Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-12
NEWS OF THE DAY
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Mrs. Chester n. Franklin, known as
Ruth Darling, moving picture actress
was instantly killed in San Francisco
yesterday in an automobile CRASH
! The dead woman was identified y
Grace Darling, famed Hearst-Patnt
star, due to the fact that both women
! were screen favorites CT the same
name.
The Hamburger Fremendblatt, &C
cording to the Vienna correspondent:
Of the London Daily Express, announ-
ces that British aviators last week
killed Gen. Huhn and the majority o.
the members Of his staff near st.
Quentin. Other generals had q mar
row escape the paper says.
Because CT the Food Adminlstra-
ton order prohibiting the manufac-
ture of beer after December l, CITY
Collector Lehman, Of Chicago, believes
l,131 of the 5,631 saloons in that city
will cease to operate at the end Of the
license period. September 30. This
would mean loss of S4,151, 900, equiv
alent to tie amount used annually to
maintain the city fire d. .)artment.
The House agricultural committee
yesterday decided to report taVora-
bly, the food production bill, including
the amendment making prohibition
effective July /, 1919. The committ'2
inserted provision permitting the
importation of italian wine until May
/, 1919, as requested by the Italian
government through the State De-
partment. Prohibition leaders IN
Congress expect the House to SEND
the measure to conference with no IS
sue on the "dry rider"
Spanish influenza, the strange pros-
trating malady which recently "aV-
aged the German army. and later
spread into France and England with
such discomforting effects on the civil
population, has been hcaught to some
of the American Atlantic coast c'tles
officials fear.
In a collision Yesterday morning he
tween an excursion train near Schnc-
dor,uohi Prussia. So children, two
railway officials and one woman were
killed. Seventeen children were N
jured.
The L.cndon Daily Express claims
to have unreasonable information
that the former Empress OF Russia
and her four daughters have been
murdered by bolshcViki.
The British passenger Stcamsh!'
NIissannabic, 12,460 tons gross re"lS-
ter and in the service of the British
admiralty as a troop transport has
been sunk by a submarine n European
waters. The Missanabic, which had
been carrying American soldiers and
army supplies, was returning to an
American port.
Capt. Won Salzmann, military critic
Of the Vossischc Zeitung, Of Berlin
has written q significant article ~
which he predicts that heavy Erlt-
ish attack will soon be made Oh Cam
brai He declares the German lines
before Cambria cannot be regarded
rs final lines Of resistance. Won SalZ-
mann deprccatcs the Importance o.
the st. Quentin Canal and says the
main defense lines lie farther east. Hc
adds that the Germans can, without
running any risk, voluntarily abandon
all the territory south Of the Aisnc
and retire to the Chemin-dcS-Damc1
Temporary insanity from grief at
his wifc's death is believed TO be re-
sponsiblc for the suicide late Tuesday
at Bristol. W. Va, Of ". c. Johnson
AIRED II. His lifelcss body was found
nv a woman who had been serving his
meals from her home. Johnson MA:
native Of Harrison county, y. Va.
and fer a number of years lived a:
Clarksburg. Johnson shot himself
through the right temple with a newly
purchased revolver.