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Inhabitants of Beaumont
Bombardcd Before Ameri-
cans Could Aid Them. :.
AIRMEN FIGHT ON GROUND
Remove Machine Guns From
Disabled Plane and Destroy
German Nests.
ny HERBERT BAILEY.
Speciat Cable Despotch 10 Tar Sun from the
London Times Service.

London Times Service.
Copyright, 1918: all rights reserred.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES III
Trance, Nov. S.-(Delayed) East of
the Meuse the Germans are franticaily
attempting to hold back our steady ad-
vance toward the main railway artery.
Though our advance Is slower here the
rroof that the Germans themselves
know their inability TO prevent the fall
of this important railway Is growing
All the roads leading from the district
sou,h of Mezieres and Sedan were seen
from the air to-day to be crowded with
>ehicles and fires were observed at many
roints by our airmen. This indicates
the Germans are making all haste to
.bandon all the ground south of Mezicres
and Sedan, while tho harried forces are
fighting desperately east OF Meuse TO
prevent the immediate cutting OF the
railway.
The American forces now ore firmly
established oil the east bank OF the
N[euse and are hghting their way both
cas-, and north of the river, with the
railway as their objective In both dt-
rections.
More Bridges Over SIeuse.
Enemy forces near Montmedy may
nod themselves in a precarious situation
before many hours. Engineers are
throwing heavy bridges across the
Mouse at many points and the United
states forces east Of the river hourly
arc becoming stronger.
In the last four days the enemy has
brought eight divisions from other sec
tors in the hope OF stemming the Amer
lean tide. They have failed and are now
\ in retreat. The ninth division appeared
20 4
oilers before two hours and was pressed
back a considerable distance after stin
fighting before il broke hurriedly and
withdrew behind the machine gun real
guards.
Evidence that the Germans have no
changed their skins was provided las
night In the village OF Beaumont. Nearl!
500 civilians were left there after beint
robbed of all their metal and live stock
Gas Attack on Civilians.
After dark last night, with full
knowledge that the advancing Ameri
cans could not provide these men
women and children with gas masks
the German artillery poured thousand
Of gas shells into Beaumont.
The story OF the amazing experienc
of two American airmen was learne
to-day. when Leuts. Irwin and Boacun
who yesterday were reported missing
Iejoined the American infantry.
Yesterday they flew over Sedan a
low altitude. machine cunning IN
troops, the town and the roads to tn
south. They finally were forced to lant
after their engine had been damaged b
machine gun fire froaw the ground. nea
two machine gun nests. Detaching IN
two machine guns from the plane, the
siienced both the enemy guns. wit
great bravery they held Off the enenl
infsnirymeu until dark. when the
cravled the long distance to our lines.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
McElroy Charges Denied

Officers of the Milwaukee Alumni
Association, of Wisconsin University,
have written to the National Security
League protesting against the accusa-
tions of pro- Germanism directed against
the institution by Professor McNutt
McElroy, a speaker employed by the
league who addressed the student body
OF the university.
Beside charging that Professor Nc
Elroy's attack was false and unwar-
ranted" and that he was irresponsible
and uninformed" and "intent on secur-
ing cheap notoriety," the letter says:
Through the public statements by
the Governor of this state, the chief
justice of the Supreme Court, the chair
man of the meeting referred to, the
former military commander at the uni
versity, the Madison Board of Com
merce, the board Of regents, the mem
bers of the faculty, the press in this
and other states, and by others, too
numerous to mention, you are undoubt-
edly familiar with the facts in the case
to know that Professor McElroy was
entirely unjustfied in conveying the
impression that the students at the
University of Wisconsin are pro-P Prus-
sian"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
SaIvationists Raise
$1,000 in F our Days

The close of the fourth days drive
of the Salvation Army to obtain $780,
90 in greater New York for war work,
netted total of $1,000. They must
collect $4,000 in the remaining two
days of the six-day campaign.
Thelargest checks received for the
fund yesterday were from the Bankers
Trust Company, which contributed
$4,000; James A. Hearn & Son, 81 900;
Bernard Baruch, $1,000, and Cleveland
H. Dodge, $500.
Two booths were placed on the floor
of the New York Stock Exchange, and
within an hour two Salvation lassies
had collected moro than 5000 The To-
bacco Salesmen's Association has do
mated the use of numerous automobiles,
and formed teams of workers, saying,
owe do this in spite of the fact that
the Salvation Army is opposed to the
use of tobacco. They help the boys"
The Pilgrim Laundry of Brooklyn and
the American Tobacco Company have
started campaigns among their en-
ployes to obtain contributions.
George B. Case, prominent Elk, be-
came so excited about the good work
of the Salvation Army yesterday that
he offered to match F. W. Arndt, of 6
Coenties Slip, for a S100 bill, with the
understanding that the winner turn
the money over to the Salvationists.
Case won and promptly carried out the
terms of the bet.
You'll find the only list of INVESTIGATED
FURNISHED ROOMS In the city pub
lished in THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE-Look
for it.--AdVt.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Case az, Impetus
To Plan to Abolish Third
Degree in Ne,u York State

Spencer Miller, jr, who, as deputy
warden of Sing Sing. led in the move
ment to save Charles f. Stielow from
the etctric chair yesterday, declared
the case should end the third degree
in this state.
Steps to secure the necessary legis-
lation will, he said, be taken before the
Legislature. He thought that the case
would give impetus to the movement
which he and many prison workers
had long been identified.
"stielow is free he said, "and the
people of New York can thank few
citizens who have prevented q miscar-
riage of justice. No case in recent
years has better revealed the hopeless
ness OF the ignorant man, friendless
and fundless, when caught in the
meshes of the law, but the principle
involved is more important than the
freeing of single man.
1--WE will not have done our full
duty unless, in the spirit of the case,
legislation is enacted which will pre-
vent the third degree and provide for
q public defender so that the poor and
ignorant may have full and equal
justice"
Stuart M. Kohn, whom Miller
brought into the case in the early
stages of the fight, said yesterday that
the main thing. to be considered at
once would be the care Of Stielow and
his family.
"They have had hard time the last
few years." he said, "and something
must be done for them. 1t will be one
Of the things taken up at the meeting
in Carnegie Hall May IA, which Misha
Appelbaum is arranging.
at has been a wonderful fight and
worth while if for no other reason
than that it helps justify ones faith in
ultimate justice"
Mr.. Appelbaum was arranging yes
terday to bring Stielow and his family
to New York for the Carnegie Hall
meeting, which will be in the nature of
celebration. Among those who have
been asked to speak are Justice Charles
l.. Guy, whose order staying the exc
cution of Sticlow was received after
he had been prepared for the chair;
Thomas Mott Osborne, Spencer Miller,
jr., and Mr. Kohn.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Baker Punished
BY Food Board
For Evading Law
Trading Company Closed
Up and Prohteer Made
to Put 81, 900 Into
War Bonds

When the food board closed up
Israel Moses's bakery at 1919 Second
Avenue because he was not using wheat
substitutes, Israel smiled knowingly to
his son Solomon. He had been ready
for this emergency. He merely opened
Avenue, and put Solomon in charge.
This happened little more than
two weeks ago. Moses's smile has
q food board inspector called on Solo
mon the other day About the day
after tomorrow, if the recommends
tlon OF P. A. Johann. head of the
bureau of complaints, is carried out,
Moses will have no store at all-noth-
ing but lot of flour and other things
that he mustn't SELL
For the recommendation is that the
license of Moses be revoked, not for
three days, but for the duration of
the war.
The food boards investigation
showed that Solomon had used his
fathers license in conducting the new
store. Morris Cohn, a clerk, in an
paid his salary by the father during
Solomon made an affidavit that
former statements of his were untrue
and that he had used his fathers
suspended license. Max Moses, brother
of Israel, admitted that Israel had told
him of the plan to evade the boards
sentence.
The Servus Trading Company, ia
Hudson Street, is also to be closed for
the period of the war; it was announced
last night. It's officers, Joseph
Blaustein, OWE j. de Vellier, Alex
Bernstein and Jesse Markell are for
bidden to trade in groceries and
grocers' sundries at wholesale.
The sentence is the result of a com
plant by DR.. H. N. Richards, Of
Ridgely, Md, that the company had re-
fused to accept carload of yellow
meal that it had ordered, because the
market price had declined since the
deal was made.
Chris 1sserman, q wholesale grocer
of Greenpoint, L. l., has been ordered
by the food board to invest $1,000 in
Liberty Bonds and contribute 500 to
the American Red Gross for profiteer-
ing in sugar and flour.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
18-Year-Old Bride and
Husband of Sc Vanish

Mrs. Katie Hart. who stepped from
Apollo's barber shop to Hymen's bower
on Tuesday. appeared to have vanished
utterly yesterday, as had her eighty
six-year- bridegroom, James H.
Hart.
Joe Apollo. in whose barber shop at
1872 Broadway. Brooklyn, the bride was
manicurist when her name was Katie
Wolf, saw her on the street on
Wednesday: She was with her mother
and shopping, Joe surmised
"She was a fine manicurist," he
sighed. II could never find a better
one anywhere. She always attended
strictly TO business"
Among her customers, it was said,
was Mayor Hylan. whose glstcning
finger tips have been her special care
for six months. She is eighteen years
old. Her husband, who owns the build
ing in which Apollo's shop is situated,
was another of her customers.
It is said that his family disap-
proved of his hasty marriage, and there
were reports yesterday that an effort
might be made to annui it,. On behalf
of his daughters it was said that while
they were shocked at his marriage they
would say nothing in criticism of his
action.
Acquaintances of Mr. Hart said he
had rented an automobile in which the
happy couple were doubtless enjoying
an ambling honeymoon. Friends of the
new Mrs. Hart, however. averred that
she had told them that they were going
to Japan on the wedding trip and that
her husband was to settle $4,000 upon
her imme ediately.
They were honeymooning somewhere
anyhow, for there was no more trace
of them at MIR. Hart's home at South
Elliott Place than at Apollo's barber
shOp
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Gompers Charges Execu-
tive With Incompetency
in Handling Labor
Secretary Wilson
Starts Investigation
Sugar Workers Get 7(
Gents a Day and Women
Often Only 2lIa Cents

WASHINGTON, May 9.-Removal of
Arthur Yager as Governor of Porto
Rico was asked Of President Wilson to-
day by Samuel Gompers, president Of
the American Federation Of Labor. Mr..
Gompcrs charged the Governor with in
compe tency in handling the labor sit
uation in Porto Rico.
In a letter to the President Mr.. Com
pers declared the Governor had failed
to meet the situation and had refused
to better living conditions of the work
ing people.
Mr.. Gompers inclosed in his letter an
exhaustive report of an investigation
of conditions made by Santiago Igle-
sias, of San Juan, Porto Rican organ
izer for the Federation. His report de-
scribed the situation as intolerabe.
The working people were said to be
underpaid and in many cases underfed.
Wager is Democrat and was ap-
pointed from Kentucky by President
Wilson in 1914 for four-year term,
but Congress extended the term until
a successor is appointed.
The National War Labor Board was
asked by Secretary Wilson to-day to
investigate labor conditions in Porto
Rico.
The commission as suggested to
make the inquiry would consist of
three men, one each representing the
public, the American Federation of
Labor and the Labor Department.
Secretary Wilson's request for the
investigation resulted from report to
him by F. c. Roberts, of the Labor
Department, who went to Porto Rico
two months ago for the employment
service and found conditions so bad he
conducted an inquiry for the depart
ment. He reported that 10000 work
ers on the sugar plantations were
forced to strike every year to get any
thing approximating a living wage.
There are 100000 people in Porto
Rico, and more than million are
workers. The average wage for sugar
workers, the report said, was 70 cents,
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Seek Vote on Mail Rat..
Senators Urge Early Acs;e..
ON Suspension Me.~

WASHINGTON, May s-An .e..
is under way in the Senate to ,,ht.;~
an agreement for vote On one y...
suspension Of increases On publisb..s,
second-class postage rates, which H.
come effective July /.
Senator Smoot, of Utah. Rerrs,.
can, announced late to-day that !.
and Senator Simmons, of North CO.
lima, Democrat, are conferrine w;.,
their colleagues on a proposal TO bs..
tn. postal rate suspension cons;de-.s
in connection with bill passed -
the House last December amends.
the war tax law so as to apply tbs .
per cent professional tax to memh.-.
of Congress.
Senator'S are being asked to -,
slider the House bill and a nost...
rate suspension amendment and ao,a.
not to offer any other war tax amend.
rnc0ts
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Girl Sees "Ghost";
Leaps From Sd Story

There are certain dismal tenements
ON Chrystie Street, for instance
where ghosts would surprise nobody.
But they shouldn't go roaming about
pressed brick structures up in 7 he
Bronx.
But it was in such house, a crowd
ed, chattering, rollicking tenement at
252 East 148th Street, that the ghost
sought out Rosie Marcino last night.
The little girl-she is only elevenHis
in Lincoln Hospital as result, for
she went headlong out of third story
window, fracturing both hips.
at was the ghost! / saw it," she
cried in voice that rang with terror
rather than pain when DR.. Beckenstein,
the ambulance surgeon, bent over her
last night.
1t was 1880. Anthony Marcino and
his wife, Rosie's parents, had gone out.
Her small brother and sister were with
them. Rosie wished she were, too She
wished the gas were lighted, but she
didn't like to stir to light it. She
didn't like to leave her seat by the
window where she could see the street
lights.
These sent pale beams of light up
to the white plastered ceiling, but the
rest Of the room was in a shadow rem
dered almost luminous by the light re-
ected from the ceiling. The sacred
figures on the wall were hidden in the
shadow, the brilliantly cheerful drapery
that hung from the mantel, now
loomed sombre and formless; the
gaudy bric-a-brac and the homely,
squeaking rocker, all were hidden or
transformed by the gloom.
Then 1t appeared 1t had stolen up
quite silently. When Rosie saw 1t she
jumped. The next thing she knew DR..
Beckenstein was asking where it hurt
worst.
If Rosie gets we'll the chances are
that her mother will fold UP her iron
ing and put it in a drawer before leav
ing her alone in the dark again.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Killed in Auto Wreck

GREENWICH, Conn, May o.-Clar-
enee MacEwen, a New York cotton
proker. of 2765 Broadway, was killed
iate tonight when his motor car was
NJ ,eoiiision here with one driven by
~ isIiam 1raham. head gardener on the
4. Z. Converse estate.
Mr.. MacEwen was driving toward
bsnksville, N. Y, and was near the
STATE line when he hit the other car
HIS car drove headlong through a stone
wa'l, shaved stout limb from tree
hfteen feet above the ground and
turned wrong side up. He and Georne
a Finn. bank clerk of this nlace
who was with him, were taken to tbs
hospital here, but MacEwen died ON the
way. Neither Mr.. Graham nor his wife
ana two children who were with him.
was seriously hurt. ''''
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10

situation with President Wilson. He
declared then the population was so
dense that many could not earn liv-
ing
According to n special Tribune dis
patch of October 10. 1915, the Presi-
dent told Governor Yager the subject
was worth profound consideration"
The dispatch said the Governor re-
ported wages had fallen to so or 70
cents day. The misery Of the people
was evident despite the fact the pro
ductive power of the island had in
creased sixfold in seventeen years Of
American rule. Mr.. wager suggested
that the United States encourage emf
grafton to Cuba ard Santo Domingo
and pay the expenses of those leaving
the island. On October 90 o. the same
year Mr.. Yager forc7by presented CON
ditions on the island to the annual
Lake Mohonk Conference on the Indian
and Other Dependent Peoples.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Stielow and Green
Freed From Prison

AUBURN, N, Y, May o.Charles r..
Stielow, who was pardoncd by Governor
Whitman after serving three years of
q life sentence, following his conviction
on the charge of numbering Charles B.
Phelps and his housekeeper, Margaret
Wolcott, at West Shelby, in March.
1915, was released from Auburn Prison
to-day. He left at once for Buffalo.
Stielow was welcomed by relatives
and newspaper men when he left the
prison. He was unconcerned, but
thanked all who had aided him in Sc
curing his freedom.
Nelson Green, who was sentenced to
twenty years as an accessory of Stielow,
and who also was pardoned by the
Governor, was released at the same
time. He made inquiries regarding his
chances Of getting into the military
service, but said he feared he was
physically unfit
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10

and in many instances this represented
the only income for large family.
In the coffee industry, Mr. Roberts
said. the average pay is only 40 cents,
and in some instances women have
been employed for 2M cents per day.
The Investigator placed the blame
largely on wealthy outside interests,
which are charged with exploiting the
laboring classes. Governor wager is
charged with favoring these interests
and with failure to enforce laws pro-
tecting labor
Several companies owning sugar
plantations on the island were German,
and the plantations have been taken
over by the enemy alien custodian,
who, with representatives Of the food
dministration and Bureau of Insular
Affairs, disagrees with the labor repre-
sentatives in their announcement Of
conditions
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Naval Aviator Killed

WASHINGTON, May 9.-Edward
Augustus Smith, jr., of Baltimore,
quartermaster in the navy aviation
service, was killed April so in an air.
plane accident in France, the Navy
Department announced to-day.
Francis Albert Tuttle, hospital ap-
prentice, of South Minneapolis. was
signify wounded in action with the
enemy April Is.
Cirilo Acosta, whose home was in
the Philippines, fas accidentally
killed May aboard the U. S. S. Pom
pey.
The death by accident in London of
Yeoman Cecil. Lester Smith, of 7S4
Lake Street, Newark, N. j., was re-
ported to-day by the navy.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Pelham's Singing Sailors
Aided Liberty Loan Drive

II the cooks at the Pelham Bay
naval training station are given to
favoring the camp celebrities there
are thirty sailor laddies who should
receive at least two helpinps of des-
sert at every meal. These thirty. lad
by Chief Petty Officer Joe Cox. formey
heavyweight pugilist, persuaded eract-
~ $1,16l 900 from New Workers. into
Liberty bond purchases by their sing
Miss 8. Mildred Strauss, Of l31 R,v-
erside Drive, conceived the plan of
securing the singing sailors to aid in
1ne loan campaign. She communicated
M1sn Mna aear Admiral Usher and Percy
mep weres assigned 10 musical d. d.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
McAdoo May Modify
Railroad Wage Plan
Decision Expected. in About
Ten Days; Brotherhoods
Will Then Take 1t Up

WASHINGTON, May O. Director
General McAdoo to-day considered the
recommendation Of wage increases Of
$500, 900 annually for all railroad
employees whose wages were less than
$3.50 month in December, 1915. made
by the railroad wage committee. He
is expected to announce his decision
on the recommendation in about ten
days. There are indications that he
will not accept them in their entirety.
Officials Of the wage commission
pointed out to-day that the increases
recommended are probably no greater
than the railroads would have had to
pay under private operation, since the
rising level of wages in other indus
tries would have made them necessary
if the workers were to be retained
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Economy Board Changes
Name and Gets More Powe,.

WASHINGTON, May 9.-The rom
mercial economy board Of the Conn.
gu OF National Defence ceased to exist
to-day. as such and became the CON.
servation division of the war indus
tT,es board. A. ". Shaw, chairman
OF the organization. becomes chair
man Of the new division.
The commercial economy programme
worked out under the Council of Ma
tional Defence will be extended and
the new section will enjoy larger
powers. Heretofore it has been pure.
~ IN advisor5Hbody without authority
70 enforce It'd Recommendations.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Aid of Osborne Denoted

Oss1NING, N. Y, May 9,-John J..
Molloy, second in command to Warden
William Moyer at Sing Sing and the
guiding spirit of the Mutual Welfare
League since the departure of Thomas
Mott Osborne, former warden, is to
be supplanted, it was learned to-day,
by j. w. M. Evcrs, who is to be made
chief clerk of the prison.
Mr.. Molloy thus will drop to the
third in authority. 1t is not known
why this shift is being carried out.
Evers has been his assistant up to
now. 1t is rumored that Mr. Molloy's
interest in the Mutual Welfare League
has reacted against him, since there
are powerful interests in the prison
department that oppose it.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Captain Roosevelt Better;
Wants to Return TO Front

PARIS, May o.-Captain Archie
Roosevelt, who was wounded by she'll
fragments orH March 7, has sufficiently
rocovercd to take walks. He says he is
feeling fine and wants to return to the
front, but it is uncertain when he will
be discharged from the hospital.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Second New Haven Fire

NEW HAVEN, May 9.-withn half
a, mile of the still smoldering ruins of
the historic passenger station, burned
yesterday, fire again today swept
property of the New York. New Haven
and Hartford Railroad, this time the
headquarters shops and yard system.
causing damage ccnservativelv esti
mated tonight at between $55 1000 and
$600OO
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10
Yoger Called Wilson'S
Attention, to Porto Rican
Poverty TUo Years Ago

Governor Arthur Yager has repeat
edly called the attention of the United
States to the wretched poverty of the
Porto Rican natives. AS long ago as
September 21, 1915, he discussed the
New-York tribune., 1918-05-10

mcnts.
Oxford eagle., 1918-12-12

line winners. iney were the fellow,
laiat Kept Lie nome nres burning aaid
the easn rolil4.g up the front wnIon
made AZ possapie 20 wIn the war an
snofI oruer. LOOK AZ their names
again ana wnen you come to UxioTu
nave them IN mlna when you 40 your
Christmas trading. They are wiln
the lied Cross, with tnelr sympathy
and tneir cash. Incre is "A way 10
help them along ana you know TIE
way.
And the Yates Garage. These
folks are always liberal and If you
want car repaired ON ride they
are there with the goods. They aId
not know that they were buying
bouquets when they willingly
responded to our proposition TO come
across one more time but then they
deserve one anu We only wish We had
a little more space to tell you more
VI what they are doing for the pub
lie good.
We did not put the banks last be-
cause they have done the least but
because we needed n climax but space
does not permit US this week 10 tell
you something Of their record in the
war and we know the boys at their
home coming would like 10 know who
the. folks are that are standing be-
hind them and we will tell you later
something Of what they have done.