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New-York tribune., 1918-08-08
ak on Salary
OF resident
Is Proposed
House CommitteeAlsoWoul
Assess Incomes of All
Public Officials
BY Theodore M. Knappen

WASHINGTON, Aug I'm it's deter
mlnatlon to make the burden of taxa
tlon universal, the Ways and Means
committee to-day upset one constitu
tlonal Interpretation of fifty years
standing and another of seventy-fve.
1T decided to make the President of the
United States and the Judges of the
supreme and other United States courts
subject to the income tax.
Also 1t made all public officials of any
political subdivisions, whatsoever SOW
ereign state or non-sovereign village.
subject to the same tax Still defyinp
tradition and court decisions, it voted
to include the yields of new state,
county and municipal bonds hereafter
ISSUED in the taxable income totals.
1T will now legally cost President
Wilson about $4,000 in taxes to hold
his office. 1t is said, however, that the
President has not taken advantage Of
the constitutional Interpretation that
protects him and has been making re-
turns on his full personal salary.
The Constitution provides that the
salary of the President shall not be
increased or diminished during the
term of the incumbent. 1t also pro-
vides that the salaries of justice of the
Supreme Court shall not be oiminishe
during their continuation in Office
About fifty years ago some official
ruled that the imposition of tax was
reduction of mpensation. The
Ways and Means Committee does not
think that the courts will sustain this
opinion.
Some seventyfve years ago the Su-
preme Court laid down the rule that
the state and Federal governments
could not tax the activities or func-
tions of each other. Under this rule
it has been held that the Federal gov
crnment could not tax the salaries OF
state or local officials or Of the secu.
rites of political subdivisions. AT
that time, too, there was a practical
difficulty in the way Of such taxation
because then all direct Federal taxa
tion had to be apportioned among the
states according to population.
Amendments of the Constitution in
regard to direct taxation provided that
it could be without apportionment.
The committee has now decided to
take a chance on getting new inter
pretation from the courts because of
the abolition of apportionment
For additional details of tar pro.
posuls see page nine.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-08
Allies Rush
Big Guns for
New Attack
German Stand on the Vesle
Believed To Be Delay
ing Operation
By Arthur S. Draper
Especial Cable to The T,1by,.

'SpeCt0@ CdOte TO The I'rtbuuel
.,o!vrlsht 1915 hy The Tribune Association,
LONDON, Aug. 7.-Along the Vesle
Allied and German troops are locked
IN stubborn tussle. The cnemv j,
making furious efforts to dislodee tho
forces which are on the northern hank.
oi tne river. Less progress has been
recorded in the last twenty four hours
than III any day in the last FORTNIGHT
Ludendorff's army now enjoys GER
tain tactical advantages, largely of a
local character, which are being used
to check Foch's advance. The stiffen-
> ing resistance causes no surprise, as
military leaders anticipated a slowing
down of the advance as soon as the
crown Prince reached the Vesle
heights.
American and Fs.ench artillery are
gong forward as fast as guns can be
drawn over the muddy, shelltorn roads.
Inc artillery superiority which the
crown Princes army enjoys at the
present moment will not last long, and
already it is reported that the duel is
increasing in violence No doubt re-
mains that the stand the enemy is max
ing at the present line will be of short
duration, and that it Is intended LARGELY
as delaying operation, with the sec
ondary objective of weakening the Al
lied forces.
Line Is Almost Straight
Several days must elapse before any
considerable change of position can
take place. Foch has nothing to gain
by heavy attacks on the enemy's strong
positions, as the possibility of a Ger
man rout has long since passed. Re
adjustments Of the eneny's lines con-
.lhue ana there is much speculation as
TO his ultimate designs.
The sinking of an ambulance shin in
the Channel and the Zeppelin attempt
OFT the east coast of England at night
are taken to be forerunners of a Ger
man offensive in the North. What is
more likely is that the German leaders
! are anxious to show the people that
they are active in every direction. Ger
, man military writers have been hard
put TO 1T to explain the withdrawal
from the Marine and must find argu-
iheHts 70 DOiSCer up the German staff
Here is a sample by Major Schrei-
bershofen in the Hamburger Mach
richten": >,
"In the present fighting enemy losses
are by far greater than ours The
newly used American divisions suf-
fered heavily. This will make them
recognize the difficulty of the task
they have taken upon themselves and
they will feel in their own bodies the
war which their President has brought
upon them. BY the heavy losses which
were inflicted upon the United States
troops the danger which may arise
from the Intervention of America on
the French front will be consdera bly,
! lessened.
AT the very beginning of the Ger
man offensive it was pointed out that
it would not be a single victorious at
tack which would bring about the over
throw of the enemy at one sweep, but a
series of actions when would supple
ment one another. At the moment
when French warfare ceased, and, by
our victorious advance, we returned to
open fighting, we were no longer bound
Continued on page three
New-York tribune., 1918-08-08
General Graves
Commands US.
Siberian Forces
Troops Now in Philippines
To Be Nucleus of First
Contingent

WASHINGTON, Aug. First de-
tails of American military aid to be
sent to Siberia for the protection Of
the rear Of the Czecho-Slovak forces
in their movement westward against
the Germans, Austrians and hostile
Russians were made public to-day with
the announcement by General March,
chief staff, that Major General Will
lam S. Graves will command the Amer
lean forces, the nucleus of which will
be two regiments of regulars from the
Philippines.
No Commander in Chief Named
in announcing the selection of Gen
eral Graves to command the American
forces, General March took occasion
to state that so far as he knew no
commander in chief for the whole ex-
petition had yet been designated. He
recalled the fact that this could only
be done by international agreement,
such as was found to be necessary to
concentrate the supreme command of
all the Entente and American troops
in Europe in the hands of Marshal
Foch
From other sources it was learned
that negotiations are now under way
to this end and that the chief of staff
Of the Japanese army, General B9ron
sUyenara, has been suggested and his
name is now under consideration.
General March said that the sailing
of the expedition or of General Graves
will not be announced. but that upon
arrival Of the forces the news will be
made public 1t was not stated
whether an announcement of the size
of the American contingent may be ex-
pected.
The Japanese force, in conjunction
with the Chinese, who will act unde,
Japanese direction, probably will be
more numerous; in fact japan is pre-
pairing to send into Siberia any mum
Der of troops necessary to carry out
the declared purpose to give effective
aid to the Czecho- -Slovaks.
Revolt Develops Rapidly
Rapid development of the revolt in
against the Bolshevik rule is notec
with keen interest by officials here
Though not necessarily bound by the
solemn pledge of the American gov
crnment, as set out in Acting Secre
tary Folks statement last Saturday, te
refrain from any kind Of Intervention
in the political affairs Of Russia, th'
British and French military com
! manders of the comparatively small
forces operating in that section O
Russia appear to have confined thei1
activities to military and naval move
ments.
So far no American troops have beer
landed at Kandalaska. Some American
marines and bluejackets have beer
seen at Kola. on the Murmansk coast
and Ambassador Francis has been max
ing his headquarters temporaril!
aboard one Of the American warship:
at Murmansk; but SO far American
forces have not done more than assis
in guarding the military stores in tina
vicinity and certainly have not inter
fered in the struggle that has beer
going or between the anti-German ele
ments and the Bolshcviki in that quar-
ter, resulting in the expulsion of thu
latter.
Other mews concerning the satua
tion IN Russia will be found on pag
sir.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-08
Temperature of 1O2 at 4
O'clock Highest in History
of Weather Bureau
Thunderstorms Nav
Bring Relief To-day
Business and Industry Gen.
orally Suspended to Save
Lives of the Workers

New York's hottest wave of the year
leaped over all previous records in the
history of the city yesterday and at 4
o'clock in the afternoon the thermom-
eter of the United States Weather Bu-
reau in shady recess on top of the
Whitehall Building registered 1O2 de-
grees.
The previous high record dates back
as far as September 7, 1881. when the
government thermometer showed 100
in the shade. The city has sweltered
under many hot spell since, but all
of them sink into comparative insig-
nificance after yesterdays assault of
heat and humidity.
The attainment of yesterdays mark
on the thermometer gave New York the
unenviable distinction of smashing two
Weather Bureau records in the course
of single year. The coldest day was
recorded last winter, when the mercury
fell to ID degrees below zero. The ex-
treme range was 116 degrees.
The toll of the day was eight dead
and more than 100 overcome In addition
many were drowned. more or less as a
result of the weather. for the heat sent
thousands to the beaches to seek refuge
IN the Alta ntic and the Sound
Nine Die from Heat
The dead are:
James Marahan, forty years old, zoe
West Eightieth Street, was prostrated
1,Xo %n1
Unidentified man on Manhattan
Bridge; shouted to passers-by that he
could not stand the heat; climbed the
rail and jumped into East River.
Herman Doleman, 536 West 17yth
New-York tribune., 1918-08-08
Americans Battle in
Water and Mud Up
to Necks and
Hold Gains
British Smash
Germans on Lys
Successes Show Allies
Maintain Superiority
Over Energy All
Along Line

Striking advances were made YES
terday by the Allies on five sec
tors-two on the Soissons- Rheims
battlefield and three on the front
further north.
In rain storm Tuesday night and
early yesterday morning French
and American troops crossed the
Vesle River on a fve-mile front
from Fismes to west of Bazoches.
Some used bridges left by the
Germans and others plunged
through water and mud up to
their necks.
Despite the darkness and rain OF
German shells, the Allies seized
the ground in the big bend of the
river on this sector and held it
against two strong counter at
tacks, while the engineers per-
formed feats Of valor in building
new bridges behind the advance
forces.
North of Rheims the French ad-
vanced quarter of a mile on a
two-mile front between the rail
ways to Laon and Rethel. This is
a serious threat to the German
left flank north of the Vesle.
Marshal Haig announced last night
that the British had driven for
ward on fivemile front between
the Lave and Clarence rivers to
depth of nearly two thirds of
mile. The advance was on the
southern side of the Lys salient,
which had just been the scene of
one Of the German strategic re-
treats.
Further south the British recapt-
ured practically all the trenches
the Germans had taken astride
the Bray-Corbie road, north Of
the Somme
Near the scene of another German
voluntary withdrawal, the French
advanced south of FRANKFURT
and southeast of Mesnil-St
Georges. in the vicinity of Mont
didier. The French also, on Tues
day, occupied the railway station
of Cry Salsogne, on the Vesle,
between scissors and Braisnes.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-08
Real Stand
Made byFoe
Behind Aisne
Trap Obviously Set by
Crown Prince Detected by
Franco-Americans
By Wilbur Forrest
lBu Cable to lie Trihunel

Copyright. 1913. by The Tribune Association)
WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
IN THE FIELD, Aug. THE Ger
mans are making their real stand
behind the River Aisne. leaving a
comparatively narrow strip between
the Vesle and the Aisne as sort of
artillery swept No Mans Land, in
which outposts and machine guns
only are being maintained. This
No Mans Land stretches from the
confluence of the two rivers east of
scissors to the Laon-Rheims ma
tional highway, northwest of the lat
ter city, thus being about twenty
two miles long and variously from
five to seven miles wide.
This deduction is now possible
because Of the entry into action of
the enemy's long range heavy artil-
lery, which is safely mounted be-
hind the Aisne and protected from
further swift Allied advance by both
the Vesle and the Aisne.
Dominated by Hills
The first line of the enemys ma
chine gun positions is almost on the
north bank of the Vesle, with light
artillery presumably mounted far be-
hind, within easy range Of the hills
on the south bank of the Vesle, held
by Franco-Americans. Therefore,
with two rivers and the organized
No Mans Land, with line of ma
chine guns backed by lines of both
light and heavy artillery and all this
backed by the famous stronghold
known as the Chemin des Danes,
the Crown Prince evidently believes
he has finally reached a position
which allows his much harrassed
forces to take breath with some de-
gree of comfort.
While this entire region is dom
mated geographically by the Chemin
des Danes ridge. this Aisne-Vesle
No Mans Land is again dominated
by the hills north of the Aisne, Civ
ing the enemy all the advantages
of picked battle-ground on which
he would probably like to see the
Allies advance in force.
1t is obvious that the Franco
Americans are not going to fall into
the Crown Princes trap.
Villages in Flames
American forces along the Vesle
Tuesday and Wednesday encoun-
tered heavy fire from the German
light artillery, and the enemy's
larger guns began to drop shells into
areas far south of the river. The
Germans concentrated fire at times
Continued on uert DQOs
New-York tribune., 1918-08-08
Shelling Of Paris Continues

PARIS, Aug. THE long range
ahelling Of the region Of Paris was
resumed to-day.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-08
Danger Not Past, However,
British Cabinet Head
Says in Summary
Americas Forces
To Equal Kaiser's
Unity of Allied Command
Called Factor in Defeat
of the Germans

LONDON, Aug. 7-David L!oyd
George, the British Prime Minister.
to-day in a speech before the House
OF commons reviewing the war situa-
ton referred particularly to what had
been accomplished in the recent drive
by the Allied forces on the Scissors
Rheims salient, to the destruction of
German submarines. of which 100 had
been accounted for since the war be-
gan-more than half of these in the
last year-and the part the Anne ricans
now we're playing and would play
later in the fight for the cause of de-
mocracy.
He would be a sanguine man on
the German General Staff who would
now predict that Germany could OBJ
tain military decision this year." the
Premier declared, as he characterized
Marshal Foch's counter offensive a.
"the most brilliant in the annals of the
war"
War Parties Block Peace
Revertng to peace, Mr. Lloyd George
said the people who had made the wal
still were in evidence, and that they
could have no peace SO long as they
were predominant in the councils of
the enemy
Mr.. Lloyd George spoke of the part
the British navy had played in the war
and said that until all the Allies were
defeated at sea Germany could never
triumph.
When Great Britain decided to throw
her whole weight into the war four
years ago, he continued. she did SO
Continued on page three
New-York tribune., 1918-08-08
Allies Cross Vesle on New Smile Front:
u. S. to Haze Army of 5000, 900 by June;
Seas Clear, Foe Losing, Says Lloyd GeorQ
Lloyd George and Gen. Mangin Pay
Tributes to u. S. Skill in Battle
tBy The Associated Press)

The Associate Prss)
LONDON, Aug Prenier Lloyd
commons today said,
Everybody knows how galany fought
ought with trained skill which
officers showed skilled management of the men
nder trying conditions which could hardly
had not had years experience in
Wl1H THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE Aug 7-General Nam
9" 0ho IN direct the forces AGAINST
The German right flank So,ssom oovinq order
Of the day:
Officers commissioned officers Amr
can Army Corps:
shoulder to shoulder with your YOU threw
yourselves INTO the counter offensive began July
IKE going to feast Your magnificent surprised
he enemy ndomiable attacks
o ms fresh divisions You shown worthy sons
OF your country have YOUR broth
1870
nety-one cannon 1900 prisoners booty and ten ko-
metres ophies
victory BESIDES
over ne
hghtng TO attack him is van1usn him
American comrades, grateful blood Won oen
erous spled on the SOIL my country
manded splendid
for the deiverance of the world"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-08

Continued on last pGge
New-York tribune., 1918-08-08

Continued on page three
New-York tribune., 1918-08-08
British Ship Losses
In July Drop, While
Building Increases
Construction by Allies for 3
Months 296, ,696 Tons
Greater Than SinkinRs

LONDON, Aug. THE losses of
British merchant shipping in July were
lower than during June, Sir Leo G..
Chiozza Money, Parliamentary Sccre-
tary to the Ministry of Shipping, an
nounced in the House of Commons to-
day.
The Secretary of the Admiralty, in
announcing the amount of merchant
ships constructed for the three months
ending June 80, says the output OF
the United Kingdom and Allied and
neutral countries exceeded the losses
from all causes by 2o6,696 gross tons.
The total output was ,243,274 tons,
az against 870,3l7 tons for the first
quarter Of the year.
Durling July the United Kingdom
constructed l4l ,948 tons, as compared
with June's l34,150 tons, which, com
Pared with July of 1916 and 1917,
shows an increase Of ia per cent and
II per cent, respectively. For the year
ending July 81 the output was 1,490,-
O25, compared with 965.l47 tons for
the same period of the previous year.
The Secretary Of the Admiralty says
the influenza epidemic had transient
but marked effect on shipbuildng ms
II caused the absence Of from IS to 80
per cent Of the employees Of the yards.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-08

.r1, MERCHANDISE ADVER-
TISED IN THE TRIBUNE
IS GUARANTEED
New-York tribune., 1918-08-08

Thunder showers and not SO warm to.
day; tomorrow fair, with moderate
Temperatures; light west winds.
Full Report ON Page
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-07-08
"SWat the Rat!"

Since the Introduction of the house
rat in the United States they have
become extremely abundant and widely
distributed throughout the country
where they destroy annually many
millions Of dollars worth of food
products and crops. These losses
occur alike in cities, villages and
farmsteads. Their inroads upon food
products occur in freight departments
of railroads and steamboat lines, stor
age places of grain and food dealers
commission houses, wholesale drug
houses, candy shops, bakeries, flour
mills, cOld-storage houses, city and
country dwellings. granaries, fields
and poultry yards. The loss of food
and other products in the United
States from this source amounts tC
not less than S20O,OOO,OOO annually
which amount does not include indi
rect losses Occasioned by human dis
ease disseminated by rats and the
necessary expenditures in combating
them.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-07-08
DO NOT APPEAL TO VISITOR
Writer Frankly Expresses Feeling Of
Disappointment at Sight of Build
ings Within Kremin Walls.

To me none of the ten churches with
In the sKremlin walls is impressive.
Ivan Veliki towers the highest, but it
is far from imposing. writes Maynard
Owen Williams in the Christian Her.
aid. From one side 1T resembles tow
er rather than church, yet it has no
such quiet dignity as one finds in the
kutah Minar, near Delhi, or the tow
ering dome of ST. Sophia with it's
f1anking needle minarets. The other
cathedrals are dropped around with
careless abandon and a nice disregard
for the cost of gold leaf, but none of
them dominates vista or gathers
about itself the other masses in pleas
ing array. The Kremlin is a mighty
whole, composed Of many unimposing
parts. It's long red walls and splendid
gates produce an effect of simple
strength which cannot be found within
their portals.
The interiors are as disappointing
as are the groups of dOmes which dis
tinguish the eXteriOrs. None is large,
none is truly intimate. The effect is of
surplus gilt and multiplicity of saints
which remind one of the gOpurams Of
India. Spindle-snanked saints, whose
emaciated figures seem too weak TO
support their gilt haloes, alternate
with knights in armor.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-07-08
IDENTIFY II BODIES
Seven Dead Taken From Wrecked
Columbia Unidentified.
Twenty-Five Persons Still Reported
Missing From River Excursion
Steamer.

Pekin, ILL.,, July 8.-A final check on
bodies taken from the sunken steamer
Columbia shows II identified and seven
unidentified. No bodies were taken
out on Sunday. Gross compilation OF
those reported missing shows unac-
counted for,y2 %. The lists follow, those
named being residents of Pekin unless
otherwise indicated.
Identified dead:A Miss Letha Black.
Mrs. John Brown. Kingston Mines
Miss Mayme Bohlander, Miss Louise
Behrends, Jennie Brown. Miss Reka
Brown, James Blackburn. William Ca
poot, Mrs. William Capoot, Mrs. Frank
Callahan, Norman Diepenbrock, Mrs.
Martha .Diepenbroek, Melvin Dtepen-
brock, Mrs. Jessie Evans, Louisville,
ILL.,; Maurice Feinberg, Mrs. William
FreelOnd. Mrs. Vera Flowers, Gordon
Gray, George elliott, Kingston. Mines
Mrs. George elliott, Kingston Mines
Francis Grewry, Kingston Mines; Mrs.
Jennie Grewry, Kingston Mines; AL
bert H. ~Grewry,, Kingston Mines; Mrs.
Cora Haschert, Mrs. Harbolt, Kings
ton Mines: Mildred Harbolt, Miss
Mayme Holden, Bloomington; Miss
Ruth Hoskins, Ellenberg, ILL.,; Miss
Harriet johnson, Miss Hazel Jones,
Mrs. James Kinney. Joe Kumpf. Mrs
Mary Luther. Mrs. A. B. -Loomis, Miss
Ada Lowery. Mrs. T. j. Macpherson.
Mrs. Cora Moldenhauer, Kingston
Mines; Miss Elizabeth Moldenhauer
Mrs. Phil Mauser, Miss Stella Murphy.
Mrs. John Mogga. Henry Neaver. Mrs.
Sam Neavor, Miss Louise Neavor, Miss
Ellen Nelson. Mrs. John Reuling, Mrs.
AL Ohern, Miss Ada Rumsey, Mrs. Mar
the Sapp. Miss Addie Sapp, Kenneth
Sanders, Peoria Miss Mable Stout
Chris Siekles, Orviile Shryock, Bright
on, Ia. Miss Bessie Shemei, Mrs. Katie
Scott, Kingston Mines; Mrs. Larry
Thurman, Clyde Thurman, Ruby Thur
man, Edwin Voll. Mrs. Amy Witcher
Richard Witcher, Donald Witcher
Miss Dorothy White, Miss Nellie
Worth, Miss Theresa Wingenbach, St
Louis; Dorothy Whitmore, Peoria.
The missing: Mabel Jacobs, Eliza
Hill, Clarence Hill, Jerry - a Greek
miner, Benjamin B. Ely. Elizabeth
Franklin, Hazel Bowlby, Harry Brown
Eugene Bailey, Mrs. John Wright and
son, Rudolph Poebel, Tom Hancock
Theresa Gunion, Charles Race, -
Holton, elderly man; two Harbolt
babies aged two and four of Kingston
Mines; Daisy McClung, George Schu-
ster, Lancaster Landing; Mrs. Rhoads
and baby, Ernest Calvetti, Oscar Len
der, J. H. Corbett.
Unidentified dead: Woman between
twenty-five and twenty-five years, baby
boy, apparently three or four years
five other bodies.