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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-10
$50 KILLED In
STORM AND FLOOD
West Virginia Governor
Calls National Guard
to Aid Victims.

Huntington, w. Va, Aug. 9.-At
least $50 persons were drowned, 5000
made homeless and more than 81 ,OOO,-
900 damage was done in floods that fol-
lowed a cloudburst in the Coal River
and Cabin Creek districts to-day, ac-
cording to reports reaching here to-
night.
Governor Hatfield received official
word of the food soon after he reached
Huntington tonight. He at once got
into telephone communication with
Camp Kanawha, where the I'd Regi-
ment is encamped, and instructed Ad-
jutant General John c. Band to gather
all available foodstuffs, tents and
clothing in Charleston and place them
on a special train to be run to the
flooded districts without delay.
The Governor was informed in an
appeal from Cabin Creek that the loss
of life would exceed a hundred and
that more than 5000 are homeless.
So serious did the Governor con-
slider the situation that he announced
tonight he would be unable to attend
the state convention here and that he
would leave Immediately for Cabin
Greek.
officials of the Virginia Power Com
pany said tonight that at least $50
persons have lost their lives. Eleven
bodies have so far been recovered.
Many persons have been seen clinging
to debris in the food, but no assistance
could be given them.
A Sunday school excursion train
which is marooned near st. Albans is
said TO have 300 persons on board.
Efforts TO reach them have failed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-10

has got money from clergymen as
the wife of a deceased clergyman
with son at the front. She has
got it from business men on the
plea that she has been left stranded
by her sons employer.
Many Refuse to Work.
Her tale of woe was looked into by
the workers Of the Active Service Aux
iliary, the only organization with IA
cilities for efficient investigation Of the
dy-family ly-of-a-Guardsman stories.
1t was found that, although she has a
son in the service, he is an officer,
drawing an officers pay. and that the
corporation for which he worked has
turned over to his mother the entire
amount of his wages, about $50 weekly.
Another applicant to the auxiliary,
asking for immediate financial help,
was refused it on the grounds that she
earned more than enough for her own
support and had at home with her
three daughters and son, all working.
Her seventeen-yearo old son, who en-
listed with the 18th Regiment, had
contributed nothing toward his moth
ers support.
81 am going to get some money
somehow" she said. "If you don't give
it to me some one else will. The gov
ernment has my boy, and I'm going to
be paid for lit"
She has been so persistent in trying
TO collect the supposed debt owed her
by the government that the auxiliary
wishes to warn the public against her
and others of her kind. Not few ap-
plicants have refused employment, say
ing: "Why should | support myself
My husband has always supported me,
Continued on page o, column 8
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-10
SAYS WOMAN'S WISH
MADE HIN STEAL GEMS
Police Say Clerk Admitted TAX
ing $4,000 Worth.

Charged with the theft Of $4,000
worth Of diamonds from Broadway
jeweller, Irwin K. Leyendol was ar
rested yesterday afternoon.
After he had been examined at Head
quarters, detectives say, ne admitted
taking the gems because he told the
police Miss Yolando Wallace, a young
woman with whom he was infatuated,
had constantly pleaded with him to
present her with some diamonds. Miss
Wallace was also arrested, and is being
held at Headquarters.
Levendol is married, and until his
disappearance on July 26 was clerk.
He took the gems, II is alleged. after
they had been given HIM for delivery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-10
CAR AT GATES
OF STANISLAU
Austrian Line Smashed on
25-Mile Front in
Galicia.
fBy Cabs u The Tribune.

London, Aug. 9.-The Russians are
within six miles Of Stanislau. Smash
ing the whole Austrian line on the
twenty-five front between the
Dniester River and the Stanislau-Kol-
omea railroad, at Ottynia, General
Letchitsky's troops crumpled in the
centre west of Tlumacz and swept for
ward nine miles, enveloping the town
of Tysmenitsa. cutting the Buczacz-
Stanislau railroad at that point and
pressing two miles beyond. Tonight
the Russian advance guards are almost
on the outskirts of the important rail
way centre, whose fall is expected at
any hour.
At the same time Letchitsky's right
wing swung forward along the Dnies-
ter, crossed the Koropice River
brushed the enemy from his fortified
positions and seized series of dom
mating heights on the right bank OF
the stream. This successful operation
brings them nearer Halitz than they
have yet been and adds to the menace
against General Won Bothmer's lines
along the Stripa, even more than the
move against Stanislau.
BOthmer In Peril.
II Letchitsky can force the Dneister
at this point, or further TO the north
west, before Won Bothmer's right wing
can make good the fifteen-mile retreat
to the Zlota Lips, the Austrians will
face disaster Not only will the south
ern portion Of Won Bothmer's army be
cut off and enveloped. but with the
steady advance of Sakharoff's forces
south of Brody the entire army will
be placed in the grsvest peril.
Moreover, each days fighting is
weakening the already slender forces
which have so far been protecting yor
Bothmer's Asnks by obstinate resist
ance to the Russian advances, both
north and south Of the Stripa position
Up TO Monday General Letchitsky alone
had bagged 7,400 prisoners, including
$500 Germans, and mad swept IN a.
many as sixty-three machine guns. Ir
the north, General Sakhorof ha:
swelled this total.
Meanwhile Brussiloff has not beer
idle along the Stokhod, although it i;
apparent that for the time being tho
drive on Kovel is regarded as secondary
in Importance to the greater move
ments in Galicis. The Cars troops at
tackled to-day at three points on the
Stokhod-south of the Stobychva bend
east Of Kovel and north of Kiselin
The Russian waves were rolled bach
by the furious fire of the Teuton bat
teries and counter charges won grounC
for Won Linsingen's forces. In the Car
pathians Planners troops captured
heights near Jablonitza, Vorocht anc
Tatarov.
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Board to Fix New
Date Soon-800, 900
Pupils Affected.
81 DEATHS SET
A NEW RECORD
1888 More Cases Yesterday
Children in Camp
May Not Return.

New York public schools will not
open on September IL, the scheduled
date, because of the epidemic of in
fantile paralysis. This was practical
ly agreed upon yesterday after con-
ferences between officers OF the
Health Department and the Board OF
Education. About 100000 students Of
grammar and high schools in the city
system will be affected
Fifty-seven deaths-s new record for
the epidemic-and 1873 new cases were
found in New York City yesterday. To
all appearances, the plague will con-
tinue unabated until far after the nor
nal time for the opening Of school.
The date of the opening will be de-
termined with the next few days.
Health Commissioner Emerson, after
consulting with william G. Wilcox,
president of the Board of Education,
and with the Health Department Med
ical Advisory Committee, announced
yesterday.
To See Mayors Committee.
Commissioned Emerson will confer
soon with the Mayors Advisory Med
ical Committee, and the period OF
postponement will be decided then.
The Board of Education. expecting
the recommendation of the Health De-
partment for a postponement, yester-
day passed resolutions empowering
the president TO take the necessary
steps as soon as requested. The scnooi
wear. cut short at the opening In this
wav. NAV or may not be heightened
to make il correspond with the ordl-
nary number of weeks of instruction.
This will be taken up by the board
when the opening date is set.
Two resolutions on this question
were introduced yesterday at the Board
of Education meeting. and there was
some discussion as to what should be
done with teachers.
Salaries Untouched.
Salaries are not affected by the
change, but Commissioner Stein point
ed out tnat many tehCneIs are III 'e,''
mer camps, which will increase the
length of their terms so that the chill
dren will not have to return to the
city. II the teachers had to return
on the scheduled date, he said, II
would be hardship to camps and
teachers alike.
The resolution left the matter to
tho president of the board. II read:
"Resolved, That the president of the
Board of Education be authorized to
take such action as he may deem neces-
sary or advisable to carry into effect
a recommendation of the Board OF
Health + for postponement of the open
ing of the schools, and shall be au-
thorized tho to postpone the time at which
the various members of the teaching
force shall report for duty as IN his
discretion may appear wise.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-10
Official Communications
on East Front Fighting

Petrogrdd, Aug. s.-The oNctdl
communication issued this evening
reads:
Having crossed to the right bank Of
the Koropiec River, we repulsed the
enemy and seized series of heights
in the region west of Velesnioup and
southwark as far as the bridge over
the Dniester, on the NiznioffMo
terZyska railroad.
In retiring, the enemy damaged the
bridge. Here the enemy launched two
Continued on page 2. column
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-10
AUSTRIAN U.BOAT SUNK
BY FRENCH DESTROYER
Submarine Torpedoed Off the
Island of Corfu.

London, Aug. "a French torpedo
boat destroyer torpedoed an Austrian
submarine Tuesday north Of the island
of Corfu" says a dispatch to the Ex-
change Telegraph Company from Ath-
ems.
at is considered certain" the corre-
spondent adds, that the submarine
sank with its crew"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-10
Italians Seize Gorilla, SWeep on Trieste
NEW BOMB MACHINE
HELPED ITALIANS WIN

Paris. Aug. 9.-One Of
the surprises of the attack on
Gorilla was the use made by
the Italians of a new instru-
ment by which large bombs
were hurled with fearful
effect.
Some of these bombs tore
wire entanglements and pull
verized trenches. opening
breache. through which in
fantry and cavalry were able
to pass freely.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-10
W E ATH E r

v.RrIY CLOUDY TO-DAY AND no
MORROW. WARMER TOMORROW.
MODERATE EAST TO NORTH
EAST WINDS.
fuli Report on Page IL.
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Continued on page 0, column 8
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-10

The Italian Official statement fol-
lows:
This morning our troops entered the
town OF Gorizia.
Yesterday morning in the Gorizis
area, after intense artillery prepArs-
tion, our infantry completed occupation
OF the heights west Of the town, driving
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Continued on page 9, column .
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-13
HAS FATHERS
VEST WHILE MEMBER TOO

ATLANTA, Ga, Aug. 12.--An enor-
nous vest worn by his grandfather in
the Georgia legislature seventy-fiye
years ago. when the state capitol was
located at Milledgeville, is one of the
PROUD possessions of Representative
John T. Dorsey. of Cobb county.
Mr.. Dorsey's grandfather weighed
nearly four hundred pounds and trav-
eled to Milledgeville in an old-fash-
Toned carriage with his negro body
servant accompanying him.
One of the vests he wore in the halls
OF the legislature has come down to
Representative Dorsey, and he is going
to bring it to the capitol next week
and try it on Representative oliver, Of
Quitman. county chairman of the gen.
eral agricultural committee of tht
house, and the largest man in tn;
house, to see if Mr.. oliver is large
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-13
TRINTERS MAY PAY PENALTY
OF HIGH PRICED PRINT PAPER

BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. 12.-Immi-
nent danger that thousands of union
printers may be thrown out of work
because of the high cost Of white pa
per, it was said to day will be a ques-
ton seriously concerning delegates to
the sixtysecond annual convention Of
the International Typographical I'm
ion, which convenes here Monday.
Marsden G. Scott is president of the
union and ]. W. Hayes, secretary
treasurer, while its financial condition
is reported as the best in the history
Of the organization.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-13
Not Much Money Is Found In
Growing Drug Plants as The
Value Is Mainly Social Now

! nansion of the industry would quickl.
Increase the supply beyond the demand
and this. together with importation
when hesumed might soon glut the 10
cal market and leave little or MT
profit tothe raiser, unless an exporr
market were developed
Digitalis. although one of the mos
important and valuable of heart tonics
as crop has relatively small none
tary value. The drug plant specialists
who have been developing this plant
and testing possibilities of its culture
in this country have done so, not
merely with the idea of fostering an
industry, but because this plant is so
important in saving human lives that
should all supplies be cut off serious
calamity would result. For the same
reason the specialists have been work
ing with many other drug plants. "
was believed that the drug specialists
should be ready to raise these plants in
this country If for any reason the for
eign supply should be entirely cut off.
For years, therefore, the department
has been producing many of these
plants experimentally, but when the
supply of certain of these drugs fail
ed or their prices reached prohibitive
figures. a few skilled growers, with
the advice of the department, were able
to raise small quantities of some of
the more important drugs needed in
the present emergency. Thymol, wide
~ used for antiseptic purposes, is a
drug manufactured in Germany from
a seed grown in India. A few days af-
ter the interruption of imports the
price leaped from 81 to II pound.
The department, however, had been ex-
perimenting with a common weed
known as pasament, which grows
readily in the South and yields this
substance This horsemlnt sas
brought into cultivation. its drug-bear-
ing quality improved, and sfmpse
process for manufacturing them
from it developed, with the result last
year that there v,as produced CONNER
cially small quantity of the drug. The
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-13
SedbOdrd Air Line
The Progressive Railway Of the SOutb

Leave Americas Tor Cordele, Te-
shelle. Abbeville, Helena, Lyons. Col
dns, Savannah, Columbia. Richmond
portsmouth and points East and South.
1881 D m
$3.50 q ne
Leave Americas for Cordele, Abbe-
lie, Helena and intermediate pointm.
5:11 D. m.
Leave Americas for Richland, At
anita, Birmingham, Hurtsboro, Mont
omery and points West and Northwest
S:OS p. m.
Leave Americas for Ricnland, Col-
INDUS, Dawson, Albany and interme-
late points
1900 a. I'M.
Seaboard Buffet ParIor-Sleeping Cas-
N Trains Is and IA, arriving Americna
rom Savannah 1925 D. M, and leav-
ng Americus for Savannah $3.50 q. N.
sleeping car leaving for Savannah 10
$3.50 a. m, will b~ open for paGsep4
gers at 11:40 p. m.
For further information apply to H.
p. Everett, Local Agent, Americas,
"a. G. w. Small, Div. Pass. Agent,
savannah. Ga; G. p. Pvau, G. p. A.,
icrfolk. W.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-13
.ENTOM0L0eIsT TELLS
HOW TO KILL REACHES

The cockroach-and there are mill
lions of them in Americas, is one of the
worst pests with which the housewife
has to contend They can however be
successfully controlled and gotten rid
Of. Here is a remedy which has prov
en- very effective and which is given by
George A. Dean, professor Cf entomol-
ogy in the Kansas State Agricultural
College, and used not only in homes
but in many big flour mills in Kansas:
Get a large pan or deep jar, the
deeper the better, and place a foul,
damp dishrag in it. Set up sticks or
laths on an easy slant from the floor to
the pan or jar, so that there will be no
difficulty for the reaches to get to the
edge of the jar. The reaches will run
up these laths or sticks and be attract
&c to the damp dishrag within the jar.
for they congregate in such places.
Place this trap in the pantry or kitchen
or wherever the reaches are found, and
leave it overnight, as reaches hide and
are quiet during the day and make
their raids at night. Fhe first thing in
the morning, pour boiling water over
the rag to kill the reaches hiding in it.
Having once eliminated the pest
from the house, the one bit of advice
that Prof. Dean would offer is to rio
the house of damp, musty places. I'm
less they can find such places in which
to breed and hibernate, reaches are
not likely to stay. If the house, or any
other building, is absolutely dry ant
clean, there will be little danger Of
being bothered with such pests.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-13

WASHINGTON. D. c. Aug. 12.-In
terruptions Of importations Of man,
drugs. spices, and oils made iron
plants has resulted in certain cases il
ahnoTmally high prices for the raw
materials and the products derived
non them. As a result. many people
are loking into the possibility Of proht
Ia growing these crops in the United
States. Many letters are received each
week at the u. S. Department of Agri-
culture asking how to raise this or
that drug plant.
In almost every case, the drug plant
specialists reply that it is doubtful
whether the inexperienced grower can
grow these plants successfully, or. if
he succeeds, will find satisfactory
market for his crop. The raising Of
such plants, they point out, is dis
tinct specially and calls for exact
knowledge and skill comparable to
that needed by the florist who, to sat
isfy his market, not oaly must raise
flowers but must produce blooms at
certain seasons and with unusual
characteristics Of even greater i'm
portance, however, is the fact that the
total amount of drug plants that can
be consumed in this country in any
year is very small compared with our
consumption of any of the staple crops.
0yerproduction in the case of drugs is
more serious than in the case Of staple
crops because staple crops such as
corn and grain if not sold can be used
for food at home for feding stock or
chickens. The drug plant, however, is
proftless to the grower unless a drug
manufacturer viii buy it for use in
medicine
It is entirely possible, for example,
to grow belladonna from which is de-
rived atropine and other alkaloids very
valuable in medicine The total
amount of belladonna plants the entir~
country uses, however, could all be
grown on few hundred acres. Be-
cause of teh present interruption in
the supply of belladonna, few DOM
este growers have made profit re-
Gently from this crop. A slight e.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-13
Christian Science Church.

Taylor street.
Morning service at II o'clock Sum
day. Wednesday evening services will
he held at 8 o'clock.
Golden Text: Psalms 1894. Wait
on the Lord and keep his way, and he
shall exalt thee to inherit his land.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-13
Calvary CurcIl.

Rev. ]. B. Lawrence, Rector.
The following order of service will
be observed in Calvary Episcopal
church today:
Holy Communion at p. m. This
will be the corporate communion OF
Chapter E of the Church Building So
ciety.
Sunday school at GAS a. m.
Morning prayer, litany and sermon
az II a. N.
Evening prayer and sermon p. m
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-13
First Methodist Church.

Rev. j. A. Thomas, Pastor.
The regular preaching services will
be held at II a. m. and p. m. by
the pastor.
Sunday school at $3.50 a. m, with T.
NJ. Furlow. superintendent. The pub
lie is cordially invited.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-13
CROUCH to fill it.

By reason of his great size and pro-
portionate suffering with the heat, Mr..
oliver is the only member of the
house who is allowed to sit in that
body with his coat off.
The rule requiring members to wear
their coats was waived in his behalf
by unanimous consent.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-13

that prices of these articles prevail
ing under the present disturbed con-
ditions are abnormal and therefore
should not be regarded as safe basis
on which to estimate regular returns
from such activities.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-13
CHURCH SERVICES
Presbyterian Church.
Jackson street.

Jackson street.
Sunday school at $3.50 o'clock Sum
Cay morning. Rev. j. F. Lyon will
preach at this church on the fourth
Sunday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-13
FurIow Lawn Baptist Church.

Rev. r. L. Biyins. Pastor.
DR.. John F. Purser, of Atlanta, will
preach at II a. m. and at p. m.
Sunday school at $3.50 a. m.
B. Y. P. U. at tbs p. m.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-13

East Americas.
Sunday school at p. m. Prayer
Thursday at 1880 ?. m.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-13
Brooklyn Heights Chanel.

Sunday school at $3.50 p. m. Prayer
meeting at o'clock, Wednesday.
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First Baptist Church.

Sunday school at $3.50 a. m.
Preaching services at II a. m, and
p. M, by Rev. w. L. Cults, of Canton.
Ga.
B. Y. P. U. at p. m.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-13

At the same time those in charge of
the work realize that here and there in
our agriculture, where soil and elm
attic and other conditions are right,
there is room for certain small in
dustries. For many years there has
been a distinct tendency for agricul-
turists to direct their energies along
limited lines. This is indicated most
clearly by certain types of agriculture
prevailing in the South, where the
farmers have confined their efforts
very largely to the cultivation Of a
single crop. These small crops may
therefore offer to a few of our farm
ers opportunities in highly specialized
lines of production which will divert
to a certain degree the activities OF
capital and labor from some of the
crowded industries and also supply pc
culiar products for which the country
has been spending money abroad. The
drug specialists point out, however
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-08-13
st. Paul Methodist.

B. Y. P. U. at 7 p. m.