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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-22

I,,nIt. ~ fhe advance which had been estI-
mated by the French headquarters.
Reports from the various componen,
armies participating In the offensive arouno
Verdun established today the fact that Inc
French artillery has destroyed scores Oh
great German guns brought up yen az
Sv ,n6nite labor and fixed In elaborate
emnIacements for what was TO be Ger
nanv's victorious assault on Verdun.
Dead Mans HILL blackened by the pioou
Of thousands on both sides, Its slopes a
eaunt specter Of naked ground. was entirely
in French hands today. The myriad ue
fo,ses on which the Crown Prince spent
months were ieveled into mere crumbles OF
earth. The hill itself must remain gigan-
tic monument to lost hopes. 1t took the
Cermans months to capture 1t, more months
10 fortify It and still more months TO hold
IL. The French took 1t in the hrst MORN
ing's advance.
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REPORTS OF ALARMING 4
SITUATION IN RIJss
Washington Hears Rumors. WIFI.
Unconfrmed by Secretary Lansin.
and Russian EMBASSY

WASHINGTON. Aus. a2.
alarming reports concerning cond,,,oss
Russia were widely circulated in wons wons ID
ton today. They ranged from stor,as ssnins.
the kerensky government was about :. .nst
oyer.nrown 10 o'ners that very seriou, y p,.s =
Russian cities. '"o iarser
Secretary Of State Lansing r.r,..
discuss these reports. He said ..e 70
Department had no information oon e Stats
them. No reports have reached h.eernns
Ambassador Francis at Petrosra1 Iron,
with the subject. dealing
officials at the Russian embassv
absence of the Ambassador. said fb.n IN The The
no news sra,asa rhey said aid that all q their
offensive had been checked ana Herman re
situation was well in hand" ''at the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-22
lLII ] IUFN
HARD COAL PRICES
Certain Small Operators to
Go, but Industry Is Be-
hind New Move
GARFIELD NOW DICTATOR
Large Part of Country's Produc-
tion Already Under Contract
Not to Be Affected
WASHINGTON. Aug. 22

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.
The President is preparing to fix hard
coal prices. just as he set figures for the
soft coal output and may have the coal
dictator to take charge of both situations.
II was said.
Thousands Of so-called wagon leaders,
coal operators on a small scale but pro-
ducing many thousand carloads per month
In the aggregate--will be wiped out by
President Wilson's maximum prices. ac-
cording to Chairman Peabody. of the de-
fense councils coal committee today.
The industry however will be solidly be-
hind the President in his efforts TO reduce
prices to the average consumer. he said
A large part Of the country's coal pro-
duction already under contract will not be
affected by the Presidents prices.
Tentative prices. averaging about $2.2
q ton for home sizes fixed by President
Wilson for coal at the mouth of every btu
minous mine, went into effect. Prices to
retailers and consumers VIII follow shortly
H. a. Garfield president OF Williams Col
iege, and now chairman of the wheat price
fixing board, has accepted the post Of fuel
dictator. His installation will follow COM
pletion of his present wheat task.
The rates Of profit to be fixed by tho
President are expected to be twenty cents a
ton for wholesalers and fifty cents for re-
tailers. This, added to the Presidents
prices at the mouth of the mine in the
twenty-nlne bitumlnous coal districts OF the
country, together with railroad freight and
expense of local delivery, will afford every
city a working basis for figuring the coal
cost to the American home. Costs for the
average house should be figured on prepared
sizes, which are twenty-five cents higher |
than the "run-of-mine" coal.
PRESIDENTS ANNOUNCEMENT
The Presidents announcement was as
follows:
The following scale of prices Is pre-
scribed for bituminous coal at the mine |
in the several coal-producing districts
reconsideration when the whole method |
of administering the fuel supplies of the
country shall have been satisfactorily
organized and put into operation Subse-
quent measures Will have as their object
a fair and equitable conthDl OF the distri-
button of the supply and Of the prices,
not only at the mines. but also I'm the
hands Of the middiemen ana the retailers.
The prices professionally fixed here are
fixed by my authority under the provi-
sions or the recent act of Congress re-
eardng administration of the food sup
ply OF the country which also conferred
upon the executive control OF the fuel
supply They are based upon the actual
cost of production and are deemed to be
not only fair and Just but liberal as well.
Under them the industry should nowhere
WOODROW WILSON.
SCHEDULE OF PRICES
Prices are on (. o. b mine basis for tons
Of 1000 pounds.
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repuIsed the Germans, notably at Mormon'
farm and Hiil sA. Our FIRE broke UP the
advancing waves. At no point were the
Germans successful and everywhere they
lost heavily.
North of Courieres Wood German at
tacks by liquid fire were broken down.
"Unwounded German prisoners taken
since August 20 and counted so far total
6116. plus ia officers. The French yes
terday captured many more in shelters.
which have not yet been counted. Six
hundred wounded Germans have also been
taken, together with important booty.
Especially valuable was the booty taken
in three tunnels on Dead Mans Hill, where
a complete electrical plant and first aid
stations were found intact together with
many regimental stores.
"a corps commander was captured
there"
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OPERATORS CONCERNED
OYER PRICE.FIYING

Flatly contradictory opinions as 10 the
effect of the coft coal schedules as fixed by
President Wilson were expressed today by
large operators here. Some held to the view
that it would be perfectly possible for PENN
sylvania's large coal operators, at least, to
sell coal at 81 ton no matter what the
erect OF the new ruling might have on the
smaller operators. Others. referring par
ticularly to the price set on West Virginia
bituminous COAL asserted with empha sis "It
simply can't be done. !"
or special significance was the intimation
on the part OF more than one official that
trouble with the miners was certain to he
precipitated by the Presidents schedule
There was strong hint that II the new
prices, which the President points out are
to be merely provisional at first, should
become permanent, an effort would un-
doubtedly be made by the operators to con-
vince the miners that the present scales of
wages could not be Continued
we can scarcely look to the miners to
consent to reduction, no matter what the
operators losses may be-" was their atti-
tude, and 1t looks as though trouble were
brewing"
The new soft coal schedule. with all it's
unfairness. is nothing more or less than
muddle accomplished by Secretary Baker
and Secretary Daniels in their role of try
SID W auh 'ht tOuHtiy, Sdlu one Dig sort
coal operator. IF they keep on, they won't
run the country 9 they'll ruin IT, They'll
Keep on until the country loses its patience
and throws them out" n
GARFIELD NOT KNOWN
News of the appointment Of Harry A.
Garfield. president OF Williams College, as
coal dictator" failed TO arouse any en-
thusiasin among local bituminous coal
operators. who said that they knew nothing
either for or against Doctor Garfield
The appointment called for a man of the
biggest ealiber," said one man, "and for
one who was Intimately acquainted with the
bituminous coal Nsituation. | have never
heard that Doctor Garfield was an author
ity on coal. II seems to me that there are
already too many college presidents at
Washington"
A number OF smaller operators. who re-
fused to permit the use of their names were
united in declaring that the new schedules
meant that most of the operators would be
forced out OF business
II enforced Il would mean the cancel
lztion or repudiation of the contracts
already held" they said in effect "It was
fair enough eto cause the reduction of the
ehir enough to cause the reduction of the
Agreed to sell AT ss.65 to So, It seems as
0AouGh We ought 70 be left alone for 4
While The Government ought to investigate
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-22

The Presidents order likes the price at
approximately 81 ton below the schedule
agreed upon at a recent conference of the
coal operators with the Coal Production
Committee Of the Council Of National De.
fense.
The Presidents order did not state
definitely whether the price scale was meant
to affect existing contracts. and representa-.
tives Of the coal operators here were at a
loss to interpret 1t in that connection. The
majority are Of the opinion that contracts
viii not be permitted to stand IL the Presi-
dent feels that the best interests of tho
country would be served by making them
void.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-22

Prices are on f. o. b mine basis for tons
Of 1000 pounds.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-22
Cyrus Smith. of Berwick, Dead

BERWICK, Aug. 22.--Cyrus Smith, one
Of Berwick's best-known citizens. former
manager of the Berwick Opera House, prom
inent Mason and for forty-seven years em-
ployed by the American Car and Foundry
Company, died Monday night Heart dis
ease and dropsy were the causes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-22
CADORNA CAPTURES 1900;
TAKES FIVE MORE TOWNS

ROME Aug. 22.
Prisoners in General Cadorna's offensive
reached total of more than 10000 men
and 311 officers, this afternoon, The War
ONCE announced thirty guns and great
quantity Of booty had likewise bsen taken.
Austria's terrible toll of casualties in the
continuing Italian advance today reached
$4,000 in dead and wounded. according TO
headquarters estimates.
Italian troops have swept the enemy
from the villages of Descla, Britof, Canale.
Bomrez and Roga. All were found smoking
heaps of ruins, burned by the Austrians
and shattered by artillery fire.
The Italian poet and dramatist, Gabriel
d'Annunzio was among hundred or more
Italian aViators who co-operated with the
land troops in ltaly's greatest offensive
Crossing Of the lsonzo was smpliied for
the Italians by a sudden fog. The impen-
etrable curtain shut down during the night
and the rays of Austrian searchlights vain
ly sought to pierce 1t. Italian engineers
threw bridges across in many places, and
over these attacking forces poured.
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German Lines at Lens
Yield in Great DriUe

Continued from Pare Ono
concrete cellar transformed into a bomb.
proof. More came up like ants from near
by mine shafts. scurrying exactly like those
insects do when their ant hills are shaken.
IN one dug-out nearby the Canadians
found one German officer and one private
soldier who had been held prisoners there
.or several days. Neither man had been
able to leave through the tornado-like bar
rage fire which the British guns poured
round about,
GERMANS CONCENTRATED
AT times during the fghting the Ger
mans had portions of six different divisions
fighting the Canadian advance smultane-
ously. Such a concentration of troops shows
clearly the Importance which the German
high command attaches 10 Lens
After one counter-attack southwest of
the city a hundred German corpses were
counted on one tiny patch of ground. The
enemy's casualties have been very heavy"
While the British are gaining on their
sections Of the front, the French appeared
to have made the more rapid strides for
ward in the most sanguinary fighting. The
German horde that once clutched Verdun
almost to the point of suffocaton has been
driven still further back The bloody slopes
of the Cote role, the villages of Regne-
vile and Samogneux, with intervening forti-
ncations have been swept clean Of the
enemy. Counter-attacks last night. made
with desperation born of the German
war chiefs knowledge that the French Of
fensve was only beginning. brought the
enemy nothing but heavy losses
Along the Aisne," the statement said
the Germans bombarded our first lines and
launched strong attacks at Mennejean-
forem, east Of Braye, south of Labovelle
and between ALLIES, Hurtebise and the Cali
fornie plateau, The French maintained
possession of all gains intact and took a
number Of prisoners.
"On the left bank of the Meuse the
French last evening threw back a violent
attack between Hill 304 and Dead Mans
Hill. Enemy detachments penetrated n
front-line trench but were thrown out by a
brilliant French attack,
"On the right bank the French repeatedly
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-14
RETURNING DIPLOMATS WILL
TRY TO PREVENT WAR

Copenhagen, March IA. - Return
ing ENJOYS and cOnsuls from America
will try hOnorably to avert war be-
tween Germany and United States.
They will advise Foreign Sec'y Zim-
norman that Mexican negotiations
were a mistake.
These statements were made by
members of Count Won Bernstorff's
party just before leaving for Berlin.
Bernstorff appeared old and care
worn when he left
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-14

MAYOR TO NAME SCHOOL BOARD
MEMBERS AFTER ELECTION
Mayor Thompson will appoint new
school board members after the April
election, he indicated yesterday.
Terms of seven have run out. The
mayor has delayed because some
some anames he sent the city council
were rejected. After April ballots are
counted the mayor expects a council
that will cooperate with him.
Hearings of school bills we're on at
Springfield yesterday. Outlook now
is school board will be empowered to
buy land, but the law of today, by
which the city council holds a check
on sales of school land, will not be
changed. Tenure of Office for
teachers is getting a favorable hear
ing.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-14
RAPAUME DOOMED?

With British Armies AfieId.-Ba-
paume seems doomed. If this Cita-
del - which Hindenburg has called
another Gibraltar" - does not fall
before the end of the week it will be
because the British plans have been
laid otherwise.
Would not be surprising if German
retirement spread over far greater
territory.
Tokio.-OfficiaI announcement Of
presence of a German raider in In
dian ocean preceded receipt of dis
patches here today detailing destruc-
ton by this craft of unidentified
steamer Fuka MaTu, en- route to In
dia.
Berlin, via SayviIIe Wireless
In the Ancre sector the British at
tackled in afternoon without artiI-
lery preparation between Achiet lie
Petit and Crevillers, and at night
both sides of Bucquoy. Repulsed IN
der heavy losses.
Paris.-Tuesday, south of ST. Mi
hiel French captured RomainvilIe
farm and penetrated at four different
points up to second lines of enemy
between the Mouse and ApremOnt.
Constantinople. - Turkish troops
have taken up new position between
Bagdad and Samara,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-14

UNIVERSAL TRAINING MEASURE
UP ToNEW CONGRESS
Washington, March IA. - Pres.
Wilson's message to congress, called
IN extraordinary session April 16,
will be sharply militant.
Defense measures such as the
country has not been called upon to
furnish since the Spanish-American
war will be urged for immediate con-
sideratiOn and prompt action.
Universal training promises to be
the biggest sensation facing con-
gress. Pres. Wilson and Sec'Y Of
War Baker have sent out an appeal
for thoughtful public opinion upon
the needs and wishes of the country
on this radical departure from the
military traditions of the country"
In answer to the plea, newspapers
are found thus far to favor-about
five to One-adOptiOn of some uni
Versal training plan.
But, according to military author
tiles here, the newspapers are ''far
ahead of the people" on the question.
kilograms and letters from the
folks back home" show strong aver
sion to any compulsory universal
service or training.
This registration of public Opin-
ion is being carefully compiled and
will be consulted by the president be-
fore he addresses congress next
month. It is probable he will not
recommend the adoption of any spe-
cific plan, but will strongly urge
some training measure"
-O-O
RETURNING DIPLOMATS WILL
TRY TO PREVENT WAR
The Huttig news., 1917-06-09
CHAPTER XIII.
The Man of Destiny.

"Now, then, I'll explain" said Alaire, turning to the men. "Longorio declares he won't have me except as his wife, and 1 think he means it. He is amaz. !ngly egotistical. He has tremendous ambitions. He thinks this war is his great opportunity, and he means to be president-he's sure of it. He loves me, but he loves himself better, I'm sure. Now, don't you see? He'll have to choose one or the other."
 Father O'Malley did not appear to appreciate the full force of this req soning. My dear" he said, gravely. The can make you widow again. In such times as these men are savages."
 "Oh, but that's not all" Alaire turned to her newly made husband. "They let you in, and they'll let you out again-if you go quickly, before it's known what we've done."
The Huttig news., 1917-06-09

Ninteen states of the Union now give women right to vote for Presi- dent of the United States.
 North Dakota led the whole pro- cession of 1917 suffrage vietories-the first state into the suffrage fold in the National American Woman Suf- frage Associations drive for presi dential suffrage. Ohio was the first of the newly victorious states east of the Mississippi to come into her own, and Indiana is the first state to let women vote upon their own enfranchisement, though the women
 On March 6, Governor Brough of Arkansas signed bill giving women a new and effective form of suffrage, the right to vote in primary elections, Arkansas being the first state to pass this measure.
 Suffrage War Measure.
 Woman suffrage has become war measure in England, Canada, Russia, and France. Rhode Island is the first state in the Union to adopt suffrage as a part of our national prepared ness. On April 19-Wake Up America Day-the message ran forth to every village and farm that Michigan wo- men were going to be free to vote in presidential elections, thus sound ing the note of preparedness fer the national crisis in the Middle West.
 Then came Nebraska with it's eight electoral college votes and it's addi- tion of 318903 women of voting age to the suffrage forces.
The Huttig news., 1917-06-09
The Woman With a Country With Apolos o the Author of nasE@ N "The Man Without q Country"
 By Helen Rowland
By Helen Rowland

Copyright. ythep ~PuIshi Co York EsaInsw
 3a. at A 4 \ Ia she to thing! How she 0 tsa E-w trembl n a And at of suns
 be- for
 he
 1 ySM, t haseo Houri l ' And wi g@T. Is ma -o Eng is n of H ! of / Fo F
The Huttig news., 1917-06-09

Besides the signal successes in these seven states, North Dakota, Ohio, Indiana, Arkansas, Rhode ls- land, Michigan, and Nebraska, there have been legislative victories of more or less importance in eleven other states since January.
 Bills for full suffrage by amend. ments to their state constitutions have passed the 1917 legislatures of New York, Maine, South Dakota, Iowa. Ok. lahoma and Michigan.
 In New York and Maine, the en- franchisement of women will be voted on this year. In South Dakota, Ok lahoma and Michigan it will be voted on in 1918.
 WHERE THE SUFFRAGE FLAG
 FLOATS
 To recapitulate, the suffrage cause has this year annexed 33S,314 square miles of territory. Up to the end of 1916, suffrage extended over 1,205,- 329 square miles, or 39 per cent of continental United States. not includ- ing Alaska. On April 22nd of this year. the suffrage flag foated over 1,543,643 square miles, or 509 per cent. Including Alaska, where women have suffrage on the same terms as men, 2.134.h27 square miles. or 57 per cent. of the total possessions of tho United States, except the newly &C., quired Virgin Islands, are nov. under the banner of freedom. This area is a long way out of the Half slave and half free" type of democracy which still prevails in the other 43 per cent. of the United States:
The Huttig news., 1917-06-09

presidential suffrage, the per cent. was 1S9. and in eastern states, it was only 10S. It would seem that the voting woman has not 'feminized the West to any extent, and it would seem that the sort of men who respond first to their country's call are the sort who give their women the vote. It would be interesting to know how many of the men who are sure that women ought not to vote because they cannot fight have responded to the call to arms"
The Huttig news., 1917-06-09
Does Equal Suffrage "Feminize?"

Does Equal Suffrage "Feminize?"
 Quoting from the recent govern recruiting for the regular army in the various states during April, Mrs Minnie J. Reynolds cites these figures: "The average per cent of their quota recounted by the far western states, practically all of which have equal suffrage. was 29.5 per cent. In the Middle West. where five states have given their women
The Huttig news., 1917-06-09
GAINS IN UNITED STATES
 SINCE JANUARY FIRST
Woman Suffrage Now in More Than Half The Area of U S
 Woman Voting Strength Nearly Doubled Since us Y -SdMv the First of January. IT AEs

Nebaskas miles of territory has raised the total which side by side with fraction United States Eleven of the fifteen biggest the Union under the suffrage flags The number voting whom complete suffrage has been granted S5578 AS per cent first of January 1917 of electoral college which may tcpate choosing the presidential election 12out of
The Huttig news., 1917-06-09

"Yes. And to get him." Alaire saw his face twitch, and realized that it was very haggard, very old and tired. "They lifted my guns-a bunch of fel- lows at the Rio Negro crossing. Some of them were drunk and wouldn't be- lieve I was an amigo. So 1 finally had to ride for it."
 Cant you take me away" she asked, faintly. "What will you do when-he comes?"
 ''I reckon I'll manage him somehow" His grip upon her frightened painfully. and she could feel him tremble. "I was afraid I wouldn't find you. T. O God. Alaire!" He buried his face in her hair.
 q had at terrible scene with him last night. He insists Upon marrying me. Fl was hoping you'd come."
 How could l, when nobody knew where you were?'
 "Didn't you know? I wrote you" He shook his head. "Then how did you learn?"
 "From Jose. caught him within an hour of the murder. and made him tell me everything"
 Alaire's eyes dilated; she held her self away, saying. breathlessly: "Mur- derl Is that what 1t was? He-Lon- gorio-told me something quite differ ent."
 Naturally. It was he who hired Jose to do the shooting"
The Huttig news., 1917-06-09

over, paralyzed momentarily by sur. prise and horror his eyes troubled; he swayed as if his sight had blurred.
 "I saiG ri ueHer r.-rry xou" she
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-16
PATRIOTIC RALLY
AT JOHN MARSHALL

In an effort show the young
women in Richmond how they can do
their bit" In the country's cause. pa
triotfc rally will be held next Sunday
at 4:30 p. NJ. in the auditorium of John
Marshall High school. The meeting
will be held under the auspices OF the
woman's committee, council OF de-
Tense. Mrs. n. b. Munford. chairman
Of the committee, presiding.
Miss Katharine Halves. addressing
the audience. Will have as her sub
ject, "a Girls Patriotism No elab-
crate program has been prepared. but
the singing of patriotic airs by the
high school chorus. together with a
number of prominent Richmond choir
les ders, will he arfeature,
The meeting lie part of a plan which
is being worked out by the wornan's
committee to arouse the girls of the
state to cooperative action with the
council of defense, and In its general
outline Will be repeated in a large
number of the towns and cities OF
the state.