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T THE BEE: OUArTA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1918. ffillNDS NEEDE r" rO HURL ENEMY r BEYOND RHINE .A-. PeopI e Cautioned Not to Let Good, War News Cause Re laxation of Effort in Loan Campaign. he, 9 Washington, Oct. 2. President 116. Wilson and other officials feel that the American penole must exercise caution lest the good news from the battle fronts cause a relaxation of effort on behalf of the fourth Lib erty loan. Thus far no such tendency has been noticeable and the cam paign has been going with an en thusiasm comparable to that with which the battle reports have been received. 1 It is pointed out -that now that victory is definitely being brought to the side of the allied armies funds and more funds are needed to en able the fighting men to press home their' hard-won advantage and hurl the German hordes beyond the Rhine. Secretary McAdoo is un derstood to have determined to have speakers emphasize this point continuously until the huge $6,000,- 000,000 total is raised. Official reports today from all federal reserve districts except Kan- , sas City, which has not started tak ing subscriptions, showed $411,142, 050 pledges actually received and accompanied by payment of the 10 per cent initial installment. This tovers receipts up to last night, but does not include millions of dollars in subscriptions on which the ini tial payment has not been made or has been made but not yet reported officially by banks. The' total to morrow night is . expected to be several hundred million dollars greater. In order to raise $6,000, 000.000 it would be necessary to get a daily average of $315,000,000 and at this required rate approximate ly $1,000,000,000 should have been subscribed by this time. Loan Being Spent Already. In connection with the efforts to prevent a slackening of campaign morale it was cited te'day by treas ury officials that practically all of ' i'the $6,000,000,000 to be raised will !have been spent by the time it is received at the treasury. The gov ernment already is paying out money at the daily rate of $50,000, f'00, which is substantially the money Jo be raised in the fourth loan. Nearly $4,500,000,000 has been re ceived in the last two months from ,sale of certificates of indebtedness, but these securities are only tempo- ' jary expedients, to be paid out of "" receipts from Liberty bonds. Con sequently the government is already spending its fourth Liberty loan money. ' In September, it was shown by a treasury report today, the govern ment paid . out $1,557,264,000, or . $2.48,000,001) less than the $1,805,000. 000 record of August. Of this amount $1,274,505,000 was in ordi nary war expenses and $282,150,000 in" foreign loans. Only $151,790,000 came into the treasury from taxes, customs and other ordinary revenue .SdurcSs. s Sales of war savings and thrift stamps fell to $98,614,000 from the $129,044,000 of August, and the $211,417,000 of July. ' War Cost To Date $18,896,945,000. '.. - The total cost of 18 months of war to October 1, was shown to be $18,896,945,000, or three times as much as will be raised by the fourth loan. For this nation's war activi ties $12,263,582,000 was spent, and for loans to allies $6,527,914,000. Taxes have brought in $5,183,268,- 000 and Liberty loans or certificates f indebtedness about $13,000,000, 000. The harvest from war savings and thrift stamps has been $745, 169,000. Iowastill stood alone tonight as the only state to report officially that it was over its quota. Berlin Report Admits Withdrawal of Lines Berlin. Oct. 2. (Via London.) Parts of the German salient lines near St. Quentin, northwest of ; Rheims and west of the Argonne forest yesterday were withdrawn to positions in the rear, says the official statement issued today by the Ger man army headquarters staff. In local raids west of the river Meuse, the statement says, the Ger mans threw back the Americans out of the Bois Des Ogons and the ad ' Vjaeent lines. The German general staff an nounces that St. Quentin yesterday was occupied by the enemy and that the town of Rumilly. south of Cam rai, also remained in the hands of the enemy. .; "There were violent partial en 'gagements in Flanders and Cham pagne," says the official statement from general headquarters tonight. 1 Kansas City Firemen Leave Force in Wage Protest Kansas City, Mo.. Oct. 2. Resig nations of 389 city firemen here will be presented to Mayor James Cow gill today, according to an an , nouncement tonight by F. W. Bay . - er, president of the local fire fight ers' union after a conference with the mayor regarding wage increases tasked by the rften. Since thf char ter of the union does not permit the men to strike they plan to resign as individuals, the resignations to take effect Saturday, according to Baver. ihe firemen ask a flat increase in - wages of $25 a month. Mayor Cow-! gill asserts the city lacks the mnney I to meet the demand. He declined 1 ' the suggestion of the firemen that the matter be suomitted to the war labor board. Treves Railway Bombed ' . Dw Dritich Air Pnrr-oc .c)font Oct. 2. The Treves rail- Tv air force Tuesday, ac- $4 official statement is fa . ... in tne itmne province 'and claims to be the a in the German empire. uroati passing tnrougn s runs northeastward to Cob- M Colour? p-d southward to ad Strassburg. Turkey Makes Overtures; Allies Capture Damascus London, Oct. 2. Turkey has made further indirect approaches to the allies through financial channels which are being con sidered by the British war cabinet, the Standard says it learns on good authority. Important developments, the newspaper adds, are expected. Damascus, the capital of Syria, was occupied by General Allenby's forces on Tuesday morning, according to an official statement issued today by the British war office. Damascus is the Turkish base in Syria and Palestine and its fall probably means the end of all Turkish resistance to General Allenby in Palestine and Syria. The ancient city is the junction point of railroads leading to the port of Beirut and Aleppo, 180 miles northeast. Aleppo is the most important Turkish base in this region of Asia Minor, as it is a junction point of the railroads from Palestine and Mes opotamia. Damascus has a population of about 150,000. It is one of the holy cities of the Mohammedans, and the Arabs regard it as one of the four paradises on earth. The capture of Damascus marks an advance of 130 miles by Gen eral Allenby's forces since September 20. In that time the British have captured more than 50,000 prisoners, destroying at least three Turkish arimes and driven the enemy from Palestine and a great part of Syria. More than 7,000 Turks were taken prisoner when General Allenby's forces occupied Damascus, the war office announced tonight. Amsterdam, Oct. 2. The Turkish cabinet, according to a telegram published by the Cologne Gazette, has decided "in all circumstances to adhere to the alliance with the central powers." SPANISH "FLU" SPREADING FAST OVERJOUNTRY Malady Appears in 43 States and Becomes Epidemic in Localities Alona At lantic Coast. A Washington, Oct. 2. While re ports today to the office of the surgeon-general of the army showed de creases in the number of new cases of Spanish influenza at army camps, information coming to the public health service was that the disease was spreading rapidly among the civilian population over the coun ty The malady has appeared now in 43 states and the District of Colum bia and besides New England it is epidemic in Tidewater, Virginia, South Carolina and other places. It was reported particularly prevalent along the Atlantic seaboard and the ptilf coast. Vigorous steps to com bat the disease have been taken by the public health service. The number of new cases in army camps during the 24 hours ending at noon today was slightly more than 13,000, a decrease of 1,000 from the total reported the day before. Pneumonia in the camps also showed a decrease with 876 new cases and 271 deaths. 100,000 Cases in Army Camps. Influenza cases at all camps now number more than 100,000, with 7,,645 cases of pneumonia reported since the epidemic began and 2,148 deaths. Sixteen camps today reported new cases of influenza with the largest number at Camp Meade, Md., 1.590. Camp Custer, Mich., reported 1,040 new cases and Camps Pike, Ark., and Taylor, Ky., more than 1,000 each. Camps Lee, Va., and Grant, 111., had more than 500 new cases. Conditions at Camp Devens, Mass., continue to show improve ment, only 92 cases being reported there today. The crest of the epi demic also appears to have been passed at Camp Dix., N. J., which showed only 314 new cases against 543 yesterday. There were 50 deaths at Dix and 29 at Devens. Influenza has spread to shipyards in New England and north Atlantic states to such an extent that Director-General Schwab of the emer gency fleet corporation today de scribed the situation as "serious." In the yards at Fore River, Mass., he said there were about 3,000 cases, or 10 per cent of the workers. At the Hog Island yards approximate ly 8 per cent of the 30,000 men have been unable to report for work this week on account of the disease. Like conditions exist in other yards in the two districts, Mr. Schwab said, but the disease has not spread to any great extent to shipyards in the south Atlantic, gulf, great lakes and Pacific coast districts. vast Program of Ship Building is Plan of Board Washington, Oct. 2. Construc tion of 454 vessels, of 1.000,000 dead weight tons, is the additional pro gram of the shipping board dis closed today to the house ap propriations committee by Chair man Hurley in explaining his re quest for additional authorizations of $4S4,000,000 for the present fiscal year. The program contemplates the building of 210 steel and 244 wooden ships. Some of the larger vessels would cost more than $1,000,000 each, but the average cost would be amout that amount. The shipping board's figures include requests for, ?34.660.000 for plant facilities, ma rine railroads and dry docks. Marries Woman He Is Accused of Having Shot Kansas City, Mo., Oct.. 2. Louis B. Scliermerhorn of Des Moines, charged with shooting Miss Ruth Shoemaker, also of that city, while the couple were staying at a local hotel, married Miss Shoemaker here this afternoon in the hospital where she has been confined since she was discovered wounded and paralyzed in the hotel room. Schennerhorn is out on bond on the criminal charge and Miss Shoemaker had started civil proceedings against him for $100,000. Liberty Motors Now Being Shipped Daily In Trainload Lots Washington, Oct. 2. Liberty motors now have reached quan tity production and American built airplanes are being shipped in, trainload lots daily from the factories for service overseas. W. C. Potter, acting director of the bureau of aircraft production, made this announcement today upon his n.urn to Washington from sn Jr.s-cction cf factories building planes and motors. British Operating Spitzbergen Mines Owned by Germans London, Oct. 2. Seizure by the British expedition of German min ing property and other development plants in Spitzbergen, including a big wireless installation, is re ported by the Express, with the intimation that the work of develop ing immensely rich iron and coal deposits is proceeding. The expedi ion to Spitzbergen sailed a few months ago under the protection of the British navy. Sir Ernest Shackleton was the commander, but he was subsequently obliged to leave to take up other duties. His successor, F. W. S. Jones, who returned to London yesterday, gave an enthusiastic description of the fast mineral wealth which has lulerto been merely tapped to a limited extent. Mr. Jones says the expedition met with considerable difficulties, in cluding encounters with eight Ger man submarines. Americans Shout Bulgarian News to Enemy Lines American Headquarters in France Oct. 2. (Reuter.) News of the vulgarian armistice has been receiv ed with rejoicing by the troops, who shouted it across to the enemy lines, where the lines were near enough. The change in the weather to cold and dry has made the roads again available for traffic. The enemy op position continues, hut there are in dication that the fighting is of a covering character and that he con templates a withdrawal to a more distant line of defense. Greek People Enthusiastic Over New Armies' Success Paris, Oct. 2. The entente allies, victories in Macedonia in which Greek troops have taken a prom inent part, are having a profound effect on the population, dissipating the idea that the success of Greek arms in the Balkans was due to Constantine, according'to an Athens dispatch to the Havas agency. The capitulation of Bulgaria has destroyed the last traces of the old sentiment and has aroused wide spread enthusiasm toward the new Greek armies around Venizelos. 350 Killed in Train Wreck; 50 of Dead Are Children London, Oct. 2. Three hundred and fifty persons have been killed, it is feared, in a railway accident at Malmo, Sweden, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenha gen today. --Fifty children, who were returning to Stockholm from the country, are among the dead. The railway line had been washed out at this point after several days of rain, and a large passenger train carrying 1,000 passengers, ran into the break. Several coaches were smashed and caught fire. Woman Suffrage Resolution Will Pass, Says Shafroth Washington, Oct. 2. Senator Shafroth of Colorado predicted to day that the national suffrage reso lution, which was defeated in the senate yesterday, would be finally passed by the senate before con gress ends March 4, next. Resolu tions are to be introduced, he said, in all state legislatures convening next January, instructing their sen ators to vote for the measure. Allies Capture Bolshevik Base in Northern Russia London, Oct. 2. Very heavy cas ualties were inflicted on the bol shevik troops by the entente forces when they captured Ukhtinskaya, in northern European Russia, Septem ber 20, according to an official state ment issued today by the war office. The town, which had been intended as a base for bolshevik operations in Karelia, had been fortified under German supervision. "Treat 'Em Rough," Motto Of Training Course of "t. S. Army Roughneck9' Rockford, 111., Oct. 2. A post graduate training school for Fort Sheridan and Plattsburg gradu ates, it was announced today by Capt. A. S. Kubu, will be started tomorrow at Camp Grant. .The captain, who has the reputation of turning out the hardest fighters in the service and who thereby has gained the soubriquet of "Na tional Army Roughneck," said the training schedule will include every phase of hand-to-hand and bayonet fighting and physical de velopment, with "Treat 'Em Rough" as the motto. The ne.w est feature in the Kubu training course is instruction in jiu jitsu, and the instructor, some of his pupils say, specializes in meeting the cold steel of an unsheathed sword with his bare hands. He has a standing challenge a the result of h!s "Treat 'Em Rough" method of training. Sugar Beet Crop is 378,621 Tons Greater Than That of 1917 New York, Oct. 2. The sugar beet crop of the United States for this year shows an estimated in crease of 378,621 tons over that of 1917, but the general condition of the crop on August 1 was below that of the 10-year average, the Federal Food board announced here todav. The estimate for 1918 is 6,359.000 tons, compared with 5,980,379 last year. The crop condition as given by the board's statement was 886 whereas the 10-year average is 91. Edwin Arden, Actor And Playwright, Dead New York, Oct. 2. Edwin Hun ter Pendleton Arden, best known as an actor and playwright but at var ious times a cowboy, clerk, politi cian, newspaper man, theatrical manager, miner and brakeman, died of heart disease here today after reheasing for a new play. "The Eagle's Nest," "Barred Out," and "Raglan's Way," were among the most successful plays which he wrote. Eastman Admits at Trial Having Opposed Draft Plan New York, Oct. 2. Max Fastman, editor-in-chief of the Masses, who is on trial with several associates on charges of conspiring to hamper the nation's war preparations, admitted in federal court here today that he had opposed conscription and had written articles to which the govern ment objected. Twin Cities Halt Labor; Tribute to Archbishop Ireland St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 2. State, municipal, civic and industrial ac tivities in St. Paul and Minne apolis were halted today when the body of Archbishop John Ireland of the Roman Catholic diocese of St. Paul was borne to a grave in Calvary cemetery. The ceremony in the archdiocese cathedral this forenoon and the funeral proces sion at noon were considered sol emnly impressive. Hundreds of military men attended the ponti fical high mass. The mass was said by Bishop Thomas O'Gorman of Sioux Falls, S. D., a lifelong friend and co worker of Archbishop Ireland. Nearly 1,000 Catholic cle?sy men, including archbishops, bish ops and newly ordained priests, participated in the ceremony. More than 75,000 persons from every station in life escorted the body to a small green plot in Cal vary cemetery, where tne arcn bishop, in response to his dying request, was buried among his friends. MILITARY GIVEN COMMAND OVER RAWJATERiAL Plan of Centralized Control of All Economic Forces Ap proved by the Allied Governments. Washington, Oct. 2. The long planned centralized control of all the economic forces of the nations fighting Germany is a fact at last. It applies the principles of the uni fied military command to raw ma- terials, manufactured products, ship ping, unance, iooa ana tne export and import relations of the United States and the co-belligerents. The great plan was worked out by President Wilson's so-called war cabinet and the allied missions. It has been approved by the president and the premiers of the entente na tions. No announcement of its consum mation has been made here, in fact it has rather been withheld from publicity. Some of its details and the fact it actually is in operation have become known through devel opments in Paris and London. Co-ordination of effort by the associated governments in addition to military and naval activity, amounting to centralized control, is built around the five irjter-allied councils war, shipping, munitions, food and finance. Under these spe cial bodies completion of a com mon economic and industrial pro gram is now being undertaken, principally in London and Faris and limited to the following cases: Where two or more governments are interested in supplies which must be transported overseas to supplement deficiencies in local pro duction; or where several sources of supplies should be agreed upon, to gether with the allotment and method of their distribution or util ization; or where there might with out agreement be competition be tween governments in procuring supplies. The entire plan contemplates the cutting of red tape, elimination of controversies between the allies in their fight against the central pow ers and welding the resources of the allies into a common pool and to provide the machinery to handle all problems that are intricate, volu minous, or in need of continuous attention. Allies Recognize Arabs As Belligerent Auxiliaries London, Oct. 2. The allied gov ernments have decided formally to recognize the belligerent status of the Arab forces fighting as auxil aries with the allies against the ' common enemy in Palestine and Syria. Flying Field Commander Killed in Auto Accident Mineola. N. Y., Oct. 2. Maj. Whitten J. East, commander of Mitchell field, an army training ground for aviators at Garden City, was instantly killed today, when Iris automobile overturned with him while he was on his way to the field. Buy, Buy Liberty Bonds or Bye Bye Liberty eitsort & Worm Sore, of Specially Snop& Women's Winter Coats $35 $45 $55 $75 THIS announcement concerns the very choicest coats ob tainable exclusive models made especially for us, and of which only one of a kind is shown. Some are quite dressy with elaborate fnr collars and cuffs, while others are strikingly simple and fashionable. Coats for every occasion, made of VELOUR VELVET it. BOLIVIA BROADCLOTH POM POM SILVERT0NE YOUR SICK CHILD IS CONSTIPATED! 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