK , Sevenin ikimi-i-, neoraaka na colder tonight, temperature about 38 tr'l to Tarls. In company with her t0na! guard, In'o-the Federal ser drgre,ei, with Friday fair and colder," mother, and of how Jack followed, I vlce. Governor Neville haa already WASHINGTON, THURSDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 22, 1917 Ckmz Waif Strt Prices. SMILES n TO VOTE FOR Prosecutor Bitterly Arraigns Widow as Trial Opens Hint at Jealousy as Motive Behind Slaying of Husband. MINEOLA. N. Y Nov. 22-De Sounced as a deliberate murderess, Irs. Blanca De Saulles, white and wide-eyed, sat in Justice Manning's court this afternoon and heard Dis trict Attorney Weeks demand that she be sent to the electric chair for (killing her former husband, John Longer De Saulles, clubman, politi cian, and one-time Yale football player. "She shot him In the back and said she hoped he would die," exclaimed Weeks, in his opening statement to the jury. Prisoner Listens Astounded. Ti& twelve Jurors looked at the pale, finely chiseled face of the de fendant, and than back, at the prose cutor. Three.' days 'and a naif had been consumed In getting a Jury to near the en befora'Weeka launched on Lt. .aMlnai ait tatmavnt- 4 lira. Da Saulles bail taken ,ilttl In- DEATH m 2EW SSlJisS tened astounded .at- tne indictment i awln.t tiar. "She la a native of Chile. She waa married to De Saullea In Paris." aald Weeka. They had one child. They were di vorced In 1918. The decree awarded the child to the father five monthaof the year -and to the motaer aeven months of the year. "W -irlll show you that by expreaa agreement and consent this arrange ment waa made so they could alter nate In having the child. Thla de fendant agreed to thla. On the day of the shooting the custody of thla child waa rightly with tne father, accord ing to the new agreement." Telia t Tragedy Might. He described the scene of the shoot leg, tha De Saullea house at West bury. This woman telephoned her for. mer hnsband'a house the night of August 3," Weeks continued. "She waa told De Saulles waa out. but would return In an hour. She called three klmea for a taxlcab. When it arrived she told the driver to take her to the De Saulles house aa fast as he. could. She told him to take the short cut across the plains She had her dog with her. and she had one hand under her aweater. When ahe reached the bouse she had the auto mobile stop a short distance away. Then she went In and demanded to see John L. De Saulles "She went Into the living room. De Saullea arose from the couch and came toward her. He held out his hand. She demanded the boy. He said the boy was rightly with him, and turned his back She fired five shots and one hit him In the back and caused his death." After the killing, and when Mrs. De Saullea waa under arrest, the au tomobile In which ahe waa being con veyed stopped before & graveyard. Weeks declared. "And she said: 'How lucid that we should stop here.' "And then ahe asked: 'Will they electrocute me right away?'" Says Killing Waa Planned. Weeka charged Mrs. De Saullea showed cold thought and planning throughout the killing. "She used servants, automobiles and money," he asserted, pointing at her. "Her revolver had a safety catch. It was necessary to release this notch before firing each shot. But she did It. She fired five shots and ahe knew what she was doing It waa a de liberate murder and we ahall ask for a verdict of murder aa auch from you" The Jury to hear the evlden.ee In the trial of Mrs. De Saulles waa com pleted at noon today. The twelfth Juror la Alexander F. Norton, a retired farmer. Immediate ly after Norton had been accepted court adjourned until 1:30. when the prosecution waa to make Its open ing statement. The eleventh Juror, accepted thla morning from a venire of fifty men. la George Giles, alxty yeara old. of Mlneola, a carriage trimmer. ucu George A. Fal -field, a surveyor. The Box" the home of the De Saulles. was the first witness called. Mrs. de Saullea will first tell of her Introduction to the "Imnetuous Jack." whIch took place at th Erraziirlz ...lit ..ii ..... - . . . """" "' "u'w ana won. una win jCOoaUsuad on Face 4, Colusa 0 fiFIEN D BANISHES OLD Denied Franchise, Many -Gen man Residents of Long Resi dence Failed to Become Citi zensAll Must Go. By BILL PRICE. A number of pathetic cases have arisen In Washington as a-result of President Wllsnn'a proclamation rid ding the District of alien enemies. It was said today. This does not apply to those aliens .who came here since war -was' declared and who must leave the city by midnight after registering and leaving photographs. It applies, to a number of Germans who have lived and worked In Wash ington for many years and, for 'vari ous reasons, failed to obtain natural ization. Two cases were reported to day of German residents of this city who have been here twenty-flve and twenty years, respectively. In the first case the man obtained his first naturalization papers, but never com pleted his application. Has Jtaked Jamflji When, the -old man waa told a few day ago thttTi:wond have to-leava Bouaer me: i-ve uvea nere so ion. This old man has raised a family and some of his "children are married. In the other caae mentioned the man Considered taking out naturallxatlon papera, but .when told that It would do him no good, aa people of the Dis trict could not vote, he took no action, and la today an alien who will have to leave, the District If tha law, aa proclaimed by the President, la fully enforced. EasbtyTeor-old Mas Mast G. United States Marshal Splaln aald today that an attorney had called upon him In regard to the caae of a man eighty years old who haa lived In Washington many yeara and whose two daughtera are American cltlzena. He never bothered about naturaliza tion papera when he found that Waeh Ingtonlana could not vote. Another case waa that of a Jeweler whoaa parenta were English citizens living temporarily in Germany when he waa born. He remained there some yeara until he learned the language, and on (Continued on Page 10, Column 2.) OLD SIXTH FIELD F The red-haired Irish gunner who fired the first thot for America against the Germane In Europe waai a member oi nattery c, or tne oia Sixth Field Artillery, which several years ago waa stationed at Fort Myer, and waa well kcown In Wash ington for Its exhibition drills Brig. Oen. Ell D. Hoyle, former col onel of the Sixth Artillery, gave the first word of the identity of the or ganization firing he firat ahot in a speech In New Y.rk last night He declared that thU organization waa the best-drilled outfk In the United States army before the war, and Washlngtonlans who remember Ha exhibitions In tha riding hall and on the drill field at Fort Myer will agree with him The White House today stated that the casing of the first shell fired by American troops at the Germane In France haa not been received by Presi dent Wilson. NO NEWS OF SCHEDULED REICHSTAG MEETING AMSTERDAM. Nov 22. The Gei man Reichstag waa acheduled to meet today, but details were lacking from Iterlln on whether the arrangements made when Count von Herillno- -.. chosen chancellor for a meeting on this dale were to oe carried out. NEBRASKA GOVERNOR QUIT8. LINCOLN. Nih, Nov. 22 The resignation of Kel'n Neville aa gover nor of Nebraska waa today sent to the secretary of atate. It la to take effect upon the acceptance of the . .. i . ... been appointed cuionei or the regl INHABITANTS I OF DISTRICT THAI Im" - - kalians Repulse Seven Desperate Attacks on the Piave River Line Gen. , Byng, Hero of the . Latest, Allied Victory I t i.. MOTMMaaaBM-M i. 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Kabansky escaped from the reformatory at 3 o'clock this morning while engsged In du ties of a trusty. His escape v not dlacovered for aome time. Supeilntendent Whltaker told The Times this morning mat ne had every hope of capturing Kaban sky. who. he ears has "merely en larged the confines of hla prison" by the escape. Herman Kabansky, aged twenty five, early In the morning of March 20. 1014, entered the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs Lena Rabay. 1816 Seventh atreet northwest, by the back ddor. Flrat going to the bed room of hla wife, Fannie, from whom he waa aeparated, ho shot her in the face. Next he attacked Mra. Rabay In the adjoining room. Inflicting re volver wounds In her throat from which, ahe died shortly after at Emergency HdspltaL He also ahot his six year-old brother-in-law, Solomon Rabay. In the cheat. Meanwhile. Tollceman Thom aa C Edwards charged up the front steps, receiving a bullet through hla coat from the men'a revolver, and .ntu.t Kabansky after shooting MAKES HIS ESCAPE IVi through the hand. RAILWAY CHIEFS SEE PRESIDENT The four brotherhood presidents. accompanied by Federal Mediators W. L. Chambers and Martin A. Knapp, entered into conference with PresI dent Wilson at 2:30 this afterndon. A decision In favor of no atrlkea dur ing tne war. or virtual conscription of the railroad workers, waa expected to be the outcome of the meeting. The leaders of the employes main tained their silence concerning their plana up to the lime they entered the White House thottly before 2:30 o'clock. Commissioner Chambers, of tha United Statea board of mediation and conciliation, waa confident that the President would persuade tha labor leadera to agree to arbitration of wage demands for the balance of the war The Prealdent'a plan waa persistent ly reported to be a wage-fixing board with final powers. POWDER FOUND IN COAL FOR BALTDHOTE FACTORY BALTIMORE. Md., Nov. 2i A quantity of giant blasting powder was found In coal aa it waa being taken from a car into the big plant of the Oreenwald Packing Company, which la working on Government contracts to furnish cantonments with ON WAGE SCALE FINAL E D I T I O N raids. 'wrrHirr district- or ceCvxmtx. H.SBWHBRB, , BRITISH Wlllft FOEBSSE Pe&.. HwWing Grow. Wm by French Treepe iff Co operation With Uevt Bynt's Men. vh rend staries tin. B aeJV vaaec wrtttcr eerasfMBetait witV tB,hB9n.aasl Ihmuelv ISVsirBkfcJkiara 3. Br TOXLUC WHELP (CKdrrts StaC CimmufcsU vrrnt nor Bammtf xmnm qSTOyp THBgannwiwoBiBxawBV IOV. Zl VLagBs SasanaW: Taaka, cavalry. &fMtt&rr4ei mm closlnr staadllr aroafia, Cbnkaht thetatwarinachlasraaiWkrovar the nemy just aa the tanks test crushed their war throaflfe. taa. I MasU ur.Jrzg .lat:i' Jl isssaaatag c le.Kl4mhrr Mm. man. lines. i.- British, troops swept to wtkMa ''' two and taretf-quarter mflaa ot Cambrat," Field Marshal Hals reported. British artillery is now sfcIBe . Cambral and. the country to tie war. One hundred square miles of French territory has been redeemed Every hour makes the British vic tory more gigantic In its scope, mora astounding in Its conception and. execution. The Hlndenburg line has been smashed to flinders. FlgBtiBff la Opes. In soma sections of tha battle front the fighting: is practically tn tha open. British cavalry has bean In ac tion. The vaat and Intricate trench defensea of the Hlndenburg- line and Its subsidiary lines have in many places been stormed and the enemy forced Into defense from the open. SEVEN FIERCE ATTACKS FAIL TO MOVE ITALIANS; RE-ENFORCEMENTS DUE By JOB1T H. HEARLET, United Preus StazT Camsyeademt. ROME. Nov. 22. Seven desperate enemy attacks during tha past fifty six hours, ftunr against Italian de fenders between tha Plave and tha Brenta rivers hava been thrown back. Every Inch of the Italian line holds firm and unyielding; despite the enemy's moat violent efforts. This newa from the battle front today gava Home Its first chance for quiet jubilation alnce tha dark day when the Austrian and German hordes swept over Gorlzla. , Every hour gained in tha hold of the Plave line. It waa declared, meaaa pie capacity for resistance increased aa re-enforcements now on the way to the front arrive. At Boweglava tha Italians pierced the dykes, flooding: much ot tha ground la this section. Fresh Italian divisions from tha Iaonzo front hava been placed In positions for tha atrongest defense of Venice. Tha enemy was reported today to ba pre paring for further heavy attacks north ot tha mountain llnea. GEN. PETAIN CLINGS TO NEW GROUND GAINED IN YESTERDAY'S OFFENSIVE PARIS. Nov. 22. General Petaln'a troops held fast today to new ground gained In yesterday's offensive be tween Craonne and Berry-au-Bac The attack waa a concentrated as sault, covering a little over half a mile, and aimed at strong German positions. All objectives were attain ed to an average depth of about a quarter of a mile. Intense artlllery- lnsr waa reported In this sector today. French troops are driving against the fortress of Laon. defending tha southern end of tha Hlndenburg line, and have mads excellent progress. jt te p.a-ifijiij TTBTTfrl that tie- v. F il