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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-01
COBB Is A CAPTAIN.
Gets Commission in Gas and Flame
Regiment and Will Go Over.

CAMP HUMPHREYS. Va, October /.
-Ty Cobb is coming to Camp Humph-
reys this week to enter the engineer
officers training school. Ty is now
Capt. Tyrus Cobb, having been COM
missioned in the chemical warfare
service and will receive his military
training at the central officers school
here.
1t is understood that Capt Cobb was
commissioned with view to being
given a command in a gas and flame
regiment. The gas and fame boys are
honest fighters. as any
returned A. E. F. veteran who has
seen them launch an offensive on the
western front will be quick to inform
any inquirer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-01
Sherry Magee Has Influenza.

PHILADELPHIA, October 1.-Sher-
wood Magee, former Phillie and Gin
cinnati star. has finally met a lurler
who had too much for him to solve.
The hurler in question is the
pheaom which is cutting a swathe
at present in all ranks. Spanish in
fluenza has the upper hand on Sherry,
and he is confined to bed at his West
Philadelphia home, where Mrs. Magee
and her mother are also suffering
from the malady.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-01
Base Ball Going Strong in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, October base
ball is taking a strong hold on the
popular fancy, especially in the capi-
tai, Vera Cruz, Tampico and other Of
the larger cities of Mexico. The
opening of the schedule arranged for
a league of eight clubs in Mexico
City was made a social event and
was attended by leaders of the CAPT.
tails society. Basket ball, especially
among students, also is generally
played.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-01
First Army Along Meuse.

The official American communicate
has stated that the troops striking
at the Germans along the heights Of
the Meuse are composed of the Amer
lean 1st Army. which has heretofore
been under the direct command of
Gen. Pershins himself.
1t may be that as senior corps COM
mander Gen. Liggett has general
charge of the troops>in the front line
on this twenty-mile advance, but it
would be no surprise to many officers
here if announcement came that he
had been designated as commander or
the 1st Army by Gen. Pershfng.
Such an announcement is to be ex-
pected when the formation Of the End
American Army is made known, and
there are indications that Gen. Reed
would be the probable selection of the
commander-in-ohief to head the I'd
Army.
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Means of Aiding Cause.

How can we save paper? Look at
your desk. Every letter you write is
written upon only one side of the pa
a large margin, one-third of the page;
another is % waste; if extra wide
spaces are allowed that brings your
waste to about 70 per cent. Would
il hurt you to save all this? Would
it help the cause? Not If you thlnk
saving: but that point of view is past,
gone with a pacifism and the plea
that unpreparedness makes a nation
secure. If you are a merchant. think
of the saving if every merchant could
be brought to use the least pessiole
naper consistent with effectiveness.
If YOU are a publisher. cut the mar
gins. The narrow margins will take
glory from the cause they serve.
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GEN. REED TRANSFERRED
TO THE SECOND CORPS
Fact Brought in Marshal Haig's
acknowledgements Of
Gen. Liggett's Army Interests.

Reference in Field Marshal Haig's
statement Sunday night to the parucl-
patton of American troops under MAJ.
Gen, George w. Reed in the British
drive between St. Quentin and Cam
brai brought out the fact that Gen. Reed
who formerly commanded the 4th Corps
in Gen. Pershing's Army, was transfer
red early this month. to command the
I'd Corps.
The 9th New York Guard) and the
3oth (Tennessee and North and South
Carolina Guard) divisions are in the
Cd Corps, and probably ARE the dlVl-
sions referred to by Marshal Hang
These two divisions received their
front-line training with the British
in Flanders, and participated IN the
fighting there several weeks age
which resulted in the capture of Voor'
meezle, just south of 1pres.
First News of Transfer to Front.
The announcement in the British
communioue is the first official state:
ment that they had been transferred
to the active front before st. quentin
although 1t has been known at the
War Department for some time thai
they were in this vicinity. 1t is MOI
known whether other divisions or tht
I'd Corps are also with Gen. Reed IL
the British drive.
Oficers here were impressed BY
the possible significance of cas-
ual reference in a. Paris news dis
patch to the American forces on tn.
Meuse as Gen. Liggetts army. MAJ
can Hunter Liggett according to las
adyices, commanded the list Corps
He is the senior corps commander il
point of service in France, and has beer
selected by Gen. Pershing almost in
variably to command the units o
larger size as they were created.
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Result of Waste.

"'Every pound of paper wasted di-
minishes the available supply of
chemicals requisite for the making OF
munitions of war. Sulphur IS wasted
when YOU waste paper. Chlorine is
wasted when you waste paper: Your
delicate white note paper is bleached
with chlorine. and your boy at the
front>needs it, needs it as you never
understood need. Caustic soda is
wasted when you use unnecessary
quantities of paper. and the govern
ment already laments shortage OF
10000 tons"
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MASONIC LEAGUE.
Totals. 462 4T2 499
MORSE GIRL WINS AGAIN.

Totals. 474 493 5ll Totals, 4S4 A9z
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New-York tribune., 1918-03-23
Three Men Arrested
For Faulty Gauges
On u. S. Torpedoes

PHILADELPHIA, March 22.-Two
enemy aliens and one naturalizcd
American were arrested to-day and
held in heavy bail tonight on the
charge Of conspiracy to dcfraud the
government by furnishing defective
gauges for torpcdocs on American war
ships.
The men are Fritz Bicrct assistant
TO the general manager Of the United
States Gauge Company, of Sellersvillc,
Penn; William Hendricks, general
foreman. and George Schubert fore
man.
United States Commissioner Howard
M. Long in holding the men in $4,000
bail said he made the bond high be-
cause he assumed there might be some
thing more serious in the case.
The gauges involved are subjected
to an endurance test Of high pressure
for six hours.
1t is charged that the accused men
installed secret taps and pumps to the
gauges, with the result that the test
was defeated. This was done, accord
ing to government agents, at times
when Federal inspectors were not
watching the tests.
The defeat Of the tests left the
pauges, which arc used TO measure the
air pressure Of torpcdocs, defective, ac
cording TO government agents. Whether
any OF the defective gauges are now on
torpcdoes on board warshipa govern
mcnt officers could not say.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-23
Battle Continues I'm
abated; British Re-
gain Ground in
Counter Attack
.Haig Reports
Defences Holding
Enemy Losses Ire.
mendous; Bulgarian
Troops Are Held
as Reserve

beflln announces the capture of
$4,000 men, 200 guns and the
British first line on tiftv-mile
front in the offensive begun on
Thursday.
Field Marshal Haig states that the
Germans have sustained unnrece-
dented losses in taking small
amount of ground. The British
were holding the enemy in their
battle POSITIONS" accordinn to
the first British communication
yesterday.
The night report declared that tho
Germans continued their attacks
IN great strength along almost all
the battle front. At several points
the Germans gained. At others
they were repulsed in counter at
tacks. Haig admits. the British
losses are heavy, but not out of
proportion to the magnitude of the
battle.
The vast conflict continued until late
into the night, following the first
day of attack.
Maps found on prisoners show the
Germans are far from reachin~
the objectjves planned for the first
day of the operation. The exact
location of the British line is held
secret.
The enemy has made the greatest
artillery concentration ever seem
gun every twelve yards on one
sector.
Forty enemy divisions (approxi-
mately 100000 men) were funp
into the attack on the first day.
Many more have since been en-
gagged.
In brilliant counter attack the
British retook and held Doignies
about three miles behind the Old
front line, with the help of tanks.
British aircraft On Thursday aided
materially the infantry forces be-
low, killing or wounding many
Germans with their machine guns
while flying at low attitudes.
IN addition, British aircraft bombed
important military positions be-
hind the line and aviators ac-
counted for numerous German air.
men in battles in the air.
The Germans are holding Bulgarian
troops as a reserve. Large num-
bers. of Austrian guns are being
used. The Austrians are reported
to have agreed to guard the whole
East front, leaving the Germans
hands free for the West.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-23
American Gunners Wreck
2Lines of German Trenches
Deserters Surrender to Pershing's Men in Toul
Sector-Teutons Building Defences Which Are
Half Concrete

during the gas protector attack against
the American lines on February 27, 900
projectors were employed. One half
the projectilcs fired fell within the Ger
man lines, and the gas overcame many
of the Germans. The next day, accord
ing to the deserters, II Germans were
killed and 80 wounded while taking out
the dead
American intelligence officers are in
clined to doubt the story regarding 900
projectors. American information is
that only rs were used
An American patrol last night entered
the enemy first line and remained there
six hours, but aid not see any of the
enemy. 1t is reported that the Ger
mans recently had constructed trenches S
that are concrete half way up on the
side.
Great activity continues behind the
enemy lines. Within the last four days
a number of rock crushers and concrete
mixers have been brought up, and there
are signs that the Germans intend to
construct a number of new pill boxes
opposite the American front. Several
trains OF material have arrived at towns
in the German lines during the last
twenty-four hours.
Io-day's reports say that three Ger
man alrplanes flew over various parts
of the American front line at daybreak
and fired their machine guns on our
lpositions. Their efforts, however. were
without result
New-York tribune., 1918-03-23
u. S. Warship
Seizes Raider
In the Pacific
German Manned Vessel
Carrying Arms. Found
Off Mexico

WASHINGTON, March GA sixty
foot motor boat-the Agassiz-which
sailed from d Mexican port with Ger
mans, German flags, rifles and pistols
on board, has been seized at sea by an
American warship and taken to a Pa
cfic port for investigation to determine
whether she was starting on COM
merce raiding cruise.
After press dispatches had told of
the seizure of a suspicious craft in the
Pacific bv an American cruiser, the
Navy Department tonight issued this
statement:
The Navy Department announced
tonight that small American ves-
sel-the Agassz (which Sailed from
West Mexican port, where she had
been fitted out under crcumst stances
which led the naval authorities to
believe that she might be used as an
enemy raider, has been seized at sea
and taken to a Pacific port for in
vcstigation. There were found aboard
several Germans, German flags, rifles
and pistols. When seized she had no
ships papers and number of articles
were seen to be thrown overheard.
The Agassiz is a gas-propelled boat
about 60 feet long and so far as
present information indicates carried
no mounted guns.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-23
fBy The Associated Press

by Inc Associated HreSSI
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, March 21.-Enemy first and
second line positions on a part of the
sector east Of Luneville have been de-
stroyed completely by American artil-
lery fire. After the raid into the Ger
man positions last night the American
gunners shelled the positions heavily
all night and this morning
To-day PATROL without assistance
from the artillery, crossed No Mans
Land, and found that the first and sec
ond lines had been wiped out. The
patrol also obtained additional informa.
tion and returned without casualties,
the Germans apparently having decided
not to molest them.
Artillery firing by both sides on this
sector continued all day.
On the sector northwest of TouI a
number of Germans deserted last night
and surrendered to an American patrol
in certain wood. The Germans ap-
preached the Americans shouting
Don't shoot!" The prisoners were
turned over to the French.
Much information of value was OBJ
tanned from the deserters, who said
they were fed up" with the war and
decided they would rather be prisoners.
Included in the information obtained
from the men was the statement that
New-York tribune., 1918-03-23
First Mad Rush
Shattered Against
Firm British Line
By Arthur S. Draper

LONDON, March 22.-The great
est and probably the decisive battle
Of the war finds the British lines
firm. On the second day the smoke
cleared sufficiently to disclose Haig's
men defending their positions conf
IDENTIFY.
Under the eyes of the Kaiser.
Hindenburg and Ludendorff the en-
emy has made his first attempt of
the fourth year Of the war to blast.
smother and crush his way to a Ger
man peace, but it has proved fail
ure when the size of the forces en-
gagged in the mad rush along the bat.
tlefront between the Scarpe and the
Disc is considered.
The terrific bombardment by tn.
German and Austrian guns slack
ened considerably to-day, and, after
the frightful losses of the first at
tack, the enemy apparently is TAX
ing breathing spell.
Allies Are Confident
The Allies have every reason to
feel proud of the gallant stand of
the British and confident of the
future developments in the battle
which only has just begun.
The enemy claims the capture of
the first line, but makes no mention
of counter attack which regained
territory west of Cambrai.
Instead of selecting some pivotal
New-York tribune., 1918-03-23
Conservatives Rally
For Higher Wheat Rate

The cotton Senators support $3.50
Mneat. Inc conservative Senators from
Eastern manufacturing states support
sZ-30 wheat. The Senators whose hearts
neat in sympathy with coal express
'neir feelings in vote for higher
wheat. And then there are the wheat
state Senator'S too.
Inc administration halfway policy
m pricc-.ixng has made It possible to
present etrong case for the wheat
lzrrner. Rye sells for more than
"neat, barley sells for almost as much
az wheat, corn is high, wheat substi-
1ates have been allowed to go free
xniie the wheat price has been kept
Seiow that NJ a year ago. Moreover the
farmer buys back some Of the wheat
pfoauct from the mills. This year he
"a" neen paying about rs per cent more
n ~. snorts' than he did last year and
Se't'ng less for his wheat. This last
inequality is being adjusted.
"nat Senator, thinking Of cotton
coal Or manufacturers. would not prieye
Eyer the state Of the wheat farmer held
s""n 10 sz.20 bushcl for his grain
:. mis time Of high prices? More
VT tnefe ~ the PATRIOTIC argument
W. 90 need more wheat next year. The
~ 70 stimulate wheat growing IL to
maxe the priees for 1913 wheat $3.50
,seh u that causes ali that Is left OF
.s, s isl7 crop 10 be held on the farms
Nv great hardgbip in consequence
".se r and among our allies.
r. .hs Administration IL in difficulties
s,. sas President may ask the conference
.Snnit,ce ~ of the two houses to dcfea.
n. h'Tnef price, DromisinH to adjust
~ prize Of 1918 wheat ~ a result OF
eror. "'''''' W VS." "~'""'
xsin, ne may veto the bill If IL
s. ss ~ MIN out Of conference and IL
@ssecfed b1 both houses.
ins ~ szain, ne may compromise, work
~, ys op' a practicable bill from the pres.
nj .l 55nppssibie effort Of the Senate and
,tng INC Price sz.b0 at Chicago in
~ III o' on the farrnz. The general be
VIZ y int the compromise viii result
fss.s fx.sn "Iil mean that tbis war s 10 be
Il IL ON On high-priee .Ssis. Tina,
h1Ms hns direction "a which kings sre
Nna'ng, anyway.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-23

Mexico, at IL o'clock LAST Tuesday.
these late reports said the Agassiz,
nylng the nag OF the imperial German
crew of five.
Inc Agasslz was not large enough to
eral officials say, however. that Il was
the evident intention of tht. German
crew to capture a Pacafc nail boat
running to Panama, Quitting it With
heavier guns, recruiting q full crew
from pro Germans now living at west
coast Mexican ports, and .hen start out
or reign of terror.
The ring leader OF the party that
outftted the Agassiz purcaastd the yes
sci, according to Federal authorities
here. from the Pacific Coast Trading
and Shipping Company, Of Los Angeles.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-23
Blast Kills Thirty Teutons;
500 Arms Cars Destroyed

LONDON, March 22.~~Thirty German
soldiers were killed and more than 100
others injured and 800 munieion cars
we're blown np by an explosion at the
Meyrignies station near Mons, Bel
gium. according TO an Exchange Teic..
graph dispateh from Amsterdam, filcd
yesterday.
The Germans had stocked enormous
munition trains under chmouiiagcd
sheds at Meyrixaics.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-23
l. w. w. Sell Anti w. s. s.

11lCA9o March ga bond issue campaign the sale
general defence stamps" have by the W. w.
he Liberty Loan and
ing TO literature seized by Federal L. w. w.
headquarters and made public might
thousands of dollars
the bonds and money used defence members
no" jail and in the urtheranc sabotage according to
ppne another circular declares that although
'" W. has been greatly handicapped
ocla 1t now gradually getting back doc
en declares that many been received from
Canada"
The l. W. W. bonds called freedom certificates
New-York tribune., 1918-03-23

man raider in tow, United States
cruiser is expected to reach this port
next Sunday or Monday, according to
information given out to-day by naval
officers here.
Wireless messages from the COM
mander of the cruiser said the captured
vessel is the Alexander .Agassiz, for
several years in the service of bio
logical institute at La Jolla. Cal. The
capture was made last Tuesday off Ma
zatan, Mexico.
The Agassiz, according to Federal
officials. has been under suspicion since
last clearing from San Diego, January
q, 1917.
According to advices received here,
the Agassiz, thirty-two tons net, was
captured fifteen miles on Mazatlan,
New-York tribune., 1918-03-23
Half Million Germans Take
so Miles of Line, 200 Guns,
10000 Prisoners, Says Berlin
Kaiser and Flndenburg Watching Attack

Marshal
dispatch
from Copehag
Bularn
is
S n Rim, S aid to have
o
in the West tbaan
New-York tribune., 1918-03-23
To Serve as Precedent for
General Increase in
Living Cost
Administration May
Seek Compromise
Cotton and Coal Senators
All Favor Lifting of
Standards
By C. w. Gilbert

WASHINGTON, March %. - Two
dollar-and- a half wheat means more
than -four So or so barrel higher
It means higher prices generally. 1t
means an abandonment of price fixing
in which the Administration has hest
tated and faltered, but which it planned
to extend Or it means price fixing on
a high level. Two-dollar-and- ahalf
wheat becomes virtually scale. A
high price for wheat is a precedent,
That is why the movement for higher
priced wheat has gained such force
that the Administration will probably
be unable to stop it. The Administra-
ton is disturbed, but it is practically
impotent. 1t has allowed the situation
to get to such a point that whatever
it does will be wrong. If it vetoes the
bill, the wheat grower will think that
he is Disseminated against and forced
to accept regulated price when every
body else is permitted to profiteer. If
it accepts the bill, new range of Off
cial high prices will be in order
New-York tribune., 1918-03-23
Germans Capture City
Northeast of Odessa

LONDON, March 22.-The Germans
have occupied the city Of Ochakov, on
the Dnieper estuary, forty-one miles
northeast of Odessa. Reuters Petro-
grad correspondent reports
Other Russian ncaus on Page 4.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-23
Price king Long
Under Congress Fire

The drive against price fixing began
when Congress came into session last
December. And as price fixing has
been carried out it had a good deal of
excuse. The sugar and fuel investiga
tons had their animus in the fight
against price fixing. And the short
age in coal was largely the result of
blunders in price fixing. The attacks
upon Hoover have come from oppo-
merits of price fixing.
The Administration has furnished d
tie enemies of regulations with, most
CT their ammunition. BY regulating a
Price here and not regulating another
there it has brought about inequality
and dissatisfaction. No one is happy
ne producer whose price is regulated d
looks enviously at the one whose price
IS not. The one whose price is not is
full of anxiety lest the government
shall turn its attention to him next
The consumer fails to see where he is
benefited, for prices to him have been
extremely high IN all the regulated
commodities, and in many of them
there has been a shortage.
All of this sentiment has been max
ing itself felt in Congress until the
case of the wheat farmer offered an op-
portunity for everyone with com
munity 10 protect to unite in behalf of
the unhappy farmer and perform an
act Of patriotism by Stimulating pro-
aaction." The sentiment for $3.50
wheat is not by any means all wheat
state sentiment. 1t is conservative
sentiment. Above all it is cotton
state sentiment.
When you nave said cotton in Wash
lngton you have said great deal. That
little word explains much. Back of it
lies a thousand hesitations. 1t is as big
san obstacle to Wilson as it was to
Fackenham, if that was his name, at
the battle Of New Orleans. The cotton
Senator's do not want price regulation.
They want 70 kill it. If it is to survive
they wan. it to survive on a higher
level than the one on which it started.
The cotton farmer is getting $50 per
cent more for his product than he was
before the war. He wants to go right
on making that $50 per cent more and
i possible to better it. He has the
solidest block of influential votes in
Congress behind him Of all the products
o. the country.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-23
Reichstag Holding Secret
Debate About Holland

WASHINGTON, March GA dis
patch from Berne says:
"The Plenary Commission of the
Rclchstag has been holding secret de-
bates upon the question Of Holland"