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u. S. HAS LOWEST
AVIATOR CASUALTY
LIST DURING WAR

washington. Aug. Figures on
army aviation training fatalities in
this country made public today for
the period between September I, 1917
and July 90. 1918. show 9 total Of l55
deaths. or an average Of .000305 for
each hour OF actual training fiight.
Officials believe this is q new record,
equalltng. II not lettering the lowest
marks Of the Allied air service ana
being far lower than the German ana
Austrian fatality records. Seventy
four OFFICERS. IS cadets. enlisted men
and seven civilian instructors lost
their lives during tlss period covered.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-08-05

to present themselves for and
submit to registration under the
provisions of this act:
Persons shall be subject to
registration as s+herein provided
who shall have attained their
18th birthday and who shall not
have attained their 46th BIRTH
day on or before the day set for
the registration in any such pro-
clamation by the President or
any such public notice given by
him or by his discretion and all
persons so registered shall be
and remain subject to draft into
the forces hereby authorized
nulees exempted or excused
therefrom. ...... The President.
may at such intervals as he
may desire from TIME to time
require all male persons who
have attained the age of IS
years since the last preceding
date of registration and on or
before the next date set for reg.
istratiOn by proclamation OF the
President, except such persons as
are exempt from registration
hereunder, to register. in. the
same manner and subject to the
same requirements and liabilities
as those previously registered
under. the terms thereof :"
Senator Curtis of Kansas and
Senator Jones, of Washington,
announced themselves in favor of
summoning a quorum of the sem
ate so the bill can be taken up
Immediately after it had been
F.. acted on by the committee. The
suggestion was approved by Sen
ator Chamberlain.
Senator Chamberlain also pre-
secretary Of war showing the
number Of men affected by the
bill. According to these figures
2,306, 900 men between the ages
of IS and 20 inclusive and 50 and
as Inclusive would be subject to
3 military service. OF this number
100000 would be men between 50
and AS.
Chairman Dent y OF the house
committe also plans to expedite
carry Inf out the prosra1,.
FOR Jaly ard August. General
CroW1er pointed out that only
i 100, 900 Of the 1915 registrants
& would be left on September 1 for
: subsequent, calls.
soTke second and more difficult
question:" General Crowder's
statement added, sis how we can
supply on time the one hundred
and fifty thousand men required
for each of the succeeding
months of October, November and
December. The British Canadian
treaty would help out to the ex-
tent-ft is estimated-of about
$4,000 men. which Is not even the
conventional drop in the bucket" !"
sIf we could assume that the
law would be enacted in the re-
naming days Of August we would
have q basis of calculating the
results to be obtained under it.
+: We cannot wait, for the compile
ton of class one but must take
men irrespective OF their order
number as fast as they find their
way into class one"
Between the ages of 80 and As.
General Crowder estimated. there
arc 1O,O28.073 males, but taking
into consideration those married
or who would be subject to de-
ferred classification because of
physical conditions or other rea-
sons he estimated the tsnet efrec.
tives" at 6O1 ,236. Between is and
20 he estimates the number of
males 3,717,671, Of which the
met electives would total T.
707 900.
Senator Chamberlain said the
committee tomorrow would begin
consideration Of the bill.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-08-05
Applications for
Loans VIII Be Taken
to Help Move Crop.

Washington. Aug. 5.-To help fin-
iance crop movements, the war finance
corporation announced today It would
welcome applications from banks for
loans to cover advances by the banks
to the farmers and merchants for har-
lvestipg and marketing wheat and. oth-
er crops. Loans will be limited to
four months and will carry interest
at per cent per annum. ~
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FEW WOUNDED
AMERICANS TO
Be Sent HOME
More than Four -hfths Of
Men Will be Returned to
Battle Front.

Washington, Aug. 8. OF the
American soldiers wounded in the
Marne-Aisne offensive probably few
er than one in twenty will die from
their. wounds. more than four-fifths
IA per cent will be discharged for
disability, according to a statement
Of the chief of STAFF today, based on
the officially attested experience Of
the Allies during the four years sof
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.BONBARDMENT OF
PARIS RESUMED

Paris, Aug. 5.-The long range
bonn bardment Of the Paris region was
resumed this morning.
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ALLIED PURSUIT CONTINUES

ALLIED PURSUIT CONTINUES.
Paris Aug. 5-The Allied pursuit of the Germans
tnues and latest that only few enemy troops
main south of the Vesle the Havas Agency today in
viewing the situation French patrols have crossed the Vesle
at Bazoches and Jonchery and of Fes respectively
Allied troops hold the entire southern bank of the Vesle
between Fmes and Rheims Stubborn resistance made by
Prussan and Baarian guards between Muzon chapgny
but they were forced back suffering heavy losses.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-08-05
BRITISH EXECUTE RAIDS.

London, Aug 5-Rading operations carried fast
night by the British southwest of Arras
in which prisoners taken, the office today
On the northern 'front.' opposite La Bassee the German guns
have been active They have shown activity also
north Of Bet1une and between Hazebrouck and Ypres
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-08-05
STUBBORN RESISTANCE
OF HUNS OVERCOME BY
ALLIES ON RIVER BANK.
CONTINUOUS RAINS ARE GREAT
HELP TO TORETREATlNC GERMANS
Americans Highly Praised for Hand-toHand Fighting
Streets Of Fismes- s-Bitterest Battle Of Whole War
British Garry Out Raiding Operations. 4u;

Paris Aug 5-There lull in the battle along the
Rheims front last night and the breathing spell extend
ed into this morning. The Germans being favored by
weather conditions which have transformed Vesle river
banks into and and they making sitter
stand here than anticipated
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AMERICANS ARE PRAISED.

Paris Aug. 5-The Americans covered themselves with
glory the Andtoand fighting in the of Fises yes
terday when they captured that German base The fighting
said to have been the btteest of whole PrAssia
guards asking quarter and being bayoneted
death as they stood by their machine guns f. -
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Resistance is stubborn.

With the French Army in France.
Aug. 5.-(By the Associated Press),
resistance along the
banks Of the Aisne and vesle rivers is
growing more stubborn. Allied patrols
which have crossed these rivers have
met with the sternest resistance. Ma
chine gun fire in this region is very
severe. Similar cond itions prevail
between Fismes and Sermois, near
the confluence OF the vesle and the
Aisne. s.gs IN 5Ss.,l y
The enemy artillery maintained .
steady fire on the valleys south OF the
two rivers all yesterday and last
night In an attempt to catch allied
concentrations German ayiators also
were active, descending often to har-
ass allied infantry with machine euna
In the neighborhood of Muixon. on
the south side Of the vesle. the Ger.
mans fought iercely last evening be-i
fore they were forced back The bat-.
tie was especially severe around the
Vautes farm and the adjacent uoodA
On the end OF the line nearest RheinS
heavy artillery duel u going On. 81
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WEATHER FORECAST.
IS Minnesota: Showers tOn19nt
aId Tuesday; cooker In east and
south PORTIONS toni hit. $s
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Three German Retirement.

London, Aug. 5-Telegraphfng from
French headquarters on Sunday even
ing, Reuters correspondent says:
''The German withdrawal on the
Avre extended to Fontaine-S Sous
Montdidier and Mensntl-St. Georges,
which is two miles straight west of
Montdidier itself The enemy is aban-
doning the whole western bank of the
river. south of Aubvillers and along
the line of heights captured in the
French attack of July % our line has
been advanced 500 yards east Of
Grivesnes, including Hill lis, over
looking Grivesnes, and the same dis
tance east Of La Capelle and st. Aig-
nan, to the south. Thence it runs
along the line of heights 81, so and
9S northeast and east of Mesnil- st,
Georges.
The Germans are now engaged in
three retirements, one involuntary and
two voluntary-all with the view Of
saving them. AS usual they are re-
treating slowly and in good order,
withdrawing in alternate sections
fanked by centers Of resistance which
always are able to pour a cross fire
on troops advancing over hastily
con the Tardenois battlefield our
troops are closing up to the vesle
east of Fismes. They have crossed the
river a few miles west of Rheims.
The advance to the village Of La
Neuvillette means that on the west
ern side Rheims is completely disen-
gagged and that the enemy has re-
nounced the hope Of capturing the
town by an enveloping attack" =
New-York tribune., 1918-03-05
Columbia Trustees Decline
10 Discuss Stowell Resignation
At End of Meeting icy Refuse to Talk on Case of
Man Who Feels Academic Freedom No Longer
Exists at Institution

An imposing row Of silk and derby
hats in the anteroom at the entrance
to the library of Columbia University
testified yesterday that the trustees
were IN session. A number of walking
sticks IN one corner of the anteroom
offered corroborative evidence.
Finally the door opened and the
trustees sauntered out and one by one
redeemed their headgear and canes
Here and there an eyebrow lifted as
the trustees observed reporters drawn
up in the library rotunda. rs each in
olVidual trustee sacrificed a modicum
OF dignity to run that gantlet he was
assaulted with questions about pain
iul subject Of discussion on the Co
lumbia mpus-EIlery C. Stowell, as
sociate professor of international law
at the university
Professor Stowell rendered his resig-
nation, effective at the close of the
present academic year, because he felt
that academic freedom no longer ex-
lists at Columbia.
Frederic R. Coudert, trustee and
himself an authority on international
law, dashed down the steps. He was
gone so quickly that not single jour
nallstlc question reached his ears
Then came Frederick Coykendall.
president of the Cornell Steamboat
Company
"stowell? stowelI?" he said. 81 didn t
hear anything about him. Not a thing.
Ask the PRESIDENT" And he escaped.
Newcombe Carlton was next. He is
president of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company and the youngest of
The trustees. He said.
I'm Just one of the armed guard |
can't talk to you literary swells Let
me alone. Ask Dr. Butler Here he
comes"
Dr.. Butler listened to some questions
about the resignation Of Professor
statement that Professor Stowell has
denied making. This was: Can a leo
pard change its spots?" in reply to a
suggestion that it was generally
thought pacifism had been eradicated
from Columbia
Leopard. leopard? ?" repeated DR..
Butler 'Well, | suppose | must refer
you to the zoology department.
:" ny not ask Professor Stowell to
let you see a copy O. his resignation -
and DR.. Butler elbowed his wav into
his elevator.
The lofty realm in which dwell men
tally certain of the university profes-
sors who are also administrative Off
GERS Is the real root of the trouble
leading to Professor Stowell's resigna-
tlon, according to one authority of the
campus. This person said:
Professor Stowell is human be-
lng. We viii say. for example, that
When the Lusitania was sunk he had a
definite idea that it was iendish act,
contrary to all international law and
principles. Now, DR.. Stowell is an au-
1hority on international law. He knows
mat the great mass OF the people get
their information from the news
New-York tribune., 1918-03-05
Evelyn Nesbit Still Singing
Dancer Presents Unmusical
Act at the Colonial

Every time Evelyn Nesbit sings you
think of what wonderful dancer she
is. She is doing it again-that is
singing at the Colonial this week in
a one-act unmusical comedy called "a
Roseland Fantasy" Bobbie O'Neill is
equally culpable. OF course. Miss
Nesbit and Bobbe do some dancing,
but not nearly as much us one could
wish. If any one has any influence
with Miss Nesbit he should persuade
her 10 swear allegiance to terpsichore
Joseph Hart and Arthur Hopkins are
presenting William Gaxton in q play
let called Kisses" 1t is an amusing
and sophisticated modernity written
and staged by s. Jay Kaufman.
The Courtney sisters, Fay and
Florence were as popular as they al
ways are, and they are very nice. too,
about responding to encores. They
finally offered brand new song dedi-
Gated, they said, to their brother It
was something about coming home
from France.
"Who is she?" is the name of a
sketch which Willard Mack has written
for Joseph Bernard. 1t is exceedingly
well done.
Others in the programme are Joyce,
West and Moran. with tunes and steps
to match; Moon and Morris, presenting
their dance. 1.-TWO in One; Buster
Santos and Jacque Hays, in "The
Health Hunters; Hunting and Francis,
in Love Blossoms" and Prosper and
Maret, the college comedians. II. U.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-05
Eva Tanguay Hits Palace

Eva Tanguay made her annual spring
drive on the Palace Theatre yesterday.
At her first appearance she looked like
an animated Christmas tree or the
Tuckerton wireless station. one
couldn't quite tell which. Later sheeap-
reared in the middle of a cornfower
blue tea tray with decrepit, green
century plant on her head.
Her first song was concerned with
the unpleasant results that would en-
sue ii the government should estab-
devoted to herself. The third con-
cerned the beneficial effects Of the
draft on the amorous desires Of the
older men. The fourth dealt with her
SELF. She alternated these two sub
lects throughout her repertory. vita
The exception Of Que number when She
sang La MarseilIaise" in French
which has probably never been
cqualled except by the sotto voce pro-
nunciatlon of certain so-called French
acrobats. The audience was delighted
and encored her time after time.
A striking war sketch, entitled "The
Weaker One" which was given for the
benefit of the Militia Of Mercy g few
weeks ago, was presented, with Olive
Oliver in the leading role. 1t is very
prctentlous production, we'll done.
Grace La Rue began her second week
in songs; Bessie Clayton and her com
pany appeared in dances for the fourth
consecutive week at the Palace. The
NORM Sisters, dancers; Hickey Broth
ers, acrobatic dancers; Walter Brower
The Jolly jester; Everests Monkey
Circus; George Whiting and Sadie
Burt, III ''songsayings," and Keane
Brothers, equilibrists, completed the
New-York tribune., 1918-03-05
Houston Urges Farmers to
Buy War Savings Stamps
[Staf Corrcspo1ldoncel !

WASHINGTON, March 3.-Farmers
of the country were urged to-day in an
appeal from Secretary Of Agriculture
Houston to put their savings into gov
ernment war savings certificates.
ut is the patriotic duty of every
citizen who is in position TO do so TO
invest in war savings and thrift stamps,
and thereby help the nation to win this
war The purchase of even a 25-cent
thrift stamp Is 4 definite contribution
to this end.
War savings and thrift stamps fos-
ter the habit of thrift in small eN-
penditures, make it possible for nearly
every one 10 purchase what are in re
ality small government bonds and offer
q unique opportunity to the people at
once to help their government and to
econon1izc conveniently for the pur-
chase of the best investment securities
in the world
ITO win this war we must have both
men and money. | know that every
farmer wants 10 do everything in his
power for the nation in This dav OF
trial. He will not only labor 10 pro-
ducc the necessary foodstuffs, but Will
also generously contribute of his means
to make it possible for the men at the
front TO achieve victory. | ara conf
dent that the farmers of the land will
not permit any other class to take the
leadership in supporting the govern
ment in this crisis, financially or other
wise"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-05

papers. So, instead of writing a dry
as-dust treatise on the subject for
some scientific journal with a circula-
ton OF nineteen highbrows possessing
a mentality and grasp of the subject a
few degrees lower than his own. Pro-
lessor Stowell would write a straight
forward Interpretation Of the act and
It's possible consequences for the news
papers. He did this, believing it was
better that the people should be we'll
informed on such subjects.'
Professor Stowell didn't have any
thing to add to his original statement
Yesterday beyond repeating that he
would devote all his efforts to war
work
Professor Franklin H. Giddings has
been granted leave of absence during
the current year, it was announced yes
terday after .he trustees NEE ting. He
Is professor Of sociology and the his
tory of civilization. Professor Gid
dlngs VINO is in Florida. is to make a
speaking tour in Eastern states on pa
triotic service. Two other members of
the faculty were given leave for war
service. Anne W. Goodrich, assistant
professor Of nursing and health. is to
10 to Washington to serve the govern
ment. Robert II. Montgomery, assist
ant professor OF accounting, Is to take
place in the Office of the director of
purchase in the War Department.
Calvin Thomas Gebhard, professor of
the Germanic languages and literatures,
was granted sabbatical leave for the
year 19lS-19.
Gifts totalling sl1.912 were an
nounced. The largest of these was one
Of $4,000 from Mrs Charles II. Scnff.
of New York, for the maintenance of
the military training course to be given
1T Camp Columbia this summer.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-05
Women at Fashion Fete
Bazaar for Blind Soldiers and
Sailors To Be Continued

More than 800 women attended a
fashion fetc at the Plaza Hotel ycster-
day IN aid -of the American British
french elgian Permanent Blind Re
l:cf War + und for Soldiers and Sailors
So many women who had purchased
admission tickets at 81 each had to be
turned away that the committee an
nounced that the fete would be re-
peated this afternoon and tonight
epresentativcs Of rival dressmaking
Establishments, armed with pencils and
saetchng pads, aroused almost as much
interest az did the show itself, espe-
CHILLY after member of the commit
tee had stepped to the platform and
requested that sketchers cease their
activities. American made hats and
gowns we're showV.
Edith Day, Grace LaRue and other
actresses appeared as models.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-05
Board of Health
Sounds Warning
Against Smallpox
Vaccination of Entire City
Urged by Commissioner
Amster

Failure by the people of New York
to take proper preventive measures
against smallpox is Of such great con-
Germ to officials of the Health Depart
ment that warning was issued yester-
Cay by Commissioner J. Lewis Amster
who urged immediate vaccination for
all residents of the city who have not
submitted to the needle.
The fact that five cases of smallpox
nave been discovered in New York since
the ilrst of the year, an average greater
than IN years. is one reason for ths
warning, but it is based chiefly upon
the fact that the Atlantic seaboard has
become the Mecca for a shifting popu-
lation since the war began
DR.. Lewis l. Harris, chief of the
Bureau of Preventable Diseases, was
delegated by Commissioner Amster to
speak for the department. He said:
Make 1t plain at the outset that
there is no cause for the residents of
this city to be unduly alarmed. How
ever, the Health Department is in pos
session of some facts which have a
significance
There are $50 cases of smallpox up
state, the little town Of Frankfort, in
Herkimer County, alone reporting IS
sufferers. Buffalo and Utica, two cities
between which and New York there is
constant industrial communication, also
have reported the disease. We must be
careful. The shifting population, lured
10 this territory by large wages on wa1
contract work, is a dangerous factor.
"Of 10 cases reported to the Depart
ment Of Health since January L, 1917
10 were negroes and 15 were eithel
had been exposed to victims who
carried in the disease. Southern
laborers proved especially dangerous
1T may be that carelessness is re-
sponsible for the prevalence of the dis
ease among the negro population.
census taken by US IN two colored dis
tricts disclosed that Of 255 colored
children between the ages Of one and
seven only "a had been vaccinated."
Il was pointed out by DR.. Harris that
smallpox is easily prevented, because
vaccination is a certain shield. Santa
ton, he said, has nothing to do with
the spread OF smallpox, as 1T has in
typhus.
The people of Now York must be
vaccinated now. before it is too late
he added IF it were costly proce-
dur4 they could be excused. but all oul
stations will vaccinate without charge
and the department stands ready tc
supply fresh vaccine virus to physicians
at 10 cents a point
Special notices have been sent out tc
baby stations and physicians in the
districts populated chiefly by negroes
in an effort to start q vaccination cam.
paign.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-05
Music

Nine. Amelita Galli-Curci gave her
first song recital in New York yes
terday Afternoon at Carnegie Hall.
The recital proved two things. II
proved tnat tine great American public
Is eager 20 hear the Italian soprano
at any time and under any conditions,
and that Nine. Galli-Curci's place is
on the operate stage and not in song
recital
That these two facts are antago-
nistic probably won't matter. The pub
lie usually has its way. Ii such surg
ing, billowy crowds as the one which
stormed Carnegie Hall yesterday con-
tinue to surge and billow and storm,
Nine. Galli-Curci may very we'll be
found to yield to them But if she
does it won't help her artistically, and
II viii grieve many of her most fer
vent admirers.
The things she sang Best yesterday
non credea mirarti.' the Proch Theme
and Variations and Lucia's flute mad
ness. Though she evidently missed the
orchestra, she gave them all effectively,
with her fluent coloratura, the eXqui-
site cantelena which is hers. Never
were her tones more even or warmer,
and her variations from the pi~ch were
few.
When she essayed the more intimate
art she was far less satisfying. 10 be-
gin with, her selection of songs was
unfortunate With the exception Of
Weckerlin's arrangements Of eigh-
teenth century bergerettes. Fourdrain' 3
'Papillon," Grieg's "Uncygne." Bucci-
Peccia's Little Brides" Chapi's Las
Carcebros," while we'll enough in their
way, do not form the backbone Of a
serious recital. And IN none of them.
except perhaps in the CHAP number,
was the singer a ease. The subtle
intimacies, the half-uttered sentences,
so necessary to the concert singer.
are not Nine. Galli-Curci's Nine
Galli-Curci's 5 art IS at present dis
tinctly Of the theatre. A true singer
Of songs becomes so oniy after an ardu-
ous apprenticeship, an apprenticeship
peculiarly irksome to the born operate
artist. Nine. Galli-Curci may in time
have served that apprenticeship and
emerged triumphant, but At present
she is in the field OF song recital qui te
obviously d beginner.
The seriousness OF the recital was
rot aided by the very long and very
pointless speech delivered before the
iirst number by the president of a
woman's musical club, the members of
which We're seated on the stage
New-York tribune., 1918-03-05
Emrnons-Du Bois Retrothal

Cornelius Du Bois, Of AT West Sev-
entysiXth Street, announces the en-
gagement of his daughter, Miss Kath
arine Du Bois, to Second Lieutenant
Roger b. Emmons, son of the late J
Frank Emmons and Mrs. Emmons, OF
the Hotel Savoy. Miss Du Bos is q
sister OF the Misses Mildred and
Eleanor Du Bois. Lieutenant Emmons
IS attached to the field artillery, L. S
a, and is now in France. He is a
graduate OF Harvard, class Of '06 No
date has been set for the wedding.