St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 27, 1917

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Ls ae aid, Was the son of Charies B. _ Venteaved om ruse %, Column & | “Arise Dame. Catherine, I Dub Thee Knight” Great Britain creates Order of Chivalry women. See Next Sunday’s Post-Dispatch Many of the 10,000 offers and appeals in the opportunities Sunday Want Directory are wonen. for LL he Only Evening Paper Lcuts in St. r-oIs With ihe Associaied Press News Service EDITION VOL. 69. NO. 341. >t. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1917—18 PAGES. PRICE St. Louls and Suburbs. One Cent i'snewhere. Two Cents. = 3 FIRST REGIMENT MEMBERS KILLED, 4 HURT BY LIGHTNING ——— Guard Tent at Camp Maxwell Struck at 1:45 A. M. Dur- ing Storm. ONE MAN PARTLY BLINDED Corporal Clarence Dunsford Loses Right Eye; Delay in Getting Ambulance. Three militiamen of the First Regi- ment, National Guard of Missouri, camped at Maxwelton, St. Louis Coun- ty, were killed and four were seriously injured when lightning struck the guard tent in the midst of a heavy rain and wind storm at 1:45 this morning. en- KILLED SERGT. HAWES D. DAVIS, CO. L., 6190 Von Versen av. PRIVATE DWIGHT L. TRUMP, co. F., 1205 Perkins av., Berlington, Io. PRIVATE BARRON C. CARROLL, CoO. F., 411 Brighton place, East St. Louis. INJURED. PRIVATE CHARLES LOHKAMP, Co. D., Waterloo, Il. PRIVATE BERK A. STANRIDGE, CO. F., Albert, Ark. PRIVATE BEEMAN YEAGER, CO. D., 3553 Caroline st. CORPORAL CLARENCE DUN*“- FORD, CO. E., 2760 Caroline st. the city hospital, where the four injured men were taken, it was declared that all were in a serious condition. Stagdridge was unconscious, and five physicians were endeavoring to save his life. Duyuneford’'s right eye was perma- nently blinded, according to the physi- cians, and his left eye was severely Tt fected. Delay in Getting Ambulance. Maj. Nofman Comfort told a Post-Dis- patch reporter at Maxwelton that, when the city hospital was called by telephone, a few minutes after the Mghtning stroke, the son in charge at the hospital re- fused to send ambulances for the in- jured men, because the camp was not within the city Ilimits. He persisted in this refusal, Comfort said, and the of- ficers had to call Mayor Kiel’s house and get the Mayor to telephone a special or- der to the hospital, before the ambu- lances were started. This caused a de- lay of a half-hour, Comfort said. The men who were killed were on duty in the guard tent, which is in front of the guardhouse. Sergt. Davis, who was in command of the guard detail, was seated at a desk and put his hand up to steady the swaying and dripping tent, just at the lightning came. He and Carroll, who was also in the tent, were killed instantly and Trump died within a few minutes. Examination of their bodies showed marks of the lightfiing on the top of Davis’ head and on his right foot, on Carroll's chest and Trump's shoulder. The bodies of Trump and Carroll were blackened. The guard tent was not demolished, and the prisoners in the guardhouse near by were not injured. The large assembly tents of the Y. M. C. A. and the Knights of Columbus were blown down, and their libraries and musical equipment, used for the entertainment of the guardsmen. were damaged. Injured Tell of Experience. Pulmotors, sent by the Laclede Gas and United Railways companies, were wsed in unsuccessful efforts to resuscl- tate the men killed. The three injured men who were con- scious were able to tell but little of their experience. Yeager, who is ‘tne regimental mechanic, said he was in his tent, next to the Y. M. C. A. tent, and was getting out a pair of shoes to lend them to a comrade, when he was pros- trated by the electrical shock. Duns. ford said he was on duty in front of the guard tent. There is a bruise on top of his head, which is believed .o be from the lightning, thus accounting for the injury to his eyes. His ears were also burned. Lohkamp said he was asleep in his tent, and did not know he had been hurt until his comrades aroused him. Burns appeared on the inside of his ears. Private Michael M. Paprocky of I Company and Privates Jack Allen and Larry Forgus of F Company were shocked, but were not thought to be seriously injured. They were found when an examination of the wrecked Camp was made this morning. They are being treated at the camp hospital. The last rites of the Catholic Church were performed for the fatally injured men by the Rev. Thomas D. Kennedy. Chaplain of the regiment. The regiment- al flag at the camp was at half mast today. The wooden stock of several rifles were cracked by the force of the light- ning bolt. Some of the men who were on duty outside laid down their guns, to avoid attracting lightning. 44-Mile-An-Hour Wind. The wind blew 4 miles an hour at one time Guring the storm. Many men were occupied in holding their tents down. as it took the efforts of two or three men, holding to the flaps of the smal; tents, from being blown away. Some of the tents have not been floored, and these suffered from the rain. Sergt. Davis, who was killed, cele- brated his twentieth birthday vyester. fay. Private Carroll, who was 19 yearr Carroll TWO OF MILITIAMEN KILLED BY LIGHTNING —S SERGT. HAWES D. DAVIS. PRIVATE CARROL, LIGHTNING PLAYS PRANKS IN— HOME OF CITY PHOTOGRAPHER Rips Cupola, Runs Down Stairs, Rips Off Plaster, Tears Hole in Wall and Makes Exit Through Front Door. Ffeak lightning crashed through the cupola on the home of C. C. Holt of 4615 Washington .avenue, official pho- tographer of the City Street Depart- ment, during last night's elecrtical storm. Here is what it accomplished according to Holt: Ripped the slate roof off of the cu- palo, tore the sheet iron coping from the roof, thrgw Miss Rita Dillon out of her bed on the second floor of the house, ran down the stairway and knocked a hole three feet square in the west wall, ripped the plaster from the east wall and ceiling of the down- stairs rooms, broke the electric meter and fuse box in the: kitchen, wreckeu every chandelier in the house and made its exit through the front door. breaking the door from its hingeg ani breaking the plate glass front. GIRLS IN CLEARING HOUSE Will Take Place of Men Who Go to i War. Arnold ©. White} manager of the St. Louis Clearing House Association, an- nounced today that young women are being put to work in the Clearing House in the expectation that many men will soon be called to war. Nine youny women are now employed in the country department. The work is largely clerical. Older employes ‘n the office said the new girls. were “doing fine.’’ SOLDIER-BATHERS BUY DRINKS Saloon Keepers Unable to Distinguish Them When in Suits. BROWNSVILLE, Tex., July 27.—Is a soldier in a bathing suit a soldier in uniform in the eyes of the Federal law against the sale of intoxicants to sol- diers in uniform? This question has been put to Department of Justic agents here. The question arose out of charges that soldiers have been donning bathing suits, getting them wet and going to saloons to quench their thirst. Saloon keepers claim they are unable to distinguish between soldiers and civi]- jans when they wear bathing suits. THREE BROTHERS ARE DRAFTED ee ee | ee BARRON ©, Belleville Contractor’s Sons Have No Claims for Exemption. the publication of official} of the drafted men in District No. of St. Clair County, yesterday, it was learned that three sons of John Heine- mann, a brick contractor of Brackett street, Belleville, were drawn for serv- ice Irvin, Arthur and Paul Heinemann. al! between the ages of 21 and 30 years, are unmarried and have no claims for ex- emption. Irvin and Arthur are associat- ed with their father and Paul is a foundry worker. LONDON HEARS FLANDERS GUNS Bombardment Ninety Miles Away Shakes Ground in Metropolis. — LONDON, Jaly 27 —he Fianders bom- Sardment, judging y ‘he sound of guns heard around London, Pas reached great flerceness, The drum fire keeps up an incessant rumbling, ,unctuated at times by terrific individu.l xplosions, which actually shake the +::und in Southeast London, thouxh the cannonade must be rearly 9 miles awuy With lists Resortiand is calling. See the Resort and Country Board offera on the first Wal pase-~cspecially Sunday, .. ° | jneath a terrible weight. PERSHING’S MEN RESPEGT GERMAN FIGHTING ABILITY Realize They Have Strong Foe, Who Knows More Than They of Modern Warfare. ALL BRAGGADOCIO ABSENT Some Enlisted Soldiers Have Im- pression War Will End Be- fore They Can Get in. By LINCOLN EYRE A Staff Correspondent of the Post- -Dispatch and the New York World. (Copyright, 1917, by Press Pub. Co.) AMERICAN FIELD HEADQUAR- TERS, in France, July 26.—Desuite uni- versal] eagerness to get into the trenches. a curious and apparently quite baseless impression that the war will be over before the American troops can open upon the enemy has permeated Gen. Pershing’s men. It exists only amonx the enlisted men, for the officers are not only better informed generally, but are keenly alive to the broad aspects of the situation and are unanimous in the be- lief that the end will not be in sight for a long time. Although their sources of information ye of the meagerest description, inas- much as the French newspapers mean nothing to them, and American papers have not yet reached camp, the troops appear to be imbued with the idea that the Germans are rapidly approaching capitulation. The feeling seemingly ‘s based entirely on a desire to fight the Germans and a fear of disappointment. The favorite date set for the smash- up of the central empires is ‘before ee cae maybe.”’ Doughboy Explains the “Dope. “It’s like this,’’ a sweating oo explained to me, diving into his noon- time chow in the shade of a tal] French poplar. “The dope we get here (what this dope is he did not say) goes to show the Boches are about all in. They’re sick of this war, and our being here in France already, though there ain't many of us yet, has made ’em a whole lot sicker. It’s true the French are pret- ty tired of the war, too, but the differ- ence is that the Germans are fighting with half-empty bellies, where the French have plenty of grub. “The French will have a tough time next winter, but they know the other fellows will be still worse up against it. I’m afraid that just about the time we get really on the job—I méan, when we know enough to take a trip over to their trenches with a bayonet—Bill Kai- ser will be yelling awful loud for peace.”’ To me the third most important mani- festation of our soldiers’ sober outlook on “the big bout’’ (the first two being their desire to fight and their theory about peace), is,the complete lack of braggadocio existing among them. The old spirit of bluster has vanished be- One American infantryman is no longer capable of en- gaging, single-handed, all the Kaiser’s legions. Instead, the American infan- tryman realizes the German is a strong and courageous foe, whose knowledge of modern warfare is, for the time being, considerably superior to his own. Scant sympathy is expressed for the youth who lost his hand by trying to prove with a hatchet that no European hand-grenade could hurt a soldier of Uncle Sam. This simple-minded en- thusiast’s overconfidence in American invulnerability gains him the honor of being the first permanent casualty in the Pershing force. Men Want Tobacco and Candy. If only the folks at home will remem- ber to keep him supplied with the com- forts of life—above all tobacco and can- dy, which a marine chaplain told me “we need badly’’—the American will be satisfied. ‘Tell the people at home, who seem to be thinking chiefly about the welfare of the National Guard,”’ he said, that we are over here in a country where cer- tain brands of American smoking to- bacco cannot be bought at'‘any price, and where nobody ever heard of Amer- ican candy. The National Guard boys can ‘strol] around a corner to the near- est cigar or drug store and get all the tobacco and candy they want. We can't, and we will do without unless they keep shipping it over all the time."’ The most striking evidence of Ameri- can efficiency I have encountered at the camp is the house and street cleaning campaign the Americans instituted im- mediately after their arrival here. TEST GERMAN COURT PLASTER Department of Justice Making Analy- sis of Samples Distributed in Brooklyn. WASHINGTON, July 27.—Samples of court plaster distributed in Brooklyn. N. Y., by a German paint concern, were turned over to the Department of Jus- tice today by Secretary Redfield. Charges have been made that Germans were spreading tetanus and other dis- eases in the United States through the distribution of surgical dressings. The “Department of Justice is making chemical analysis of court plasters sent to Washington from various parts of the country. Ortjinal Draft Numbers to Be Sold. WASHINGTON, July 277.—The originai numbers used in drafting the new na- tional army have been turned over to the Red Cross by Provost Marshai- General Crowder for sale as souvenira, the proceeds to be turned into the Red Cross fund. The first eight numbers and the last one, however, will be put back in the bow! and placed in In- dependence Hall, Philadelphia, beside athe Likerty Bell, ewe ow ~ ° ALDERMEN PLAN OFFICIAL DRAFT UR COMPROMISE IN THREE WEERS Move to Pass Speedily One of Two Pending Bills Backed by School and Hall. VACATION IS POSTPONED Seven Members Said to Have Agreed to Proposal to Aci Without Delay. Plans to force the passage of one the United Railways compromise or- dinances within three weeks have been made by an element of the Board of Aldermen ld by Alderman Scholl and Vice President Nathan Hall. Scholl will introduce a resolution in the Board ot Aldermen this afternoon to postpone edjournment for the summer vacation to Aug. 17, in order that one or the other of the bill may be passed. Scholl today was trying to get pledges of Aldermen to support his resolution. He said at noon that seven members had pledged their support to the resolu- tion, and that he felt sure he would get enough signers to adopt ihs resolution The Board of Aldermen, two weeks ago, adopted a resolution to adjourn today until September. The advocates of the speedy passage of one of the railway bills have brought great pres- sure to bear upon the Aldermen to pass the bill with as little delay as possible. Scholl's scheme to pass the bill prac- tically without consideration has de- veloped since the first public hearing on the proposition Wednesday night, at which business men, some of whom are interested financially in the railways company, urged speedy action. Mayor Kiel’s original plan was. to hasten one of the ordinances through the Board of Aldermen before the summer adjourn- ment, but he declared after the discov- ery of a difference between the financial Statement of the company to its stock- holders and that used by the city as a guide in the negotiations for a compro- mise, that he was going to proceed with deliberation. The Board of Aldermen also plans to pass this afternoon a bill authrozing a special election Nov. 6 to vote on a bond issue of $18,840,000 for municipal improve- ments. RAINFALL .73 OF AN INCH IN ELECTRICAL STORM Damage Done by 44-Mile Wind Early This Morning—Trees and Poles Blown Down. The electrical storm which broke over St. Louis at 1:30 a. m. today was accom- panied by a wind that reached a maxi- mum velocity of 44 miles an hour, and which did considerable damage all over the city to telephone poles and wires, while a few trees were blown down and many windows broken. The rainfall was 172 of an inch, the greater part of which fell in the first 25 minutes of the storm. For awhile it had the effect of a cloud- burst. The police report 14 light poles blown down on Von Versen hetween Belt and Union avenues. Policemen were sta- tioned there and closed the block to pe- destrians on account of a tangle of live wires. At Dayton and Leffingwell the trol- ley wires were knocked down by a tree, and a passing street car escaped with only a few broken windows. In ‘other parts of the city an occa- gional pole and feed wire was blown to the street. One building was reported struck by lightning at Broadway and Destrehan, but no great damage result- ed. The storm came from the northwest and extended over a considerable ar surrounding St. Louis. It followed the course of the Missouri River across the eastern part of the State and extended into Illinois in the direction of Peoria. ‘PRISONER WENT FOR A DRINK OF WATER AND NEVER RETURNED’ Sheriff's Report to St, Louis Police of Escape of “Sissy” on Train on Way to Louisiana. “IT am ashamed to tell Brooks got away from me. At Cairo Junction he went for a drink of water and never returned. I held the train and looked high and low for him, but he was not to be found.” That was the opening paragraph of a letter received at police headquar- ters this morning from Deputy Sheriff T. E. McHugh of Baton Rouge, La. who left here a week ago with Charles M. Brooks, descrilfd by the police as a “lady killer.” Brooks wore canary colored hose which reached his knees and caused detectives to call him “sissy.’”’ Brooks was wanted in Baton Rouge for swindling one widow of $200 in cash and another of a $250 diamond ring after he had proposed marriage to them. He posed as a Government surveyor. FIRST DRAFTED MAN ACCEPTED Son of White House Police Guard Passes Examination. WASHINGTON, July 277.—Harry Chap- man Gilbert, 21 years old. son of a White House police guard, is the first man to be accepted for service in the new national army, having passed his physical test and waived al! claims for exemption. you that — a I ne _—— <_< The Post-Dispatch ita the oniv evening rewspaper in St. Louls that receives pub- lishea Dews gathered by the Associated Press, | LIST IN TODAY'S POST - DISPATG — Complete ‘Master Lists,’ as They Apply to St. Louis, in Offi- cial and Accurate Form. | CORRECTIONS ; Comparison With Telegraphic Report Shows Errors and These Are Named. FINAL The Post-Dispatch prints today the complete official record of the draft lottery held at Washington last Friday, insofar as it applies to St. Louis. Today's publication is made from the “master lists’’ which the Post-Dispatch reecived by mail from the War Depart- rent yesterday. The Associated Press, since last Fri- day, had discovered two errors in the first 574 numbers drawn, as applied to St. Louis and from which the allotment of 9390 men will be called up for exam- ination to provide the first quota for the new army. Comparison yesterday ot the Associated Press list with the ‘‘master lists’’ disclosed three additional errors affecting St. Louis’ first allot- ment. The ‘“‘master lists’’ show that serial or “‘red ink’’ number 3070 was drawn as the sixty-ninth number in sequence, in- stead of serial No. 3970 as published. This correction applies to the Fourth. Thirteenth, Seventeenth, Twenty-fourth. Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Wards. Registrants with serial No. 1551 are not called for examination in the first allotment, as at first reported. This error in telegraphic transmission is cor- rected by the ‘master lists,’’ which show that serial No. 1751, and not Ne. 1551, was drawn as sequence No. 197%. This change affects a registrant in each ward in the city and each division in ft. Louis County. The ‘‘master lists’’ also‘ eliminate se- rial No. 2237 from the first allotment in St. Louis. In télegraphic transmission serial No. 2237 was reportéd as sequence No. 287, but the “master lists’’ show it to be serial No. 9237, which does not ap. ply to St. Louis. As printed fn the Post-Dispatch ae Wednesday in a table setting forth a few errors discovered by the Associated Press in its comparison of its tele- graphic report with the “master lists,”’ sequence No. 29 is Serial No. 2595. It was published as Serial No. 3595. Wards affected by this change are the Fourt!. Fifth, Sixth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thir- teenth, Severteenth, Twenty-first, Twenty-third, Twenty-Fourth, Twenty fifth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty. eighth. Another day, was correction, printed Wednes that sequence No. 559 was Serial No. 10,053. It was published as Serial No. 1053. This correction affect- ed all wards. Comparison by the Post-Dispatch of the entire telegraphic report of ths Associated Press with that of the “‘mas- ter lists’’ showed there were nearly a score of errors in addition to those already discovered by the Associated Press, due to telegraphic transmission of such a large number of numerals, and corrected from day to day in the Post-Dispatch. For this reason the Post-Dispatch prints the complete master lists," as they apply to S8t. Louis, in final, official and accurate form. The list Page 8. U-BOAT GOES ASHORE WEST OF CALAIS AND CREW FIRES CRAFT Men Unable to Free Vessel, Destroy ~ It, and Are Made Prisoners by French, PARIS, July 27.—A German submarine was destroyed Thursday on the French coast west of Calais. The undersea boat went ashore and the crew, unable to free her, set fire to the vessel. The members of the crew were made pris- oners. PARTLY CLOUDY TONIGHT, TOMORROW FAIR; STILL WARM THE TEMPERATURES. will be found beginning on Yesterda yt High, 90, at 3:30 Pp. m.t low, 76, at 5 a. m. Official fore- cast for St. Louis and vicinity: Partly cloudy toe- night; tomorrow fair; continued warm. RUSSIAN WOMEN ARE REGISTER- ING” COURAGE Missouri—Part- ly cloudy and continued warm tonight; tomor- row, generally fair; warmer in extreme south portion. Illinois — Gen- erally fair and —~7-s, continued warm tonight: tomor- row, fair; warmer in southeast por- tion and near Lake Michigan. JUL 27 Local Board — 7 (Insert designation by stamp as directed in Sec. 3 of Regulations.) Address: To FORM NO. 108, PRE*ARED BY THE PROVOST MARSHAL GENTCRAL, NOTICE OF CALL AND TO APPEAR FOR PHYSICAL EXAMINATION ¢ Your Serial Number is amination on the the date of mailing this notice. the back hereof. *Date of mailing notice, ( (Address on regfstration ¢ard.) You are hereby notified that pursuant to the act of Congress ap- proved May 18, 1917, you are called for military service of the Unit States by this Local Board from among those persons whose registra ‘tion cards are within the jurisdiction of this Local Board. and your Order Number is.... You will report at the office of this Local Board for physical ex- of (Month) Any claim for exemption or discharge must be made on forms which may be procured at the office of this Local Board, and must be filed at the office of the Local Board on or before the SEVENTH day after Your attention is called to the penalties for violation or evasion of the Selective Service law, approved May 18, 1917, Regulations made pursuant thereto, which penalties are printed on 191 ., at....o’clock A. M. (Year) and of the Rules and Clerk. of _503 (Month) Year) in which this call would hitherto. drafted men to be examined for war service. The exact form be made has not been published 5 tae is the blank which is being sent out by district boards to call IN COAL BIDS 10 City Even at Higher peas! Much Less Is Offered Than Is Wanted. Comptroller Nolte has invited coal deal- ers to a conference in his office at 10 a. m. tomorrow to urge them to bid on supplying coal for the water works, light plants, sanitarium and city hal! plant. The water works needs 110,000 tons annually, out of which the sani- tarium is supplied, and the city hall uses about 10,000 tons. The city advertised for coal bids July 18 and has since receivell bids for 2000 tons for the Industrial School, 700 tons for the infirmary, 700 tons for the cour‘- house and 10,000 tons for the city hall. The prices in the bids and com- parison with last year follow: Coke $13 a ton;- last year $4.86. Smokeless $8.24; last year $4.85. Washed No. 5, $3.87%; last year $1.75. Egg for Industrial School, last year $1.85. Egg for Infirmary, year $1.88. Egg for courthouse; year, $1.89. Lump, $4.32%;: last year, Staunton $4.20, last year $2.63 ville, the same grade. Smokeless $8.44, last year $4.85. Anthracite, no bids, except on small quantities at $10.70 a ton, as compared with $8.27 last year. “ Smokeless mine run, used instead of coke, $7.40. L. C. Dieckmann, acting Commissioner of Supplies, explained that the coal peo. ple probably are trying to force the city to buy in the open market instead of by contract. This would mean, he point- ed out, a tremendcus increase in the operating expenses of city Institutions. FOOD BILL FIGHT DROPPED Republicans Abandon Proposed Joint Congressional War Expendi- ture Body. WASHINGTON, July 27.—Work on the food control bill is being continued by the Conference Committee today with both Senate and House In recess. Development which gives hope of hav- ing the bill perfected and in President Wilson's hands next week is the action of House Republicans, meeting :nformal- ly, in agreeing to abandon the proposed fight, led by Minority Leader hiann, for the creation of a joint ‘congressional committee on war expenditures, which is opposed by the President. The Senate. however, may yet fight for its proposal. WILL RETURN ,MEXICANS’ FIRE Troops, Attacked, Ordered to Shoot te Kill, Gen. Bell Tells Consul. EL PASO. Tex.. July 27.—Mexican Consul Bravo was informed today by Brigadier-General George Bell Jr., Dis- trict Commander here, that United States soldiers on patrol duty would re- turn the fire whenever fired upon from across the border. The soldiers. Gen. Rell added, had been ordered to shoot to kill. ten. Bell's statement was in reply to a Mexican protest alleging the mortal wounding of a Mexican soldier on the night of July 17. Gen. Bell informed the $3.82 344; $3.82: last $3.82%: las $1.99. 63 on Carter- Stage of river af 7 a. m., 13.8 ai a fall of .2 foot. rwwyrye f 116 PES DLE | ATOR RUS ARMY ARE BEING SHOT One Officer Removed for Fail- ure to Obey Order of Gen. Korniloff. —_—_ PETROGRAD, July 2%7—Accounts of the battles in Galicia say the cavalry- men fought like heroes. Cossacks co- operating with Russian and British mo- tor cars, defended the Sereth line as long as the least hope remained. It Is reported that artillerymen on _ their knees implored the infantry to save their guns, but that the infantry did not heed them. Gen. Korniloff’s orders to shoot trai- tors and marauders are being carried out. The commander of a grenadier di- vision has been removed for refusing to fire on deserters. The Fifth Cyclist Battalion fought most bravely. It kept off three Ger- man regiments with its machine guns and carbines, and made several] bayonet charges afoot. In one attack the men rode their bicycles. Some sections of the battalion lost 8 per cent of their officers. A member of the Duma who hag re- turned from the Dvinsk front, states that after Russan battalions captured important German positions it was dis- covered in several instances that sig- nalling to the Germans was going on from the Ruasian rear. Belgian artillerymen and mechanical experts in Petrograd are forming a “battalion of death” to give an example of military valor on the Russian front. AUTHOR AND LECTURER IS ARRESTED FOR HIGH TREASON ‘CHICAGO, July 27.—Daniel H. Wal- lace, author of “‘Shanghaied Into War,” who was arrested in Davenport, Io., early today by United States Deputy Marshals and who is to be taken to Ot- tumwa, lIo., for a hearing on the charge of high treason, was one of th organizers here of the “League of Hu- manity’’ composed of persons who style themselves conscientious objectors tt var. Wallace, according to his own statement, is a deserter from the Brit- ish army, and according to an official of the league, the British Government has set a price on Wallace's head. Wallace claims to have been through many battles on the western front tn Europe, deserting after the battle of Neuve Chappelle. He also claims to have been a member of the Texas Rang- ers, a King’s Sergeant in the Coldstream Guards, and to have more recently be- longed to the Eighth Australian Light Horse. He has been active in work against wer since coming to America and has delivered talks and written books against it. In a lecture Wednesday evening at Turner Hall in Davenport, Wallace dis- played a kindly feeling for the enemy and referred to the allies as “‘all-liars.”’ Among several of his uttcrances were: “If every man had a red heart, you could say to hell with the Red Cross. 1! wish all the churches, in this country were put on the bum. They're the ob- servation pointe for war. That's the reason the Germans destroy them. The lucky ones going across are the ones to go to the bottom. I've been arrested @ times, and I feel ignored any week I'm * } RUSSIANS CONTINUE. TO RETREAT Kaiser Watches as Germans Go Forward Near Tarno- pol — Kolomea, Railroad Town, Occupied in Teu- tons’ Advance. . Rumanian Front—Russian Resistance Stiffens —-in Spots. British Capture Village in Belgium, but Heavy Ger- TT * F - By Associated Press BERLIN, via London, July v1.—=Near Tarnopol, in Eastern Galicia, yesterday, Emperor William watched the German troops extend their gains at the Sereth bridgehead, Says the official statement issued today by the War Office. “The statement says that the German troops are rapidly advancing on both sides of the Dniester River. The Galic tuwn of Kolomea, on the railroad tween Stanisiau and Czernowitz, has Leen captured by the Tevtons. The Ax tro-German forces ar? pursuing the Rus- sians, who are retreating through t wooded Carpathians ‘n the direction of the River Pruth. Troops under command of Archduke Joseph have retreated on the Rumanian front. The announcemcnt says the feu- tons left to the Russ»-Rumanian forces the territory In the Suchitza Valley as far as the upper course of the: Putna River. Because of the unfavorable fightins conditions the artillery duel on the ba ern front decreased yerterday, but it creased to great intensity last evening. Russian Cavalry Throws Back -Teu- tons at One Point. PETROGRAD, July 27.—Russian cav- alry threw’ back the pressing Austo- German infantry on Wednesday in the region southwest of Monasterzyska in Eastern Galicia, says the official state- ment issued today by the War Depart- ment. The announcement adds that the Ru- manians have advanced toward the up- per reaches of the Suchitga River and are consolidating their gains. The. manians took many prisoners and tured six guns. Between the Dniester river and the Carpathians, the statement says, the Russians continue to retire in an easterly direction. Southeast _ of Trembowla, in Galicia near the Rug- sian border, the Russians retired a short distance to new positions. The Austro-Germans have occupied the Galician towns of Plotycy and Csye- tylor on the Sereth river. said: “East of Tarnopol, under enemy pres- sure our troops retired to the Gnizdiosno and Gnizna rivers. “Northeast of Trembowla on Wednes- day superior German forces attackedand penetrated our positions on the river Gnizna in the region of Loszniov. Ef- forts to restore the situation were Uf- “At the same time, the enemy trating our positions on the Sereth the south of Trembowla and in the re- gion of Zalavie and Podhaytz, began te develop his stroke in a northeastern di- rection, in view of which our troops oo- bowla retired eastward. Owing to the ineffective composition of our units andy the state of their morale, our counter “Developing his stroke toward the south Sereth the enemy occupied Janoff, Buta- nioff and Zvieniacz (south of Tarnopol), the enemy's heavy artillery delivering an intense fire on the eastern bank of lage of Kabkioviokl. “On Wednesday evening our ¢t began to retire from the Sereth ward. Certain units are continuing @ carrying aut the military task with which they have been entrusted. Howe ever. with these units there are others which are devotedly fulfilling their duty - toward the fatherland.” “Between the Dniester and the caw pathians our troops, covered by reap. guards, have continued to retire east- ward. Nijniuvy and Tlumacs have beep. evacuated by our troops. “On Wednesday the Rumanian ané@ Kussian troops tinued to press upee the retiring enemy to the west of the Suchitza River and have moved te @ sequently withdrew in the face of = German counter attack in force, tye War Office announces. The statement \- The official statement issued last night) successful. od cupying positions in the region of Trem» attacks brought us no definite resulta. along the western bank of -th@- the Sereth and in the region of the =. leave their positions voluntarily withou—s wT. sy TRIPS ae OY